Category Archives: IMIT Topics

Building Relationships via Social Media

If you’re going to be successful with social marketing, it’s very important to pay attention to the relationships you build and tend to.

There’s nothing worse than the people who come onto Twitter or Facebook or any social site and then continuously plug whatever it is they’re selling. They don’t even bother to add value—it’s plug, after plug, after plug.

There are others who aren’t quite that bad, but just about. They play at talking to people and connecting, but really they see it as something they half-heartedly attempt. They sort of know they have to do it but are so laser focused on getting their promotion in front of people that everyone can see right through them.

The above examples are what not to do. It might be really tempting to do that… but don’t.

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How to Outline a Fiction Book

If you want to earn great money writing books and self-publishing, then you might want to consider writing fiction.

If you’ve written fiction before, then you might feel ready to jump back in and start publishing as soon as possible. There are plenty of opportunities in the sales charts to really earn a great income putting your skills and experience to use.

But, what if you’ve never written fiction before? It can be really intimidating to get started. For whatever reason, many people I talk to seem to think that it’s a lot easier to write nonfiction than it is to write fiction. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that you have to create entire worlds, storylines, characters, and concepts when you’re writing fiction. It’s easier when you’re writing nonfiction because you typically don’t have to invent anything. You might write based on fact or opinion or research.

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Leveraging the Success of Others

You most likely hang around with other Internet marketers online. That’s a wonderful thing– online marketing can be so isolating, especially when you work for yourself from home. But, as humans, we’re naturally drawn to working with other people. We crave social interaction. Just because we work online and maybe even usually prefer to work alone and definitely prefer working for ourselves doesn’t mean we work in a vacuum.

All that is to say that you can often dramatically increase the chances of your success by leveraging the success of others in joint venture partnerships. It happens all the time and, as long as it’s done well, it’s silly to pass the opportunity by. This will only work right if you’ve built up strong relationships with other marketers already, of course. If you don’t have those strong relationships, that’s something to work on and build.

Do you have marketer friends you feel would support you, especially if there was something great in it for them? That’s often the trick when you approach other people for JV opportunities– you can’t present it as you needing something; you have to present it as this amazing thing you can do for them and something out-of-this-world you can achieve together.

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