The recent trend in online marketing is using Twitter, which is essentially a mico blogging service, where you are limited to writing snippets of information of no more than 140 characters (including spaces!).

That’s not a lot of space to get your message across and hence improving your copy writing skills is a must. But the question on hand is, can twitter help you make money?

I’ve recently heard that Twitter will be the next big thing to the internet marketing community, but how’s best to use it?

In Twitter, you can add people by clicking on them and telling them ‘I’m following you’ if they are interested, then they can click the same button and they’ll also be ‘following you’ too.

If you go about doing this constantly and target internet marketers (or internet marketing wannabes) by looking for ‘followers’ of the popular internet marketers, you’ll quickly have grown a very large list of interested, potential and most importantly, TARGETED people.

But what to do next? Do you:

a) Use your copy writing skills to convince this group of people within your 140 characters to click on a link and send them straight to an affiliate page? Would this work and could you do it more than once (since one person mass sending nothing but affiliate links might not be so popular). It’s kinda like fishing.

b) Or do you send people to interesting articles on your website and build your personal brand? That way, you can ask them to join your mailing list/RSS feed etc, and perhaps sell them an affiliate (or your own) products sometime in the future?

My great Twitter experiment will be to build a list of a few hundred followers and to split test doing the above. I’ll let you know how it goes sometime in the future, hopefully.

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