Zion5 - A Neat Business Networking Site

Zion 5 may have existed a long time ago, but for me its an exciting new find.
If you've started to get the hang of Social Networking and you are an Internet Marketer then you should check this out if you don't know about it already.
It's neat because its so simply designed to serve the Internet Marketer without clogging up the system.
You have a profile page that you build up and then it has 3 basic sections:
1. Building Contacts
2. Sending messages: You get only one a day
3. Promoting your websites: Allowed to list as many as you have including affiliate links on your page. It's cool because if you are the first to list a site then all clicks without a up-line referral in the business comes to your site for credit and referral purposes. Really neat.
Go to Zion5 and find out more now.

Social Networking Sites For The Internet Marketer.

Now where do I actually start with this one? Internet Marketers and Social Networking depending on whose voicing an opinion will not usually get great reviews. Yet we know that a lot of Internet Marketers are building a healthy income online today, also social networking via the Web 2.0 sites is gaining momentum and allowing a lot of marketers build relationships that would have been impossible to achieve only a couple of years ago.

Personally I believe in both and think that this is a great way to be financially independent, free and a fun way to meet people all over the world. Yes there are some weird ones out there, but with a little bit of common sense and caution these few can be kept at bay.

I've noticed that Internet Marketers have during the last couple of months exploded on the Facebook hemisphere and started leveraging the traffic in a great way to build their businesses. How?
1. By becoming friends with like minded people or people interested in their niche.
2. By starting groups and offering services to their core niche , and its working.

Now its important that you don't just run off and join Facebook just this moment and then start a group just to get in on the action... well you can if you want too, but I'm sure it won't work that well if you don't know what you are doing.

What do I mean by this?

Well to start with you should have a fair grounding on how to network socially online, if you do this right then the sky is the limit.
When you join a social networking site it is important to become part of the community, participate and watch how its members interact with each other, your goal is to build relationships with people, relationships that will last, ones where trust and respect is built up over time.
For example when you are requesting for someone to be a friend of yours or contact don't just click the "Add Friend" button, use the message box provided to tell the member a little bit about yourself and why you are requesting for their friendship. Remember first impressions count. It's more time consuming but it will become very invaluable and rewarding in the long run.

So these are a few Social Networking Sites of Note:

Facebook: This site has had incredible growth in the last few years, it has over 80 million users, and according to "ComScore" is the second most trafficked social media site and the 6th most trafficked site worldwide. People love Facebook, it is a useful tool to keep in contact with family, friend and business associates, a family member I had lost contact with found me on Facebook yesterday! And I've noticed that Internet Marketers are beginning to harness the power of Facebook to build relationships and traffic to their sites. (more about this later). If you are a Marketer and you are yet to get a Facebook Profile then head on there now and sign up.

Twitter: Twitter is a cool tool used on the internet to follow friends. They update their profiles as often as they care to and their friends follow by reading about what they are doing. This is a very viral way of spreading news and information on the internet at no cost to you whatsoever.

Yuwie: A Social networking site with a difference, as this one earns you money as you get hits to your site and friends visit your page. Yuwie allows you to advertise and promote your internet marketing products and services amongst other things via blogs, groups and buying ad spaces on the site. You do this for free on Facebook and MySpace so why not get paid for your time on Yuwie, its not much but it all add up in the end.

DirectMatches: This is a social networking site primarily for business people, that is not to say that other social networking needs are not met, but business is a prime focus. This is a place where business owners, mlm, home based businesses, affiliate marketers, online business owners etc can make contact and advertise their products and services without spamming. There are numerous ways that this site allows you to promote your business, via a profile, building a contact list, blogs, uploading videos, forums, networks, classified advertising, pixel ads, and press releases. This is just a great place to get a push for your products and services.

MySpace: If you want to hangout with friends and have fun then MySpace is a good place to be. Mostly this site was used originally by teens and young adults to keep in contact with each other. The site has moved on now and quite a lot of older adults now have profiles on MySpace. Because of the relentless hoards of traffic that visit this site daily you will find that it is a silent money spinning machine if you know what you are doing. Have you got a niche? Search and find a group on MySpace that is interested in your niche, and viola you are in money!

So there you have it, just a few social networking sites that Internet Marketers can use to their advantage. Obviously there are loads more and as time goes by we shall be visiting a number of these sites.

Get Carried Away By The Thirty Day Challenge

Have you watched Sex and The City Movie yet? If you have, you would know all about "Get Carried Away", I think I was as I definitely love the movie. The Thirty Day Challenge is also set to carry Internet Marketers away to success as it launches its Pre-Season session for 2008.

This is set to be huge and it may be to your peril if you decide not to heed the call to join up and take on the challenge.

The first pre-season lesson is out and I am already gaining loads from this. Have you heard of flock? Do you use it? Are you using the Web2.0 tools available freely to you to enhance your marketing on-line? The Thirty Day Challenge can help you a lot in this area and some.

Anyway as its FREE, you might as well sign up, you never know you might get carried away too! Enjoy "Sex and the City" this summer and do the Thirty Day Challenge!

Thirty Day Challenge- A Great Starting Point For Internet Marketing

Hi Folks
As I said last week, to make any money online that will give you your ultimate goals, you need to get an education. An Internet Marketing education, and I know of no better place to encourage you to start than with The Thirty Day Challenge. The Challlenge is a series of classes, lessons and exercises which lead you towards essencial knowlegde to make your first dollar on-line.

The good news is that its free and about to launch for the summer. This is 30 days that will change your life, my Internet Marketing and Blogging record changed for the better last August when I joined up and I would urge anyone who knows they need an education in internet marketing to sign up and keep with The Thirty Day Challenge.

The Thirty Day Challenge Song

This is the introduction to the Pre-Season Classes of the challenge. This year we have a 60 day Pre-Season period before the challenge. You have more than enough time to learn to prepare for the challenge itself. All will be revealed as you learn how to make your first dollar on-line.