Social Networking is the easiest and (in my opinion) most effective Internet Marketing technique. The best thing about social networking is it is 100% FREE. It makes the whole proces of driving traffic to your sites and list building easier than ever before!

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

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. Include a bio about yourself and tie in with that the niche you are involved with, if you are involved with Internet Marketing let the viewer know how you got involved with that industry!

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. 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. 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. 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.

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.

The most important thing is to keep it up; you have to continually build your list of followers/friends on your social networking sites. This was a very brief article on social networking that covered the basics and I hope it has been of use to you.

This article came from the laptop of Jonathan Pitts. Jonathan is one of the best rated Internet Marketing Coaches and has improved the lives of many people through providing them training on how to be a successful Internet 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.

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