Well said!

So long as the tweets are relavant, I am all for people making a buck on them. I think everyone who referrs a product deserves to get a kick-back. They are adding value and are helping to make the sale!

I wouldn't say it is "pretenting to be a new freind", when you enter something into twitter, unless your tweets are protected, anyone can see them and offer up a response, not just your followers.

I sitll am not so sure I agree, that sending out a suggesting to a question is a DB response. I saw someone the other day twitter a question in an @response to someone asking about buying some medical equipment and I sent them a link to allheart.com and thay replied, thank you very much. I think they appreciated a quick solution to their problem, somthing twitter is uniquelly able to help with. And on my part it took a bit of research to identify a company that sold what they wanted and create the link, so it's not like it was burn and churn.

Still too early to tell if this is working, but with the millions of tweets out there, I really doubt giving someone an answer to a question they have clearly posed online is wrong. IMHO.

Adam

It's all good, it's a good discussion. Twitter is an up and coming platform, it will be interesting to watch how it develops and how marketers learn to use it.

I did, and added some additional information. Even got to go back and correct some my stupid spelling mistakes!

If someone says they like Ray Ban's and want to buy a pair, and you shoot them a coupon code for $10 off a purchase or Ray Bans, I would think that would be a perfect opportunity to close the sale. In fact, using twitterhawk, a smart affiliate or ray ban themselves might be able to automate that.

On my way out to Vegas for Affiliate Summit, I twittered that I was flying out of IAD, and I got a twitter from @taxinow telling me that I could DM them when I returned if I needed a cap in the DC area. Was I offended? No, I thought it was brilliant!!!

Selling is all about presenting an offer when people are ready to buy, a network like Twitter gives you plenty of opportunities to sell someone something that they need by being open to listening to what they are asking for.

In my opinion this is just good common sense marketing.

Remember, in the early internet days, the Internet elitists didn't think you should use the Internet for marketing at all, purely research.

Adam

I think if you are making a recommendation and you can get paid for it, you would be stupid not to.

Coming in a bit late to this discussion. 1st, Scott, I wasn't "calling you out" I thought it was a GREAT use of the technology and you provided a great response to someone asking the question "looking for some advise". I would have been disappointed in you if you didn't use an affiliate link, why not get paid for your recommendation.

Adam

It was me. I started writing a whole long comment about it, but IntenseDebate wouldn't let me post it, said it was too long. So I posted my reply on my blog, Wiseaff.com - http://www.wiseaff.com/2009/02/affiliate-marketin...

Adam