Does your 2009 business plan include social networking? If so, do you know how to use social networking to explode your business? Online social networking is the newest weapon to get more customers.

Social networking helps you grow your business fast. Adding tastefully prepared video, good articles and content for your site can be very effective marketing tools you can use to inform people about your business and the services you can provide them.

If you are looking to use Social Networking to get more customers for your business then The Internet Business Coach is here to guide you in right direction. This article, which comes in three parts will hopefully help point you in the right direction.

Ok so you have heard all the fuss, you want to join in but are not really sure the best way to do it, below Dee one of our Internet Business Coaches gives an overview of the main points you need to cover in order to get great coverage for your business.

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Social media is the phenomenon of our age builds faster than any other online process at the moment and is probably the most baffling to many businesses, however you know it must be useful if rock stars and even politicians use it to get coverage and there is no reason you can not use it too providing you follow the rules so that it is for the client and not a total sales pitch. I am a firm believe in if you give something, you get something in return no matter how small.

So how to you do it well there are four main factors that need considering, creation, control, converse and convert. Create something good, control the way this can work for you, converse, converse and then converse some more and finally convert those prospects into paying customers.

To do this you need to first create good content or gets some for free –then publish it – content is always a big issue (what to write, how to write it) – even when you get it right you still can never have enough of it. Basically there are millions of places to publish content but too little good quality content to make your business stand out in a crowd and this is what you need to do.

Then to be seen you need to spend time to create profiles in all the major social network sites and any smaller ones that are specific to your unique business offering. The major social networks tend to be Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, and LinkedIn – millions of people visit these sites each day and as such make them a great forum to show off your business in. All you need to do to be in with a chance of promoting your business is to open an account. However do not do the bull in a china shop approach this will get you in trouble fast and possibly banned L from the network you have chosen to use.

Instead be more subtle create a blog (see our create a blog tutorial if you do not know how) then think about what knowledge you have in your field and create some really good content for your blog and articles from it to publish free in directories.

I heard a huh… one good piece on your area of expertise can be spun into many smaller articles that can be for submission to article directories (an article directory can help you to have a greater presence and help your SEO, in general the more articles you have is the more traffic you can potentially get to your site). Use these articles to create and post HubPages and Squidoo Lens’.

(A lens is a page made of modules that work on categories i.e. about you (called a squid who) or videos (called a squid vids) – get it… and a HubPage is a rich content webpage (images, text, design etc) you can publish articles on any topic as your own hub).

ok thats it for part one see you soon for part two