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Understanding the Importance of Social Media

March 29, 2009 By 7 Comments

What is Social Media? Understanding Social Media and how it affects your business whether online or not is important to your growth. Chris Pirillo from Locker Gnome shares with us his definition of Social Media and the impact it has in today’s world as he sees it.

Just as you can use Social Media to drive traffic to your website, think about the impact one buyer can have on your store by using the power of Social Media.

Using Social Media to promote your business and offer the consumer another avenue to follow you or to reach out to you is key. Think about the frustrations you may feel when calling Customer Service. Now, how would the Customer Service Rep handle your Customer’s if they understood the power of Social Media. Your personal understanding of Social Media is as critical as having your Team Members understands.

Chris Pirillo does a great job explaining it and get fired up towards the end of his interview.

How have / are using the Social Media for your online business? What Social Media do you use? Let me know what you are thinking? Share with us your own personal experiences.




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How to Follow with Google Friend Connect

March 27, 2009 By 31 Comments

For some time now, many of you may have seen the Google Connect. Google Connect a social feature that allows your friends to follow you. If you are using Word Press you can use Google Friend Connect Plug In its free and easy to install. Connecting with your friends is fun and great for your business. Most social features are free and the sites offer widgets to make it easier for you to display them.

Here is a quick tutorial on how to add it to your site:




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Save and Make Money with Big Crumbs

February 9, 2009 By 9 Comments

Big Crumbs offers you a way to save money from stores you already shop even from your own eBay store. What makes Big Crumbs more interesting is the option to make money online through referrals purchases and your own purchases.

It is very easy to sign up for an account. Open an account as a Shopper or an Earner. If you are not sure what account would be best for you, simply set up a Shopper Account ; you can later upgrade to an Earner account. The Shopper account does offer you are larger discount for purchases.

My Referral code is: XtraSavings

Payments to you are only made using Paypal. They currently do not offer any other option. They also charge you a payment processing for of 2% or the maximum of $1.00. Below is a copy of Line 6 and 7 from their Terms of Service. Also, if you are successful to generate a $10,001 or more a month, it will be paid out to you in several payments; due to the limits allowed to pay out. See Below

“Terms of Service

6. PAYMENT METHOD. BigCrumbs.com currently pays its members by PayPal. This payment method requires that you specify on your BigCrumbs.com account information, an e-mail address that is associated with your PayPal account.

It is your responsibility to ensure that you have provided accurate and complete information required for BigCrumbs.com to make payment to you. Any payment not accepted by you within 60 days from the date of issue will be forfeited.

BigCrumbs.com reserves the right to modify this payment method, including, but not limited to, other forms of electronic payments.

7. PAYMENT PROCESSING FEE. BigCrumbs.com will deduct 2% of the payment amount up to a maximum of $1.00 from each payment as a payment processing fee. This fee is charged to BigCrumbs.com by PayPal and BigCrumbs.com does not profit from this fee.

You understand that there is a $10,000 single-payment maximum allowed by PayPal. If the amount we owe you exceeds $10,000 for one pay period, we will break the payment into multiple payments as necessary. This means the above fee will be assessed per payment. ”

Once you have registered you can immediately do the following:

1) Create your Profile. Big Crumbs is a Social Network site. You can invite people and start earning money with referrals.

2) Or Start Shopping and save. Remember your savings will not be as high if you are registered as an Earner vs. Shopper.

3) Get exposure to your eBay store or create one

4) Promote other Members’ Stores

You can add your eBay store to Big Crumbs and drive traffic, cross promote items, make money promoting other sellers’ items (if you find that you are promoting more eBay sellers, a good option for you would be to open an eBay Affiliate account – I will post about this later this week)

Here is a glimpse of retailers featured in Big Crumbs:

