I just caught a TV ad while watching the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race in Richmond race on ESPN. My wife and I were watching as they showed various scenes of different groups of people headed out on the road for vacations. They called the Dodge Journey the “search engine for the real world.” And ended the ad with the premise that if you find one, you get one for free.
That caught my attention.
Then during the television commercial, we saw a few obvious landmarks that were clearly focused on, but not realizing what it was.
Then as the ad comes to a close, we see two people shut the doors and the announcer saying that the Dodge Journey is out there. “Then we left it here. Literally.“ Really, it’s out there and all you have to do is follow the clues and find the Dodge Journey and it’s yours.
Yea, suddenly my entire household was all ears. Me, my wife, the dog, the cats… we all wanted this.
We were like, well heck, that’s cool. But how the heck to do we figure this out if we weren’t really paying attention the first time.
I headed out to the web to figure this out.
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Twitter: Paid Tweeting
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Paid tweeting on Twitter seems lucrative, but you need to hold a special status to make the big bucks. Then again, I’m shocked at the money made per tweet!
Twitter, the time suck for some, the advantageous and random shot for web traffic and marketing for others. Many folk I know use Twitter to communicate their newest blog entries and generate traffic to their websites. That traffic becomes a source of potential income for many a website, my own included. Yet it’s how they net traffic that distinguishes websites. Twitter is but one tool.
How website owners choose to net your web traffic is up to them. They can present upfront and honest Title tweets, or they can trick you with a question that draws your curiosity in or they can just outright trick you with tweet bait that has nothing to do with anything. It’s up to the Twitter user how they want to snag your web traffic. In the end everyone wins. You get your curiosity answered, they get their much desired web traffic and with that web traffic, the potential to follow through on other money making processes on their website.
That’s the obvious way to use Twitter for a webmaster to make money. There’s also another method that is rather surprising! It’s the pay per tweet process. If you’re famous enough, you can ring in some pretty hefty fees for tweeting sponsored messages for advertisers. The most infamous of the paid tweeters, in case you had not heard, is Kim Kardashian who was reportedly earning $10k a tweet.
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