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Five Ways To Build Your Reputation With Social Networking
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Five Ways You Can Build Your Reputation With Social Networking
By Bob Jenkins
Are you using social networks to build your reputation online? Whether you already are or you are just getting started with sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Ning, building your online reputation is your biggest responsibility.
Here are five ways to make sure you do it right.
#1: Be Proud Of Being You
The first thing is, you have to be yourself. You have to be who you are. Because although you can get away with being fake for a little while, as soon as one person realizes that you’re not who you say you are, your reputation is destroyed almost instantly because of the power of social networking.
So be yourself. And don’t be afraid of being yourself. Realize that you have some gifts and some knowledge that people need to know about, and those that want to learn from you are going to gravitate towards you. Those that don’t think you’re worth listening to are basically going to ignore you. And it’s at their peril, so don’t worry about them.
#2: Transparency – Never Hide From Your Audience
The second thing about your reputation is you should try to be transparent at all times. This means you keep everything real with your audience.
For example, over the last year, I used social media to show you my move from Maryland to North Carolina, including drama with the movers, picking the house, and getting it set up. I also pulled back the curtain to show what it takes to run a product launch.
When I did my last product launch, I was Twittering every day what I was doing to get ready for this site. Most of the gurus out there would keep everything under lock and key, and I was being very clear, saying, “This is what I’m doing to get ready for this launch.” It actually helped me have a better launch, even though I told everybody exactly what I was going to be doing.
They didn’t think that they had some surprise or whatever like most people teach; they just were excited to be part of it and part of the story. So be transparent. Let people know what you’re doing and why you’re doing it, and they’re going to learn how to trust you.
#3: Be Positive For Positive Results
The third way to build your reputation is to be positive.
There are folks out there who generally can do a good job of being negative. I don’t know about you, but I don’t find that to be a very long-term profitable strategy.
It may get you some attention at first and spark some controversy, but that’s not the way to go. Be looking forward to the optimistic of your industry, of your business and what the results are going to be.
It would be easy for you to go onto Twitter or onto Facebook and talk about how you’re having a bad day or this product sucks or this week sucks or this relationship sucks. But you’re not really there for a support network, per se.
You’ll find some of that. If you have something bad happen in your life, sharing it with your followers will be very therapeutic for you and you will get a lot of support back. But when you’re just blasting negative things out, you’re going to get negative things in return, usually.
So try to be positive as much as possible and look for the opportunities that are out there and look at them from that positive perspective.
#4: Build Your Reputation And They Will Come
The fourth thing you must do is to be patient. This is because, initially, your reputation is going to be built only by yourself and the first initial people who get to know you. But as time goes on and you get more followers and you build a larger network of friends and peers, your reputation will solidify to allow your business to grow.
Once it hits a tipping point, your reputation and business accelerates at a very quick pace.
So be patient and let it happen. Don’t try this stuff out for a week and then come back to me next week and say, “Well, it didn’t really work. I didn’t really get any results yet.” You’ve got to let social networking play out over a few weeks and then a couple months and so on. A year from now your business is going to be tremendously different compared to where it is right now.
#5: Contribute To The Conversation – Every Day!
The fifth thing about your reputation is you need to be someone that people look to as a contributor, not as a leech, not as a mooch – as a contributor.
You have to be willing to be involved in the conversation, and you have to be willing to give as much or even more than what you’re going to get in return. The people who do that are growing so fast it makes my head spin.
I feel that I’m a pretty giving person but I see some other folks out there that just keep on giving, giving, giving and they just build up a huge following and that social capital is a real asset to your business. So you need to make sure that you’re contributing as much as possible to the conversation.
I don’t mean that as just go around randomly and try to help people. Within your specific task, your specific industry, the things you know well, you need to be at the forefront of letting people know how to do what you know how to do without charging them money at first.
They’ll come and find your site and your products and they’ll pay you for that as time goes on and their needs grow. With social networking you need to be building your reputation up first.
If somebody has a question, you should be one of the first people who answers and you need to answer without reservation not just, “Oh, I answered that in my eBook; go buy it”. They’re going to find your eBook if you just talk to them and give them solutions to the problem they are struggling with at that moment.
Give people your input, your encouragement for them to get better at what they are trying to do.
Any little quick free advice you can give, give it.
Actively Build Your Reputation With Social Networking And Reap The Rewards
You’ve got to be in this for the reason of having fun and really building that relationship. Dollars will come, there’s no doubt about that. But first, connect with people and really help them out. Understand that they’ll become loyal followers of what you do and see you for who you are.
Follow these 5 steps to building your reputation online and you’ll not only beat your competition, you’ll have more fun doing it!
Bob Jenkins teaches business owners how to use internet marketing strategies effectively to attract more customers and get more sales without spending a fortune on advertising. Get more free social networking lessons at www.DiscoverSocialNetworking.com.
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Daily Niche Idea
Daily Niche Idea
Something that was good – has now
just gotten a WHOLE lot better!Have you heard of Daily Niche Idea?
