I’m going to be doing a great call with Debbie LaChusa from the National Association of Home-Based Business Moms (NAHBM) Thursday (tomorrow!), and wanted to let you know all about it. Debbie will be interviewing me about the “5 Ways to Use Social Media to Find and Create Profitable Connections.”

Here are some of the hot-points we are going to cover:

1. What the BEST social networking platform for creating Joint Ventures is…right now
2. How to identify the perfect Joint Venture
3. How to connect with new Joint Venture partners via Social Media platforms
4. The 5 Key Strategies to develop profitable, long lasting joint ventures and…
5. How to leverage the relationship to build your list at record speed and make more money!

These NAHBM events are only available to Members, so click here to read more about NAHBM and to join me and Debbie this Thursday.

Social networking has turned into a frenzy of people creating Facebook profiles, Tweeting and blogging. But do you know if it is working for you? I mean, are people coming from Twitter & Facebook to your site?

There are two things that you need to know in order to track the success of your social media campaign:

1. Is anyone coming to your site? With the tracking options that exist today, you don’t always need your web manager to collect this. But you do need to know how many people are visiting your site. And this is not “hits”. These are real people. While you’re checking numbers on your stats program, also check the referring urls. This can tell you quickly if they are coming from Facebook, Twitter or your favorite blogs.

2. If they are coming–and I mean at least 100 visitors/day–then you can look at your conversion. How many people are opting in to your “special”? What are they doing on your site when they get there?

This is really important information that everyone who has a website for selling must know in order to track the success of your social media and your website!

How Do You Know If Your Social Networking Efforts Are Making You Money?

It’s easy to spend a lot of time and even have a lot of fun “chatting” on all these social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. But do you know if all this “chatter” is translating into revenue for your business? Take this short survey to discover how you rate.
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This is a MUST-READ for everyone who wants to know more about social media including Facebook and Twitter. My good friend Mari does a fabulous job of laying out the “ABC”s of social media in the article she just posted on her blog.

According to Mari, the ABC’s are:

• Automate
• Broadcast
• Connect
• Delegate
• Evaluate

She also provides a slew of options for simplifying the whole process. I have taught most of these to my clients as well!

Make sure you read her article and let me know what you think! Does this remove some of the “mystery” of social media for you? Article - The ABC’s of Social Media

As a good friend and raving fan of Mari Smith, I make sure to read all of her blog posts (and much of her other social media activities). Earlier this week, she posted an interesting article about someone who “hijacked” her tweet that included a link to a company she was endorsing. The person changed out her link with his own company’s link so that it looked like she was endorsing HIS company and then retweeted.

I am sure this has happened before, but I hadn’t heard of it. In fact, it had never occurred to me that people would do that. I am sharing this story and a link to her newest blog post that updates the story as I think it is a must-read for anyone participating in social media including Twitter.

Read the story here.

Let me know your thoughts!

MaryPat

PS. Thanks Mari, for sharing this incident and for keep us in the loop on the most positive ending!

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