I didn’t really understand LinkedIn when I first joined this social media site!  I didn’t feel it offered much opportunity in the way of generating leads for my business in the way that Facebook or Twitter does.  But slowly and surely LinkedIn has gone up in my estimation, not just because of the very high calibre of the large majority of  people who use LinkedIn.  Indeed the annual salary of the average LinkedIn user is $109.00, so there are many ‘big fish’ out there in LinkedIn.

If you are looking for a job, creating a profile with all your previous work experience and a smart profile photo could be a very wise move.  You can even upload your resume!  It is believed that 80% of companies looking for new personnel use social media sites to do this, the majority of them using LinkedIn.

If you wish to become known as a leader in your niche or industry there are several things you can do on LinkedIn to become known.  You can update your status or ‘share an update’ as it is known on LinkedIn everyday or as often as you can.  Once you have shared your update, you can click on ‘share again’, and share the same information with the groups you have joined.  Join as many groups as you want to within your niche.  This means that any information you share is being shown to every member of every group you are in, which can be a very large number of people, as well as everyone you are connected to.

You can become a ‘thought leader’ by creating your own group on LinkedIn within your industry and regularly sharing information and answering questions.  This will establish you as the ‘go to’ person for your industry, because your name and website will be there for everyone who joins the group to see.

Another way to become known is to answer questions in your niche.  Under the ‘more’ tab at the top of the page, you will find ‘answers’.  There you will find lots of questions from people in your network.  By answering these questions on a regular basis, you will be listed as a ‘Top Expert’, which of course will get you seen!

The best way to connect with alot of people on LinkedIn is to join the Open Networkers groups.  These are people who are willing to connect openly with large numbers of people.  Generally LinkedIn does not let you connect with just anyone in the way that say Facebook does.  You can only connect with someone you have done business with or a friend.  However, most of the Open Networkers offer their email address, so it is possible to connect with them using that.

If you want to be found in the search facility on LinkedIn, you need to ensure that you have your keywords in your profile.  You will need to have them in your title, your current and past work experience, your summary and in your specialities if you want to rank on the first page!

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Can you believe that if Facebook was a country it would be the third largest country and bigger than America?? That is amazing.  It actually took 4 years for the internet to reach 4 million users and yet Facebook reached 100 million within 9 months!!  This growth is incredible especially when you consider Facebook is free! Incredibly the fastest growing segment on Facebook is woman aged 55-65!!

The opportunities for small business on Facebook and other Social Media sites is incredible and people are making alot of money building their business with them!

YouTube is actually the second largest search engine after Google! This is another incredible fact.  Everyone knows that Youtube has grown at an incredible rate and is very highly trafficked.  Google actually now transcribe every video that is uploaded onto their site, looking for keywords to use in their search engine.  So putting keywords in both the video and the description is now key.

LinkedIn, although far behind Facebook in numbers, is way ahead in the calibre of the users.  LinkedIn is used very much by company CEO’s, Management and other high flyers.  Actually 80% of the companies on LinkedIn use it to find employees; another incredible fact!  Leads from LinkedIn are going to be some of the best leads you could get on the internet!

Twitter is also growing incredibly fast.  Celebrities use it to keep fans updated on what they are doing, companies use it to keep in touch with their customers and friends use it to chat.  Twitter is growing and changing constantly as new apps are made for it.  Twitter is evolving!  Because it is so different to Facebook some people do stay away, but the constant buzz surrounding it means that droves of new people are signing up everyday.

There are over 200 million blogs on the internet today.  Over 50% of these have new content posted everyday!  Basically if you are in business today you need to have a blog to keep your customers up to date with your products, services and special offers!  Well you need a blog and you need to be doing YouTube videos, and you need a Facebook page!  Welcome to the future!!

Any business that is not on social media, I seriously believe is going to be losing out immensely.  I am aware that alot of people out in the ‘real’ world consider it to be something of a fad and not something that they need to be involved in, but I think they are definitely missing something massive.  The figures speak for themselves.

