Imagine a Myspace without all the mindless adolescents and party freaks. Picture an online hangout that is restricted to internet marketers and networkers who are interested in doing business.
Such a place really exists! It’s called DirectMatches. You can network and socialize with thousands of like-minded people, and advertise any product or business for free. In fact, you will be matched with other people seeking the same benefits.
I highly recommend that you give DirectMatches a try and see what it can do for your business. In fact, DirectMatches is a business, itself. It is very useful as an addition stream of income. Although I believe in multiple income streams and don’t turn down what I receive from DirectMatches, that isn’t the reason I use it.
Let me show you a video that was put together by one of my mentors, Dave Dubbs, that shows how to set up DirectMatches. Also, he guides you through some of the primary uses of their system. Just click here to see his video.
One of the things that I did when I first started using DirectMatches was to begin inviting people to be my friends. Let me show you a quick and easy way to get friends. Please note I’m using the Firefox Browser. I use Firefox because I believe it’s the best for anyone involved in Internet Marketing. Click here to see why I feel that way.
If you don’t have Firefox you can pick it up for free by going to www.firefox.com which is their download site.
Gathering Friends on DirectMatches
It’s quick and easy to gather many friends on DirectMatches. With my quick and easy, yet manual system, I can invite 50 people to join my friends list in about 2 minutes. Again, I use Firefox to simplify this activity.
1. Click on the “Search” tab near the top left corner of the page.
2. Uncheck the 2 boxes and click “search”
3. While holding down the “ctrl” key, click on “Add me to contacts” for each of the 10 contacts on the page. Holding down the “ctrl” key will open each page on a new tab in your browser.
4. Close each of the 10 tabs that you just opened, and navigate to the next group of 10 contacts.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for as long as you wish (or until your results pages say “already added…” instead of “your request has been sent…”.)
Welcoming new members
I wrote this HubPage that describes one method of welcoming new members. I’m going to give you another method, here.
This method only works if you are a paid member. It won’t work for their free membership.
1. On your profile page, scroll down to the box that says “My Contacts” and click on “manage”.
2. Go to the bottom of the page and click on “check all” then click on “add to group mail”.
3. Navigate to the next page and repeat step 2.
You are only allowed to send 60 group mail message each day. If you are regularly adding new members as discussed in the previous section of this post, you will get many new members every day. I send a group mail out to a new set of members every day and can’t keep up with all my new contacts.
The letter you send out can be something as simple as a welcome to direct matches and and a generic statement about becoming freinds, sharing business ideas, or an offer of a free gift. It’s better not to spam people with a strong sales pitch of your business. Treat this similar to how you would a personal email account.
