Social media sites, such as Twitter and Facebook, allow you to connect with other people with a greater presence and in less time than doing it in person. I’m not suggesting that attending live events and networking locally is not important, but doing it online truly leverages your time and efforts.
On Facebook, tell people about what you are doing online. Join groups where your prospects are already spending time. Those groups are the very best place to find new friends. Create your own group, using your keywords in the title.
Twitter …

Probably the biggest question I get asked is if social networking is worth it or a big waste of time. Well, if you’re doing social networking to make money, and you aren’t making money, then it most certainly is a waste of time.
So, how do you make money with social networking? A lot depends on the words you use and how you interact with your friends and followers. Today I’m going to focus specifically on Twitter.
Remember, for Twitter you only have 140 characters including spaces for every tweet. That means …

It occurred to me as I look around and see what people are and aren’t doing with their social networking that this is actually a microcosm of your entire business. So how do you approach your social networking and what does it say about the rest of your business?

I’m sure there are more of these stories, but you get my point. Social networking can
give you credibility, visibility, leads and can help grow your business. It can also lose you jobs and customers.

According to Revenue magazine’s Affiliate Insights ezine, “Twitter more than doubled its US unique visitors in March.”
That’s pretty amazing. But what can Twitter do for you business? I mean, just because all the other lemmings are jumping off the cliff, doesn’t mean you have to, right?
Well, if you listened to the calls Denise Wakeman on Monday and MaryPat Kavanagh today, you’d know the answer to that question.
Think of this, “Twitter’s growth has accelerated from 33% in January, to 55% in February and now 131% in March. At a growth rate …