I have always used forum marketing as my main marketing tool and it has been extremely succesfull for me, I even wrote a specialist peice of sofwtare for this very reason but I would love to hear other peoples views on using social networks as a marketing tool. How do you use social networks and what are the best ones for marketing purposes?
I prefer Facebook Marketing There is no other low-cost promotional method out there that will easily give you large numbers of visitors, some of whom may come back to your website again and again.
I do create profiles on many social networking site just for one way backlinking but I'm not big on participation. I do receive a little traffic from twitter and facebook to my ecommerce sites, but have not seen much conversion, I can only hope visitors bookmark my sites for future shopping. Social Network site are great for at least creating backlinks and branding. I have my own new social community network with is free to join => Home Business Leads
I found linkedin to be one of the best ones to attract clients, facebook the second and twitter the third.