Last week, I recommended Ad.ly as one of the two best ad networks for Twitter.

Now there’s a new reason to sign up with this growing site. You can now get “Twitter Analytics” via Ad.ly.

If you’re a blogger, you know how addictive it can be to check your “stats”: “How many people came to my blog today? Where did they come from?”

Get ready to get just as hooked on your Twitter stats, now that you can get them through Ad.ly.

Their system tells you how many “real” followers you have, as opposed to “bots.”

You can also get the male/female ratio, the number of retweets you get during different day parts, location information and lots more.

All that information comes to you free. For $9.99/month or $99.99/year, Ad.ly will give you more detailed reports.

Those reports will name your “20 most influential followers,” something called “sentiment analysis” and other stuff.

For free, I found out that most of my followers are male, and based in New York, Texas, Florida and California. My four “most influential followers” came as a big surprise — I wouldn’t have guessed any of them!

I don’t know enough about analytics to tell you how accurate Ad.ly’s metrics are. But the basic options are free, so you might find it helpful.

And of course, Ad.ly is still one of the best Twitter ad networks around, if you’re interested in monetizing your Tweets.

Be sure to check it out!

– Kathy (@kshaidle)

Garry M. Sayer’s 20-page report “Monetize Twitter” is mostly designed to promote “Twitter Treasure Chest.” However, it also contains some good information for absolute beginners on Twitter.

If you already know your way around Twitter, this report isn’t for you. That said, “Monetize Twitter” is a great free introduction to Twitter for any absolute beginners out there, despite some unnecessary repetitions throughout the text.

Unlike many of these free reports,  “Monetize Twitter” also touches on the down side of Twitter: such as what a time suck it can turn into once you get “into” it, and how the constant distractions that come with that avalanche of non-stop tweets can effect your productivity.

The report also debates the pros and cons of having more than one Twitter account; say, one for business and another that’s personal. Now that it’s easier to manage multiple accounts, this option is becoming more popular.

To that end, “Monetize Twitter” suggests “streamlining” tools to keep you productive and manage multiple accounts. I’m a fan of TweetDeck, and I’m glad to see it recommended here. The author also recommends TweetLater to schedule messages, but I prefer Twuffer.

The report mentions other apps I’ve never used like TweeTake (designed to safely back up your Twitter account info), and a search engine called Twitterment.

“Monetize Twitter” isn’t really an accurate title. This report should have been called “How To Be More Productive On Twitter.” The good news is, the report doesn’t just nakedly promote “Twitter Treasure Chest” – you have to click through to the author’s main link on the first page to even notice that.

However, unless you are a total Twitter newbie, there won’t be a lot here you don’t already know.

Then again, “Monetize Twitter” is free, so you have nothing to lose.

– Kathy (@kshaidle

In my previous post touting Ad.ly, I mentioned that I’d signed up for another “make money with Twitter” platform. That other platform is Sponsored Tweets.

Like Ad.ly, Sponsored Tweets matches you up with big companies who pay to send out tweets to your followers.

It sounds shallow, but my reasons for signing up with Sponsored Tweets were the same ones I mentioned with Ad.ly: their site didn’t look a fly by night operation. They’ve signed up some celebrity tweeters like Holly Madison and Carrot Top. And the sign up process was easy and smooth. There weren’t any weird “catches” or any fine print.

Sponsored Tweets suggests a “charge per tweet” based on your number of Twitter followers, how often you post, and other metrics. They suggested around $6 for me, but I pushed it up to $7, to see what would happen.

Sponsored Tweets asks other information, like keywords that best describe what you tweet about, your age and gender.

Just like with Ad.ly, you’re in control of which ads you accept. Sometimes you’ll have the option of rewriting an advertiser’s pitch, to make it more appealing to your particular audience.

They also encourage you to refer your followers to sign up with Sponsored Tweets. You’ll get a percentage of every ad they carry as well.

I haven’t made a ton of money from Sponsored Tweets since I’ve started. However, it isn’t a get rich quick model, unless you’ve got a high profile and tens of thousands of followers already.

So far, the results with Sponsored Tweets are the same as I’ve had with Ad.ly: I’ve run a few campaigns, my followers don’t seem to mind, and Sponsored Tweets paid me. And the folks I’ve referred have made money, too.

I’d recommend Sponsored Tweets if you want to explore the world of making money with Twitter.

~ Kathy

First impressions count. And when I first visit a lot of “make money from Twitter” sites, I don’t stick around or sign up.

