By Carlos Scarpero

If you are involved in business, then you know that networking is essential for your success. With websites like My Space, Ryze, Friendser and Direct Matches, it is easier than ever to network online. Unfortunately, most people don’t network correctly. Here are some quick and easy tips to ensure successful networking online.

1) Your number one goal is to get your prospect to look at your profile. Make it clean and easy to understand. Avoid flashy graphics. Your prospect will only look at your profile a few seconds to decide if they want to initiate contact with you.
2) Use advanced search features like company search. Many sites such as Ryze allow a company search. If you are in network marketing, use this feature to find people whose network marketing company is under investigation or in bankruptcy. They may be ready for a new opportunity.
3) Put your website URL inside your profile name. Your name should be “John Doe www.mywebsite.com” When you do this, then every time you post on a message board or a guestbook, people will see your URL and will possibly visit your website.
4) Start a group and become the expert. People will see you as a leader if you start a group. It also gives you an easy reason to contact others. Simply say, “Hello, I just started the XYZ Group. Would you like to visit it?” It is an easy conversation starter.
5) Don’t use the spam bots. There are lots of tools for adding people quickly on My Space. They get the word out quickly, but people know it is from a machine and will delete it as spam. Who wants to be friends with a spammer?
6) Don’t send friend requests too quickly. People don’t like pushy aggressive people. Exchange a few messages first before you add them.
7) Look at their profile and ask something that shows you read it. People know when you are being honest and sincere and not sending out form letters.
Network in groups. Find your favorites and be active in there. Give more than you take. But, don’t spam the group. If people want to find you, they know how to look you up.
9) Don’t spam out your opportunity to your friends. When you add someone as a friend, don’t turn around and give them a sales pitch. Instead say, “Wow, thanks for adding me. Let me know if I can help you out with your business.”
10) Use the bulletin feature in My Space, but use it wisely. My Space has an excellent feature where you can blast out messages to your friends. Instead of a sales pitch, send out helpful tips and articles you found.

In conclusion, networking online is a great way to grow your business, but you must do it wisely.

About The Author

Carlos Scarpero is a blogger who writes about internet marketing and MLM. Visit his blog at www.itsaboutresults.com and discover new and innovative ways to promote yourself online.

By Jason Johns

One reason many people get into Internet Marketing is so that they can have more free time. However, many people find themselves sinking more and more time into their online business before they realise that they have exchanged one job chained to a desk for another, chained to a computer.

Is it really possible that you can get more free time through Internet Marketing? All the big names tell us it is possible, but how can it happen?

Well firstly, you can pay someone else to do the web designing, search engine optimization and so on. However, for some of us, that may not be practical. Oftentimes people start an Internet business because they don’t have a lot of money and need a cheap and effective way to get their business up and running.

It is entirely possible to earn money whilst doing nothing with Internet marketing. Firstly, if you have automated your website and it is ranking high in the directories then it will run on auto-pilot.

However, you may not be high in the search engines yet and need other ways to put your business on auto-pilot.

One of the best methods I know of is to set up an affiliate program. This allows other people to promote your product and be paid a commission for each sale. If they don’t make any sales, they don’t get any commission. Obviously, you need to pay them enough commission to make it worth their while. A few dollars as the commission level is not going to motivate anyone for anything, so you may need to offer 40%, 50% of even higher depending on your business and product strategy.

This kind of percentage will get your potential affiliates much more excited about selling your product. Be wary though of raising the price of your product in order to make up the affiliate payment. You may end up pricing yourself out of the market and making no sales!

There are many different options for running an affiliate program. You can host the software on your web server and run if from there, or you can pay a monthly fee for someone else to host it for you. You could also join a program such as Paydotcom or Clickbank that handle everything for you, and all you need to do is sit back and enjoy the profits.

In fact, for many marketers, Clickbank is a real favourite because it truly allows you to automate your business! They handle everything for you – taking payment, paying the affiliate and paying you, allowing you to really put your business on auto-pilot and achieve the elusive dream of making money whilst you sleep.

Affiliates do equal more free time and more money. They will promote your product for you, earn you money, with minimal effort on your behalf. Investigate today how you can run your own affiliate program and benefit from this fantastic leverage on your time and resources.

About The Author

Jason E Johns is a successful Internet Marketer & personal coach dedicated to your success. Learn more about successforaffiliatemanagers.com “>affiliate marketing , at successforaffiliatemanagers.com “>http://www.successforaffiliatemanagers.com