We’ve received many Tweets recently about users having issues figuring out how to accept Advertiser offers in the system. So we wanted to walk through the process, and also offer-up a few reminders that might help you not only navigate through the system a little more easily, but also make Tweeters more money!
Opportunities
As a Tweeter you are provided the option of receiving Opportunity offers via e-mail or Twitter Direct Message (DM). When you receive an offer, click on the link provided. Chances are you’ll be taken to a page that looks like the following:
If not, you’ll be asked to sign-in to SponsoredTweets.com using your Twitter handle (that you used when you originally signed-up). Once you’re signed in to the system you will notice your “Opportunities” listings:
From here the actions are quite simple:
- “Decline This”: You would select this if the Opportunity, message, or Advertiser would not be a relevant fit for you as a Tweeter, or for your audience. Remember, relevance is key.
- “Write My Tweet”: “Yes! I want to take this Opportunity!” This would be relevant and interesting content for your readers. After clicking on this option, you will be given specific details about the Opportunity. Once you submit the Tweet for approval, it may take up to three (3) days for the Advertiser to respond.
Making More Dough!
- API: If you own and/or operate your own website, you can adopt the Sponsored Tweets API and essentially earn a portion of $$$ an Advertiser spends. While signed-in to your account, click on the “use our api” button in the upper right column for a step-by-step process.
- Referral Program: Making money doesn’t get any easier than our referral system. Simply slap a badge or link on your blog or website, and for every sign up you send our way as a result, you’ll earn cash. You can get started easily by clicking on the “join our referral program” button, just underneath the “use our api” button.
Help
- Twitter: You can connect with Sponsored Tweets a couple of different ways on Twitter. Simply “Follow” or “@” either @SponTwts or @IZEALove with a question, comment, or concern. Simply “Follow” or “@” either account with a question.
- Get Satisfaction: This is the preferred “help” action, and a place where you can find tons-and-tons of information.
We hope this helps clear-up any confusion or issues some of our new users might be facing. If you need additional help…you know where to find us!
Tags: Advertisers, sponsored conversation, Sponsored Tweets, Tweeters, Twitter
David Beroff said on 1.23.10 at 1:41 pm
We recently tried running a campaign with SponsoredTweets, and something like three quarters of the publishers never even responded to the offer. I doubt that it was objectionable, as we only had one explicit decline. This implies that most publishers simply ignored the offer during their three-day window.
Meanwhile, I read all these posts from publishers wondering how come they don't get offers.
I don't know; something's not "working" (on the human side, not a technical issue). We're not likely to return, as it's pretty time-intensive to put these out, only to have most of them ignored. I think our potential spend totaled several hundred dollars, but we only managed to spend $25 or so, and it took a while to keep cycling through new sets of non-responsive publishers, waiting before we could reuse the funds kept in escrow.
Maybe there needs to be an email or three, saying, "Someone wants to hand you free money; this is what you need to do to claim it!"
Adam Fortuna said on 1.24.10 at 2:27 pm
Hey David, I think you're right on this. Maybe when making offers, advertisers could see some kind of ratio of how many offers that publisher has received versus how many they actually tweeted out and fulfilled. Having something to weed out the people who aren't responding to offers over and over is important for making the system easy to use. That and completely removing users who aren't actively using the system. We do remove people who block access to SponsoredTweets (revoke access to the system via Twitter), but other than that all users are in the system until they opt out.
The last point you made about alerting them is something we do though. When they first receive an offer we'll send them an email or dm saying they have 3 days (or less depending on when the tweet must go out) to do it, and how much they stand to make. Then 24 hours before the offer expires we'll let them know time is running out, and if they want to make $xx.xx they need to login and accept the offer.
Thanks for the feedback David! I'm going to check out just how many offers are simply being ignored and see what we can do about it. As a publisher, is there any additional information that would help you decide who to hire when making offers to publishers?
FerreeMoney said on 2.7.10 at 1:45 pm
Adam,
This post was pretty helpful and I'll go back and re-visit Get Satisfaction to see if there's more 411 on how you guy derive the "suggested" asking price for our Twitter profile.
Since I started using Sponsored Tweets, I've seen my Opportunity suggest price grow, but the current rate of $13.95 has not been met yet, so I keep lowering my fee.
Would be interested to see how you guys core or rate a Twitter profile to derive these suggested figures?
- Neil
Ashley K. Edwards said on 2.8.10 at 9:35 am
@Adam Glad we could be of help! We're always striving to provide useful & relevant information, and your feedback is always appreciated.
With regard to suggested pricing, that's an algorithm built by our Dev team based on the number of Followers each Tweeter has.
Karen HAnsen said on 3.2.10 at 11:31 am
I left a question for someone somewhere on this site and now I cannot find that section. For some reason, I am just not finding this site to be structured well for my uses.
By the way, my question was that I accidentally hit the decline button rather than the send button. Could you please put the send button to the left of the deny button so this does not happen again? Is there a way to cancel a denial?
Hope I can find this section again in order to get my answer!
Ashley K. Edwards said on 3.3.10 at 10:11 am
@ Karen
Thanks for your feedback on the button. We do collect this sort of information, and consider it for future site enhancements/releases. In the meantime, unfortunately once an Opportunity has been declined there's no way to get it back. Sorry for any inconvenience.