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Run a Competition to Find Your Next WordPress Blog Design
One of the most common questions I’m asked by readers starting out with blogging is around blog design and how they can get an affordable but unique blog design.
The irony of this is that I’m a self confessed dud when it comes to blog design. These days I hire others to do custom designs for my blog – but of course this doesn’t come cheap.
A recent survey here on ProBlogger showed that 79% of readers here use free themes or design their blogs themselves – but what if you want something more unique and/or don’t have the ability to design a blog or tweak a free theme?
I had all these questions buzzing around in my head recently when I paid a visit to local design marketplace site 99designs. I didn’t expect anything to come out of the conversation but what did come out of it excited me because it could meet a need that I see many of our readers having.
What 99designs have put together is a way to run a competition to have a new WordPress blog design created for your blog for as little as $369.
Now before I go any further – $369 is out of many bloggers leagues – but it is certainly a cheaper option than hiring a designer for $2000-$3000 to do a custom job for you. It’s not going to be for everyone but is sure to be an attractive option for those looking for a mid priced design.
The process to run a competition is simple. Here’s how 99designs describe it:
1. Set your budget and requirements
Tell us your budget and what you want designed, and we will post it on 99designs.com
2. Designers will create designs just for you
Designers from around the world will compete to create the best looking design just for you. Most projects get over 20 different design concepts to choose from. Rate the designers you like, eliminate the ones you don’t like.
3. Choose your favorite design
Pick your favorite design as the winner. Show it off to your friends! The winning design is yours to keep forever.
4. We code and install your theme (optional extra)
Through our partner, Thinktank Media, we’ll have your new WordPress theme up and running on your blog in 5 working days. Our themes are coded on the Sandbox theme, so they’re compatible with both WordPress.org and WordPress.com blogs!
They also have a 100% money back guarantee if you run a competition and don’t find a design that you like.
Keep in mind that what you’re running the competition for is the ‘design’ – to have it coded and/or installed you either need to choose to pay extra for these options or do that part yourself.
I hope those of you looking to find a new design for your WordPress blog find this useful! Check it out here.
Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger.
Run a Competition to Find Your Next WordPress Blog Design
PPV Advertising 101 – Untap the Potential (Part 3 of 3)
The following is a guest post by Bryn Youngblut. Bryn has being creating websites and doing various affiliate marketing for over 7 years. You can subscribe to his blog by clicking here.
Note: This is part 3 of a 3 part series.
This is the post you’ve all been waiting for, the meat and potatoes.
I assume by now you’ve had your first campaign up and running for a couple days and hopefully you are seeing some positive results, if not don’t fret!
It’s time to analyze your data and optimize your campaign. There is many ways to optimize your campaign, the most common being split testing various things, whether it be your header font color, text/image placement, anything really. If you’re unsure of how to do this properly you simply need to setup a rotating script that will evenly show multiple versions of your landing page which you then track individually using tracking202’s advanced landing page code to distinguish which page is performing the best. You can of course also use other tools such as heat maps to see how your customers are interacting with your landing page.
The next best way to optimize is of course to eliminate keywords/urls that are simply not converting or losing you money. This is where your tracking comes in handy, by looking over what you’ve spent on each keyword and how much revenue it has brought in, you can simply pause what is not profitable.
Here are some tips that I am going to recommend trying, and these are based on you using your own landing page:
- Have a custom audio recording start playing as soon as your page loads to grab the users attention right away, this works great for pop unders especially. (unfortunately MediaTraffic doesn’t allow this but some other PPV networks like TrafficVance do)
- Remember how the pop up windows are 750×550 pixels in size? Make sure your landing page fits in that area and isn’t too big so it requires the user to scroll over.
- You are interrupting these people with your website, you need to KEEP IT SIMPLE. Get to the point quickly or they will close the window in seconds.
- Try thinking more long term instead of just getting a simple email opt in or sale, set up your own email list and market to the customers yourself, with more than one product over a longer period of time. (this is not simple to do but has amazing potential)
I have pretty much covered everything you need to know when getting started with Pay Per View Advertising, as broad as I can without writing up 50 pages of detailed information.
From here on out if you take PPV serious enough you will see the amazing potential it has. You WILL lose money testing things. You WILL have unsuccessful campaigns. You WILL fail, and that’s life. But if you make it past all the failures and don’t give up I can almost guarantee you will be successful.
