Since the interest in social networking seems to be so high, I thought I’d share some more information with you. Below is an excellent list of ideas to promote your business using social networking:

Limit your choices to top 3

Q: Just how many social networking websites are there?

There are too many, in fact, we have lost count of them because there are so many.

You are free to join as many as you like, but we recommend you stick to the top 3 in order to make the most effective use of your time and energy. While this rule may be reconsidered if you want to drive a lot of traffic to your landing page or search for niche specific customers, we really recommend the following 3 networking sites to appeal to most businesses and professions:

1. Twitter

2. Facebook

3. Twitter

Make use of the plug-ins or applications

Most Social networking sites come with exclusive plug-ins and applications. You need to take advantage of these and utilize them for your own professional and personal purposes.

For example: Facebook will allow you to integrate tweets into your profile. This can be advantageous to you because there could be people on your facebook that are not subscribed to Twitter and can take a look at your short message without you having to post the same message twice. Digg permits you to immediately upload and share your stories by adding a button on your blog, another time saving tool that will increase the overall value of a single effort.

Be friendly

This includes an often forgotten and important aspect rule of salesmanship, to be human. Make sure you are sensitive to other people’s feelings, give them a chance to interact with you, by asking about their posts and comments, or you can answer some of the questions they ask, even if they are not related to your particular business.

Do not be stiff or business like and make sure to avoid coming across as a salesman. Most of all, do not spend all your time promoting your products and services or your friends and followers will become bored with you. I cannot emphasize this enough! Most people are looking for interaction and information. While they may not be seeking the products or services you provide, they will learn to respect who you are and what you do and when they are looking for your product, they will find that you are the expert they were looking for.

Consider using your landing pages

For a while, I have talked about Landing Pages and I consider them to be your best tool for social networking websites. When you are simply using Facebook or Twitter for the purpose of meeting and making friends, even though that is important, you are defeating the purpose of building a social networking campaign. The goal is conversion and if you have a great landing page, it is comparable to having a skilled receptionist in your office. It will take care of your customers wants and needs, even when you are not available to help them.

You have to make sure that your landing page is working effectively and is able to communicate clearly. Think about it as having the receptionist I mentioned earlier, would you hire one that was rude, or incapable of answering the questions your customers ask? Would you employ an auto mechanic to answer your customer service calls for your computer software and technology company. No you wouldn’t . Then why would you permit this behavior from your landing page?

Fortunately, Ad2Action.com offers a variety of designs that you can conveniently modify to fit all of your needs, whatever your business profile may be. You can keep track of your campaigns to determine which marketing effort is providing the bulk of your traffic and utilize all your time to focus on those areas.

Think about your profile

Upload your picture! It does not have to be your smiling face if that does not appeal to you, but it should be a picture that represents you or your personality or your business. Use your company logo if you would like.

Some people use pictures of their children, others use their pets. That is okay, it shows that you are human and can provide a window of opportunity with others about similar interests. If you upload a picture of your dalmatian, you might find people that you have barely spoken to that are now offering a brand new relationship because it just so happens they have a dalmatian also.

Let your description/bio, user-name, posts, and any interest groups you select be a reflection of who you are as well as your business. Make a clear distinction between personal and professional information and be certain, before posting a personal comment, that it will not reflect poorly on your business.

Accept all opportunities to direct your contacts and followers to your landing page, without being overwhelming them.

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Around two weeks ago I wrote an article about Digg, which is actually a social bookmarking website. Since then, I have received a number of e-mails asking me for more tips about how to work with other similar sites such as Tumblr, Technorati, etc.

When it comes to social bookmarking, here are the tips that I always suggest you keep in mind for all networking sites:

It is all about the headlines.

Headlines are powerful. They can be the deciding factor in whether or not Internet users to read the entire. As a marketer, you hope obviously hope they do, so you want to make sure that the headline is eye-catching and interest grabbing.

How do you stand out when you can’t really format the headline text?

Make sure you use your targeted keywords; they are what the Internet users are entering into search boxes to find your information. When they can see your keywords in the headline, it lets them know they have found what they were looking for.

