Social Networking – Asolutely Need To Know Tips
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 (at the time of writing this).
This means whatever home business opportunity or product you are promoting, you are SURE to find a large amount of people that will be interested in it!
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 home business opportunity you are involved with 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. Make your profile personal; add pictures of yourself and maybe some of your family and pets. This automatically lets any potential visitors know you are not a spammer; instead you are a real person with a real opportunity!
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. 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. Constantly update your social networking status with helpful and to the point information. For example I’m an internet marketer so I continually give people access to useful Internet Marketing information; it could be a free report or a link to a helpful site (can be your own site as well!). This brands you as a leader as you are helping others, people will look up to as you can direct them to success.
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.
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 Coaches and has improved the lives of many people through giving them training on how to become a successful Internet 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.