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[H1207]How To Get Social

by Garey Simmons, Gar

Of course, your strategies may vary with the policy of each site. Some will allow you to do some limited promotion of your products and businesses and others won't. Some will allow you to bring in external content to help build your profile and others won't. Each have their own unique way to keep in touch with people, some through profiles only, and others through mobile status updates like Twitter. So, it can be a little daunting to give one technical way to use all social networking sites. However, the strategy is still the same for most:

Set up a profile with your website links, and develop an online, authentic, personality. Invite friends you already know to link to you, Look at their friends list and see if you have mutual friends you can invite to link in to you.

Join in the networking and keep your profile fresh with updates and new content like videos, pictures, and blog postings, Stay present and check in daily to answer inquires, add some status information, and see if you can make new friends.

Check out other people online to see what they're doing to build their presence and copy it, Join groups and use a signature line to link back to your website, Network with other people online, staying conscious of who the major players are to connect with them if you can.

Explore any applications or other features within the site for marketing and contact building, Always try to have a way to funnel your contacts back to a blog or website for those social networks that limit your marketing capability.

So, even though social networking is a big term, it's still all about making friends and influencing people. It's not that much different from real life except that you have to be a little bit more aware of the mechanics of how to do that with each specific site.

Social networking takes time. It doesn't happen overnight. The sooner you get started, the more time you have to develop a network that is primed to be marketed later.

The more time you spend on each site, the more you will begin to see clever strategies that others have developed to increase their influence as if by magic. And, like everything else in this book, always cross-link all your sites for a spider web effect, a vortex of traffic, to eventually pull them into areas where you can make sales.

What would be a great way to make marketing and advertising fun? Well, some people find that fun regardless, but what if you could make a game of it? This is the next development in social networks. Actually, it's more of an evolution of social networks as more than just a place to "hang out". Now you can "hang out" and play games at the same time.

More marketers are catching on to the idea of using social networks as a viable way to market their business. It's a great way to show the personalities behind the business and to give potential customers a way to differentiate you from your competitors.

Advertisers and marketers need to treat this area with some care. Because as you get into people's social networks, you can't just run out with your arms waving and say "hey, buy my stuff!". That's just rude and could just wind up getting you kicked out.

Increasingly, products and services are being offered for free, at least on a trial basis. Since it's so easy to give a free trial of a digital product on the internet you can offer this to a new friend rather than trying to sell something"hi, I have this cool stuff, maybe you know someone who would like it, here's a free trial".

In the world of online gaming, there is a much more focused market. There are a couple of dynamics at work here. You have people that are looking for fun games to play, and then you have serious gamers who want to play their favorite game better so they can "take on all comers".

So if a company is marketing nutritional supplements or cleaning products, this is not really the right group for that. While any group will have people that have various interests, the social networks tend to attract folks of a certain interest group.

A better choice to offer these friends would be something along the lines of backgammon strategy guide. In the scenario where you have immersed yourself into the market by playing the game, it would be a simple matter to mention the guide in the course of play. Something like "...even though I'm playing well now, last week was *terrible*. I picked up this eBook at and now I'm doing a lot better. I might even start winning money at this! lol"

The more of a relationship you can build with the people within the network, the greater the value that is placed upon your opinion and advice. If you mention your product or business the first time you meet, then it's just like barging in to a room and trying to sell your stuff.

Always keep in mind that this is an analog of the physical world. Mind your manners, be nice, and be genuine. Yes, you may be a marketer, but you're also a human being. So are the other names in your network. Treat them with respect.

Because your building up your own reputation and just the reputation of whatever you may be promoting, your opinion will likely become more valuable on topics other than gaming"trusted person" you may be able to make recommendations on areas outside of the gaming environment. Say for example you become known for being "in the game" fairly often it could be natural for other players to ask what kind of work you are into. This becomes a natural opening to mention this business you are in that gives you the kind of freedom to spend that much time playing games.

If you can show that you can even make a living through playing the games, then that can be a serious point of interest.

A fringe benefit of working within social networks is that you might just make some new friends. This is much more likely if you join in the networks and play the games that your are really interested in.

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