Making friends online can do a lot for those aspiring to make money on the internet.  Not only can friends help you learn about internet marketing related stuff  that can help you be more successful and share frustrations but they can also follow you, tell people about you and do some promoting for you as well.

Here are some friend finding and perhaps even more importantly, friend keeping tips:

• Find friends more experienced than you so you can watch and learn
• Find friends less experienced than you so you can pay it forward
• Look for people with common interests as it’ll help your marketing efforts
• Make friends with potential customers
• Reciprocate!

What do I mean by reciprocate?

If you make friends and politely ask people to Digg your great new post or stop by and let you know what they think of your new salesletter or site design, be prepared to return the favour. Stop by and comment on their blog, Stumble their site, tweet their username on Twitter and tell all your followers how fab they are and how much they should be followed! No one likes a selfish internet friend and if you’re guilty of it you’ll eventually get ignored.  Online relationsihps need a bit of nurturing just like your offline ones.