Pay someone to tweet your URL?

[altwebdesign]

Something someone asked me and got me thinknig. . .Would it be worthwhile, paying someone a small fee to tweet your business URL?
Just something I thought of, I mean if they have over like 10,000+ followers then it could be quite beneficially, especially if its industry specific. . . ??

[AndyMc]

I think if the price is right, it def. might be worth it.

[killer2021]

hmm, I've been thinking of doing the same thing.

If you get lots of people to tweet your url it will be featured on the front page of tweetmeme.com. but you need about 1,000 people to tweet it. That site has alexa traffic rank of 429 (global) and alexa rank of 279 (USA). So it must be getting some serious traffic.

[veikoh]

It's same that sponsored posts or paid blog posts. So, I will sell my signature links for example...
It's much more cost effective than buying ads or PPC.

[ChrisHeggem]

I would definitely encourage testing this first. Even with the highest quality following, not as many people click the links as you think and even fewer convert to customers through Twitter. I'll have to find it, but I recently read an article saying that most of the celebrity accounts (even with millions of followers) hold very little revenue generating value (I'm assuming that's your end goal).

[Adnerb]

Something someone asked me and got me thinknig. . .Would it be worthwhile, paying someone a small fee to tweet your business URL?
Just something I thought of, I mean if they have over like 10,000+ followers then it could be quite beneficially, especially if its industry specific. . . ??

How would you go about choosing them and how would you decide what it is worth to pay them I wonder?

[Milkerz]

Twitter is not just the only thing that can be used as a marketing tool like that, what about paying someone who has a lot of followers on their blogs and things like that? You could pay them to write a small positive statement about your company and leave a link, this gives people a review as well as the URL.

Queue my plug: http://lukebbk.blogger.com I am not looking for advertising or anything, just please give it a read, and a follow if you enjoy.

[Milkerz]

I always write my URL wrong, it is My life of doing nothing sorry. Read and follow

[John Alves]

Something someone asked me and got me thinknig. . .Would it be worthwhile, paying someone a small fee to tweet your business URL?
Just something I thought of, I mean if they have over like 10,000+ followers then it could be quite beneficially, especially if its industry specific. . . ??

You can get jobs done like that on fiverr.com. I think it's worth doing, but I've never done it. If it's not targeted, then it may not work very well. However, for $5 it's worth taking a risk because you are not spending much money. There's a lot of people that do this already.

[coolguygraphics]

Dude, there are tons of people on micro job websites like fiverr.com and uphype.com doing exactly this for people. I don't know if it's worth it because I've never tried it. But for $5, like someone else said, it couldn't hurt.

I have a gig on fiverr myself, where I do graphic design work for people..
fiverr.com/users/coolguygraphics/gigs/apply-11-commercially-used-graphic-design-effects-to-any-1-image-you-choose-providing-you-back-with-11-different-image-designs


Let me tell you that, I'm not doing it because I need the money, but really because I'd like to bring in some extra cash just to finance all the the stuff I want to buy on there. There are a lot of cool things on there. So I figured if people need my services, I'll help them out, and when I get paid on them, will turn right around and buy another service on there. Maybe even a twitter blast. So I say check it out and give it a try. There are actually reviews on these sites, maybe if you read the reviews you can find a user on there who does twitter blasts who has really great feedback. Good luck!

[LMC05]

I would think it would be most cost effective for the business owner to pay the person tweeting on a per click type system (Assuming that you've got a way to track your traffic coming from that source)...That way you aren't over paying at the tweeter has a little more incentive to really advertise for you.

[startuptrial]

I can't imagine it would be cheaper to pay for clicks when you can get the entire job done for a flat rate of just $5.00. I saw one adver on 5rr saying they'll send your message to 70k twitter followers. That's a lot of blast for 5

[iAmNameLEss]

You can get jobs done like that on fiverr.com. I think it's worth doing, but I've never done it. If it's not targeted, then it may not work very well. However, for $5 it's worth taking a risk because you are not spending much money. There's a lot of people that do this already.

John is right.. you can have them sent out to people with 30k+ followers. Does it work? Not very often, but at least you're engaging into social media which is a small step. Plus, for $5, I think you can afford to not make a sale off it, but imagine if you did? Even with a .5% CTR you're still getting 150+ clicks... maybe we should cut that down to .1% and assume its going to be around 30 clicks. Still... not too bad of a deal, low risk, possibly high reward!

[Tangible Asset]

I'm actually working on something like this right now. It's not just for twitter though, its for any social network.

StatusPays.com

[BarbaraKParker]

I won't pay somebody to just tweet my post. There are lots of internet marketers out there that do this but I do not recommend it. People are getting wiser and of course, you do not want your clients to think that you got lots of followers because you just paid for it. I say build the followers list naturally. Find real people that really wanted to follow. Not only that you promote honestly, you will make your profile reliable also.