Our blog today is about one of the fastest growing Social sites in the world. It was written by Daniel Nations and contains great information about Twitter and how it works..

“I just don’t understand Twitter.”

That is the reply I get most often when I talk about Twitter to friends and family. “What is Twitter?” they will ask. And when I explain the basics of how Twitter operates, they ask, “Why would anyone use Twitter”

It’s actually a pretty good question.

Twitter is a Miniature Blog
Micro-blogging is defined as a quick update usually containing a very limited number of characters. It is a popular features of social networks like Facebook where you can update your status, but it has become best known because of Twitter.

In essence, micro-blogging is for people who want a blog but don’t want to blog. A personal blog can keep people informed on what is going on in your life, but not everyone wants to spend an hour crafting a beautiful post about the vibrant colors seen on a butterfly spotted in the front time. Sometimes, you just want to say “went shopping for a new car but didn’t find anything” or “watched Dancing With the Stars and Warren Sapp sure can dance.”

So what is Twitter? It’s a great place for keeping people informed on what you are up to without the need to spend a lot of time crafting an entire post on the subject. You just say what’s up and leave it at that.

Twitter is Social Messaging
While Twitter may have started as a micro-blogging service, it is grown into much more than simply a tool to type in quick status updates. So when asked “What is Twitter?”, I often describe it as a cross between blogging and instant messaging, though even that doesn’t do it justice.

Put simply, Twitter is social messaging. With the ability to follow people and have followers, and the ability to have interact with Twitter on your cell phone, Twitter has become the perfect social messaging tool. Whether you are out on the town and want to coordinate with a group of people as to what hot spot to hit next, or keeping people informed of developments at a company-sponsored event, Twitter is a great tool for quickly communicating a message to a group of people.

Twitter is News Reporting
Turn on CNN, Fox News or any other news-reporting service and you’ll likely see a news ticker streaming across the bottom of the television set. In a digital world that is relying on the Internet more and more for news, that streaming ticker is Twitter.

Outdoor festivals like the South-by-Southwest festival in Austin, TX and major events like the E3 conference have shown what a great resource Twitter can be for quickly reporting news to a huge group of people. Faster and more immediate than a blog, Twitter has been embraced by the “new media” of the blogosphere  and has slowly won acceptance among traditional media outlets.

Twitter is Social Media Marketing
Twitter has become a favorite target for social media marketing. This new form of getting the message out has been used effectively by Barak Obama during his Presidential campaign, and is used by everyone from magazines to movie stars as a quick way to connect with an audience.

With utilities like Twitterfeed, it is easy to convert an RssFeed into Twitter updates. This makes it easy to use Twitter as a form of social media marketing.

What is Twitter?
This brings us back to the original question. What is Twitter? It is many different things to many different people. It can be used by a family to keep in touch, or a company to coordinate business, or the media to keep people informed or a writer to build up a fan base.

Twitter is micro-blogging. It is social messaging. It is an event coordinator, a business tool, a news reporting service and a marketing utility.

There. That wasn’t so hard, was it?

Continued Success,

Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792, hunter645@aol.com

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If you are going to use social media to grow your business you really need to understand you must use Social Skills In Social Media Marketing. In every social situation there is a pecking order…if you do not understand how this works you can be TRULY shooting yourself in the foot with your marketing. Below is a great video by Diane Hochman that you can benefit from.

To your success,
Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792, hunter645@aol.com

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If you do not do social networking you are missing the out in your network marketing business.. So what is the value of social networking and how does social networking work ? Below is a great video on Social Networking in Plain English . Once you see this it all starts to make sense.

To your success,
Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792, hunter645@aol.com

Using Social Networks For Marketing

Right now, the best way to get to sell your products and services is by using the great marketing infrastructure provided by the internet. People today always want to be connected to their friends through the internet. One great way of promoting your products online is to use the top social networks for internet marketing.

There are so many social networking sites now that allow people to keep in touch with their friends and their families, as well as meet new friends. Probably the most well-known social network today is Facebook. Facebook allows you to easily find and connect to your friends. You can keep in touch with them, and you could even interact in so many ways. If you want to market your product, you should definitely consider doing in on Facebook. Here are three reasons why you should use social networks like Facebook to market your products online.

Reason Number 1: They provide you with a very wide market to sell your products and services to

Facebook has members from pretty much all walks of life. Almost everyone knows the site, and most people have at least one Facebook account. And the site’s statistics show that it has over 400 million active users, and half of them are active at least once a day. That is definitely a lot of people that you could promote your products to.

While their current population is very impressive, it is still steadily growing every day. If you get to reach a percentage of these people logging on the site, your business would surely be well known. And the best part of it is that using social networks for internet marketing can help attract more visitors to your business’s website.

Reason Number 2: Targeted marketing on social networks is so much easier compared to other methods

Filtering your target audience is much easier with social networks like Facebook. They have pre-filtered sub-networks that you could access to find the right target audience. Social networks for internet marketing allow you to pick out what kind of audience you want to promote your product to. You can even specifically target people who have an interest on your products or services.

What’s even better with Facebook is that you could create a fan page or group where your target audience can join at their own will. When they are interested on the content of your page, they may even try to interact with you and visit your website to know more about what you offer.

