The growth in popularity of social networking sites has been phenomenal for online business owners in recent years. Communities such as MySpace, YouTube and Facebook, etc, each has millions of members from around the world. As a network marketer my preference is Myspace : - It boasts 200 million profiles, 350K new members/day, 110 million uniques/month. - American MySpace hits 60 percent of 18-24 year-olds, 25 percent of 15-25 year-olds and 36 percent of people 35 and older Myspace is no longer just a site where teens go to post their personal blogs and make friends. The site now gets millions of adult visitors everyday and countless business people are using the site to advertise their goods and services with the hope of gaining potential clients. The site offers many features that attract people to the different pages the site contains. By utilizing a few simple techniques, you can advertise your business to the many people that visit these pages. One way to advertise on the site is to set up a personal profile that includes a link to your business. Use the page to reflect not just your business side but your personal side as well. Start a blog page and begin posting articles on the topic of goods that you’re selling. This will establish you as an expert in your field. Post at least once a day and by the end of the month you will have 30 articles. Make the articles interesting so that you build up a readership and be sure to include a link to your business site in each post and ask your readers to visit your site. Invite your readers to add you as a friend. The more readers that you have will increase the percentage of people that will be drawn to your business website. Another way to advertise is by posting bulletins on your personal page. List the sales and special offers of the goods and services listed on your business site. You can also post bulletins on the pages of your friends to increase the exposure of your business to others. Remember that each of the people that you add as a friend has friends of their own. The more people who see your bulletin, the better chance you have at securing potential clients. Using the “groups” section of the site is an excellent way to advertise your product. The groups are listed alphabetically and you can join the ones that pertain to the goods and services that you are selling. Join more than one group and start posting in their forums. Get to know people there and engage them in conversations. Ask the group owners if they will endorse your product. A group owner who’s members number in the tens of thousands is a powerful ally to have in your corner. Be warned that they may charge you a fee for the endorsement, but if it will increase your profit margin, it’s worth it. Making friends on the site is a sure way to help your business grow. It’s important to be sincere about developing friendships. Your friends will want you to be successful and will let you advertise on their own pages to help you to do so. People who don’t know you won’t afford you the same respect. Each friend that you make has other friends that they can refer to your business site. Making friends is not just a way to advertise your business. It’s a way to enrich your personal life as well.
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