Magnus Haga

How to use Facebook on your website?

2011-06-29T12:06:00.003+02:00

Social media can work wonder for the business and popularity of your website and it amplifies your traffic more than any other means. Now let’s try to analyze how Facebook can bloom your website.

Take advantage of the insane traffic:
“We are not social animals but sharks. We don’t exactly need each other to survive” says George Clooney in his movie “Up in the sky” but the whole idea of Facebook goes quite against it. Human beings are built in such a way that they have to depend on each other to survive and excel. Same is the case of facebook; its insanely huge traffic can prove to be dose of multi vitamin for your website. Facebook claims about 500 million users and the number could also translate into potential customers. Now it’s up to you to make the best out of it.

Facebook connect:
The application Facebook connect will help in linking your website to facebook thus getting your share of attention from its traffic. It actually works in a viral way. Once you install this application, it will connect your website to facebook. The users who participate in your website’s activity will ultimately leave its mark on their facebook wall. When the link appears on a user’s wall it will naturally attract more and more people, resulting in a vicious circle. Facebook connect is recommended as it’s absolutely free. It also provides user’s data which will help in designing your marketing strategy. For example diamond jewelry brand will target women in twenties and most probably in a relationship. It makes lot easier for you to communicate with your target market.

Like button:
The omnipotent “Like” button has created history in gaining attention and traffic. “Like” application is most simple, easy, accessible and user friendly. When the user clicks the like button on a site it creates a story in the user’s profile with your link. It runs with the interesting caption “be the first of your friends to like it” and everyone of course wants to be the first one. It is one most popular and successful facebook social plug-in. You must have encountered these like buttons at the top of many articles and if you happen to like the content the temptation of pushing the like button becomes hard to resist.

Facebook Fan-pages:
Fan pages are the latest fad as visiting and liking a fan page is the most popular activity on facebook. Unlike “like “button it becomes a consistent part of the user’s page. It is business oriented as compared to regular facebook profile with more liberal view options. So all you have to do is create a fan page and make it interesting enough to attract traffic. Hardee’s revamped its facebook profile to gain more engagements, network exposure and page growth and the target was successfully achieved. Hardee’s facebook page experienced a mind boggling raise of Likes from 399,200 to around 412,000.

Facebook Recommendation Plug-in:
The best thing I admire about recommendation is that it exists as a concrete proof that there are many around people us who happen to like it and want you to spend time on it too. The word recommendation translates number into real life people. Yesterday I was idly browsing through a news website when I spotted 100 facebook recommendations on a news story and I was compelled to actually read the story. So it actually works and you can make the good use of these facebook applications to make your website popular.

Use of Facebook in any form of its widgets or plug-ins into a website has become the need of the socially connected world. So, irrespective of the fact, whether you have a business website or a blog of your own, use of Facebook is the greatest way to get your contents seen and to get a good traffic to your site.

So, if you haven’t tried it out yet, go give it a try now!

5 ways Twitter becoming the world power.

2010-08-09T20:49:00.003+02:00

Where there is tweet, there is a way. Created in 2006, the original idea of Twitter was to be able to text other friends with the use of their site instead of a cell phone. However the idea changed over the years and now the website has millions of people logging in each day.

With this kind of attraction from people worldwide, can the potential of Twitter be used for something other than chatting with friends? Can it be used for increasing a website’s traffic? YES, Twitter does have that kind of potential, but how?

Communication with your friends, fans and customers:

Posting updates each day simply let all connects aware of what’s happening right now through Twitter. Using Twitter, one friend can let another friend aware of news that hasn’t even made the headlines. It works like this. One friend is stuck in a major traffic jam on a highway due to a fatal accident. That friend then pulls out his cell phone with the Twitter application and creates an update, for example, that says “wicked accident on I-95!! Traffic jam for miles!!” Then other friends who are at home or work can see this Twitter update and use the intelligence they have received to create an alternate route if they had planned to use that specific highway on that day. Again this kind of updates can be used to your clients too. Letting them know that you are up with a new service or product goes easy with a tweet.

Building relationships:

Another aspect on using Twitter to build relationships is the availability of Twitter and who can get access to it. It is very simple. If there no computer, there is no Twitter available. And if there is no Twitter available then there is no such relationship to build. And without that relationship built, then there probably would not be that much traffic directed to your website. And the traffic that would have gone to the website would not have been from the power of Twitter.

Your Public Image booster:

Being viewed as a public icon, being popular or just being well known, can be a plus when using Twitter to build relationship. Everyone wants to follow the Kardashians on Twitter; everyone wants to follow Wendy Williams on Twitter; everyone wants to follow Anderson Cooper on Twitter. Why? Because they are all popular and everyone just wants to know what’s happening in their lives. With the Kardashians being as popular as they are now with all the drama in their reality series, who wouldn’t want to know the next move they make. Similarly, the popularity of your business and your name can be pushed to a level of admiration with use of a Twitter account.

Traffic generator:

Twitter is really able to generate a massive amount of traffic to your website/s. As I mentioned under the heading “Relationship” above, your relationship with your followers in twitter makes it happen for your website. Using Twitter and other social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace for the purpose of advertising is being used by lots of marketers at present.

Touching other spheres:

Twitter can also be used to touch the life outside. Sound strange but there is an explanation. You and your friends can plan a real get-together using your tweet power. Even charities and other social spheres of life can also be touched by using Twitter and it’s a fact.

