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[T676]The Power Of Social Networks

by Damien Oh, Dam

Other than participating in discussion, photo and video sharing, looking for partner and other mundane stuffs, how can you bring out the potential of your social network to the fullest to help you in your Internet business?

First, let take a look at the benefits of an online social network

1. It establishes your Web reputation

We all know that a person's reputation is more important than any other things in the World. By requesting testimonials from your clients, friends, colleagues, you are adding credential to yourself. With great credential, you can look for a better job (LinkedIn), find a partner easier (Friendster) or even attract more customers to buy your product.

2. Get connected to a bigger network instantly

Just imagine: you have 10 friends in your network. Each of them has 10 other friends in their networks and each of their 10 friends has 10 other friends and so on. Now, by just getting 10 friends to your network, you are increasing your visibility to 100, 1000, 10,000 or even more. What other ways allow you to increase your exposure like this without any cost? This also explains why Network Marketing model is so successful. This is known as the power of Leverage.

Adding value to your network

A social network by itself has no value until you add value to it. You can do it by the following ways:

Be involved and express interest in other people

The best way you can market yourself is to be involved in other people's life. Read their blog and leave positive comments. Take part in discussion and give useful advices. If you are truly impressed by a piece of work, article, photo or video clip, try sending the author an email to tell them how much you love it. I am sure they will be delighted. The more you give, the more you gain.

Do not hard sell your product

If you are running an Internet business, do not promote your product openly and aggressively. You will be blacklisted. What you can do is to write about your business, product and website in your profile. Then attract as many people to read your profile as possible. This can be achieved by expressing interest in other people's work. As long as you are interested in other people, they will be interested in you too.

Be an asset, not a liability

Make yourself useful in the social network. Do not spam or talk negatively about others. Be an expert in your field and someone who others can look to when they need advice. Be an asset to your network, not a liability.

Social networking is a skill where everyone can master. It is not something that you can build overnight, but it is definitely something valuable over the long run. If you put in the effort to be a great social networker, I am sure that your reputation will increase and your Internet business will soar.

When talking about ?the old times? parents get nostalgic, and occasionally tearful. We get to hear from them about their friends and their idea of hanging out, why, even a pen pal or two with whom they used to stay in touch with through mail (not e-mail by the way). Why , even twenty years back, telephone was the only way to get through to someone if you wanted your message to reach the recipient within anywhere between two and five days, especially if that message has to travel half way across the earth. It has only taken a phase shift of twenty years to get that transit time to come down to two, three seconds at max. Welcome to the era of instant communication where keeping in touch is in.

With social networking growing the way it is, you find more and more people keeping in touch through web sites that offer this forum, sometimes going to the extreme where two people at work sitting in adjacent cubicles at work forward jokes over the internet. But all of this advancement is not as crazy as that. The previous generation has always complained about how unlike their lot that the current generation is. Social networking just re-emphasises that ? this generation has managed to stay in touch with the people they met at school, college or at their first job, which our parents have not managed to do. Thumbs up to this generation!!! Social networking sites not only allow you to simply communicate with each other, but they allow you to share music, pictures, videos, files and just about anything digital under the sun. Imagine being able to play a game of backgammon with a Japanese man sitting in Germany using an American laptop on an English network. Now that's getting connected. Powerful tool huh?

Owning and running such a networking site must be very difficult and time consuming right? Wrong, availability of easy to use and commercially viable software has made owning a social networking site a breeze. The best part of the deal is that no technical knowledge is required to use such software and the user interface is as simple as can be. So get online, get yourself one of the easily available facebook clone software, get creating, and watch your money grow!

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