Does Your Business NEED a Facebook Page?

Jump on the Facebook Bandwagon

Facebook is certainly one of the biggest internet phenomenon’s of recent times.  It has become so huge that almost all internet users and countless others know about it or use it regularly.

It is for this reason and so many others that internet marketers have jumped on the band wagon and started harnessing its marketing and selling power for their own gain.

Not only the huge companies such as Nike and Starbucks are harnessing the power of facebook marketing.  Many small business owners, website owners and other internet marketers and people who work from home have discovered how to make money and boost their incomes using Facebook and other social media marketing sites and techniques.

Social media marketing used to be divided into two factions.  Social networking sites where you could connect with others, become perceived as an expert in your niche, build your own brand, create a great customized profile, add ‘friends’, join or create ‘Groups’, comment, message, add images, videos,  and other media, etc.,  and link building sites – where you could do your content publishing – put your blog posts, articles, photos, videos, and people sometimes had the option of voting your content up or down.

There wasn’t a lot of ‘social networking’ between people (at least not at first) on the link building sites, and the main attraction of these kinds of sites was quality content. Also, in a social networking site, you could make a rich, full profile but in a link building site, you didn’t have a big opportunity to customize your profile.

Until now.  Now, you can have a Facebook Fan Page.  Facebook is included in the “social networking” sites I talked about above.  But Fan Pages include the elements of a “link building” social media site.  All in one package.  And, you can have as many Fan Pages as you want, in whatever niche you want.

WHY FACEBOOK?

We Make Fanpages

Facebook is heading for 700 Million active users.  On average, at least half of those users log into Facebook on any given day.

The average amount of ‘friends’ a single user has is 130 and, more astonishing, users visit Facebook for over 500 BILLION minutes per MONTH.  That should answer the question, “Why Facebook?”

SO, WHAT EXACTLY ARE FAN PAGES for Business?

When we use a Fan Page for a niche specific keyword/product, that is our business.

With a tightly keyword focused Fan Page, you will be indexed fast by the search engines.  Your individual fan page will let you be recognized as an expert in your niche with exposure to maybe thousands of people each day, build your list, generate traffic to your blogs or websites, and much, much more.

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I’m a student and can’t afford expensive web hosting. Who has the best hosting service? I went to godaddy but they are way too expensive. Is there anything with a less expensive option but reliable?

Hi there, I use Hostgator for my hosting accounts, they are reliable, relatively inexpensive and often have special offers.

Seesmic Desktop OR Tweetdeck?

I’ve just started to use Seesmic desktop for managing Tweets and ping.fm, previously I was using Tweetdeck which was REALLY good for Twitter , Facebook, Gooogle Buzz, Linkedin, Foursquare and MySpace.
Seesmic desktop has the same but has ping.fm instead of MySpace.

With Tweetdeck it was really easy to see new followers and follow them back, with a choice of which Twitter account you will follow them back with.

With Seesmic desktop, it’s not so easy to see who your new followers are and to follow them back.
Has  anyone who is familiar with Seesmic desktop found a quick and easy way to see who your new followers are and to follow them back on Seesmic?

I’d be very grateful if you could share as I haven’t been able to work that out yet.

Thanks,

Alex

Blogging Underground Launch

Blogging Underground

Big launch tomorrow for Blogging Undergound, I use it a lot to get pretty much instant backlinks for my articles.

Blogging Underground

Blogging Underground is a premium membership website created and owned by Mike Liebner. It’s designed and created for web publishers who want to build WordPress based blogs that will earn them passive income! 

The Blogging Underground training website is designed for both the beginners and seasoned bloggers, that’s why you will find some very basic and advanced information in there.

For those who are new in creating or installing a blog for instance, will find a step-by-step guide that walks you through the process. But after installation, what is next? Where do you get the content for your blog? What theme to use? How do you know that your blog is structured in the right way? How about Search Engine Optimization? How do you get your blog indexed and ranked on top of Google? How do you get targeted traffic?

