Facebook and Twitter. Should I join them?
There has been a lot of chatter going on lately about how the viral nature of Twitter and Facebook can actually increase a person’s profits substantially. For the longest time I took very little notice of these two websites, but as so many people I knew were telling me that they had opened their accounts, I had to take a serious look at them.
What I discovered really took me by surprise. It became obvious that these were two serious sites. They were not only being used by teenagers who just enjoyed spending their spare time messaging back and fore to their friends. These sites were being used by all types of very prominent business people.
Even when I realized that a lot of successful people were utilizing Twitter and Facebook, I still did not understand what they could possibly be getting out of it. So it was time to do a deeper study of the sites. What I eventually found out absolutely shocked me. People were reporting that they were making literally thousands of dollars each and every month by utilizing these two websites.
I realized that my friends who were getting the best results from being on these sites took it very seriously. It was actually part of doing business and they set time aside each day to visit the Facebook and Twitter pages and interact with others. Some of them had even taken courses in how best to utilize these sites.
Newbies tend to add friends at a frantic pace, but this is not recommended, particularly for business people. Quality is more important that quantity, especially for the first 100-200 people you invite to be your ‘friend’. This intial group of people will be the most impactful and you want to make these high level people in your industry.
It is suggested that you add new content to your pages on a daily basis. This does not have to take up much of your time. 5 or 10 minutes should be sufficient. You could comment on something that’s happening in the news at that moment, or you could respond to a question that someone else had posted. The search engines love relevant content, so try to contribute regularly.
The speed at which these websites are growing is phenomenal. Facebook is actually the 5th largest visited website in the World and Twitter is even adding more users a day to their site than Facebook. It doesn’t cost anything to join these sites so why not experiment with them and see what happens.
I now have my own Twitter and Facebook pages and I invite you to sign up too.
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