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Facebook of late is like one big popup ad. It is social networking not social sales.....

Nice article Josh. I absolutely agree. I have done that mistake when i just started networking online. I went and subscribed on every website i found and couldn't find any time to participate in any of them or even follow up on my personal questions because i couldn't remember where i posted it.

Now, I focus only on BP that has a lot of info and facebook.

Good article Josh. You bring up many good points on why limiting the number of social sites you participate in is a good thing.

On the other hand, I don't think that putting yourself out there to as many people as possible is a bad thing. I don't personally prefer either method, but I think that creating a profile that sticks out on every relevant site possible would give you an edge over those who only can be found on a few sites.

Why not give your purpose more exposure? For those who care, it shouldn't take long to create a pretty good profile. Just change it up a little on each site and be prepared to handle a lot more traffic. IMO you should pray for more traffic so you could hire a few noobs to handle your mail.

I think if you create something flashy enough that it makes it very possible. Then once they click that link to get to your website, it's all up to your content to keep them.

It's like seeing that really pretty girl sitting across you at bar. You really want to approach and learn more about her, yet you know nothing about her other than that she looks pretty hot from a distance. The dealbreaker could turn out to be that once you finally meet her,well um.....she turns out to be a man.

Great example Jessee of what Josh is talking about. Exposure for exposure's sake can get you into a realtionship that you do not want to be in.

All relationship's need to be nutured to be effective for you. And a profile is like the beginning of a relationship.

Imagine what her ummmm his profile would look like if he/she did not take care of it! Would you even look twice?

Am I hearing you correctly?

It does not matter if you are two-faced, or twenty-faced, as long as the ends justify the means?

Jesse, I am just having a little fun by putting the profile thing into different terms. It is ok that we agree on the many profile's point. There is no wrong or right really with this just opinions.

The two-faced or twenty-faced thing would be like having two profiles or twenty profiles. Anyone doing this I would suggest having the SAME profile on all the different social networks that they use, that way you do look a lot more like yourself instead of possibly three or four different people.

I do realize that sometimes your "profile" is taken and you might have to change it a little in order to network on one or more sites.

Overextending yourself almost always leads to the economic downturns like we have today. It starts off as a good thing, but it can not be sustained and I think that is the problem that Josh is alluding to as hurting you in the end.

I would suggest having the SAME profile on all the different social networks that they use, that way you do look a lot more like yourself instead of possibly three or four different people.

You're right about having a dormant profile Josh.
What I was trying to get at was........ if it ever comes to the point were you're having trouble responding to all your questions or keeping up with your workload, then great. It means you have people interested in you and whatever you have to say. Most people on here have hopes of expanding and growing their business.

I think it is not good to make multiple profiles.
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