Michael Rasmussen's "Joint Ventures Exposed" Video Series: How To Create Incredibly Profitable Joint Ventures For Your Online Business!

If you were to ask me what the most important thing to learn in all of Internet marketing is, I would have to say 'joint ventures'. Joint ventures are the absolute fastest way to make a lot of money FAST. 

Everywhere you look you see marketing gurus promoting each others products to their readers and getting a share of the profits. Often times a marketer with a good sized list can make a five or even six figure payday just by promoting someone else's offer.

Have you ever dreamed of having a well known guru promote one of your products? Can you imagine yourself rubbing shoulders with the Internet marketing elite, and earning the kind of paydays that most entrepreneurs only dream about? Joint ventures are the key to making that dream come true.

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THERE'S JUST ONE PROBLEM
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Learning how to create successful joint ventures has always been hit and miss. You had to learn by trial and error, and it often took way too long to build up the kind of reputation that would have reputable marketers seeking you out to do business together. Until now!

My colleague Michael Rasmussen has just released a brand new video course called Joint Ventures Exposed,
and I believe this is just what you've been looking for. This course will walk you through the process of creating your very first joint venture from the ground up. He'll also teach you how to build up a solid reputation FAST, so you can become a highly sought after JV partner. 

If you've ever dreamed of being involved with those huge JV promotions with the big marketing gurus, or if you just want to start building profitable relationships with other marketers, then you are going to love Michael's new course. And the best part? The course is totally free!

 If you're in a hurry, you can just check the  videos out right now for free. Here's the URL:
Joint Ventures Exposed

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OVERALL QUALITY
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It's important to note that these are online videos that you access from your web browser. Michael uses Camtasia Studio to create these videos, which is the premier software program for creating screen capture tutorials such as these.

The first thing I noticed when I hit the play button on the first video was the incredible production quality. These are NOT your ordinary screen capture videos. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen someone make videos that are this high quality before.

He uses beautifully created graphics to pass his wisdom along to you, and the sound quality is the highest you will ever hear in an Internet marketing product. It sounds like he recorded these in a professional studio.
Michael explained to me that he was sick and tired of seeing all the low quality videos out there, and so he
set out to create something different in order to raise the bar in our industry. I think that, when you see Joint Ventures Exposed for yourself, you'll agree that he has succeeded.

Now let's move onto...

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THE ACTUAL VIDEOS
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Here's a brief summary of each video. Obviously it's impossible to list every single point here, but I want you to get a feel for what each one covers, and how well it covers it.

VIDEO 1 - INTRODUCTION
This videos introduces you to the entire course, as well as the teacher himself. You'll learn what you can expect from the course, and why it's structured the way it is. Michael realizes that you may not have heard of him, and so he spends some time establishing his credibility with you by sharing some of his biggest successes. 

It doesn't come across as bragging at all. Michael explains that, in order for you to get value from the teachings, you need to have faith that the teacher actually knows what he's talking about. By the end of this video, you will have no doubt. By the way, this is a good lesson for all of us product developers. If you want people to accept you as an authority on any subject, you first need to establish your credibility with the reader. That way he's willing to relax, and trust that what you're telling him is sound advice.

VIDEO 2 - THE BASICS OF JOINT VENTURES
In this video, Michael will give you a street smart education on what a joint venture actually is, and also...what it is not. There are a lot of misconceptions about joint ventures, and Michael does a good job of giving you the education you need while cutting out all the fluff. Even if you're a seasoned pro, you'll want to watch this video in order to get the foundational distinctions that Michael covers throughout the whole course.

VIDEO 3 - THE VARIOUS TYPES OF JOINT VENTURES
This will be a real eye opener for those who only understand the basics of joint ventures. Michael will reveal the four types of joint ventures he uses in his own business that makes him maximum money in minimum time. I have a hunch that you'll be surprised at just how many different types of joint ventures there are, and after watching this video, your mind will be on fire with all kinds of ideas for doing your next joint venture.

VIDEO 4 - HOW TO PREPARE FOR YOUR NEXT JOINT VENTURE
This is one of most crucial videos in the entire course. Most marketers get it all wrong when they put together a joint venture. They forget to do SO many things, and it ends up turning off potential partners. In this comprehensive video, Michael will make sure that you're fully prepared to attract the top promoters.

You'll learn:

• The six components you need in your 'JV offer' before you even think about contacting potential partners.
• The most important requirement of any JV.
• How to make your offer more compelling to potential partners.
• A 'sneaky' but completely honest way to create fantastic JV deals. The best part? You can do it for free!

VIDEO 5 - HOW TO APPROACH POTENTIAL PARTNERS
The greatest joint venture in the world is nothing without people to promote it. In this video, Michael sheds some light on one of the scariest parts of creating a successful joint venture: How to approach partners and get them involved.

You'll learn:

• How to identify likely JV partners, so you can know how to approach them more effectively.
• Where to find good JV partners to approach (most people don't even know where to look).
• What potential partners are looking for... so you can give it to them and boost your odds of attracting the best partners out there.
• The biggest mistakes people make when approaching potential partners, and how to avoid them.
• How to negotiate the deal with your partner.
• How to protect yourself in the business relationship.

VIDEO 6 - THE JOINT VENTURE INVITATION PAGE
This is one of the most valuable videos in the entire course, because it covers something that most marketing teachers don't talk about. Sure, everyone says that it's great to do joint ventures, but nobody ever talks about the first impression that you give prospective partners on your joint venture invitation page. This video will make sure that your invitation page is a winner.

You'll learn:

• The most important date you need to know before you tell potential JV partners about your page.
• How to talk about your joint venture in a way that appeals to your potential partners (once you learn how to speak their language, you'll instantly set yourself apart from 99% of the other marketers who are pitching them on doing business together).
• Which links you need to include on the page, including the most important link of all.
• The three types of sample emails you should provide (most people get this completely wrong).
• How to build a list of your JV partners automatically (this is super important for creating future joint ventures with ease).

