Tips to Make You a More Productive Social Networker

July 28, 2009 by Evan

Anyone that knows me knows that I am a voracious networker and have been so since getting into the Internet marketing industry in late 2001. You don’t get 3000 Plaxo and 1500 LinkedIn connections by sitting on your fanny doing nothing! So, I decided to put together a list of some of the things I like to do to build my social networks and actual generate business and friendships from them.

1. Be Friendly, Out-going, Respond, and Retweet - Social media has forced people to network with each other, but I still don’t see much actual interaction. I mainly see people promoting themselves, which is fine, but doesn’t really build lasting bonds or generate business. Make sure to reply to your connection’s “status updates” and retweet stuff you find interesting. Reach out to your connections and try to find common ground for working together. Try to actually help your connections in some way by possibly connecting them with someone you know or a valuable resource…it goes a long way.

2. Use Ping.fm - I absolutely love Ping.fm for broadcasting my messages out on all my social networks at once. It makes it easy to update your “Status” everywhere in one motion. What I have noticed is an increase in the responses from my connections to the messages I’m broadcasting since using this wonderful tool.

3. TweetDeck – This is a great desktop based application that allows you to really keep on top of your Twitter account and what’s going on. This will allow you to interact and respond more actively, and overall manage your Twitter account better.

4. Invite – you can’t build your network unless you invite anyone and everyone you know to connect with you. Most social networks have an invite from address book feature….use it!

5. Start Your own Social Network – Use Ning.com to set-up your own social network, so you can start conquering the Internet and building your own social network. It’s really cool and easy.

These are but a few ideas for making you more productive with Social Networking. Let me know if you have any questions and I will help you out.

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