Do not forget to use intriguing words such as “free”, “secret”, and “discover”. Interestingly, these words never fail interest readers. I find myself frequently clicking on anything that says the word “free”.

Describe the article.

You also want them to get a general idea of what the article is and what they can expect to learn from it. Now, you have to be very careful with this one, since I’ve seen a lot of marketers that tend to go overboard with their description. In the end, they frequently fail to deliver. Make your description as specific and persuasive as possible but don’t exaggerate and never lie. The last emotion you want your readers to feel when they’re finished with your article is disappointment or a lack of satisfaction! You may also want to pepper a few keywords in here as well, to boost traffic and page ranking.

Make sure that your content is worth sharing.

The purpose of using social bookmarking is to share your information and to increase traffic to your web presence. It is going against principle if you are giving away useless, rehashed, obvious, or plagiarized information.

When you want to share information, keep in mind the following questions:

*Am I giving new information?

* Will the readers learn something out of this?

*Does the information sound conversational yet factual?

* Is it devoid of any nonsense opinion?

*Will I want to share this with others?

* Will others be encouraged to share this with their friends?

Make sure your articles are easy to bookmark.

Websites such as Digg, Tumblr, Technorati, and Del.i.cious already have buttons that you can attach to your articles which allow Internet users to easily share them with others.

I will let you in on a secret: Ad2Action.com has come up with hundreds of templates that are not only easy to customize but are very easy to share. One of the tools for promoting your landing page actually contains these buttons for social networking websites! When you click on them, your landing page can be then shared to all of your subscribers in every social bookmarking site that you choose.

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A good way to promote your business is through affiliate marketing. You can have other internet marketers promoting your products and services. This will help increase sales and lead generation. It is cheap and very easy to do!

When you’re ready to get started with affiliate marketing, keep these tips and suggestions in mind:

Decide on the affiliate marketing model.

One type of affiliate marketing that most people are familiar with is commission based affiliations. For example: you will only be required to pay your publishers or sellers for their services when you make a sale through their websites. However, there are other methods to choose from which are equally effective, depending on what your overall goals.

If you would rather build a list of subscribers, you can pay your affiliates for each person that they bring to you that subscribes to your list or for each lead they generate. you may be more interested in driving traffic to your site, if this is the case then you would pay them for each visitor.

Your landing page should be your main focus

You need to have your affiliates drive traffic to a Landing Page instead of a website. Landing pages convert traffic better because they are designed with the end goal in mind, to sell a product or generate a lead. They tend to convert at a higher rate due to the fact they have a single call to action.

It takes allot of time and money to build an effective landing page campaign. If you are like me, before creating something new; I look to see if someone has already created it. I found a company called ad2action.com and they created a system that automatically creates landing pages on the fly with just a few clicks of the mouse. Through their software you can Create the page, add lead forms to collect data, send auto-responders or drip market, sell products and merchant the products as well as promote the landing page to your contacts using any major social network provider like Facebook, MySpace, Linkedin and more. They currently support over 100 networks.

Choose an affiliate networking company.

When you are done building you landing page for your product you will want to associate your self with a good affiliate network.

Examples of potential affiliate networks for your to look at include: http://www.valueclick.com http://www.commissionjunction.com http://www.linkshare.com

This list of networks seem to be popular among both merchant and affiliates based upon the large number of users they have.

Decide upon a monthly budget.

It is important to factor in a budget for your affiliate marketing. Start low and increase your budget as you dial in your campaign message and effectiveness of your affiliates. Don’t forget to factor in the fees charged by the affiliate marketing website (network) when planning out your budget.

Track your results

The affiliate networking websites have plenty of tracking tools that you can use to monitor and map the performance and effectiveness of your affiliate marketing methods. This well help you to ensure that you are utilizing the correct tools and methods to maximize your ROI for your business.

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In order to build success as an internet or affiliate marketer, you’ll have to first build a list. Meaning a list of targeted email subscribers to whom you may promote your products to. A squeeze page is an indispensable tool in accumulating that list.

