Social Networking Marketing 101Here is the basic lowdown on what you will find when you open a Social Networking account. I have not went into great detail because there is simply to much to cover. I have however outlined most of the major features you will find. |
7)New Messages: This is a warning showing that someone is trying to contact you. It is sort of like built in email. You can also send out messages by visiting someone's profile and clicking on "send message". 8)New Friend Requests: These are people who want to get added to your friends list (leads). It is not to hard to get 100+ a day but there is an even easier way to ask up to 500 to be your friend every day. 9)New Comments: This just shows that someone has posted a comment. These comments get seen by everybody that visits your profile. The real power is in leaving other people comments though. 10)New Picture Comments: Someone has left comments about a picture on your profile. Just like normal comments they will be seen by everybody. Once again the real power is in leaving them. 11)Post Bulletin: Click this link and type in a message you would like your friends to see. This is basically a way to broadcast a message out to everyone on your friends list. 12)Friend List: This is a section dedicated to your top friends. As you can see I just started this acct recently to promote my Social Networking seminar. I have not hunted down friends these have all added me from seeing a message I sent or a post in a group / forum I made. |
1)Browse & Search: These two are great places to find new friends (list members). The search feature can get very detailed and is a good way to target in on who you are asking to be friends with. 2)Blog: This is just like any other blog. The only difference is that you can easily pick up a good fan base if you provide good info, don't forget the affiliate links. 3)Forum: Once again this is just like any other forum. The only difference is you don't have to search all over the net to find one on the topic you want to talk about. This Social Networking giant has split everybody up into 23 basic topics for you. 4)Groups: Now this is one of my favorite places. The groups section has 34 basic niche categories. Inside each category you will find thousands of groups that break down into your target market even more. Talk about passionate people. 5)Events: Here are the upcoming and current events. Do you have somewhere you would like to go? Let Social Networking get the word out for you. You can also send an event message to your fiends list to make sure they notice it. 6)Videos: Ok just think of YouTube. But now put it on a site that already gets over a million hits a day. You should get the picture. If you can make the front page you are as good as gold. |
You now have a basic understanding of how Social Networking can be a big part of promoting your business. There are several marketers out there that use this technique and profit from it very well. You do however have to play the game. You cannot go and start posting advertisements everywhere. This will get that profile banned. However if you use some of the techniques that we are going to outline in the upcoming seminar series you will start pushing more traffic to your site, get tons of opt in email leads, and make more sales. Go ahead and check out a few profiles of bigger name marketers. While you are there add them to your friends list. Here is a good starting point Mike Merz and Willie Crawford. If this kind of stuff tickles your fancy go and sign up for the upcoming free teleconference call I will be hosting with James Cumner, Steve Iser, Ross Goldberg, Mr Black, and Mr Blue as guest speakers.
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