This Post Is From ShoeMoney’s Internet Marketing Blog
PPV Advertising 101 – Untap the Potential (Part 3 of 3)
Top Five Killer Reasons Why Online Businesses Fail
Ever wonder why only 5% of business owners rake in 95% of the Profits, why some people succeed and some people always face failure despite their hard work as they believes. Why there are so few online individual millionaires out there compared to the countless others who try building a business and failed every year? Well I am trying to give you at least five reasons which according to me lead to the failure of your online business. These are not related to the technical aspect of blogging or online business but rather dealt with the individual behavior which is deciding factor of online endeavor’s fate.
1 – Half-Hearted Attempt
You are doing it because somebody else is doing and making money out of it. You are doing it just to see how it goes with you; you are not determined to do it but only trying to see whether it works for you also. If you start your online business with these motives; chances are that you will end up losing most of your money. To succeed in online opportunity you need to support it with full strength and energy. Don’t just try, believe that it’s going to happen and you will make it happen no matter how difficult it is.
2 – Lack of Passion
One reason why your online venture fails is that you are doing it just to make money, but the matter of the fact is that money is a peripheral which comes along with your success. Whatever you choose to do, do it passionately believe me money will come along automatically. Do doubt money is a great motivating factor but it should not be one of your prime motives. If you are doing something for which you have great passion and admiration I am sure you will unquestionably succeed in your endeavor.
3 – Fickle Nature
Lack of determination results in fickle nature, it means unduly changeable in feeling, judgment or purpose. If you are not confident enough you keep on changing your decisions, changing your mind frequently without putting enough efforts into your plans always result in failure. There are examples when people succeed after 20 to 50 failed attempts. If things are not turning up as per your wish it does not always calls for a change in policy, it depend on how confident you are about your business strategy, approach and success. For example if you ask any successful super affiliate who is making insane money now, he will tell you how much money he had lost during his initial campaigns. People fails while learning the tricks of the game, the only thing which force them to keep on trying is their confidence and faith in the business and in themselves.
4 – Lack of Knowledge
You must acquired proficient knowledge in your niche before jumping into it, if you are not a competent authority in your subject then do not try to pretend, you will get caught. When you are a make money online blogger and recommend your reader to try some products or join some blogging coaching programs or endorse any other stuff it must shows from your words that you have complete knowledge and command over your statements and on the product you are advocating. Your reader shows belief in you by subscribing your blog, buying products through your affiliate links and joining your recommended training programs, they will do this only when they are confident about your authority on the subject. Half knowledge or little knowledge is always dangerous for you and for your online business.
5 – You Are Not a Fighter
A fighter is one who never gives up, no matter how worse the situation is. I bet 90% of you would have closed down your online businesses if big daddy google stop supporting your venture like in the case of John Chow. The biggest thing that you can learn from John Chow is that nobody can knock you down if you have faith in yourself, no matter how big he is and no matter how small you are. John struggled for almost three years without google this is because he never lost his faith during the trial of his abilities. Online business is not a piece of cake, it just like when you see a beautiful building you must realize the huge amount of hard work that has been gone into structuring its sturdy foundation. Are you the one who afraid from failure? The one who always hide from assessment or the one who faces the challenge and win over the weaknesses?
I know you are a fighter, you will win, no doubt about it, but if you have any of the above lacking in your behavior I wish and hope that you will work out and come out as a rock solid winner.
This post is guest-blogged by self proclaimed dot Com Guru Shanker Bakshi from Shanker Bakshi dot Com where he teaches about how to make money online.
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Do You Want to Create a “Make Money Online” Blog? Read This First
You probably have already seen dozens, if not hundreds of “make money online” blogs and websites out there, right? Their popularity is no secret: people see bloggers earning big time in this niche (or at least claiming to), and they decide to jump in to see if they can get a piece of the pie. Unfortunately most people who follow that route will fail in the long run.
A couple of weeks ago I came across a post from Yaro, titled How To Make Money Teaching People How To Make Money, that explained how this pattern unfolds. Here is a quote from it:
Some people consider making money by teaching how to make money essentially a scam. I mean if you know a system of how to make money, why not just use that system rather than sell it? That smells fishy right? Umm, no, I find that logic quite silly. Why not make money using your system AND teaching it.