==>>http://budurl.com/nicheideaIt’s a rare thing to find someone
ready to give away something of
value … like, totally giving
it away, but Cindy Battye is!Daily Niche Idea is the perfect
resource that lets you cut and
paste your way to create your own
niche marketing empire.And the better bit?
Cindy has now created the system
so that you can download a weekly
PLR pack – with a product, and all
of the ready made materials, sometimes,
promotional tools already created for
you – so you really just have to add
your name to them – and monetize them,
using the systems that she will show
you!=========================
What Is Daily Niche Idea All About?
=========================Well let me just start by spending
a second just thinking over your
last few internet purchases.Does this sound scarily familiar?:
# You spend heaps of money on the latest
‘guru’ offering.# Give it a go for a bit, maybe make a
couple of dollars back… but get bored.# Feel like a bit of a failure because you
were told all of these other ‘noobies’ were
doing it much better than you….So you drop it and move on to the next thing…
Believe me when I say that you are not alone
in this frustrating cycle! Day after day
people just like you are losing hope, lacking
inspiration and getting ready to throw the
towel in.Maybe this might even sound more familiar:
# You start a project
# You work hard to build it, make it
look great and then….# For some reason, nobody is visiting it…
It turns out that your website has an enormous
amount of competition, against people who have
multi-million dollar budgets – lets face it,
not many of us can compete with that! What
you need is a niche.===========================
What if I am not creative enough?
===========================It’s OK! This site, which is completely
f’ree – is the perfect option for you.==>> http://budurl.com/nicheidea
You will be given a niche suggestion
for each day of the week – so you can
never let your lack of creativity limit
your desire to acheive!You will also get the statistics about
how many people have searched for your
niche – giving you a good idea of your
target audience.Each week you will also recieve a
package with a fully created product -
that relates specifically to the niches
for that week. You can use these products
to create your own blogs, websites, or
anything
We also show you how to monetize your
site – by providing a high converting
affiliate product relating to each topic
- so you can put the information all
together with the website builder tools,
in next to no time!
It’s all about giving you the ideas, tools
and tips to help you on the road to
financial freedom!Lynda Hill
==>> http://budurl.com/nicheideaP.S. Go and grab the report now, while
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Site Organization With Subdomains
Promotion Tip: Site Organization With Subdomains
[I've just brought this article over from my other blog - lynda-hill.com - where I am changing the theme etc. It was first posted in November 2008.]
I was moved to pop on here today when I found this amazing site – http://www.netmechanic.com
Some of the things I have been doing since I last wrote in here included reading as much as possible about SEO – Site Engine Optimisation. I’ve not only been reading Brad Callens SEO Mindset, but viewing online videos too. All very interesting and extremely useful, if somewhat technical.
In the middle of last night I decided I would think about setting up subdomains on my main website – (still a work in progress, BTW) – but I just wanted to double-check that I understood what they were all about and made sure it wanted to go ahead.
For example, instead of having lynda-hill.com as my Blog URL, it could be blog.lynda-hill.com. I can have as many subdomains in front of my main domain name as I want.
Best thing to do in these cases is pop onto Google. And that’s where I found NetMechanic.com.
From reading about subdomains I then went on to all the other links that appeared in the first article. Although they have been written a few years ago, the information ties in with all the other stuff I’ve been going through.
Main tip – when adding an image, give it a descriptive ALT title too, in the form of a short sentence using one or two keywords. The Search Engines like it, but perhaps more importantly, they can be read out for unisighted people. Also, … well pop over to the NetMechanic site for yourself using the link at the top.
It’s a shame it’s doesn;t appear to be active; the last entries seem to be 2005 in the sections I was using – but perhaps they’ve relocated to another URL (and their latest copyright is 2007).
And what about subdomains. Well, yes, I think they may be very useful. Although every subdomain can be treated as a whole site in its own right, ie they can have a similar style to other pages on the domain, they must not have exactly the same home page. The logo and style can be similar, but the content itself must be completely different other wise the Search Engines will block them. On the plus side though, they can be added as entities in their own right, so if they all interlink that would be a brilliant way to implement everything I’ve been reading about!
That’s all for today.
–Lynda
PS Here are the links resulting from my recent cyber-education trip:
SEOelite – for everything you need to know about Search Engine Optimisation
SEO Mindset – I don’t know if the offer is still available, but I paid a very small shipping charge and got a 130 page manual in the post and one month free membership to SEOelite.
Warrior Forum – from here I was able to get to see Chad Kimbal’s Domain Tweak system for just over £3.25 and that IS clever! (Look in special offers.)
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Four must-have traffic exchange tools
Four must-have traffic exchange tools
If you are advertising in traffic exchanges, you MUST use —
1. SPLASH /SQUEEZE PAGES - here are my favourite page design programs
- Site Rubix – excellent WYSIWYG designing and straightforward uploading to your site by in-built FTP. There’s so much more to this than the page-building though, so it may be overkill for you right now. But it is definitely top of my list and something I can’t do without. Requires a monthly membership fee as it is part of Wealthy Affiliate University – CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS.
- Instant Squeeze Page Generator - “takes the hard work of designing a professional squeeze page or Lead Capture page and makes it so easy a baby could do it. If you can point and click, you will be creating squeeze pages in minutes”. CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS.
