Why am I not getting leads from Social Networking?

Hello Sta.rtup.biz Members!

One of the most important things that you can do when you are trying to utilize Social Networking to build your personal brand is to start a Blog. These are the marketing sites of the future and if you do not have one, you are going to be left behind. Gone are the days of replicated marketing sites.

There is a process involved and you have to set yourself up to know this!

So I see this all of the time! It seems that people think that if you put a Blog online and you write a couple posts that every visitor should be filling out your form or subscribing to your posts via RSS and this is just not the case!

You have to change your mindset. We live in a society that has come to expect instant results, but when you are using Social Networking you must understand that it is a process.

My first Blog was nearly a year old and had hundreds of articles before I started getting subscribers on a regular basis. This did not bother me because that is just what I expected.

I did not Blog because I wanted to make money and build a list, I did it because I really enjoyed what I was writing about.

If you have a new Blog, you should expect it to grow very slowly. There are ways that you can help it along however and that is by doing some of the following.

1. Add your Blog URL to your social sites and send people there instead of your marketing sites.
This will actually attract more people because when you send them to a marketing site, 99% of them will hit that wonderful back button. But if you send them to a Blog, it can help them get to know you.

2. Create an account at www.Technorati.com
Create an account here, and look for other Blogs in your niche and read and comment regularly on them. Get to know the authors. Repost some of their best articles on your site. This will create what is called pingback and chances are they will then do a pingback to your blog.

3. Create what I call your "Social Web"
Connect all of your social sites together so that when you post an article on your Blog, it is syndicated to ALL of your social sites like Twitter, Facebook and linkedin just to name a few. I teach you exactly how to do this on my Blog www.whoisdavidfoster.com

4. Use a WordPress Self Hosted Website
WordPress is by far the leader in Blogging for many reasons. I highly recommend that you use a self hosted WordPress site because it is the best for the search engines and just various customization reasons.

5. Post consistently
This is VERY important. Especially to a new Blog. You have to be consistent with your posts. If you write sporadically, your readers will come that way too. Initially you should be doing a post every day. Do one MAIN article every week and then smaller informative posts to fill. The reason is when you finally do get readers, you want there to be information there for them to read. If you only have one or two articles, they will not stay long, and they will definitely not subscribe.

6. Minimize Ads
Your Blog should not be one big Billboard. If you visit my Blogs you will see very little advertising. I have come to HATE Blogs that are all ads and banners. It makes it so hard to find the actual information and it can really lead people to leave your site in a hurry.

So in a nutshell, this is how you should set up a potentially successful Blog. I teach this on my own Blog and I also do a live broadcast every Monday night where I answer your questions live to help you figure out how to build YOUR Social web and attract people to you.

This is the REAL magnetic sponsoring system. You will notice that this is where ALL of your top marketers are heading, and you have a chance to be ahead of the curve right now!

I offer a FREE Blogging Course on my Blog that shows you how you can set up your own Blog. Visit me at www.WhoIsDavidFoster.com!

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Comment by Ron Sanderson on June 22, 2009 at 4:56pm: How's this Dave?

I get leads by adding value, contributing interesting content, serving others, and allowing people to openly brand themselves.

Comment by Amy on June 22, 2009 at 4:28pm: Thanks for the insight. Success comes slowly and surely. People are often disappointed when they are looking for instant results.

Comment by amyeandrews on June 22, 2009 at 4:23pm: Like traditional networking, social networking is an investment in people and in time. Sometimes you'll get a lead, but be comfortable that sometimes you just meet cool people and learn something you didn't know before.

Comment by Carl Mortimer on June 22, 2009 at 4:19pm: Hi Again David:

After reading your latest article I have had second thoughts and my prior short comments do not do the article justice. You of course do not need my comments in order to improve your writing. How can you improve on an excellent presentation?

Start a blog! What an excellent suggestion. If you are not out there making a contribution you will not get anything in return.

Instant Results! You are right, it won’t happen overnight. Your article will lay dormant and no one will search for it unless you have a way to get your article noticed. I believe the use of keywords are necessary in order to get your article noticed by Google and other search engines. I think a better feeling is when you place an article online and you can see instantly that you had an audience that was just waiting for your next article.

Passion about writing! If you don’t truly believe what you are promoting in your writing it will show through. Don’t try to dupe your readers.

I think that is enough – I will leave the rest of your article to stand on its own and can only say that if an individual is truly interested in learning how to blog then you have presented an excellent way for them to succeed.

Best Regards, Carl Mortimer

Comment by RGebbiePhoto on June 22, 2009 at 4:15pm: Nice article;

My business is entirely creative; photography, art, illustration, writing, publishing, personal growth and development, motivation and inspiration. Several of our endeavors were the result of social networking, we reached out with social networking to find more resources and information regarding the photography and illustration stock industry. Social networking lead to the creation of our blog which began our writing, we began sharing our journey in the business as well as some personal articles about growth and overcoming obstacles which I had written. The response to these posts lead to self publishing an inspirational illustrated book and several of the avenues we are currently perusing today in writing and motivational speaking.

Social networking allows us to stay connected on a more personal basis with a large number of friends, associates and people we help daily.

Robert Gebbie
RGebbiePhoto - a creative journey in art
http://sites.google.com/site/rgebbiephoto

Comment by David Foster on June 22, 2009 at 4:06pm: I just did a Blog post the other day about selecting what to Blog about. You can hear it here:
http://www.whoisdavidfoster.com/choosing-a-blog-topic

Comment by Pat Bosman on June 22, 2009 at 3:51pm: Hi David, I would like to thank you for all you help. One thing I still need to learn is what do I write about.

Kind regards

Comment by Robert Sloan on June 22, 2009 at 3:43pm: Good article! In answer to the question, I post my daily art and occasionally get commissions from my regular blog readers. I get more commissions from that than I have in real life, since I started doing the daily art blogging. It's there, when I auction them on eBay I put a buy link, that's all the ad necessary. I'm sure a lot of people are just enjoying the art with no intent or budget to buy, but that's fine. They leave comments and that's encouraging.

Comment by Warren Contreras on June 22, 2009 at 3:41pm: I can certainly see how this advice would help any business along, but I have an un-business and have no desire to spend that much time. I am having too much fun spending the money I make without it.