So, why can a small minority of people earn big in the Internet marketing industry and the majority fail miserably? Is the make money online niche only full of scammers or those who just got lucky?
As someone who has been making money in this niche for years – and I’ve certainly climbed the ladder over time – I’m in a pretty good position to explain the subtle elements that people new to Internet marketing won’t see.
The interesting thing about Yaro’s post is that he is not only explaining why people fail to make money on the “make money online” niche, but he also lays down some points and tips that you can use to succeed. Worth a read.
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The Construction of an Optimized Web Page
by Stoney deGeyter
In my post a week ago I discussed how to build an effective website that promotes your products and services. In this post I want to zoom in even further to look at the elements required to creating an effective web page.
Even if you hire web developers to build or manage your website, it’s important for you as well to have a basic understanding of the various elements necessary to build a successful web-page. Ignorance of these things may be bliss until you realize you have spent hundreds or even thousands of dollars on a beautiful website that is in no way search engine friendly.
Having a basic understanding of the construct of your web pages allows you to ensure that the marketers will be able to work with what’s been developed without asking for a redesign of the entire site. To successfully optimize your pages for search engine rankings many key elements that must be properly implemented.
Title Tag
Websites don’t operate like a book or a brochure, where pages simply flow from one to the next. Every web page on your site is considered a unique document and it needs to be able to stand alone, as well as part of the collective whole. To help establish each page’s “identity” (for lack of a better word,) each web page should be given its own unique purpose. The page’s title tag is used to identify that purpose.
The title of each web page is found in the <title> tag between the opening and closing <head> tags. For the most part the title is unseen to the visitor except in the top bar of your web browser or in the search results.
<head>
<title>E-Marketing Intelligence – Up to date search engine marketing information from the Internet marketing experts.</title>
</head>
Your title needs to accurately reflect the content of the page. Keep it short, approx 8-12 words, and include the primary relevant keywords. Since this appears as the clickable text in the search results you also want to make it compelling. You’re competing for attention here so make it good.
The title tag of each page should be unique. Don’t use on-size-fits-all title tags, throwing them all dozens of site pages at a time. Take the time to craft one specifically for each page.
Meta Description
The Meta Description tag is a way to provide the search engines a summary of the page’s content. Completely unseen to the human visitor, it can sometimes be displayed as the descriptive text below the clickable title in the search results.
In your code, the Meta Description is placed between the <head> tags below the title.
<head>
<title></title>
<meta name="description" content="(EMP) E-Marketing Performance, E-Marketing information and search engine marketing resources: Featuring up to date search engine marketing and optimization information covering a variety of topics relevant to the search marketing and Internet promotion industries. Search marketing information to render your competition powerless." />
</head >
Your Meta Description should be between 20-50 words in length. It factors in very little in terms of search engine rankings. Your primary benefit is as the description text in the search results, so again, use keywords but make it compelling. It’s still a good idea to use unique descriptions on your pages, especially if you are targeting specific keywords. If your page doesn’t have a specific keyword focus then it’s OK to leave off the description completely.
Meta Keywords
The Meta Keyword tag has so little relevance that it’s barely even worth mentioning here. Typically it appears below the Meta Description, but again, it can be left off entirely and nobody would be the wiser, not even the search engines.
<head>
<title></title>
<meta name="description" content="" />
<meta name="keywords" content="e-marketing intelligence, Internet marketing information, search marketing resources, search marketing industry news" />
</head>
Heading Tags
Heading tags are generally used as paragraph headings for your body content. It’s a short headline placed in <hx> tags (<h1>, <h2>, . . . <h6>.) On the page they are excellent for providing visual separation of content, making pages easier to skim.
<body>
<h2>Heading tags are really neat-o</h2>
</body>
Headings should be used as you would outline a term paper. Each page should only have one H1 tag. Your main sections of the page should use H2 tags, and then sub-sections can use any lower numb heading tags as needed.
You can also use your H2 as a sub-headline below the H1, in which case your main sections would be H3 with sub-sections using lower heading numbers as needed.
Body Content
The visible text of each web page is the single most important element for marketing and ranking purposes, with the exception of the <title> tag. Most body content is located between the <body> tags and usually placed in <p> (paragraph) tags.
