Thursday, January 8, 2009

How to Grow Legitimate Home Based Businesses With Networking

You may decide on any of the ways to make extra money online and use several of the marketing methods available. But you will be making a mistake if you do not utilize networking to its full potential to promote legitimate home based businesses.

The following two points are often overlooked in networking. Make sure you maximize the earning potential of your business by doing this.

1. Most online marketers have a blog but not everybody utilizes its full potential. Inviting your readers to comment on your posts is a great way to network with visitors.

Hopefully you are already requesting people to comment on your blogs and doing the same for others. But you can take it a step further by sending them a thank you e-mail when they comment on your blog.

They don't have to, but they are taking the time to post comments on your blog, which is like a vote of confidence. So the least you can do is to thank them. The results may pleasantly surprise you from a networking standpoint.

As Internet marketers we tend to do business behind our email accounts and websites. This creates more obstacles in building personal relationships but it will certainly be of benefit to your business if you put in some effort to make it happen.

You can certainly expand ways to make extra money through networking by providing extra benefits to customers and in the process build strong business relationships. A simple thing like sending an email after a blog post, will count a lot towards strengthening such relationships.

2. We all know that it takes a lot of work to run an Internet business and networking can easily be forgotten in the everyday rat race. But I would encourage you to take the time to reply daily to emails you receive.

It is not only the decent thing to do, but someone in your down line may have a serious question regarding your business and you will certainly miss out on an opportunity to build a relationship with them if you don't reply.

I'm not talking about those e-mails that fill up your inbox with all kinds of wonderful offers, but the serious, sincere ones.

You may already have a frequently asked questions section on your site, but if your visitors still have questions, make sure you take the time to answer it truthfully.

These two points are often overlooked when creating ways to make extra money. Make sure you implement it to make your legitimate home based business as successful as possible.