VIDEO 7 - WHAT TO DO AFTER YOUR JOINT VENTURE KICKS OFF
Now that you've done all the prep work, you need to know what to do after you launch your joint venture. Believe me, the work doesn't stop once everyone mails out to their list. There are some specific things you can do to keep everyone promoting so that everyone makes more money.

You'll learn:

• The seven things you need to do after your launch to make your JV end with a big bang (and a lot of profit).
• A simple tactic that can boost your sales by 30% or more. A powerful 'leveraging' technique that will get your existing partners to help find you more JV partners.
• The #1 thing you must ask all your JV partners for after your launch ends. Skip this, and you'll have to start from scratch all over again on your next joint venture.

VIDEO 8 - SIX JOINT VENTURE MISTAKES YOU MUST AVOID
Everyone makes mistakes in joint ventures. The smart marketers are the ones who learn from the mistakes of others, so that they don't have to make those same mistakes themselves. In this video, Michael will show you what those mistakes are, and how to avoid them so you can make maximum profit with your next joint venture.

You'll learn:

• The simplest JV mistake made by the vast majority of
  online marketers out there, especially the ones
  struggling to get started.
• What you can learn about joint ventures from one of
  the most popular 'kids organizations' in the world.
• The biggest mistake most people make when it comes
  to joint ventures, and how to avoid it.
• How to use an old, forgotten marketing principal to
  skyrocket your joint venture success.

 Wow, you get all those videos for free? Click     here to check out the Joint Ventures Exposed course for yourself: Joint Ventures Exposed

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DELUXE VIDEOS
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Joint Ventures Exposed comes with 8 videos, and has more content than most 200 dollar home study courses. And did I mention that it's free? If you're ready to just go ahead and check out the videos, then just click here: Joint Ventures Exposed

If you decide that you want to continue your education, and get the biggest possible advantage, you can also upgrade to the deluxe course for a small fee. The deluxe course contains three full-length videos that each cover one advanced topic in great detail.

Here's a breakdown of each advanced video:

VIDEO 9 - HOW TO PROFIT FROM JV'S WITHOUT HAVING EVEN HAVING YOUR OWN PRODUCTS
In this video, you'll learn about an advanced concept called 'joint venture brokering'. Some of the richest marketers I know do nothing else but set other people up together for joint ventures and then collect a fat commission. The profit potential for this virtually unknown business is enormous!

You'll learn:

• How to get other marketers to consider you the 'eBay of joint venture marketing'. HINT: The few people who are doing this are quietly making a killing online!
• The step-by-step process of becoming a joint venture broker, even if you're completely unknown in the online marketing world.
• Word for word... the exact emails you can send to both product developers and list owners to get them interested.
• The #1 thing you MUST do to protect yourself and make sure that you get paid (if you skip this, you might as well kiss your profits goodbye).

VIDEO 10 - HOW TO CREATE A JOINT VENTURE MASTERMIND GROUP
This one video alone could make you more money than anything else you study this year. Most marketers have no idea what goes on behind the closed doors of the world's top Internet marketers. Deals are being struck all the time, and partnerships are being formed that create hundreds of thousands of dollars in new profit. Michael says that if there's one secret to his success with joint ventures, it's his JV mastermind. In this video, he'll walk you through the exact steps to create one of your own.

You'll learn:

• How an old book from the 1930's holds the secret to your success in joint ventures, and how you can use this book's biggest secret to skyrocket your success.
• What a joint venture mastermind is, and why you need to form one immediately!
• How to attract successful marketers to your mastermind group, and get them to participate.
• How to leverage your mastermind partners to create new products and deals that will attract the BIG BOY marketers, and make them want to promote your offer.

VIDEO 11 - HOW TO CREATE JOINT VENTURE CONTESTS
Nothing motivates JV partners to promote like a good contest. The smartest marketers always have some kind of contest to help give their partners incentive to keep promoting. After watching this video, you'll be ready to hold your own contest, and you can enjoy watching JV partners try to out-promote each other... while you keep making more money every time they do!

You'll learn:

• What a JV contest is... and no, the answer isn't quite as obvious as you might think.
• How to structure your contest, including what prizes to offer and why.
• How to spread the word about your contest so you can attract the highest quality JV partners around.
• Where and when to tell prospective JV partners about your contest (the answer will surprise you).

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CONCLUSION
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Whew! That was a lot of information, and I hope it helped you decide to check out Michael Rasmussen's Joint Ventures Exposed video course. Remember the course is absolutely free, so you have nothing to lose. 

Michael believes that it's important for him to prove himself to you before he ever asks you to buy anything from him. He wants to show you that he will deliver you the absolute best education available anywhere, and he'll gladly do it for free... just to win you over!

So go ahead and check out Joint Ventures Exposed right now, and see what all the fuss is about. I highly recommend that you upgrade to the deluxe course as well, since the content in those last three videos could make you more money than the first eight videos combined!

Here's the URL one last time: Joint Ventures Exposed

Warmly,
John Adams
The Facebook Wizard

Drive Thousands of Targeted Traffic from Twitter - Even Without Followers

Yes, you read the subject heading just right. Almost every twitter marketer will tell you that you will need to have followers first before getting any traffic from twitter.

Well, that is very true to average twitter marketers. They follow other users in twitter and hope and pray they follow them back, and then they send their offers. That is a very time consuming process and gives very small result - in fact it JUST DOESN'T WORK!

I want to introduce you to a new twitter tool that is rapidly gaining popularity all over the internet. Not just because it can do everything you need to succeed in twitter but because of its capability to drive traffic from twitter to your website even if you currently have 0 followers. Has the penny dropped yet?

