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Ten Hot Social Networking Secrets That Will Explode Your Business

By: Carin Davis Click author's name for more of his/her articles

Just being a member of several social networking sites because your sponsor or business coach told you to doesn't mean you are automatically going to make your home business successful.

Whenever a new social networking site pops up, people sprint to it as quickly as possible thinking that just by being one of the first they will generate leads. However, before you jump on the bandwagon you should know how to harness its power so you can beat everyone at their own game. Today I'm going show you ten hot social networking secrets that will work for ALL social networking sites that will make lead generation feel like shooting fish in a barrel.

1. Tell your personal story on your profile page – avoid putting up a bunch of content about your business or your products. People want to see the REAL you, so open up and get comfy. When people visit your profile they want to learn more about you, not your business. Plus writing something personal will give them something they can connect with.

2. Join specific groups that are targeted for your business – this is where you can begin to identify your target audience. You can do a search in the sites group section using your target keywords to find them and you will want to join them all. More on that in a moment.

3. Start writing content that is valuable to the group – people are always looking for tips, tricks, tactics, techniques and other creative ideas to help their business, so be that creative source. Be consistent with your writing and make it compelling.

4. Post your content on all the groups that you belong to – not everyone that is part of one group belongs to all the others, so make sure to spread your knowledge around in mass.

5. It's important to followup on every single comment posted to your article. When Hint: when you get up to about 10 comments, your readership DOUBLES. So, help those numbers rise by commenting behind everyone.

6. Connect with the people who have made comments. Go to their profiles and request to be their friend. This is a great step at gaining trust and developing an avid readership. It’s better to have added value to someone first which proves to them you are someone they should connect with. Send them a private message thanking them again and let them know you would like to connect and be their friend. About eighty percent of them will be happy to accept your request.

7. Although most people think the most important thing is to have a huge group of friends, you should only accept friend requests if they are relevant to the purpose of your business. You will get tons of random people trying to connect with you, but don't accept them just to build up your friend list. Remember, you are on the social networking site to market and generate leads by targeting a specific audience, and it's important to keep your friend list as pure as possible.

8. A great way to keep in front of people in your groups is to make comments on other people's discussion topics. It's a simple as writing a few lines of praise and picking something out of the article you liked. When you sign your name, make sure to ONLY put your full name and website link. Do not try to sell anything, this is tacky and no one will take you seriously. Set a daily goal on how many responses you want to make and be consistent.

9. Survey your friends to find out what their needs are and meet them – once per week, send out information to your friends that are more targeted to their specific needs, and soft promote your site. Now you’re starting to drive traffic outside of your articles!

10. At least twice per month, send an invitation to participate in an event that’s not part of the community – you’ve been adding value to them so this is a comfortable and acceptable approach to promoting your business. If you were doing this step on the front end, it would not work.

Remember, it’s always about adding value up front, not about selling your MLM business. Give enough of yourself in the right way, and people will attach themselves to you like groupies. I guess that makes you an internet rock star, right? Not bad!

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About The Author: Carin Davis is an expert at helping others with their Social Networking Lead Generation. If you want to learn more about the steps and resources mentioned in this article to explode your lead generation visit, Carin Davis's MLM Training Secrets.