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Viral Marketing Trumps Email Deliverability

The internet has turned another corner in the last few years. This should come as no surprise. The one constant about the internet is change. But the changes that have become a reality in the last few years have made fundamental changes to how we view the internet, how we use it and what we expect when we go on a web site and interact with the web site owners any more.

From wiki control over web sites to YouTube to social networks, the emphasis of the internet has shifted from the operators of web sites to the users. And with this change the way those of us involved in using the internet for marketing have begun to change the way we do business as well.

The model for internet marketing that predates the shift to the WEB 2.0 methodology was heavily dependent on email as the primary line of communication with the customer. Next to online sales, email was the way customers sent in inquiries and the way customer support was handled. And other than online advertising, email was the most sophisticated method for internet marketing we had at our disposal.

Over time, however, the use of email for marketing began to see abuses in the form of spam. More and more the need to protect customers from spam communications has so dominated the world of email marketing that has become a cost burden for online merchants and customers alike and it has slowed or stopped email deliverability to the point that it is uncertain on any given business day whether you can depend on email to keep your business running or not.

As a result, a discipline and a methodology for circumventing email delivery interference points such as spam filters has imposed yet another new area of online knowledge that takes time away from running your business so you can focus on working with ISPs and learning the methods of spam control so you can carefully construct your emails so at least they will get to your customers. But the methods you have to use to jump through hoops to get your marketing emails to customers have come to dominate email marketing so heavily that the message and the communication has almost taken a back seat to just getting the email delivered.

It is interesting that the big changes in how the internet operates in some ways are going to retire this cumbersome email system before we come up with a solution to the email delivery problem. There are some very sophisticated internet marketing techniques that are showing themselves to be highly effective that never depend on email at all. And as modern internet merchants turn to these methods, the problem of email delivery may never be solved as much as it is ignored and allowed to die out on its own.

Viral marketing is one way modern internet marketers are recruiting new customers and getting the word out about products and services by tapping the power of video and the instinct internet denizens have for downloading free stuff. Viral marketing is a method where the merchant creates a download that is desirable. A funny video, a musical performance or an ebook make great viral marketing tools. But along with the free "toy", the download carries the marketing message of the merchant and is downloaded into the internet network of users quickly and with no cost to the merchant or the user.

The viral part occurs naturally as users upload the video or link to it on other web sites or share it with each other on blogs or through email. The marketing message spreads from customer to customer, like a virus spreads the flu and as it spreads, it directs new customers back to the merchant web site to become active customers.

This is a powerful marketing technique that depends on nothing more than human nature for success. And unlike the cumbersome email system, viral marketing has its own way of avoiding "spam", it is fast and it is cost free. But above all the one trait that makes viral marketing trump email marketing as the means to success for the future of internet marking is a simple principle that always attracts business people. It works.

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The Wonderful World of the iPhone

Once you've entered the iPhone universe, the chances are good that you'll never go back. When it comes to making calls, it's simply a matter of tapping a name or number - forget having to scroll down a tiny display.

But making calls is just the tip of the iceberg. The iPhone has SMS with a QWERTY keyboard, visual voicemail, a 2-megapixel camera that takes beautiful images, and a half million possible ringtones are all at your fingertips - literally. The iPhone gives you all of the features of an iPod, and then some. Its widescreen display lets you listen to audiobooks or watch videos, movies, and television shows. You have instant access to the Internet, email, maps, and a YouTube player that launches from the home screen. The iPhone maps feature ensures that you'll never get lost, and myriad widgets keep you endlessly delighted. But a list of features doesn't begin to express what's at the heart of the iPhone revolution. It's gorgeous, it's intuitive, it's sleek, and it's absolutely cool.

iPhone Portals

Best of all, when you buy an iPhone, what you pull out of the box is just the beginning. The possibilities are virtually limitless. That's why an increasing number of iPhone aficionados are turning to what are, in essence, iPhone portals - gateways to accessories, downloads, and information for this technological wonder.

The right iPhone site will unlock a world of resources for both new owners and old-timers. In the accessories department, you'll be able to find leather cases, gel skins, and even books to help you get the most out of your iPhone. You can also find tutorials and software for your device, as well as information about iPhone repair.

Download Services

But perhaps the most useful aspect of an iPhone gateway is that it presents a number of services to download music, music videos, movies, games, and much more. For example, you can find a service that, for a one-time fee, provides you with access to unlimited downloads. This circumvents the cumbersome pay-per-download fees of most sites.

When deciding which service to purchase, make sure that the service you choose has millions of files from which to choose, that it's free of spyware and pop-ups, and that it offers free online help and 24-hour tech support.

Media Transfers

Typically, when you sign up with a download service, you'll also receive easy-to-install software and tutorials on how to transfer media from a DVD or a PC to an iPhone. Look for software that supports multiple video formats, such as .avi, .mpg, .mov, .wmv, and .mp4. Similarly, the software should support a variety of types of images, such as .gif, .jpg, and .bmp.

The iPhone was undoubtedly the best invention of 2007. Now that the iPhone is available in 16GB and 32GB (as well as 8GB), it's easy to download movies, music, and videos to your heart's content. Finding the right iPhone portal will enable you to load up your iPhone and get out the door in no time at all.

Windows Vista Ultimate Review

Windows Vista is Microsoft's first new operating system in more than five years and the successor to Windows XP. However, it is not worth rushing out to purchase. If you desperately need to buy a new PC (if your old one died or you've been waiting and waiting for Vista to be released), then by all means do so; there's nothing wrong with Windows Vista. But there's no one compelling feature within Windows Vista that cries out to switch over, neither the enhanced graphic capabilities (Aero) nor the improved system performance features (truthfully, our Windows XP doesn't crash). As for security, Microsoft's biggest improvements in Windows Vista are within the Enterprise or 64-bit editions, editions most home users will not be running. Windows Vista is not the Apple Mac OS X 10.4 killer one hoped for (or feared). Nor are there specific big-name software packages written exclusively for Windows Vista--most software available today is compatible with both Windows XP and Windows Vista. But the extensive tie-ins to Microsoft.com and Live.com, and the many, many interdependences upon Internet Explorer 7 left us desperately wanting more (and often best-of-breed) alternatives. Hard core Microsofties who live and breathe within the MSN, Live.com, and Microsoft desktop software ecosystem will rejoice with the release of Windows Vista, but for the rest of us who are product agnostic, who use Firefox, Google Desktop, ZoneAlarm, GMail, and Corel WordPerfect, Windows XP SP2 will suffice nicely until some killer program necessitates that we all upgrade to Windows Vista.

There are six major editions of Windows Vista; we're reviewing four. We chose not to review Windows Vista Enterprise (available only to volume license customers) and Windows Vista Starter (available only outside the United States). Windows Vista Ultimate includes everything, and this is the edition getting the most promotion from Microsoft. It is not the edition most people will find packaged on their shiny new PCs or will end up with after an upgrade of existing hardware. See our feature comparison chart to know which edition is right for your specific needs, and check the following individual reviews for more details:

Windows Vista Business

Windows Vista Home Premium

Windows Vista Home Basic

Setup and installation

The Windows Vista DVD disc includes a Windows Imaging (WIM) format of the code, so whether you buy the Home Basic edition or the Ultimate edition, the code remains the same; only the product key unlocks your specific set of features. This means users who opt for the lesser editions can always upgrade (assuming they have the proper hardware) by downloading some additional code and securing a new product key online. However, all features--even if you paid for them--are dependent on specific hardware configurations being present; if you don't have the proper graphics hardware, for example, you'll simply never see the Aero graphic effects on that old Dell computer in your basement.

Hardware requirements for Windows Vista should not be taken lightly. In a controversial move to garner positive reviews, Microsoft sent hundreds of bloggers (not including CNET) free copies of Windows Vista Ultimate; Microsoft did not send boxed copies, rather the software giant sent top-of-the-line Acer Ferrari laptops with the operating system preinstalled. So even Microsoft seems to admit that the best performance is only available on top-of-the-line machines manufactured within the last year or so.

That said, many people will still want to upgrade their current Windows XP SP2. This will keep all your current data and applications, importing them directly into the new operating system. To see which edition(s) of Windows Vista your current computer can handle, visit the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor to find specific hardware recommendations so you don't buy the wrong edition. Most people will find either Windows Vista Home Basic or Windows Vista Home Premium to be their best choice. While Windows Vista does make a backup of your previous operating system before installing, it is always recommended that you backup your current Windows XP system yourself, just in case.

Rather than upgrade, we recommend you perform a clean installation. With a clean installation, you keep all your current on the Windows XP drive and install only the data and applications you want to run on Windows Vista. A clean install can be accomplished by buying a new PC with Windows Vista already installed, partitioning an existing Windows XP machine to dual-boot into Windows Vista, or adding a new hard drive to an existing Windows XP machine.