Blogging Underground LaunchBesides the 12 STEPS Blogging Underground Blueprint, another very valuable component is ‘Keyword Research Spreadsheet’. Every week you’re going to receive some spreadsheets consisting of thousands of profitable keywords. If you have ever done keyword research before, you will appreciate this very much because Mike gives you ALL the profitable keywords that you can use to make more money online – it’s keyword research done and handed to you on a silver platter. This is going to save you a huge amount of time doing keyword research!

to get the best relevant in content text links is to join the membership site called Blogging Underground as they offer members access to post in an aged network of over 350 high quality blogs that Google loves and respects. These are aged sites that have many pages indexed.

As a member Blogging Underground allows you to post in the blogs and backlink your pages exactly the way that gets top rankings fast and easy. The blogs are on aged domains and are spread out on servers all over the world.

If you want to save time and get the inside edge on top rankings on Google you should consider a membership at Blogging Underground. It’s very affordable and will save you time and money getting the right kind of links so that you get lots of top rankings!

Another BIG component is the ‘Blogs Network’ – here you have access to over 350 blogs (and growing). What can you do with this network of blogs? Well, you can build quality backlinks to your own blogs. As we all know, quality backlinks are key to getting ranked on top of the search engines. If your blog has many quality links pointing to it, the search engines will recognize that and give your blog high authority.

 

FACEBOOK SSL INFO

OCTOBER 1st DEADLINE for SSL Certification !!

If you’re anything like me, you’ll probably be wondering what the big deal is about The October 1st deadline for Facebook fanpages. You’ll probably be thinking
” Nehhh ! It can’t be THAT difficult, I’ll sort it out nearer the time! “ 

WOW! BIG MISTAKE!

It’s taken me the best part of TWO DAYS to get my Facebook Fanpages ( business pages) SSL compliant,  it’s a NIGHTMARE!

I’m all up and running now but MY GOODNESS. what a hassle it has been. I have some great resources and I’ve read them from cover to cover ! TWICE!

I’m confident now with the whole process of setting up SSL certificates so if you need information of this, please contact me !

 

 

 Please contact us for help with setting up your SSL certificates !

How To Add LinkedIn to Facebook

You used to be able to add a LinkedIn link to your personal Facebook page but recently, FAcebook have changed it so that you can only add it to your facebook business page, or fan page.

It took me a while to find out how to do it but here’s the way to add a LinkedIn link to Facebook on the left side.

Have fun!

If you try to add LinkedIn to your personal page, you will probably get this message:

“Facebook no longer supports user profile tabs”

Here are step by step instructions to add LinkedIn to a Facebook page :

1 – Make sure you have ADMIN privileges for your Facebook page

2 – Go to this here:

http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?v=wall&ref=appd&id=6394109615

3 – Click ADD TO MY PAGE (top left) and then select the page you want to add it to and click “add to page”

4 – Go to your Facebook page, and click EDIT PAGE (top left)

5 – On the left sidebar, click on “Apps”. You should see “My LinkedIn Profile” in the list of applications, click the “Edit Settings” and under “Tab: Available (add)” click ADD and then OKAY

6 – Then under “My LinkedIn Profile”, click “Go To App”

7 – You are now on the application config for your Facebook page, enter the appropriate LinkedIn Public Profile Url or Company Profile Url and click SAVE

8 – Go back to your Facebook page and you should either see the tab at the top or click the “>>” tab to move it over.

 

Facebook Marketing: A Unique Marketing Opportunity

In November 2006, Facebook Pages were released as an advertising platform. Before its launch, internet marketers simply purchased ads to promote their products and services. However, thanks to Facebook, internet marketers now have a way to have an entirely unique opportunity to market products or services.

The great thing about Facebook Pages is that it is designed to encourage brand loyalty. Once you have a satisfied customer, they will be able to visit repeatedly and become fans of your business. In fact, people visiting can even write what they think of your products or services on your page’s “wall”.

You will now be able to build a presence on Facebook for your business rather than just merely creating or posting a short advertisement. Facebook Pages encourages people to visit and spread the word to encourage other people to do the same.

The person who owns the business will also be able to encourage interaction to other members by posting photos, videos and even participating in group discussions. You can also send updates to your “fans” about the new things that you are offering. You can also add different kinds of applications, which will further encourage repeated visits and encourage more people to join your group or become a fan of your page.

Basically, Facebook encourages word of mouth advertising.

