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. 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. 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.
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.
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 valuable information and rid the Hype from this industry so has created a Truth Report detailing the FACTS on Making Money with Internet Marketing.