Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Pay with your social network

Now you can use the power of your social media to get products. paywithatweet.com, allows users to download product after tweeting about them or posting on facebook. They call themselves the "first social payment system." 

I have downloaded a social media report from here for the cost of a tweet. Personally, I just love the concept as most authors are giving away tonnes of stuff for free. Now by ensuring some sort of payment in return for your content you ensure you are getting

a) Free publicity--with a high probability of hitting the right target audience
b) Ensuring that your work gets read...no one is going to tweet about a product that is not of relevance to them.

Apart from the obvious PDFs and ebooks, it also might be a good idea to "lock" blogposts and articles. We could for example, have a summary of a blog post and anyone interested in reading the whole post would have to "pay" with a tweet or a FB post. Not sure how this will go, but it certainly is worth a try.

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