Our clean installations took anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour, depending on the hardware in the system. It's pretty much an automated process, with the installer first copying the WIM image onto the new hard drive or partition then expanding that image. Once again, we experienced an uncomfortably long plateau at "Expanding: 27 percent"; as with previous builds, we waited between two and five minutes before the expansion continued. About halfway through, the installer reboots and continues the installation in Windows Vista.

During the installation, Windows Vista will load the drivers included within the installation image, but it will also download additional drivers from a much larger database at Microsoft. This assumes, however, that one has an always-on Internet connection; dial-up users may find that upon completion of the installation process some drivers are missing.

Once fully installed, Windows Vista first asks for your country or region, then time and currency, and, finally, the desired keyboard layout. Next, you'll choose a username, a user icon, and a password. Then select your desktop wallpaper and security settings: Automatic, Install Important Updates Only, or Ask Me Later. After reviewing the computer's time and date settings, there's one more message: "Please wait while Windows checks your computer's performance." Here, Microsoft grades your computer on a five-point scale, with the overall rating based on your system's lowest score (in our case, that was for the video card).

Windows Vista includes new musical tones written by veteran musician Robert Fripp. Compared to the familiar start-up tones of Windows XP, Windows Vista's are lighter, almost spritely. The sounds for User Account Control and Log Off are also perkier than those found in similar security warnings within Windows XP.

New on the Windows Vista desktop is a Welcome Center which contains links to frequently asked questions such as, "How do you configure your printer?" and "How do you connect to your Internet service?" There is also room for some sales opportunities, either with manufacturer specials or online offers from Microsoft, such as the Windows Live OneCare service. Frankly, we think it is better for you to look beyond the Windows ecosystem for e-mail, Internet browsers, and security applications.

After closing the Welcome Center, you'll notice to the far right there is a shaded sidebar populated with three example Gadgets ("widgets" to everyone else), tiny desktop applets that display content, such as RSS feeds. In one Gadget, a slide show of images from the sample photo library display; in the next, the current time; finally, there's a Gadget for subscribed RSS feeds. We downloaded and installed Firefox 2, made Firefox our default browser, and quickly set up a few RSS feed subscriptions. Guess what? The Windows Vista Gadget was unresponsive to our efforts, displaying only the default MSN feeds from Microsoft. Microsoft says the default RSS Gadget feeds off a common store of RSS feeds within Windows Vista, and firefox hasn't yet adopted the API for that store. You have to use Internet Explorer 7 or choose a Firefox-friendly Gadget instead. By clicking the + symbol atop the sidebar, you'll see a panel of available Gadgets, with a link out to the Web to find even more. The Gadgets are not fixed to the sidebar; they can be dragged across the desktop. And even the sidebar itself can be disabled to allow for a full desktop view. An icon located within the taskbar will restore the sidebar at any time.

The familiar Start menu features some cosmetic changes for Windows Vista. Aside from the distinctive rounded icon, the Start menu now includes a built-in Search function. We would have preferred to have access to Search directly from the desktop rather than digging down a level or two. The All Programs list now displays as an expandable/collapsible directory tree, something Windows should have offered years ago. The new Start menu is divided in half, with access to documents, pictures, music, games, recent items, My Computer, network, Control Panel, default programs, and Help along the right-hand side.

Also new within Start is an Instant Off button. This button caches all your open files and processes, allowing you to turn off your laptop or desktop quickly without all the "cleaning up files" messages you see in previous versions. We like the feature, but on our Acer Travelmate 8200, Instant Off and closing the lid to hibernate sometimes produced limbo states where the laptop simply wouldn't wake up again, forcing us to reboot.

In Windows Vista, files become unmoored from the traditional directory tree structure--kind of. The more ambitious plan of including a whole new file system was scrapped early on; instead, Windows Vista relies on metatags, which are keywords linked to files to make them searchable. With metatags, you can create virtual file folders based on a variety of search terms. Say you're doing a report on mountains, any file that is keyword-enabled to include "mountains" will be grouped into a virtual folder without physically dragging that file to a new location. The downside is that older files (say you upgraded your system from Windows XP or imported data from an earlier version of Windows) will have to be retroactively metataged in order to be searched. Also different is the file path displayed within Windows Explorer. Gone are the backslashes, replaced with arrows that offer drop-down menus of alternative folders. We liked this efficient feature.

Finally, there's a compatibility wizard buried deep within Windows Vista. Most Windows XP applications we loaded performed just fine. Operating under the hood, Windows Vista convinces native Windows XP applications that they're running on Windows XP. Should you need to run an older application, say from Windows 95, the compatibility wizard allows you to tweak the display resolution and emulate Windows 95 for that program. For example, we were able to run a Windows 95-optimized game demo on our Windows Vista test system.

Features

There are too many individual features within Windows Vista Ultimate Edition to call out--seriously. However, our gut feeling is that most of the significant bells and whistles are designed for the Enterprise-level customers, not the home user. Having a large number of features should not be confused with actually providing significant value to all users across the board. We would have preferred fewer features executed extremely well rather than an uneven mix of this and that, a one-size-fits-all operating system. And we disagree with Microsoft's seemingly arbitrary division of features within individual editions.

Common to all editions of Windows Vista are ad hoc backup and recovery, instant Search, Internet Explorer 7 browser, Windows Media Player 11, Windows Mail e-mail client, Windows Calendar, Windows Photo Gallery, performance tuning and self-diagnostics, Internet protocol IPv6 and IPv4 support, Windows ReadyDrive, a maximum of 4GB RAM support on 32-bit editions (up to 128GB RAM on some 64-bit editions), Windows Sync Center for mobile devices, Windows Mobility Center for presentations on the road, User Account Control security protection, Windows Security Center, Windows Defender antispyware, Windows Firewall, Windows Meeting Space for ad hoc wireless meetings, Remote Desktop for working from home, XPS document support for PDF-like files, improved peer-to-peer networking, improved VPN support, and improved power management. Included within certain editions (and thus also included within the Ultimate edition) are Windows Media Center, Windows Tablet PC, Windows Movie Maker, Windows DVD Maker, Parental Controls, Windows SideShow for remote gadgets, domain join for Windows Small Business Server, Group Policy support, Client-side file caching, Roaming User Profiles for remote server access, Windows Fax and Scan, Windows ShadowCopy to create file backups, Windows Rights Management Services to protect documents, Windows BitLocker hard drive encryption, integrated smart card management, and various Windows Ultimate Extras to be named later. Despite many feature changes within Windows Vista, Microsoft has held onto its original marketing promise of providing users with Clear, Confident, and Connected solutions.

For Clear, Microsoft cites its new Aero graphics. Aero is part of the Windows Presentation Foundation, a subgroup of the .Net Foundation Framework, an underlying foundation for developers to build new applications. One applet is the New York Times Times Reader, the first of many products written exclusively for Windows Vista but hardly a compelling reason by itself to upgrade. Though video playback and, yes, even the tiny icons on Windows Vista are now crisp and colorful with Aero, unless you watch YouTube videos all day, you won't really need Aero, nor will you miss the tiny preview windows enabled on your desktop display. Also new is Microsoft's Adobe PDF-like file format called XPS (Extensible Page System); however, any Windows XP SP2 machine can view XPS-created pages with downloads of the .Net 3 Framework Foundation and the Internet Explorer 7 browser.

For Confident, Microsoft touts new security enhancements within Windows Vista. You shouldn't encounter User Account Control (UAC) except when changing system configurations or installing new software, and even then, wouldn't you--in this age of downloadable spyware--prefer to know when an executable file is about to run? While UAC notifies you of pending system changes, it doesn't always require a password. Microsoft's more controversial method to lock down the system kernel, PatchGuard, is only available in the 64-bit editions of Windows Vista; most home users will not run these editions. Another celebrated security feature works only within Windows Mail, which most people are unlikely to use. And finally, the jury is still out on whether Internet Explorer 7 is more secure than, say, Firefox 2. Windows Vista also includes a built-in but limited two-way firewall and free Windows Defender antispyware, which ranked poor in competitive testing done by Download.com.

For Connected, Microsoft points to the new peer-to-peer possibilities, some of which are the result of its acquisition of Groove several years ago. From within Windows Explorer (which displays different toolbar options for exploring documents, photos, or music) you can move any file into a Public Folder and then mark the file or folder for sharing on a network. Within the Business and Ultimate editions you can further mark individual files for remote access.

Performance

Upon installation, Windows Vista rates each system's overall hardware performance, with the final score reflecting your system's lowest individual score. This is handy. For example, if you suspect that everything's running a little slow, you might find that your hard drive is returning the lowest score. Windows Vista will then recommend a faster hard drive or a drive with larger compatibility. Mostly, though, the video card will be the sore spot for most users. There's also an event log viewer to show, for example, after a specific software install your system performance started to degrade, and that uninstalling the software may restore your overall performance.

