Social Networking – Asolutely Need To Know Tips

October 29th, 2009 by Jonathan Pitts

Social Networking is the number one Internet Marketing technique around in my opinion. This is because it is 100% FREE and if used correctly can drive large amounts of traffic to your site and build your list effectively!

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.

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. 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. Load your page with links to your site; now don't go overboard but you can include links in you bio, about me and more info links. This makes your links easily accessible to viewers; also include your link every time you update your social networking status.

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. 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.

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.

This article came from the computer of Jonathan Pitts. Jonathan is one of the best rated Internet Marketing Mentors and has improved the lives of many people through providing 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 created a Truth Report detailing the FACTS on Making Money with Internet Marketing.

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