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Aug112010

Facebook Scared About Google Me Rumors

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Google Me ready to go socially wild!

It has been announced Facebook have recently closed their doors for a period of up to 2 months to enhance their platform totally on the development side as a lead up to rumors that “Google Me” a new social networking platform will change the face of social networking for good.

The Facebook Gossip

CTO Adam D’Angelo former Facebook, claims Google Me is real. Here’s what he had to say about it on Q&A service Quora:
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Google has mentioned that they believe that Facebook will slow down, once Google Me launches and members of Facebook will start moving across.

Of course this is debatable to some extent as there has been other situations where Google has not been totally successful when it comes to social platforms, Google Buzz was one, and Google Wave another.

There has been some gossip that they are going to have certain modules of what Facebook have. So during the 2 month shutdown of their office, perhaps Facebook will remodel and enhance. I know Google advertising has gone through some tough times recently and Facebook Ads are now doing better then ever, so maybe this is some reason why they are going hard in this area to also take advantage of Social advertising.

Are they trying to compete with to many things at once and losing focus? Are they now going to get themselves in a real mess? Or are they going to really change the face of how social marketing future is going to be? What are your thoughts?

Mar252010

The Power of Social Media

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I am recently surprised by the amount of website promotion that local businesses are doing on social marketing. For example the pub that I recently went to had flyers hung up with the next coming local events, and at the bottom of the flyer instead of having their website address they had their Facebook group page.

There is a lot of marketing that businesses are putting into when it comes to social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. I am also a believer in Facebook advertising and believe you can get your visitors to really spend a lot of time in your group and there is a lot more interaction that can be made between members and your page to get them to spread out into other marketing funnels.

Facebook pages are also now coming up under search engines for certain search terms so you can also optimize your pages to be search engine friendly for certain key phrases.

When you sign up under your account you will normally be asked questions like, what is the ads “likes”, Is the ad targeting singles, or users who are married, what is the age group or location of the users, so the results are very smart and optimize the ads based on your preference. Even when you advertise you get quality ads on relevant pages. On the users side for example if you say that your engaged you will get ads showing in your account to do with wedding photography and anything else.

The good thing about their advertising platform is you can really make your ad stand out by adding not only text but image as well which really separates itself from the way Google displays advertising.

I recently was paid for tweets through Ad.ly on Twitter, some well known hosting companies randomly picked my twitter page to pay per tweet. So the branding and social networking aspect is becoming stronger and stronger and sites are increasing their budgets for everything to do with promoting on social platforms.

I recommend you to get is on the action and sign up to Facebook advertising today!

Feb182010

Creating Facebook Fan Pages for Social Marketing

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Recently just for experimental reasons and of course to later to generate traffic, I was playing with the creation of Facebook fan pages.

It’s really unbelievable to see some of the most basic fan pages that have thousands upon thousands of fans. So anyway I decided to also create a few fan pages that were also quite general just as a trial to see how far they can go.

What I found is usually people who join fan pages, join because it’s something they also believe in relating to the topic or have an interest in or remembering something about the past. There are hundreds of ideas I have about fan pages, these are a list of a few that I did:

1. Who wore MC Hammer Pants in the 90′s
2. I had a bowl cut in the 90′s
3. Your first job at 13

Of course I have other fan groups that do ok in other areas such as business or for clients, but this lot was purely for fun and as a trial to see how quick they grow.

When creating fan pages I find the most important factors to generate traffic to those pages are by coming up with a catchy titles, adding regular content including videos, and photos so that users can comment on them.

You can actually promote your fan pages further by using the Facebook advertising feature to send traffic to your site that way, or of course using Internet Marketing methods.

Do not get confused between fans or groups, Facebook groups are more for businesses and charity etc. that hold regular events and discussions. Where as Fan pages are more general and everyone is usually invited to be a fan of something!

Does anyone else use fan pages for promotion? What kinds of results are you seeing?

Nov162009

Adding Up To 1000 Followers A Day To Generate Revenue Using Twitter

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I have recently posted about Sponsored Tweets and Making Money online with Twitter. Just to go in a bit more depth I would like to show you some examples on earnings as a result of getting thousands of followers per day. I use a program called TweetAdder.

The 2 programs go hand in hand if you want to make money from your followers. TweetAdder allows you to add up to 1000 followers per day and targets specific niches, so for example if you want to follow people who are related to a certain industry you can do so in the search tab. What is also nice about targeting the niche when following is that you get a conversion rate of users who you follow that actually follow you back. So you can tell if that specific niche is worth following!

The great thing about it is you can unfollow in bulk as well and this unfollows users that have not followed you back. If you are following more people then what people are following you this can get you banned over time, so the idea is to have the majority of users following you.
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You can see as a result of my popularity now from having thousands of followers, I have gained sponsors on my twitter page. Not only do I use Sponsored Tweets I also use Be-A-Magpie. Here are some earnings from the last few days:

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Not huge but the earning potential is high. If I can gain more followers and as a result get more sponsors I could be making $100 a day just from tweets. So my goal is to be making around $50 a day from tweets by early next year and then atleast $100 a day by mid to late next year which I think is very possible.

For anyone who hasn’t heard about Shoemoney, he claims to have made $15,000 in 1 month from his twitter page. Having over 70,000 followers. Bluehost is one advertiser you can see he gets and which I also get, so lets hope they keep advertising with me. Im sure they will as long as they see a good ROI.