It’s been a while since I’ve found anything I thought had great potential for making money online. I’m working on one product that I think is going to be huge but it’s not quite ready for prime time. In the meantime, I’ve discovered something that just launched today! It’s called TweetBucks and could make you a lot of money if you use Twitter, Facebook or other social networks.
The basic idea behind TweetBucks is to pay users a commission on clicks through to links or products. You shorten your URL using bit.ly and an affiliate code is automatically inserted into the link if it matches one of the merchants in the TweetBucks database.
So if you post a link to Twitter or Facebook that goes to Amazon.com, Best Buy or any of the other 1000 or so merchants, your affiliate code is automatically added and you earn a commission on the sale. It’s that simple. You can sign up for a free account today.
There’s also a great article about TweetBucks here. ProTwit asked a great question in the article:
Protwit: So what if the link I want to shorten is not part of your list of supported Merchants?
TweetBucks: That’s the best part, you can still make money on every click using our customizable ad-frame! This optional feature inserts a leaderboard (728×90) ad unit on top of the site you are sharing. We pay you for every click. People are earning anywhere from $0.5 to $1 eCPM.
So, if you aren’t on Twitter or Facebook you can still earn money using an ad-frame. The potential for making mone with this is unlimited! It’s much the same as everything online. Drive traffic, convert clicks and make sales and you’ll find success. If aren’t doing so already, follow me on Twitter and keep up with what I am doing.
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Twitter has exploded in popularity over the last year. I know I was a little late to the game and considering I’ve sent out 2,145 updates since joining, it pales in comparison to some of the heavy twitterites (i just made up that word) out there.
I created my twitter account to communicate ideas that don’t warrant their own full post. I work full time for a bank and don’t always have time to write a full blown post about some of my ideas, especially stock trades which happen frequently.
To that end, I have a couple hundred followers as you can see by my widget in the sidebar. However, I don’t follow every single one of my followers. There are several reasons for this.
- I believe there is a limit to the amount of information you can digest from a single source in any given day.
- Not everyone has something interesting to say, or their tweets are so infrequent it wouldn’t matter if you followed them or not.
- I don’t believe in automatic reciprocal following. See my first point as to why.
Taking these points into consideration, I still find it difficult to follow the 100 or so tweeps that I follow now. My basic criteria for following someone is this:
- Do they have something interesting to say that meshes with my own interests
- Are they business/career oriented in my same profession
- Are they friend/family/Coworker
- Do they regularly tweet links I find interesting/useful
With these basic guidelines, you can see why I can’t/won’t follow everyone that follows me. Don’t take it personally, I always try to check out who the new followers are and if you meet my criteria above you’ll get a new follow from me, otherwise just realize that it’s nearly impossible to keep up with a half dozen conversations let alone hundreds or thousands.
Also realize that my tweets primarily revolve around stocks, investments and bussinesses that I am involved with. I truly think it is a great way to get word out about something new to as many people as possible that you might otherwise not reach. This is because of the power of hashtags and the twitter search engine. In fact, Twitter has gone a step above and beyond and put on your home page, topics that are most being talked about so you can get in on the conversation from right there.
So next time you are feeling bad about unfollowing someone, just remember they are probably using their own criteria for following just as you do.
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If you are anything like me, and I know you are because you are reading this blog, you probably want a way to keep your work bookmarks the same as your home bookmarks. I know I like having the same links available at work as I do at home because I do much of the same stuff whether here or there.
This is where XMarks (Formerly Foxmarks) comes in. With XMarks you can synchronize your bookmarks in Firefox so that you have the same ones no matter where you are. Another great feature of XMarks is the ability to backup your bookmarks. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to reinstall my Operating System and the process of exporting and re-importing bookmarks is such a pain. XMarks makes it easy to get those bookmarks back because it’s all stored on their server.
Don’t worry, XMarks is free and this isn’t a paid post, I just really like the service. Check out all the features here: http://www.xmarks.com/about/features
This of course, is just one of the many productivity tools I use in my day to day life.
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