It’s called TweetAttacks, its still new, and everyone that knows anything about IM seems to be going crazy trying to get their sweaty palms on it. But not everyone can get you access!

Are you still doing the old way of Twitter marketing that  has been done by the 99% of Twitter marketers that have gone before you?

Well if you are, you've just got to stop and try this little wonder. Say goodbye to being just average when it comes to Twitter - START BEING IN THE 1% WHO SUCCEED!

Watch this short video and be prepared to be amazed:







Happy Tweeting - I Know I Will Be :)

BRAND NEW Clickbank loophole (MUST SEE) - Not even I knew this one!

Traffic Siphon

In ALL my years so far as an internet marketer, I've never seen anything quite like this...

It's all over Facebook, all over the forums... Every guru's FURIOUS and people are going BANANAS to be one of the lucky 250 to get a copy, and since I'm not a guru, I will help spread the word :)

Honestly, it's easy to see why:It's rare someone can say "forget everything you know" here's a BRAND NEW way of making money...But even rarer when that person's making over $4ka day (and over $1 million over the past year)from nothing but this method and a handful of Clickbank products. And ALL with free traffic from these little unknown traffic loopholes. Now I use a hell of a lot of free traffic but this was just unbelievable!

And he's got MORE than enough proof to backup his claims, make sure you watch the video

I was lucky enough to get a pre-release screening and it totally blew me away, this really is cutting edge stuff and one of the best opportunities I've seen in awhile.Why? If nothing else...The first in advantage.

Imagine being one of the first people who learned how to do pay per click? That's what you're looking at here. No competition,just unbelievable amounts of traffic and commissions. Don't miss out on this Goldmine.

Remember, I have been told there is ONLY 250 copies, and since I have one, that's249 left already!

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An Introduction to Marketing on Facebook

Blue Fountain Media’s Jon Gelberg on how to make the social network an integral part of your overall marketing strategy.

Love it or hate it, Facebook is here to stay. With more than 400 million users, it represents a massive audience for your company’s message. Your current customers and clients are on Facebook, as are your prospective customers and clients. Along with display and search advertising, Facebook should be an integral part of your digital marketing mix.

Here are some of the most recent statistics:

As Facebook evolves, companies are trying to figure out just how much time, effort and money they should be spending on their presence there. While some major companies have dived in with multi-faceted Facebook campaigns, others have stood on the sidelines.

The problem with Facebook is that the great majority of visitors go to the site for personal reasons. Users want to communicate with friends, post vacation pictures and just tell the world what they’re up to. As a rule, they are not in a “business” frame of mind. This is in stark contrast to LinkedIn, which is heavily geared to the business community.

Does this mean that businesses should ignore Facebook? Abolutely not!
The first thing to understand is that there are two kinds of pages on Facebook: user profiles and “Pages.” Individual profiles are the personal profiles that kids and adults (i.e., individual users) create to keep the world updated on their activities.


Pages, on the other hand, are designed to create a Facebook presence for brands, organizations and businesses. Pages are commonly used by businesses as marketing tools. Facebook makes it simple to create these pages.

Pages can be simple or elaborate. Since the page reflects on your business, it is important to do it right. Elements of your Page should include:

• Clear identification of your brand, including:
  • Photos and logos
  • Brand messaging
  • Your services
  • Your products
• Company messaging
  • Humanizes your executives and employees
• Offerings:
  • Sales
  • Special events
  • Facebook “exclusives”

Facebook offers a variety of tools to make your page look professional, including Facebook’s own version of HTML to help you style your pages, called Facebook Markup Language (FBML). As in any marketing presentation for your company, the more professional and fresh content that you can provide, the more effective it will be in helping your company achieve a high ROI on its Facebook marketing investment.

Direct links to e-commerce
Your company’s Facebook Page is just one click away from your company’s e-commerce site. You should try to parlay your captive Facebook audience into direct sales with compelling offers on your Facebook Page. Below is an example of how apparel retailer Gap uses Facebook to drive traffic to its store.

Deals
People are always looking for deals, and Facebook gives businesses an opportunity to provide exclusive promotions to their Facebook fans. Not only do you reach a captive audience with each offering, you can measure the success of the campaign by having it exclusive to Facebook.
Modell’s sporting goods has embraced Facebook as a marketing and sales tool by offering a “Facebook Fridays” program where the company offers discount coupons exclusively to their Facebook fans.

Integrate with other marketing channels
Cooking.com regularly runs offers and contests exclusive to Facebook users, but promotes them across its newsletters. This allows the brand to connect newsletter subscribers to the brand’s Facebook presence, increasing the chances that future marketing efforts will reach them successfully.

User-generated content
Papa John’s has more than 1.1 million fans on Facebook. Papa John’s does a terrific job of engaging its fans both with special offers and with social engagement. Recently,  the company encouraged Facebook users to click the “like” button (which connects users’ profiles to the Papa John’s page) in exchange for a chance to “win a slice of the sales” and free pizza for life.

This is just one example of getting your visitors involved in your Facebook efforts. Other devices include contests, polls, lotteries and “featured fan” promotions.

The Facebook wall
Another major way of encouraging user-generated content is to allow fans make comments on a company’s wall. This has multiple benefits. It makes fans feel like they have a relationship with their brand. And it gives them an opportunity to praise the brand, make criticisms or suggestions, and just let their voices be heard.
This, in turn, becomes a great vehicle for customer service. So long as the wall is regularly monitored and the company is responsive to comments, it can create a tremendous customer relations channel at relatively little cost.

While it may be impossible to respond to every post, when faced with repeated concerns or suggestions, it is a terrific idea to reach out—directly—to your fans, listen to them, and find solutions.