Under the hood, Microsoft has moved device drivers for DVD burners and printers out of the system kernel; Microsoft says that a majority of system crashes can be traced to improperly installed third-party device drivers. Thus Windows Vista hopes to vanquish the dreaded Blue Screen of Death common to earlier releases of Windows. Indeed, after testing several early builds, we found Windows Vista to be remarkably stable and robust.

Support

Along with the performance monitors, Microsoft has improved the Help section considerably. There is a static FAQ, but it also links to Microsoft online and allows outreach to other users for help, either via a forum or direct PC-to-PC help. Of these, we really like a feature available on some, not all, FAQs that allows you to automate the solution by executing a script. This method doesn't teach you how to do it in the future, but it will accomplish the task at hand. For example, if you choose to update a device driver, Windows Vista will darken the desktop; highlight and open the Start menu, the Control Panel, and the Device Manager; then pause to ask you what device you want to update. It's like having a technician at your desktop, walking you though the process. There's an increasing reliance on user-generated support forums, which leads us to believe that Microsoft is shying away from its own live technical support. At press time, Microsoft's final support policy was unavailable.

Conclusion

Perhaps we're spoiled, but after more than five years of development, there's a definite "Is that all?" feeling about Windows Vista. Like cramming an info-dump into a book report the night before it's due, there certainly are a lot of individual features within the operating system, but the real value lies in their execution--how the user experiences (or doesn't experience) these--and like the info-dump, we came away shaking our heads, disappointed. Compared with Mac OS X 10.4, Windows Vista feels clunky and not very intuitive, almost as though it's still based on DOS (or at least the internal logic that made up DOS). Despite the addition of a system-wide, built-in Search, and various efforts to break away from staidly old directory trees, you still need to drill down one level to even access Search. And there are far too many dependencies on Microsoft products; this is not a very objective operating system, as preference is always given to Microsoft products (of which there are many), from MSN Search to RSS feeds only from Internet Explorer. But is Windows Vista a bad operating system? No. It's just a disappointment for PC users who hoped that Microsoft would deliver something truly exciting to finally leapfrog ahead of Apple. They failed. But stick around; this is just Windows Vista 1.0. Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is due out sometime before the end of the year. Windows Vista SP1 promises to fix what's known to be wrong within Windows Vista and should offer a few concrete reasons to switch.

For Women Only Your Computer Usage Could Cost You Your Job

Few would argue that, despite the advancements of feminism over the past three decades, women still face a double standard when it comes to their behavior. While men's borderline-inappropriate behavior is often laughed off as "boys will be boys," women face higher conduct standards - especially in the workplace. That's why it's crucial that, as women, our behavior on the job is beyond reproach.

Small Towns and Big States

For evidence of the double standard, we need look no farther than Arlington, Oregon, where Mayor Carmen Kontur-Gronquist was recalled in a 142-139 vote after the town's denizens discovered that the mayor's MySpace page featured photos of her in lingerie. Although Kontur-Gronquist is alleging election fraud and challenging the returns, and even though the mayoral position was unpaid, no one is arguing that her MySpace page did her in.

Contrast her situation with that of David Paterson, New York's new governor. After Governor Eliot Spitzer resigned amid allegations of engaging the services of a prostitute, Paterson was sworn in and admitted that he had engaged in extramarital affairs and that he had experimented with both cocaine and marijuana while he was in his twenties. It seems odd that the mayor of a small town in Oregon is being held to a higher standard than the governor of New York.

With Computers, Private Can Go Public

The moral (so to speak) of the story is that, as women, our behavior must be impeccable - both on and off the job. Yes, we can have private lives, but we unwittingly make those private lives public when we boot up a computer, use email, or go online.

To protect yourself in the workplace, the first rule of thumb is never to conduct personal business using your employer's equipment. You have no right to privacy, and your employer can have total access to your record of computer usage, your Internet history, and your email. Resist the temptation to shop online, check the news, or surf the Internet while you're at work. Don't forward that joke or motivational email to your colleagues. And don't email your friends or family members.

The second thing to keep in mind is that the niche of the Internet you've carved out for yourself using your home computer is also visible to your employer. Increasingly, potential employers use tools to screen job candidates' presence on the Internet. That hysterical YouTube video of you dancing with a lampshade on your head at your best friend's bridal shower may prevent you from landing the job of your dreams. Before making a bold rant on your blog or uploading a questionable picture to a social networking site, think about the impact it might have on your career.

Final Thoughts

There's no arguing that computers enrich our lives and provide us with options our mothers never dreamed of. As women, though, computers can also be our downfall at work. It may be acceptable for men to check out the Sports Illustrated website while they're at work (even the swimsuit edition!), but women are held to a higher standard... Just ask Carmen Kontur-Gronquist.

Free Websites Showcase Your Videos Online

If you didn't realize that video will take over online this year, you haven't been paying attention.

Everything from video blogs to full-blown website infomercials keep cropping up all across the Internet.

The driving force behind this video explosion is a combination of cheap bandwidth, easy-to-use authoring tools, and Flash video (a video format that works on both PC and MAC).

With the sudden increase in homemade videos about everything from "how-to break dance" to infomercials about real estate products, it seems only natural that another explosion should follow: the appearance of numerous websites that showcase these homegrown Steven Spielberg's.

In fact, these online videos have gained so much popularity some have even crossed over into mainstream television.

Of the three main online video hosting services I looked at, they all shared the following characteristics.

They all allow you to upload your video and host it free of charge, making it super easy for even the most technically challenged videographer.

They all allow visitors to search their sites using keywords, so describing your video and choosing a good title (with keywords people search for) will help increase your exposure.

One of the most exciting features common to these sites is that they allow you and others to get copy-and-paste code that you can place on a blog or website (or anywhere else you can paste html code) and display a video without hosting it yourself.

This one feature can cause an explosive "viral" effect if you create a video that appeals to a mass audience because people can not only pass it along, but post it in additional locations for everyone to see.

Video.Google.com - Google's video service makes it possible to upload and play your videos for people searching through their growing catalog of homegrown video.

You'll find everything from web-cam karaoke to infomercials and "live" seminars. One of the best things about Google video is the daily report about how many pages views your video got during the previous day or week.

Also, Google allows you to charge for your videos if you want, something the other sites don't yet offer.

A disadvantage of the service is that, of the three, Google Video takes the longest to approve your videos and make them available, sometimes taking 48 hours or longer to make a video "live."

YouTube.com - YouTube seems to want to foster a feeling of community with its video portal.

Unlike Google Video, which requires a separate software program to upload video, YouTube allows users to upload video right through their website interface. Of the three sites profiled here, YouTube's embedded player makes it easiest to share and pass along video from a blog.

They also approved my video and had it live online in less than 10-minutes.

IFilm.com - The coolest thing about IFilm.com is the fact that they have a show on VH1 every Friday called "Web Junk 20" which features the funniest web videos of the week on real television.

They also actively promote the concept of "viral videos" with a separate category in their directory profiling videos you want to share.

The only negative was that their pass-along player forces viewers to watch a short ad about IFilm at the beginning, something the other two don't do.

Copyright 2006 Jim Edwards

Social Media Marketing - Goals and Effectiveness

Social Media Marketing (SMM) is a form of internet marketing, which seeks to achieve branding and marketing communication goals through the participation in various social media networks like You Tube, My Space, and Face book, social web application like dig, delicious, reddit, Wiki. The goal of each SMM program varies from business to business, but mainly involves building of brand awareness, increasing visibility and through this, sells a product or service.

Social Media Marketing is becoming an essential marketing tool for connecting with customers and optimizing online presence. Social Media describes the tools and platforms, people use to publish, converse and share content online. Video, pod cast, blogs, discussion boards and social networking sites are all tools, online businessmen can use to build relationship with their customers and keep them on websites longer. Social media provides more opportunities for organizations to present optimized content that can be indexed by search engines and ultimately improves site rating.

To implement some of the social media elements, it is first important to evaluate your customers to create an effective strategy. If your consumers are professionals who commute, then pod cast can be downloaded and can be very effective.

Posting video content on YouTube is a unique opportunity to improve your position in Google

Real Estate Agents Using The Internet

Only a few real estate agents have worked out how to use internet technology to their advantage, most agents still operate in the pre internet mode. Things are slowly changing but it is taking some time to catch on.

There is more than one way to use the net to your advantage if your selling and dealing with large numbers of people through both the listing and selling stages of a real estate transaction. Building and maintaining a good database can be to some extent set on auto pilot as people can opt in and opt out of the process online via the website interface.

Agents and marketers are now waking up to the value of using video to showcase properties via their websites although this has been around for a while Youtube has made things much easier. Websites such as fastrealestate.net offer a free blogging platform for agents and real estate professionals and this gives agents a big advantage over many traditional classifieds websites as blogs offer many more options when it comes to details and features.

They also offer instant benefits in the search engines and syndicated data for users to subscribe into, more agents are only now working out the real advantages of the platform, its still a very good time to get in early and stamp your authority on a niche area via a blog.

