10 Tips To Make More Money with Sponsored Tweets
You’ve signed up for Sponsored Tweets and now you’re waiting for the advertisers to order some paid tweets from you so you can start making the $300 to $7,500 an hour I talked about in the easiest way to make money with Twitter post. However, you haven’t gotten one single offers. What’s going on? Here are ten tips to increase your chances of getting a sponsored tweet.
1 – Experience Counts
If you’re brand new to Twitter, then your chances of an advertiser ordering a paid tweet from you is slim to none. Your Twitter account should be at least 120 days old before applying to Sponsored Tweets as most advertisers simply will not buy tweets from any accounts that are younger than that.
The account age is valuable for advertisers to filter out spammers and low value Tweeters. If someone has a high number of followers and just recently created an account it may be reason for suspicion. If your Twitter account is brand new, don’t apply.
2 – Have a Complete Twitter Profile
Advertisers like to know who they’re advertising with. If your Twitter profile is incomplete and still running the default background, don’t expect many orders. You don’t have to get a custom Twitter background like what I used but you should make sure all your information is filled out. Make sure you upload your photo or custom avatar as well.
3 – Add Sponsored Tweets To Your Advertise Page
If you’re going to accept Sponsored Tweets, then you might as well tell your advertisers about it. You can use your advertise page to list the benefits of using your Twitter account to help get the advertiser’s message out. Then you can link to the Sponsored Tweets website so they can order.
4 – Show Some Tweet Click Stats
If you use Hootsuite as your Twitter client (and you should if you’re not) then you can take advantage of its built in stat tracking feature. This is a great way to show advertisers that your followers click on the links you send out.
5 – Turn On ClickWatch
ClickWatch is a program designed to provide a level of protection for advertisers who engage Tweeters in the Sponsored Tweets marketplace. When a Tweeter participating in ClickWatch makes a sponsored tweet the system checks the click performance of that tweet after 48 hours. If the cost per click (CPC) for that tweet is above $1.50 the system will automatically schedule another tweet. The system will check performance again after another 48 hours and make a 3rd tweet if necessary.
Advertisers are lot more likely to order paid tweets from a Tweeter who has ClickWatch on rather than someone who has it off. You can tun on ClickWatch in your Sponsored Tweets control panel.
6 – Monitor The Competition
Wondering if your paid tweet price is too high or too low? You can find out by checking out your competition. Sponsored Tweets maintain a list of tweeters and how much it cost to advertise with them. You don’t have to be an advertiser to view the list.
I’ve made three price adjustments to my tweet price since signing up with Sponsored Tweets. These adjustments help to maintain my competitiveness. Sponsored Tweets gives you a recommend price when you first sign up. However, you don’t have to take it. The best way to set the price is to see what the competition is charging and then charge accordingly.
7 – Maintain a Good Followers to Friends Ratio
When an advertiser views your Sponsored Tweets profile, they’re presented with some key information about you. One piece of info is the Ratio. This show the number of people you’re following vs. the number of people following you. A Ratio of 1 means you follow the same number of people as the number of people following you. It can also mean you’re using auto following programs to inflate your follower count.
From an advertiser standpoint, the higher the Ratio number, the better. It tells the advertisers that your followers are following you because they want to hear what you have to say and not because you will auto follow them back.
8 – Sign Up for a Klout Account
Another stat Sponsored Tweets advertisers see is your Klout score. The Klout Score is a numerical representation of the size and strength of your sphere of influence on Twitter. The size of your sphere of influence is calculated by measuring true reach (engaged followers and friends vs. spam bots, dead accounts, etc).
The strength of influence is the likelihood that someone will listen or act upon any specific message and is measured by looking at interactions across the social graph. The scores range from 1-100 with higher scores representing a wider and stronger sphere of influence. Here’s the key. Unless you sign up for a Klout account, your score shows up as zero in the Sponsored Tweets page.
9 – Build Real Influence
If you thought that the way to make money with Sponsored Tweets was to build a big list by auto following and unfollowing thousands of people, think again. Advertisers are not dumb. They know how that game works. They’re looking for Tweeters with real influence. That means you actually have to work to build up your Twitter profile instead of letting a program do it. It means you have to get people to follow you because they want to follow you and not because you’ll auto follow them back. When you have real influence, you’ll have a lot of more offers, you’ll command a higher price per tweet and you’ll be able to do step 10.