If these guys can’t even afford to create an attractive, trustworthy looking site, why should I believe their moneymaking claims? If it looks like a fly-by-night operation, and acts like… well, you know the drill.

So far I’ve only signed up with two of the big “make money from Twitter” enterprises out there. Ad.ly is one of them.

I’ll admit it: Ad.ly makes a great first impression, with their cleanly designed site and no-brainer, no-surprises interface.

Ad.ly isn’t shy about posting pictures of the big names they’ve already signed up to run their clients’ ads, like Dr. Drew and Stephen Colbert. And those advertising clients include Sony Pictures and Microsoft.

After I signed up, Ad.ly automatically calculated my listed price per tweet at $15. I’ve got over 5000 Twitter followers, so that’s part of their calculation.

(However, I hear Ad.ly can tell if those are real followers or just bots, and rates you according to that as well. They’re looking for quality _and_ quantity.)

Soon enough, I got an email asking me if I wanted to accept a campaign. I agreed, and Ad.ly automatically sent the sponsor’s tweets to my followers. The volume was very low: only one tweet per day, over the course of three days in a row.

And every tweet includes the disclaimer “Ad by http://Ad.ly,” so your followers know it’s an ad.

And that’s how I made $45 without doing anything.

(People with huge numbers of Twitter followers say they’ve already made thousands of dollars through Ad.ly.)

With Ad.ly, you can set your own per-tweet fee, as well as reject ads you don’t want. You’re in control. You can even donate part of your earnings to charity.

Plus I’ve signed up some of my followers for the Ad.ly referral program. This means I’ll make 12% of what THEY make.

The only downside is if Ad.ly gets bought by some mega corporation that proceeds to mess it all up. Or Ad.ly goes out of business overnight and people lose their unpaid earnings.

Speaking of “overnight”: don’t expect to get rich with Ad.ly. But if you’re interested in making a bit of extra, easy money via Twitter, Ad.ly is one of the best alternatives around.

~ Kathy Shaidle (@kshaidle)

Yep, that is correct.

The worlds #1 “Make money on Twitter” Blog is looking for a full time blogger!

Do you love twitter?

Do you spend countless hours tweeting away lots of cool @replies and semi-pointless daily updates?

Do you like making money on twitter?

Even better, would you like to learn all of our secrets and get to blog about them?

Have you ever heard of SponsoredTweets? Ad.ly? How about Hummingbird or TweetAdder?

Do you want to get paid enough money to fund your Starbucks coffee everyday for a month?  Yes, the Venti!

If you answered YES to any 2 of the following questions, then shoot an email over to chad @ protwit.com with some samples of your blogging…

Cheers.

Chad ~ AKA ~ ProTwit

- Tweet useless daily drivel updates. Unfortunately twitter founders believe that their product should be mainly used for boring update stuff like, “I’m taking my dog for a walk” and “just had a salad”, so be sure to pepper in some of the mindless stuff to your updates.

- Avoid Mass Un-following. It appears that twitter is more concerned about un-following a whole lot a people over following too many.  I guess their reasoning is, why follow all those folks in the first place if you are only looking for them to follow you back?

- Up-load an image. Nothing quite screams spam like a default twitter image.  Don’t be lazy, upload a photo.

- Don’t use Auto DM’s – Everyone hates getting spam in their direct messages, and might block you right away.

- Don’t spam links – This one is the hardest one to follow when you are trying to make money off twitter, so keep your affiliate links to a minimum and mix them into retweeting great articles.

- Use Hummingbird2 - If you want to grow your follower numbers into a massive army, then you need to be famous or using auto-follow twitter software.  Hummingbird 1 will grow your numbers fast as it uses the follow unfollow chrun method, when can get your account suspended.  Hummingbird 2 uses keywords and follows users at a much more natural pace.

Chad ~ AKA ~ ProTwit

http://www.twitter.com/protwit

OK, I keep getting asked this question from folks who are skeptical…

“How do you really make money on twitter?”
There are now tonnes of ebooks out there to make money with twitter and most of them are pure scams and they only make money by selling you the ebook on making money.

I’m going to explain the basics right here. No tricks, no scam.

These are the real methods that I use to make money off twitter.
I’ve made several thousand dollars and currently average around $1000 per month off twitter. 

There are two main WAYS of sending your message, and two main TYPES of messages to make money off of.