1-800-CONTACT, 1-800-FLOWERS, 123Inkjets, 4inkjets, 6p.m.c,om, A&E Television networks, A1 Books, AccessoryGeeks, Adobe, aeropstale, Aerosoles, Alienware, All-Battery, Altrec, Animal Den, Aperion Audio, Appetizerstogo, Apple Store, Ashford, At & T Wireless, AutoAnything, AutoBarn, Avenue, Avon, Babies R Us, Baby Center Store, Back to Basics Toys, Bagsbuy, ballard Designs, Banana Republic, Bare Necessities, Barns & Noble, Bass Pro Shops, Beauty, Bellacor, BestBuy, Biblio, Big Al’s Online, BigDogs, BirkenstockCentral, Blair, BlockBuster Total Access, Bloomingdale’s, Bluefly, BoatersWorld, BooksaMillion, Borders, Botanic Choice, Bowflex, Brooks Brothers, Brookstore, Brylane Home, Buckle, Buy, BuyCostumes, CallawayGolf, Calumet Photographic, Cell Phone Shop, Chadwick’s, Charisma Dolls, CharlotteRusse, Chefs Catalog, Childcraft, Chocolate source, Christopher & Banks, Clinique, Coastal Contacts, CoffeeForLess, ComfortShoeShop, Compact Appliances, eBay, eBags, OfficeMax and Zappos to name a few.

You can add widgets to your blog, promote your blog on your profile and start making money online or saving.

Do you have your own Big Crumbs store already set up? If so, what is your experience like? Would you recommend it?

Here is a short promotion video for your review:


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Are you a Qwitter or Follower?

January 27, 2009 By 9 Comments

Are you a Qwitter or Follower? Have ever wondered exactly who stop following you on Twitter?…. When having over one hundred followers it can be difficult to keep track of them.

I use Qwitter. Qwitter will email you when someone stops following you on Twitter gives you the information of the Twit when they decided to stop following. Of course, that is if they stopped following due to a Twit.

The information is useful depending on why you use Twitter. Have fun catching to does “Twitter Quitters”

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New Method to Make Money with Twitter

January 21, 2009 By 12 Comments

Want to make money using Twitter. Here is another innovative idea. Check it out at Ryan Wade’s site. He has created a software that will help you generate money using your Twitter account. With a simple Re Twit you can generate instant traffic to your campaign.

Do you know of any other software that can help send instant messages in FaceBook or another Social Network?

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Need a Date …. or Idea on Making Money??

January 19, 2009 By 48 Comments

Markus Frind is the creator of PlentyofFish dot com . His story is interesting; he created the site to practice what he learned on programming. He decided creating a dating site would allow him to use his knowledge and challenge him to learn and implement new tools to his site.

If you have an adSense account with Google, you may already know of his success story. He created a site offering a FREE Dating Service. To this date, the site is Membership Free and generates around $900,000.00 a month.

Now, this might not work for most of you, but it should serve as an inspirational success story. Each one of us is capable of creating a website or blog and earning a living from it.

Here is what Markus has to say about Plenty of Fish:

“My name is Markus and this site is my creation. For over 5 Years without a single employee I turned this site into the worlds largest dating site. I ask every user how many dates they went on, and if they met someone. No other dating site has ever done this! While other dating sites find ways to mine your pocket book I look for ways to increase success rates!”

Plentyoffish.com 100% Free Online Dating

You can do a search a search on Google or visit his HERE for his press release.

This video of an Interview he gave to TampaBayMediaTalk.com back in 2007.

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Make Money Online While Having Fun

January 2, 2009 By 10 Comments

ShopIt is a commerce and social network site combined. Now, you can socialize and make money while doing so. You can sell goods or services using their widget on Blogger, MySpace or Bebo and others.

Basically, you have no limits. What makes this priceless is the fact that it’s absolutely Free to use. I have already registered and need to work on it more. Soon you will find an example here on my blog.

Providing your customers options is always great for business. You can easily customize your ShopIt store. Once you are done customizing your store; you can email or send a message to your friends online using ShopIt tools.

Once again, Presto…you have a store and a widget to place anywhere you want to promote your items.

If you have family and friends using Social Networking sites, ask them if they would carry one of your widgets. That would offer you even more exposure.

