HOW TO INITIATE A CONVERSATION USING FACEBOOK CHAT

 

OK, let’s be honest. How many of our friends do we really know? I have over 1500 friends on Facebook. Do you think I know them all personally? Absolute not! So, if you are looking to use Facebook to build you mlm business, then you need to start to get to know your friends! The best part about this is that if you have no marketing budget to use to build you business, this works GREAT! So, no more complaining that you don’t have any money for marketing because you don’t need any!

 So, how do we start…

 First: Make sure that your Facebook IM is set to online, so you can see your friends that are also online to chat with.

 

Second: Go select a friend that you want to chat with! Do not be intimidated by what their profile says at all and do not prejudge. You can even make it into a game even by selecting someone that’s profile intidates you and see what happens!

 

Third: Say Hi! Act like you are talking to a friend. Say something like the following:

 

“Hi, John, what’s going on?”

 

“Hi John, I love the quote you posted on your wall!”

 

“Hi John, I see you love the TV show called XXX! Did you watch it last night?”

 

I think you get the idea.

 

Now, when initiating a conversation with someone, there are many different scenarios that can happen:

 

1). You have a great conversation and they are interested in watching a presentation about your company

 

2). They respond with very short answers and they don’t ask anything about you. Honestly, if they are giving you short answers, I would end the conversation and unfriend them. (If you are close to being maxed out on friends). I mean, seriously, Do you want someone that doesn’t like to talk to others in your network marketing business anyway? Probably not!

 

3). They may not even respond at all. A couple things here…maybe they aren’t at their computer when you sent them an IM or maybe they are ignoring you…you never know here. I usually would give it one more chance and see if they respond the next time.

 

What I love about Facebook IM is that you can hold more than 1 conversation at a time. People sometimes step up and walk away from their computer for a second, so chats can take sometime, so instead of waiting on one person to reply…go contact someone else! I have had 4 conversations going at the same time and that was a lot to keep up with because they were all pretty active conversation. So, I wouldn’t recommend having more than 4 conversations

 

I challenge you to have a chat with 5 people this week and see how it works for you. Using this strategy, I have had MANY people watch my company presentation, I have many on the fence about joining my company, and I have had people join my company! So, it works! You will not feel a connection with everyone, so just keep that in mind when you are doing this!