Many of my clients have been talking to me about their social networking overwhelm. Every day they hear about different social networks; they are not sure how social bookmarking is different from regular bookmarking; they want to add more functionality to their blogs to make them more “social” and then they still have to find time to work with their clients.

If you are completely overwhelmed with all the information you hear about social networking and everything you have to do to participate in social networking, step back, take a deep breath and follow this plan to get out of social networking overwhelm and get social networking to work for you:

Make A Conscious Decision To Make Changes To Your Social Networking Process

Nothing will happen until you decide to get out of the overwhelm and create a new system that will be easy to follow and that will bring you better results.

Commit to making small changes and you will see how much less overwhelming social networking will become for you.

Create Your Social Networking Shortlist

You must be visible and active on social networks to get clients. But if you are a member of 10 or 15 social networking web sites, you simply do not have the time to be visible and active on all of them. As a result, you will not get clients on any of them.

Instead of trying to be active on 10-15 social networks, pick 2 or 3 and spend time there. Become visible, become active and become helpful – you will get many clients that way.

Don’t Feel Guilty When You Can’t Get To Your Social Networks

There will be days when you are just too busy with clients and will not be able to get to your social networks. Don’t beat yourself up for that. Instead, schedule your social networking activities for the next few days.

Automate As Much As You Can

There are quite a few things that you can automate in social networking. For example, you can have your blog posts posted automatically to your Facebook and Twitter accounts.

You can pre-schedule your Twitter updates. You can have your Twitter updates posted automatically to your Facebook account, and more.

You should still add a personal touch by personally participating in social networking, but automating certain aspects of social networking, such as posting blog posts, will simplify and enhance your social networking at the same time.

Create A Social Networking System

Having a system will tell you exactly what to do and when to do it on social networking web sites. It will tell you whom you want to connect with, what you want to share and how you want to do that. Knowing that will completely simplify your social networking and help you get more results at the same time.

If you are feeling overwhelmed with social networking, you are not getting the results you could be getting. Instead of continuing this way, step back and use the ideas above to simplify your social networking. Click Here To Join Me For A FREE Call On How To Simplify Your Social Networking and Get More Clients

Biana Babinsky

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