Insight on Social Media

Just listened to and watched a video from Allan Galang and he said some very interesting things about social media that I want to share:

Rules To Social Networking/Advertising

NEVER, EVER, EVER Sign up just to start pushing your product or business. New rules have been applied to social networking sites that if you begin to solicit your businesses through their venues, those social sites will quickly terminate you and not allow you to come back. Heed My Warning! No spamming / selling!

If you want to succeed in attracting prospects from social networking sites always remember to…

1) Create your accounts with the expectation you’re out there to meet like minded people who want and need the same advantages as you do and are set out to succeed in the same field as you’ve chosen.

2) Add new friends in similar fields as you while taking part in group discussions, giving away great knowledge and value which you’ve gained from your experiences as a network marketer.

3) Use this process over several weeks to help people understand you, like you, trust you, and recognize you as a leader in your field as someone who they can depend on and go to for information and advise.

4) Watch for group reactions. If people are starting to add you as a friend, if they’re starting to come to you for questions, advise, if they start including you in new groups, then you know you’re on the right track to learning how to increase your ability to attract people into your life and company.

If on the other hand, people start rejecting you, if they start ignoring you, or erase you from their friends list in the masses. If just one or two people remove you from their contact list that's OK. But if a whole team of people leave you, then you need to recognize why and know the image you're creating for yourself probably isn’t a very pleasant one.

You’ll need to make adjustments to your style of communication to ensure your learning to become a People Magnet, not a people deterrent.

Once you’ve established a likable image for yourself after several weeks to your 1st month, then feel free to offer your opportunity. But do it in a way that’s very subtle.

What I to do is offer my businesses during certain conversations where I find an opening which allows me to use my business as an example or as a tool to help people achieve their own goals.

For example, one of my businesses sells high end information on investing using financial strategies. For weeks all I did was get to know people in my social networking sites and shared advise and info with them that could support their quest for attaining their goals.
What I'm About To Share Can Happen For You Too… Trust Me.

Then one day, I received a message from an online friend telling me he was deciding to leave his networking business because of challenges he had with the owners, and wanted my advise about what other opportunities could really help him succeed.

I simply suggest that he check out my investing business and I gave him some very simple, short sweet and to the point reasons as to why I thought this might be a good fit for him.

Long story short, he barely checked out the company, and decided to come work with me. He brought a small group of 4 people with him and we all started working together without spending so much time trying to convince him my company was the greatest possible option (as many other network marketers do on a regular basis).

Total Investment Time: 25 minutes (writing the reply message)
Total Income Earned: $2,500.00 ($500/Sale x 5 new members)
Total Advertising Cost: $0

Clearly this doesn’t happen all the time, but it DOES happen. The reason why he chose to get involved so quickly was because we had established a strong trust with each other over a period of several months, talking back and forth, sharing ideas and strategies with each other without pushing our networking companies down each others throats.

Would you like to have people like you and trust you with their time and money that easily? If you want them to, you can. But you have to earn it, by learning to add value to your relationships with them 1st, before you ever expect them to pull anything out of their pocket for you.

Another way to offer your networking business after building some relationships with your friends list, is to suggest or “offer” your opportunity to them if you feel your company has an advantage that others do not offer.

For example, one of my advertising students is involved in a home business where the company actually gives you free leads on the company expense which you can use to profit from, just as long as you hit a certain level in the company.

A really simple method of “offering” your company in a non pushy / non threatening way is to jump on a group message board and forum and say….

Hey guys, here’s a company I found that gives you a free advertising tool that actually gives you # prospects every single week on the company tab. All you have to do is hit _ _ _ level in the company compensation plan and prospects get dumped on your lap for as long as you’re with them. Check this out: www.YourCompanyNameGoesHere.com

See how simple and easy that was? As long as people like you and trust you, they’ll check out almost anything you send them. If they don’t know you, or worse, don’t trust you, then you might as well be selling door to door soap boxes hoping to make a buck because no one’s going to take part with you if they can’t see any value in you or what you want to share.

RELATIONSHIPS + LEADERSHIP + TRUST = RAPPORT = FOLLOWERS = INCOME = SECURITY =
THE ABILITY TO HAVE WHATEVER YOU WANT IN YOUR LIFE

Practice these methods over the next 30 - 60 days, and don’t be shocked if you end up with over 5,000 new friends and potential members as many of us have from using this amazing resource.

What's the CORE of building any LARGE business organization?

Strong - Reliable - Relationships