How To Make Money Online Without Selling Anything

Here's an interesting Social Marketing question that was asked at the recent Niche Affiliate Marketing System Workshop:

Q: Why would I want to build an online presence using Social Media?

But it is now about so much more! It can be about that, well. The question came from the notion that Social Media and Social Marketing are just about connecting with your friends.

Get Profits Get Traffic. Get Viewed. Get Found.

They would be the 4th largest country in the world, if the number of people who have Facebook accounts were a country. It is now the number two website in the world, while Facebook may have started as something just for college students.

Let's take a closer look at the value of strong online visibility. And that is just one Social Marketing site.

You are heads and tails above everyone else, when you get found, in all the noise in your niche. And here is the bottom line: Getting found is everything. Having a strong online presence allows you to erect "multiple sign posts" leading to your information. The first and most important step is getting found, get Found - Because there are millions of sites on the Internet.

Which leads to the next step, you can then direct them to other resources you may have. Like and trust you, they begin to know, as prospects begin to consume your information and realize that you know what you are talking about. Prospects can view your information contained in the signposts you have erected, get Viewed - The steps here are simple - once you get found.

You are getting yourself if front of where the traffic is going and then directing it where you want it to go, which is to access more information from you.In this way you are not chasing traffic, get Traffic - One of the beauties of having many sign posts in your Social Marketing system is that you can use these signpost to direct the prospect (traffic) where you want them to go.

They are much more likely to buy from you, followed by an offer of a paid resource that is going to help them even more, when the prospect finds more good information from you that is helpful to them. Then what the prospect finds once they get there is a very close second, if getting found is the most important thing in Social Marketing. Get Profits - When traffic is properly directed it turns into profits.