Discover How To Market In Social Networking Sites With MLMLeadSystemPro

Copyright © Lawren Smith

EZ MLM Profits
Generate Success Online

Today, I am going to discuss how to market your business on social networking sites. Much of what I discuss today are things I have learned from MLMLeadSystemPro. For starters, it is important that you have a picture of yourself that matches what you currently look like today. It is best to present yourself as who you are today as opposed who you were yesterday. Today you want to present yourself as a leader, so if you don't have a recent picture of yourself, I suggest you either get one taken by a family member or friend, or go somewhere where you can have your picture taken. Pictures are a way in which to connect with others, so they are very important.

Once you have a picture of yourself selected, you want to setup your profile. Most people who setup a profile within a social networking site, usually are promoting their business opportunity, their products or services. You don't want to do this. You want to set yourself apart from others and the way to accomplish this is to setup your profile where you are talking about yourself. The reason for this is quite simple. You are not really marketing your products, your services or your business opportunity. You are marketing yourself. Here is food for thought. People join people, not businesses.

In your profile, you can share your experiences in network marketing, your failures and successes in building a business, but it is also advisable to share information about yourself. Some things you might want to consider in sharing information about yourself is talk about your interests, your hobbies, or some of your goals. Anything that concerns you and that you think will interest others is always a good idea to include in your profile.

Once you have your profile setup, then you need to engage in exposing yourself within the site and what I mean by this is to start introducing yourself to others within the social networking site. Some things I do is I will every day send out about 30-50 invitations to people. Don't go over 50 because most social networking sites don't allow this. If you do go over 50, you will be reprimanded and one of the ways in which social networking sites do this is by disabling your account. I know because FaceBook did this to me. Of course, once this does happen, what you can do is to create another account, using a different email address, which is what I did once FaceBook disabled my account. This was about 2 months ago. I have also received warnings from MySpace. Anytime your account is disabled, this means you have to start all over again and that is a pain, but we do what is required of us as entrepreneurs.

Afer reestablishing an account with a social networking site, it is key to immediately engage in your marketing. Be diligent with your marketing. After my account was disable, this is what I did and it has paid off. I now have over 2000 friends in my friends list. This is only because I have been very persistent and consistent in my marketing efforts. Being persistent and consistent is key to any marketing method that you use. It is a lot of work in the beginning, but in the end, you will be paid dividends for your hard work.

The goal of marketing in a social networking site is to set yourself up as a leader. Let people know that you are a knowledgable business person and you are available to help others who are struggling with their MLM/Network Marketing. One way to do this is to create a group. Most social networking sites do allow you to create a group. In a group, you can talk about your business; not so much as a means of marketing it, but just to let those who join your group, what type of experiences you have in managing your own business.

Once you create your group, start sending out invitations to people to join your group. Again, you want to send, maybe, 30-50 invitations to people informing them of your group. I am not sure how often you should do this in some of the other social networking sites, like MySpace, BetterNetworker, or DirectMatches, but I know in FaceBook, you want to send about 30-50 invitations every other day.

Your group should have some kind of purpose. I have a group in FaceBook and basically what I do is share my knowledge about marketing and running a business. I do this by sending helpful information to the members in my group every other day. I also send out inspirational articles to people in my group. These are just some of the ways in which I build relationships with the people in my group.

Often, as a means of displaying leadership, I will post helpful articles on my profile. I will also post an article within the blog section or article section of the social networking site. All of these methods is a way in which, you as a leader, are building relationships with others, letting others know that you are a leader, and also setting yourself apart from those individuals that spend most of their time marketing their products, services or business opportunity.

For my business with www.ezmlmprofits.com, I do market this because this is considered to be a tool that anybody who owns a network marketing or online business can use. Again, I want to help other network marketers and online business owners, so I share with them this tool called www.ezmlmprofits with others because it is something that will help them grow their business. Therefore, I will often post some information about this company, include a link and also include a banner to make the post more noticeable.