<body>
<h2></h2>
<p>Your main body content sells your product or services</p>
</body>
It’s important that the textual content be in HTML form and not embedded within images or flash. Search engines are getting better at reading images and flash, but nothing beats text used in the proper paragraph format.
Use your keywords within the textual content but don’t muck it up by trying to stuff them in everywhere you can. Text should be written in natural language, clear of grammatical and spelling errors.
Images
Images can be used to convey many important concepts and visual cues to the visitor while also giving your site a more professional or elegant look. It’s important to use images properly but within moderation, consistent with the needs of your target audience. As mentioned earlier, text in images is typically invisible to the search engines, so use text within an image only if it is unimportant to the search engine optimization and ranking process.
In the HTML code, images are placed using the <img tag and designating the location of the source (src) file.
<img src="/images/logo_main.jpg" />
When using images, be sure that each is used appropriately to enhance the concepts conveyed on the page it is on, is clean, and works to help “sell” your product or service.
Alt Attributes
Within each image you can add “alternative” text which appears when visitors have their images turned off. Alt text can be found in the “alt” attribute of the image tag and is a great way to describe or name the image for those that can’t see it.
<img src="/images/logo_main.jpg" width="401" height="130" alt="EMP E-Marketing Performance, Search Marketing Information to Render Your Competition Powerless!" border="0" />
You want to be sure to use alt text conservatively and properly for each image. Don’t use alt text just to stuff additional keywords into your page, but only to properly describe what the image visually conveys to the viewer.
While there is a lot of other code needed to build a web page effectively, these are the key elements used when optimizing your pages or just making them search engine friendly. Throwing your keywords into one or all of these tags won’t suddenly get you top rankings, but when used properly they provide both the search engines and your visitors better cues to the content and value of each page.
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Whiteboard Friday – Architecture for Commerce with Dr. Pete
Posted by great scott!
Dr. Pete Meyers of UserEffect drops by the studio this week to teach us some incredibly valuable tactics for e-commerce site architecture.
E-commerce folks know that once you get up to thousands (or even millions) of products, it can be difficult to make sure the bulk of your juice goes to your most profitable products, while still getting long-tail traffic for the rest of your inventory. Pete shares some great tricks for large-site architecture that will help you focus your traffic and rankings on your top items, while maintaining visibility for your whole catalog.
SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday – Architecture for Commerce with Dr. Pete from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo.
How to Spam Blogs and Possibly Get Away With It
Posted by jennita
Ok, so you’ve all read about The Best Spam Submission Ever which was illustrated ever so eloquently (and if you haven’t read it, please read it now… uhm well ok after you read this – it’s awesomely funny!). As the post mentions, we sift through many YOUmoz entries every day determining which ones to post to the site. Most spam is easily detected; such as the body of the post only consists of 1 or 2 sentences, or the title is obviously nothing related to online marketing (buy gold and silver online!). However every now and then, there is a spark of spam brilliance that makes its way through.
The other day I ran across this entry that had an odd title, but it actually seemed to have real potential. I opened the entry and at first glance, I thought "YAY! I have a good contender." There were multiple paragraphs, headings and even bullet points… this had to be legit, right? Not so much. I found myself reading the entire entry because I was so dumbfounded by the sheer brilliance of the whole thing. If this person had posted to a blog that automatically checks for spam entries, and auto-posts, this one probably would have made it through.
So the idea is quite simple. Take an excerpt of a book (or anything written I suppose), and add keyword rich links throughout! Essentially, make the post look as authentic as possible, without having to spend time writing a blog post. I’ve taken the idea and put together an example for you below. It’s not perfect, but it is damn simple!
<!– Begin Example Spam Post –>
Her name is Esther; she is a war correspondent who has just returned from Iraq because of the imminent invasion of that country; she is thirty years old, married, without children. He is an unidentified male, between twenty-three and twenty-five years old, with dark, Mongolian features. The two were last seen in a café on the Rue du Faubourg St-Honoré. He was reading: Buy Gold jewelry and diamonds direct.
Just the beginning
The police were told that they had met before, although no one knew how often: Esther had always said that the man — who concealed his true identity behind the name Mikhail — was someone very important, although she had never explained whether he was important for her career as a journalist or for her as a woman.
