doing, they will tell you. The door is now open for you to tell them what you do. In most cases, you will be asking questions. That's the key to pre-qualifying people. Ask questions and you will be able to tell quickly within a few short conversations, if they have the potential to be a part of your business. You will know them by how they answer your questions. When you're talking to people online via instant messenger, don't send them long notes about what you are doing. They don't care and don't want to hear it. Proceed slowly and parcel out bits of information based on their replies to your notes. Go slow, use your head, keep it short, and read between the lines. You WILL know when they have lost interest or are losing interest by the way they reply to you.
Community Networking Community networking is all about promoting your business/product/service in a community setting in online communities like Ryze, Yahoo, Direct Match, My Space, Circle of Friends and other forums that have like minded people and marketers in them. You can do community networking in just about any online group. Your goal, plain and simple, is to talk to people about what you have to offer. You can find people by doing searches and contacting them based on the information in their profiles. It sometimes takes a bit of work to find people's e mail addresses, but with Googling and cross checking on the Net, the 45