10 – Apply for Celebrity Status
When advertisers search for tweeters to advertise with, Sponsored Tweets list the stars and web celebrities first. It goes without saying that being listed on the first page will give you a lot more exposure and therefore a lot more offers.
Sponsored Tweets monitors new Tweeters as they sign up. If they recognize your name they will automatically upgrade you to Internet Celebrity. If not you will need to fill out a form. Pass along things like your Wikipedia page, Blog, YouTube Channel or other relevant sites. Having a bunch of followers on Twitter does not automatically make you a Web Celeb. Acceptance into the program requires influence, visibility and marketability.
If you can’t get celebrity status, then asked to be a “staff pick” as they’re listed right after web celebrities.
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Thanks for the tips John, I didn’t even know about half of them haha!
PS, another big thanks for recommending me to HootSuite, it looks WAY better than TweetDeck.
Lol yeah.. found Hoot Suite through this too.. Ownage!
Does sponsored tweets really work?
Now that’s a bloggers post Awesome now let me get busy signing up Thanks John
stumbled
What about hat I liked about your tips is that your direct-take approach to tell that you can’t buy into certain areas of success & value. But I know with your tips they can work their way up significantly than before.
It’s worthwhile for anyone reading it.
I am so sick of Twitter. I can’t make heads or tails of it
I hope your strategy works for me.
I’m certain John’s strategy will work. As a matter of fact, everytime I followed John Chow’s strategy it worked out for me. So why wouldn’t it work for you?
It will work for you also and for everyone because John has done research on it and then have posted here.
I am afraid things this like will ruin it further, Its becoming a pool of affiliate links.
-Shanker Bakshi
LOL, In that pool everyone is earning money.
I think sponsored tweets ads are always different because it’s different compagnies who buy tweet from different individual twitter users. Unlike Adsense which display same ads on every related site. So I think people are more likely to click on sponsored tweets rather than adsense ads.
Well Yes, Adsense are non of use because it pays less and also displays the same ads everyday.
Also people get used to see the same Adsense ads everyday, so I guess once they click on ads, they won’t click on the same ads everytime, so you need different visitors that could be interested in the adsense ads you display on your site..
Yeah Ben, I do agree with you. That makes your site boring also.
yeah agree with you
i have very less earned for two months
Why sick? I think its kinda interesting.. Interacting with the whole world in one small window..
Thank you for these usefull tips John. I started twitter arround July, and applied to Sponsored tweet like one month ago, and wanted to know if I made a mistake to apply. I mean, was it too early? Are there any way to cancel my account in order to apply later?
You’re fine. Just work on building influence.
This post also insist to remove my listing at your site twitterfollower.com which promote auto following, we know you build your huge following initially by auto following ( you have suggested that many times through your previous posts) then suddenly one day you dump down them all. may be your friends at Izea suggested that.
-Shanker Bakshi
It really takes time though..
how long we can complete all this tips? suppose you are newbie like me
I think there is no problem in your time, now you have to just follow some steps of john for getting advertisers.
Thank you for your quick reply John. I guess I’ll have to work on building influence now.
I also wondered the same thing. My account isn’t even 120 days old, so companies can’t even find my account in their searches. On the bright side, this list will give me a great starting place to figure out how to optimize my account and make it most attractive to potential buyers once my account is old enough.
How many follower do you have? I don’t have a lot of follower since I removed all the spammer and people who unfollowed me.
I’m just under 600. I removed about half the people i followed originally and have been slowly removing more as i notice which people spam or read tweets i really just don’t care about.
LOL, If you do so then you won’t be getting more followers, and less followers = less money.
I don’t mind about getting less follower. I want to get quality follower that provide interesting tweets and informations. The best would be to create a successful blog that make people interested in following you on twitter just like John Chow and other dot com mogul.
Yeah, But you can lose the money which you get with high followers list.
Thanks for the points! I just started using your Twitter Follower program today and also signed up for Sponsored Tweets. Hopefully if I get enough interest in my twitter page this can work on to a little bit of cash for me.
Thanks for the pointers John.
