Thursday, October 29, 2009

Social Neworking - An Internet Marketers Secret Weapon - Top Tips For Free

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.

There are many social networking sites out there but there are 2 that stand out from the crowd, they are Twitter and Facebook. Around 15 million people are on Twitter and 65 million people are on Facebook.

This means whatever product/home business opportunity you are promoting you are SURE to find a large amount of people that will be interested in it!

Even though there are millions of people on these social networking sites, there are top tips on how to find targeted traffic, this will prevent you from social networking with people that will not be interested in your product. Here's the top tips on how to do this: 1. Have your account/profile reflect your business/product 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. 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. 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.

This is important; limit the number of people you add on Facebook to 20 a day and the number of people you follow in Twitter to 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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