Generally speaking, a squeeze page (or “opt-in”) is a website that consists of a single page, and is specifically designed for the purpose of collecting the names and email addresses of potential subscribers. It usually has a brief description describing the free product that the visitor can expect to receive after “opting in”. This can be as simple as few sentences with one or two graphic images, or it can be more elaborate. Some squeeze pages can resemble a mini-sales page, with several paragraphs of text, elaborate graphics, bulleted text, and audio and video features.

The most sure-fire way of enticing a visitor to surrender their email address into the web form on your squeeze page is to offer them a product of real value. This is sometimes called an “ethical bribe”. Some of the things that are usually offered are ebooks, special reports, training materials, application software, or other relevant information that your target market would be interested in.

It is important to design your squeeze page in such a way that the visitor has only two options. Either enter their email address and receive the product, or navigate away from the page empty-handed. Do not offer any other distractions such as links to other external websites. This is not the time to promote your blog, or offer other products. You’ll have plenty of time for that after they join your list. If you give them a reason to leave your opt-in, you may never get their email address.

You should also make sure that your squeeze page doesn’t have any “leaks”. Meaning that you prevent your visitors from by-passing your opt-in form to get to your free offer. Since anybody can view you squeeze page’s source code to find the URL of your download page, the best thing to do is to send the download link to your subscriber in your first email to them. So, in order for them to get that link, they’ll have to give up their email address.

Ok, so now that you know what a squeeze page is, the next question is; how do you get one? Well, if you have any web design skills, you could build one yourself, using an HTML editor, which can be time-consuming, and may not end up looking very attractive or professional – depending on your skill level.

Your second option would be to pay somebody to design your squeeze pages for you, but that could run into a lot of money, considering that you’re going to need to have many squeeze pages, of various designs out there in order to get decent results. Further more, unless you know the designer personally, you can never be sure what you’re going to get in terms of quality. Not to mention the time you’ll have to wait to get the finished product (if you get it at all… but I could write a whole other article about that!)

In my opinion, the most reliable and cost-effective solution for this problem are the various squeeze page directories and membership sites out there. Many of these sources offer a large variety of professional quality designs that utilize all the popular features that are being used in internet marketing today, such as the ability to embed video and audio tracks. Some even provide design software that allow you to easily customize their designs to your exact needs, regardless of your technical knowledge.

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Online businesses all pretty much run the same. Customers that purchase products are always going to be at the end of a long process. The basic idea behind succeeding with your online based business is leading your customers to your products. There are many different methods used, but unfortunately there is no formula that will magically give you immediate results. In order to change those visitors into regular customers you will need to convince them that the products you are selling are top quality. This is the main topic that will be discussed in this article.

The first thing you need to keep in mind is the big difference between selling and pre-selling a product. Pre-selling is all about convincing your customer with valuable information that your product offers everything they are looking for. The whole point of this process is to direct your customers into making a purchase and coming back to your services. It is very important that your pre-selling page leaves a good impression on anyone who might click on it. You do not want to start off your business with negative reviews.

For every online business owner pre-selling is the point of no return. It is the point where your visitors will decide whether they will become your customers and purchase your products, or move on to a different source. This is why it is so important that you provide the needed information to satisfy every potential customer. The best way this can be achieved is by creating a theme based website which is high in content and valuable information. The website must not be boring. It should come off as attractive. However, make sure you stick to an appropriate theme, color and background.

Preselling establishes your credibility with your buyers. It’s focuses more on getting into the thoughts of your site visitors and thinking of exactly how they’re to respond with the presentation of your product. Preselling must come first prior to selling. Individuals hate sales pitch, however they love to know important information about your products or services that will help them see the value of it. If they sense you have pleased them in providing the info they need, they’ll trust you which is a “a great bonus” point to your credibility.

A good pre-selling website can lead to great things. You will not only sell your products faster, but you will also make a good income from all the clicks that are coming to your page depending on how you have monetized your website. Don’t forget that one pleased customer could lead to a hundred future customers.

Lastly, always know your product and services inside and out, stay passionate about your business, maintain a high level of motivation, and understand the difference between selling and preselling and you will have the four keys to effective preselling.

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