What Are Friends For?

What Are Friends For?

There was a young soldier who wrote back home to his Mother, saying
everyone in the Army was out of step with him.  Sounds like someone I
know personally!  So, much for listening to the beat of a different
drummer.

After building friends' lists in Social Sites for two years, I still
have questions on their merit for Network Marketing promotion.

I have maybe a 2 dozen or so people I can truly call friends - people
who pick up the phone and call me, send me messages on IM and at my
email address or drop by my site to leave a comment on a regular
basis. These are people I can discuss my day with.

Now, it would be great if I could do that with the thousands of
friends and extended people on my lists.  But these are people who
have opted into my lists but we never made an personal connection to
speak of.

So, its all about Relationship Sponsoring - a fancy word for saying
"get to know me before you try to sell me" - sounds Great but is not
so practical the way lists are managed on these sites to protect
people from spamming. 

So, is this list building strategy for real or just an illusion.

Let the truth be told: Network Marketing in social sites is 90%

marketers and 10% opportunity seekers.  

Anybody on a social site can visit my profile pages, blogs, forums
and business pages to know more about me. They don't have to be on a
so-called "contact list" unless they really want to get to know me
personally or read my promotional offers. So, which is it?

So, why can't we have a system that separates your lists in two or
there check marks for folders - A list is no good if you can't manage it.

(1) - Will accept promotional offers
(2) - will not accept promotional offers
(3) - personal relationship only.

And give members freeedom to group mail their lists, when necessary. 

Or, do away this silly list building strategy entirely.

Some members have thousands of people on their lists and seem to do
very well.  They won't tell us how they do it because these people
don't spend much time in discussion groups.  They are out there
promoting their businesses 24/7.

at thehouseofmax Business-Social Network (to be launched soon), we
hope to find ways and means for people to effectively market whatever
they have to sell and build relationship at the same time that
doesn't depend on an ulterior motive of selling them something.

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