Social networking is a fabulous environment for making business connections and finding buyers for what you have to sell. Think about it. There are all kinds of groups in the social networking arena that you can use to find people interested in what you're selling. If you're selling flowers, find a group of social networkers that like flowers, and pitch to them. If they like what you're selling they'll tell their friends, then they'll tell their friends and so on.

Most social networking sites, like MySpace, don't allow you to sell directly from your profile, but there are other ways you can use your social networking profile to your advantage. Here are a few tips for using social networking to sell:

1. Find a group within a social networking service that is geared toward the item or service you're trying to sell. Or find a social networking site that is related to the item or service you want to sell.

2. Connect with other people. If you're just there to sell and you don't make connections first then people will see you as a scammer or spammer. If this happens you won't be able to find anyone to help you sell or any people to sell to.

3. Find people you really have things in common with. Make real connections. People will trust you more if you're real and not fake.

4. Use them for market research. Ask the certain people to help you test the item or service you want to sell. Have them post about it on their profile or blog.

5. If people like your product enough to post a positive review on their profile or blog, ask them to tell their friends about the product. They tell their friends, those friends tell their friends and so on.