The great thing about Facebook is that you can do all these things for free. From adding applications to syndicating blogs through RSS, you will see that you will be able to advertise for free.

So, aside from being free, what’s so great about Facebook?

With over 62 million active subscribers in Facebook and continuing to grow, you will see that it will definitely be worth your time to advertise in Facebook. With figures like this, every internet marketer knows that this will provide a great marketing opportunity.

Also, Facebook will let you interact with other people. You can make new friends as well as encourage them to advertise for you. With its highly interactive features, you will see that advertising will be a lot easier in Facebook.

These are the things that you should remember about Facebook. Because it also lets you interact with other people rather than just let you advertise you can be sure that you will be able to get more targeted traffic in to your website. And with more targeted traffic, the more potential your business will have in making more money.

These are the things that you need to remember about Facebook marketing. As you can see, it presents a new and unique way of marketing online. Through Facebook, you will be able to get more people to buy from you.

Always remember that you have to create a great profile page in Facebook in order for you to attract a lot of viewers. Also, you need to add people as your friends in order to extend your network and get more people to visit your Facebook page.

Remember these tips and you can be sure that you will be able to get your business to grow.

With Facebook marketing, advertising will be a lot easier, and more fun to do as well as more effective. So, the next time you want to advertise the products or services you offer in the internet, you might want to join Facebook.

Here, advertising is effective and free.

Facebook Vanity URL

Did you know you don’t need 25 likes anymore to set your vanity URL?
” You know when you see a fan page with a URL like http://facebook.com/yourname? This is called a vanity URL. You used to require 25 likes on your page before you could claim your vanity URL….but that is no longer the case.

Now you can just go to http://facebook.com/username, choose your URL and you’re good to go – great for quickly grabbing the right vanity URL for your next project or client fan page.(be careful so you don’t add the URL to your profile instead of your fan page as it can’t be changed later!)”

Advertising Through Facebook

Introduction to Facebook Advertising

Facebook is the leading social community online.

With over 300 million users, there has never been a better way to maximize your exposure, and get your message seen by a massive customer base.
The greatest thing about advertising with Facebook, is the flexibility of your advertisements.
You can customize your advertisements so they appear only to specific groups or segments of people based on the information contained within their profile or based on gender, location or personal preferences.
For example, if your product is tailored towards single mothers, you could develop your advertisements so that they are triggered to appear only for those who have indicated that they are single mothers in their profiles, or who have demonstrated interest in similar products or services based on their personal profile, communities or groups they’ve joined, or other advertisements they’ve responded to.

Create Targeted Advertisements
In order to create the most compelling, responsive and profitable advertisements, you need to utilize Facebooks option to heavily target and tailor your advertisements based on your target market.

With facebook, you can set your ads up so that they appear only to specific people, based on age, location, gender, interests, hobbies or even based on the groups they have joined within the Facebook community.

You will want to conduct market research so that you can accurately define your target market and develop advertisements that target specific segments of your market.

Facebook utilizes a quality control system to ensure that the advertisements that run throughout their community stay within their guidelines and do not offend or disrupt member activity or overall experience.
Use their quality control system to develop compelling advertisements that stand out in the marketplace, and capture the attention of potential buyers.

Also keep in mind that Facebook advertising is based on display, rather than search. This means that your ads will be automatically triggered to appear based on your settings, rather than when a user conducts an on-site search.

Users can also choose to rate advertisements, helping to retain quality throughout the community.

Improve your Click Through Rate
Your advertisements click through rate plays an integral role in saving you money while boosting exposure and reaching out to your target market.

It’s important to keep a pulse on your click through rate so that you can correct any problems with your advertisement, or make adjustments to improve your overall CTR.

If your advertisements CTR drops too low, it could be automatically paused or removed by Facebook, so you really want to pay attention to how well it’s converting.
Typically, your ads should never fall below a 2% conversion rate.

One of the easiest ways of increasing your CTR is by creating a highly targeted advertisement.
You want your ad to appear only to those who are within your target demographic, while making sure that your advertisements text or any images used speak directly to your customer base.

Consider split testing various advertisements within the Facebook community to determine what works best, based on your industry or niche market.

You should also pay attention to the times of day that your ads appear. You can choose to either run your ads consistently throughout the day, or have them only appear at specific times (or even specific dates).
Keep in mind the time zone of your target market, so that your ads are running based on the most active time of day or night.

