Facebook has a way to keep your list of followers organized. This marketing tip will explain how and why you should manage your Facebook lists. It will allow you to pin point target your followers and let you socialize with the ones who will benefit your business.

You’ll find out how to manage your personal friends and business contacts on Facebook. This tip will show you how to use friend lists effectively and how to categorize and organize your lists so they are beneficial to you as you grow your network.

You don’t want a big list of 5,000 people you don’t really know, cause they could spam your wall, clog up your newsfeed, etc. You want to filter out the important Facebook contacts.

OK, here’s how you get ‘r done!

1. Go to the Friends tab on your Facebook profile page.
2. You will see a Lists area on the left side if you’re new, or a Create New List button at the top if you have friends already. Click  on the Create link.
3. Now choose a category for your new list. Be logical and create lists like: friends, family, business, etc. Your friends can belong to multiple lists, so don’t add too many categories. You are just trying to get the right messages to and from the right people here. It’s a good idea to create a special Active list for those who interact with you often.
4. To add friends to an existing list, just click on Edit List at the top.
5. Then either type in a name or click on a friends photo to add them to the list.
6. After you have selected who to include on your list, make sure you click Save List.
7. When you make a friend request, you can click Add to list, and put them in a category in the dropdown menu. This will categorize new friends right away. Get into the habit of doing this and you will build a much more powerful and easy to manage contacts list.
8. Great you now have your Facebook friends in categorized lists!

If you are planning on sending messages to a list, remember that you need to keep it below 20 members and warn them that their replies will be seen by everyone else in the group.

To message more than 20 people at a time, consider multiple lists (like Biz, Biz1, Biz2) or start your own Facebook group.

Lists are great for family, close friends, mastermind groups, etc. that nobody else needs to see. They are absolutely necessary for to grow your Facebook business. Hope this Facebook marketing tip helps.

This Twitter Marketing Tip will tell you 10 things you do and don’t need to do on Twitter. It’s very important that you learn and follow these rules, or you may get the Twitter slap!

1. Make sure you Tweet everyday.
2. Make sure that you mix good content in with your Twitter sales links, if you use them. Quotes, jokes, etc. are good.
3. Make sure not to repeat the same exact Tweet over and over. It’s being viewed as duplicate content now.
4. Do not follow too many people at one time. 100 an hour seems fairly safe, with no more than 500 a day.
5. Do not unfollow too many people at one time, keep it to less than 100 a day.
6. Do not follow and then unfollow people in succession right away, leave a few days in between.
7. Don’t automate in any way the sending of direct messages to your followers. The welcome message seems safe as long as it’s not spam.
8. Do not spam your followers with so much junk that they block you.
9. You can use automation to help keep up with some of your tasks on Twitter, but don’t abuse it. Stick to the guidelines above.
10. You can send links to mini-sites such as a sales page or squeeze page or to your blog. It’s best to give them a valuable treat for their email address.

These Twitter Tips should help keep you out of trouble. Just keep it simple and fun. Don’t do anything you don’t want done to you. Value your followers as much or more as you value your own Twitter account. Give them valuable info and lead them off Twitter to your real stash of goodies and you’ll see your online marketing business explode.

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Ever get discouraged and frustrated as you work at your online business? I know I do. There are so many marketing tips and tutorials floating around that you get brain clog just trying to figure out what works and what doesn’t.

I stumbled across this video and thought I should share it with others like myself. Please enjoy and remember to do these two things. 1. Take action 2. Don’t give up. Do these two simple things and you will succeed.

Tomorrow, Friday Oct. 17th, my friend and mentor,
Coach Lou D’alo of Power Up Coaching fame,
is going to have a FREE teleseminar at 3pm EST
to intoduce his brand NEW training class,
30-day Authority Marketing Intensive . It is jam
packed with marketing tips .

This a unique and valuable opportunity for you.
Unlike many of the gurus who promise you they’ll
be personally available and then have all
sorts of “fine print” to hand you off or limit your
access, Lou will be personally available for
you during the entire 30 days.

Now obviously, Lou will have some boundaries
around how much and when he’ll be available,
but only to the extent that he can continue
to serve his private/individual clients as well.

You’ll have access to a private email address
to ask questions throughout the 30 days, as
well as at least one orientation call – usually
a two hour call – and two full-on “intensive”
implementation days where he’ll be online and
working with you for at least 8 hours (longer
if you need, and he has enough energy to
be productive). :0)

Yup, you’ll get yourself a:
- Coach
- Copywriter
- Webmaster
- Confidant
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- Motivator
- Skilled marketing professional
- Successful online marketer
and last, but not least
- all around nice guy…

For about $6.23 and hour (assuming
8 hour days).

If you sign up for his course, all I can say is…
Congratulations – you are SO savvy!

I talked to Lou today about the course and
here’s a brief summary of what you
can expect from him and the time you’ll
have together:

1. You’ll know how to design high-converting
landing/optin pages, and you’ll have an optin
minisite up and running, collecting leads.

2. You’ll know how to use a blog to create
authority, branding and credibility – and to
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we’ll also install your Authority Blog Site !

3. You’ll know how to create compelling
sales letters and sales-producing product
minisites…and, of course, we’ll have your
very own product sales minisite up and
running and generating sales – possibly
even before we complete our 30 days!

4. You’ll learn how to create a pre- and
post- purchase autoresponder sequence
that (a) inspired prospects to buy and
(b) follows up after the sale to ensure
customer satisfaction — all automatically!

Oh, yes – and we’ll help you write and
put these autoresponders into action
during our 30 days.

5. You’ll learn how to use teleseminars
to promote and deliver your products
and services, as well as to create new
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and more affordably than you ever thought
possible. And..yes, you’ll DO a product
creation seminar if you want to!

6. You’ll learn how to take your teleseminar
recordings and instantly turn them into
podcasts ! Yes, you’ll have your very own
podcast/internet radio show on itunes and
other podcast directories by the time we’re
done!

7. You’ll learn the power of article marketing
and write a handful of articles that you’ll
submit to article directories and start
generating even more free traffic to your
high-converting optin pages!

8. You’ll watch me as I create a membership
site with wordpress and see how easily and
affordably you can do the same!

9. You’ll find out how to set up ecommerce
for your products and services – affordably.

10. You’ll learn how to outsource professional
quality graphics for your products, services
and web sites – quickly and affordably.

11. You’ll learn how to transform your teleseminar
recordings into physical products (CD/DVD format)
that you can sell or use as lead generators for
$1.75 each! (this is really cooool).

12. You’ll learn how to drive highly qualified and
targeted visitors to your website in minutes.

…and much more, which I’ll tell you about as
time goes on.

No more delays. No more overwhelm. No more
wondering “what do I do next” or “how do I do that”…

Lou’s goal is that you have a complete “Authority
Marketing System” up and running at the end of
the program that will serve as the foundation for
your marketing, product creation and product
delivery platform for all your future goods and
services.

I hope you’re as excited about this as I am!
Rest assured that Lou will “be there for you”.
He has been my mentor for a while now and
never let me down. If you want to finally
get your online business going, get to the
30 Day Authority Marketing Intensive .
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I also highly recommend Lou’s
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Blessings From My Kitchen Table,

Carol