Speaking of banners. Banners are a good way to market your business. I have used banners in FaceBook and in DirectMatches (www.directmatches.com/lawrensmith). In FaceBook, I have posted banners on my profile page and then sent invitations to people so that when they come by to my profile, one of the things they will immediately see is my banner. I have also posted banners in DirectMatches. I usually post the banners in the comment section of other members of Directmatches. The banners are actually clickable, meaning that once someone clicks on them, they will be taken to my website. I had this happen to me today. Someone opted into my website from a banner that I had posted in DirectMatches a while ago. Often, in marketing, you may not see the results immediately, but this is because what you are doing is planting seeds. Over time, you will reap the benefits of the seeds that you sow.

In conclusion, social networking sites are a great way to get leads. This is because social networking sites allow you to establish relationships with people. People are more willing to join or purchase from people they trust and this is why creating relationships with people online or even offline is so important for people who are interested in building a business. Also, being consistent and persistent in your marketing efforts is key to a successful marketing plan. Lastly, set aside time to engage in income producing activities and I am not talking about sending emails or talking on the phone to members in your group. You need to keep your pipeline full of new prospects coming in and thus, being fully engaged in your marketing is vital to having a successful business.

You can learn more about social networking from MLM Lead System Pro also known as MLMLeadSystemPro. There are a number of video trainings to help you successfully start marketing within any social networking site.

Next time, I will share with you my knowledge on video marketing.

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Lawren Smith is a member of MLMLeadSystemPro and CarbonCopyPro. She writes on a variety of subjects. To learn more about this topic, Lawren recommends you visit:

Learn To Become a Master Marketer from EZMLMProfits.com

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MLMLeadSystemPro Offers Training On Forum Posting

Copyright © Lawren Smith

EZ MLM Profits
Carbon Copy Success Program

In the past, I have focused the topic of my blog on either my primary business, which is CarbonCopyPro (www.GenerateSuccessOnline.com) or the business I use to market my primary business called MLMLeadSystemPro (www.EZMLMProfits.com).

Today, I am going to do something new and in fact, from here on, this will probably be the focus of my blogs, which is to teach others various ways to market their business. After all, this is what I do so why not use my blogs to train others.

The topic I am going to cover today is forum posting. The reason I am going to start off talking about forum posting is because this is one of the first marketing methods I used to market one of my business opportunities. In fact, I was quite successful in utilizing this marketing method.

My reason for selecting forum posting as a method to promote my home business is because, one, the learning curve is not too steep, and two, it is a method that I could quickly use to market my business. Another reason I selected posting to forums is because it is free. One can’t beat that.

Today, I will offer some tips on posting to forums that worked well for me. One of the first things I would suggest that one do is to signup up with maybe 3-5 different forums. The more forums you sign-up for, the more results you will generate for your home business. I started out with 3, then 5, but overtime, I was posting to as many as 10 forums regularly.

In order to signup for a forum, click on the “Register” link. The process of registering for a forum is quite simple. Most times, all that is required is to enter your name, a username, password, and some other personal information.

While you are registering, one of the more important aspects of this process is creating, what is known as a “signature file” Now, the signature file is the primary way of advertising your business. Most forums don’t allow you to blatantly advertise your business. Sometimes, you will encounter a forum that has a topic that specifies that you can advertise your business opportunity here. But, if you don’t see a note stating that you are allowed to advertise your business, then don’t do it. If you do, you will be kicked out of the forum as a spammer and they don’t allow you to return.

Now, the way to get around the rule of not being able to advertise is to create your signature file. Here you can put you name along with the link to your website for your business. In some cases, some forums will allow you to put in up to 3 or more links to other businesses you may be affiliated with. Most times though, you may be allowed at most two business opportunities for you to promote.

You may also use HTML to create your signature file. Usually, the HTML code used varies based on the forum you are posting to. You will see a link that you click on that will show you specifically the HTML code allowed. It is really quite simple, but if you have not used HTML code before, it may become difficult and in this case, it is best to get some help from someone.