Facebook Ads
Facebook served more banner ads in the first quarter of 2010 than any other website. The reason for the explosive growth in Facebook advertising is that it gives advertisers the opportunity to target ads with remarkable precision.
Advertisers can target ads based on myriad variables, including:

• Age
• Education
• Location (all the way down to zip codes)
• Gender
• Workplace
• Interests
• Relationship status (single, engaged, married)

Using multiple variables, you can actually use Facebook Ads to deliver an ad to a single individual. Facebook’s targeting tool will tell you the exact number of people you will reach with any specific set of targeted factors.

Too big to ignore
This is just a small sample of the ways in which businesses are using Facebook to engage current customers and entice new ones. Before diving in to the world of Facebook, business owners should do a bit of research, asking these types of questions:

• What offers and services are companies providing on Facebook?
• What presence do key my competitors have on Facebook?
• What marketing tools are working for my company in other online platforms?

Any business that chooses to ignore a universe of more than 400 million potential customers is making a huge mistake. For many of our clients, we find that Facebook advertising brings a very positive ROI on their marketing investments.
— Jon Gelberg


Jon Gelberg is Chief Content Officer at Blue Fountain Media, a website development and online marketing company headquartered in New York City and serving clients worldwide. For more useful insights from Jon and his team, check out the Blue Fountain Learning Center , where a version of this article first appeared.

Auto Blog Samurai Software Introduction

AutoBlog Samurai is the first and only blogging software that helps you build multiple revenue streams online with a few clicks of the mouse.  This is one of it’s kind, never seen before software that can create profitable blogs with ease.

Auto Blog Samurai is a quality product and is created by popular internet marketer Paul Ponna who is also the developer and creator of bestselling software products such as Miracle Traffic Bot, Magic List Bot, Disc Mojo and Auction Acrobat.

Now with the AutoBlog Samurai software you can create 10, 50 or even 100 profitable money generating blogs that can each generate $1 to $100 a day in record time!

Introducing AutoBlog Samurai…

A breakthrough content rich profitable blog generation software. This software is one of its kind and is already powering 15,000 blogs around the world!

This is the most robust, easy to use and the most powerful blogging software available online.

There has never been a better time to make money online from blogging. With Google acquiring Blogger.com, and Wordpress becoming the most popular and widely used blogging platform, blogs have become the number one source of information online by attracting free traffic from search engines.
Many blogs are now rivaling the traffic of established news media sites such as CNN, Fox News and other popular networks.

How The Software Works -

So now that you know the power of blogging, you might be wondering, how does AutoBlog Samurai generate money from the blogs you create with the software.

Let me show you how the software works…

1) First thing you do is pick a niche. We will provide you with comprehensive training on how to pick the most profitable niches
2) Once you do this, the software does all your research and automatically writes unique content for you
3) Then, the software takes this content and automatically posts it to your blog
4) The software keeps updating your blog every day automatically without clicking a single button
5) You start receiving free targeted traffic as your blog and content are already keyword and SEO optimized.
  
It’s as simple as that! Your sparkling new money generating blog is created in 10 minutes or less.

Cutting Edge Features -

The software automatically updates your blogs for you every day so you can go ahead and create more profit pulling blogs without having to worry about updating the blogs you already created with the software.

The most powerful feature of Auto Blog Samurai software is that, it can create blogs in any language so that you can target people from various countries around the world. The software supports a whopping 42 languages so you will never run short of untapped niches or worry about saturation or be constrained to audience from one part of the world.

And the most shocking part of it all is that the software automatically writes the content for you in various languages… You do not have to know any foreign languages to use the software!

This is nothing like you have ever seen before and the software is completely compatible with the most popular blogging platforms!

The software is completely scalable to manage thousands of niches and hundreds of money generating blogs on autopilot. You can now manage a massive blog empire of your own right from your desktop without having to go through the hassles of constantly writing new content and managing hundreds of profitable blogs at once.

Auto Blog Samurai for List Building -

If you are a seasoned marketer who wants to build a massive email list using the software, this is a perfect solution for you. Now you can instantly place your opt-in forms in hundreds of blogs and generate thousands of new subscribers and a flood of new traffic to any offer you like!

As you may know, email marketing is the most profitable medium to generate money online. Using AutoBlog Samurai… Lead generation, traffic, and building multiple income streams becomes an absolute breeze.
Wave good bye to all the ebooks, expensive manuals and software tools that just automate one part of your business. With AutoBlog Samurai you have an all-in-one solution that can control blogging, niche research, traffic generation and list building, all under one easy to use platform.

It is like having your own army of virtual workers who work 24 hours a day and complete all the time consuming work for you!

Special Limited ‘Early Bird’ Discount -

The beta testers [myself included] and customers from around the world are already raving about the software due to its incredible proven potential and flexibility. This is your opportunity to grab this breakthrough technology at a very special introductory launch discount. Watch this space for further details on availability!

                                

Facebook Marketing - A Must Read Book

If you have a band or business and are trying to get noticed on the internet, you need to be marketing on Facebook right now! This is easier said than done…

Facebook has great protection from businesses and bands trying to market on the site… they limit everything! If you even approach a limit you get hit with a warning, and after three warnings, you’re out.

Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Nick Jag, a well-known Social Network Marketer. I’ve been marketing on Facebook since it began – mainly for major bands, record labels, and politicians.

I also have extensive experience in internet searching, security, and internet marketing tricks and secrets in general.I’ve done several campaigns for bands and companies (including politicians) on Facebook and you’ve probably started to notice how much potential there is for your company or band on Facebook… and you’re right. There are millions of dedicated, active users on Facebook and they are much more loyal to brands than on any other site.

Unfortunately, as I just mentioned Facebook offers marketers a few problems:

1. There are limits on everything
2. They are very efficient at tracking promotion and marking it as spam
3. There are so many channels it gives marketers a headache
4. Your promotion gets buried under everything else users do on the site

After marketing on the site for years, not only have I made my way around these issues, I’ve mastered the correct channels and I know what to use and how to be effective. I’ve even come up with ways to market to 5000 people at once.

