Social Networking is the number one Internet Marketing technique around in my opinion. This is because it is 100% FREE and if used correctly can drive large amounts of traffic to your site and build your list effectively!

There are many social networking sites out there but there are 2 that stand out from the crowd, they are Twitter and Facebook. Around 15 million people are on Twitter and 65 million people are on Facebook.

This means whatever you are promoting you are guaranteed there will be a considerable number of people that will be interested in your product.

However there are tips that will allow you to find these people on social networking sites that are likely to be interested in your product (targeted traffic) easily, here they are: 1. Your account/profile has to reflect the business/home opportunity you are involved with and let a person know who you are straight away.

2. Have a bio about yourself and tie it in with what particular niche you are involved with, if you’re an Internet Marketer tell the viewer how you first got involved with Internet Marketing.

3. Personalize you site; include picutres of yourself and of your family and pets. This straight away lets the viewer know you are a real person and not an automated robot. People will warm to that fact.

4. Have links to your sites on your profile; to do this on Facebook and Twitter have the links in your “about me” section and leave them whenever you update your status. This way your friends or followers on the social networking sites can easily find out more about you and your product.

5. Connect with new visitors/friends straight away. You do this by drafting up a generic email and sending it to any new social networking friends. Introduce yourself, let them know how you can benefit them and what product/home business you’re involved with. Then ask to hear more about that person which will lead to most people replying as you’ve asked about them not just talked about your product.

6. Constantly update your social networking status with helpful and to the point information. For example I’m an internet marketer so I continually give people access to useful Internet Marketing information; it could be a free report or a link to a helpful site (can be your own site as well!). This brands you as a leader as you are helping others, people will look up to as you can direct them to success.

7. Specify the people you are friends with on social networking sites. This gives you targeted traffic; to do this search for keywords that appear on other peoples profiles. If for example I am promoting a new dog food product I would search the word “dog”, this will bring me up results of people that have the word “dog” on their profile meaning they likely own a dog and so would be interested in buying a dog food product.

Limit the number of people you add on Facebook to 20 a day and Twitter to following 200 a day.

The most important thing is to keep it up; you have to continually build your list of followers/friends on your social networking sites. This was a very brief article on social networking that covered the basics and I hope it has been of use to you.

This article came from the computer of Jonathan Pitts. Jonathan is one of the best rated Internet Marketing Mentors and has changed the lives of many people through providing them training on how to be a successful Online Marketer. Jonathan always likes to give helpful information and rid the Smoke from this industry so has created a Truth Report detailing the FACTS on Making Money with Internet Marketing.

There has been a lot of talk lately about the viral nature of Facebook and Twitter and how it can help build a person’s business. Initially, I took very little notice but the chatter was getting louder and louder, so I decided to look into it.

It didn’t take me long to find out that both of these sites were enormously popular. I had thought that most of the people using these social networking sites were teens, but I was in for a surprise when I saw how many serious and well-known business people had a Facebook and a Twitter page.

It didn’t make much sense to me, so I decided to talk to some people I know who are part of the social networking system and they reported back to me that they were actually ‘doing business’ when they were using these social websites. They said that visits to their personal websites were up dramatically and their sales were also.

The first thing I realized was that the people that were getting the most out of these sites were taking it very seriously. It wasn’t something that they did as a little diversion – it was actually scheduled into their business day. There are now courses that you can take that teach you how to most effectively operate your Facebook and Twitter pages.

Newbies tend to add friends at a frantic pace, but this is not recommended, particularly for business people. Quality is more important that quantity, especially for the first 100-200 people you invite to be your ‘friend’. This intial group of people will be the most impactful and you want to make these high level people in your industry.

Another suggestion is to add content to your sites on a daily basis, if at all possible. You don’t have to spend a lot of time. Sometimes just 5 minutes a day is sufficient. You could update your status, pull up news feeds and comment as much as you can. The search engines love content so try to continually be adding relevant information to your pages.

These website are growing faster than the speed of light. Facebook is the 5th largest visited website in the entire World and Twitter is actually adding more users a day that Facebook. Because you are limited to leaving a very small message on Twitter, it literally only takes seconds to post and you can do it as many times a day as you like. To top it off, they are both free services.

I now have my own Facebook and Twitter accounts and I invite you to sign up also.