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I was recently asked by someone new to online network marketing how long it would take them to learn all the techniques of online marketing. He suggested that it make take 20 or 40 or maybe 60 hours. For those that have been doing this for a while you will probably be taken back like I was when I first heard this question. The answer is you never learn all the techniques. First, there are so many different ways to market online it will take a long time just to understand each method. Second and more important is however you do it today most likely is not the same way you will do it six months from now.

That is why I chose to write this article. Let me list some of the most popular ways to market online and then I will pick one and review some techniques of how to use that method. Some of the most popular ways to market online is to use the social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, BetterNetworker, Myspace or Youtube. There are other less popular ways because of cost and complexity such as Pay Per Click or PPC, Banner Ads and Writing articles. As you may imagine each of these is very unique just as each web site or each book you read is different.

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Just to understand how much detail there is to learn one technique I will pick one of the most popular ways to market which is Facebook and explain one way it can be used. Facebook is the 2nd most visited website in the world right after Google. Additionally Facebook is growing fast than any other website on the Internet today. Once you have created your account on Facebook and got your profile all setup, you will want to start adding friends. This can be done several ways but a good place to start is to look in groups that have a common interest. Join those groups and start to invite friends. Now if you invite too many friends at one time Facebook will see you as a threat and may disable your account. A good rule of thumb is to invite 50 people at a time. More than that can get you in trouble. Continue this process every day to grow your list of friends. It is not uncommon to have over a thousand friends in just a few weeks if you keep at it.

Once you have grown a list of this size you will want to get as many as you can to optin to your web site. To do this you need to give your friend or prospect some value so that they want to do this. One way is to invite them to a free webinar where a subject is being taught that the prospect has an interest. For example, how to get your web site on the 1st page of Google for free. Do you think people would want to register for that? Of course they would. This kind of invitation will get lots of interest and you will begin to grow your list.

You next task is to contact the prospect and discuss what they saw. At this point you are building a relationship with the prospect and in time some number of them will purchase something from you or join you in your primary business. This is not something that will happen over night but certainly you can see how this technique will lead to sales over time. This can be enhanced by you making comments on their status updates or on their pictures over a period of time. A common phase I hear is people like doing business with other people not with computers or companies and this will talk time but will be rewarding. How fast it happens depends how how well you build your relationship with that prospect.

I realize that this is a high level look at this technique but I have given enough details that you can see how this can work for you. It will take some time and eventually you will see results as you get to know the people better. Also notice that Facebook was only one method and there are twenty just in this one category of social marketing.

As you can see from this one example, there is so much to learn about marketing online you can appreciate that this is a very large endeavor and one that will take a long time to master. It is clear to me that the marketer that asked me the question had no idea what he was saying but it also made be reflect on how much I have learned in the time I have been doing this. Sometimes there are questions that take you back and this is one that did it for me.

Please let me know what you think about this content. I welcome all comments. I hope that it helps you to be able to attain what you want out of your business.

Mastering network marketing is a life long task. To learn more about me, visit my blog .

Bob Howard
813-964-7389
http://BobHowardMarketing.com

 
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