How to Make Money Online – How Important is Social Media

Article Summary: According to Jim Tobin and Lisa Brazier's book by the same name, "Social Media is a Cocktail Party." In this book the authors enumerate rules of engagement that work successfully in both the online Social Media and the everyday cocktail party. So, if you know how to behave, mingle and network at a cocktail party, you’d better apply that knowledge to the online social media as well.


Looking at the social media world, there's a cocktail party every minute of the day, you just have to be online and know how to get into the middle of it without paying for advertisement or how to throw your own physical cocktail party.

There are plenty of social media venues that you can take a look at and you can hopefully become proficient with all of them: Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Del.icio.us, LinkedIn, Flickr, StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit and Technorati to name just a few that you might know already. There's a lot of potential right here, don't waste it! There is not limit to how much you can make money using these sites and to how much they can help you make money working online.

If you take your cell phone with you everywhere like I do, you can be connected to these social media sites throughout the entire day, no matter where you are. Just send one little text, update your status and the world knows that you're still alive and kicking. It’s as simple as that! Please remember the importance of being on people's minds at all times. You never know when the need for what you offer will hit them and then there you are, reminding them you are there to fulfill their needs. Or maybe their best friend gives them a call complaining about this one thing, and your contact remembers that you actually offer a solution to that exact problem. Bingo! Can you say new customer, easy referral and sure purchase at the same time?

Sixty percent of the Americans that use social media interact with businesses on these websites already. So, you’d better get a piece of that pie and as soon as possible.

Thirty six percent of online users have a better attitude towards companies that use social media, according to a Universal McCann research project.

Why not take that information to heart and add all those social media sites to your favorites? Remember that as an Internet marketer you’ll need to take advantage of every opportunity to make money online if you want to be successful.