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 whatever you are promoting you are guaranteed there will be a considerable number of people that will be interested in your product.
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. Have a bio about yourself and tie it in with what particular niche you are involved with, if you’re an Internet Marketer tell the viewer how you first got involved with Internet Marketing.
3. Make your profile/account personal; do this by including picutres of yourself and family and friends. As soon as a viewer visits your profile they will see you are a real person and not some spamming robot!
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. Send an email to any new followers or friends; draft up a generic email where you introduce yourself and give a brief description as to how you can help them, also ask to hear more about that person. This will lead to you building up relationships with your followers, this is important because people buy from those they like and trust, make sure you include their first name in the email.
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. Make sure you add targeted people to your social networking site. To do this look for keywords that appear on other people’s profiles. For example if you’re promoting cat food search for the word “cat” this will bring up people that have “cat” on their profile. This means that the likely case is they own a cat so will be interested in buying a cat food product.
Limit the number of people you add on Facebook to 20 a day and Twitter to following 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 best rated Internet Marketing Coaches and has changed the lives of many people through giving them training on how to become a successful Online Marketer. Jonathan always likes to give valuable information and rid the Hype from this industry so has produced a Truth Report detailing the FACTS on Making Money with Internet Marketing.
