Can you Profit from Twitter?

Sunday, April 19, 2009
I've just sign up with another social networking site today. Twitter.com. I heard a lot of says that twitter is good for Online business or Internet marketing or whatever other terms used. I decide to sign up as an experiment. But do like to share with you some information about how twitter can help your Interntet business. Sign up now and let us see how can Twitter profit your online business. You can sign up here..
For short intro, Twitter is a hot social networking tool. Twitter is fast, free and simple way to get immediate results for your online business. You can increase your traffic today, and reap the benefits quickly. Here, it does sounds like it is another program that can help online business owners to really profit from it.
  1. Here are some ways your business can profit from Twitter:
    Find local people you can network with or find local events to meet local customers. Use the search feature (www.search.twitter.com) to find people who are near you, then follow them. Many times they will follow you back (and be sure to thank them when they do).
  2. Get great quality traffic by sending messages ("tweets") that are meaningful and helpful. Twitter users come from many walks of life and income levels, so build a relationship with them to get the best results.
  3. Remember the old saying, "It's not what you know but who you know that counts"? That is true on Twitter, as well. If you need a favor, send out a tweet - you never know who can help (or who knows someone who can help).
  4. Know the power of the "re-tweet," which is what it is called when someone takes a message ("tweet") you send and then sends it to their followers. It is sort of like the way a forwarded email works. Send a quality tweet to your followers and see how it gets passed along to others.
  5. Use the search feature to find like-minded people across the world. Use it to find people who may not possess the same talents as you, but complement your talents.

Twitter is an excellent tool for building your online business. If it is used properly, it is a free asset to your Internet marketing plan.

Add to above, here are 7 Twitter tools that will make your twittering faster, better and more profitable:

  1. Grouptweet.com: Do you have a team of people who are all on Twitter, but you don't want the info you tweet to be sent out for all to see? Grouptweet.com lets you send a tweet to a select group of people and keeps it from prying eyes.
  2. Twittermoms.com: This site lets you connect with thousands of moms on Twitter. This is great if you are a mom, but it can also be great if you have a product or service that benefits moms (but just make sure your Tweets aren't spammy, or you will quickly get the boot).
  3. Tweetbeep.com: This tool is like having Google Alerts for Twitter. You can have alerts set up for your name, company, product, service, or anything else. If someone tweets about it, you get notified. (Kind of like how your earn burn when someone talks about you, but high-tech and a lot better!)
  4. Twitzer (Firefox addon): Normally, Twitter tweets are limited to only 140 characters. This nifty little gizmo lets you post more than that.
  5. Twitterfeed.com: This gadget will feed your blog posts to your Twitter account. You can choose the frequency of the tweets.
  6. Strawpollnow.com: Create a poll on Twitter with this fun tool. It appears to allow comments, as well. It is great for getting your followers to interact with a tweet of yours.
  7. Twitturly.com: This tool lets you keep track of what URL's are talked about on Twitter.

These tools can help you bring your business to the next level by keeping you informed, connected and up-to-date.


Now we come to the interesting part. So how to Make Easy Twitter Cash?

Twitter is a fantastic networking tool, but one downside is that tweets are limited to only 140 characters. This is really bad news when you have a long URL in your tweet. Long URLs can use up half of your tweet space - and maybe more. (Have you seen some URLs from Google maps? You need 2 tweets just for that! Scary!)

So how does this translate to making easy Twitter cash? Most people use a URL-shortening service such as tinyurl.com to overcome this handicap, but now there is a way to shorten the URL and make money. It's called adjix.com.

When you use Adjix to shorten a URL, the person who clicks on the shortened version sees ads while waiting for the site to load, and you get paid for it. Called PPC, or pay-per-click advertising, it is a common way for free services to make money from their service.

You get paid $0.10 for each 1000 unique link views and $0.20 for each valid, unique click through. If you earn more than $25 at the end of a given month, a check is mailed to you about 45 days later. (This allows for merchants to check for click fraud.)

You can easily create an account with an email address, first and last name (for the payout) and a password. Signing up is free and can be done in about 5 minutes. Once you sign up, you can edit your profile and even choose which category of ads that display when someone clicks on your shortened URL.

You can also advertise on Adjix at a pretty reasonable rate. You can use a combination of cost-per-thousand (CPM) and pay-per-click (PPC) advertising and promoting the service to maximize your checks and build your business.

The cash made for adjix.com isn't a fortune, but it could start to look pretty attractive to someone with a large list of followers or a responsive group of followers. This is also money that you are making for now doing anything out of the ordinary - just shortening a URL when you tweet. Use Twitter to build your business and also make some extra income on top of the Twitter traffic to your blog or website, starting with this simple service to make easy twitter cash!

Interesting enough? Join Twitter today and you can find me in there (charyna)


