Have you been struggling with generating leads, sales or just plain contacts? Are you fed up with people promising the stars and never deliver any tangible results?

Been there done that.. can’t remember if I’ve got the t-shirt but still had plenty of lessons learned from back then. I was anxiously trying to get some leads for my network marketing business and any traffic for my pity websites at all. My websites at that time were getting hardly any traffic and even if someone somehow landed on my pages he or she never returned again. I didn’t know what I am doing wrong… At some point I decided it is useless to spend time with my websites as they were going nowhere… I had totaled the fortune of $127.50 for the period of 2 months… I decided to quit and get a job. This happened on a very sunny Sunday morning…

Later that day I met with a friend of mine. We both started with our online ventures at the same time. Surprisingly he was doing very well. He told me he got almost $1000 in sales in the current month and even showed me the check. WTF!? I thought! (..and to be honest I think I even said it) How could that be!? After all we were promoting the same affiliate programs and the same network marketing company… How was that possible??

I will tell you how he did it. I will cut the long story short. The answer was: MySpace.. While I was trying to SEO my websites and putting hours and sweat in finding links and submitting my websites to directories he was doing Social Media Marketing… Adding friends, creating multiple accounts, sending tons of messages. Basically spamming the s**t out of the poor MySpace users… (If you have ever received messages in your MySpace inbox about ringtones or noni juice that was probably him :)

Anyways, I am not saying what he did was right, not at all. But what this experience gave me was the feeling that there are a lot of opportunities in the social media, for marketers, for small business owners or just for people who want to network, or find partners for their business, or grow their downline… you name it!

Right now there are tons of big social media networks, bookmarking sites and hubs. I am sure you can name a couple yourself or if you can’t than you really need to spend more time on this blog with me… Those can bring the traffic and they convert pretty well if you know how to use them… and the best thing is it is free! (most of the time :)

In this post I am not going to give you any specific details. I will make that later with a separate post for each one of the big players. I will cover how you can use them and will give you tools you can use as well. It has always been about who has the biggest gun, strange but it is the same now with social media marketing as well..

If you are really interested in growing your business through social media, which I hope you are, then look forward to the series of posts I will be making on this topic. I will give you tangible things, ideas and resources you can actually work with. I will pour my personal experience on those pages just to save you the hassle of having to go through the same errors I did.

The first ones on the list of big players will be Twitter and Facebook. Stay tuned for more…