- Instant MLM Squeeze Pages – not just for MLM programs, this one’s a bit different as the pages are 90% ready for you. You can add your main program as a link. Interesting concept and fantastic videos telling you all you need to know about desiging squeeze pages if you want to do your own. CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS.
- Lots of the traffic exchanges have splash page builders available to members – really easy to use and you get to promote that TE as well.
- Online free for ad hoc use – can be found through online search. You will want to host these yourself though.
2. Rotators for your splash or squeeze pages - these also have tools to help you track your ad campaigns, so they are really essential. Here are the ones I use:
3. Banners – here are my favourite banner design programs:
4. Rotators for your banners – here are the ones I use:
Why the splash / squeeze pages? – see my articles here and here
…and make sure you have read my Squidoo lens – here
Why use rotators? – see here (you will need to scroll down the page a bit)
Why use banners? – Why not? You will be given credits (impressions) for them, so you may as well use them. In some traffic exchanges they are free too.
Why have rotators for banners? – see here (same link as above)
You can find the top traffic exchanges to use in AFFILIATE FUNNEL and TRAFFICHOOPLA. Both have free basic memberships and use a variety of methods to rank the hit exchanges. Well worth a look.
If you are looking for programs to promote you will find some of what I am doing here in my blog, but I must admit that my favourites are MY INSTANT BIZ and TRAFFIC EXCHANGE PROFITS/ONLINE BUSINESS ALLIANCE. Great systems and top-class support in these two.
All of the above recommendations have basic FREE membership options and some are just there for you to use as and when without signing up. Or you may decide you would like to upgrade and receive even more benefits; I have upgraded in some, but not all of them.
To your success
– Lynda HFor a package which includes many of the above, you may like to look at Affiliate Funnel (basic level is free) – click here to visit Affiliate Funnel
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Now, what about that sales letter?!!
Review of SalesLetterABC.
There seem to be hundreds of ebooks and courses on copywriting available these days, which is hardly surprising considering that it’s one of the most important elements of a website.
Without good copy it wouldn’t matter how many visitors a site had – it needs to sell to those visitors.
Yet it’s also one of the most costly considerations for anyone setting up a site, and one of the most neglected… usually due to either the overall high cost involved in hiring a professional copywriter, or to the confusion that reigns supreme when one attempts to learn the art of writing good copy from the many ebooks and courses one can buy.So does SalesLetter ABC add to the confusion – or is it a product worth consideration?
Here’s what I think.
At just 33 pages – it’s probably one of the shorter products in the field of teaching copywriting. So at first I wondered if it did actually include everything you need to know to create a good sales letter.It includes a template which can be used as a guide to copy and paste your own content. This does present an advantage for many who don’t really know where to start, as it’s a simple task to replace the headline with your own and the next section with your own etc. right down to the P.S.’s at the end.
In the report each section of the 10 Steps is detailed with a guide on what should be there.
One of the things I do like about the descriptions is the fact that in each does explain in simple English exactly what should be written and why, yet without the usual 10 pages of detailed analysis that many seem to incorporate.If anything one of the complaints I’ve always had with most copy courses – is that they are written by copywriters for copywriters. SalesLetterABC does seem to be written FOR the average marketer. It teaches the basics but without the required degree in psychology that many assume you have!
In the section “Further Tips & Recommendations” I found some common sense, and to a degree, obvious tips, but also some very useful comments that help a great deal for anyone who would otherwise struggle to get started and achieve any kind of structured input.
The first 10 sections of the ebook are also extremely useful for anyone starting out, and they cover some of the basics that the professionals take for granted – yet mean little if anything to the novice. What I liked about them was the simplicity of explanations.
No in-depth analysis – just the answers to the questions like which fonts to use, what colours work best, etc.
That to me is the strength of the whole product… the simplicity.
It tells you what you need to know, how to do the job, and what things to incorporate to get the best results. But without all the page after page of confusing statistics!To cram the 10 sections of the template plus another 12 sections of tips, advice and much needed information, into just 33 pages, shows that it’s all meat and no fluff!
I believe anyone wanting to get started writing their own sales letters would do well to invest in this product and learn from it.
I’m sure they would accomplish the task of completing a sales letter of their own with far more ease than if they had purchased many other products of considerably higher cost.So it’s a two thumbs up for SalesLetterABC.
Check it out at…
http://lmhill.rsmithuk2.hop.clickbank.net
I highly recommend it.
until later..
–Lynda
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About me
I have been involved with some kind of online marketing for many years on a spare time basis, but for the last 2-3 years I have been doing it more intensively to the point where I now have 3-figure commissions coming in every month from various sources.
Disclaimer: Some of the links on this website are affiliate links, which means that if you buy a product after clicking on one of those links, I get a commission for recommending the product to you. However, I work very hard to recommend only high quality products and I am always available to provide back-up support and guidance to people who purchase products I recommend. [This disclaimer is being introduced as a requirement for all affiliate marketers - certainly in the USA. Although I live in the UK I want to make sure it covers anyone who buys through my links.]
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