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I've been social networking now for a few years and although I wouldn't consider myself "hard core", I check FB daily and occasionally share pics and/or videos. But on a regular basis add incredibly witty comments to the crazy things that my friends post. Some are true classics!
In recent days, I've become more and more concerned about what I read about social networking sites selling the information that they compile about me as I use their site. Evidently, the 500,000,000 of us sharing our likes/dislikes, talking about where we go and what we do-is really big business-and by that I mean-big MONEY business.
SNS sell our personal information as well as our content to third parties-who are clamoring to find potential sales. I mean I know they have to make money, but at what price to us-the users. And it seems so easy for private information shared on these sites to become available to everyone-I mean, you read terrible stories about things that happen as a result of private information made public from these sites. A friend mentioned to me that she was using crazygood.com-a subscription-based social networking site that doesn't sell users' info or even allow ads.
I still FB often but use it more as a search for friends now-because it's so massive. But if I want to SHARE info, photos, etc., I only use Crazygood. It just makes me feel more protected, and I'm back in control of my own information. If you're concerned about your cyber safety and want to be SURE your private information remains just that-PRIVATE, then check out Crazygood by clicking on the link below.
Regards,
Keith Walden
Online Marketer
Skype: keith.walden
516-250-2500
"Your influence defines your affluence". - Lewis Smile
Twitter is a social networking site, like MySpace and Facebook, that let's you connect with people from around the world. Twitter is the hottest social networking site on the web right now, and is featured in news stories and in magazines every day. It's extremely popular! You can find most celebrities on Twitter, most businesses, and millions of regular users just looking to connect with other people.
Twitter is so popular because the main concept behind it is so simple. You can post tiny messages on your Twitter page for all the world to see, and everyone else can do the same. That's it! You can subscribe to the messages anyone else posts, and they can subscribe to yours. Twitter call this 'following' and the more followers you have the more popular you are. It works just like in real life: you have to be both interesting and interested.
MLM recruiting online isn't always about sharing information, like articles and fancy video presentations, but it’s about connecting with people. Selling your MLM isn't like selling a car or a computer, with shiny adverts on television and on the radio. To build a massive organisation that will pay you for years to come you need to personally connect with people. You need to show the world that you're real, approachable and friendly. Twitter allows you to unleash your personality onto the web in a quick and easy way, taking no more than 5 minutes a day. Let your personality shine.
A single Twitter post can be no more than 140 characters, including all punctuation and links. That is incredibly short, and less characters than you can fit in 1 SMS message. Finally - a modern social networking craze you can keep up with!
So what can you 'tweet' about? Anything. Anything you like. Here are some ideas to help build your online MLM brand:
- New Customers: Did you get a new customer today? Tweet it!
- New Recruits: Did you sign up a new team member today? Tweet it!
- Company News: Did your company make an announcement today? Tweet it!
- News Stories: Did you read a news report about growing debt in your country? Tweet it! Position your business as a solution, and turn Twitter followers into prospects.
- Team Success: Write a post on Twitter every time your downline achieves anything impressive. Did someone reach one of their goals? Tweet it! Did you hit a number of personal customers or group customers like 10, 20, 50, 100, etc? Tweet it!
- Inspirational Quotes: Read any inspiring or motivating quotes today? Tweet them!
Excitement is infectious, and success attracts success. Make your successes public with Twitter!
A favorite network marketing recruiting website for many people is Facebook.
Facebook really is all about networking. You can connect with friends, both old and new and build different networks of friends based on the things you have in common with them.
Aside from using Facebook to connect with friends, which is what many people use it for, you can also use it to create groups of friends, or to join groups that are built around your love of network marketing and MLM and a common desire for success.
Facebook is easy to join and allows members to create a profile that will give friends a comprehensive snapshot of you and what you're about. One of the features of Facebook is a “news feed” that is added to each time one of your friends changes status or does something like makes a comment or adds a link to his or her profile. This allows you to keep up with what your friends are up to and it alerts them to what you're doing.
To network on Facebook with other network marketers and MLM professionals your best bet is to connect with like-minded people through Facebook groups. You are likely to find several MLM and Internet marketing groups on Facebook that appeal to you and you can join each of them if you like. This gives people a way to see and get to know you and for you to get to know other marketers.
The point of joining groups on Facebook is to interact with other group members. You can learn from them and they can learn from you. A lot of good-natured idea and information sharing goes on, which leads to every participant having more resources for success. But you need to go beyond the groups in order to really benefit from Facebook networking.
Start to make “friends” with other group members. You can do this by going through group list and inviting individual group members to be your Facebook friends. One way to accomplish this is to go down the list and simply request each person as your friend. You can choose to send them a message along with your request, which is helpful if they don't already know you. But don't send the exact same message to each person – you'll be accused of spamming by Facebook and risk losing your membership!
Once your own friend list begins to grow, you might want to separate your friends into lists so you can keep track of them. For example, you can create a family list – that's where your family will go (obviously). Then you could create a college friends list, or a church friends list or whatever, and of course, you will want to create an MLM friends list. Eventually you will be able to post a new link on your profile and it will be seen by hundreds of people within a day or two.
The beauty of it is that you have the prospect of gaining new friends each time you add a friend to your list – they all have friends that you might like to connect with as well! As you can see, networking through Facebook is easy to do, and it has the potential for growing your list of connections by leaps and bounds!