Hey John’s Twitterfollower is very good program and I also use it, it is very good for getting many followers.
Very good tips John, and really liked that you explained it, as I was waiting for it.
Thanks
john is the master
follow what he said
Really good advice. I am going to use many of the stated options. Thanks for sharing. I specially like the stats application.
Point 7 is very interesting, especially when looking at your own ratio, SY
Great Tips John, you’ve been an inspiration to me since I foun your site (last week
) Once I build up a good Twitterazzi (big followship 
) I’ll start working on this.
“Twitterazzi” thats sound like a great concept , look like something interesting popping out.
-Shanker Bakshi
Same Here, looks like something very good.
Never heard of it before. I have a great knowlege about how to make money from blogging but when It comes to make money with twitter, I only knew revtweet…. I never spent much time on twitter, I only tweeted message that are really worth reading for my readers. Maybe I should tweet more than 5 times/days
If you tweet more then 5 times/day with no good news then sometime it create chances of getting unfollowed.
Well, some people tweet about thing like “I ate an apple two minutes ago” but have a big following list… maybe not so many readers read their tweet… you know when people are following too much person, the tweet are uploading so fast that you don’t have time to read their tweets.
sponsored tweets are trend right now…
Fania
The level of detail you put into your posts is amazing John, its why your 1 of the best!
I recently had almost 6,000 followers and I was following 5,500 people as well.
Now, I am trying to get those two numbers down to the 2k mark. A lot of the accounts were spammy and self-promoters and I lost contact with a lot of people who I enjoyed networking with. This revenue stream/business model is making me think twice though.
it is a great tips indeed but in my opinion, the important things is how to increase the followers.
Yeah, Increasing Followers is the main thing but after getting followers you also need to do them for getting advertisers.
I wish john will explain a concrete way to increase our follower, or more precisely how to get more influence on twitter so that we can enjoy sponsored tweets.
This is what we want to learn, I’m still trying to increase my twitter follower as it increases very slow. We just need a huge amount of followers to make money with SponsoredTweets.
Why don’t you both use twitterfollower, a tool by John Chow. It is very useful and helps in building list of followers.
Thank you Sahil. I’ll give it a try.
Oh I see. Sahil, do you use TwitterFollower and how’s your experience with that?
I hadn’t thought about sponsored tweets before as a way to make money. Do you think you can really make a lot from it? I have looked into promoting my site on twitter but when I read other peoples spammy 140 characters I don’t click it so I think why would people click mine.
if you ask me frankly speaking i never click such tweets, i almost know but they has in for me. more over i hardly clicks links in DM also.
-Shanker Bakshi
Just one Question John, Are you paid just to display the sponsored tweet, or Are you paid only when people click on the sponsored tweets?
It can be both. You can set a price per click to the tweet link or you can charge a set price to send out a tweet. All my offers have been a set price to send out a tweet.
Thanks for explaining John, I was also not knowing about that.
Thanks
Thank you for your reply John. I think It’s more interesting to be pay to send out a tweet rather than being paid depending on the Click through rate.
Oh I see, thanks for clarify it too. I thought we can only set it at a price per tweet. But for me, I would prefer to set price per tweet, after all we don’t have to keep track on the click.
I hadn’t thought about sponsored tweets before as a way to make money. Do you think you can really make a lot from it? I have looked into promoting my site on twitter but when I read other peoples spammy 140 characters I don’t click it so I think why would people click mine.
OH! You’re my new favorite blogger fyi
thanks jhon
i’m interesting about this but i don’t know where’s to start and with this articles much help me alot. but must waiting for 120 days first to join Sponsored Tweets.
rgds
John
Some great tips and tricks and thanks for the link to hootsuite as I have signed up as I start to exploit teh benefits of using Twitter.
All the best
Tom
In the end, making money from Twitter all comes down to your reputation.
Thanks John, This is the best article so far that I have read regarding twitter marketing… I have not tried it yet but will do in a few minutes. By the way, I am a new blogger, but I have been around the internet technology for quite sometime now but mostly on the programming side.
To more success…
it sound like very easy to make money via twitter, but the most important things is how to increase the number of followers?