Of course, I’ve never let these marketing secrets out before. I use them in my own consultation and I typically charge businesses $150/hr for my marketing services and for the Facebook marketing tips that I’ve accumulated over my years of experience.

I still do marketing consultation for companies, but I’ve also decided to put my best techniques and marketing tips into a book. The book has everything I believe any band or business (new or established) to the Facebook site needs to know.

These Facebook marketing techniques come from years of experience; they aren’t screwy tips like “message your friends” or “write on their wall,” and this isn’t a flaky ebook. They are hand-picked and customized, being the most effective and efficient techniques for Facebook marketing.

A Must Read Book

Many of the techniques are very secret (some of my best work) and no other marketer has been sharing or has even come up with ideas like these. Once again, I’ve written them down for both bands and businesses since I’ve done marketing for both types.

Here’s a quick preview of what I’ve put in it:

1. The critical way of setting-up (99% of bands have done this wrong)
2. The only way to message thousands of people (very secret method)
3. How to mass message your friends (multiple ways)
4. The one way to get thousands of targeted friends instantly (another top secret)
5. Which limits are placed on what and how to avoid hitting them
6. How to get viral and start rapidly expanding!
7. How not to get deleted or reported for spam and where to watch out
8. The one unknown way to write whatever you want on your mini-feed
9. How to take your messages from being 5% effective to 50%
10. How bands can make the most of Facebook and make their music available to 3,000 people in 1 minute of marketing and 50,000 people in 10 minutes!
11. So much more…

I’ve really made this easy for you, and if you’re a band or business, it doesn’t get any better than this – I’m handing you techniques that would take you months or years to figure out. This is going to save you so much time and money!

So what’s all of these top secrets and techniques worth from a guy who consults at $150/hr?

1. Most places would charge around $50.00
2. I won’t even charge half that (bands are cheap – I know I was there once years ago) $25.00
3. The techniques that will literally save you hours of your time will come to you at only $16.49 for this month

Also…

I’ll also give everyone free access to the exclusive social networking forums (included in the $16.49) where the Facebook marketing forum is located. This will allow you to talk, discuss, and ask any questions you have with others and myself! I can share any updates with you this way.

Get it while it’s available now… I may decide not to release this information in the near future.

To sum up, I’ve written my best Facebook marketing techniques (many of them very secret and unknown) in a book that I’ve accumulated over my many years of pricey internet marketing consultation. I’m listing them here, right now, complete in a book, for only $16.49 and access to the forums to go with.

Writing Articles as an Affordable Internet Marketing Method

From Overture, a keyword suggestion tool, you will see the millions of searches done to a certain keyword.

When these keywords are typed on search boxes of search engines, indexed websites containing articles with those keywords will be displayed. And this is what leads traffic to websites with keyword-rich articles. Yes, one of the the magic elements can be articles.

Content is king. You can say that again. That is why writing articles is one of the most utilized Internet marketing strategies used today. Internet surfers just can't get enough of information on various fields. Providing information through these articles is a surefire way to drive hot traffic to your web site.

Why is this so? Here are the benefits that writing articles can give your Internet business.

1. It's absolutely free.

Too good to be true? Not. Okay, you have to pay for your Internet Service Provider. That's it. All you need is your thoughts, your computer, and your hands. If you have those, nothing will stop you from typing words that will make you complete that article for your website. On which aspect of that process did you really shell out any money? Maybe later when your electric bill comes through the door.

2. Your website will be noticed in a short period of time.

Submit that article of yours to article directories that get the most web traffic and in no time your web site will be crawled. That is if you don't forget including your resource box or byline.

3. Obtain back links automatically.

When you submit your articles to directories, surely, other websites will make use of your article too. With the copyright terms of your articles, the URL of your website will still be in tact and will subsequently direct more traffic to your website.

4. Improve your reputation.

As an Internet marketer, if you plainly display your products on your website, you will not gain much conversion rate. Conversion is when your traffic converts to sales. You have to show that you are knowledgeable on your field. And what better way to show that than by writing articles that will allow you some bragging rights, right?

Just make your creative juices flow and jot down or key in those ideas quickly to jump start your article writing momentum. With those benefits listed above, a writer's block is the last problem you will ever be able to surmount.

Engaging Customers with Facebook Applications

With the rapid advancement in the Internet and its increasing user presence, the medium has become a preferred means of communicating directly with customers. Among the most popular activities on the Internet is the voracious usage of social networking sites.

With its open architecture and wide range of functionalities, Facebook stands as the number one social networking site. There are many reasons for this cult followership of Facebook. The ease of use and dissemination of content, tagging of friends and related users on shared items is yet another great Facebook feature. Facebook also allows creation of secured groups and publicly available fan pages regarding your own brands.

The Facebook applications are its most popular components. Facebook has an open platform for web developers and programmers to create different applications to run applications from within its framework.

What is new about Facebook applications?

Until the option of applications was incorporated, the Facebook features were more about conventional social media usage, such as adding friends and creating groups pertaining to common interests and affiliations.

Applications initiated by Facebook expanded the function of the site toward more interesting features, which included social gaming, where you could include friends and even unknown participants from around the world. The big leap happened when Facebook opened its programming platform to developers around the world, who could develop applications and submit it to Facebook. These applications are made live for public usage once they are certified by Facebook.

How do applications help brand marketing?

On an average, a user would spend no more than a few seconds on the homepage or any other text rich section of a website. Similarly, on Facebook, text-based sections have their own limitations when it comes to holding attention of the users on the same page. That is where rich content and applications come into play.

A game, such as Scrabulous or UNO, on Facebook can engage a user for hours. Social games like Farmville have brought about a new genre of Social Gaming, which is the latest buzzword in gaming circles.

