Comments on: Advertising on Your Twitter Profile – Speak Up

By: Travis Campbell

Travis Campbell — Tue, 26 May 2009 06:14:17 +0000

Chris-

Indeed. Targeted, and an audience that sticks around because what is offered is valuable to them (tweets). This type of profile is even more valuable to advertisers.

By: Travis Campbell

Travis Campbell — Tue, 26 May 2009 06:12:50 +0000

Patrick-

Good point, part of the reason users need to build up reputable profiles, so advertisers will want to advertise on their stream.

By: Travis Campbell

Travis Campbell — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:14:17 +0000

Chris-

Indeed. Targeted, and an audience that sticks around because what is offered is valuable to them (tweets). This type of profile is even more valuable to advertisers.

By: Travis Campbell

Travis Campbell — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:12:50 +0000

Patrick-

Good point, part of the reason users need to build up reputable profiles, so advertisers will want to advertise on their stream.

By: Patrick Steffen

Patrick Steffen — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:30:00 +0000

It becomes more and more difficult to earn money with twitter by posting serious interesting and relevant ads, because of the quickly increasing amount of scam ads.

By: IamChrisLang

IamChrisLang — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:14:45 +0000

I would love to make a few bucks off my Twitter traffic, nice backend. However you are going to have to target your friends highly, they are going to have to want what is displayed. I am still on the fence, but then I am a direct response marketer.

By: Don Li

Don Li — Sun, 24 May 2009 19:58:36 +0000

It sounds like “soft marketing” or “soft sell”. And yet, physical marketing seems lack of reach.

By: Travis Campbell

Travis Campbell — Fri, 22 May 2009 21:46:27 +0000

Warren-

Excellent point, it is a source of immediate market information. So while it isn’t your style to put ads in your stream, what about buying ads in other peoples streams?

Do any of the models presented fit within your Twitter style as a publisher or consumer of tweets (or visit profile pages as in #1) Warren?

(BTW, my son’s middle name is the same as your first, not a common name for sure)

By: Warren Whitlock

Warren Whitlock — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:32:10 +0000

I think of the feed not as a media with eyeball to sell to.. but more of a way I can listen to the market and engage customers and prospect individually.

My “NO RULES” philosophy says “go ahead and try whatever.. we can follow or unfollow based on what we want” .. so I’d never say “don’t do this”

However, it feels like selling out for the quick buck instead of building trust and rapport for huge returns later.

By: Mike Lazarus

Mike Lazarus — Fri, 22 May 2009 02:23:10 +0000

If it’s someone I’m following because their tweets are interesting to me and they offer a special applicable to me, sure I’ll look. That’s how I got on the beta of SocialScope and some other products.

But most of the “deals” I see are not applicable out side of North America, so that probably colours my view.

There are some streams that are a constant list of products for sale… they follow me, I look at their profile and move on. But spam works (or there would be so much of it)… and some of these streams have a lot of followers – I just don’t know why.

BTW: When I tried to change the blog post with the ConnectLuv pull-down it froze FireFox and I had to kill it. Never seen FF killed that way. I tried it again and got the same result.

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