Social Networking – 7 Need To Know Tips

Social Networking is the easiest and (in my opinion) most effective Internet Marketing technique. The best thing about social networking is it is 100% FREE. It makes the whole proces of driving traffic to your sites and list building easier than ever before!

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 then that you are sure to find a large enough amount of people that will be interested in your product/home business opportunity no matter how niche it is!

However there are tips that will allow you to find these people on social networking sites that are likely to be interested in your product (targeted traffic) easily, here they are: 1. Your account/profile has to reflect the business/home opportunity you are involved with and let a person know who you are straight away.

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. Make your profile personal; add pictures of yourself and maybe some of your family and pets. This automatically lets any potential visitors know you are not a spammer; instead you are a real person with a real opportunity!

4. Have links to your sites on your profile; to do this on Facebook and Twitter have the links in your “about me” section and leave them whenever you update your status. This way your friends or followers on the social networking sites can easily find out more about you and your product.

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 about them not just talked about your product.

6. Update your social networking status frequently. Include helpful information in your status, for example I’m an internet marketer so I provide my followers with links to FREE reports or a useful site (this can be my own if I believe my site can benefit them!). By doing this you become a leader and social networking friends will look up to you and inevitably want to go into business with you!

7. Specify the people you are friends with on social networking sites. This gives you targeted traffic; to do this search for keywords that appear on other peoples profiles. If for example I am promoting a new dog food product I would search the word “dog”, this will bring me up results of people that have the word “dog” on their profile meaning they likely own a dog and so would be interested in buying a dog food product.

Key point – limit the number of people you add on Facebook to 20 a day and the number of people you add on Twitter to 200 a day.

With social networking the key point is to keep it up; you have to continually add more people to your social networking sites if you are to drive large numbers of traffic to your sites.

This article came from the laptop of Jonathan Pitts. Jonathan is one of the highest rated Internet Marketing Mentors and has improved the lives of many people through giving them training on how to become a successful Internet Marketer. Jonathan always likes to give helpful information and rid the Hype from this industry so has produced a Truth Report detailing the FACTS on Making Money with Internet Marketing.