Archive for the ‘Social Media’ Category

In this Facebook tutorial (which includes a video to help you), I want to share with you an aspect of fan pages that is often overlooked, but that can increase the exposure of your fan page if you do it correctly.

I’m talking about the facebook fan page url, also known as the facebook vanity url. This is the address of your fan page and the way in which people can find you on Facebook. Many people are unaware that you can optimise this in order to rank higher in the search engines using your page. Optimising the url also means that you can be found more easily and spread the word about your page more easily.

1. In order to set your fan page URL, you first need to log in to Facebook (like, duh?!)
2. Then, you need to type the following address into the the address bar of your browser: http://www.facebook.com/username. This will take you to the page that allows you to change your username on Facebook.
3. Once you’re there, select the page you want to change from the drop-down menu.
4. In the box on the right, type in the words that you want to appear after the facebook.com/ part of the address.
5. Once you’ve typed the words you want, click on ‘Check Availability’ and Facebook will see if that address is available. If it is, you can choose to permanently change the name of your page to your new URL.
6. Job done!

There are a few things to consider when it comes to changing the address of your fan page.

Here are some of the hints and tips Read the rest of this entry »

This is rather different from what I normally post, but I think you’ll enjoy my Apple advert parody (below the original video).

I was watching TV a few nights back and saw an advert that genuinely shocked me in its smug tone and general arrogance. I actually like the product and think it’s a brilliant step forward in many ways. In fact, it’s phenomenally successful…

So why on earth would they market it like this?

So, I decided to record a narration of my own and using the old iPhone ad music, I decided to voice what Apple are really saying(!) with their new ad campaign. Enjoy!

Social bookmarking is one of those buzz phrases you may have heard around the internet, but what is social bookmarking?

Put simply, social bookmarking is simply a more public version of the bookmarking you do on your own browser. When you want to remember a page or site on the internet, you usually go to the ‘Bookmarks’ menu in your browser and click ‘Bookmark this page’, right?

Well, with social bookmarking, you simply allow other people on social bookmarking sites like Delicious and Digg to see what you’ve bookmarked and visit that site themselves. Social bookmarking sites provide you with a platform on which you can keep track of your bookmarks while sharing them with other people.

The larger and more established social bookmarking sites are very well regarded by the search engines so when you bookmark something, that bookmark becomes like a vote for that site which Google and the other search engines see and consequently they will often rank sites higher that have lots of social bookmarks.

For a full list of the social bookmarking sites I use plus those that I recommend, check out my List of Social Bookmarking Sites post.

The benefits of bookmarking in this way are fairly obvious, but I’ll break down why I think they’re such a good part of online business and blogging. Read the rest of this entry »

For those of you looking for a list of social bookmarking sites, I’ve put together the following so you can see and use the full potential of social bookmarks.

The list isn’t an exhaustive list but it is split into the ones I use regularly and the others I know of as being reputable. There are 24 social bookmarking sites altogether in the list. I’ve seen other lists go into the hundreds but to be honest, if you get to the front page of even one of the sites below, you’ll see a rise in traffic. Also, many of those larger lists are outdated as many smaller services have closed down or been bought out.

Remember, there’s also social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter to consider too, which although not strictly social bookmarking sites, they can serve the same purpose and drive significant traffic to your sites via social interaction.

OK, here goes:

The Social Bookmarking Sites I Use

If you reach the front page on the following 6 sites (with the possible exception of TweetMeme) you’re likely to see a large spike in traffic to your site.

• Delicious – Probably the best known social bookmarking site on the internet.
• StumbleUpon – A site where you can stumble upon stories by clicking the stumble button which will bring up random sites within your area of interest. Fun and full of authority with the search engines. Also has its own link shortener which shortens links and shares them on SU at the same time giving you more leverage. The shortener is called SU.pr.
• Digg -  A massive authority when it comes to bookmarking.
• Reddit – A bookmarking site with the emphasis on news stories, this one is a monster. News before it happens.
• Diigo
• TweetMeme

I also used Read the rest of this entry »

When it comes to finding out how to make money with Twitter, there are a wealth of people out there purporting to be experts.

Some will tell you that in order to make some Twitter cash, you need to set up tons of accounts and then create automatic tweets in order to reach as many as possible. Others will tell you that you need to build a relationship with some core followers and grow from there.

The problem is that most of the information is either

• conflicting
• or created by people that aren’t really making much money from Twitter at all.

I was recently looking for a definitive guide to making money and building a monetised following from Twitter from people who not only know how, but are actually doing it.

True to form, I found a few products and checked them out. Most weren’t great, and some were just downright spammy.

One that I found that I really like (Twitter Cash Blueprint) was created by a young guy who’s just 15 years old. I actually met him at one of Mark Anastasi’s events in London and was impressed by how bright, intelligent and go-getting he was.

I wanted to show you exactly what Maksud has to offer so I’ve created a video review that takes you through the product, and shows you the entire thing. I’ve spent my money and time on this in order that you can see if it’s right for you. I’ve applied some of the strategies and listened to some of the interviews numerous times, and they work. They’re informative and actually contain great information about the business of internet marketing as well as Twitter marketing.

Enjoy the video. If you want to go straight to get Maksud’s product, click here.

http://www.adventuresininternetmarketing.net/upstart

OK, so first of all, I know it’s been a couple of weeks since I wrote on here. There’s a good reason for it.

I’ve been working on a strategy using Social Media (Facebook and YouTube mostly) to make money with affiliate marketing. I’m going to keep building this and working on it until I’ve got it cracked, then I can show you guys the results (which are already coming in). Better still, once it’s making me some good money, I can teach you how to do exactly the same thing to make money in your chosen niche. And in case you’re curious, no, I’m not targeting the ‘make money online’ market, but a little goldmine that I’ve found that very few people are exploiting.

All will be revealed soon. In the meantime, I’ve found a little gem that I wanted to share with you…

One of my first products online back in October 2009 was a guide to using Twitter to generate a following and visitors to your site. As part of the course, I shared the original version of this video with those that subscribed to my list.

The original video showed the incredible power of social media and the rise of ‘Socialnomics‘, a term coined by Erik Qualman in his new book.

This is the updated version and it shows you the amazing power that social media has. Just imagine if you could get even 0.001% of the traffic on Facebook to your website every month.

This will blow you away…