If you are in the make money online field, social networks are an easy and affordable way of telling the world about yourself. The reach is wide and the networks are open to corporate messages, if written and timed well.
Here are 5 ‘Be’s you need to take note:
1. Be Social
The key thing to remember is that social networks are social. So, avoid any marketing hardsell at the start. Just as you would warm up to people at a dinner function, allow your messages to “warm up” to the audience on the network.
2. Be Yourself
One reason why Facebook has gained so much traction is because a large proportion of users are “real people”. Be prepared to share a little about yourself on these networks. Put up photos of yourself, family and friends. Add your personal friends to your online network. It puts a human face to a digital name.
3. Be Creative
Join interest groups relevant to your business or blog topic on these networks. Participate. Offer free trials or other exclusive promotions to members of these groups. Find friends you have lost touch with. Start a chat going with them and they may know someone you could link up with for your product.
4. Be Resourceful
Can’t stress point more! Spend time exploring each network. Learn more about them before you start to engage members. Each network is different. Some offer you tools to organise events, while others allow you to create profiles of you and your product. While not all of these networks will work for you and your product, take a look at how others are exploiting them and figure a path for yourself.
5. Be adventurous
Do not be afraid to experiment and try diferent ways to market your product or blog in this case, through this social networks. As long as you abide by the society’s rules – be professional and fair – and have a good product and blog to being with, others will start noticing.
If you’re really new to social networking, here are some highly recommended ones for you:
- Facebook – www.facebook.com
- LinkedIn – www.linkedin.com
- Multiply – www.multiply.com
- MySpace – www.myspace.com
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Being social is everything. If you are not social then it is going to be difficult to get anywhere in this business. You have to put yourself out there and tried to get some sort of feedback to see if you are doing things right or wrong.
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I do agree with you but you also need to remember you need to make friends in the community in order to do well online
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Hey Ben, those are some great tips but if I can add one … be kind. It’s easy to score cheap points by being a jerk but long term, it’s about building relationships and helping others.
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Nice to see your wise words Chris. You’ve got it!
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Great tips Ben! Being yourself is key, with that you can have fun along the whole process which makes it more person rather than a mundane chore of sorts. Enjoy creating a social network and it will add meaning.
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Yeah yeah.. You don’t have to be a high profile guy to be sociable!
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funny you say that because many happen to say the opposite feel your presence in the social networks they say
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Interesting post. eing yourself is important but isn’t the reason some people go on these sites is to create a new identity?
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Profound question! Could you rephrase?
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There are good idea for search engine optimization.
Thank Ben!
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I do agree but they won’t get you hordes of traffic unless you have fans on those social networks
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I highly agree with what you made mention Ben, about being unafraid to try different things to market our own product, since we are in a tough competition we should also try to experiment what are the methods that is effective for us.
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Great tips Ben! Being yourself is key, with that you can have fun along the whole process which makes it more person rather than a mundane chore of sorts. Enjoy creating a social network and it will add meaning.
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What’s up Ben.. i’ve said this on other blogs.. Social Networking is HUGE! I started out looking to join social sites, just for the inbound links.. but soon realized how cool it is to meet knew people from all walks of life and learn different things!
And I’ve made some great friends along the way!
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Am I one of them? =)
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Of course you are haha Just waiting for you to invite me and Misty over for dinner ha!
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I agree with you Ben, social media is kind of ocean. you can spend hours of hours for obtaining quality links and provide content for reader to love read your stuff.
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I hadn’t heard of “multiply.com” before…….thanks for the tip!
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yeah its a great service to use but its not more known than facebook or myspace
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Great advice thanks, haven’t heard of ‘multiply.com’.
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Hi Ben,
Be Social I think could be the cornerstone of any success online, since in the web “Trust” is about everything. If you want a sale, readers or any kind of support, the people need to trust you first in order to do anything that you ask.
Seems you are very good in Social.
Luis
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I hear you buddy. This social market has expanded. I wasnt ready for the big move but we all have to get on the band wagon.
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you don’t know what your missing out on so get on the bad wagon now and start doing so.
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Wow. I didnt expect all this great content. Great Job.
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Valuable advice! Direct pitches take the social out of social networks. It’s ok to throw them into the mix once in awhile, but the greatest asset of sites like Twitter and Facebook are building relationships that encourage the community to help each other out, purchase each other’s products, blog about industry news, etc.
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i enjoyed reading this post it had many great tips because the way you see it is the way others should as well by using social bookmarking or in general networking site it helps in branding yourself as a professional that can probably lead to increasing your businesses potential
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SMO is a set of methods for generating publicity through social media, online communities and community websites like facebook advertising, twitter advertising, friendster, myspace and other social media popular sites. You can gain more traffic through if you properly optimize by following search engine rules.
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