The police began a formal investigation. Various theories were put forward — kidnapping, blackmail, a kidnapping that had ended in murder — none of which were beyond the bounds of possibility given that, in her search for information, her work brought her into frequent contact with people who had links with terrorist cells. They discovered that, women love gold necklaces and jewelry in the weeks prior to her disappearance, regular sums of money had been withdrawn from her bank account: those in charge of the investigation felt that these could have been payments made for information. She had taken no change of clothes with her, but, oddly enough, her passport was nowhere to be found.
- He is a stranger, very young, with no police record, with no clue as to his identity.
- She is Esther, thirty years old, the winner of two international prizes for journalism, and married.
- My wife.
Next steps
I immediately come under suspicion and am detained because I refuse to say where I was on the day she disappeared. However, a prison officer has just opened the door of my cell, saying that I’m a free man. A man who reads Silver and Gold Jewelry.
And why am I a free man? Because nowadays, everyone knows everything about everyone; you just have to ask and the information is there: where you’ve used your credit card, where you spend your time, whom you’ve slept with. In my case, it was even easier: a woman, another journalist, a friend of my wife, and divorced — which is why she doesn’t mind revealing that she slept with me — came forward as a witness in my favor when she heard that I had been detained. She provided concrete proof that I was with her and with gold necklaces on the day and the night of Esther’s disappearance.
I talk to the chief inspector, who returns my belongings and offers his apologies, adding that my rapid detention was entirely within the law, and that I have no grounds on which to accuse or sue the state. I say that I haven’t the slightest intention of doing either of those things, that I am perfectly aware that we are all under constant suspicion and under twenty-four-hour surveillance, even when we have committed no crime.
"You’re free to go," he says, echoing the words of the prison officer.
Conclusion
I ask: Isn’t it possible that something buy gold direct and diamonds really has happened to my wife? She had said to me once that — understandably given her vast network of contacts in the terrorist underworld — she occasionally got the feeling she was being followed.
- The inspector changes the subject. I insist, but he says nothing.
- I ask if she would be able to travel on her passport, and he says, of course, since she has committed no crime. Why shouldn’t she leave and enter the country freely?
- "So she may no longer be in France?"
- "Do you think she left you because of that woman you’ve been sleeping with?"
- That’s none of your business, I reply.
<!– End Example Spam Post –> Creative! Right? But, just think about this… if these spammers took a few minutes to actually think through and write a relevant post, they would have not only received exposure but they would have some SWEET links from SEOmoz as well. Plus, if the post is well-written and is quickly getting popular (thumbs up), you may even get promoted to the main blog… talk about exposure! I encourage you all to submit well thought out, relevant posts to YOUmoz. Submit entries you will be proud of showing to the rest of the community, and make sure the content is unique.
Every day we receive many spam entries for YOUmoz, which slows down the process of publishing the real, legitimate ones. This is a reminder for all our spammers out there: Real people read and publish these posts! You can stop spamming us, because at least for now, we’re smarter than you are. 
With that, I’d love to hear some of your best spam submissions!
PS. This is my own made up spam example and was not taking from any of the actual spam we’ve received.
I used an excerpt from Paulo Coelho’s "The Zahir" and if you have never read his work, I highly recommend him.
How to Use Google’s Wonder Wheel to Find Topics to Write about
Stuck for ideas to write about? Here’s a quick and easy to use tool from Google to help you identify topics within most niches.
View this video at full size to get all the visual details in the video here on Facebook.
PS: a number of people have been asking about how I made this video and what microphone I am using. The mic is a Rode Podcaster USB microphone which I only recently have received. It’s not a small microphone but the quality it has produced is excellent.
The software I used to record the video and screen capture is a Mac tool called ScreenFlow. This is the first time I’ve used it and I there’s a lot more I could have done with it – I’m still learning to use its features.
Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger.
How to Use Google’s Wonder Wheel to Find Topics to Write about
How Do I Make Money with Twitter? – Past, Present & Future
A couple weeks ago while speaking on a panel at Guy Kawasaki’s revenue Bootcamp (video coming soon), the moderator asked me, “If you were running Twitter, how would you monetize it?” I said I thought sponsored tweets was the answer and I also disclosed that I have been doing sponsored tweets for the last year. I have been paid $200-500 per tweet and have had some pretty large big brand advertisers like Blockbuster, Seaworld, and even one of the large search engines (which I cant disclose per terms) paid me $280 per tweet for up to 4 tweets a day spaced out every 4 hours ($1120.00/day). They also paid many other Twitter users, but I think I am the only one to actually admit I got paid =P.
