Social Networking – 7 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.

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. 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. 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.

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 highest rated Internet Marketing Mentors and has improved the lives of many people through providing them training on how to be a successful Online 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.

Build You Email List Today With These 5 Surefire Strategies!

1.) Offer free stuff.

Offer things that you know customers would really want and need. For example, you can put up a free download for a collection of self-help articles. This is a guaranteed way to attract readers and motivate them to subscribe. Other examples could include a special giveaway for every purchase made, free product update notifications, and free e-book subscriptions.

2.) Write articles that are free for publishing.

Allow visitors to publish your articles but by having them to request for permission first. Include a request form that they will be asked to fill in. Make sure that the email address is included in the required fields.

3.) Make your visitors see the benefits of signing up.

Many people are hesitant to sign up for anything because they do not want any more spam in their emails. On your signup page or landing page, justify to your prospects that your e-zines or newsletters will not be a waste of their time and are not just some more spam to accumulate in their inboxes. Many people are often loaded with too much information that they grow tired of reading emails and just choose which ones seem new and interesting. Therefore, your newsletters must be of fresh content and something the prospect will find informative and helpful. Provide testimonials from old subscribers or even samples of the older issues.

4.) Apply the basics of search engine optimization.

All written content in your site such as newsletters, articles, e-books, e-zines and web content must be written with the appropriate keywords included in them so that during search engine indexing, your content will be easily located. A simple concept that most internet marketers fail to recognize is the importance of changing the names of title pages. So what if you have this outstanding article about forex trading but on your site, it is named as “01896.html”? The search engines would not find it easily. Hence, rename! An example of a good title for it would be “generate-dollars-by-becoming-a-forex-trader.html”. Also, if your content is embedded with the right keywords, it will have high rankings in the search engines when people try to search for materials related to it. This then increases the amount of traffic to your site.

5.) Add “Tell A Friend” options to your site.

Run a membership drive by asking your visitors to help you invite more people to visit your website by letting them send invite emails to friends. This requires them to enter the email addresses of their friends. To inspire them to invite many, give a special prize for whoever get the most number of people to sign up. This way, the amount of email addresses you get doubles up and in no time, your list will expand astoundingly.

3 Ways to a Good List Building Strategy

Have you noticed your own web browsing habits? How long do you usually stay on any given website especially if you are just browsing around? Does less than five minutes a good estimate? Studies have shown that people generally stay for just a few couple of minutes on any website. This can especially be true if that person is just like flipping through pages and does not really have any specific purpose or goal in mind when hopping from one site to the next.

The most important thing to remember is that every visitor to your site, no matter how long or how short his stay can be, is a potential customer or client and therefore it is always a priority to get them interested enough for them to give you their contact details. But everybody knows it is easier said than done when it comes to enticing people to give their email address. For this reason I have listed three effective ways to a good list building strategy.

1. Give a white paper

White papers are like authoritative reports and can be quite technical. These are especially effective for people who are really looking for a specific type of information. For example, if someone wants to learn about the latest advancements in car safety technologies, a car dealer website can possibly offer a white paper about that topic. Of course people need to sign up to get that white paper for free.

2. Offer a coupon

Software, applications, tools, website themes, plug-ins are just a few of the commonly distributed free products that can easily entice people to list themselves on your site. The great thing with these products is that when people use these and truly improves their lives or whatever process they are into, they can spread the word about your free product and therefore, also your website.

3. Offer a discount

Not just ebooks or white papers, you can also offer discounts, coupons, free website templates, plug-ins, videos, games and so much. These are effective in enticing people to join your list and oftentimes are easily given so much value by any visitor. For this you might need to partner with other people in creating these freebies.