Travis Fitzwater is an Online Business and Marketing Coach who teaches others how to use social media as well as other online utilities to become successful in a home based business.
Travis is a 27 year old husband who enjoys sports and politics as well as working on his business and educating himself on the new ways of internet success and mastery.
He is a social media lover and the owner and administrator of the blog http://TravisFitzwater.com/
Follow him on Twitter, http://Twitter.com/travisfitzwater
Of all the things he focuses on for his business, leveraging the internet to work for him while he travels and escapes the Rat Race is the utmost important.
Ok, so you want to dominate the social media revolution of 2009 as the rock star you are by coming out guns-a-blazin'. Well, hold your horses, cowboy. You have to think of social media as a big party and therefore ...
The first thing you must know about social media is that IT IS NOT A VENUE TO PITCH YOUR BUSINESS! If you can understand and apply this without worrying about your whole business going down the crapper, you will be dominate social media.
Why do you say I can't pitch my business, Travis? Because, when you're at a party, do you like a stranger coming up to you and selling you products or business ideas? Probably not.
In the same manner, people in social media don't want your business opportunity ... UNTIL you build a relationship with them. When they know and understand that you actually care about them and want to help them succeed, then they will start buying into your product or opportunity (and this will absolutely happen).
Let me give you an example. There are three kind of people in the world, those who like to talk about others, those who talk about themselves and those who let others talk. Who do you generally feel more attracted to in conversation?
If you're like me, you said the guy or girl who actually listens to you talk rather than babbles your head off. This is the person who will dominate the social media revolution of 2009.
Just think about it for a moment. When someone follows you on Twitter, or friends you on Facebook, would you rather be directed to a blog of theirs that has great resources and advice coming from a guy or girl who actually seems interested in YOU, or, to a capture page that has the next get rich quick scheme attached to it? I choose the former.
If people trust you and follow you because you genuinely care and actually work hard to build a relationship with them, they will begin to wonder just what it is this guy does that makes him so appealing to spend time with. They will also want to know exactly what it is that you do ...
If you offer resources, advice, training and even sometimes just an ear, people will begin to ask you questions, it's just the general law of attraction. People are attracted to leaders, not peddlers.
As a foundation, and in conclusion, to dominate the social media revolution of 2009 you must not, indeed absolutely cannot, pitch your business for internet marketing success! Build relationships with people and they will flock to you ... and, you may even like it!
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