Social Networking & Website Promotion

The Internet has evolved into a into a social environment in addition to an information clearinghouse.  Harness the viewership of the Internet with Social Networking and make it work for you.

Utilize social networking:

• As an online marketer.
• To meet other like-minded people sharing the same interests.
• To find special friendships and perhaps something more.

Do you have a website that you would like to promote?  Consider social networking as a platform to announce yourself and your internet business.  If you incorporate social networking and Internet participation into your marketing efforts online, you'll begin to see your profits grow in response.  Just how much depends upon the amount of time, effort and hard-work you're willing to put into it.

If you are a member of an online forum and sign-off with your name or send e-mails (as most of us do) perhaps you are aware that you can create a signature line.  Often, you can choose a little smiley or some other icon or even upload your own photograph and attach it to a signature that you've created - much like the one we create in Outlook. Then, add your website name directly underneath your signature.  Have more than one website?  Then go slow.  List only one website at each forum that you belong to.  Some of the social network sites like MySpace, don't like blatant self-advertising, but you can discreetly put in a small blurb with your signature.

My signature line looks like this:

www.decorateyourfence.com
"Be Extraordinary - Not Ordinary"

Then join-in the talk at forums or blogs and post your name at the end.  Easier said than done, though because the hardest part of social networking is finding the time to participate; especially if you have a full-time job.  If you just lurk around, reading the posts without participating, you won't get the attention you need.  So, only join the groups and forums that you really need an association with.  Then, each time you post, you will create an association in the reader's mind between your signature line, your product and your name.  "DecorateYourFence" is one of my products.

There are specific articles on the rest of this site relative to meeting people.  In other words... looking to meet someone to have a special relationship with.  Just be careful.  And watch your teens, too.  These are trying times for everyone.

Its not like the 60's and 70's... or is that what my parents said in the 50's.