A huge market

Facebook is the website that is no 3 on the list of most visited sites online. The world internet users have reached 1.7 billion people according to the 2009 stats on internet users. 29% of global internet users (510 million people) visit facebook. As an internet marketer, it is important for you to learn some tips how to use it for your benefit.

Network marketers the world over jumped in, to market to all the millions of Facebook users and all the other social networking sites. Most social media marketing strategies are very irritating to the users of the social media sites.

Read on to get some Facebook marketing tips that will assure you success and stop you from annoying people.

Stop walking around like a billboard

Think about it. What is Facebook? It is no different to a club or a party. A place to be introduced to new people.

Most online marketers do not think about their social media marketing strategies.Or did you just jump in like everyone else and started adding friends like mad? Inviting them to be friends and then stuffing a business card in their face for accepting your "request to be a friend"?

It would be annoying to go to a party in the real world with a billboard around your neck advertising your business - it is simply not done. Everyone will think you behave weird and you will be avoided at all cost. It is sad that in the online world we continually do what we will perceive as strange in the real world -we talk about our businesses all the time to everyone even if we have just met them. This is appalling but happening every single day on Twitter and Facebook and other social media sites. We teach people in our downline to do the same and to hunt down new friends only to hand our business cards to them. Take off the advertising board on your back and be a real friend and leader.

Connect with people and build relationships

The reality is, people are on Facebook to build relationships and connect with other people with similar interest. They do not want to be sold to. They no not care about your business. Unless they know you, they also don’t care about you. They choose to connect with people that they find interesting. Leaders attract followers to them naturally - this is normal human pshychology. A leader differentiate himself, adds value and do things different to anyone else.

Use Facebook to promote YOU as the leader you ARE and show the value you have to offer. But be real and be a real person. Let attraction marketing work for you.

Six tips for success in Facebook marketing

Here are 6 tips that will assist you to use Facebook as a marketing tool without annoying your friends

1. Ensure your profile information says who you are and what you stand for. Keep it short and truthful. Don't sell your business in your profile

2. Do not put your mlm company replicated website link in the website field of your profile. Rather put a link to your blog where they can connect with you and learn more about YOU.

3. Know your own unique selling proposition. Why would somebody join you in your business? Knowing the answer to this question is critical to your success. Make a 20 word summary of who you are and add it to your profile. If you do not have an answer, this is probably the reason for not being successful.

4. There is no point to add hundreds of friends daily if you have no intention to connect with them.

5. If you have an active Twitter account where you tweet many times in one day, do not connect Twitter and Facebook. Twitter is not Facebook and you will annoy your Facebook friends and force them to remove you as a friend or hide you from their feed. What could be worse?

6. Make an effort to search for people on your opt-in list by searching for their e-mails and request them to connect with you on Facebook.This will differentiate your e-mail from the hundreds of e-mails they receive from other lists and will increase your e-mail reading rate.I open e-mails from friends first, don’t you?

I use Facebook marketing together with my other marketing techniques. Applying these few simple tips will add a lot of great friends (with an added bonus of converting many into leads), make you stax of money and all that without irritating anyone!

Jim Chao , my mentor, has made an exclusive free webinar on Facebook Marketing Tips. This is very valuable and offers a new approach to help you to stand out from the crowd of other network marketers that uses Facebook for marketing. Jim believes in building relationships and connecting before marketing and will show you you how to, as well.