Real estate is still a per son to person business but in order to reach the top the smart agents have adapted quickly to the new marketing angles enabled by the net. What kind of agent are you dealing with?

New Technologies Open Business Opportunities Up to Everyone

It wasn't all that long ago that launching an Internet business meant navigating a maze of technical intricacies. Once you came up with an idea that you thought would make money, you then had to hire a Web designer, a website programmer, and most likely another programmer who specialized in e-commerce solutions. You also had to have an extensive knowledge of the inner workings of the business world and understand, for example, what you need in order to open a merchant account to accept credit cards. Then there was the hassle of dealing with customer service issues, dealing with technical issues regarding your website, and so on. Before you knew it, your big plans to get rich went by the wayside, and instead you found yourself in debt.

Thanks to advances in technology - and to the know-how of those who understand those advances - a money making business is within reach virtually anyone who can type their email address. That's because there are now fully automated systems that provide people with the means to create their own home business.

If that sounds too good to be true, think again. After all, sites like YouTube have enabled any website owner to embed video into his or her site - without having to know the first thing about video streaming, formatting, or storage. It makes sense, then, that industrious entrepreneurs have created fully automated systems that enable you to launch your own Internet business without having to write or upload HTML code, set up a payment gateway, deliver products, or engage in site administration issues.

How do they do this? Essentially, they create a single website that has several products available, and then assign a referral code to every business owner. The new business owner simply substitutes his or her own PayPal account (tracked via his or her email address) for that of the website's original owner. In that way, the new owner receives all of the revenue from sales associated with his or her referral code.

These new technologies not only provide a unique home working opportunity, but they also surface in some of the hottest products being offered today. So many people are in the market for information products that it's mind-boggling. For example, software, scripts, audio and video development, e-books, graphics, and website content are all in great demand. From the business owner's perspective, these products are ideal because they can be delivered digitally. Because the buyer can download these products, there is no inventory to track and no shipping hassles.

Even those who are not tech-savvy can easily participate in this Internet business revolution. Because this type of home working opportunity is fully automated, it doesn't require any specialized knowledge. It doesn't require special training seminars or ongoing fees for maintenance. In truth, all it requires is the recognition that these products are in high demand and the desire to capitalize on that demand.

YouTube Ripper

Ramka ltd released a new version of DrmRemoval Video Unlimited with one more additional feature.

Now with DrmRemoval our clients are able to download video files from well known all over the world website YouTube.

Download and convert movies from YouTube is easy as never before. Single click on Internet Explorer toolbar button andselected movies are downloaded to your PC.

YouTube contains wide variety of movie clips, TV clips and music videos and also amateur content. On YouTube everyone can watch video online. Also it is possible to upload your own video to a worldwide audience. People can find some videos about their hobbies or to connect with other users who share their interests.

With new version of DrmRemoval Video Unlimited our clients have no need to search some ways to download their favorite videos from YouTube. Now they are able not only unprotect and convert audio and video files with DrmRemoval Video Unlimited, but also to download YouTube videos.

And what is important that to do this is amazingly simple.

Users need only to run YouTube video file and to click

How To Effectively Market With Video On The Web

Online video publishing has indeed taken the Internet by storm in recent years, making the use of video for marketing, promotion, news and PR online a true key strategic component and a key business differentiator for internet marketers who want to communicate effectively about their product profile and benefits within the shortest possible of time.

Internet is full of information and the average attention span of a web user today is measured in seconds. When web users search for their information at a search engine, they will get thousands of search results; when they visit your website, they may only spend a few seconds and little efforts to scan through what you are selling or proposing and decide whether your content, style, look and approach are a good fit for what they were actually looking for. These first few seconds are crucial and if you can delivery clear and targeted message by offering a fast, highly visual way to get their further attention and engage their interest, you have done bingo.

Does this mean that you just need to simply put up 10-min video tutorial on your website or just slamming some video contents up on your web pages, you will instantly sell more products or services? If this is your way of marketing with video on the web and hoping to get high conversion rate of traffic-to-sales, you will more toward getting disappointments than good news.

In order to make your video to effectively market your products/services online and convey your product/service key traits and characteristics within a very short amount of time in a unique, memorable way. These are a few rules of thumb to follow:

1. Get Your Video Seen

If you want your video to be your effective marketing tool, it must be able to see by as many web users as possible. Hence, don't just keep and tight your video inside your web site borders. Let your video content be free and distributed to the majors video sharing websites such as YouTube and Google video so that not only others can watch and talk about it, but they can easily download it, redistribute it, if not even publish it directly on their own sites.

2. Small File & Load Fast

Statistics show that average web users spend their time waiting for a page to load is about 7 seconds. Web pages that take longer than 7 seconds to load, their visitors normally are on the verge of clicking away and visit other website. Hence, you need to make sure your video file is small enough, ideally less than 1 megabyte and load almost in real time to keep the interest your visitors. AVI is the most common video format, the file size can easily exist 10 megabytes for a short 2-3 minutes video; hence if you share your video in this format, you most probably will get "click away" from you visitors because of long loading time of your video file. Hence, you must get a video format conversion tool to convert your video to a more internet friendly format such as SWF format.

3. Let Them Know It's A Video, A Short Video

If the web users do not know that it is a video, they won't click it and play it; hence your video will get watch. So, you must let the web users know that the "box" is a video; the best way is to make it look like a video / VCR-like by having a play and stop button where the web users can click to play the video and stop it whenever they want to stop it.

Let the web users know also this is a short video. No one wants to sit through a 30 minute presentation on the history of your company; be focused on your products/services and deliver your messages preferable within 2 minutes.

In Summary

Effectively market with video on the web is not just slamming some video content up on your web pages, it more toward effective video communication through video publishing & sharing on the web.

30 Google Ventures Into Social Media

Acquisition of Pyra Labs on February 17, 2003

Blogger push button Web publishing platform is bought by Google for an undisclosed amount believed to be an all cash transaction.

Google tries to buy Friendster at the end of 2003

Friendster turns down Googles $30 million buyout offer, but they finally strike a deal with Google in January, 2007. Google now powers Friendsters contextual ads.

Orkut is launches on January 24, 2004

Orkut named after its creator Orkut Bykkkten is launched. Orkut is social networking portal that offers features that one would expect from a social networking site: share, connect, chat comment, talk, control privacy settings. Initial traffic distribution had 50% of traffic coming from USA, and today most traffic comes from India and Brazil.

Gmail beta launches on April 1, 2004

Gmail beta launches as invitation only beta release. On February 14, 2007 it becomes open to the general public.

Dodgeball is acquires by Google on May 11, 2005

Dodgeball was a company that produced a location-based social networking application for mobile devices. Users could text their location to the service provider and get relevant information about their location or venue. Dodgeball is succeeded by Google Latitude in 2009.

Google Talk beta launches on August 24, 2005

Google Talk, a downloadable Windows application that enables you to talk or IM with friends quickly and easily, as well as talk using a computer microphone and speaker (no phone required) for free.

Google Reader is released through Google Labs on October 7, 2005

Google Reader is a web based application that understands Atom and RSS feeds. Users can read the feeds while on-line or off. Users can share their feeds with others. This greatly simplifies things, especially if users want to share a lot of their feed links.

Gmail chat is released on February 7, 2006

Users can now chat without leaving their Gmail web page using the built in XMPP client. XMPP stands for Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol and is supported by big guys such as Google, Cisco, HP and others.

Writely is acquired by Google on March 9, 2006

Writely was a web platform for sharing and editing documents from anywhere in the world through the web browser. Today Writely code base is integrated into Google in the form of Google Docs.

Google Romance is announced on April 1, 2006

a new product that offers users both a psychographic matchmaking service and all-expenses-paid dates for couples who agree to experience contextually relevant advertising throughout the course of their evening.

This is just a hoax following the tradition that Google established way back on April 1st in 2000 with Google MentalPlex (Google reads you mind, and visualizes relevant search results).

Picasa Web Albums is announced on June 13, 2006

Picasa Web Albums is an add-on for the Picasa desktop photo management software that lets users upload any number of photos (no more browsing for an individual photo from a web form).

Google acquires YouTube October 9, 2006

Google buys YouTube for 1.65 billion dollars.

Google Docs is released on February 17, 2007

Google Docs is made available through Google Apps. Users can share, edit and manage their documents on-line.

Feedburner is acquired by Google on May 23, 2007

RSS management company Feedburner, is bought for about 100 million dollars.

Google buys GrandCentral on July 2, 2007

GrandCentral is web based Internet telephony platform, that is most notable for the possibility of using a computer to call a land-line or a mobile phone. Also users can pick a single on-line number and route all their existing phone numbers through it.

Google buys Postini on July 9, 2007

Postini offers a security and corporate compliance for email, instant messages, and other web based communication. Google spends 625 million dollars in cash.

Google and MySpace reach an agreement on August 6, 2007

Google and MySpace reach a deal for Google to provide search and contextual advertisement to MySpace. Google has been paying 20 million a month for 45 months starting from August 2007. That totals to $900 million.

