How Not To Annoy People When Social Networking Or, How To Win Friends & Influence People!

Mike Dillard recently sent out an email recommending a Youtube video by his friend Perry Belcher. This is an excellent video that explains the etiquette of social networking. The popular social networking sites are those such as Myspace, Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, Betternetworker.

Hundreds of thousands of people hang out at these sites on a daily basis and the temptation is to pitch these people with your business in the hope that some may want to sign up to you. Wrong!! You continue to do this and the only reputation you will get is as a social bore and pariah who most people will want to ignore and warn their friends about. Your supply of invites will also dry up!

Social networking on the internet is like networking face to face at a party. You go to meet new people and make new friends, not to talk about what you do all day for a job. People go to parties to have fun and relax and forget about their day at work. However, if you meet new friends the conversation may eventually turn to what you do for a living then maybe it becomes ok to talk about it. Otherwise forget about it and have fun. After the party some of your new friends may be invited to come to your house. When they get there they begin to see you as a person defined by what items you have there and how it is decorated. Your new friends will look at it and get an impression about you from it and they decide if they want to know more about you or not. Your online home is your blog/hub.

Here you will probably have some photos or video, articles you like, links to other stuff you like and other people you like and of course your business will be featured here too. Your blog is a place online that defines you and if someone liked you enough to want to visit you here then this is an opportunity to have your business on show. This way it is not a direct pitch but rather a conscious choice of the visitor to find out more about you & what you do. If they like you then they may decide to join you if they do not decide to do this then it really does not matter & you have not annoyed them in the process and they may remain your friend.

Remember, that friends recommend friends & maybe somewhere down the line they may have another friend looking for something that you have and they recommend them back to you. As you brand yourself on the internet and begin to interact with others remember that internet marketing is a community and names start to become familiar to you just as your name will become familiar to others.

People will remember how you helped them or annoyed them! We live in a world of total abundance where there is more than enough of everything to go around, the more we share and give the more we will receive. The more valuable we can make ourselves to others the more valuable we become and the by product from this is that the more successful we become.

The more true friends we have in life the richer we become. So, take the emphasis off being selfishly successful with your business and put the emphasis onto what you have to offer and give to others without want and the success will effortlessly follow. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D1prN35ToY