You know how often I get asked about how effective social networking is for someone’s business, from my clients or when I’m out networking from random business owners?? Hundreds a month.

It’s amazing. It’s amazing how many of us are on the social sites but also how many are not!

I think if you’re an entrepreneur, no matter whether you do business locally or globally, you should be doing some amount of social networking as ONE source of lead generation in your business.

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Online forums are a fantastic reminder of the influence the internet has had on society. Using forums to connect with your market is a natural progression.

Forums are online communities where individuals can discuss topics ranging from fly fishing to breast feeding to internet business. Discussions are conducted by posting notes to the forum. A single discussion is called a ‘thread’ and most forums have several – even hundreds – of threads going at any time.

What is truly remarkable about the use of forums is the personal quality of the discussions. Read some of the posts on forums such as warriorforum.com and you’ll soon see that the members become more like neighbors (and even friends) than strangers connected only by the keyboard and monitor in front of them.

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Traffic generation, I can say, is like the “heart” of the whole Internet Marketing business – you can have a really solid-looking, content rich website, you can have a very attracting offer put up for your customers, but if there’s no traffic going to your website, then you’ll not be able to get any recognition, and any sales at all.

There are lots of ways you can use to drive traffic to your websites and offer pages, both free and paid.

In this post, we’re going to take a look at some of them.

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