When I first got into the internet
marketing business I heard people talking about their Facebook
and Twitter pages. I didn't pay too much attention at first, but
then as I was hearing more and more about these two sites, I
decided to do a little research.
What I discovered really took me
by surprise. It became obvious that these were two serious
sites. They were not only being used by teenagers who just
enjoyed spending their spare time messaging back and fore to
their friends. These sites were being used by all types of very
prominent business people.
Even when I realized that a lot
of successful people were utilizing Twitter and Facebook, I
still did not understand what they could possibly be getting out
of it. So it was time to do a deeper study of the sites. What I
eventually found out absolutely shocked me. People were
reporting that they were making literally thousands of dollars
each and every month by utilizing these two websites.
The first thing I realized was
that the people that were getting the most out of these sites
were taking it very seriously. It wasn't something that they did
as a little diversion - it was actually scheduled into their
business day. There are now courses that you can take to teach
you how to most effectively operate your Facebook and Twitter
pages.
One of the mistakes that
newbies make initially is to add as many 'friends' to their site
in as fast a time as possible. You should build up your
'friends' deliberately and the first 100-200 are the most
impactful. You need to make these high level people in your
industry. Look for interest groups and reach out to them.
Another suggestion is to add
content to your sites on a daily basis, if at all possible. You
don't have to spend a lot of time. Sometimes just 5 minutes a
day is sufficient. You could update your status, pull up news
feeds and comment as much as you can. The search engines love
content so try to continually be adding relevant information to
your pages.
Facebook is the 5th
largest visited website in the World and it is growing at an
immense pace daily. If you want to be part of this new way of
expanding your business via Web 2.0, which is social network
marketing, then go right now and sign up for an account with
Facebook and Twitter and start social networking. It's free,
it's not time consuming at all and it will definitely help grow
your business exponentially.
