| Social networks are here to stay. They are | | | | human nature to try to repay a kind deed. |
| unrehearsed, not moderated and edgy. But can | | | | |
| you make money at social network sites? | | | | The money is in the list or so the story has |
| | | | gone for many years both online and offline. |
| Actually, monetizing traffic from these sites | | | | The real question is how many on the list |
| is surprisingly easy. Each social site has a | | | | before you can make money? The new wave in |
| defined topic of interest. You can find a | | | | Internet Marketing now stresses not just the |
| list of some of the current sites and their | | | | number on the list but the quality of the |
| topics at en.wikipedia.org/wiki | | | | leads. In the social network sites it's also |
| List_of_social_networking_websites. | | | | about your relationship with your friends. |
| | | | You'll make quite a bit more money from a |
| The most popular and well-known site is | | | | targeted list of 500 friends than 10,000 |
| MySpace. This is a network with a general | | | | randomly selected people. |
| topic list. You'll find people talking about | | | | |
| anything from marketing to dogs to marriage | | | | If the objective is a tightly selected group |
| and golf. And you'll find people who have | | | | of people how can you optimize your time and |
| very little training who are easily earning | | | | energies? Instead of developing one large |
| $25.00 to $100.00 a day. | | | | list consider several medium lists with |
| | | | different targeted niches. Since your |
| Social networks are rivaling Google for the | | | | messages will contain high quality |
| highest number of hits per day. The traffic | | | | information about their topic of interest you |
| is targeted. When users register they input | | | | will have a better response rate or |
| information like age, city, gender, and | | | | conversion rate. You will be a real person |
| children. When they build their profiles | | | | and not just a name on a list. |
| they can include college information, | | | | |
| education, favorite music, books or movies. | | | | Making and adding friends to your list |
| There is a section for people to describe | | | | couldn't be easier. There are actually |
| themselves and who they'd like to meet. Has | | | | several ways to get this done initially. |
| the user arrived to meet friends or a date? | | | | MySpace has a search function to find people |
| | | | interested in your niche. You then send them |
| Interestingly these terms are also | | | | a friend request. Once you find several |
| searchable. If you want to find every man | | | | targeted people search through their friends |
| who enjoys heavy metal and rides Harley | | | | since they probably have people in their list |
| Davidson motorcycles you can do it in a | | | | who have similar interests. |
| matter of seconds. And, after you have found | | | | |
| all the people who have the same interests, | | | | You can post high quality comments on other |
| you have the tools to interact and network | | | | people's profiles with a note about your |
| with them. This gives you the opportunity to | | | | page. Include a comment that people can find |
| send them to your newest, find affiliate | | | | more information on your social network blog |
| sites or tell them about your own web | | | | and by becoming your friend. You can also |
| business. | | | | become active in the forums and groups. |
| | | | Becoming an active participant who delivers |
| Be careful though. You should never be seen | | | | quality content will attract new friends to |
| or perceived as a spammer. This is a unique, | | | | your page. |
| highly communicative community. If you | | | | |
| intentionally or unintentionally send | | | | You can build partnerships and relationships |
| bulletins or communications without high | | | | with people who already have a large list of |
| quality information it won't be long before | | | | targeted people. They have done the work and |
| everyone in your interest group drops you as | | | | a recommendation from someone they know is a |
| a friend. | | | | powerful technique. |
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| Instead build a list of like-minded people. | | | | You may like them, you may hate them or you |
| Find out what is troubling them or the | | | | may know nothing about them but social |
| problems they experience. Help them to solve | | | | networking sites are here to stay. They are |
| their problems. Good marketing starts with | | | | fertile ground for any astute marketer who is |
| the desire to help others. You reap what you | | | | interested in helping people and making |
| sow. By giving people answers to their | | | | friends. |
| problems they will reciprocate. It's just | | | | |