I was recently asked by someone new to online network marketing how long it would take them to learn all the techniques of online marketing. 20, 40 or 60 hours? Anyone has been doing network marketing for a while knows this answer and this is you never do. It is a continual process. First, there are so many different ways to market online it will take a long time just to understand each method. And second, the bigger obstacle is that the business is constantly changing and so the techniques need to change with the times.
That is why I chose to write this article. There are so many ways to market I will start by listing the most popular was that are used today and then pick one to focus on details. The common are generally the free ones and that is Facebook, LinkedIn, BetterNetworker, Twitter, MySpace and of course Youtube.. There are other less popular ways because of cost and complexity such as Pay Per Click or PPC, Banner Ads and Writing articles. As you may imagine each of these is very unique just as each web site or each book you read is different..
Just to understand how much detail there is to learn one technique I will pick one of the most popular ways to market which is Facebook and explain one way it can be used. The second most visited site on the Internet is Facebook with the most visited being Google. Additionally Facebook is growing fast than any other website on the Internet today. Once you have created your account on Facebook and got your profile all setup, you will want to start adding friends. This can be done several ways but a good place to start is to look in groups that have a common interest. Become members of those groups and begin to invite people as friends. Now if you invite too many friends at one time Facebook will see you as a threat and may disable your account. If you stay under 50 invites per day you should not have any problems with Facebook.. Be consistent in do this and your list will grow.. It is not uncommon to have over a thousand friends in just a few weeks if you keep at it.
Once you have grown a list of this size you will want to get as many as you can to optin to your web site. To do this you need to give your friend or prospect some value so that they want to do this. A very easy way to start when you are new is to invite your friends to free training webinars. Just this last week there were several but one that I used that got a lot of attention was learning how to get on the first page of Google for free. In no time you will have friends opting in to your web sit e to attend the free webinar.
You next task is to contact the prospect and discuss what they saw. by doing this you are beginning to build a relationship with them and building trust. This is not something that will happen over night but certainly you can see how this technique will lead to sales over time. This can be enhanced by you making comments on their status updates or on their pictures over a period of time. People like to do business with people that they like and this is when you build that relationship. In time some will attend your webinars and in time some will purchase your products or join your business. How fast it happens depends how how well you build your relationship with that prospect.
I realize that this is a high level look at this technique but I have given enough details that you can see how this can work for you. It will take some time and eventually you will see results as you get to know the people better. You also should realize that I have only gone over one way to use Facebook where there are over twenty different ways to market on Facebook.
As you can see from this one example, there is so much to learn about marketing online you can appreciate that this is a very large endeavor and one that will take a long time to master. I realize that the new network marketer that asked me how long it would take did not know what he was asking but when I had some time to think about his question, I realized that I have learned so much I take a lot of what I know for granted. Some questions such as this one make you look back and realize how much there is to know about this field of online network marketing.
Please let me know what you think about this content. I welcome all comments. I hope that it helps you to be able to attain what you want out of your business.
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Bob Howard
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