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You’ve got a Twitter account, and you’re ready to make money.

Enter Tweetbucks.

Tweetbucks Brings Affiliate Fees To Twitter Users. Is That A Good Thing? reports:

“Tweetbucks has a database with thousands of online merchants that offer referral fees (or money you get from merchants when your advertisements of a product result in a purchase ), including Amazon, BestBuy, Barnes & Noble and Shoes.com. All you need to do is find a product on a retail site, enter it on Tweetbuck’s site, and the startup will automatically shorten (via Bit.ly) and convert it to an affiliate enabled link, referencing the site’s data base of online merchants that pay out affiliate fees. You can then add the link to in a Tweet, Facebook status update or FriendFeed message.”

There’s a downside to Tweetbucks. As the TechCrunch article points out, you may start losing followers at speed if you market to them consistently.

The solution? Set up a Twitter account just for your moneymaking efforts, and be sure to send your followers something besides a constant flow of advertising.

I’m an affiliate marketer, and so I buy a lot of affiliate products, especially affiliate products touting affiliate marketing.

Here’s what annoys me: if I buy an affiliate product from someone who’s charging $97 or $197 or even more, why don’t they follow their own advice, as touted in the product?

For the tenth time this week, I’ve received a message which looked a lot like spam, but no, it was from an affiliate marketer.

Dear affiliate marketer, if you do these things, please buy a clue:

* Send a message with a spammy title like: “This is amazing!”

* Start your message with “Dear Angela” and nothing else, so I have to scroll to the end of the message to try to figure out who you are and why I should care;

* Tell me about a free video I should watch, because I’m going to make $346,877 in ten minutes… I don’t know about you, dear affiliate marketer, but I have NO TIME to watch videos, and if I did have, I wouldn’t be spending it on videos which are obviously sales pitches;

* Try to make your message seem important by using words like “amazing”, “incredible” etc.

PLEASE use a header on your emails, so I know who you are. If I don’t know who you are instantly, your message is going to the spam folder as fast as I can click.

So you’ve decided you’d like to work from home and that marketing from the Internet sounds like the ideal job. The next step to making any money on the Internet is to decide what to do. You’d like to start making money as soon as possible and you don’t want to fork out a lot of dough to get started. If this sounds like you then selling affiliate products might be your answer, at least to start.

The pros of selling affiliate products:

You don’t have to have a website, you can buy a domain name and use it to redirect to the product producer’s sales page.

It is easy to get started promoting; you don’t have to take the time to produce a quality product, get testimonials, get the product set up on ClickBank, or write some killer copy.

You don’t have to wear many hats – your job is to promote the product through your affiliate link and that’s it.

Promotional materials may be handed to you by the product producer in the form of blog posts, articles, emails, and keywords you can use.

It doesn’t take a lot of money out of pocket to get started. You can promote it for free by doing article marketing. You can also venture cautiously into using Pay Per Click advertising.

You are not involved with customer support. The product creator is in charge of customer support, answering questions, giving refunds, etc. There’s no big baggage going to bed with you each night because you are not ultimately responsible for the product.

You can tell how well a product is selling on ClickBank by looking at the stats they provide. If the product’s track record doesn’t look good at all, you’ll think twice about selling it and pick something else.

The cons of selling affiliate products:

If you promote someone else’s products, you can only make a certain percentage of the commission whereas if it were your own product, you could make 100%.

You have no control over the affiliate product. It’s not yours to change around, up the price, make the sales page better, etc.

Selling an affiliate product will not help you brand yourself as an expert in your field like your own product can do.

If it’s a product that sells well on ClickBank, you might have lots of serious competition. Other people might know how to promote products better than you. You’ll need to learn the best ways to promote, and each product may require different types of promotions to effectively make sales.

You need to read the terms of service of the merchant’s product to make sure you are following the rules. The TOS are not the same for every product, so be diligent in reviewing them.

As with anything, there are pros and cons of becoming an affiliate marketer. If, after going over everything you decide you want to try it, do some further research on affiliate marketing to arm yourself with all the knowledge you need to be a success.