How to Use Facebook to Grow Your MLM

Marketing on Facebook is a great way to grow your network marketing business if it is done correctly and on a consistent basis. Depending on your time budget, you should spend about a couple of hours a day on Facebook. You should spend this time adding friends and writing on their walls. You can also write on walls of network marketing groups. You should not advertise your primary business on Facebook since no one cares about it. You should just build relationships and provide value to people.

Your Facebook marketing strategy should start out with adding between 20-30 friends per day from an mlm related group. You don't want to add more than 30 friends since you want to build trust and relationships with the people you add on Facebook. If you use an automated friend adding tool such as Facebook Friend Blaster, which I don't recommend, you will quickly reach the 5,000 Facebook friend threshold and you will not be able to add any more friends. You want to have friends that are serious network marketers. You don't want to add people that are not serious network marketers or not network marketers at all. so be selective when adding friends.

When adding friends you should send them a short message. You will usually get a better response rate if you send them a message. Here is an example of a message that you could use:

Hi First Name

I saw you in the _________ group. I am a network marketer looking to meet and network with new people. Feel free to take a look at my profile and add me as a friend

Your Name

Shortly after they accept your friend request, you should write a short message on their wall thanking them for accepting your request and showing that you are interested in them and what they do. You can also post a 20-30 second welcome video on their wall which you can record from your web cam. You should do the same thing when people add you as a friend.

You should also join several popular network marketing related groups. People from those groups will also add you as a friend since they will see you as a member of those groups. You should share valuable content on a few group walls a day. Don't try to advertise your primary business since that is considered spamming.

One last marketing strategy you could do is start an mlm related group. This is a great way to position yourself as a leader and build relationships and trust with your prospects. When you have a Facebook group, you appear to be a leader to other Facebook users. They assume that you know what you are doing and know how to use Facebook. When you start a group, you can invite all your friends and message the group members about important updates.

Now that I have revealed some information to you on how to use Facebook to build relationships and generate leads and signups, you should be ready to start promoting on Facebook right away. If you don't have a Facebook account, you can set one up for free at Facebook.com. Be sure to provide some information and photos in your profile before you start advertising and adding friends.

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