Social media can make you a lot of money online when used correctly. Lead generation and website traffic are two very important factors in being successful and making money online. Using social networks like Twitter and Facebook, we can generate a ton of leads in 30 minutes when you know how to do it.

Twitter: I think this lead generation technique works very well and I think it will continue to work well for a long time. What I do is type eg GDI in the search box. These are people trying to promote the Global Domains International affiliate program. Most of these people actually have no idea how to get signups and have little or, in most cases, absolutely no downlines. Not their fault though, someone above them in the downline has told them how to just sign up and then go on a social network and promote it, some of us know better and that this doesn’t work.

What I will do is look for these GDI members and follow them. Before I follow you though, I’ll post a new tweet telling you where you can get free information to start generating leads within GDI. They can then opt in and receive the information while I am building a mailing list.

However, you can do this with any affiliate program you can think of. You can follow people who play a popular game called FarmVille on Facebook. Most of you will have heard of it and will probably play it yourself. Follow some people talking about FarmVille and leveling up on Twitter. They may be asking for help. You can go to the ClickBank Marketplace and sign up for a FarmVille Strategy eBook that you can then earn money on when they buy it.

Digg, Mixx, Reddit, HubPages, these are all very good social networks. When you use a few of these together, you can really start to see some increases in website traffic, since they can all feed into each other. Once you know how to use all these social networks correctly, there is absolutely nothing that can stop you from being successful, except if you decide not to take action.

The internet has really progressed in recent years and now everyone is interacting with each other on a whole new level. There are so many websites, pages that are going viral every day. Originality makes up for a lot of this. Just look at the masses of fans of particular groups on Facebook over the last year. Some of these groups have started up and in less than 24 hours more than 100,000 fans have joined.

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