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I didn’t understand Twitter when I first used it! But I plodded onward and within days was lovin it!! Quick and easy to chat to people all over the world. Nice short comments; nothing complicated. Simple to add people. I soon built up the numbers. I knew in the long run it would help my business. And it did. People would click on my links and go to my sites! Great.

But months later my interest waned. Because Twitter got boring. The bots and spammers had taken over. Every Tweet was a link. No-one talked anymore. I would go on, get bored and get off.

But now I’ve found the answer. TheTwitCleaner! He’s a very nice man who will get rid of all the rubbish for you! And he doesn’t get you in trouble with Twitter for unfollowing too many at a time. Twitter had stopped all the tools which let you unfollow everyone who wasn’t following you. But TheTwitCleaner does a few everyday, so you don’t get in trouble. He brings up a page with all the bots and spammers on and as you hover your cursor over each one, it tells you what they tweet. Such as 85% links, no interaction.

So you decide if there are any you want to keep, then he removes the rest slowly over the next week or two. I only had to pay $5 as I have about 7,000 followers, but I think it is free if you only have a few followers. Easily worth the money!!

So I have realised that I am probably as guilty of mis-using Twitter as the bots. Just like all social media sites, you need to be social. You must interact with others. Go for quality not quantity. Like me, the majority of people who come on Twitter add as many followers as they can as quickly as they can. This, in hindsight, is totally wrong. If you run a home business as I do, your followers need to be very targeted, otherwise why would they be interested in your tweets? Clearly if you want to get results from Twitter, your followers must be interested in your product or service.

You can’t sell cat food to someone with no cats, can you??

I for one, am going back to the way I was when I first used Twitter. I would ReTweet anything that I found interesting to my followers. And help other business owners by ReTweeting their links. Now, you may think this is mad, but think about it. If another person ReTweeted your links to their followers, what would you do?? Well you would probably ReTweet one of their links. Exactly.

I will also ask questions and offer help and advice. Even freebies. Anything I can to give value, so that people start to associate you with giving valuable information and being a lovely person. And thank people, when they ReTweet or say something nice about you!

So come and join me and let’s make Twitter what it should be, a friendly and fun social site, with a side order of business!

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Things may come to those who wait but only things left by those who hustle.

(This saying was borrowed from Robert Kiyosaki’s Facebook page!!)

This morning I went on Facebook and had a few new friend requests as usual.  I decided to deal them straight away.  I accepted the first two, then looked at the third one, who had written quite alot by Facebook standards.  Wow, it was from Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad amongst other things.  Doesn’t it make you realise the power of Social Media!  Robert Kiyosaki requested me as a friend!! Amazing. Yes, I’m am sure I am not the only one, but doesn’t it just amaze you that you can connect with just about anyone on Social Media sites.

It would have been hard to imagine being able to chat on the internet with anyone famous a few years ago.  My daughter spoke to Dawn French a few months ago on Twitter! Incredible.  So are you using Social Media in your business? And if not why not?  Robert Kiyosaki is in his 60′s but he is embracing the internet and modern ways of doing business.  He actually asked me to join his fan page, and offered me an ebook he has written for $5 instead of $65.  Well of course I grabbed it; who wouldnt?

Because readers are leaders, and leaders are readers!!

And anything written by Robert Kiyosaki  is outstanding so I cannot wait to read it!

So what, I hear you say.  Well what made Robert choose Facebook to spread the word about his new ebook??  Because Facebook is totally FREE!  He knows that because his name is well known he can get extraordinary exposure for this ebook, just by creating a presence on Facebook.  And it WILL go viral.  Because Facebook is the second most visited site on the internet now; everyone reads each others pages and it will spread like wildfire!!

So if you have a business and you are not promoting that business on Facebook, you are missing out on some spectacular, instant free advertising.  More and more internet marketers are jumping onto the bandwagon and advertising their business for free on Facebook.  Start your own group, give away free information, advice or tips on your area of business.  Invite people to join.  Add other people as friends like Robert did.  And just see the results you get back.

