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You can spend hours on Facebook chit-chatting, or you can spend 30 minutes per day on Facebook networking and building your business. Facebook is a great tool to network and promote your business, especially if you are involved in Network Marketing, if you are a service professional or an owner of a small business. However, there are some rules to abide by, for Facebook to work for you.

Here are 5 tips which you can start implementing to build a huge fan base and to start generating leads for your business.

1. Setting up your profile. The aim of your profile is for people to get to learn more about you, what is your speciality, and how you can help them. On your home page you would want to add your website to divert traffic to your website.
2. Adding your photos. Add professional photos. Always keep in mind that your clients will be viewing your photos, and would be judging you according to your photos. Also make sure to add any photos of you at a conference, or in some business networking event – this enhances your professionalism and you are viewed as a person who is always learning.
3. Adding friends. Facebook is known as a social network site. Here is where you make friends. But you don’t waste time ‘chit-chatting’. Instead you focus on finding like-minded individuals, who have the same interests as you and who are looking for answers to their problems. When you find a person who you want to connect with, send them a personal message, example ‘Hi ….., I see that you are into branding. So am I. Let’s connect.’ In addition, you have to be consistent, and make it a point to send friend requests and messages to say 30 people a day.
4. Developing a relationship. Once you have your contacts, you have to focus on developing a relationship with them, and becoming a ‘friend’. Focus on helping them, the same way you would care for a friend. Focus on creating value. Share valuable information on Facebook, such as a link to an interesting training or a link to a free ebook, or a link to a website. Can even send them a short welcoming video, for the people to get to know you better.
5. Remembering b’days. Our favourite day is our b’day. It’s a special gesture when someone remembers your b’day and actually sends you a personal greeting. This can easily be done through Facebook.

As always you have to stand out of the crowd, to be remembered. So be creative, and let your own personality come through.

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A lot of people shun away from Social Media and Social Marketing, because many associate Social Marketing with just sites such as Facebook and often consider this a ‘waste’ of time spent chit chatting. The majority are not aware of how effective Social Marketing is to build a fan base, to brand yourself as an expert in your niche and to generate more traffic to your business. But this is only guaranteed if one knows how to use Social Marketing the right way.

In this article I am going to go over the several different types of sites that make up Social Media, and categorize them in 5 sections.

1. Social Networking (Community Sites):-
These sites are where one enters to network with different kinds of people. Each site is usually for a specific group of people.
 Facebook – student communities
 LinkedIn – manage and share your resume (CV)
 MySpace – friend site
 MeetUp – find common interests and organize meetings
 Twitter – update your followers what you are up to

2. Social Bookmarking (Social News Sites):-
These are the user-submitted and voted news sites where anyone can post stories and take advantage of the traffic flowing through the sites to get targeted visitors. Communities can share their favourite bookmarks, articles, videos, etc – anything that is news.
 Digg – submit links and stories; vote and comment on the content
 Technorati – find what people are saying
 Del.icio.us – store, share and discover web bookmarks
 Reddit – submit, rate and rank news
 StumbleUpon – discover great websites that match your interests

3. Content Sharing Sites:-
Websites where you can generate your own content and share it with the community.
 Wikipedia – contribute and get smart (can create a Wiki for your site)
 Squidoo – create pages (called lenses) for subjects of interest
 HubPages – submit magazine-style articles which are posted as individual webpages (referred to as Hubs)
 Gather – share, earn and gather information
 EzineArticles – expert authors share their best quality original articles

4. MultiMedia Sharing Sites:-
Websites which specialize in all kinds of media sharing and creation.
 YouTube – upload and share your video
 Flickr – manage and share your photos
 SlideShare – upload and share publicly or privately PowerPoint presentations
 JamGlue – create and personalize audio. Upload, record music and remix it.

5. Blogging Sites:-
Blogging platforms allow you publish content directly onto your blog, to communicate and share your knowledge with your customers.
 Blogger – a free blog publishing tool from Google for easily sharing your thoughts with the world.
 WordPress.com – another free blog publishing tool
 Movable Type – build websites, blogs and communities on a single platform
 WordPress.org – own your blog and install on a domain name of your choice

In future articles I will be showing you the different ways of how I use the above multi-faceted marketing strategies to promote my businesses (internet marketing business, service provider offline business, and service provider online business). In the meantime start contributing to the places and get links. Just do it responsibly and the way the other members of each community do it to keep from getting banned. You do NOT want to spam these places.

Be aware – this Social Media trend is HUGE and is extremely under utilized by the majority of online business owners, offline business owners and network marketers. However, be warned… there is a right way and a wrong way to use Social Media and Social Marketing to get massive levels of exposure – including more traffic and more leads – for your business.

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