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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!

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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