Stay Within Facebook Guidelines
It’s important to understand how Facebook advertising channels work, and what is permitted as well as what is not allowed within the marketplace.
Facebook is very flexible with the types of advertisements that are allowed to be displayed within their community, however they do not allow images or text that may be considered offensive.

Setting Your Maximum Daily Bid
One of the most important aspects of setting up an effective Facebook advertisement is in the maximum daily bid that you are willing to pay. The higher your daily bid, the more exposure your ad will receive.

You want to start off with a lower bid if you are just getting used to advertising with Facebook, and increase your maximum daily bid as you fine-tune your advertisements for maximum results.
It’s important to always keep a pulse on how well your advertisement is converting, so that you can improve click through rates and overall response.

When you create an advertisement with Facebook, they will suggest a maximum bid based on your advertisements focus and target market (based on your personal configuration and preferences).
You can start off by setting your maximum daily bid slightly lower than what’s suggested and increase it as you improve your advertisements conversion rates so that you are getting the most bang for your buck!
CPC Versus Impression Based Ads
With Facebook, you can develop advertisements where you either pay for impressions or based on the number of clicks your ad receives.

If you are just getting started with Facebook advertising, I recommend choosing cost per click (CPC), so that you can accurately test your advertisements, while paying only for responses rather than just views.
You can always change your advertisement format to ‘impression based’ later on in the event you wish to test out alternative options.

Good luck with your Facebook ADS!

Facebook: An Effective Tool to Increase Your Sales

Today, the internet is one of the most popular places for businesses to advertise in. Every website you visit, you will see that there will be advertising everywhere. This is called internet marketing.

If you have a business of your own and you want to effectively market your products or services, you will see that the internet will be one huge bulletin board that you can advertise in. Here, you will be able to virtually advertise anything and it is open for 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.

With hundreds of millions of people visiting the internet on a daily basis from all over the world, you can be sure that advertising here will definitely increase your sales.

One great website that you may want to concentrate your online advertising campaign on is Facebook. Today, this social networking website is now considered to be one of the largest social networking websites existing. Here, you will see that over 62 million people are now active members and are still continually increasing.

With figures like this, you know that it will provide you with a very big opportunity to increase your sales and your profit. In fact, it is so huge that large companies or corporations are now marketing on Facebook.

Basically, Facebook is a social networking website.

Once you join, you will be able to find your friends who are also a member and add them to your list. This will create a small group of your friends and it will enable you to view their profiles and know more about them and vice versa. You can even send and receive messages as well as comments.

Also, you will be able to post on bulletins that your friends will be able read.

These are the things that you can do with Facebook. It is basically the fastest growing social networking websites today. Because of this, a lot of people have started marketing on Facebook. The great thing about Facebook marketing is that it provides a free and easy way to promote products and services. With the included tools in Facebook, you will be able to take advantage of it, such as the Stumble Upon and Digg buttons to promote your website or your products and services.

This is a great way to generate targeted traffic to your website and it will enable you to increase the potential in selling your products and services as well as increase the volume of sales.

Because Facebook is available for people from all over the world, your business will be able to reach out to more people if you advertise on Facebook.

In today’s ever competitive business world, you know that you need to use every tool available in order to get ahead of your competitors. So, the next time you are thinking about marketing your business online, you might want to try marketing in Facebook. Here, you will be able to reach out to more people and it is also easy to do so and the best thing about it is that it’s free.

With Facebook, you will definitely be able to efficiently market your business. Marketing in Facebook is free, easy, and fun.

These are the things that you need to remember whenever you want to try marketing online. Try joining Facebook and you will see the potential on letting it help your business grow.

Google Plus Author Link

Just about everybody knows about the Google +1 button and Google plus itself, BUT did you know that they’ve also introduced an additional thumbnail that is probably as important if not more for SEO ranking ?

You can now add your “Author Link” to any webpage and preferably use your Google profile to tell them that you are the author.

They will start displaying the profile picture and include it in the ranking relevance in future. This could be quite big.

Make sure that you look at your profile and make sure that is has relevant information in. It may pop up anywhere at any time.

BE READY !

