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10 Dirty Little Secrets To Use On Any Social Networking Site That Are Pure Lead Generation Gold

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.

Twitter is the latest craze that is all the rage right now, and just like all the others, everyone is flocking to it without really understanding how to harness its power. 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. When writing your profile on your page don’t put a a bunch of stuff about your business or products. Get personal, tell people who you are and what you like to do for fun, maybe even your reasons for starting your own business. Open up and let people see that you’re a real person. 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 targeted niche groups that are related to your business. The goal is to get infront of your target audience and this is a great, non-salesy way to do it. 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 about that in a minute.

3. Now that you have joined a few groups it’s time to start bringing some real value by writing some content. People are always looking for help, tips, tricks and other creative ideas to help generate leads. You need to be consistent and compelling otherwise no one will want to visit your page.

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.

takes is a few seconds to thank them for contributing. Hint: when you get up to about 10 comments, your readership DOUBLES. So, help those numbers rise by commenting behind everyone.

6. Make friend connections with those respondents – it doesn’t work to randomly go around soliciting for friend requests. It’s better to have added value to someone first which proves to them you are someone they should connect with. Send another private note thanking them for their feedback and requesting to become friends. 80% of the people will connect with you.

7. Only accept friend requests if it is relevant to your purpose on the site – you’ll get people trying to connect with you at random, but don’t accept it just to build up a 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. It’s important to be consistent with this as well. Set a daily goal on how many comments you want to make and stick to it.

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!

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.