Google buys Zingku September 2, 2007

Zingku is a text messaging service. At this time Google is working on Zingku somewhere in an underground bunker.

Google acquires Jaiku on October 9, 2007

Jaiku is a micro-blogging service akin to Twitter.

OpenSocial is released on November 1, 2007

Developed with MySpace and many other social networking sites. OpenSocial Offers a unified Application Programming Interface (API) for different social networking platforms, so that developers dont have to rely on site specific API. Some of the sites that support open social: hi5, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Orkut, Yahoo! and many others, except Facebook.

Open Social Foundation is announced on March 25, 2008

Google in partnership with Yahoo! and MySpace annouce the formation of the Open Social Foundation. This is of course to try and create a standard that would be competitive enough agaist facebook API.

Friend Connect appears on May 12, 2008

Friend connect is an OpenSocial App that allows easy connections between users of different social networking websites and even those who are not on any social network yet. Another step in unifying the user base to have a standing chance against Facebook.

Google Lively appears on July 8, 2008

This experimental service lasted about 6 month and was similar to SecondLife.

Picasa upgrade September 2, 2008

Picasa now allows you to name tag people in photos (sounds familiar?), among other improvements.

SearchWiki launches on November 20, 2008

SearchWiki allows you to chnage search result positions, add, delete and comment on your results. Comments can be seen by other users of SearchWiki.

Google Latitude replaces Dodgeball on February 5, 2009

Google Latitude is an application for a mobila phone or computer that lets lets users tag their current location and share that location with their friends. Google Latitude connects through Google Account and uses Google Maps for tagging.

Google Voice launches on March 11, 2009

Based on GrandCentral, Googler Voice allows to have one online phone number that can be connected to all your other numbers. You can choose who comes through and on which phones they are heard. Cheaper international calling than Skype, and free calling on any US based phone number at least intil the end of 2010. The quality is worse than that of Skype. I myself prefer Skype for calling from Boston to Paris.

Google Wave is announced on March 27, 2009

Google Wave is a communication and collaboration platform based on hosted conversations, called waves. A wave comprises a set of concurrently editable structured documents and supports real-time sharing between multiple participants.

Google Wave uses the same protocol as Gmail chat, with an addon to the XMPP core. It seems that Google set very high expectations for Google Wave that for some reason did not come to fruition.

Google acquires Aardvark on February 1, 2010

Aardvark is social search: ask any question and Aardvark will discover the perfect person in your network to answer in minutes.

Google spends about 50 million dollars.

Google launches Google Buzz on February 9, 2010

A Gmail integrated social media service Google Buzz allows to sharealost any kind of media with your existing Gmail contacts.

RIP Google Wave Hello Google Me

The rise and fall of Google Wave is nothing short of some Greek mythological epic. In the initial stages Google Wave was by invitation only and it seemed that everybody wanted one; invitations were even sold on eBay. Back in August of 2010 Googleannounced that it no longer will support Google Wave development after the end of 2010 because the service did not fullfil their expectations. In other words not enough users found useful applications of Google Wave for their everyday needs.

Google has always been open about its desire to organize and to make the noise that is created by social interaction on the web relevant. In light of this a lot of people seem to think that Google ahs another big project up their sleeve: Google me. As of this writing this project is in the rumor stage, but some influential people at facebook are sure that it is a real project that will emerge pretty soon.

Competition is always good, I just hope there will a good gentlemanly competition of social networks in the near future. At this point even Google cant seem to budge Facebooks firm grip on the social network.

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The Most Powerful Facebook Marketing Tool - Marketing - Social Marketing

Facebook has always seemed to attract media attention. Whether it concerns new privacy changes or CEO muck ups, journalists have pounced on Facebook. As it moves past the 500 million member mark though, it seems the media are not the only ones focusing on Facebook. For a long time, internet marketers have chosen to keep their distance from Facebook's younger crowd and privacy rules. But a small number of underground marketers are quietly making an absolute mint over Facebook, keeping their methods of success a secret. In this article I am going to discuss what I believe is the most viral tool for facebook marketing available online today. Not only is this tool powerful by Facebook's standards though, I believe that this tool is also the most powerful online today.

facebook fan pages have been around now for a very long time, but it was only a few months ago that I saw their potential for online marketing. I was looking through my news feed and as I did, something caught my eye. I saw that a friend of mine had joined a quite humorous Facebook fan page; curious, I clicked the page's link. To my astonishment this page had only been running for 24 hours and had already reached over 100,000 fans. I refreshed the page a few times to get a feel for the rate of growth and gauged that over 100 new fans were joining the page each second. It was simply incredible. I returned to that Facebook fan page five days later to find that it had over one million fans. This was the time that I realized the true power of Facebook fan pages. It was also the time I decided to switch my focus to working out how these fan pages could be utilized in my online marketing campaigns.

Facebook Fan Pages have a huge potential to be used as tools for online marketing. I want you to think of a Facebook member like you would the centre of a spider's web. Each person they know is a thread connected to them, and each of those people knows dozens more people. All are interconnected to create an entire web of links and networks. There are millions of these on Facebook, and each has access to a certain amount of people. When someone updates their profile or adds a link or posts a comment, that shows up on the news feed of everybody else on their network. Every time a Facebook account is created, a new network is added to the Facebook world. A network's activity can be viewed using the unique news feed which every Facebook member sees when they log into their account. It's a simple way to tap into hundreds of users with just one profile.

If you would like to find out more about how you can make money using Facebook Fan Pages you can download Sam Bakker's new blueprint called "Network Quake Blueprint" here. Alternatively if you would like to read more about "Facebook Fan Pages" you can at SamBakker.com.

Make money with Facebook - 6 ways to do it - Internet - Newsletters

With an audience that has recently surpassed the 500 million mark marketers using facebook are redesigning the rules of engaging customers. This article briefly shows you 6 ways in which you can tap into a market that has people spending a collective 700 billion minutes per month in!! Can you afford not to be involved in it?

1. Make money with facebook - Sell Products in Facebooks Marketplace

Facebook??s marketplace is a great place to do business. If you have become tired of its predecessors, the likes of Ebay or Craig??s list, then this virtual shopping mall is place to market your products. It contains everything from baby clothes to books, from home furniture to software. It is well worth using to start selling your products today.

2. Make money with Facebook- Develop an Application

All it takes is a simple idea and you could be the next internet entrepreneur. You do not need to be fluent in software language such as Java or.PHP. There are bucket loads of programmers available to hire to do all that dirty work for you. You never know, you may have the next big thing!! Farmville, a recent application had 110 million downloads alone. And after all, Youtube, now the second biggest search engine on the internet, was first set up as an application on MySpace!!

3. Make money with Facebook- Become the next big celebrity

Facebook allows you to be heard. It is the equivalent of the town criers or preachers of yesterday. Anybody can get their own soapbox and have their say in this new 21st century town square. Facebook allows you to set up your own fan page and start to communicate with those interested in what you have to say ?? your fans! You can start a blog, a newsletter, offer some how-to videos or even start a subscription page. Who knows you could be the next big thing. Isn??t it time you got paid for your expertise?

4. Make money with Facebook- Market Research

Facebook provides massive focus groups that are all waiting to give their opinion to you. Audiences can be highly targeted and easy to access in the Facebook arena. The time and cost it takes to complete a survey can be reduced to a fraction of the other methods used. If you are a market researcher and you are not investigating the way in which social media can enhance your business then you need to look at your current strategy and reequip for the future of the consumer opinions industry.

5. Make money with Facebook- Facebook Ads

Facebook provides a self-serve system that offers highly targeted advertising. This is available on both a CPC (Cost per Click) and CPM (Cost per 1000) basis. With the huge audience that facebook has, the unlimited ad inventory available and its ability to insert ads to highly specific demographics the advert space here is worth its weight in gold. Some smart media buyers even buy the ads and then sell the traffic through ad networks.

6. Make money with Facebook- Become a Facebook Marketing Expert

The new world of Facebook marketing is far beyond some of the thousands of marketers already out there. If you know Facebook and how it works, why not offer your services to agencies as well as companies, big or small. Just as Google changed the way in which search engines advertised, Facebook is doing in the social networking circles and will continue to in the future. You can help people with your Facebook strategy. What have you got to lose?

Top Techniques to Create Engaging Facebook Page - Internet

A tremendous way to connect to audiences is through facebook pages. According to facebook statistics, an average user is connected to over 60 pages (some months back). This implies that besides the rest of the friend activity that goes-on in Facebook, Facebook-page is among the top 60 that are competing favourably to catch your fans attention. To achieve efficient social media marketing program, the following are the techniques you can employ to transform Facebook page to a powerful and engaging location for your Facebook fans:

Fun Glitters for Facebook Fans - Entertainment

Glitters is a term given to words and graphics that have been altered and enhanced to sparkle, shine, move and, yes, glitter. Some graphics and words have been animated while others are stationary but parts of the graphic or word pulse, shimmer or twinkle. facebook glitters have become hugely popular and find their way from time to time to Twitter, Bebo, MySpace and other social network outlets.

