Tools to automate marketing on Twitter were being heavily promoted a couple of ago. It was thought that you could use Twitter as an effective means to build a list of likely purchasers for your products or services. Cutting through the hype, just what kind of results can you expect after using these Twitter marketing tools? Exactly how good is Twitter marketing? This article will examine the case for becoming involved and to find if it will actually repay your time and effort. Test drive this unique top list of social networks to help you.
I was one of those who was interested to determine if getting a big following on Twitter was going to help my product promotion endeavors and so paid for the tools. I signed up for programs that promised to get me followers on Twitter and purchased software tools to help publicize my products. All in all, I ended up purchasing about eight different programs that would help me with all of this.
I invested in a software package that would automatically follow people for me in an attempt to have them follow me back. If someone was not following me, I had another tool that would automatically delete them from my to-follow list. Getting rid of non-followers meant I could concentrate on other people who might be persuaded to follow me. Together with some other software that are not actually worth mentioning, I invested in a program that would automatically take my blog posts and automatically Tweet them as soon as they were published on my blog. I must say that the combined effect of utilizing all these programs together generated great results since each program did as advertised. Nonetheless, my excitement was quickly squashed when I realized that I wasn’t pulling in any money. My tactic was to post many blog entries each day and each of them was then sent straight to display on Twitter. Then I found a way to have all the blog entries done for me automatically, hoping that the more posts I would have the more people who would see them.
So let me reveal to you my results. Employing this strategy over three years generated about ten thousand people following me on Twitter. You’d probably be really pleased to achieve that number of followers, but there’s more to come. In the same 3 year period, my Twitter account gathered at least 15,000 blog posts that had links to my affiliate offers. Besides that, I did no other promotion for that blog, as a matter of fact I didn’t even ping the new blog entries to discover how good Twitter was could be. Well, you can’t say that 3 years isn’t long enough to achieve decent results but using Twitter I just got 2 – 4 visitors each day to my blog. My affiliate earnings from 2 transactions was $47 and to that you can add $8.65 Adsense revenue – extremely dismal all around!
Even with close on 10,000 Twitter followers and using software automation, it seems that this is not adequate to generate money marketing with Twitter. As a matter of fact, in the last 3 years I have not even made a decent amount of money from that blog to pay for the Twitter programs that I had purchased. There could be other effective ways of promoting on Twitter, but from my experience, using automatic software tools is not one of them.
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