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How Not to Win Friends, Influence People Or Make Any Money on Facebook at All!

It’s a bit like driving a car – you either “get it” or you don’t, if you don’t you take more lessons – making money on Facebook is a skill to be learned.

I have just received another amazing offer from a Facebook friend, I have only just befriended, not so much as a “Hello”, just BAM, Buy my STUFF! – So! I felt it was about time, based on my own personal experiences on Facebook, that I revealed my slant on, “How NOT to be successful on Facebook”.

I’m sure you get all kinds of offers yourself on Facebook, if you sell products yourself, how can you make yours stand out above other people’s

It’s about the DELIVERY… not the OFFER itself.

My News Feed & my in – box are looking more and more like SPAM City every day, and I’m getting as much spam on Facebook as I do on my home computer. The main protagonists via Facebook email are event organisers who invite all and sundry to “anything” – I get regular messages inviting me to Bar Nights, in Miami – all very nice, I say, except that I live in Hertfordshire, England.

So, once we have waded through all the Spam. we have to ask ourselves a question – Why Should People BUY from Me?

The answer to that question lies in YOUR answer to this question – What does SUCCESS on Facebook mean to you?

If your answer is something along the lines of ” To have a group off like minded, interesting friends from many differnet cultures, with differing interests, who may or may not be interested in what I have to offer, either now or in the future. You could be on your way to CRACK the Facebook Success Code…

Here is What NOT to do…. this is the ticket to LOSERVILLE… No Facebook friends and No Facebook Dollars!;-(

I see it everyday, where a person’s wall has either a whole list of Twitter Tweets with short URLs leading to Affiliate offers or blatant ad’s just trying to advertise something.

Now, I’m not saying their is anything wrong with selling something, quite the opposite – that is what I do, every day but, I wouldn’t as a complete stranger, just knock on your door, walk into your house and expect you to buy my product – why should Facebook be any different?

You can’t just go STORMING in – all guns BLAZING!

Here is how I think it should be done, as usual I would also be glad to hear your comments on this.

When I first joined Facebook, I was new to Internet Marketing and to be honest, I didn’t really have a clue about Facebook.

I just tried to get as many friends as quickly as possible, and ended up with a warning from Facebook and a Ban from inviting any friends for a couple of day’s – with a further warning from Facebook that my account could be deleted if I carried on RAPID Friend finding?

So how was I doing it wrong?

I was inviting far too many people to be my friend, far too quickly!.

How many people should you invite each day to be your friend? – the right answer, if you want new friends without feeling the WRATH of the Facebook Gods is between 20 & 25 people a day – this in my opinion, is about right.

Who should you invite? – Why not invite people who have something in common with you. NOT people who YOU think would be a wonderful source of income… people are NOT human cash machines… they are – people, if we treat them with respect! then they will do the same with you and react positively towards you.

So, now that we have our NEW friends, what shall we do with them? – How about TALK to them – interact with them, find out WHO they are, where they are from and what they like to do. This is called Social Networking.

If you think that getting CUSTOMERS to your products, on Facebook is anything other than building personal relationships with people, you – are seriously WRONG!

The next time I get the next AMAZING offer or program from someone I don’t really know, do you seriously think I would BUY it?

Of course not, I BIN it… OK, you might have the greatest offer EVER!… doesn’t the greatest offer ever, deserve to be presented “properly” and not Spammed on people’s walls like Graffiti?

If you want lots of nice friends on Facebook and actually get REAL customers who will BUY your products – here is the “SECRET” Key… Unlock it – and you could have pot of Gold, ignore it and you could have a pile of C***

You decide…. Gold or C***?

1) On your personal wall, i.e YOUR news-feed, for every product link you place advertising your product or Free giveaway, leading to your opt in form – insert between 5 & 10 useful pieces of content, your friends will enjoy this, they will love you for it,and possibly share it with their friends. This is what Facebook is all about, INTERACTION with other people.

So what quality content can you share with friends?

1) A Video (grab one from You Tube ) this could be Motivational, Funny, Newsworthy, or your favourite music..

2) An Inspirational quote – I love them, you might love them, other people definitely, love them.

3) A Funny Quote or Joke!

4) A great picture. upload some pictures to your photo album (yes you can create one on your profile) it will show up on your wall every time you upload a photo or video to it -and of course, on your friend’s wall every time you do this. Get creative.

5) Some useful information or a “tip” maybe. people love new information, especially if it’s useful and helps them in their life.

You see, here you are creating something that people will actually look forward to see. If you do it regularly, people will start to “EXPECT” it.

You see where we are going here, once people expect to hear from you – they will listen to you. If you talk sense, they will “want more information”

Now, if you drop in your link to a product, you “recommend” every now and again, it will just be viewed as part of that “GREAT CONTENT” that you provide each day.

Compare this to the people who have no idea how to market on Social Media at all and have not even bothered to learn, they are using their wall as an advertisement board… the only way you can ESCAPE the barrage of ads appearing from them, on to your wall is to UN friend them.

Once people interact with you on a regular basis – some, will, join your list – or purchase from you, but if they don’t, SO What?! – you now have some GREAT like minded friends to interact with, who – you never know, they may even be customers or even partners in your future ventures.

If they like what you provide each day and click “Like”, your “Like” will be seen by their friends and some of their friends may also become customers of yours either now or in the future.

“SHARING” is the new SELLING – give your friends a REASON to interact with you. Give them a reason to join your list (i.e some, valuable free content) – this way people will be HAPPY! to do business with you.

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