To everone

Thank you for taking the time to reply to my post. I have enjoyed reading them and will try to employ some of your ideas. I will report back in the future.

Personally I'll not add people if I see they are using it as a marketing tool more than a relationship building tool.

As a network marketer I am looking for the people who I can develop long term relationships with.

I'll even wait for someone to reply to my tweets before I add them. Otherwise I just assume they added me thinking I'll add them back and they can spam me.

Short term thinking = short term money IMO.

Aaron

Excellent point, Aaron. Relationship marketing should work to the benefit of both people in the relationship... not just provide an opportunity to spam.

Twitter is doing my head in when it comes to all the people contacting me trying to flog stuff. It is putting me off utilising it - but there are some excellent posts on how it might get relevant people to a site they are interested in - which is good for both parties - Perhaps the analogy of throwing enough mud at the wall and some sticking , is relevant here. Not exactly targetted segment marketing in some respects.

I kind of have the same feeling, TS. I've looked at it... but you know what? Seems like a lot of work to me. All SEO seems like a lot of work to me. lol

Tula

I just use Twitter more as a communicative tool. If I see a tweet that interest me I do reply back. Also retweet tweets I like. It is social media after all.

If you communicate with people and then when you tweet about your website/blog you will get more visitors.

I use one account that's enough for me.I think you can get booted off for having more than one account.It's not worth it.

Any social networking medium is about conversation, NOT broadcasting!

This article is from my blog, but it's relevant to this topic, so here it is. It's a too-common scenario for IMers and MLMers when it comes to social networking, sadly.

How to be a complete social networking Twit (or niTwit)



Step 1: Practice in the real world first

Design and print plenty of flyers, with lots of powerful emotional appeals to the reader’s greed, laziness, desperation, ignorance and gullibility. Emphasize that there’s NO time, effort or discipline involved — they’ll be rich overnight, their affiliates/JV partners/upline will do all the work for them (and all that other usual MLM/IM horsefeathers).

When that’s done, hire a power megaphone, grab your flyers, then head to the nearest pub/bar on a packed Friday night, when there are plenty of people having a great time socializing.

As soon as you arrive, muscle your way in, then begin spruiking your IM/MLM opportunity at full volume, while cornering people and forcing your flyers on them. Write down any appointments, names and contact details you can extract from them.

Next day, Saturday (and Sunday), head for the nearest park where families and groups of friends are gathered for barbecues, picnics and generally having a great time together. Repeat the process — broadcast your opportunity at the top of your lungs, then stalk individuals and groups to get them to take your flyers and extract their names and contact information, so you can pester them for weeks to come.

Step 2: Take it online (it’s safer!)

Once you’ve made bail and your injuries heal, move online to social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and others. Spam the boards, make as many fans and friends as possible, then spam them mercilessly until they put you on ignore or report you. Don’t give your upline any reason to label you a loser or a quitter! Let your own fear of loss be your guide.

Step 3: Vent your frustration, then quit.

After weeks and months of repetition of these experiences, it will be time to throw in the towel and quit. Complain to anyone who’ll listen that IM/MLM doesn’t work, and that online recruiting is useless. Discourage as many people as you can.

Congratulations… you’re now qualified to wear a t-shirt or baseball cap bearing the proud title…



(PS: Don’t forget to wear your baseball cap back-to-front. It will remove any remaining illusion that you have an IQ at all after your prospecting antics have demonstrated that your IQ is smaller than your shoe size to start with.)

Okay, gang… that’s how your typical FIRST Generation IMer or network marketer screws up social networking, BIG time.

John