You can also, email me your widget and I would be more than Happy to place your widget in my Where to Shop Page

Let me know what you think about ShopIt. Have you used it in the past? Do you find it useful? Would you recommend it? Would you include this widget in your emails to customers?

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Make Money Online with Twitter

December 26, 2008 By 4 Comments

For all you using Twitter there is a really cool way for you to make some extra cash. It is called Twittad, you can sign up for as a User (to get paid for ads on your Twitter Account) or as an Advertiser (you get to run ads on others Twitter accounts).

 

User:
-Post your Twitter account for Advertisers to purchase
-You set how long you will run the Ad for and How much
-Wait for advertiser to purchase
-You have 48 hours to Accept or Deny offer
-If you accept the as; you will have to upload it to your Twitter profile

This is what my Twitter account looked liked while I was running an ad for Twittad.

For the Q&A on Twittad go here

 

Now, the only thing so far I do not like about this; is that payments are only sent to you through PayPal. Payments are made after you have reached $30.00 in your account.

 

This has plenty of potential. For all you Twitters out there what is better than making money while Socializing?

 

If you offer a service or sell online; you may want to look into Advertising on some of the most popular Twitter profiles. Keep in mind, to run a successful campaign on twitter the Profile does not need to be the most expensive or popular. Searching for a Twitter with 100 to 300 followers is great, as long as the Twitter user is actively sending out twits! Makes no sense to place an Ad with someone with 5,000 followers and does not participate much on Twitter.

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Get a job using MySpace, Blogger or FaceBook

December 9, 2008 By 12 Comments

To get that interview and land the job include your URL to your site or social site. Show off what you can do with a website or a social site.

Research the company prior to your interview. Keep in mind that you potential employer may have already Googled you. If you included that URL they may already be impressed and have a lot more questions for you.

How you conduct yourself online and what sites you frequent gives your potential employer an idea of the potential asset or liability you could be.

Creating a blog about yourself is not that uncommon. I have interviewed many with websites; only to confirm that their knowledge was limited or should I say creativity was not there.

Not only can a personal blog speak about you and for you; this can free up some time during the interview, for you to highlight the information you have found on the company and how YOUR skills and talent can help the company prosper.

You do not need to spend money on creating a blog. You can visit sites such as

MySpace, Blogger or FaceBook and create a free site. Blogger has tons of layouts out there for you to customize your site.

Sure you are not applying for a programmer position or tech, but knowing how to navigate through the internet is can be difference you and the other applicant. This will get you to stand out from the crowd.

MySpace helped launch the career of Colby Caillat and the Jonas Brothers.

Here is a quote from Colby Caillat:

“With no marketing push and only the power of the music behind her, Caillat became a sensation on the social networking site. Last October when she had 6,240 friends, Rolling Stone highlighted her as one of the top female artists on MySpace.

Ultimately, Caillat became the #l unsigned artist for over four months and her number of friends swelled to more than 100,000. Her profile has been visited over 3 million times, and she has more than l0 million plays. As her online popularity grows, so does the recognition factor. “I’m not even famous yet and every time I go shopping, the young girls who work in the stores, they know who I am. They’ll ask, ‘Are you Colbie from myspace?’” she recounts with delight.”

Here is the link to the article on Ashley from Whateverlife and the Jonas Brothers

Here is an excerpt from the article:

“Last year, Steve Greenberg, the former president of Columbia Records and now the head of indie label S-Curve Records, witnessed the power of Whateverlife. Greenberg discovered Joss Stone, produced the Hanson brothers, and helped make Baha Men’s “Who Let the Dogs Out” an unofficial sports anthem. Last year, he decided to promote Jonas Brothers, an unknown pop trio, online instead of on radio. He turned to Nabbr, a company that had developed a viral widget, a small desktop application that plays videos and can be easily shared with other sites. It’s like “a music poster on a bedroom wall,” says Mike More, Nabbr’s CEO.