Reason Number 3: Social networks offer a great potential to boost traffic to your website

Many internet businessmen have been using social networks for internet marketing to boost the traffic to their websites. The social networks, when used strategically, can drive more traffic to your business website. If it has great and informative content, people would really want more of it. You can direct them to your website so that they could find the information that they want.

Even though using social networks for internet marketing is a great idea, it is best not to overdo it. Your visitors might get tired if you get too carried away with marketing your product. When marketing in social networks, it is always advisable to be more personal and interesting so that you would not lose the interest of your audience.

To Your Success,

Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792, hunter645@aol.com

This article was originally written by Preston Rodrigues

Here is a great article I titled Social Media Do’s And Don’t's. The article was originally written by Tommy DiPirtro. Social Media can be a great way to grow your network marketing business.
It doesn’t matter which type of Social Media you are using whether it is
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, there are many different networks
to chose from.

No matter which type of Social Media you choose, remember your online
personality is not only part of your overall brand, it becomes an
interactive experience for you and your business

There are different combinations that you can use to make
your online presence known.

Here is a list of some Do’s and Don’ts of Social Media to help
promote yourself and cut your overall time online.

When one minute turns into one hour and BEYOND…
Have you ever checked your Facebook account and before you know it
you’ve spent the past three hours playing Bejeweled? You need to focus
on using it to build your business NOT playing games and wasting time.

You should use your time building up your profile, creating your fan page
and building relationships with other network marketers.

DON’T spend all your time doing everything that you never planned on doing,
that includes getting caught up with all the applications that just cause
distractions.

DO make connections with people in your niche, this will
help you build a STRONG social network. It’s a great
opportunity to learn from others around you, especially the heavy hitters
in your Industry. It also gives you a chance to socialize with others and
not make it look like your always trying to MAKE A DEAL or SELL
SOMETHING.

DON’T forget about the other person. There are many times when you
would make a connection and right away not take the time to get to know
that person. You do make to learn about the person you are connecting
with. This is something you can do by:

Reading their profile, it is important to learn about them.
Writing something on their wall
Take the time to make a video introduction
You don’t want to spam others wall with advertising yourself
DO remember there are people around. SO…be careful what you
write on people’s walls, pictures that you are posting and the
groups you are joining. You don’t want the wrong information
out there, it can damage your reputation.

YOU CAN make your profile private, but that really does
defeat the purpose of using Social Media.

It is extremely important to consider what you should and
shouldn’t do when using Social Media to build your network
marketing business. The main idea is to continue using your
current methods and slowly incorporate your Facebook
and Twitter tactics.

And remember…YOU control what you will share in your account,
it can make a HUGE difference in your business when promoting
yourself and spend your time wisely.

To Your Success,

Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792, hunter645@aol.com

I have titled this post, the right bait to hook leads. It is great information which was written by Jason Better, I feel sure you will benefit from. I sure did.

Today, I’m going to ask you to get cozy with a cup of your favorite warm beverage, whether that’s coffee, tea, or anything else.
And, I’m going to tell you a story about how I learned to hook MLM leads like a fisherman hooks Smallmouth Bass.

I want you to imagine a sizzling summer many years ago when I was just a “pup” of a fourteen year old. Here I sit in the blazing sun under an abandoned concrete power dam with a stick, a string, and a hook. I desperately want to fish but there’s a flaw in my plan: I don’t have any bait!

Baitless, I wander around, I look under logs for bugs and I dig through chilled earth for worms. I find nothing…

But you know how I never give up? Well, I never give up. So, in the shadow of an ancient cedar tree I eventually “luck” out. Under that cedar tree there’s a few puddles left from when the water was higher… earlier in the year… I guess? And, in those puddles are a buncha crawdads.

You might be wondering, “Jason, what the hay is a crawdad?”

In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, they look like little lobsters. And, when you try to catch them, they skittle backwards and raise their little lobster claws. But, I know they can’t hurt nobody, so I pick three up and put them in my shorts (in the pocket of course) and head over to the end of the dam where the fish are.

I put one poor little crawdad on the hook and toss him in. If there’s a hell, then this is what it would be like, being a crawdad. But, at least it’s a quick hell.

I swear, by everything that’s true, the crawdad doesn’t even hit the water before a bass bites the hook and I swing him on shore. Then I toss another crawdad into the black water and swing another bass on shore. Then the last one and I swing yet another bass on shore. Hard to believe, I know…

I wouldn’t believe it myself if I wasn’t there! Because honestly, I’ve never in all my years had an easier time fishing – never.

But, what made it all work so well wasn’t my stick, my string, or my hook.

It was that silly little lobster on the end of my line.

You see, I didn’t know it at the time, but those mini-lobsters are the favorite food of the Smallmouth Bass. And, the power dam is the favorite place for Smallmouth Bass to chill.

In the past, I’ve fished for days without a bite. I’ve tried shiny little lures, smelly plastic worms, even slimy little frogs – and caught nothing.

The crawdad was the magical little lobster that made it all work
The right bait for the job.