For a brand, a Facebook application can serve as an effective tool to gather and engage captive audience for a longer stretch of time. Users hooked on a particular game or application on Facebook will stay with it until the completion of the game. Brands have smartly used the opportunity to insert their logos and branding very subtly in the game. Subtle messages like these are known to give more brand recall and attitude change compared to intrusive advertisements.

Much to the delight of a marketer, Facebook provides usage stats of subscribers, which gives insight into the profile of users that the brand attracts. This can be compared with the intended target audience of the brand, and campaign modifications can be done based on the findings. Unlike most surveys that are based on sample estimate, what you get to see here is a summary based on each and every user who has added the application.

Developing Applications for Your Brand

Unlike most other participative aspects of social media, developing applications for Facebook requires adequate programming knowledge. Facebook has its own set of guidelines for the creation and submission of applications. Developers working on the Facebook framework must be updated with the guidelines defined by the site for any application to run. Brand owners need to avail services of a developer who knows all the steps that go into the creation of successful Facebook applications to ensure that their brand makes its presence through one of the most engaging options available in online media.

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Your Official Presence On Facebook

The Internet, as a medium, has opened the doors to a wide range of communication possibilities with customers. The interactive characteristic of the medium also makes it possible for a customer to publish his response to a vast audience. Social networking sites, particularly Facebook, which is getting increasingly popular around the world, have given customers an equal opportunity to communicate as loudly as you about your brand, in a public forum open to the whole world.

On the brighter side, there is a great opportunity to acquire direct and unadulterated feedback from customers, without the need of expensive and time-consuming surveys and research processes. Directly redressing customer queries on the medium itself can help increase brand loyalty.  However, as a brand owner, you need to realize the speed and potential of the medium to do good as well as harm. 

Facebook Opportunity for Your Brand

There are enough reasons for a brand to be on one of the most happening mediums. A significant amount of conversation that happens on Facebook, or for that matter on other social platforms like Twitter, carries references to brands, with customer's attitude toward these clearly seen through them.

The fact is that whether you are there on Facebook, it is very likely that someone or the other from your customer base may be making a mention about you. Your brand presence during such a situation is important to either thank the customer for any accolades or gracefully respond and address any grievances posted by the customers and win back their confidence in your brand.

On a proactive note, sustained brand presence on Facebook also helps you create your own band of customers, including those interested in you. This gives you one point access to disburse any firsthand brand information in a single click, without spending a dime more.

Today, brands – both big and small – have a presence on Facebook. Some of them use it with more innovation than the rest.

Brand Pitfalls on Facebook

Traditional marketers are used to broadcast, which is an extremely formal means of communication, where customers voices are barely heard back. Coming from this background, many a time, marketers find it difficult to adjust and converse in the language demanded by social networking sites, which are much informal in nature.

There have been instances where brand owners trying to enforce rules and guidelines of discussion on Facebook fan pages have faced the immediate wrath of users, which had an adverse impact on the brand.

The lesson from this is very clear, the brand must try to avoid any pitfalls on Facebook; marketers must know the responsiveness and energy levels of the users and be one among them, rather than one above.

Word of Caution – World of opportunity in Facebook

For every scary story of a brand goof up on Facebook, there are many cases of success, where even small household brands have grown in popularity through effective use of the medium.

Two golden rules to be followed while using Facebook, which can yield good results in the long run, are as follows:

Do not be a big brother – be a cheerful friend to your customers. The big brother attitude, which worked fine in traditional media, can kill your brand on Facebook. Any showdown of brand arrogance or one-upmanship is given a bitter response by its customers in the same medium. For a brand to succeed, it has to be a friend, who is fun to speak with.
Do not advertise, converse – Blatant advertising, or use of social networks for incessant spamming with interruptive advertising, is a sure recipe for disaster. You will find your brand page getting isolated on Facebook.

There are many ethics to be followed on Facebook and social media, which can be easily grasped through active participation in the medium itself. A company must ensure that its trained representatives have marked presence on Facebook and social networking avenues as true online custodians for the brand. For many companies, it also makes sense to engage an agency that is experienced in handling brand reputations on Facebook and online avenues.

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Maximum Exposure on Low Cost Internet Ad

(Make the most of a low cost Internet advertising method)


Advertising has long since been a major determinant of a business' success.  This would include the presentation of the product / service to the consumers.  What really matters is how it is presented to the target market to be able to capture it.

Whatever the package, the ad media also plays a great role in determining the success of the product or service awareness.

What may be its advantages over other proven medium like the best-selling TV ads?

Advantages

1. Low Cost

Even though the Internet ad might be viewed as "classy" or far-reaching, as compared to other medium, this is far cheaper than most.  Internet Ad Packages are offered for as low as £29.99 for a one-month run-time period.

2. Capture market

Should your product / service aim to cater to the younger generation or the corporate-oriented ones, an Internet ad would be best since they would always be "hooked-up" into the net surfing sites that might have a link to your very own. Result, a great number of "hits" on your site!

3. Hassle free

All you would ever really need is a PC (and some knowledge and bright ideas in forming your site) wherein you could open your site, search for the best Internet Ad package, and check / update the status of your ad.  You may actually never have to leave your home to advertise!

4. Updated ads

Unlike the TV ads that need to be updated on a regular basis, Internet ads may run for quite some time without the need for change.  If so, change in the site is very minimal and may be done easily at home.

Disadvantages

1. Scope

A limited market may be captured if one would solely use the Internet Ad for advertising.  Although most people now are into the use of technology, i.e. surfing the Internet, still, majority of the average consumers still relies on the old form of advertising as a means of gathering information about certain products / service.

2. Additional cost

If one would enlist the help of another professional or establishment to produce the site for their product or service, this would entail additional costs on the part of the entrepreneur.

