Surely , Social Networking can Generate Free Leads

Right now, most successful internet marketers are involved at some level, with social networking. These sites are not platforms for you to blatantly promote your product or opportunity. The general idea is to interact with others, getting to know them, exchanging ideas and knowledge and then eventually being in a position to share information about your business with them.

The social networking sites are growing more and more. The most popular ones right now are Twitter, Facebook and MySpace, in that order. There is a 'new kid on the block'. Their site is BetterNetworker and it is my prediction that by this time next year, they will have themselves a large piece of the action.

TWITTER -- This is a free service. It allows it's users to send and read other users updates. A message is called a 'tweet' and is restricted to only 140 characters. You get to put your copywriting skills to the test here. You can only use text on Twitter. You can't upload pictures or videos.

FACEBOOK -- Facebook is privately owned and operated by Facebook Inc. It is also free to join. With Facebook, you can join networks that are organized by city, workplace, school or region to enable you to connect and interact with others. You can also upload pictures and short video. Facebook attracted 132.1 million unique visitors in June, 2008.

MY SPACE -- It is also a free website, with an interactive network of friends, blogs, groups, personal profiles, music, video and photos and it is international. . However, in April, 2008 it was taken over in popularity by its main competitor, Facebook. MySpace still attracts approximately 230,000 new users per day.

BETTERNETWORKER -- The latest social networking site that appears to major success was created by Mike Dillard. . His site is dedicated to providing great content amongst its users. To date, I have been very impressed with the quality of the posts on BetterNetworker. They also police their site to ensure that spammers are identified and thrown out.

Just a word of caution -- many hours can be spent reading through posts, blogs, watching videos etc. Some people think that by being involved in the social networking sites, they will easily add hundreds, if not thousands, of people to their e-mail list. It just does not happen that way. Building a list is time consuming. example, a friend of mind who has a very large following on Twitter, sent out a 'tweet' about an opportunity that he recommended. His followers went to the recommended site and within a week my friend had earned over $40,000.00 in affiliate commissions. This was his reward for building a large group of followers who respected, trusted and liked him.