Facebook glitters are a collection of graphics that are offered freely to anyone who wishes to use them. Some are created and glitterized specifically for use on facebook while some public domain graphics and figures have been given the glitter for use on Facebook. Facebook glitters are inserted into your Facebook profile.

Glitters and Facebook

Glitters are used on Facebook and other social type network sites. They add personality, character and in some cases, pizzazz to a note or comment. Fun glitters include cartoon characters ranging from "Arial" to "Winnie the Pooh." Fun glitters can also make a statement, not only socially but a word for the cause.

Glitters are not only fun to post, and a good way to demonstrate your mood of the moment. They are a sign of friendship, solidarity, camaraderie and everything Facebook. Facebook glitters can sometimes express emotions and feelings that words cannot and sometimes Facebook glitters just make people smile and giggle.

Make Your Own Fun Glitters

There are web sites that allow the creation of your own fun glitters. All it takes is to type in a word or phrase, select a type of glitter and click on the "create" button. In a few seconds, you have Facebook glitters along with the HTML code necessary for insertion into your Facebook profile. The sites are usually available at no cost and the user can create as many fun glitters as they choose. Sites can be found by executing a web search for "Facebook glitter word generator."

How to Add Glitter to your Facebook page

It is necessary to be logged into your Facebook account to perform a glitter. If you have not already added the "My Stuff' application to your page, you will need to do that. To add the "My Stuff" application, enter the words "my stuff" into the search box on your Facebook page. At the top of the results will be "gigya my stuff." Click on that and you will be sent to the "My Stuff" page. On the left-hand side, it says "go to app." Click on that and a page will appear that says you have to give your permission to access "my stuff." Once you give your permission, the "My Stuff" application will appear on the left side of your home page. To insert an html code for a Facebook glitters, click on "My Stuff" and a window will open that will allow you to paste the html code. Click on the "add to profile" button, and you will be glitterized.It is always important to remember to use your Facebook glitters for good and not evil.

Take Your Business To The Next Level By Marketing On Facebook - Business

There is a new marketing platform that is surely becoming the next biggest trend for marketing yourhome based business or marketing anything for that involve and that is facebook pay per click,as you may recognize google used to be the most main marketing platform for pay per click ads but inthe past months google has been shutting down home biz owners accounts, slappingenterprise owners accounts left appropriate and centre to the point where people obtain really losttheir entire businesses overnight because google has taken their traffic away from themand as you experience if you don't acquire traffic you can't achieve leads and without leads youdon't have a business.

This has left top industry leaders looking for a new way to pay for traffic and the answeris good old facebook, facebook is efficiently becoming the premier trafficked site on theinternet and it has google scared, at this time facebook is the second most trafficked siteaccording to the alexa ranking and has 500 million users to date with the expectationfacebook will reach 1 billion users next year!

Everyone and their mother are on facebook!

So what does this mean for you and why should you be marketing on facebook legit now?

The answer is simple my friend just think the early years of google when the clicks were newscheap and millionaires were being made all from people taking benefit of the traffic from google,well with marketing on facebook it is taking it to a whole new level!

There are so many additional benefit for marketing on facebook legit now that it is insane!

Facebook's pay per click marketing platform allows you to target people by their interestsso you can persuade highly targeted traffic for dirt cheap and the reason why you should bemarketing on facebook satisfactory now is because convenient now facebook is like google was in its earlyyears and millionaires are going to be made.

To sway you started marketing on facebook pay per click I created a video learning walkingyou through how to set up your first ad, you can watch it by clicking the link in thesignature box below.

Now facebook pay per click is entirely one benefit for marketing on facebook and what abenefit it is but gain you heard of a thing called social media marketing? Of courseyou have, social media is 21st century marketing in action, creating relationships,attraction marketing all that nice stuff, well you can incorporate social media marketingwith your facebook pay per click marketing by accomplishing an offer good enough on your facebook fanpage which again builds relationship.

This is merely scrapping the surface with facebook marketing because you have the relationshipbuilding side of it, sharing content, attraction marketing which is in a league of it's ownand with all I obtain shared today there is millions to be made, the choice is yours.

Are you going to be in front of the trend or behind it?

attain it an excellent day my friend and I will see you at the bank.

How to Rank High on Facebook News Feeds - Marketing

Facebook is a fantastic marketing tool for connecting with prospective customers. But showing up at the top of your friends' news feeds is the principal to using this option successfully. The facebook news feed is simply a user's homepage, the initial thing people will view when they log into their facebook account. It populates all the activities, status updates and new links that all your friends publish on their own Facebook accounts.When you build a Facebook page, you can request friends and other contacts to become fans of your page. But designing the page and recruiting fans is only two-thirds of the battle.Your most important purpose is to produce content and links that pops up in your friends' and fans' news feeds.The Daily Beast recently carried out a 10-month investigation into what elements Facebook takes into consideration when deciding what content will appear at the top of people's news feeds. Below are five principles you must understand when trying to promote yourself through Facebook news feeds.1) Time heals all: The longer you're a member of Facebook, the higher your chances of popping up at the top of people's feeds.2) Encourage Interaction: The more people comment on your status updates, click on your linkbacks and follow your Facebook page, the higher your Facebook newsworthiness will rise.3) More friends; more exposure: Facebook is more likely to rank your updates higher on the totem pole if you have more friends.4) Follow the hierarchy of content: Facebook deems links more newsworthy than status updates. And it considers uploaded images and videos more newsworthy than links.5) Befriend the friendless: People with fewer friends are more likely to find you on their news feeds than your most popular friends.Check back later for more details on social media marketing.

How to Rank High on Facebook News Feeds - Internet

Facebook is a fantastic marketing resource for connecting with potential customers. But showing up at the top of your friends' news feeds is the principal to using this network successfully. The facebook news feed is basically a user's homepage, the initial thing people will notice when they log into their facebook account. It populates all the activities, status updates and new links that all your friends post on their own Facebook accounts. When you design a Facebook page, you can request friends and other contacts to become fans of your page. But creating the page and recruiting fans is only two-thirds of the struggle.Your most important goal is to create content and links that pops up in your friends' and fans' news feeds.The Daily Beast recently carried out a 10-month investigation into what components Facebook takes into consideration when deciding what content will show up at the top of people's news feeds. Below are five concepts you must understand when trying to publicize yourself through Facebook news feeds.1) Time heals all: The longer you're a member of Facebook, the higher your chances of popping up at the top of people's feeds.2) Encourage Interaction: The more people comment on your status updates, click on your linkbacks and stalk your Facebook page, the more your Facebook newsworthiness will rise.3) More friends; more exposure: Facebook is more likely to rank your updates higher on the totem pole if you have more friends.4) Follow the hierarchy of content: Facebook treats links more newsworthy than status updates. And it treats uploaded images and videos more newsworthy than links.5) Befriend the friendless: People with fewer friends are more likely to find you on their news feeds than your most popular friends.Check back later for more material on social media marketing.

How to Rank High on Facebook News Feeds - Internet

Facebook is a great marketing approach for connecting with potential customers. But showing up at the top of your friends' news feeds is the key to using this connection successfully. The facebook news feed is simply a user's homepage, the very first thing people will view when they log into their facebook account. It populates all the activities, status updates and new links that all your friends post on their own Facebook accounts.When you create a Facebook page, you can invite friends and other contacts to become fans of your page. But designing the page and recruiting fans is only two-thirds of the battle.Your most important goal is to post content and links that pops up in your friends' and fans' news feeds.The Daily Beast recently performed a 10-month investigation into what elements Facebook takes into consideration when determining what content will show up at the top of people's news feeds. Below are five principles you must understand when trying to market yourself through Facebook news feeds.1) Time heals all: The longer you're a member of Facebook, the higher your chances of showing at the top of people's feeds.2) Encourage Interaction: The more people post remarks on your status updates, click on your linkbacks and stalk your Facebook page, the more your Facebook newsworthiness will rise.3) More friends; more exposure: Facebook is more likely to rank your updates higher on the totem pole if you have more friends.4) Follow the hierarchy of content: Facebook treats links more newsworthy than status updates. And it deems uploaded images and videos more newsworthy than links.5) Befriend the friendless: People with fewer friends are more likely to see you on their news feeds than your most popular friends.Check back later for more material on social media marketing.

