You remember when you first joined a social media networking site like Linkedin, Facebook, and Twitter? The first time was a breeze. You imported your email address contacts and immediately had a chunk of followers, friends, and connections.

The trouble is growing this network afterwords. If you want a strategy for consistently growing your follower base in Twitter, See: http://sparkah.com/2010/06/10/how-to-get-twitter-tweeple-to-follow-back-fast/ and see the rest of this post.

While you can use the above strategy for long term network building, you’d be amazed how powerful the following single tip / trick is at raking in a huge influx of friends, followers, and connections in one fell swoop. Nice part is that you can do this periodically. I do it every 3 months.

How to Export Gmail Inbox Messages as CSV
You Can’t. There’s even an export gmail message filter lab feature. But it only exports the filters – NOT the messages that are filtered. So what you do instead is to download all your gmail to a POP/IMAP desktop client like Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 or Microsoft Office Outlook 2010. Nice part is that if you google: Microsoft Office Outlook Trial, you can get it for free for 60 days.

Once you’ve configured your Outlook, it’ll take a day or two to get a whole bunch of exportable email messages:

How to Extract Email Addresses from Gmail Inbox Messages and Import them Into Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and Sparkah.com

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2. Export as CSV but Delete Subject and Body to Minimize File Size

3. Import in Gmail Contact

4. Finally, Import Your New Massive Email Address Contacts Database into Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin

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I FINALLY figured it out. No. It is NOT intuitive. And no. The other pdf and html pages Google pulls up won’t help. They are out-dated since Paypal’s last crazy redesign.

All I wanted to do is put all my customers on map so that I could strategize where to open a retail store, concentrate meet-ups, and even put more funding into advertising. But paypal would not spit out a csv file for excel that had my buyers’ addresses.

I would take that excel file, delete all the names, and dump only the addresses into a geolocation / gps conversion app that would convert the actual addresses into map data in KML, KMZ, or GeoRSS file format.

After days of research, I decided to just click all the links I could find. It worked.

This is how you export your Paypal Buyers’ Address into a csv file (WHEW!):

The results of my mapping are next… stay tuned! To get me involved in your marketing strategy and execution to hundreds of thousands of people world wide, contact me @journik http://sparkah.com

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