The 2 main ways of sending the message are:
- The Obvious one – the twitter update field
- The other one – Direct messages

The 2 mains types of messages to make money on twitter are:
- An affiliate link
- A sponsored twitter message

An affiliate link is the key way that you can make any money off twitter, and if you don’t understand what an affiliate link is, I’m not going to fully explain it in this post.  look it up.  The quick summary, you send someone to purchase a product and you make a referral fee or commission on it.

So how do you put an affiliate link on your update or in a direct message?  Simple, a URL shortener, the same way you would share any other link on twitter.  I use bit.ly, but you can use which ever one you want.  Pick your affiliate product to promote, shorten the link and tweet it.  The closer the product you promote is suited to your personal profile or niche, and the more engaged you are to your twitter followers, the higher the chance someone will buy what you are flogging.

And the final secret…Which products work best to promote?

Well that answer is easy and logical if you think about it.  A twitter related product obviously.  People on twitter, use twitter and are always looking at new tools and services to use it better, get more followers, automate responses etc.

The type of tool that has made the most affiliate money is ‘automated following tools’  Most pro versions cost $50 – $100 and almost all have an affiliate program to sign up for.  This one is my top seller and has made me over $2000 in affiliate revenue…
Hummingbird http://bit.ly/Hk822 or Tweetadder ~ http://tinyurl.com/y9ttva3

The other main way is a ’sponsored twitter’ message. check out sponsored tweets here ~ http://bit.ly/cHCPp
For this you need to sign up to the one of about 6 different companies that do sponsored tweets and you review the sponsored messages to send out and you get paid either per message tweeted, or on a cost per click.  You can make anywhere from $5 per tweet up to $250.  To make the big bucks you pretty much need to be a star or Internet celeb with tonnes of followers.  If not, you will have to settle for a few dollars or cents off each tweet.  If you want to cheat and get massive amounts of followers like the make money guys, just purchase some auto follow software yourself.

So there you go…go make money on twitter, tweet wisely!

Related Posts:

http://www.protwit.com/the-top-7-best-make-money-on-twitter-tools/

http://www.protwit.com/hummingbird-review-the-professional-twitter-marketing-tool/

Chad ~ AKA Protwit

There are 2 main ways to make money on twitter, one is getting paid to tweet something, the other is by promoting products via affiliate links.

With both you need to get yourself a solid number of followers and Hummingbird will get you tones of followers. 

Here are 7 of my favorite tools I user or promote to make money with my twitter accounts.

#7 TweetROI – The money made off this one so far is still pretty low which is why it comes in at the bottom of the list but I still see potential. They need to get more advertisers or risk dropping to my other list.

#6 TweetBucks – Well I did the world exclusive launch post for these guys and the CEO is a personal friend, and still they only make it to #6 on my list.  The reason?  Commissions on physical products is always going to be smaller than software.  6% on a book vs. up to 50% on software.  It’s hard to compete.  Still I love that you can make money as well on 2nd Tier referrals and I have over 100 referrals.  They also give you $5 just for signing up.  Free money is ALWAYS good!

#5 Promote Social Oomph – Formally known as ‘TweetLater’ this is a tool that twitter money makers should not live without.  This was a sleeper money maker for me and didn’t get me any sales for quite a while, but recently there has been a surge.  I doubt it was the name change, I think it has to do with being able to test out the professional version for free.

#4 Twitter BruteForce Affiliate program  This has always been one of my favorite twitter products to promote because of the instant paypal payments.  As soon as you sell one, you instantly get the commission deposited to your paypal account.  You get $11.85 for each sale and it makes my day to see, “You’ve got a payment” from PayPal.  Drew is a Guru in online promotions.

#3 Tweet Adder Affiliate program – I’ve only been promoting this product for a month or so and have seen some solid sales.  ($549.50 USD) Feedback from users is this is super useful tool albeit a little slow.  Still the affiliate sales roll in…

#2 SponsoredTweets – This is one of my favorite new players in this space.  The UI is brilliant and Ted is nothing short of a mad genius.  He always pushes the envelope in the sponsored content space and loves his haters.  I look forward to seeing more advertisers jump in to the waters and test this out. I’ve gotten paid as high as $50 for a single tweet with this system!

#1 The HummingBird Affiliate Program!  This has been my single biggest money maker so far.  I’ve had total sales of $4950.20 earning myself $1836.70 in referral commissions. The software is super sleek, solid and does exactly what it is supposed to do, get you more followers, and fast.   Sign up for the affiliate program and pimp it out to your followers and make some easy cash.

~ Chad