how to monetize social media

i have a twitter account in the financial news / prop trading niche with around 30k followers. engagement is pretty good....avg post gets 15% engagement (likes+retweets+ clicks thru links and media) vs impression (total views). i've read this level of engagement is high....avg is closer to 1%...i'm regarded as a kind of expert in my field.

i'm wondering how to monetize this. do i advertise affiliate products? wrie a book and try to sell it...make/sell a course? or do i try to partner with a brand that wants to advertise to my audience? i wouldn't mind posting in exchange for a porsche or an aston martin.

thoughts?

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Deliver a quality product and leverage it to jump start your idea/product.

Maybe if you did a financial newsletter or something you could do it for free initially to build volume then have subscription only content for those interested.

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You could do live video trading and Twitch or something.

You could cover the ‘why’ behind your trades as well as the timing and size.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

For that, you’d have to be Doug DeMuro

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

I follow people on YouTube with extreme niche topics (electric cars) and they average as little as a few thousand views per video. But because their fans are highly engaged and often fairly high income, fans will donate to the channel via Patreon. Then, one of the guys is kind of a finance geek, so he builds Excel models and stuff that he'll sell for people to use in their own financial analysis. I'm sure they pretty much write-off all of their goodies (camera, phone, microphone, headset, etc.) on their taxes. They all can somehow afford to own the latest and greatest Teslas, so I assume they are compensated well enough to make a good living.

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