Face Book for Business and Building Relationships

Just wanted to get a quick post out before I ran out the door to my JOB. Anyway, I just opened my Facebook account a few days ago. I was very reluctant to do so because I figured it was just for high school and college kids. Having graduated 25 years ago, who would I even know on Facebook?

But, I've been reading some blogs on the subject and have learned that Facebook is a great tool for business. It's the social side of business....building relationships. It's not about marketing your products or services blatantly on Face Book.

Here's an article I read called, "Why Your Company Needs to Be on Facebook." It showed me the value of what I'm doing. I hope you'll read it and make a comment.

Then by all means, open up a Facebook account.

Face Book for Self Promotion

Wow! I didn't expect Face Book to be so much fun! In less than 24 hours, I've developed a face book page and have a dozen friends.

I read an interesting article at Alan Cockerill's blog where he writes about adding friends. Here's a link to the article.

I saw these great looking Profile Badges and I just had to learn how to make one. Isn't it great?

Anyway, click on it and it will take you to my Facebook profile. Sign in and add me as a friend. I'd love to meet you.

Once you have a facebook account, go to the tab to Create a profile badge. Follow the directions and whoola! You have this!

2 Social Networking Sites You Must Join to Build Your Network

If you haven't built your social network, you are getting behind the times.

Two social networking sites you must belong to are FaceBook and LinkedIN.

FaceBook is quickly moving up in ranks and LinkedIN is the most professional business networking site I've reviewed.

I recently ran across a blog article, 10 Ways to Use LinkedIn. It is well worth the read.

After reading this article, set up your account today and build a connection with me here.

How to Use FREE Renegade University to Attract Prospects and Create Cash Flow

Mike Klinger of Renegade University delivered an exceptional webinar on the use of the FREE Renegade University tonight.

At the beginning of the webinar, he explained how most network marketers chase prospects and struggle to maintain a positive cash flow as they spend money on training seminars, leads, and tools to build their business. His simple step by step training teaches network marketers to use techniques such as monetization and attraction marketing: common techniques in the traditional business model.

Read my summary at my new Squidoo Lens.

Are You Attracting Prospects to Your Business?

If you're new to Internet attraction marketing...

Join us Thursday for a Live Webinar as we take you step-by-step through your (Free) Renegade University account and show you how to use it to build your current business much more effectively.

You may refer others to this event as well.

Click to learn more and Register

How to Use Stumble Upon to Drive Traffic to Your Site

There are many social bookmarking sites you can join to help drive traffic to your blogs, squidoo, and websites.

Today, I'm introducing: Stumble Upon.

You'll want to set up an account at www.stumbleupon.com.
It's real easy to do.

Set up your profile and pick out the types of websites you want to review. I chose business and environment.

Here's how it works. You can press the Stumble button and randomly selected websites will show up for you to review. Give them a thumbs up or down. Then write a review. Your picture and link will be posted next to your review. You'll want to contribute to the community to become known and trusted.

Next, you'll want to review your own sites and write a description and review. But don't just review your sites. Be sure to add other sites by other authors with relevant content or you may be blacklisted as trying to only promote yourself.

When you stumble a site, click on the speech bubble to see what others are saying about the website. This is great way to meet others in the community.

So give it a try.

Open an account.

Go to my squidoo at www.squidoo.com/blondeaffiliates and notice on the right side the box that says "Save and Share." There is a place to Stumble It! Try it. Stumble my site and see what happens. Become a fan! Leave me a post that you did and I'll do the same for you!

Blogging and Social Networking

Today, I've been working on my blog. It's one of the cornerstones of social marketing.

Social Marketing includes:

• Blogs
• Squidoo
• Bookmarking Sites
• Article Writing

At the Renegade University, I just watched a video tutorial on setting up a blog. I started my first blog here at www.blogger.com. The tutorial taught me how to carefully choose a title and description to optimize the blog for the search engines. It also gave me click by click instructions. It is so easy to follow along and make your blog at the same time.

My First Article Gets Published on E-Zine Articles!

This blonde has accomplished 3 major steps in developing an "Attraction Marketing" strategy to create an online presence that will generate FREE, quality leads for my primary network marketing business which for the last 15 years has been built with offline techniques.

Step One: I created a page at www.squidoo.com/blondeaffiliates to build traffic to my blog here. If you found this blog at squidoo, then it's working. Please leave me a comment and tell me.

Step Two: I created this blog. Here I can write quick posts to direct my audience to squidoo and my articles.

Step Three: I wrote and submitted an article to www.ezinearticles.com. I wrote the article called, "Secrets Most Network Marketers Don't Know About Web 2.0 and Creating a Profitable MLM Organization". When writing articles, you don't promote your products, but in the signature at the bottom, you can put 2 to 3 links to your sites. My goal is to direct traffic to this blog. If you arrived here from my article, please let me know in the comment section.

At the blog, my goal is for you to sign up for my newsletter. If you like the content and solutions I've provided so far, you'll really love what I send to my subscribers. You'll receive tips with step by step instructions for building a lead generation system at No or Low Cost to you.



The techniques I'm learning and applying are being taught click by click with video instructions at The Renegade University developed by Mike Klinger.

Thanks for reading,
Carla Clayton,
On vacation in Florida!

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