Looking for an easy way to make money? Twitter offers users the ability to gain monetary value through the utilization of their followers. The most basic ways to monetize your Twitter account include sponsored ads, direct advertising, affiliate marketing, sponsored contests, and paid reviews. However, all of the methods listed mean nothing with followers. uSocial can partner with you to gain followers, which in turn can help you make money.

Sponsored advertisements revolve around the use of auto ads and sponsored actions. Auto Ads would allow an outside service to help the user in dispensing the tweet ads when the actual user of the account is not actively tweeting on a regular basis or is idle. The user can also set the auto ad to send out advertisements at certain times, in order to ensure that they do not annoy their followers. Sponsored Actions would require the user to send out a call of action to followers, such as re-tweeting a certain phrase where a hash tag is used (for tracking purposes).

Direct Advertising allows users to promote a particular product to their followers. If a user’s followers fits a certain niche market for a company and/or product then that company will want to employ that user simply because of the resources that they have to offer them in that market (potential buyers). Essentially, all direct advertising requires is making a recommendation to followers to look into a specific item. After recommending the item, the user would need to present the follower with an action, like buying the product.

Affiliate Marketing lets users make money through affiliate links or the user’s personal sales pages. An affiliate link is comprised of a tweet that recommends a product, and presents a link in the same tweet that directs the follower to where that product is sold. A sales pages would allow the user to send followers to their own personal sites (where the user can sell the follower their own products and services), versus sending them to affiliate companies.

Sponsored contests are sometimes done to promote brand awareness, or help advertisers gain insight into the minds of their consumers through feedback. Feedback can be obtained through one’s followers when the user simply throws out a question asking the followers how they feel about a certain product or service. Brand awareness is gained by having users compete in tweeting the best descriptions of products or in sending descriptions that get the word out on certain companies/products. Sponsored tweets are also a great way to go about this.

Paid Reviews allow users to simply get paid by sending in reviews on products, services, or even people. A paid review lets users send information on how they feel about something directly to the company, and does not require anything of the user’s followers.

All of these methods of making money using twitter require you to grow your twitter network.  uSocial can help you do just that by partnering with you to help you increase the numbers of followers you have. Again, increasing your number of followers can increase your personal value in the business world, and therefore increase your wallet size. Visit uSocial’s marketing page on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/usocialads