Nowadays there are dozens of Social Networking sites around but there are two that stand out from the crowd. They are Twitter and Facebook; these are the most popular social networking sites by far. There is around 15 million people on Twitter and 65 million people on Facebook.

This means then that you are sure to find a large enough amount of people that will be interested in your product/home business opportunity no matter how niche it is!

Even though there are millions of people on these social networking sites, there are top tips on how to find targeted traffic, this will prevent you from social networking with people that will not be interested in your product. Here’s the top tips on how to do this: 1. Have your account/profile reflect your business/product and let a person know who you are straight away!

2. Have a bio about yourself and tie it in with what particular niche you are involved with, if you’re an Internet Marketer tell the viewer how you first got involved with Internet Marketing.

3. Make your profile/account personal; do this by including picutres of yourself and family and friends. As soon as a viewer visits your profile they will see you are a real person and not some spamming robot!

4. Have links to your sites on your profile; to do this on Facebook and Twitter have the links in your “about me” section and leave them whenever you update your status. This way your friends or followers on the social networking sites can easily find out more about you and your product.

5. Send an email to any new followers or friends; draft up a generic email where you introduce yourself and give a brief description as to how you can help them, also ask to hear more about that person. This will lead to you building up relationships with your followers, this is important because people buy from those they like and trust, make sure you include their first name in the email.

6. Constantly update your social networking status with helpful and to the point information. For example I’m an internet marketer so I continually give people access to useful Internet Marketing information; it could be a free report or a link to a helpful site (can be your own site as well!). This brands you as a leader as you are helping others, people will look up to as you can direct them to success.

7. Specify the people you are friends with on social networking sites. This gives you targeted traffic; to do this search for keywords that appear on other peoples profiles. If for example I am promoting a new dog food product I would search the word “dog”, this will bring me up results of people that have the word “dog” on their profile meaning they likely own a dog and so would be interested in buying a dog food product.

Key point – limit the number of people you add on Facebook to 20 a day and the number of people you add on Twitter to 200 a day.

Finally my key point if you want to market effectively using social networking sites is to keep it up; continually add people to drive more traffic to your sites and frequently update your status.

Not everything is a scam. Online money; make all you want as long as you are willing to put forth an effort. Before jumping in to any opportunity to earn some cash online you should always do your research to avoid those scams that are out there. A few helpful tips can be found below.

The number one piece of advice that anyone could every get is pretty straight forward. If it sounds way to good to be true then chances are it most likely is. There are hundreds of business opportunities out there on the internet throwing headlines at you that say “Make $1000 Per Day With Only 1 Hours Work!”. While most likely these outrageous programs aren’t real you should always research any program you have an interest in. Dont fall victim like thousands have before you.

If you do stumble across an opportunity that you just know is for real then do some research for proof before you dive right in. There are scam artists out there good enough to completely cover up the obvious and thousands of people will fall victim because they didn’t do their research. Always look for the proof!

With just a little time and effort it is pretty easy to find out all you need to know about a person or a business opportunity. There are even sites that specialize in just this. These are great places to start your search since they normally are accompanied by complaints and or compliments from actual users.

Another great tip for checking out an opportunity is direct contact. If you can find a contact number try giving it a call. If it’s extremely difficult to get through to a real person then it’s a good indicator that in the event you want a refund you’re not going to be able to reach anyone to arrange it.

The last piece of advice we are going to discuss is using the Better Business Bureau for information. A quick search of a programs website address will return results on any complaints that have been filed for whatever reason. This can be very useful since the BBB investigates all claims that are reported.

In the end, use your instincts before giving money to anyone offering you a business opportunity. In most cases, your instincts will never let you down.