How to Rank High on Facebook News Feeds - Marketing

Facebook is a terrific marketing approach for connecting with prospective customers. But showing up at the top of your friends' news feeds is the principal to using this network effectively. The facebook news feed is basically a user's homepage, the very first thing people will find when they log into their facebook account. It populates all the events, status updates and new links that all your friends post on their own Facebook accounts.When you create a Facebook page, you can invite friends and other contacts to become fans of your page. But building the page and recruiting fans is only two-thirds of the challenge.Your most important objective is to produce content and links that pops up in your friends' and fans' news feeds.The Daily Beast recently performed a 10-month investigation into what factors Facebook takes into consideration when determining what content will appear at the top of people's news feeds. Below are five techniques you must understand when trying to publicize yourself through Facebook news feeds.1) Time heals all: The longer you're a member of Facebook, the higher your chances of appearing at the top of people's feeds.2) Encourage Interaction: The more people comment on your status updates, click on your linkbacks and follow your Facebook page, the higher your Facebook newsworthiness will rise.3) More friends; more exposure: Facebook is more likely to position your updates higher on the totem pole if you have more friends.4) Follow the hierarchy of content: Facebook treats links more newsworthy than status updates. And it treats uploaded images and videos more newsworthy than links.5) Befriend the friendless: People with fewer friends are more likely to find you on their news feeds than your most popular friends.Check back later for more material on social media marketing.

Facebook News Feed Improves - Business

Facebook has created some recent adjustments to how they deal with your own news feed. Technology is ever changing and it looks like you can never carry on. It is just like a game of cat and mouse. As soon as you get comfortable with something it shifts!

So you have worked hard to find and add old friends which you haven't have been told by in years or you have found brand new close friends with common interest on facebook and abruptly you won't notice any activity from them in your new feed.

The reason is due to the fact facebook has altered the default for the news feed. I don't know when this change happened, but now the default is for you to just get in your feed, items coming from buddies which you have recently interacted with. Because of this all of those pals that you have found, you may quickly just forget about again since you aren't seeing any activity coming from these folks.

Altering your Facebook news feed back

Luckily, this can be a easy difficulty to remedy. To modify your news feed back to the way that it formerly was all you need to accomplish is to log in your Facebook account and click the HOME key initially. There, towards the top of the page you will see a choice which says MOST RECENT. Simply click MOST RECENT and you'll see EDIT OPTIONS... Click on EDIT OPTIONS and you may see a thing in bold at the very top saying: Show posts from:

This is where you would like the option reset. It will likely be defaulted to 'Friends and pages you connect to most'. It is possible to change it out here back to 'All of your friends and pages'. Then you'll once more get news from all of of your own friends.

On the other hand...

There is always two aspect to every story. What about those friends that you truly did not want to friend in the first place. You won't want to unfriend them because which could hurt their feelings and inform them that you truly don't want to be Facebook friends with in whatever way. Nicely, here's your saving grace. The newest default for the Facebook feed can leave them from your status updates and you also out of theirs unless you communicate directly with them.

Since, you are attempting to discover a simple way to get away from this undesirable association, it's a good change you won't ever. Therefore in this case you might want to thank Facebook for creating these changes to their news feed and helping you out. This new facebook news feeds have some advantages and disadvantages.

Facebook News Feed Improves - Business

Facebook has created some recent adjustments to how they deal with your own news feed. Technology is ever changing and it looks like you can never carry on. It is just like a game of cat and mouse. As soon as you get comfortable with something it shifts!

So you have worked hard to find and add old friends which you haven't have been told by in years or you have found brand new close friends with common interest on facebook and abruptly you won't notice any activity from them in your new feed.

The reason is due to the fact facebook has altered the default for the news feed. I don't know when this change happened, but now the default is for you to just get in your feed, items coming from buddies which you have recently interacted with. Because of this all of those pals that you have found, you may quickly just forget about again since you aren't seeing any activity coming from these folks.

Altering your Facebook news feed back

Luckily, this can be a easy difficulty to remedy. To modify your news feed back to the way that it formerly was all you need to accomplish is to log in your Facebook account and click the HOME key initially. There, towards the top of the page you will see a choice which says MOST RECENT. Simply click MOST RECENT and you'll see EDIT OPTIONS... Click on EDIT OPTIONS and you may see a thing in bold at the very top saying: Show posts from:

This is where you would like the option reset. It will likely be defaulted to 'Friends and pages you connect to most'. It is possible to change it out here back to 'All of your friends and pages'. Then you'll once more get news from all of of your own friends.

On the other hand...

There is always two aspect to every story. What about those friends that you truly did not want to friend in the first place. You won't want to unfriend them because which could hurt their feelings and inform them that you truly don't want to be Facebook friends with in whatever way. Nicely, here's your saving grace. The newest default for the Facebook feed can leave them from your status updates and you also out of theirs unless you communicate directly with them.

Since, you are attempting to discover a simple way to get away from this undesirable association, it's a good change you won't ever. Therefore in this case you might want to thank Facebook for creating these changes to their news feed and helping you out. This new facebook news feeds have some advantages and disadvantages.

Facebook News Feed Transforms - Business

Facebook has produced several current changes to how they manage your news feed. Technological innovation is actually shifting and it seems that it is possible to just never keep up. It is just like a game of cat and mouse. Once you get confident with a thing it changes!

This means you have worked hard to find and add more old pals that you never have have been told by in years or maybe you have found new pals with common desire on facebook and out of the blue you don't see any activity from them in your new feed.

This is because mainly because facebook has improved the default for your news feed. I'm not sure when this particular change occurred, however the default is for you to just get in your feed, things coming from friends that you have recently interacted with. Because of this all those friends that you've located, you can easily forget about once again as you are not viewing any activity coming from these individuals.

Switching your Facebook news feed back

Fortunately, this is a easy problem to remedy. To change your news feed back in the way in which it initially was all you've got to perform is to log into your Facebook account and click on the HOME key first. There, near the top of the page you will see an option that says MOST RECENT. Simply click MOST RECENT and you will see EDIT OPTIONS... Select EDIT OPTIONS and you may see something in bold at the very top which says: Show posts from:

This is where you want the option reset. It will be defaulted to 'Friends and pages you interact with most'. It is possible to change it out here back to 'All of your friends and pages'. You will once again get news from all of your own buddies.

Alternatively...

There is always two part to each story. What about those pals that you really didn't want to friend to begin with. You won't want to unfriend them simply because that may hurt their emotions and inform them that you genuinely don't want to be Facebook friends with in whatever way. Nicely, here's your saving grace. The newest default for the Facebook feed will keep them out of your status messages and also you out of theirs if you don't connect directly with them.

Since, you are trying to discover an easy way to get out of this undesirable association, it is a good change you won't ever. So in cases like this you might want to thank Facebook for creating these adjustments to their news feed and assisting you out. This new facebook news feeds have some advantages and disadvantages.

Blackhat Marketing Community Forum - Bhseos

BHSeos Forum is a fresh, new forum community where other fellow blackhat marketers can integrate their ideas with new custom programs built exclusively for the members. This is is a community where you can learn the newest methods and techniques to get ahead in affiliate marketing, local SEO consultant businesses, or promoting your own businesses. We focus on new and exciting custom tools built exclusively for our members - but that's not all.. You can talk and discuss various ways of competing in tough markets online, or how to use complex tools effectively... BHSeos.com focuses on the technical aspects of SEO. We have discussions on advanced marketing strategies, and using blackhat scripts to manipulate search engine results, to outrank your competition, to get your sites indexed, to get high page rank links pointing to your sites. Struggling to properly use Xrumer, Scrapebox, Senuke, Sick Submitter, Serpassist? Having problems getting your comment spam to stick? We have specific methods, tricks, and tutorials involving the most complex programs in our industry.

CUSTOM TOOLS -

We build our own custom tools and offer to our members exclusively. We have a proxy scraper, a referrer spammer, keyword generator, competition analysis, serp scraper, facebook friend adder, and a NEW exclusive backlinking tool that harvests AND spams various frameworks (currently: Laconica/StatusNet, EasyPhpGuestbook and DrbGuestbook, but many more are coming!) which are plugins so the tool will get new plugins all the time, plus you can even create your own plugins.. And that's just after a week of launching. MANY more tools are on their way. We even take program requests - the facebook friend adder was a request from one of our first members and was delivered the next day. If you need any custom scripts created - you can ask one of the admins or other members (there's several programmers in the forum) for help.. Plugins have been created for members that had a specific problem with multi-site WP 3.0. If you have a problem and need a solution, just ask! That's what this forum is here for. To help our members get what they need done, and hopefully other members will benefit as well. You can't buy that kind of service - we offer it free with your membership.

TUTORIALS -

We'll be going step by step, explaining the how and why - find out what it takes to use advanced tools - such as Scrapebox, Xrumer, and Senuke. We've started several threads, explaining how to get better success rates out of these tools and we'll be going even further to provide more instruction on how to use programs to increase your online visibility.

PRODUCT REVIEWS -

There's new products coming out every day in the SEO field, specifically Blackhat tools, and you never know if they're worth the sale price they ask... We'll be reviewing many products, going through each step necessary to successfully use these programs.

