How can I get paid through Facebook Twitter and other social media

senren

New member
Although social marketing has been around for some years it existed by virtue of the evolution of technology & society and is a by product thereof. Social marketing in a simplistic sense is marketing a product or service by way of telling your 'friends' (i.e. your Facebook, Twitter or MySpace network), initially it was an avenue slightly unorthodox in nature as it would be stereotypical of a 'salesperson' to provide exceptional 'deals' to friends & family opposed to inducing a full price purchase from them.
Now days it is the norm to extend invitations to these networks of extended 'friends' or as they would appear 'business associates' to read a Blog, try a product, basically to check out something new. Ultimately, the aim of these mass communications is to drive traffic into every corner of the web at light speed; by contrast, an 'old school' approach would be to design a large advertising campaign, getting the word out through various mediums at an escalating cost.
It was destined for social marketing to become the initial means to spread word of products and services, the cost is virtually nil and any measurable cost is a 'virtual' one i.e. the time to create and the space it uses up; did you ever think that we would be using 'time & space' to explain a 'virtual' concept when those words engender the theme of the theory of relativity - it's all relative.
Never the less, social marketing has further evolved to be coupled with the old school marketing campaign yet toned down to reduce costs. Where a tweet or comment was once a communication which only value was intrinsic to that of the person initiating the communication it is now a vital first step in the race to drive traffic and induce sales. This is a win-win situation as driving traffic is of great benefit as is any sales; just as evidence of a storm is discernible days after it has passed, the scattered effect of social marketing can be seen all over the web. It's a matter of getting your communication into the information stream, once it's in it can end up anywhere and everywhere
 

Chibson

VIP Contributor
The internet has really helped a whole lot of people to get many customers for their businesses and were able to succeed because of the ease of using social media platforms to market different products.

If you have an offline business you can probably use social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and even WhatsApp to market it and get a lot of customers. I know a whole lot of people that have different offline businesses but they don't market it offline but they capitalise on different social media platforms to get a lot of customers.

This can be very tasking especially if you're going into it newly but with time you are probably going to get a whole lot of people to patronize you. You need to be very active on different social media platforms in order to achieve this because it probably requires a lot of audience.

Using WhatsApp is also very effective and many people have used it to make some cool money for themselves. You just have to prove your legitimacy and you will see people patronizing you. It is also important for you to have a way in which you can be delivering the products to people on different locations.
 

Setho

VIP Contributor
It is particularly sad that Facebook and some other social media networks does not have self monetization options just like the Way You tube is doing right now . This means that you are permitted to post for free on the platform but you have to look for other ways if you want to monetize it and make your own money.

The first way of monetizing that I have seen that has worked for people is partnership and creating a sponsored post. For example if you are posting content about technology , you can reach out to smartphone brands who are just launching a new product into the market for you to create a poster promoting the product to your own community .

You can also be able to make money by creating your own product or selling your own service and marketing it to your audience. You can be able to do this by building an email list if you do not want to direct response sales.

Sometimes you might consider having a premium list where people who are going to be subscribing for that kind of list are going to be getting exclusive access to some other things or VIP treatment.
 
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