Omg, I’ve never heard about point #4 to #10! Seems that I need to spend some times to learn that.
yeah.. i am not better than you .. i missed eight of them…lol
You guys must concentrate to build huge follow-ship at twitter.
-Shanker Bakshi
I agree with you Shanker, we must first concentrate to build a huge followship, just like focusing on getting more traffic to our site.
I do know that building huge followship is the main key to make money with sponsoredTweets, but I’m curious how do you all build up your followship? How to get more people to follow you? I have only 3-5 followers follow me a day, that seems slow.
You are getting just 3-5 followers a day?? I get nearly 50-60 new followers a day.
I recently don’t get any new follower since I removed my twitter box on my blog. I should use it again to increase my follower… it’s just that I want to find a cool box like on my previous blog theme.
Yeah, making a big list of followers is most important thing in twitter marketing.
I have also never heard of them before.
Now I can see that actually most of us never heard about those tips that John mentioned above. I learned something new in this post, I’m slowly getting into Twitter marketing and make money with Twitter.
We shouldn’t focus on Twitter only, we have to take advantage on every making money opportunity on the internet to generate multiple income stream and get more chance to gain a 6 figures income.
I see that its not easy getting advertisers unless you have real influence.
Hi,
I just signed up with your referral link at sponseredtweet. Looks like a great new way of earning pocket money.
Lets see whether it will work or not…:)
Thanks
look like this is the best tips to make money with sponsored tweets that i ever found.
Yes, they are definitely best and very very useful.
No need to buy any ebook about how to be successful on Tweeter, just need to read John Chow’s blog
Yep, John is very successful in twitter marketing and he gives very good tips on it.
I haven’t used Hootsuite or Klout before, but i’m really excited to try them both. Hootsuite looks like it has a lot of awesome features which will make keeping track of all the people i’m following and the CTR on my tweets better.
Hootsuite is really good, and I am already using it. It has lots and lots of good and interesting features.
I’ve never heard of Hootsuite before. You might think I have been living under the rock, but it sounds all new to me. I should find more information about how to make profit from twitter.. Actually, I have bought some ebooks about it, but didn’t find time to read them… I still have to learn Mass Control from Frank Kern.
I Just signed up under John Chow and am looking forward to using sponsored tweets someday. Now I just need some followers. Anyone interested?
Hi John. Have not been following you for a while. You have evolved a lot already.
This post is definitely useful as it adds value for your tweets to give that extra reason why your advertisers will choose you and not others!
Thanks John!
Thanks for the tips John. I am sure this will come in handy.
i just shocked with almost all tips i didn’t before.. just great.. . i missed eight from ten tips above..
Actually, I didn’t know most of these tips. I didn’t spend much time to improbe my followers number etc… I should follow John’s tips and get more influence.
Well many people were not knowing about those tips and they are really useful for me.
Just signed through your link to sponsored tweets, For me everything is in place, lets see how much i can make from it.
-Shanker Bakshi
Just curious, how much can you charge your tweet? I can only charge my sponsored tweet $1
Ben, did you get any advertiser in SponsoredTweets with $1 per tweet? I’ve set $3 per tweet and I’ve yet to get any advertiser.
I have set $1 for my tweet and I am also still waiting for first advertiser.
Nope, I haven’t get the attention of any advertisers yet. There are so many Sponsored Tweet user which have more interesting offer for advertisers that we have no choice but get more influence and follower to succeed as a sponsored tweet users… however, I have get two referrals, so I hope they will get some offer to make me earn some commission
Standing out from the crowd is not that easy as there are tons of well known twitter users on SponsoredTweets. I believe that celebrity blogger might catches most of the advertisers’ eyes.
I’m trying to improve the number of followers right now and see what will be happened in some days.
Awesome post John. I never thought about sponsored tweets before. Thanks also for the Hootsuite recommendation, I have been using Sesmic and I don’t care too much for it.
Hi John, I just have read your tips and I’m going to put it to work, thank you for your advise.
Great information John, thanks.
tl:dr
“Work your ass off or you’ll never make a cent through Sponsored Tweets.”
Next?
Hi John
Was this the main reason for the big auto un-follow?
It certainly makes your stats look a heap better and I guess the amount per tweet goes up accordingly.
