
As we are all aware social media is a great way to connect with people from around the world. Your social media success depends on how well you build relationships.
It has made the world a smaller place but has made it so easy to build relationships and businesses wherever you are in the world.
All social media sites are to help you start to build relationships with potential prospects and business partners.
This all starts with the friend request and it’s the one thing that so many people get wrong. And I don’t mean just a little bit wrong but completely wrong.
Here’s what most people do. They sit on Facebook and just add friends without sending a message. Not even a hello or how are you as they are more focused on the quantity rather that the quality of relationship.
So we know that’s lot’s of people don’t send welcome messages but you know what I don’t get hung up on it I just accepting them and send them a welcome message.
It’s actually a great opportunity for you to take the lead and find out more about them.
My mentor Jordan Schultz likes to keep this whole thing really simple and told me to just welcome them and ask a simple question.
The question is “What do you do?”
I have found that by taking this approach I get more response. One of the reasons is people love to talk about themselves. Some more than others, I have had whole articles and life stories from one or two people.
I think it’s a great question to ask and it will get your conversation going and it can lead into all sorts of other questions. You really will find out a lot about somebody just from starting with that question.
But here’s the thing, even though most people don’t send a welcome message I still accept them and send a message with that question. They still don’t respond!
How would you feel if you were talk to me at a party of at an event and I just completely blanked you?
You are not going to think to highly of me are you but that’s what so many people on social media sites are doing everyday.
My post today is a bit of a rant and if you are reading this and thinking OMG I do this, then just spend a little time each day responding to your messages. It is so much more fun as well than just clicking the add friend button.
And if you are feeling frustrated when people don’t respond don’t worry about it. At the end of the day it’s not you it’s them.
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