Given the stated list of advantages and disadvantages about low-cost Internet Ad, an entrepreneur may now "weigh in" its applicability to his / her product or service.

The aim of Internet ad is to offer the widest range or "Maximum Exposure" of the brand at the least possible cost. Now, does that not sound good or what?

Three Traffic Tactics That Won't Cost You a Penny

Are you constantly banging your head in frustration on not receiving all the internet traffic you would like to get to your web site?

Are you tormented from information overload listening to all the latest free website traffic tactics and not being able to understand any of it?

Are you dejected of people trying day and night to harassing you to max out your credit card and get loans for Google clicks, and in the process loose your credit score?

Are you stupefied by the way your website just dropped out of the Google search results?

Or are you just too broke and all you have to rely on is getting some free website traffic tactics?

You can employ these website traffic tactics without spending a penny. However, knowing how is the real deal. Here's the score:

1. Link it

Of all the effective website traffic tactics that can get you best results, linking to and from other websites is the one of the most widely-used method. Just make sure that the Internet business you are exchanging links with is relatively if not utterly related to your own business. And of course, don't overkill as this might ban you from search engines.

2. Meta Tags

Another way of to acquire your desired traffic for your website is through having your Meta tags contain usually used keywords that target your business. Meta tags help search engines in describing your web page. If you're quite adept with the HTML aspect of your web pages, manipulating your meta tags would be a breeze.

3. Keyword-rich AND sensible content

Writing or acquiring articles that provide solid information regarding your business is one of the best ways. Making use of free keyword suggestion tools such as Overture will help you on which keyword or phrases to work on to better lead more traffic to your website. Making these write-ups very readable and genuinely informative will make you many repeat visitors to subsequently become repeat clients.

Submitting these articles to various article directory listings will provide more visibility for your business as long as you keep your resource box in tact to create for yourself numerous back links.

These methods, if employed properly, will not only make your web site popular but will make you achieve your most desirable result - a higher conversion rate.

Face Your Customers On Facebook

Communicating effectively with customers and delivering the right message to the right people has been one of the major challenges for any marketer since day one. Since early days of marketing, various forms of communication medium have been evolving with developments in technology as well as its consumers.

For a long time in the history of marketing communication, media remained the stronghold of newsmakers and advertisers and communication was mostly one way from the marketer to the reader. However, the trend of this inequality of voice was broken with the advent of the Internet and further developments within that medium itself.

Internet and Quantum Change in Media

The Internet brought about a sea change in the science and practice of mass communication and hence the process of marketing itself. But much before common users could take control of the content on the World Wide Web, the way we see it today, there was a time when content creation was the forte of those well-versed in HTML programming and web scripting languages. However, with the advent of services, such as blogs and social networking sites, the power of mass communication moved to the common user on the Internet.

Facebook – Front-Runner in Social Media Phenomenon

With 500 million users worldwide, and the numbers growing steeply, Facebook is emerging as one of the strongest mediums, with users getting totally involved in creating more and more content on the website. At any given point in time, millions of conversations take place, with precious customer-related information seeping through each of these, in the most natural way.

Customer Insight… Really

Even before the first television spot or a newspaper advertisement goes live, any company serious about its brand spends a great deal of effort and money on gathering information and insight into what their customers really want and how they seek to accomplish those needs. A lot of money is spent on brand research that delves into the awareness levels of the brand vis-a-vis competition.

This information can be readily accessed freely floating on a social networking platform, such as Facebook. All the answers that a brand may want to seek are hidden in the conversations happening through wall comments, photographs, tags, fan pages, and many such avenues through the same platform of Facebook.

All of this information is first hand, with honest responses.

Coming Face to Face With Customers

Users on Facebook form fan pages and groups pertaining to their interests and form conversations around topics and brands of their interests. Here are some tips with how a new age brand manager can keep a tab and also build his brand on Facebook.

Do a Brand search on Facebook – Conducting a search on Facebook with the terms related to your brand or that of your competition throws up results that include customers associating with the brand and various discussions, fan pages, where the brand features. Going through these conversations can reveal the opinion of the customers about your brand.

Creating a Fan page: If you are confident that your brand has the capability of attracting positive response and drawing fans, it is time you create a fan page for your brand and watch users “liking” the page and enroll for the same. The fan page can serve as an excellent platform to directly engage with customers and create a strong bond.

Create branded applications: Applications can range from entertaining games with your brand to useful tools related to your product.

The possibilities provided by Facebook to reach out to customers are endless, and all of this can be done at minimal cost with maximum impact. But while doing all of this as a marketer, you need to remember that the customer and you are on a level playing field, with both having equal opportunity to express. The customer is free to share his positive as well as negative experiences with your brand, which can influence other customers watching your brand carefully.

This is where you need dedicated efforts of professionals who understand the dynamics of the medium, which is very different from what conventional media marketers are generally used to. Facebook can hence help you come face to face with your customers. It becomes extremely important for you to know how this medium and conversations should be managed.

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Facebook Conversations

A great deal of successful marketing today depends on closely understanding consumer behavior. As a marketer, you may always be curious to understand what excites or motivates your customers into buying either your products or those of your competitor.  Depending on the buying and consumption cycle of your product, there can be several factors that will determine the sales conversion ratio for your product.

Toward Right Learning

A successful sale happens when your customer understands his need and is convinced that your product can satisfy that need in a reliable way.  Both these steps happen through a process, which is known as learning. Hence as a marketer, your job begins by ensuring that the customer perceives his need and, more importantly, finds the solution in your product

Right Learning and Right Conversations

At this very moment, you may be reading this article on your laptop or desktop. Remember the day when you had decided to buy your first computer. You must have considered many factors before finalizing which computer to purchase.  One of the important decision points for a buyer is his circle of reference. It is natural for you, as a buyer, to discuss with your informed friends about the best brand. Positive references from friends and acquaintances help one make a decision.

