New network marketer asked me recently how long it would talk them to learn all there is to know about network marketing. 20, 40 or 60 hours? For those that have been doing this for a while you will probably be taken back like I was when I first heard this question. The answer is you never learn all the techniques. First, there are so many different ways to market online it will take a long time just to understand each method. Second and more important is however you do it today most likely is not the same way you will do it six months from now.

That is why I chose to write this article. There are so many ways to market I will start by listing the most popular was that are used today and then pick one to focus on details. Some of the most popular ways to market online is to use the social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, BetterNetworker, Myspace or Youtube. Other ways to market are Pay Per Click (PPC), writing articles, Banner Ads, solo ads, email marketing and many many more. Each one of these has very specific techniques that you should follow in order to market that are unique to the web site or applications being used.

Just to understand how much detail there is to learn one technique I will pick one of the most popular ways to market which is Facebook and explain one way it can be used. Facebook is the 2nd most visited website in the world right after Google. There are hundreds of millions of people on Facebook and it is growing every day. Once you have created your account on Facebook and got your profile all setup, you will want to start adding friends. This can be done several ways but a good place to start is to look in groups that have a common interest. Join those groups and start to invite friends. You have to be careful to not invite too many friends to quickly or Facebook may flag you. A good rule of thumb is to invite 50 people at a time. More than that can get you in trouble. Continue this process every day to grow your list of friends. It is not uncommon to have over a thousand friends in just a few weeks if you keep at it.

The next step is to get those friends to optin to your list web page so you can get them into your sales funnel. The key to making this happen is to help your friends and in time they will be come customers. A very easy way to start when you are new is to invite your friends to free training webinars. For example, how to get your web site on the 1st page of Google for free. Do you think people would want to register for that? Of course they would. This kind of invitation will get lots of interest and you will begin to grow your list.

The next step is to contact the new prospect and asked them how they enjoyed with free webinar that you gave them. by doing this you are beginning to build a relationship with them and building trust. Relationships take time to build and will not always happen right a way but some will and some will take some time. You can speed up the process by engaging people online by making comments, chatting with them or sending them messages. A common phase I hear is people like doing business with other people not with computers or companies and this will talk time but will be rewarding. How fast it happens depends how how well you build your relationship with that prospect.

This was a very brief look at this one method but I think you can see how this could be a very large task to understand in detail. It will take some time and eventually you will see results as you get to know the people better. Also notice that Facebook was only one method and there are twenty just in this one category of social marketing.

As you can see from this one example, there is so much to learn about marketing online you can appreciate that this is a very large endeavor and one that will take a long time to master. It is clear to me that the marketer that asked me the question had no idea what he was saying but when I had some time to think about his question, I realized that I have learned so much I take a lot of what I know for granted. Sometimes there are questions that take you back and this is one that did it for me.

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