Stop Wasting Your Time with Facebook and Twitter

Many people think that social media will help them grow their businesses. They expect to make money by using Face book, Twitter, and LinkedIn as marketing tools.

Facebook’s 350 million users collectively spend more than 8 billion minutes on the site each day.

But the truth is that the vast majority of people is NOT making money with social media and is just wasting their time.

I have five action steps to commence making money on Face book, Twitter and LinkedIn and stop wasting time.

1.  Create a Business Model

• Identify the exact product or service you want to sell through social media networks.
• Who is your ideal customer? Define your target audience.
• Develop a system to close sales on the phone, online, or face to face.

2.  Establish a Strategy for Using Social Media

• Pinpoint your top three goals with social media (i.e., to generate leads, to find partners, to solidify current business relationships).
• Recognize time frames for accomplishing these goals.

3.  Use the Right Social Media Network for Your Business

• Become recognizable with all of the major social media networks.
• Contact your customers or prospects and ask them which one of these social networks they go to most regularly.

4.  No Social Media Abuse

• Be familiar with the rules of the particular site you are on. For example, Facebook can ban you for posting unauthorized commercial communications.
• Find out the limitations of the site you are on. For instance, Twitter limits the number of direct messages you can send to 250 a day.

5.  Measure Your Results on Social Media Networks

• Set very specific measurable goals. For example, you might want to get five new prospects a week and turn one of them into a new customer.
• Start measuring your results — and keep refining your strategy until you get it right.

Follow these action steps to begin making money with your online business.

Unsubscribe to EVERYTHING…Get your life back!

This is coming from a person who is subscribing to at least 25 business and personal blogs both.  I set rules for myself just so I can be more productive.  According to my rules, I am only allowed to check my email every 2 hours for 15 minutes each.  It sucks because I can stay on my email for hours, literally.  I love every single blog I am subscribed to (I subscribe to RSS Feeds by email only) and would love to read it because some of the events or advice I need to know right now.  At least that’s what I believe.

So I was reading Viper Chill – cool blog, I must say and very helpful.  I read the blog post “The Very First Thing You Should Do in 2010″ and the article improves managing my time online through Netvibes. According to Glen, “Netvibes is a custom homepage that allows you to customize thousands of modules to have an area online that is completely how you want it. I’ve tested countless alternatives such as iGoogle and have found nothing I prefer more over Netvibes.”

He made Netvibes appear so awesome and an ultimate one stop shop, so I had to sign up.  Netvibes allow you to create separate tabs, so I create an IM RSS Feed tab (all my tips, advice and how-to blogs) and a personal RSS feed tab (for all my guilty pleasure blogs). I started to unsubscribe to every blog I was subscribed to by email and set up every single one of my RSS feeds on Netvibes.  I love it so much; I completely cleaned my email account.

I love the way Netvibes set-up the RSS feed module so when I click on a post and I can read the entire post on my Netvibes site.  I also use Netvibes for Twitter and my Face Book accounts.  I need to have peace and tranquility in my life and this made it so much easier to achieve this.

To all of the sad, “Hate to see you go” emails, I haven’t gone anywhere, I am still with you learning and cracking up at everything you post.

Is social media taking over the world?

Is social media taking over the world?  If so, we are in the right place at the right time.  Watch this video showing statistics of people converting from modern things like television to watching shows online now.  How social media has taken over #1 activity on the world wide web over porn.

I believe we are at the grass roots of social media.  We are the ones who will have the advantage over selling products/services online versus other marketing avenues.  Stay tuned and get ready.  Enjoy!