And I hope you understand…

If you want to hook more MLM leads this is soooo much more than a fish story.

It’s a story with a powerful lesson that not one in a thousand Multi-Level Marketers will ever fully understand. Because it’s the real secret of marketing success…

It’s why we’re all really fishermen (and fisherwomen) in this magical world.

Now, I don’t know if this makes sense to you.

But, if you’re that one person that really and truly gets the truth behind this fishing story… If you feel that there’s some truth to this story, any at all, then please share it with your friends today. Twitter, Facebook, BetterNetworker or all three – thank you.

Oh! And don’t be shy to leave a comment today…

Maybe, you’re a fellow fisherman at heart?

To your success,

Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792, hunter645@aol.com

Facebook is one of the top social media sites today yet many of us continue to make deadly mistakes in the use of Facebook in network marketing..Watch this video to learn the mistakes you need to avoid if you want to use Facebook successfully to build your network marketing business.

I found many great points of interest in this video and feel sure you can also. Just keep in mind how important Facebook can be in your marketing effort when done properly.

If you are considering a career in network marketing, view my website at http://herb.mynusystem.com We want you to see what lengths we will go to help assure your success. Never forget the fact, that in Network Marketing, my success will always depend on your success. Take action and get started “Today!!”  Contact me by email at hunter645@aol.com or call 734-285-6792.

To your Success.. Herb Hunter.. Coach, Builder, Mentor, and Just a Great Guy..

The video below was done by Dwayne Huggins. It will give you tips on free facebook marketing. Whether you are working on a small marketing budget or a large budget this will help you a great deal.

If you are in business you should be using this powerful, free marketing method to drive traffic to your business. Facebook is ranked the 2nd most visited site in the world, why would you not be using it to your benefit. Dwayne lays out some killer tips on how to use facebook to market your product or service.

If you are considering a career in network marketing , view my website at http://herb.mynusystem.com We want you to see what lengths we will go to help assure your success. Never forget the fact, that in Network Marketing, my success will always depend on your success. Take action and get started “Today!!”  Contact me by email at hunter645@aol.com or call 734-285-6792.

To your Success.. Herb Hunter.. Coach, Builder, Mentor, and Just a Great Guy..

This is a great posting by Beth Heilman TheHomeBizNetwork.com that explains how to let the real you shine through in social media marketing. It was so good I wanted each of you have the opportunity to read it. Below are Beths tips:

When you’re out there on the Social Sites, places like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, when you send out a request for someone to be your friend; a personal message goes a long way in getting you what you want.

For example, Facebook is a Social Media Site that I’ve been involved with for over a year. In that time I’ve had thousands of friend requests sent to me.

The ones I look at first, and the ones I’m most likely to accept are those that have sent along a personal message.

Think about it. If someone came up to you at a networking event or party, handed you their business card then simply turned around and walked away; how likely would you be to want to do business with (or even get to know) that person?

Social Media works much the same

Although these Social Sites are based online, there is still a human being at each end. Everyone still has the same feelings and perceptions as if you were standing and talking with them “belly-to-belly”.

Here are some tips for connecting online:

1) When setting up your profile, always put up a picture of yourself. Make it a photo where people can see your bright, shining face. Folks in the online world may never meet you face-to-face so that picture is all they have to decide whether to accept or ignore a friend request. It helps them get to know you.

Also, please, please, please. I beg of you. Don’t put up an image of the product you sell as your profile picture. It screams “I want to sell you my stuff” or “I want to get you into my business”. People who’ve bought into YOU, who like and trust YOU may eventually buy your product, not the other way around.

2) Your profile should include personal as well as professional information about you. It should be detailed enough for your potential new friend to get a feel for who you are, but not so detailed that they know what you had for breakfast that morning.

Ever gone to someone’s profile page and all that’s there is their birthday? There’s no info about them, their family or what they do for a living.

If they’re obviously new to the site, I usually cut them a little slack. I’ll leave the request in the ol’ inbox for a week or so to see if they add anything new. If after that time they still won’t open up, I’ll pass. Doing business online means letting people know about you. It’s not the time or place to be secretive. Leave that to the government. Did I say that?

3) My third Social Media Tip for the day goes back to my original point; sending along a message with your friend request. A message being sent with the request tells the other person that you actually took some time to seek them out. It’s very nice in our instant gratification society for someone to take time out of their day to include a personal note asking for our friendship. However(you knew I’d have a “however” in here, didn’t you?)

If you’re going to copy and paste a pre-written message, at the minimum add in your future friend’s name. I always have to smile when a request comes in that says “Hi(empty space here) , I found you on so-an-so’s page and…”. Just taking a couple of extra seconds to add in their name will show that you’re truly sincere about being their friend. Wouldn’t you feel the same way?

Social Media is a powerful medium for attracting clients and business builders to you. There is a wealth of information on Social Media Marketing just waiting for you to tap into.

If you are considering a career in network marketing, view my website at http://herb.mynusystem.com We want you to see what lengths we will go to help assure your success. Never forget the fact, that in Network Marketing, my success will always depend on your success. Take action and get started “Today!!”  Contact me by email at hunter645@aol.com or call 734-285-6792.