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8. Meeting interesting people.
Sometimes it’s nice to meet interesting people through social networking. This adds more variety and spice to life.
One day day you might get a postcard from a traveling couch surfer who is passing through your town, and he wanted to meet up. You got in touch via Twitter after midnight one night, and it turned out he was leaving your town early the next morning… in a matter of hours. Since youi normally get up early anyway, yoiu invited him to stop by your house before he leaves town. He comes by just after 5am, and you talked for about 30 minutes. Then you give him some bananas for the road. It was a quick connection, but it can be fun to hear about some of the other cities he has visited and what he learned about them. And it would be a unique way to start the day.
9. Making money
Although it may not be your main focus, you can make some extra money as a result of social networking. You cabn do a few small business deals with people you met on social networking sites, all of which can be profitable. You could also do at least a dozen interviews for people who find you through those sites, so I guess you could consider that ot be free PR.
The total money that you can directly attribute to social networking contacts might not be much… maybe an extra $5-10K in the past year with ongoing residual income of $200-500 per month. You can use those sites primarily for personal networking (i.e. making friends), not to make money, so you can regard these business deals as a side bonus. I’m sure you could do more in this area if you used those sites primarily for business reasons, but that might interest you right now. You can derive more satisfaction from a good friendship than you do from a profitable business deal. This year make it your priority to be a your my social life, not your business.
I’m sure there can be a been a boost in airdrops registrations as a result of your presence on social networking sites, but you have no way to quantify that. If you had to guess, maybe it was an extra 500 or so for the first airdrops (less than 10% of total registrations).
Your mileage here may vary. Obviously you don’t have to start from scratch with social networking. You might be able to “cheat” by leveraging your blog to build sizable networks on other sites. It’s enough for me if all the value is on the personal side; anything that happens on the professional side is gravy. That said, I think there’s enough potential in social networking that if you really wanted to, you could probably make a decent living from it.
"Republished from StevePavlina.com"
