Have a problem? Use Social Media to Solve It
ByOne of the hardest things about being an entrepreneur is not having someone to bounce ideas off of. You don’t have anyone in the next cubicle to ask “hey, how do you do …”
However, if you’ve built a good social media network, you can have the next best thing.
I’m currently organizing a course – Getting Started with Social Media Marketing: How to Use Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter to build your brand, increase traffic and make more money. I also set up an affiliate program – other people can sell my course and get a commission on the sale. I used a service that was recommended to me, figured how to set it up so Paypal will accept the payments and purchases will be added to the appropriate Aweber mailing list. Then the problems started.
First, several people I emailed to invite into my affiliate program couldn’t receive my emails because their ISP blocks links to the affiliate provider. Then I got an email from a friend. She visited my sales page and her anti-virus software warned her my site contained spyware. I was pulling my hair out.
Shopping cart; that was the solution. More expensive and difficult to set up than I wanted at this time, but that’s the cost of doing business. Then I heard from a respected colleague with more experience then me that he won’t participate in affiliate programs tracked by this shopping cart because of errors it makes.
Arrrrrrrrgh!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did I mention this was only 10:30 am? I was stumped. What do I do? Where do I turn?
Then I got the answer: my social network. I tweeted about the problem and got four good replies right away. I posted it on LinkedIn and so far have seven great solutions. Yes, some of the advice is contradictory, but I have more information to go on and more options. Even better, everyone giving me suggestions is recommending a product they actually use.
So, next time you’re stumped go on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook to ask for help.
Andrea J. Stenberg
How has your network helped you? Leave a comment and tell us how your network as pulled you out of the fire.
After so many weeks I am able to find a blog providing good information about the affiliate programs. I am glad to see that there are still few persons on the internet who are NOT using auto blog posters. Creating a blog like yours and maintaining it are difficult tasks but you managed it. Ok! Come to the point. However, you have tried to give good information about affiliate programs but I am still against affiliate programs. I mean fault is not in the affiliate programs but in the people. They do not want to work hard and leave the programs after some time. Now, you might be thinking, if I am against affiliate programs then why I am here at your blog. Actually I am doing some sort of research on affiliate programs and when started reading your blog, I sticked to it and could not stop myself writing comment. I am not so much against affiliate programs, but my nature is a sort of experimenting. I keep on doing experiments for making money in new ways. If you visit my website, clicking on my name in this comment then you are bound to get amazed. If, I write more about my site then you will think that I am spamming and I do not want to get my comment considered as spam. So, again from the begining, you have done a very good job! Hard work is appreciated! Well done! Thanks for providing such a nice detailed information. Keep it up!