Social Networking – Asolutely Need To Know Tips

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 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!

The key to social networking effectively and making money online is to target specific people and ensure they buy from you, here are some top tips how: 1. Make sure your account/profile reflects the business you are involved with and who you are.

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. 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. Add targeted people, on both Twitter and Facebook you can search for keywords that appear on other people’s profiles. If you are promoting dog food product search the word “dog” this will bring up a list of people who have “dog” appear on their profile so are likely to either be dog lovers or owners, these are people you want to add as they are targeted.

Limit the number of people you add on Facebook to 20 a day and Twitter to following 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 changed the lives of many people through providing them training on how to become a successful Online Marketer. Jonathan always likes to give helpful information and rid the Smoke from this industry so has produced a Truth Report detailing the FACTS on Making Money with Internet Marketing.