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

5. Drop me a hello if you think I might be able to help you with your marketing (or blogging – to establish credibility and repeated impressions).

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This post can also be alternately entitled, “How to Facebook and Twitter friend everyone who’s ever emailed you – ever.”

If you’re building up your “Rolodex,” this tip trick is priceless. Over the years, I’ve collected thousands, no, hundreds of thousands of emails. Funny thing is that while I may have nothing to say to 99.99% of these people who’ve emailed me in the past, I’d love to have them as twitter followers and facebook friends. The beauty of twitter and facebook is that they both allow you to import your gmail contacts. Yay!

But before we can do that, we have to extract the senders’ email addresses and store them as contacts first.

There are a couple ways to do this. First, the most rapid way is to simply export all your emails into a spreadsheet and re import only the FROM fields. This isn’t that hard to do. Just read about importing email addresses to gmail. And of course, you’ll need to know how to use Excel. It’s simple too.

- turn gmail’s pop/imap settings on

- download all your gmail to Microsoft Outlook

- export all messages as csv

- import only the email and name columns into Excell

- save as csv for import back into gmail as contacts

Or if you just want to add email addresses to your contacts selectively, one at a time, all you have to do is either

- reply

- forward

- or mark sender as “Not Spam.”

The third one is the least invasive.

Complete tutorial: http://sparkah.com/2010/06/11/how-to-export-gmail-inbox-messages-as-csv-then-extract-all-senders-email-addresses-for-importing-to-facebook-twitter-linkedin-and-sparkah-com-2/

If you have any questions about marketing your company, service, or iphone app, let’s get together and team up… find me at http://twitter.com/journik say hi! I’d love to hear about what you do!

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