But in doing that, don’t force other people to look.  Just a friendly word to them about what you are offering, nothing heavy. That is definitely the way to get people interested.  Don’t force your business down people’s throats, you will just be avoided as a spammer.  If you give value, you will get people’s interest.

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Are you building an MLM home business? If so, are you using social media sites for your business?  Facebook, Twitter, MySpace?  Over 350 million people are on Facebook alone!!  And almost half of them go on everyday.  That’s an incredible number of people.  And that’s just one social media site.  It is like a new community. Instead of us all spending time with our neighbours, we spend time online talking to our counterparts all over the world.

Social media has opened the doors to connecting with people you could not have connected with in the past.  This has had massive repercussions on the MLM industry, as it is now possible to enrol people into your Network Marketing business on the internet, without ever having met the person before!  MLM is now in the information age, with business owners showcasing their opportunities in videos and webinars which can be seen all over the world.  Instead of having a home meeting with around a dozen people, you could be showing your presentation to thousands at a time.

But we all also move around in our home community as well, so it is important to still be able to recruit people locally too.  We still go to the local shops, to the local garage, the hairdressers etc.  And social media has given us a brilliant way of reaching out to people we meet locally!  If your business is mainly online nowadays, it can be difficult to mesh the two together.  So if you meet someone in the local shops, and want to talk to them about our business, but don’t want to launch into presentation mode (as we would have done in the past!!) we now have the answer!

Quite simply, the answer is to have our social media contact details on our business cards!  So if you have had a chat with someone, and in your mind you are thinking, ‘they would be great at this business’, it is quite simple to say “I’ve really enjoyed talking to you, are you on Facebook or Twitter?  Lets keep in touch!”  And then give them your business card.   Its a friendly way to stay in touch with them, and once they become friends on Facebook (or other social media site) you can connect with them and slowly introduce the idea of your business to them!

I have already used this idea with someone who showed an interest in what I was doing online, and it works!  Because it’s laid back and not pushy.

More and more Network Marketing companies are using the internet to grow their business.  Those that are slow to implement the internet are already lagging behind. Because if you have someone from the other side of the world who really wants to join your business and it can’t be done online, that’s pretty much it. Posting application forms half way across the world is really not an option.  But for those MLM companies who have it all ready on the internet, this is not a problem.

You can sign up online, take trainings online or over the telephone or use skype.  And with the help of social media, you can now comfortably talk to anyone who lives locally.  The best of both worlds!

Video Marketing will rock your MLM!  It is one of the best ways available to get yourself noticed using Attraction Marketing.  Because YouTube is now ranking as the third most visited site on the internet, any mlm business owner who regularly downloads videos to YouTube are well on their way to becoming recognised and remembered online.

And who wouldn’t want to rock their MLM with Video Marketing?

I know you are probably saying its scary but you just have to get over yourself!  No-one really likes seeing themselves up on a screen, but you have to remember that other people see you differently.  Just try to imagine the camera/video is your friend and have a conversation with them.  Relax and try to tell a story or  concentrate on getting your point across.  Have a written plan of what you are going to say in case your mind goes blank and try to find somewhere comfortable to stand or sit.  If you feel uncomfortable inside try going into your garden and find a nice background for your video.

Make sure once you have set up an account with YouTube that you connect with other people there.  Watch other peoples videos, and subscribe to every channel that you enjoy.  Add anyone you particularly like, or already know as a friend.  Leave comments for people and always encourage others.  You will find that many people, especially fellow MLM’ers will reciprocate and subscribe to your channel.  This alone will bring you into more and more peoples consciousness, because the sheer numbers of people using the site mean that your videos will be watched regularly.

Post videos up everyday.  Particularly if you are just starting out with Attraction Marketing.  After a couple of months of regularly posting videos and adding friends and subscribers, you will be perceived as someone who knows what they are doing with Video Marketing and will gain more viewers.