What Niche Products You Should Be Selling

Saturday, April 18, 2009
I’ve been researching niches for quite some time now – I’ve noticed that there are some niche categories that are perfectly suited for information products. I'm glad to share it with you.They fall into these broad subjects:
  • Make Money From Home Niche – People say that this is becoming a crowded place. Don’t believe them, this industry is growing from strength to strength as more and more people venture online to earn extra cash. Given that not nearly the world’s population is online YET, the scope to teach others high quality ways of making money using the internet will vastly increase over time. Teach people a convenient and proven way of making additional income streams and you can bet that product will sell very well. Would you like an example? Not many people know the potential behind selling popular music/concert/sports tickets at huge mark-ups. By knowing a few simple tricks you can get hold of popular tickets that are sure to sell out before the event. Then you simply put these tickets in front of millions of ebay buyers and watch the bids accumulate. If you could teach people how to do this for themselves, do you think they would be interested in buying that information from you? Of course they would.
  • Relationships, Online Dating & Prosperity Niches – Like the "make money" niche, people want information on how to make their lives happier. There are several niches inside this broad category and we’ll investigate a few of the opportunities shortly. Do you know that in the Overture search engine alone there are over 780,000 searches for "online dating"? The actual figure for people searching this on the internet would be several multiples of this when you consider that far more people use other engines such as Google. Imagine the potential if you were able to get hold of powerful resale rights products in these niches.
  • Weight Loss, Health & Fitness Niches – Again, a basic theme that almost all human beings have a vested interest in. People want to look and feel good – they will pay for premium information on how to lose weight, eat healthily and how to generally look and feel good. With high quality niche products you will have the ability to target literally several millions of people who have a considerable desire for the product you’re offering. For example, literally millions of people are interested in childcare and pregnancy topics.
  • Recipe, Food & Drink Niches – Food is BIG business. People want to know how to cook delicious food. Wander into any book store and you'll see scores of recipe books - food books have always been good sellers.

The above are just some of the proven niches that are out there. The fact is that you can potentially target anything that has a relatively high appeal where there is useful information that can be packaged into a digital product. It would be impossible to provide you with every single potentially profitable niche market because there are simply too many.

How To Get Out Of Financial Mess

Friday, April 17, 2009
There are two methods I can recommend about getting out of a financial mess.
Defensive Strategies
The first one is defensive:
Cut down what you are already spending on. You can’t start a business being in a financial mess. Cash Flow is more important than revenue. And you need to have lots of cash flow coming from your pockets if you are going to succeed.
  • Here are some things you can cut down on
  • Smoking – if you can’t quit, just cut down on a few sticks
  • Alcohol – booze can drain your finances faster than a running tap
  • Night outs – spend some nights at home thinking about making more money
  • Gambling – if you plan to gamble, it is better to gamble in a business
  • Vacation and Country Clubs – you won’t die without a few memberships
  • Food – eat healthily and you can even think clearer
  • Laziness – The biggest thing that will hold you back!

Most important of all, don’t buy anything that constitutes a liability. A liability is anything that takes money out of your pocket no matter what they are worth in the future. Think in terms of cash flow. What can I invest in today that will give me funds tomorrow?
Now let’s move on to offensive strategies:

Offensive Strategies
One of the best, low-cost ways to invest in your business skills is to join a Network Marketing company. There are many other options such as starting a traditional business or maybe even an Online Business. But if you want to guarantee yourself something concrete where business skills are concern, my take is on Network Marketing.

Regardless of what you have heard about this industry or how much money people have lost there, the biggest reason why I would recommend everyone to invest in a network marketing company is because of what you can learn there, and not because of how much money you can make (although it would be fantastic if you can make a living out of it).
You see, network marketing companies are the one place where people will share their trade secrets FREELY. It is logical because in order for your upline to succeed, they will want you to succeed as well! Therefore, they will not hold back in teaching you the skills of a business person.

Furthermore, the relatively low cost of investing in a network marketing company will amaze you for what you can learn for the price you are paying (a few bottles of vitamins and a business kit for the experience of a lifetime!) They will patiently train you in the attitudes and business skills you need to succeed in this industry.

Basically, you can’t succeed in network marketing with an employee’s mindset. A network marketing company will train you in sales, communication, teamwork, leadership, positive thinking, self-improvement, time and money investment as well as the support of your upline as a personal coach and mentor. I dare say that even if you didn’t make a cent, but diligently went through their program, the skills you develop will last a lifetime.

You can also develop skills by attaching yourself to an insurance agency. The job may be challenging, but those companies will also teach you the same skills above and maybe even gain a few tips on financial planning as well.

How about an Internet business? If you have the aptitude for computers, Internet businesses offer a low cost, high-profit margin business that can earn a lot of money and tap into a worldwide market.
Other places you can learn about business skills can be found at financial planning courses, real estate investment courses, time management courses and lots more. All these I have suggested will be the safest way you can start a new business. You are only spending a few hundred to a thousand dollars in start-up and education. A traditional business might be too risky for someone without any business experience.

You invest tens of thousands of dollars and you might struggle trying to break even. But once you have developed the skills above, you will have a higher chance of succeeding. The most important thing of all besides a good learning attitude are the people you mix around with. It has been said before; you are the sum of the five people you spend the most time with!
This is very hard to swallow but imagine if you start talking to your five beer drinking, poker buddies that you want to go out on your own and make a fortune, what would they tell you? They would laugh their socks off before tearing your ego into a million pieces! At the heart of man lies jealousy. They don’t want to see the people around them succeed. If you succeed, it makes them look bad. They know in their hearts that they are going no where yet they embrace that lifestyle and pull you down with them. They will steal your dream, and rob you of your financial freedom if you are not careful!
The key point to remember is: Only mix with Positive thinking people!
Positive thinking is not wishful thinking. A wishful thinker is a dreamer who doesn’t take action. Positive thinking is backed by action and you will feel the energy of people who believe in you and support your dreams.
If you hang out with ducks, you will quack… but if you hang out with eagles, you will soar! So start looking for people who will follow your vision or are willing to grow together with you.
Lastly, you must BELIEVE IN YOURSELF!
The task of stepping out of your comfort zone may seem terrifying and many will not support your dream. They may even go on the offensive even if you don’t share your dream. That person may even be your parents or your spouse.
Then you will be faced with the question, is my financial freedom worth the price I am paying now? Can I live another day with the same routine, the same job, the same paycheck or the same drudgery? If the answer is no, then take action NOW. Not tomorrow, you will wake up and forget about your dream.
Write down your desire on a piece of paper and hang on tight to it everyday. Share it with someone positive and take that first step.
You won’t regret it.