How Social Network Marketing can grow your business marketing profits?

Social networking sites such as Facebook, Twiter, MySpace, Orkut & Socints have become the party lines of this young century. They are inviting and intrigues and a powerful communication tool. Learning how to use them wisely for marketing can increase your business profile. But how much effective for increasing your business profile?

Some Internet Marketer explains, Social Networking Media create opportunities to:

Adds a human element (you) to your business or product
Engage with customers directly but informally while hanging out online
It is fun and simple to do once you know how
Get traffic to your website
Create buzz around your website, product or service or brand
Create inbound links to your website for the search engine ranking benefit
Creates loyalty and trust

Some Internet Marketer also explain that Social Networking tools are useful only as long as you can manage the noise and keep these services from intruding on your work and privacy. Follow these guidelines to make sure the networking remains productive:

Set your profile to "private."
Put an end to friends who post embarrassing pictures and blog about weekend activities.
Tell your friends not to put "tags" on their photos or blogs.
Monitor openly accessible social networks you're involved in.
Contact the Web site itself if something is beyond your control.

Social Networking How To's

In most communities it is recommended to not start out by promoting your brand or website. If you start out by “spamming” you are likely to get kicked out of that social community. The site administrators will most likely ban you from returning. Being too direct in your sales pitch could also scare people away. So, think passive, think indirect...help people with "how to's" "why's". Listen, share and be humble. Bragging about the money are making is not going to win you friends.

What is the next step? Be yourself, be human, open up a little and show people who you are. Tell them your story and focus on things that may help you stand out. Visit communities that interest you personally and get involved.

While initiating contact on social networking media sites is great, it is just as important to continue to keep in contact. Don’t just start something and not finish. For example, starting posts on a blog is great, but you need to show people you are not just visiting, but are there to listen to them. When people add comments in response they might need a response from you. If available, follow or subscribe to the hot feeds that you have contributed to.

The Most Popular Social Networking Sites

Here is list to the popular social networking sites categorized by media type.

Social Networking

FaceBook (most popular)
Myspace
DirectMatches
Ryze

2. Social Bookmarking

Technorati (most popular)
Propeller
Digg
Reddit
StumbleUpon

3. Content Sharing

Hubpages (most popular)
Squidoo
EzineArticles
ather

4. Media Sharing

GoogleVideo
YouTube (most popular)
SlideShare

5. Blog Platforms

Wordpress
MovableType
Blogger (most popular)

Spend some time visiting each site and get familiar with their aim, layout, media and marketing potential for your business. Within your area of interest, look at what is popular and take some notes on why that is. Is there anything unique or undiscovered so to speak that you could tap into?