Love your work by the way and thank you for all the great info you provide.
terry
No, the reason were those I outlined in my post about it. Getting a high ratio was just a neat by product. I received most of my offers before I did my mass unfollowed.
How much money can you expect to make from Tweeting?
i don’t know anyone making money with sponsored tweets that are “unknown” marketers. Only super affiliates and they’re friends.
Get article John! Looking forward to see more Twitter like post from you in the future.
Nice article, I never thought that we can make money that much amount just through sponsered advertising..
Great and thanks for sharing it..
Still trying to get over the spam factor with sponsored tweets
Now we see why you stopped following everyone, to get your ratio up.
This is hugely useful! I was not aware of Hootsuite before but I’ve signed up now and will definitely use it to track my make money with PLR clicks.
Greatings, Everything dynamic and very positively!
Thanks
GlenStef
it is useful information
i will try this one
I’ve used twitter to send traffic back to the blog, and also made a few bucks through sponsored tweets. The biggest value is to build up a twitter account for your web site, then flow over traffic from twitter to your blog/site.
Hey John,
I appreciate this novel concept. Who won’t like to have such simple earning schemes under his belt. I have a decent list of followers and following too, so I think it will work out for me.
Thanks for introducing this wonderful concept of sponsored tweets.
Wow, John. Amazing info on Sponsored Tweets. I’m still building my followers but hope to reach the 1000 mark soon.
How many followers do you have? I only have 217 followers at the moment, but I’m not very active on twitter. But when I was active before, I received arround 20 followers/ day (most of them were spammer though)
Just connect with as many people as you can.. No harm at all!
Just signed up with Sponsored tweets hoping to make some money. Thanks for the tips.
Good luck, I hope you have a big following list and that you often tweet… to get a chance to be noticed by advertisers…
Never knew there is so much dimension to the twitter social web.
Thanks for the post on Sponsored Tweets. I am long way from making money with it but one day I will be there.
These are all great tips. I have been fooling around a little with Hootsuite. I didn’t know it had so many cool features.
i just sign up with twitter now , i will real to know on how to use twitter to promote my biz.
thanks for the tips john. I’ve got no idea that it was possible to get paid using twitter.
john it’s perfect,where you got all this information,i think i have to check your vlog daily before starting up.Thanks looking for more and please also post about all your resourses finding.
These are all great tips..I have almost 200 followers so will go ahead with idea
Hey John, Sponsored Tweets is an awesome program created by Izea! I have already made about $100 with Sponsored Tweets! Make Money Online
There are a lot of ways to earn from your tweets and this sponsored tweet is just one of them,Nice sharing john
Thank a lot John for sharing such a valuable information. Never knew there is such an opportunity to make money from Sponsored Tweets.
I think that for you John the greatest advantage is the brand you created for yourself. You get so many followers and blog readers, that whatever you touch turns into gold.
This is the result of the brilliant e-marketing capabilities of yours and should be a benchmark for any aspring blogger.
It comes with time really.. You do it well for a long time and you will get there some day.
Thank you for the encouragement
Sponsored Tweets looks like an awesome program. Thanks for these great tips John.
Wow, this is some really concrete, helpful know-how, thanks John.
Thanks john..that’s a great piece of info
Btw Twitter needs you to spend quite lots of time with it. I guess you need at least more than 10K followers then you’ll only get sufficient sponsored tweets to make a significant amount…. But what John posted here $300-$7,500 an hour sounds really interesting ….. and is much much more than other ways of making money online
Well i really appreciate that you have talked straight to the point. People come to such programs looking for quick n easy money. What you have done is that you have given a clear picture that it is not possible. Now i know where i stand and what i should do BEFORE i join sponsored tweets. I must build a reputation on twitter first!
Thanks Chow!
$125 per tweet is insane ..
This is great, now I have can use all these twitter accounts I’ve had sitting around for months! Some of the account have 400-4000 followers and I’ve just kind of forgot about them, time to pimp em.
How do you build influence on Twitter?
Really useful material; thanks John Chow! I’ll try some of these new strategies & tactics on both my websites.
Hi John
Great post, thanks for sharing your money making tips, I think Sponsor Twitters is good and bad.
