Social Neworking – An Internet Marketers Secret Weapon – Top Tips For Free

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!

Nowadays there are dozens of Social Networking sites around but there are two that stand out from the crowd. They are Twitter and Facebook; these are the most popular social networking sites by far. There is around 15 million people on Twitter and 65 million people 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. 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. 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. 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 about them not just talked about your product.

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.

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.

With social networking the key point is to keep it up; you have to continually add more people to your social networking sites if you are to drive large numbers of traffic to your sites.

This article came from the laptop 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 be 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.