Make sure your videos give value.  You want the viewer to come away thinking that they would have paid money for the information you gave them, or that they definitely learned something from watching it.  It may be that you just made them think about something which they had forgotten, or maybe made them see something from another angle.  As long as they watch them and feel they were useful in some way, then you have succeeded in your efforts.

One good way of making a video is to share a story that you know with the viewer.  First of all it will probably make you feel more comfortable telling a story and secondly, stories inspire people and change peoples lives.  If they can relate to the story you are telling, they will feel good that something like that happened to someone else.  This may inspire them to follow in your footsteps and get on with their business.

A good way to ensure the viewer clicks through to your article or blog, or whatever you want them to click through to, is to not finish your thought!  If for instance. you were saying there are two ways to do something, tell them one, then suggest they click on the link to find out what the other one is! This way they feel psycologically that they are missing something and click on your link to find out what that is, even if they do not realise why they are doing it.

And always make sure you give a call to action at the end of your video.  A large number of people watching your video will click on a link if you advice them to.  You need to TELL them what to do next.  It could be ‘visit my website at..’ or ‘click on the link next to this video’.

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 Why do you need a blog if you are marketing on the internet?  A blog is a MUST for your business in 2010!  But why?  And how can you make money from it?  So many people are shouting that we must get a blog, but you need to understand what the purpose of your blog is.

 1.  You Blog is the ‘Nerve Centre’ of your business!  Everything else is connected or linked to it in some way.  It is the hub, around which all the rest of your business revolves.  It is a friendly, homely place where people hang out and chat, and generally feel comfortable!  If it was a real place, it would be a coffee bar!! lol

 2.  A Blog can generate repeat business.  When someone becomes a customer, they may subscribe to your newsletter or list, or subscribe to your RSS feed, and this leads to repeat business!!

 3.  Market Research.  Because a blog is regularly updated, customers will come back time and time again to see what is new, and you can get them to give feed-back in the form of comments, on what they like, dislike or want to see more of.

 4.  You can keep product reviews in front of your buyers, and introduce new products and services.

 5.  It can be easily syndicated to other sites, which all point back to your blog.  This means that you have your link on other websites such as Twitter and Facebook and other social media sites, and these links all point to your blog.  You need as many links pointing to your blog is you can, because they all help send traffic to it.  Other people who have blogs may be willing to have your link on their own blog.  Also if you submit articles, you can make these link back to your blog page.  If you have lots of links out there, you will raise your ranking considerably.  Alot of traffic equals alot of business.

 6.  It is reasonably easy to set up and very easy to maintain, saving you time and effort in the long run.

 7.  Search Engines love blogs.  This is because they are regularly up-dated and added to, something which search engines love on any web page.

 8.  The site is always fresh, because it is constantly moving on, changing from videos to articles, news items, offers and comments, so it is appealing however many times you visit it.

 9.  Customers and visitors expect a blog nowadays from businesses.  They know about them and expect to be able to visit and check out the latest news in your company and to see if you have any offers on.

 10.  They are lots of fun.  You can mess about with your blog, interacting with your customers and really connecting with them.  This will lead to quality leads for your business and is the reason so many of the BIG Network Marketers have an excellent blog online.

A recent headline in Business Week Magazine said that Blogs will change your business and they advised “Catch Up…or Catch You Later”!!!

Twitter is very misunderstood. I hear so many people say that they do not understand it, or they dont see the point of it.  And it is difficult to put your finger on why it works so well, but it clearly does!  Twitter is now the 13th most visited site on the internet, globally.  There are several million users, although no official number has been released by Twitter as yet. Whatever the number, Twitter features almost daily in the news nowadays, whether it is a celebrity tweet or on the bad side a murder, following a dispute on Twitter, which is in the news this morning.

Twitter is the latest social media site to be used regularly for businesses.  At first no-one understood how a business could gain from being on the site.  Now it is well known that they can study what customers are saying about their brand and take action to keep on the right side of customers.  They can also announce events and generally give good customer service by being available and approachable.  In Network Marketing, many business builders are getting leads everyday from Twitter using Attraction Marketing.  You need to have a good clear photo, information about yourself in your bio and of course a link, usually to your blog for anyone to go for more information.

