How Social Networking Works

Social networking is the means of using one or more online websites or services to find other people to chat with and to get to know. At the same time, you are creating a group of people who are interested in working with you and who respect you enough to buy from you. You are virtually creating a list of exclusive leads.

For example, perhaps you have a blog that promotes an eco friendly solution to cleaning. You are promoting a product specifically but rather than creating a blog that is just about that product, you are designing your website to offer great information, insider tips, perhaps even discounts on eco friendly products. You write a great blog post about how to get started with eco friendly cleaning. Using the link to that blog post, you can use your social network to attract more visitors to your blog.

There are several ways you can make this happen.

1. You can sign up for Twitter and send out a Tweet to all of your followers about the post you wrote. Anyone following you or looking for eco friendly information can easily visit your blog post.

2. You submit your blog post to http://Digg.com where people can rate it and further submit it. This helps more people who are not yet in your network to find you.

3. You can use Facebook to let all of those followers know what you are posting at your blog. They too can follow you over there.

It may seem like a lot of work and at first, the sign up process is a bit time consuming. You will need to work on building up a following on each of these websites. Yet, when you do this, you create a very powerful tool. You see, the people following you are people that either already know and respect you or will find your blog post and learn from you. They know you are not overselling to them, but rather educating them. This creates leads for your business that are highly effective when it comes time to buy from you.

After a few useful blog posts, or messages, your social network trusts you. Therefore, when you mention the product you are promoting, they are more likely to purchase from you. They may even do so just by visiting your blog and finding the link to do so there. Many people love to be social. Social networking has helped to create business for any type of online business out there.

Michael E Friedman has over 30 years sales and marketing experience in a business to business environment. He has rapidly become an expert in internet marketing. His personal directive is to study, practice and teach others to become successful internet marketers. For more information click here to visit http://financialfreedomleaders.com/?t=isnare3c

 

What: V7Network RoundTable
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When: Wednesday Oct 7 at 1:00 pm and an encore session at 7:00PM CDT
Discussion: How to identify problem areas on your web site.
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As many of you already know, our first attempt with this service crashed down around our feet when we experienced unforeseen technical difficulties. Those issues (knock on wood) have now been corrected and we are ready to get to hit the ground running offering V7Network RoundTable live training chats to the community. To thank you for your patience, we’ll be giving every person that attends a discount coupon for the V7N Directory! And two lucky winners will get free directory listings!
 
These will be structured interactive text chats covering a wide range of topics for webmasters and small business owners, focused 100% on helping our members build a highly successful online presence. At this time, our plan is to offer this training 2-4 times a month based on the response from the community.
 
The next live training chat is scheduled for October 7, 2009 at 1:00 pm CDT. We will be discussing ways to evaluate your site (and the tools that I personally use) to determine what types of changes you may need to consider making in terms of SEO and marketing techniques. Afterward, we will be opening things up for questions and answers. We will repeat the session that night at 7:00 pm CDT.
 
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I’m often amazed how some will complain about not being taken seriously or referred to as a “kiddie host”, those hosts stated typically by teenagers that get into hosting thinking they’ll make millions sitting at their desk while doing homework. There are some great hosts started by young people, HotGator was started while Brent Oxley was in college. He dropped out and went to work full time for his company. So, yes, even ”kiddie hosts” can be taken seriously and make a success of it.

I suspect that part of the problem is they manner in which younger folks will communicate in their day to day business dealings.  If I was looking for a provider and started a chat session, and got something along the lines of “How r u?”, I would say that it would be hard for the company to regain the trust that they were a serious host that they just lost.  You may be thinking that it’s “not fair”, or “shouldn’t matter”, but the fact is that it does. There’s no face, no intonation in the voice, no firm handshake so to speak with purely internet based dealings. So any little reason is brought to the forefront.  In this case, if they’re too lazy to type 4 extra keys, one begins to wonder what else are they too lazy to do?

You may not agree with this thinking, and that’s fine. However, others are going to judge you and your company based on your writings in chat, forums, company website, and emails. So you need to adjust your thinking and take the time, and care, to represent yourself and company in a professional manner if you are wanting your new hosting business seriously. I’m not saying you have to be a “grammar nazi”, there’s no need for that. Minor mispellings, slightly off grammar, and some incorrect capitalization isn’t going to have the same effect as using “u” instead of you, “r” for are, or a sentence in an ad like “hi come try our services we r the bestest in world we beat all pricez wit unlimited space and traffic we hav l33t h0st1n t00″. That would be fine on some forums, perhaps some frequented by the apparently intended market, but on the more respected forums such a WebHostingTalk, that ad just isn’t going to fly.

1. Signup with a simple basic info form – name, email, create a password, etc. and click the link in the email to confirm the account
2. Request an ad credit… It’s 1 click! And they email you a coupon link.
3. Redeem the credit by clicking the link in the email and creating your ad and facebook account (if you don’t have one already).

A credit card will be required to sign up for the ad program, but does not have to be Visa (I tried a MasterCard just to check). The credit is instantly applied to… Just remember to shutdown the ad after the credit runs out to not get charged. And set a daily limit in case you forget. But don’t forget – go set a google calendar reminder or something. BTW, ads can be per click or per impression.

Get started here:  http://www.visabusinessnetwork.com/    You should see the ad on the first page there… if not use this link:  http://apps.facebook.com/visabusiness/adcredit/step1