Thursday, October 29, 2009

Social Networking - 7 Need To Know Tips

By Jonathan Pitts

Social networking is one of the most effective Internet Marketing techniques and it is absolutely free! Never before has it been so easy do drive traffic to your websites and build your list without spending a penny.

Now there are many social networking sites out there but the two I am going to focus on are Twitter and Facebook. This is because they are the two most popular; around 15 million people use Twitter and 65 million people use Facebook.

This means whatever you are promoting you are guaranteed there will be a considerable number of people that will be interested in your product.

The key to social networking effectively and making money online is to target specific people and ensure they buy from you, here are some top tips how: 1. Make sure your account/profile reflects the business you are involved with and who you are.

2. Write a little bio about yourself and what niche you are involved with, if you are an internet marketer state that and let them know how you can help them.

3. Personalize you site; include picutres of yourself and of your family and pets. This straight away lets the viewer know you are a real person and not an automated robot. People will warm to that fact.

4. Include several links to your sites on your profile; do this on Facebook and Twitter by putting the links in your "about me" section and post them whenever you can. All major social networking sites allow you to update your status; every time you do leave a link to your site.

5. Connect with new visitors/friends straight away. You do this by drafting up a generic email and sending it to any new social networking friends. Introduce yourself, let them know how you can benefit them and what product/home business you're involved with. Then ask to hear more about that person which will lead to most people replying as you've asked to hear from them.

6. Frequently update your status with helpful information, for example I'm an internet marketer so I continually give people access to helpful information on internet marketing techniques; it might be a free report by myself or a link to a helpful website. By helping others you will become a leader and people looking to get into internet marketing will want to join into a leaders business as they can show them the way to success.

7. Add targeted people, on both Twitter and Facebook you can search for keywords that appear on other people's profiles. If you are promoting dog food product search the word "dog" this will bring up a list of people who have "dog" appear on their profile so are likely to either be dog lovers or owners, these are people you want to add as they are targeted.

Limit the number of people you add on Facebook to 20 a day and Twitter to following 200 a day.

Finally my key point if you want to market effectively using social networking sites is to keep it up; continually add people to drive more traffic to your sites and frequently update your status.

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