The following is a guest post by one of my favorite online marketers, Jessica Swanson of Shoestring Marketing.

Twitter is one of my all-time favorite places to market my business, Shoestring Marketing.

In addition, I encourage every small business owner to jump head-first into Twitter in order to develop strong business relationships and find new customers and clients.

However, one complaint that I often hear from my own clients is that Twitter is intimidating, confusing and even a waste of valuable time. I want to put these complaints to rest once and for all.

I have compiled 7 Golden Twitter Rules that, if you follow, will catapult your business to the top of your industry in no time at all!
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Affiliate marketing is a way to promote other people’s products and earn a commission for each sale. The merchants go through all the trouble of developing digital content products, software programs and services. They are the ones who do all the hard work developing the products, dealing with customer support and you earn money by promoting them.

For those that are not familiar with affiliate marketing, it is a revenue sharing arrangement between the product developer, known as the affiliate merchant, and the affiliate marketer; who is anyone that’s willing to promote the sale of the product by advertising the product using any type of legal means available.
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Whether or not you need to have your own product to become a successful affiliate marketer is a question that has been asked and answered every few minutes since affiliate marketing came on the scene. The reason it is asked so often is because everybody has a different answer. There are those who say you absolutely MUST have your own product to get started and to succeed in affiliate marketing and then there are those who say you don’t need a product when you start or ever to be successful. So, which is it? Yes? No?
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If you thought using Twitter was only for social networking, think again.  People are starting to tap in to the concept of making money with their Twitter website.  You can make money with Twitter, but there are certain things you have to do in order to make a profit.

Of course, you must have a Twitter account in order to make money with Twitter.  Signing up for a Twitter account does not cost you anything.  When you get your Twitter site set up, you will want to start posting tweets to your site.  Posting tweets will help you get followers.  When followers tweet posts to you, you should respond in kind.
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Jeremy “ShoeMoney” Schoemaker (President of ShoeMoney Media Group and Founder of ShoeMoney) has been building successful online businesses for 13 years. For the past five years he’s been working hard writing a book to help others get started online. He recently decided that there is just too much great information in his book to exclude people from reading it. He backed out of a major book deal and turned it into a completely FREE 12 week guide to Internet marketing. Jeremy wants everyone who has the passion to succeed in his industry to do just that!

Here is a preview of what you’ll get over the next 12 weeks…
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