Using social media is an excellent way to promote business for free and you, the serious entrepreneur who have been doing Online Marketing for quite some time, are probably learning this.
The problem is unless you know what you’re doing, you most likely are doing it the wrong way pissing off Google as well as people who thought they were your online „Friends“ and possibly getting your Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace accounts shut down.
You are now branded as a SPAMMER!
Online social networks are one of the blessings of Web 2.0. Plenty of people use them to stay in touch with their friends, meet new people, make work-related connections and more. Unfortunately, it seems like you can’t have something good on the Internet without someone coming along to abuse it, and that’s as true of online social networks as anything.
Internet property is much like any web page where Internet Sites allow peers to interact, which is then called social media online. Web 2.0 is just another word to refer to sites that allow people to contribute to it rather than simply read what’s on it.
For example, a blog (for bloggers) is Web 2.0, both Myspace and Facebook are Web 2.0, Flickr and Twitter are also categorized as Web 2.0, and all social bookmarking websites are Web 2.0.
As internet marketing involved, people figured out that they were able to promote their businesses for free using all these types of properties and thought, „WowFree Cool!“
Well, the problem comes: it isn’t cool!
Social media is an extended term that includes plenty of websites. However, there is what you call online etiquette that provides guidelines to which Web 2.0 sites allow you to gain a portion of Internet property that is for your own disposal or for your business – without getting other people mad that would lead you to lose your credibility as a serious businessman in the world of network marketing.
Let me explain it this way:
It’s the weekendtime to forget about work, catch up with old friends, make some new friends possibly. So you go to a party. You’re having a great time. Then someone comes up to you, introduces himself, and immediately tries selling you on some business opportunity.
Oh come on! It wouldn’t be surprising if you suddenly hurl your drink at his face – at the very least. This is pretty much what happens when you use social media sites in ways that they’re not supposed to be used.
To truly be a Serious Entrepreneur, understand that social media is not about making money; it’s about making friends. As a marketer on the internet, do business exactly how you would conduct business in person. There’s a time and place for „business“ – social media is a way to connect and let potential business contacts learn what you’re about.
Nobody likes to be force-fed. Building lasting relationships takes time and requires a mutual respect, and so does building a loyal following for your business.