I can still remember how I felt when I first tried to navigate social media. They can be confusing. There are so many ways, and it seems like it would take a huge amount of time.

So I know how you feel. I’ve been there myself.

But fortunately, I have figured out how it works — big time!

And social media has turned into the best thing that has ever happened to my business! I mean, can you say “A flood of new clients is coming to ME”?

Seriously. Where I used to chase them, now they’re chasing after me. And you can make the same thing happen for you.

What does it take? Well, think about it…

Social media is the perfect interface between connecting at a personal level — and doing business together. It’s a balance act too, but not rocket science.

Once you get the hang of it, you’ll see that. But where to get started?

Three things: Blogging, Twitter, and Article Marketing.

Let’s focus on Twitter for now.

Twitter may have a frivolous-sounding name, but it’s a total powerhouse. You can reach out to thousands of people at a time. It’s a perfect tool for making initial connections.

And unlike the other two, it doesn’t involve a lot of writing either — just 140 characters a tweet (that’s what they call the normal message unit at Twitter).

So let me give you a couple of tips for getting started on Twitter:

1) Follow people and they will follow you back.

It’s basic Twitter etiquette. Follow people you’re interested in having follow you back — and a lot of them will if you follow them first.

2) Be a friendly community member and resource.

Be sure to keep your sales-tweets to less than 20%. Focus on being helpful instead.

3) How to be seen as friendly and helpful?

Share useful information, respond to other people’s tweets, retweet their useful info, and so on.

And, yes, you can also share what you’re doing right then and there — within reason.

They don’t really want to know what you had for breakfast.

Warning: Don’t underestimate Twitter!

Find out how to use it correctly and integrate it with several other social media tools to get lots of prospects.