 Then you have your 140 character comments, or tweets. So what do you say?  Well the question Twitter asks is ‘What are you doing?’ and whilst many people actually answer that, others may send out lots of other information.  Inspirational or motivational quotes, jokes, photos using Twitpic or other services, or they may share something they have come across on the internet that they think other people may be interested to see.  If you are a Network Marketer you can put out links to your blog when you have up-dated it in order to drive traffic to it, or maybe links to YouTube to a new video you have posted.  It is all about getting more traffic to your blog.

 And obviously the more followers you have, the more traffic you can drive.  So you need to add more people to your followers everyday.  You can put your name in Twellow, which is the equivalent to the Yellow Pages for Twitter.  If you see a tweet which you find interesting and want to tweet it to your followers, you can Re-Tweet it.  Just click on the button at the right.  You can also Favourite any tweet that you see that you would like to keep, maybe like a saying you may want to remember.

 One great way to have lots of tips and ideas on how to use Twitter is to download the Twitter Toolbar onto your web browser.  This comes complete with 50 tools and resources for Twitter, and 100 Twitter Tips, by Dan Hollings, so you can get lots of ideas for how to use the site.  And all that is free!  And dont forget to put your Twitter address on everything you send out or subscribe to, because you will get lots of followers that way.  You can link your blog to Twitter, so that a tweet is sent out everytime you post a new article, using the Onlywire service.

 One last great tip!!

 Sometimes it is difficult when you are offline, to bring your business into the conversation without slapping someone across the face with it.  So if you meet someone and would love to approach them, ask them if they are involved in any social media sites and give them your contact details, such as your Twitter name, and ask for theirs so that you can connect.  Its subtle, does not scare them away and it works!

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If you want Free Leads for your MLM business online because you are building your business on a budget there is one thing that you will need alot of!

  And that is TIME!

Free Leads come at the price of your precious time; this is a fact.  To market online you need one of two things, time or money.  If you have money you can learn pay-per-click and pay for advertising, but for the majority of people this is not a viable option when they first market online.  Your time is valuable, but once you have set up and mastered the skills needed to create free leads, the process will be much quicker.

Article Marketing is probably one of the biggest ways of producing free leads.  At the beginning it may seem like a long-winded way of going about generating leads, but writing does get easier the more often you do it. When you publish your articles in directories on the web, you get the opportunity to put in your links to your blog or other page, so someone who reads your article and finds value in it will click on the link and arrive at your blog, where you can request their details in exchange for say a newsletter or a freebie.

Social media sites are another hot-bed for free leads.

Facebook, for instance, is the second most visited site on the internet at the moment!

So how many Network Marketers, or would be Network Marketers do you imagine log into Facebook regularly?  An enormous amount!  It is so easy to connect with people, put up your contact information and start to befriend them.  You can join groups and get involved with discussions about the MLM industry, but try to remember not to thrust your opportunity at everyone as soon as you connect with them.  Marketing on the internet is different from offline marketing.  It is more about Attraction Marketing, whereby you attract people into your business by showing value and giving respect.

MySpace and LinkedIn  are two other social media sites where it is easy to make contact with people and find free leads.  MySpace is often connected with young people, or with dating, but is now very well known for making good connections in the MLM industry.  LinkedIn is much more professionally based, and therefore more difficult to find leads, because you cannot just add friends the way you do on other social media sites.  Having said that, a number of people are getting good numbers of leads from LinkedIn, and the quality of these leads is much, much higher than other social sites as many high-ranking professionals use it.

Twitter is rising rapidly through the ranks of important websites, although totally different from other sites.  It is very easy to build up a following of thousands of people on Twitter and also to have several accounts.  Many Network Marketers are building up a loyal following and can broadcast as many 140 character comments or ‘tweets’ as they like.  The secret is to make sure you are adding targeted people to your list, either by searching for keywords, or by following the followers of famous networkers or authors in the industry.