First of all you need a responsive and huge Twitter following thats the only way you be able to get loads of click through rates and earn loads of commissions from the ads. Like what you have done John.
Some people may get fed up of recieving ads most of time..theres a potential of losing some followers. But apart from that I think its a great way of making some money.
Avis
Wow great post, it’s really interesting how much money you can make with twitter.
I’ve only made a total of $65 from sponsoredtweets, but it’s easy and simple money
-Mike
Nice tips john chow so far i had made $100 permonth. Hope more tips i learn from you.
I wonder if it is realy posible to make any real money from
twitter,becouse when i login to my twitter account i see
most of my folowers are just promoting and promoting
some links and i`m just realy angry about this.Is there any other way to earn some nice money from this?
damn, thats quite a lot! gonna do some research for it! nice post
thanks for these tips! will try them out!
Nice info john, thanks to share it!
Thanks for the useful info., I wonder how long will it take to get the money in case I have mine, too tired in waiting stuffs…
i have about 2,000 followers on my twitter account, but 97 percents are just ads and promoting ads, I thing only famous people, like yourself John is going to make money on twitter.
wowo your stats are just awesome.
nice i am going to try it … your stat is good
Is sponsored tweeting under the new FTC guidelines as well? What’s the policy on transparency for sponsored tweets?
Sponsored Tweets requires 100% disclosure.
i had been with twitter not more than 120days, but I had SponsoredTweets accounts already, still didn`t get any advertisement..
you`re right..
Sponsored Tweets members may also join this program http://twitter.grader.com/ to add their status in Sponsored Tweets profile
Im pretty nervous about people unfollowing me, not sure its ethical to try and monetize my tweets. Great tips though John, I may check it out in the future.
This is one great article that give me lots of knowledge about twitter, sponsored twitter. I did not take twitter seriously before, just thought that twitter is for fun. Now I can understand how to make money by using twitter. I have to learn more on twitter money making system by reading your other blog post. Thank you lots.
This is actually a good post. I always thought that you need to have around 100,000 people following you on Twitter to make any money, but coming to think of it, I have not even used a single suggestion that you have listed over here.
My Twitter profile will be going through an overhaul. Thanks for posting!
Hey John,
From your previous post I immediately signed up fpr the sponsored tweets but rarely found any advertiser.
Now today, after reading your post I figured out that it is because of the improper follower and following ratio.
I will try to maintain that.
Thanks for such a deep insight about it.
Thanks for important ideas.Twitter rules online world so we need to get most of it.
Thanks a lot for valuable tips John:)
I’m now following all your tips as you are my next big inspirer:)
No doubt all these tips lead to the road of success.
It’s good advice, but mainly for someone who’s made it and has a great rating already with traffic and a lot of followers on Twitter already. To build up to this level you’ve got to post a lot of solid material. I’d recommend to anyone to post up a storm of at least 100 posts to gain a following and the credibility needed before going this kind of route.
Not tried sponsored tweets…but I will give it a shot…but your blog is very enjoyable to read…i am bookmarking you…will visit again to to see new post..lol
Hello Sir,
I have joined sponsored tweets but my twitter account is not 120 days old.Will I have to apply after 120 days or after 120 days will it get be accepted
I gave up with all the tips. Not working in my experience, I do not know why
These are great tips for people trying to attract more followers and be more of a follower. It’s especially great for beginers who are looking to get a lot of followers and get there twitting experience to make them more money. John explained it well and made some great points. This is a great way to make more money and earn the income you want. Hootsuite is something that I never heard much about but now that I have tried it I love it’s features. It’s useful information because it shows fellow twitters that sponser twitting can give you good income.
Hello John,
Thanks for the information.
So it’s time to start making $$$ with Tweets. right?
Great tips, John
Branding and building relationships are the main factors.
Success in Social Media is based on two-way communications, being a part of the community should be a priority.
thank bro…
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that call churpchurp
this my link
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Great tips. I’ve been using sponsored tweets for nearly 6 months and have already made literally thousands. FANTASTIC way to make money online.
John Burton
Very useful tips, make money online is an interesting experience, thx.
wow. you really earn well with that program.
Very useful information. Thanks!
sponsor tweetis new way to make money online..but sometime when someone see your profile full with ads maybe they dont interest.