April 08th, 2008
Facebook Marketing Strategies That Won’t Annoy Your Facebook Friends
A huge market
Facebook is currently the third most visited site online according to Alexa. The world internet users have reached 1.7 billion people according to the 2009 stats on internet users. Facebook pulls a staggering 29 % of all the global internet traffic to their site – another staggering number of 510 million users. Any ambitious internet marketer must learn how to market on Facebook to create leads for their mlm business.
Network marketers the globe over jumped in, to market to all the millions of Facebook users and all the other social networking sites. The problem with most of the Facebook marketing strategies is that it is very in your face and can be very annoying to the social Facebook user.
Continue reading if you want Facebook marketing tips that will enable you to market on Facebook without annoying your Facebook friends.
Take off the billboard around your neck
Think about it. What is Facebook? It is nothing else than a club or a party. A place to run into new people.
Most online marketers do not think about their social media marketing strategies.Or did you just jump in like everyone else and started adding friends like mad? What is the purpose to ask someone as a friend only to tell them about your mlm business opportunity when they accept your “request to be a friend”?
It would be annoying to go to a party in the real world with a billboard around your neck advertising your business – it is simply not done. Everyone will think you behave weird and you will be avoided at all cost. Yet, in the internet world, internet marketers open their mouths and vomit all over everyone about their business and their business opportunity – and they do this all the time. This is appalling but happening daily on Twitter and Facebook and other social media sites. We teach our downlines to do the same and to surf from person to person and hand out links to our mlm business opportunity. Take off the billboard around your neck and become a real person.
Build relationships and connect
The reality is, people are on Facebook to build relationships and connect with other people with similar interest. They do not care about your business and they do not want anyone to sell them business opportunities all the time. Unless they know you, they also don’t care about you. They choose to connect with people that they find interesting. Most people are naturally attracted to a leader. A leader differentiate himself, adds value and do things different to anyone else.
Use Facebook to promote YOU as the leader you ARE and show the value you have to offer. But be real and be a real person. Let attraction marketing principles work for you.
Six tips for success in Facebook marketing
Here are 6 tips that will assist you to use Facebook as a marketing tool without annoying your friends
1. Set up your profile so that others know who you are and what you are about. Keep it brief and truthful. Don’t sell your business in your profile
2. Use a link to your blog in the website field of your profile. Do not use your company replicated website link at all cost.
3. Think about your business and your own unique selling proposition. Why would somebody join you in your business? The answer to this question is critical to your success. Make a 20 word summary of who you are and add it to your profile. If you do not have an answer, this is probably the reason for not being successful.
4. There is no point to add hundreds of friends daily if you have no intention to connect with them.
5. If you have an active Twitter account where you tweet many times in one day, do not connect Twitter and Facebook. You will surely irritate and annoy your facebook friends if you have hundreds of status updates daily.
6. Make an effort to search for people on your opt-in list by searching for their e-mails and request them to connect with you on Facebook.This will make your e-mail stand out from the 20 other e-mails they receive from other lists and will increase your e-mail reading rate.I open e-mails from friends first, don’t you?
I use Facebook marketing together with my other marketing strategies. Doing a few fundemental things correct will add a lot of great Facebook connections (with an added bonus of converting many into leads), make you a LOT of money and all that without annoying your Facebook friends!
Jim Chao , my mentor, has made an exclusive free webinar on Facebook Marketing Strategies. This is very valuable and offers a new strategy to help you to stand out from 99% of other internet marketers using Facebook for marketing. Jim is simply a brilliant relationship builder and will show you you how to, as well.
Melanie Kok is a Lead Generation Coach and a Online Marketing Strategist. These best Facebook marketing strategies is available on Melanie Blog. You can learn exactly how to use Facebook effectively to create free leads without annoying your Facebook friends.You can do this even if you have only 30 minutes a day.You will also have access to a free Facebook marketing webinar that shows you the step by step blueprint of a master relationship builder. Also see Melanie’s article marketing tips on her Blog.
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