Using Social Networking Sites to Build Your Business

The name of the game folks is Social Networking

(I.) First, everything I learned about Social Networking and WEB 2.0 I learn from Carlos Aponte. It's not exageration when people say he's the master... because HE IS. You must tune in to Carlos' training.

(II.)Second, here are a few sites that I'm currently using.

1. MySpace.com I've been with this one the longest and therefore this is the one I'm most familiar with; you can get in touch with a lot of networkers here
2. Friendster.com I like Friendster; not as huge as MySpace but it's simple and it's easy and I've made some good connections here
3. Facebook.com I've had a Facebook profile less than a year I think, but I'm only now starting to really get into it; I like facebook because like Art Jonak said on the webinar, the contacts you make are generally more mature and professional
4. Wayn.com I just started this the other day; this site bills itself as a travel and lifestyle community; this looks to be a promising way to connect with people internationally

There are TONS more site you can go to. In fact, if you Google "social networking" it'll give you a page on Wikipedia listing the most notable site out there... and there's tons.

(III.)Lastly -- and this is perhaps the most important point about this entire week's topics -- the key word in Social Networking is... drum roll please.... NETWORKING.

Strip these sites to their barest essentials and what you're left with is MAKING CONNECTIONS. You can have the most boring and plain profile and if you're able to connect well with people, you've won the game. It becomes like prospecting in your hometown, except now your hometown is the entire World Wide Web.

You see, the internet with all it's fancy technological advances is simply this: the Next Evolution in Human Communication. If you're just indescriminately blasting your opportunity out to the entire world wide web, people will tune you out like they do tv adverts or sleazy salesmen. But if you take the time to develop relationships and to communicate, really communicate with people, then you've accomplished what every person, consciously or unconsciously desires -- A HUMAN CONNECTION.

So get online and start connecting!

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