This will probably get alot of advice and/or flack from all the experienced marketers out there. Which is exactly what I am hoping for. I have been using Twitter as a source for traffic for the last few days, approx 1 week now. I post the link for making money online (Its in my Siggy) and drive people there. My conclusion on this is that people click the link, but they are not interested in joining the program. I say this because I have generated 125 twitter clicks but not 1 sign up out of that. So, I think even though twitter is a great source for traffic, its not targeted so your conversion rate is going to be low with a twitter marketing campaign. Im by no means saying that this is a universal result, but it is mine. My plan is to keep using Twitter, but re-vamp my marketing strategy. If anyone has any pointers please post them here. Here are my Twitter stats. Following 395 Followers 331 Tweets 402 I only post my link in Twitter once every 3 or 4 hours.
Social networking is meant for building relationship, marketing or sales pitches should be 10% or less. ie. for 10 tweets you make, only 1 tweet should have a link to your offer.
Very good analysis , but see may be a visitor not interested this time he may come again in future if your marketing strategy is good. I wish you luck keep trying when you get your first lead please update this post.
I'll prefer you should update some general but interesting things... that's really good for attract people.
I agree with bizhoop, you have to be careful not to spam. Make interesting tweets (it's easy to find hot, funny and interesting stuff to post) and then every now and then make your sales tweet. But I wouldn't expect too high a convertion rate on twitter traffic, but the upside is that you can generate a lot of it.
To be honest almost every person on twitter tries to spam in some way... there is so much crap out there that people are just not interested. The only people that may visit your link is other businesses trying to do the exact thing you are doing and personally it won't work. Heck one of my twitter accounts has over 2300 followers and it is hell... no one ever considers other people and I get an offer to visit an affiliate link or site every few seconds. To be fair I don't bother with people like that. Why would I? Twitter is ruined by business individuals who think nothing else but the potential money they will get. In my opinion...they are a bunch d***s.
Firstly, you have way to few twitter followers. If you can get it up to 10000 or so (there are easy ways to do this), it could make a difference. Try not to spam them with your links, but rather build a relationship and just tweet your new posts etc. that would be helpful to them.
Been using twitter for almost a year now believe it or not I only have 210 followers but boy, they're so faithful As the old saying goes "it's not all about quantity but the quality". This principle also applies to all social networking sites. Gama
Sometime number of followers are meaningless if you can't let those people involve with you and engage with you, you may need to participate with them and let them more reply , retweet or share their opinions. You may need to give some interesting discussion point that they will give you different attitude that people will like to share their opinions.
To my knowledge , you should always give your followers good healthy content... Building relationship also matters. These days ppl absolutely spam twitter with all sorts of messages and poor twitter goes down momentarily
Most of the Twitter crowd are sick to death of the make-money-online eejits. I have several Twitter accounts with ~2K+ real followers/following and most of them (quite rightly) have nothing but contempt for the MMO crowd and porn bots. It's a dead arena in that area. However, if you have a good niche site or blog and spend a little time interacting with your followers, then there is some traffic to be gained. I have found this for a health blog I have. At first, the traffic was mainly click-thrus and bounces from Twitter, but now I have high XX regular readers directly leveraged from Twitter.
am I to assume that you are in fact NOT making money online? your website probably makes this blindingly obvious, and as such nobody is falling for it. Sure we all click "make money online" links, out of curiousity, but ultimately get disappointed when we find the so-called "solution". your twitter traffic would be much more valuable if you had a proper website.
Maybe your followers dont find your content relevant? Twitter is just people having conversations online, through relevant and engaging posts. Have a look at Dell, they're a good case study for driving sales through the use of twitter.
I must say, it does work for me. www.twitter.com/deondernemer But.. I got my target audience spot on. Lot's of clicks and high pageviews compared to traffic that comes from Google.
I would say one in 15, One thing I often do is deleted my affiliate link post after its maxed out traffic wize, usually 10-15 minutes
Twitter allows people to see the followers of various topics and businesses. In our experience, we’ve found following the followers (sounds Dilbert like), about 20% will follow back. Getting people to follow you normally means that they click through to your website to find out more information on who has decided to follow them (Twitter accounts receive an email when someone follows them) which means this process is search engine optimization on steroids since the goal of SEO is to get visitors to your website that are interested in your business focus. This means that you will develop Twitter followers interested in your business topic so that you can begin to develop them as customers with your professional web site design.
I never tweet affiliate links, but I share my blog posts. I think it's very important never to spam, but only share quality information. ... and get highly targeted followers. - jens -
Depends on how you are using it, at wallpaperweb users fill in there own twitter username/password. And my code posts a new status every time the upload a new wallpaper at the site. I get a loot of traffic this way, and many users use www.wallpaperweb.org to this only purpose.
i don't get much twitter traffic, or digg, do you guys get good traffic from these sites? I can recommend on reddit. much traffic (but not high quality though).