This is a guest post by Ryan Biddulph from CashWithATrueConscience.com.
Social network pros prosper wildly in the making money online niche. Attractive individuals stick out from the crowd of selfish, inward thinking entrepreneurs.
Most care about ME. Few care about others. Most WANT MONEY NOW. Few delay the urge for instant gratification, focusing instead of serving others. Be one of the few.
Social networking requires you to talk to people. *Social* networking. But not about your opportunity.
Talk about your friends. Add value to profiles, by writing insightful, helpful comments. Ask questions. Provide answers. Get what you want by helping other people prosper. As you see most people use social networking incorrectly. Move the focus from Me to helping other people.
Pros focus on serving. Helping others. Branching out. Building massive, powerful networks of leaders who boost pro’s presence on a daily basis. Plug into Oneness. Stop trying to do everything on your own. Plenty of people want to help you prosper online.
How do you meet this crowd?
By helping as many people as possible each day on social networks. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. Google Plus. Anywhere.
Making Money Online Mastery
1 – Hang Out in the Right Places
Facebook Groups, LinkedIn Groups, Twitter streams. Hang out where prospects hang out. Waste no time hanging where prospects do not hang out. Spend all of your time connecting with targeted prospects. Chat. Connect. Write helpful comments. Answer questions. Share your insight. Attract prospects.
Run a twitter search for your niche keyword. Build a list around tweeters from your niche who provide value. Retweet your list members. Engage. Connect. Target your hang out spots to prevent weeks, months or years of social network wheel spinning.
Develop authority. Prosper. Focus on social spots where your message is popular. Speak to the right audience. No need to hang out on inspirational groups all day long if you are a home business coach.
2 – Share Content Like a Friend
Like a post? Share the post on your wall. Sharing; caring people make money online with ease because the crowd builds an army of people who are happy to promote sharing, caring people. Want traffic? Help people generate traffic by sharing people’s content with your audience. Whatever you want, give it away.
The foolproof way for a home business newbie to become a pro quickly is sharing content aggressively. Promote other people tenaciously. Become a free giver. Give freely receive easily. Everybody digs a giver. Everybody wants to see a free giver succeed. Keep giving, keep helping and it all comes back to you. Whatever you reap you once sowed.
3 – Improve Your Social Skills
Send personalized emails to new friends, thanking people for connecting with you. Pen 3 paragraph long comments. The 1 line comment drive by is all well and good, but you seek mastery. Masters are freakishly adept at building home business connections, by developing intensive mindfulness. Penning a 3 paragraph comment makes you stand out. Big Time.
Think about it: imagine how popular you become by making an IMPACT wherever you pop up?
Popular people grow networks of individuals who promote popular people aggressively. Sounds pretty beneficial, doesn’t it?
10, 20, or 50 people, or more, promoting you aggressively to tens to hundreds of thousands of people? Whammo! Reach out with style. Personalize experiences. What is the favorite sound in your native language? Your first name. Everybody likes being addressed by name. Adds a neat personal touch which makes you remember the person who took the time to address you by name. Especially in the cyber world.
Summary
Hang out in the right places. Save yourself time and energy. Share content like a friend. Expand your presence with lightning speed. Improve your social skills to make powerful connections.
What social networking tips can you add for making money online pros?
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There really is no\ shortcut to success. You have to go through a step-by-step process before you will be able to accomplish your goal. That is why in e-mail marketing there is a 7-day method that is closely used my e-mail marketers and bloggers. They use this 7-days to get close and introduce themselves to their prospect. After which they would be able to sell their products easier because their prospects will not feel like they are interacting with a stranger anymore.
I like the approach John! Take your time, be patient, prosper.
If you persist this gig becomes easier and easier. Most people’s problem? Zero persistence.
Build your list patiently, good things happen.
Thanks!
RB
I recommend attending real-world meetup events with online component (eg. meetup.com and similar groups) – recommend doing this for both your niche and general technology / internet marketing topics (affiliate marketing, PHP / Javascript, WordPress, etc.). And set the goal to deliver a talk to one of these groups within the next 12 months (don’t worry about who/what yet) – it is well worth the effort!
Here’s why this matters:
1) The people that go to these meetups are internet-active – blogs, twitter, etc. I’ve gotten backlinks from my friends and a couple of useful social mentions; incidently, don’t explicitly self-promote – just be yourself and try to contribute useful content.
2) Many people at these meetups have cracked some type of profit formula for their technology / internet activities. While their solution may not meet your needs, you can generally learn from their opinions and mix their ideas into your plans…
3) A penny saved is a penny earned – you will learn lots of useful stuff (PHP, JQuery, WordPress, SEO / Marketing) that will allow you to reduce the amount you spend on technical support and/or marketing expenses. I’ve learned a ton about SEO and hosting from my friends, also learned how to do my own web development & WordPress work.
4) Doing a talk accelerates the first three points – you build respect within the group and learn a ton while preparing a 10 – 30 min presentation on a topic (NOT your business; make it something everyone will be interested in). Plus you often wind up with a good piece of content (my last technical talk ranked #5 for the Python framework it covered) and some backlinks…
And don’t self promote – focus on relationships / content vs. pitching your site. Become interesting as a person / contributor and they will take an interest in your projects too. Better yet – ask about their projects and link to them… (seriously, I just gave someone a primo backlink with great placement/keywords after he spontanously linked to one of my projects)…
It is essential to understand the needs of the potential customers, before selling them a product. In addition, as you point out, we have to build a relationship with them, otherwise the conversion rates would be very low.
I get very less traffic from social site I share only when I publish article just once and never share any other part of other sites.
Content is always the King, Social Networking is the major factor to account for sucess of new startups and blogs
Share something valuable, Get your visitors flowing in
It is very important to hang out where the customer is or where influencers lay when it comes to selling. For example: there are social sites such as Pintrest which do not sell directly, instead, they culminate the interest of the users, which then leads to sells. In many cases those then turn into repeat customers.
Yes, the strategy should be defined in such a way to first focus on the visitors, analyze the interests and then start converting those readers into potential customers. I have been, till now, and still thinking to focus more on building audience and then take turn towards earning!
You make a very good point here. Most people just want to get high rankings and traffic for their websites, but they’re not willing to help others achieve that first. And everyone seems to be forgetting the same basic thing – if you help people, you’ll make friends. If you have friends, they will help you towards any goal you have.
I would like to add one to the 3 tips. Being a part of a strong community also will help in making money online because you get to share and learn about umpteen number of links through this.
I think I would call it emotional marketing, if we relate more to people from the emotions and not just the head we should have better sucess, people can tell (even over a computor screen) if youre genuine or not. we are far too much in our heads these days, always chasing a sale, I think we forget the human factor sometimes, if we offer free help, advice etc people will trust us quicker and easier in my opinion.