My signature file usually contained a greeting, followed my name and then a link to my business and I always, if allowed, used HTML code where the link would open my website in another window. It is best to keep your audience in the forum while viewing your website.

After you have setup your profile and created your signature file, you are now ready to begin posting. Forums have various topics under which you can post an article. The article that you post within the forum must be relevant to the topic or else, again, you will be reprimanded. The best articles to post are articles where you addressing other people’s issues; such as, most network marketers are struggling with their marketing, you can offer a suggestion or tip that will be helpful to these struggling marketers. In other words, your posts should present you as someone who is knowledgeable on various subjects relating to business. This sets you up as a leader. Why is this important? People join people not businesses. Your marketing should be about you, not your business opportunity, or your products or your services. You want people to join your business because of you. This is the essence of network marketing. You are marketing you.

Now, here is a tip I learned about posting to forums. When you post to a forum, you want to be the one to create or generate a thread. Why? Well, for the same reason I mentioned above. It sets you apart from others. By starting a thread, and if you article is interesting enough, others will take notice of your post and reply. This was my approach to posting to forums. I often would create 3-5 different posts under 3-5 different topics within the forum. Again, you want to post articles to other forums, at least 3-5 starting out. The more you do, the more and better results you will generate with your forum posting.

The great thing about posting to forums is that almost all forums offer either the same or similar topics within the forum, so what I did is any posts I created, I would copy that article and save it in notepad. Then I would use that same post in another forum and post it under the topic that was either the same or very similar. This is how I was able to post to so many different forums in one night. I will add a caution here. When you do copy and paste articles while posting to forums, be sure to change a few words here and there. Some people consider this to be spamming. Thus, in order to not be accused of spamming, I would change a few words here and there so that none of the posts looked exactly alike.

One last thing is be sure to respond to any replies you get from your posts. If you don’t, then you will be accused of being a spammer and you will be kicked out of the forum. I suggest that you create a separate email account just for the replies because if you do as many postings as I did, you will get tons of replies.

Now, don’t get discouraged if you are not getting the results you are looking for. Remember, you are learning and because you are learning, you will not have the skill set yet for posting to forums. This was true for me. It was because I was so persistent and consistent with my forum posting , that I improved. I am sure you have heard of the saying, “practice makes perfect”. Well, your posting skills may not be perfect, but they will definitely improve over time.

I believe that it was the forum posting that helped me with my article writing skills. I had to come up with various ideas on what I was going to post and then write about it. Sometimes, I would open either wordpad or notepad and create about 3 – 5 different articles before I would actually start posting. Then I would just start copying my articles to the various forums. I also spent about an hour or so each night responding to replies. This became my regiment to forum posting.

After 3 months, I had generated quite a few leads in the backoffice of my business opportunity. I had done so many postings that in 3 or 4 months, I was told that over 12,000 people had visited my website. That was amazing; especially for someone who was very new to network marketing.

You too can have this same kind of success from posting to forums if you are consistent and persistent with you postings,. Post to as many forums as you can under as many topics as you can, and within each forum set yourself up as a leader by addressing the issues of other network marketers, share you knowledge, offer help and assist using the articles. Believe me, many will take notice and start to look to you for answers to their business or marketing problems.

One last thing, periodically, change your signature files. Don’t let your signature file say the same thing. Maybe once a month, change it to something else. This too will keep others within the forum on their toes and will arouse interest in your link.

Well, that is it. I hope you found this to be helpful. When done correctly, posting to forums can be a very powerful marketing method to generate leads for your business. It is important that you practice at developing your skills in this area and once you do, you will see fantastic results.

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Lawren Smith is a member of MLMLeadSystemPro and CarbonCopyPro. She writes on a variety of subjects. To learn more about this topic, Lawren recommends you visit:

Learn To Become a Master Marketer from EZMLMProfits.com

A Business For The Serious Entrepreneur

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