Affiliate Marketing And Social Networks For The Bum Marketer
What are social networks? These are simply websites that are meant for people who wish to form friendships around all forms of topics imaginable for the purpose of sharing ideas and disseminating information. This will exclude pornographic and other material that promote hate, sexual and racial discrimination and other types of negative content unsuitable for children. Of course, the websites I shall recommend, have their terms and conditions you will do well to read and follow strictly to the letter in order to be accepted and remain a member.
For the newbie affiliate marketer, it is imperative to understand and master the fundamentals of using the internet as an affiliate before venturing to invest money to take you to the next level of this exciting work. The beauty of affiliate marketing is that you require very minimal capital to start. First you will need a computer connected to the internet. Many people are simply not aware of what magic the internet is. That is why we are said to be living in the information age. However, and disappointingly so, many of my countrymen (South Africa) still live in the industrial age, or post middle ages.
When you write an article and post it on a an article directory or post content on a blog website, you can make use of RSS for your content to receive more than the minimum exposure on the web. RSS stands for; 'Really Simple Syndication'.
Here is how it works in simple layman's terms. Open up accounts with several social networks. It is free to do so. Here are some of the websites you can be a member of:
Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
MySpace
Digg
Mixx
Delicious
StumbleUpon
Reddit
These social networks are some the most popular on the net and there are many more. There are also new ones springing up all the time. These websites have hundreds of millions of visitors every day, three hundred and sixty five days a year. Each of the above sites have their own unique feed icon. After posting a blog post to a site such as Blogger.com for example, you will click on all the icons for the different social networks you subscribe to, and your content will be fed to all these sites automatically. In actual fact, this means you could write and post content on a blog and have it potentially ready to be read by dozens of millions of internet surfers world wide at the wink of an eye.
The potential to share ideas and disseminate information is phenomenal. Once you can master these basic skills, and are prepared to learn, then you can make a handsome passive income for yourself.
Retired English and History teacher. Self development enthusiast and affiliate marketer. To learn more you can visit my website at: http://mphojanelebokoinformationexplosion.com/page_-1.html