How has Facebook changed all of this?

Research has shown that buyers do a great deal of product research on the Internet and most of the time choose to purchase the product either online or offline. The power of the Internet as a research and information resource has been realized to a great extent by customers worldwide.

The basics of consumer behavior, learning, reference groups, and buying decisions have remained exactly the same. But what has changed significantly is the speed with which everything happens. Technology has brought down the barriers in global communication. Social networking sites, and more importantly the rising popularity of Facebook, bears a strong testimony to the growing power of the Internet as a mode of communication and a source of information.

Before and After Facebook

Like we discussed, most of the learning before the proliferation of Facebook and social media happened through advertisements on television.  During the days of conventional media dominance, marketing was driven by the power to broadcast. Marketing communication was primarily unidirectional through blaring advertisements and press releases.

Word of mouth happened on a one-on-one basis, where the conversation would begin and end around a small group of people.

Today, a search on your favorite brand on Facebook may reveal many conversations about the brand, which may depict user’s positive or negative experiences with the brand. Unlike the clandestine brand gossip of earlier days, the Facebook era ensures that conversations are documented and made easily available through social networking sites.

Brands trying to ignore this new medium find themselves in a state similar to an ostrich, with its head buried in sand, thinking the world cannot see it. The real image of the brand in people’s minds shows up aloud these days through conversations on Facebook.

Facebook and Online Reputation

The power of Facebook, as discussed, has extended the scope of Word of Mouth beyond the good old conversation between friends. Today, each and every Facebook user is free to publish his views on your brand. The true effect of this happens whenever these conversations appear in searches and influence people’s opinion about the brand image.

This is where online reputation, primarily on a widely accepted medium like Facebook, matters.

In a nutshell..
Managing a positive image of your brand requires you to expand your reach, more than what you would do in case of conventional media. The conversational nature of social networking sites, such as Facebook, demands a different approach. Unlike one-time broadcast by the conventional medium, Facebook stores each and every conversation and makes it available through the search option for anyone who is curious to know more about your brand.

That is the reason why it is a critical part of any brand plan to feature positively on social networking sites, such as Facebook. Engaging consultants who have experience in managing brands through the new era of social networks is a growing practice that can help brands manage the new wave.

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Facebook and Social Media - The Next Marketing Opportunity

Marketing as an activity is all about reaching the right customers with the right products, and the result sought is delighted customers who are more than willing to open their purses wide enough to boost your revenues. For many years, marketers stalked their target customers through various means and by trying to get their message across to spread awareness about their wares.


Traditional Means of Communication

Traditionally, marketing communications were conducted via print, broadcast and such traditional media through disruptive advertising, where advertisements appear in between the content of interest for the customer.

Traditional media does give a large reach to a marketer with its programming of mass appeal. However, the wastage is equally high, since a large portion of the audience would belong to a different segment than the one that is to be targeted by the marketer.

Enter Social Media and the Internet

The revolution stirred by the internet as a medium took place because of the fact that it is highly personalized and provides more content on-demand than any other available medium. Social sites proliferated far and wide in their usage for a few simple reasons:

The power to create and distribute content is equally available to every user, irrespective of him/her being a customer or a marketer. In the earlier forms of media, that power rested with the editorial staff of the channel or the advertiser, but hardly ever with the user.
The medium is completely personalized, and a user can create or join groups and further create content based on what he/she likes.
Opinions are free and fair. This is one reason why social media is of utmost concern to marketers, since buying decisions are no more influenced as much by advertisements. The traditional word-of-mouth marketing approach has grown leaps and bounds on social networks.

Facebook – At the Center of Social Media

With 500 million (and growing) unique users worldwide, Facebook is the number one social networking site in terms of activity and subscriptions. What started as a garage initiative by Mark Zuckerberg has now become the biggest phenomenon on the internet.

A user interface that allows for quick communication and the ability to create fan pages and groups at the click of a mouse button are what make Facebook extremely popular. Another important reason for its immense popularity is the wide variety of social applications that have been developed and made available within the Facebook environment.

These applications can allow users and friends to do joint activities like playing games that run endlessly, sharing photos, videos, and web links, and many more.

How does this help a marketer?

Traditionally, media plans were drawn to include television channels, publications, or any other media that can grab maximum eyeballs and effectively reach a selected target audience. The science of segmentation and targeting has become only more accurate in the case of social media.

Facebook provides a wide variety of avenues to communicate with the audience, which opens up an entirely different world of possibilities to have a fruitful dialogue with customers. Some of these methods used popularly by marketers are:

Advertising: The first opportunity, which is the most obvious one, is advertising on Facebook. The difference, however, is the fact that you can create your own advertisement in a matter of minutes and also specify the details of your target group in terms of demographics and types of discussions where you want your advertisement to appear.
Fan Pages: Facebook allows every brand, as well as individual users, to create fan pages for their favorite celebrities and their own homegrown businesses. Large brands have also created their official pages on Facebook that have a huge, immediate fan following around the world. The fan page has immense utility to convey first hand information about the brand and also to collect immediate and frank feedback from your customers.
Branded applications: One of the most effective ways to engage a user toward your brand is by creating an application; this could be a game or a contest, with your branding coming across subtly through it.

What makes Facebook even more exciting is the way it allows you to target your communication sharply just to the customer segment you want to attract. It also provides analytics and page insights that give good feedback and measurement on the activity done.

The options provided by Facebook can be creatively explored and used judiciously for bringing about maximum benefits to any brand.

However, while doing all this, you need to be aware of the fact that customers have an equal say and have the ability to respond immediately to any of your actions with a thumbs up or a thumbs down. Availing the service of a social media consultant to work out a social media strategy may be required so that your efforts will not be in vain.

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