Video Marketing is another way to generate free leads for your business.  YouTube ranks as the third most visited site on the internet.  It is free to open an account, so you can upload as many videos as you can make!  You then subscribe to other peoples videos, or add them as friends and you will find large numbers of people will then subscribe to your channel and watch your videos.  It is easy enough nowadays to record yourself; most modern digital cameras will record a short video easily enough.What you need to do is make your video of value and ensure you put a link to your blog in the description box when you upload it.

These are just some of the ways to create free leads.  As I said at the beginning of this article, what you need most with these methods is time.  And you need to stick to it!  Rome wasn’t built in a day, and leads are not going to come chasing you in a week or two.  When I said time, I meant time to do these methods of lead generation and time to see the results.  Just keep on keeping on and the results will come!!

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Before Larry Beacham found out about LinkedIn, he was considering committing Network Marketing suicide!  In February 2009, not even a year ago, Larry decided that enough was enough and he should give up on MLM.  Before he gave up altogether, he decided to have one last look on the internet.  He was involved in one or two social networks, but had not heard of LinkedIn until he got an email that day from someone in his network of friends, and that email started him off on his journey to the top!

That email explained to him what he was doing wrong in his Network Marketing business.  The message was so clear it made him cry!  It was so simple, yet so powerful! It was about prospecting and it was simply that he should STOP! Yes, stop prospecting. What it told him was that he needed to become a Professional Marketer.  Larry Beacham had no college education, he was actually a TV cable guy at the time.  He had no marketing training. He had never made a video or written an article.  Immediately Larry joined a training system showing him step by step how to market online.

In the next 6 months Larry Beacham generated 1600 leads and over 95% of them were from LinkedIn!  Now these were not just leads, they were INTERESTED leads, who were looking to join an MLM or already in MLM but needed help with marketing.  Most days he got about 30 leads, but on 23rd June this year he got 46 in one day.  In his lead system he held the number 2 spot for recruiting, and the number 4 spot for lead generation.  And out of the 5,500 members at that time, he was ranking in the top 10 for three months.  He had 94 people join his marketing system, and 89 of them were from LinkedIn.

Using LinkedIn for lead generation compares favourably even against paid strategies like Pay Per Click and can generate similar numbers if done correctly.  Of course LinkedIn is a free strategy and with PPC you would need a minimum of $1200 per month behind you to get involved.

LinkedIn is a very professional social site. The average income of members is $109,000 and they include politicians, Best Selling Authors, Corporate CEO’s and such like.  They have over 47 million members in over 800 countries and executives from all Fortune 500 companies.  Because of this, a high standard is communication is required.  This is not Facebook; you cannot just add friends, you need to begin with people you know and you definitely need to get some recommendations before you will be taken seriously.  A recommendation needs to be from someone who you have worked with at some time, who is willing to write a short testimonial about you.

One of the main features of LinkedIn are the groups.  Every section of the community is represented by different groups and it is essential when joining or creating a group that you communicate with people and under no circumstances do you promote your business within the group.  Groups are for networking, offering help and advice and connecting with people.  On Facebook, many people connect with a new ‘friend’ and then immediately present their business to them.  This would not be tolerated on LinkedIn and would probably get you thrown out of the group.

If you request a connection on LinkedIn, you are asked how you know the other person, whether through business, friendship, a classmate etc.  If you do not know the person, you are told not to invite them.  This means that many fewer connections are made and many people give up on their LinkedIn profiles because it is not as simple as inviting someone to be your friend.  However LinkedIn has alot to offer in terms of the quality of the connections you can make if you have the time to involve yourself in the site.

Larry Beacham has now produced a book entitled “The LinkedIn Lead Generation Blueprint“  which tells you all the secrets he has used to generate leads on LinkedIn. He has been dubbed ‘King of LinkedIn’ by Cedrick Harris.

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