LINK BUILDING STRATEGIES -

Link building is definitely an art form - when it comes to getting complex strategies down to a gameplan that an outsourcer can follow, getting your backlinks indexed, promoting the promoters, using proper keyword strategies, getting GOOD high PR links, buying links, selling links, link velocity - there's a lot to it. The old way of just doing a Senuke run or submitting your site to directories - watching your site rise in the rankings... well, that just doesn't work anymore. You need good strategies for getting quality links in such a way, that's easily replicable, but not easily discounted by the search engines. New strategies are formed daily and at BHSeos.com, we're here to help you with this process and learn from each other. Find out what works, and what doesn't.

Here's some examples of the discussions already posted on the forum:

The art of link building, Local SEO - Offering your expertise to local businesses, Mass Spaming with no complaints!, Grab the Keyword-Tool here, Multithreaded HTTP scanner for Linux, Grab ProxyScraper here, Product Reviews, Nested Spinning - Snippet,Testing But Not Getting Cookied, ClickBomb Protection - Lets See Programmer Deliver!,OOP - Search Engine Harvesters, PageRank Lookup, Scrape Proxies from Samair. Redirects By Referrer and Search Engines, domain availability checker, What Server/Host Setup Works best For Cookie Labs, pligg captcha exploit, Grab ReferralDaemon here, Adjacking for fun and profit!, Traffic Vance Alternative, Any Effective Facebook Friend Adders?, XSS Scanner, Introducing the BHSEOs.com API, Xrumer - Challenges, Improvements and Tips, and much, much more!

At BHSeos.com - there's three main goals we try to achieve:

1. Discuss Blackhat SEO and methods/strategies. 2. Create programs that WORK, and that help us achieve the goals we set out in our methods/strategies for ranking in competitive markets. Create custom blackhat tools requested by our members. 3. Help and learn from other blackhat marketers. Good information is NOT easy to come by. There's a lot of misinformation published in this industry, some on purpose, but mostly it's just because of other sites/forums where people are spreading knowledge that they didn't gain for themselves, and thus - they don't even know if it's valid (anymore). Also - the internet marketing industry is dynamic, always changing. You need to keep up with the times. Our idea is to provide you a place where you can get the knowledge and support you need - where you can use tools that actually help you achieve the results you need (whether your providing services for clients or just trying to get your own sites ranking).

BHSeos.com is NOT just another forum. I hope you take the time to check us out. Register and subscribe to BHSeos.com and you will not be disappointed.

Faq About Iphone

1. What is the Apple iPhone ?

The iPhone is the product from Apple and combines an iPod, Cell Phone and internet Device into one handheld mobile product. "A revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching -- into one small and lightweight handheld device."

2.Can I watch Videos on the it?

The Phone is a widescreen iPod with touch controls that lets you enjoy all your content including music, audiobooks, videos, TV shows, and movies on a beautiful 3.5-inch widescreen display. It also lets you sync your content from the iTunes library on your PC or Mac. And then you can access it all with just the touch of a finger.

3.How Do I Make A Call On it?

The IPhone is a revolutionary new mobile phone that allows you to make a call by simply pointing your finger at a name or number in your address book, a favorites list, or a call log. It also automatically syncs all your contacts from a PC, Mac, or Internet service. And it lets you select and listen to voicemail messages in whatever order you want just like email.

With the iPhone, making a call is as simple as touching a name or number. In addition, you can easily construct a favorites list for your most frequently made calls, and quickly merge calls together to create conference calls.

4.Does It Have Voicemail?

Visual Voicemail allows you to go directly to any of your messages without listening to the prior messages. So you can quickly select the messages that are most important to you.

5.Can I send text messages on the Iphone

The Iphone includes an SMS application with a predictive QWERTY soft keyboard that prevents and corrects mistakes, making it easier and more efficient to use than the small plastic keyboards on many smartphones.

6.Can I Take Pictures With It

Apple's new iPhone features a 2-megapixel camera and a photo management application that goes far beyond anything on a phone today. Sync photos from your PC or Mac, and youre ready to browse or email them with the flick of a finger.

7.Can I send Email? Can I surf the Net?

The IPhone features a rich HTML email client and Safari the most advanced web browser ever on a portable device which automatically syncs bookmarks from your PC or Mac. Safari also includes built-in Google and Yahoo! search. The IPhone is fully multi-tasking, so you can read a web page while downloading your email in the background over Wi-Fi or EDGE.

The IPhone uses a rich HTML email client that fetches your email in the background from most POP3 or IMAP mail services and displays photos and graphics right along with the text.

8.Can I Get Directions through It?

With Google Maps and iPhones amazing Maps application, you can view maps and satellite images, or get directions and traffic information, all from iPhones remarkable, easy-to-use touch interface.

9.Iphone Widgets?

The IPhone even has widgets: small applications that give you helpful information like stock reports, weather reports, and more in real time.

10.Multi-touch Sceen

iPhone features the most revolutionary user interface since the mouse. Its an entirely new interface based on a large multi-touch display and innovative new software that lets you control everything using only your fingers. So you can glide through albums with Cover Flow, flip through photos and email them with a touch, or zoom in and out on a section of a web page all by simply using iPhones multi-touch display.

11.What is the Operating System?

Mac OSX is now available on a small, handheld device that gives you access to true desktop-class applications and software, including rich HTML email, full-featured web browsing, and applications such as widgets, Safari, calendar, text messaging, Notes, and Address Book. The IPhone is fully multi-tasking, so you can read a web page while downloading your email in the background.

12.Is The Iphone Wireless?

The IPhone uses quad-band GSM, the global standard for wireless communications. It also supports Cingulars EDGE network, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, which links to Apples new, remarkably compact Bluetooth headset.

13.Built-in Advanced Sensors

Apple's IPhones "accelerometer" detects when you rotate the device from portrait to landscape, then automatically changes the contents of the display, so you immediately see the entire width of a web page or a photo in its proper landscape aspect ratio.

The proximity sensor detects when you lift iPhone to your ear and immediately turns off the display to save power and prevent inadvertent touches until iPhone is moved away.

An ambient light sensor automatically adjusts the displays brightness to the appropriate level for the current ambient light, thereby enhancing the user experience and saving power at the same time.

14.The iPhone support Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint files?

The iPhone will support for Microsoft Office documents and therefore will allow for reading of Word, Excel or PowerPoint files.

15.iPhone support Adobe PDF documents?

Yes, it will be possible to open and view Adobe PDF documents on the iPhone although editing will not be possible.

16.iPhone support MMS?

Yes,but you need to upgrade the OS

17.Is email supported on the iPhone?

Yes, the iPhone features an HTML email program which allows the user to embed photos into email. Exchange servers are also supported provided they have been setup with IMAP/POP3.

18.Is it possible to sync Microsoft Outlook with the iPhone?

Yes, Outlook and Outlook express are supported.

19.What browser will the iPhone use?

The iPhone will use the Safari web browser

20.Does the web browser display the full web page on the iPhone's screen?

Yes, the entire web page will be visible on the iPhone's display - To zoom into any specific area just double-tap the screen.

21.iPhone Safari support Flash?

No, iPhone Safari will not support Flash technology.

22.iPhone support YouTube playback?

Yes, iPhone support YouTube playback.

23. iPhone Safari support Java?

No, Java will not be supported.

24. iPhone Safari support JavaScript?

Yes JavaScript is supported.

25.Does the iPhone have a removable battery?

No the iPhone has a built-in battery unit like that of the iPod.

26.Does the iPhone support removable media?

No, the iPhone does not support any removable media.

27.Can the iPhone's memory be expanded?

No, the iPhone's memory can not be increased or expanded.

28.What is iphone video format?H.264, MPEG-4 in .mp4, .m4v, .mov 29.What is iPhone music formatMP3, AAC

how to make money on facebook - Business - ECommerce

Make Money With facebook - 3 Top Methods

Facebook has become one of the biggest websites in the world over the last couple of years. It is estimated it has 500 million members and is growing at an incredible rate.

It looks like it is only a matter of time before it overtakes Google and becomes the most popular website in the world.

It already offers a paid advertising solution that rivals the main search engines in terms of price and advert targeting. So it is little wonder advertisers are moving over to facebook to make money in their droves.

So is it easy to make money with Facebook? The answer is no - it isn't easy but it is possible with a bit of research and good plan to make a huge profit.

There are many methods to profit from Facebook and here are three of the basic methods below:

1. Facebook paid advertising - as mentioned before you can now pay for advertising on Facebook. This can prove an excellent way to target customers if you have your own product or service. Even if you are an affiliate marketer you can make an excellent income through Facebook paid advertising.

2. Fan page - it is possible to start a fan page on Facebook and use it to make a profit. The idea is to make your page become popular and then sell your product or service to the people that visit your page. This works well if you can make the page funny or entertaining as people will pass it on to their friends if it is amusing.

3. Facebook app - these are small programs that are used through the Facebook platform to enhance the user experience on the site. They can be anything from a short quiz to an online game. Some of the apps on Facebook become very popular and this is a great method as you are then able to target the people with adverting that are using your app.

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