August 14, 2008 Newsletter - Social Networking

3 Reasons Social Networking Must Be Part of your Online Strategy

If you hope to have Internet Marketing success then you should concentrate on Social Networking. Social Networking is making connections with other people who you can help and who can help you. The three major reasons to use Social Networking are:

to help with making and marketing your products and services
to help you get affiliates
to make you more successful overall

Lets go a little further into the three reasons I listed above…

Help you with is making and marketing your products: When you Social Network you will meet some very valuable people who know more than you about Internet Marketing and will be able to give you great advice and any help you might need. So if you need help deciding on what to do about a product or how to make a product then you will be able to get help from people you meet through Social Networking. The same holds true for getting help with advice about marketing your products.
Help you get affiliates: People you meet through Social Networking will also be great affiliates for you. An affiliate is someone who will help you sell your products in exchange for getting a certain percentage of the money made from the sale. The more affiliates you have the more products you’ll be able to sell. And the more people you get to your website the more people you can get on your list, which will lead to more sales in the future.
Make you more successful overall: This last reason has to be a broad one because Social Networking can help you in so many ways that it’s almost impossible to list all the reasons. The bottom line is that people who Social Network have a much higher rate of success than those people who don’t Social Network.

There are many different ways to Social Network on the Internet. There are many different – and very good – Social Networking Sites on the Internet. There are also many great forums that you can connect with people on. Social Networking sites and forums should be used almost every single day for best affect.

Social Networking can be a very powerful tool that leads to success with Internet Marketing. If you concentrate on Social Networking you will achieve a lot more success and achieve it a lot faster then you would without Social Networking.

7 Secrets to Generating Web Traffic With Squidoo

So you have either just created a brand new website or you have an older website but it is not generating the kind of traffic and results you would like. Have you tried using Squidoo? I became a giant squid at the end of June 2008 and so I have quite a bit of knowledge and experience about how to use squidoo to generate traffic to your website or websites. Here are seven secrets you can apply immediately to help you increase your web traffic using squidoo.

Create a wide variety of lenses. Although it is completely fine and necessary to create a couple of lenses which are focused specifically on your business, you also need to create some lenses focused on your hobbies, famous people, TV shows and other topics which have nothing to do with your business. These other lenses will attract a different kind of traffic and market and will introduce people to your business who may not have been searching for a business when they found you but who may become curious by what you have to offer.
Make sure to include links to your various websites in your lenses by mixing them into your content. It also helps if you can find some way of making the link relevant to the topic of the lens.
Include links to other useful and relevant blog posts, and websites. You need to make each lens a useful resource for the topic and not just a collection of material about and by you. They must contain information by others as well.
Keep your lenses updated and fresh. Each lens should be updated at least twice a month. It is not necessary to completely redo the lens. A quick two minute change of the titles, a few tags or adding one link is all that is needed.
Keep your lenses short and too the point. Adding more than 15 modules to any given lens will make it harder to read and a lens that is too long looses the interest of its readers before they reach the end of the lens.
Make sure to include at least 6 modules in each lens. Just like you do not want your lens to be too long, it also must not be too short. There is a minimum amount of information you must include in order for it to be interesting and helpful to your readers.
Include a guestbook at the end of each lens and invite reader comments. Ask questions through the lens that encourage your readers to think about your topic and to share their thoughts and feelings with you.

Know that being successful on squidoo takes time but it is well worth it. Learn from those of us who are giant squids and remember practice makes perfect.

AnnaLaura Brown is a successful home business owner who markets herself and her business on the internet. She is a giant squid who loves using squidoo to grow her business. Visit her lenses and learn more about how squidoo works at http://www.squidoo.com/annalaurabrown. Learn more about building a network marketing organization online at http://www.internetworkmarketingwealth.com

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