The widget made its Internet debut on Whateverlife. While surfing MySpace for leads, More had noticed how many Jonas Brothers fans used Whateverlife layouts. In less than two months, 60,000 fans transferred the Jonas Brothers’ three-part video from Whateverlife to their MySpace pages, in effect becoming 60,000 new distribution points. “This teenage girl in the Midwest got more views for our video than YouTube,” says Greenberg, 46. “It wasn’t even close.” The viral campaign encouraged fans to vote for the band on MTV’s Total Request Live, and the group’s song “Mandy” hit No. 4, unheard of without radio play.”

And this is the Shout out from the Jonas Brothers back in 2006 to Ashley aka ashbo

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Oodle & Facebook Good for You

December 4, 2008 By 10 Comments

Have you ever wondered why listing on eBay is successful? eBay using all offered in order to drive traffic to your site. Your job is to list what you have, ship it and make your customer a happy one.

eBay spends hundreds of thousands on keywords per day, TV advertisements, Free Classifieds and most of all the affiliates.

The affiliates are the backbone of all the sales generated on eBay. An affiliate can successfully make 50% of your eBay bill. That is a lot of money.

Visiting Oodle a Free Classified marketplace you can easily upload your listings and generate plenty of traffic to your site. Take a closer look and you will find that Oodle also carries a large amount of eBay’s listings. Affiliates? Sure, why not.

Regardless, Oodle has a pretty good ranking. You benefit a great deal from placing your Promotions or Campaigns on these sites.

With the success Oodle has had, they are now teaming up with FaceBook. Oodle announced that Facebook selected Oodle to power its marketplace, Dec. 2 by Craig Donato. They plan to launch Facebook’s Marketplace sometime 2009. For details click HERE .

Now would be a good time to familiarize yourself with both Oodle and Facebook. Grow your community today.

I also recommend that you look into Bebo and Kaboodle

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Leona Lewis & Social Networks Increase Sales Follw Up

October 27, 2008 By 2 Comments

Leona Lewis & Social Networks increase sales follow-up. Lauren has confirmed that she is no longer selling on eBay. Her eBay page reads NARU. Of course this is of no surprise as she has made it known that she did not like eBay, but it served its purpose for the time. I am curious to know if her busy schedule had an impact on her Customer Service. Her Feedback score is good, but the feedback itself is not. Hmmm.

I suspect that her decision was due to her busy schedule with the New Make-Up line and BBC filming another special.

Leona Lewis has proven to be her number one tutorial to generate traffic. Here she is with another Leone Lewis Inspired look!

Look at her Stats 4 days ago up loaded to YouTube and has been viewed over 63,186 times! Good for her!

 

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Leona Lewis & Social Networks Increase Sales

October 16, 2008 By 2 Comments

For the last year I have been following the online Success of “Lauren” aka “Panacea81” .

Lauren is a single mother, resides in London and has used YouTube and other Social Networks to promote her eBay store. Up until a month ago, Lauren’s eBay store could be found at http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Pancosmetics

On July 22nd, 2007, Lauren aired her first YouTube Make-Up tutorial. Her mission was to generate direct sales to her eBay store by showing the use of her products. This did well for her, but it was not until she aired a tutorial on Leona Lewis look. There is no doubt that airing the look of Leona Lewis was the best move she could had made. Leone Lewis had found much success with her hit “Bleeding Love”.

Soon after she aired the tutorial on YouTube she got noticed from all medias, and calling her was the BBC. Oh yeah! The BBC is very much interested in her. Lauren landed several deals and is currently working on other Projects with the BBC and another station in New York. Lauren has not released too many details, she keeps the suspense.

Recently, her eBay store was closed. Not sure if its due to eBay Policies or if simply she was too busy to keep running the online business. I have emailed her and when she response, I will post it.

Regardless, her story can serve as HOPE. If you are not generating enough traffic listing Ads or selling on Major Search engines, then, let the power of Social Networks work for you. Its all in your hands.  Most cell phones have cameras, take pic and create a video. If you have a camera then just do it. Check my next post on the site to upload your videos, besides YouTube.

Lauren’s First Video:

 

 Leona Lewis Tutorial

For additional information you can find her at YouTube

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