Anyway, right after that panel (and still going on) I had a surge in followers… which is probably exactly the opposite of what people expected to happen. A lot of that was due to Guy Kawasaki and lots of other very highly influential people linking to me and continuing the discussion after that event.
I have also been contacted by MANY web celebrities and agents who represent celebrities on how they can monetize Twitter accounts. It’s been pretty fun. I was able to get one celebrity $2500 for her 1 tweet. I mostly just tried to make connections. While it’s fun (and good for my ego) talking with some of my childhood idols like Snoop Dogg, MC Hammer, and a ton of other stars about monetizing their Twitter accounts, there is really no money in it for me for the time invested… unfortunately, being connected to A-list Hollywood celebs doesn’t pay my bills (see Kato Kalin), so instead I hook them up with big brand advertisers directly and just tell them they owe me 
.
Last week I did a post on how I was making money arbitraging Twitter traffic by buying traffic from revtwit’s Twitter advertising network and sending it to Izea’s Social Spark Twitter advertising opportunities. The post really showed the current dislocation on Twitter in buying and selling traffic. Since then I have heard from many people who have been making a LOT of money arbitraging Twitter traffic. Not necessarily exactly how I was (which you need per mission from Izea for), but in other unique ways.
As I stated in my article, IMO nobody is doing the advertise network properly…. And I can’t because I sold an advertising network 2 years ago and still have another year on my non-compete for running an advertising network (or I would be all over it).
The other day I saw an article on Techcrunch about full disclosure on Twitter, which was specifically aimed at Izea’s new Twitter advertising network.
Being I am on the board of advisers for Izea, I knew this was in the works but I had no idea that it was so far along. It is currently only open for publishers so I made an account and logged in. Pretty slick interface — I put in my account info and it made suggestions on how much I could charge per click or per tweet. The cost price seemed a little low, but you have to remember Izea is running the whole show with publishers and advertisers so there is no 3rd party taking a cut or scrubbing down leads, so the CPC works out, if not puts you ahead. As above, I said I had gotten all various price ranges per tweet, but for playing with this I went with 250 dollars to see if I would get any bites.
Within a few hours I got a notification that an advertiser had made me an offer. Interesting. I was not expecting this so soon, seeing as how the platform just launched and I did not think they were accepting Twitter advertisers yet.
Anyway, I logged in and low and behold I had an offer from Kmart willing to pay me over $250.00 per tweet. Sweeeeet.
So I allowed the offer to tweet. When you set up your account you can opt to accept only offers which you can edit, offers that the advertiser specifies what you will tweet, or both. Being the sellout I am, I opted for both. As you can see, this Kmart ad had their specific text specified and I was not able to edit it. But that’s ok — I accepted it and it was “scheduled.” About 20 mins later this tweet showed up on my account:
As you can see above, the client says “Sponsored Tweet”. This is because Izea has worked with Twitter and got the green light for their advertising network.
( you can get in early with Izea twitter network by signing up here)
We have come a long way with Twitter advertising in the last 4 months:
- Past – Under the table deals with brands where I was paid to tweet about their products. Oftentimes this was done with a contract of non-disclosure.
- Present – Using 3rd party networks leveraging my relationships with brands and advertisers to arbitrage Twitter traffic.
- Future – Full service trusted advertising networks like Izea who already have tons of advertisers and tens of thousands of publishers now running every aspect of it.
Izea is going to run a lot of these 3rd party networks out of business because they already have HUGE big brand companies ready to go. These companies are huge names like Blockbuster, Disney, Kmart, Sears, Blufrog, and the list goes on and on. But they are not alone, and it will be interesting to see if other advertising networks who have these big brands on board will jump into the Twitter space.
Lots of people have asked me if I think advertising will ruin Twitter. Not at all. Free content can only scale so far. Just like newspapers, television, and blogs, Twitter will be monetized and people will have free will to continue to follow who they want.
As I said many times in this post, I have been doing paid tweets for a long time and honestly it’s only inspired more conversation. Even if you follow my Izea automated $250 tweet, you will see that people actually engaged around it and not 1 person bitched that it was a paid tweet. But again, that is your free will to follow and unfollow who you choose.
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How Do I Make Money with Twitter? – Past, Present & Future
