The Biggest Social Media Marketing Mistake

This error violates rule #1 of Social Media and I see MOST network marketers doing it and it aggravates me and I know thousands of others to no end. This mistake will absolutely get you nowhere and it will in fact do the exact opposite of what you are trying to accomplish. In fact it violates one of the main rules of social media and it will result in your website being slapped down in the search engines and give you personally a bad reputation.

What is this mistake you say? It’s posting links and writing articles and sending out messages simply for the sake of selling. This does not work in social media. Social Media is for the purpose of interaction and doing this will get you lot of negative feedback. Not only that, but people love social media because they don’t want to get pitched on some product or service like they do on every other website. When you post your website simply for the sake of advertising the result is you are a spammer. You need to get invited to make your offer first.

So what is the solution to the problem because we all want exposure for our business right? The solution is to provide something of value to when you post. Make sure first you are approaching your target market for instance; never advertise on your personal profile on Facebook that will always backfire. Secondly, when you are approaching your target market offer them something valuable. Don’t just post your website or send out an advertisement for your network marketing company. People hate that and it doesn’t work. I hate that and if you are honest so do you. The Golden Rule works well in everything, but remember it in social media “do unto others as you would have others do unto you.”

Give away something valuable to them and approach them as a servant giving help and assistance for NOTHING. If you do this you will in due time receive. So don’t be a spammerjust posting garbageprovide value and if you have to title it by something make sure the title is latent with the value that your target market is looking for.

Since teaching this to my Facbook group I received a response from one of my subscribers. Here is what she said, “I took your advice well some of it. I read your blog and I left my blog, myspace and youtube url on my profile. I slimmed it down by taking off 6 sites. Now that I think about itthat is a pitiful shame.”

I understand where she is coming from. You made the effort to put the sites together and now you want to make money on it through your Facebook profile since that is where most people go to learn about you. However, there is much more effective way. Facebook allows us to make a “page” for our company. On a page instead of getting friends you get “fans”. As a personal profile you want to become a fan of your page and that in turn will be posted on your profile and the home page where your friends see your updates.

On the business page you can post events, videos, notes, start a discussion board and fans can post reviews on the page. So add items galore on your business page (as long as the content is valuable) and you won’t at all be considered a spammer. You can post a link to one of your business sites on your personal profile, but don’t overdue it.

I recommend sending Facebook fans to a blog or an in-between site that sends traffic to your money site. You can also create groups on Facebook around a specific subject that allows for a group to interact around the subject and it will in turn offer a link back to your site. Since you are the administrator it presents you as an expert in the field.

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