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Online and offline businesses, small enterprises and mega companies, “mom and pop” shops, and the huge franchise known around the world. What do all these businesses have in common? They are flocking to the internet for promotion and marketing purposes. Among the tools and strategies being employed by businesses on the internet, social media is probably the hippest, coolest, “do or die” thing out there now-a-days. So it is worth exploring the question: does social network marketing work?

THE CONCEPT

The idea behind social media is for people to be, well, social. The creators of sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, did not set out to create a space where businesses and marketers could come and make hundreds or even thousands of dollars without spending a cent. Their intention was to give people a save environment in which to connect and build relationships. In fact, ALL social media, with the possible exception of Facebook business pages, frown upon the idea of “Spamming” which is nothing else than bombarding people with unsolicited offers, sales, and/or business promotions of any kind. So, with that in mind, it stand to reason that the concept of social media marketing is a bit of an oxymoron. How do you sell your product or service without presenting your sales pitch or offering people your latest and greatest deal? Well, the short answer is that you don’t.

THE MISTAKE

Hundreds of businesses and marketers are flocking to social media with the sole intention of making money. You’d be hard-pressed to visit any social network without finding someone who posts link after link in the hopes of having someone bite the bait. Many such “marketers” have been banned from these sites, only to come back with a new email address, create a new account and repeat the same mistake over and over and over. The reality is that using social media to pitch a sale, promote a business or enroll prospects does NOT work. You cannot enter these sites thinking that you will create a solid empire out of them and expect to see results. Keep in mind that people do not come to these sites looking to buy anything. People go to amazon or ebay, credit card in hand ready to make a purchase. That is never the case with social media. They are there to be social!

THE BOTTOM LINE

That being the case, then, why is it that so many continue to rave about the wonder of social network marketing? Well, the bottom line is that social media is a great tool for that which it was intended to do, which is build relationships in a viral, high-speed, global manner. If you think about that statement very carefully, you’ll have the answer you’ve been looking for. Does social network marketing work? Well, if you take the time to use social media to build real, meaningful, effective relationships, then you have just found the most powerful and effective tool available to any entrepreneur or business out there. See, the trick is that you cannot sell anything on these sites, except real content and real value. If you take the time to connect with people and show them that you are genuinely concerned with helping THEM, they will begin to trust and respect you, and will, in time, come to you looking for that which you have to offer. Yes, you understood correctly, they will ASK YOU for your product or service without you having to pitch, sell, or prospect. THAT is why social network marketing can be so powerful!

So, does social network marketing work? The short answer is that it depends on your approach. If you come at it expecting to sell, sell, sell, then chances are it probably won’t work for you. If, however, you arrive at these sites in the true spirit of helping others and building meaningful relationships, then you have just found a great tool, which, in time, will help you build and even explode your business.

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Facebook proxy bypass servers are necessary if you have some reason to hide the IP address either of your internet connection, or of the site to which you are trying to connect. Why should anybody want to do this, and how do Facebook proxy providers work?

Why Use a Proxy Bypass?

If you work for an employer and have unmonitored internet access, then you can be barred from accessing certain IP addresses, such as those of the commonly used social networking sites. Facebook, Friendster, Twitter, MySpace and YouTube are the more common sites that employees tend to visit in company time. Your employer can stop this by preventing your computer from accessing the internet (IP) addresses of these sites.

If you have internet access at school, college or university, you will be even less supervised than at work, and few students have not tried to use school or college computers to access social networking sites. There again, the relevant IP addresses have a block or filter placed on them which only a proxy bypass can circumvent.

A block generally refers to a blanket bar placed on the entire network accessing specific addresses, while filters permit access to individual terminals, the users of which might have a legitimate use for them. Most sites are filtered while a few can be blocked, and a Facebook proxy might be needed by a student, for example, but not a faculty member.

The target websites themselves can place blocks on individual IP addresses, and if Friendster or Facebook has banned you and your internet address for some reason, then you can’t even re-register using a different name and email address unless you get a new internet connection with a different IP address. Facebook proxy bypass servers can enable you to re-register without changing your IP address. You can also access your home page using your regular login details.

How a Facebook Proxy Bypass Server Works

If computer A connects to website B, then the IP address of both A and B are known to each other. All it takes to sever that connection is for either to block the other. However, if A connects to site C, and C connects to B, neither A nor B sees each other – they both see only IP address C.

Therefore, a block or filter against B will not be triggered by the address of C, to which you are connected. Neither will any block place by B on A be triggered, because as far as B is concerned it is connected to C and not A. The term ‘proxy bypass’ is therefore a bit of a misnomer because it is more of a proxy ‘router’; many different computers can be rerouted by a central connection to a number of social websites (or any type of website in fact).

For example, if you are finding it difficult to connect to a specific website, such as a search engine, you can do so through a proxy. The principle behind a Facebook proxy is just the same as that of you connecting your computer to a router in a network to connect to the internet – all computers connected to that router will have the same IP address, and when you use a modem attached to your computer to bypass the router through a different internet connection, you will have a different IP address.

Proxy bypass sites don’t last forever. Once they have been detected and also blocked, you have to find another. However they can last for a long time, and new Facebook proxies are coming online as fast as they are being blocked. For that reason you should find a site that offers you a number of alternatives.

So next time you have difficulty accessing a specific website, whether it is Facebook, YouTube or anything else a proxy can help you. Bear in mind that they are rarely specific, and take the form of an address bar into which you enter the internet address of the site you want to access. In the case of a Facebook proxy bypass server you enter the Facebook address, but it usually also works with any other website address.

Facebook proxy bypass servers allow you to access any sites that have blocked by your school, college or employer. An understanding of how they work will enable you to make best of use of them, not just for Facebook, but also Friendster, MySpace and any other website you are unable to access directly.

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