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I was recently asked by someone new to online network marketing how long it would take them to learn all the techniques of online marketing. He suggested that it make take 20 or 40 or maybe 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.

This question led me to want 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. The common are generally the free ones and that is Facebook, LinkedIn, BetterNetworker, Twitter, MySpace and of course Youtube.. There are other less popular ways because of cost and complexity such as Pay Per Click or PPC, Banner Ads and Writing articles. As you may imagine each of these is very unique just as each web site or each book you read is different..

As a example and to demonstrate how much there is to learn I will pick just one method and drill down to more detail.. The second most visited site on the Internet is Facebook with the most visited being Google. There are hundreds of millions of people on Facebook and it is growing every day. With Facebook, after you have created your account, you want to begin to invite people to be friends that are in your target market. A good place to start is to search for groups of companies that are competitors to the one you are affiliated. Join those groups and start to invite friends. Now if you invite too many friends at one time Facebook will see you as a threat and may disable your account. A good rule of thumb is to invite 50 people at a time. More than that can get you in trouble. Be consistent in do this and your list will grow.. In a few weeks you can have almost 1000 friends as long as you are consistent and do it every day.

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. One way is to invite them to a free webinar where a subject is being taught that the prospect has an interest. Just this last week there were several but one that I used that got a lot of attention was learning how to get on the first page of Google for free. In no time you will have friends opting in to your web site to attend the free webinar.

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. This is not something that will happen over night but certainly you can see how this technique will lead to sales over time. This can be enhanced by you making comments on their status updates or on their pictures over a period of time. 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. The speed varies a lot with each prospect but keep at it and you will indeed see a change in time.

I realize that this is a high level look at this technique but I have given enough details that you can see how this can work for you. It will not happen over night but it will happen over time as you build relationships with your Facebook friends. You also should realize that I have only gone over one way to use Facebook where there are over twenty different ways to market on Facebook.

I am confident that you can fathom the complexity of this industry. 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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