Social Media Marketing Basics For Affiliate Marketers

It doesn’t matter if you’re an Internet marketer who creates his own products or an affiliate marketer promoting other people’s products — social media marketing is a very important part of the profit puzzle.

Social networking has many perks — it’s free, it lets you connect with prospective customers, and it’s easy to use.

You don’t need to be on it 24/7 for it to work, but you do need to understand the best way to use it.

Step One

Sign up to the best social networks that everyone’s using at the time.

This changes on a yearly basis. Some social networks last longer than others.

Right now, you want to have a Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Pinterest account.

TikTok is also popular among the younger generations.

Don’t get so set in your ways that you’re reluctant to leave a site like MySpace when everyone else has already jumped ship.

You want to have a presence on the trendiest social networking sites because that’s where your customers will be.

Make Engagement A Habit

Set a schedule that gets you in the habit of participating on the social sites.

There are two types of people who use social networks the wrong way.

The first are those who create an account, make one post and then never return.

Or, if they return, it’s sporadically — like once every 6 months when they finally realize they set up an account and then forgot about it.

This makes people forget about you, and the goal is to create a loyal following.

The second type of participant gets so consumed with social networking sites that they don’t get any real work done.

They’re on Facebook 24/7, and then they realize they didn’t create any posts for their blog or research and review any products. It’s an affiliate failure either way.

Set up a schedule for your social networking that teaches you how to get involved, without becoming an addict.