Creating Facebook Pages

Marketing on social networking websites, such as Facebook, is one of the hottest trends among businesses and internet marketers today.

With over 62 million subscribers from all over the world, Facebook is considered to be a gold mine among internet marketers and for businesses that wants to gather more potential clients. Unlike other social networking websites, Facebook offers a unique feature that will let you efficiently market in the internet.

This feature is the news feed feature.

Depending on what your privacy settings is, you will be able to broadcast or announce whatever it is you want to announce through the news feed feature offered by Facebook. Although there are some people who doesn’t want this feature in Facebook, this particular feature does help in letting people know what their friends are up to.

From an internet marketer’s view, you will see that the news feed feature offered in Facebook will serve as a great way to promote a product or service you are offering. This will enable your network to know what you are offering as well as let your groups know.

So, here are some tips that you should remember in order to know how to harness the news feed feature to market a particular product or service. By remembering these following tips, you will be able to let people view it and in turn, let others in their network join in.

The first thing that you need to do is create a profile. People in Facebook cannot add anyone in their network if the person they want to add doesn’t have a profile and vice versa. This is the first thing that you need to do.

Also, you might want to complete your profile page to its fullest in order to let people viewing it take interest.

The next tip is by trying to host an event and post it in the news feed. This will get people in your network interested and if your event is worth the time, they will even tell other people in their network to join in the fun. This is a great way to promote a product or service.

Thirdly, you may want to share a funny video or picture to your network of friends in Facebook. This will help in promoting your profile page and you will have a lot of targeted visitors that will eventually view your profile page as well as the contents you posted in it, such as the products or services you offer.

Posting news articles is also a great way to get people’s attention in Facebook. This will generate targeted traffic.

For example, if you are selling sports apparels, you might want to post the latest news in sports.

This will generate targeted traffic that will most likely be interested in what you are marketing. Posting comments on other people’s profile page in Facebook is also a great way to extend your network of friends and profile viewers. These are the things that you need to remember about Facebook marketing.

By following these tips, you can be sure that you will be able to generate traffic in your Facebook profile page and extend your network. Through these tips, you will be able to have more potential customers visiting your Facebook profile page and know about what you have to offer.

How to Choose a Niche for Affiliate Marketing

Commission Ritual Internet Marketing CourseNiche research is important in affiliate marketing as this will help you determine which product is best to promote and which business is lucrative.

Your success in this venture largely depends on how you choose a profitable niche, and how much effort you put into it.
Affiliate marketing can be an exciting venture. However, with the many products or services to offer online, getting started with this business and choosing the right products or services to promote can be very confusing.

If you choose the wrong product, you may never earn a single dime.
Choosing a lucrative niche is essential as this would help you get great marketing results.

When I was first starting out, I learned through several so called ‘Internet Marketing Gurus’,

some were good, some were rubbish but there were a few that I learned good bascis from and have no trouble in recommending.

One of the best internet marketing courses  is Brian Johnson’s Commission Ritual.

Here are the things to consider and do to be able to find the right niche:
Choosing a smaller niche

is more profitable in most cases as this allows you to target prospects. The advantage of choosing a small niche is that you don’t have to exert a lot of effort on it as opposed to choosing a huge niche that include a wide range of products and services. With tight niche, you will have to work less and make more money.

Make sure that the niche you choose is lucrative.

This means there’s low competition in it so you could have higher marketing results. To determine whether the niche is profitable, the quality of the services and products suited for that niche should be of high quality.
One thing you should also consider is to be able to find people who are interested in the products you will choose to promote. No matter how good your product is or how best you think your niche is, it is useless if your market find your product useless as well.
Consider your interest and passion.

They say that you can only be successful in your endeavor if you have passion and interest in it. The most successful entrepreneurs in affiliate marketing have the most passion and interest in their ventures. Finding a niche that interests you will definitely help you build that success.
Aside from considering your interest, also consider selecting products that you are expert or have a vast knowledge about.

To succeed in affiliate marketing, you need to know how to convince people to visit your site and make a purchase. Also, do keyword research. There are many online keyword generator sites that will help you have an idea on searches are done on a specific niche.

If you find that the keywords related to the niche you chose are searched by over 30,000 times per month, it is worth pursuing.

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