Every day the user power of Twitter grows stronger and stronger. With growth by having new users’ every day, Twitter has the potential of being used by the entire computer literate population! I’ll look forward to the day where everyone, including world powers, using Twitter to tweet each other around the world. Maybe Twitter itself might be “the” world power!

5 All Time Great Tips to use YouTube for Affiliate Marketing

2010-05-16T19:23:00.007+02:00

Affiliate marketing business is indeed marked with a very high rate of failures. Some reliable sources indicate that the failure rate is around 90%. But have you ever thought of a small initiative like a creative video to market your affiliate business? Probably you may not. And if you have then you might be doing without a proper blueprint. A small length video can really change the whole picture and place your affiliate business atop among that success 10 percent. You got to stick to the basics that I have used myself.

Affiliate business, just like any other type of business, can be excelled with placement of a video marketing campaign. All you need to know are a few tips; tips to leverage video marketing; tips to use the best video marketing platform i.e. YouTube.

To harness the greatness of this site for affiliate business, I would like to share 5 superb tips that I have found useful and I use myself:

1. Apply the AIDA formula while capturing your YouTube video. The formula says – grab Attention, create Interest, create Desire and finally make the viewer/s take Action or purchase. To grab attention your pitching should be very friendly, catchy and flawless. You may use customized channel backgrounds for your YouTube account to grab attention at a different level. Relate some real-time facts about affiliate marketing to create interest. Use of latest trends or hot topics from business around the globe and its relation to affiliate business is the next biggie of catching attention.

2. Use the KISS formula to your video/s. Keep your Videos short and simple. This practice helps in creating a clear cut and interesting communication in between you (your business) and your viewers. The application of KISS also helps from the angle that they load faster than other longer videos and so save some great surfing/waiting time. It’s really a good trick to add value by respecting the time of your viewers and future leads.

3. Connect to friends as much as you can on YouTube. It gives you the power of having channel subscribers and Friends against your channel/account. Try to connect with as much people as you can on your YouTube profile; it will reward you back for sure. And do follow and subscribe to others’ channels, so that they subscribe your channel in return.

4. Use of written captions in your video is another great way to leverage YouTube videos. Just consider the fact that the global viewers in YouTube are increasing every single day and the accents that you use may differ from your viewers. A written description of what you or your videos say would really be great in eliminating the culture and accent barriers. So, put those words in written as you say in your video.

5. The great art of leveraging YouTube videos lies in Value Exchange. By adding value to your video you can really rock the floor of video marketing; you can have hard dying fans sharing your video link with thousands of their friends. So, try to add as much value as possible to your video. You can do it by sharing your acquired knowledge about the topic of video. And DO NOT air your video/s just on the first shoot. Give it a good coverage of practice. Use the one you find to be the best fit for this purpose. To have the appropriate level of value exchange you need a good piece of presentation of the topic.

The current scenario of extended video marketing is dominated by YouTube, the giant video sharing social site ever. From 2005 to 2010 YouTube has become the most successful video site and is the only video sharing site with largest viewer base. So, leveraging your YouTube videos with the tips above would boost your affiliate business for sure.

How to Leverage Your Professional LinkedIn Account

2010-03-16T10:06:00.002+01:00

There's no doubting the power of social media (SM) to help your business grow. But it's worth noting that some SM platforms are better suited to business relationships and activities than others. Case in point – LinkedIn is the most professional SM platform out there to suit this requirement. A LinkedIn account is one of the best free marketing tools you could ever get.

LinkedIn is a social media platform that's especially geared for adults, professionals, and companies. While other platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Digg, or StumbleUpon focus on creating networks of friends and interests, LinkedIn creates networks of business prospects, partners, and potential customers. Here are a few ways how LinkedIn can help your own business profile, no matter what its nature may be.

#1 - When you add a new contact with your LinkedIn account, it opens an entire new network for you to explore. The more relevant contacts you have, the more potential customers and niche markets you can find to do business with. As your network expands exponentially, so do your potential sales!

#2 - LinkedIn also helps you find professionals who can help you grow your business. Let's face it -- you can't handle EVERY single aspect of your business profile (nor should you). It's best to stick to what you know, and delegate the rest to specialists. And a LinkedIn professional account can help you find specialists in your networks with just a few clicks.

#3 - A LinkedIn professional account helps keeping things, well, professional for your business. Let's face it -- a profile on LinkedIn will always look more professional and commercially-attractive than a profile on Facebook, Twitter, Digg, or StumbleUpon. That alone can equate to more sales, especially as you continue to build your network.

It doesn't stop there, either. LinkedIn is always evolving and improving, and users are constantly discovering newer ways to innovate with it. If you haven't opened a LinkedIn account for your business yet, then there's no better time than now!

How to get 2000 targeted twitter followers in 2 days

2010-02-09T08:11:00.000+01:00

Every individual whether a businessman or a student prefers the use of twitter to convey their messages in string of networks for the reason that viewers are well updated by just a single posting or tweeting on the twitter board. This is effective in communicating, marketing and in developing networks, the reason why twitter is utilized mainly nowadays. It's essential that you make 15 valuable tweets before you start the following, or else people most likely won't follow you back.

For these facts, increasing twitter followers is one of the top priorities for the users. There are two ways to increase twitter follower. It can be Manual or through Automated BOTs as discussed below.

A. The first method is manual wherein you have to develop your existing online profiles and utilize this as catalyst to twitter. Link your twitter from your profiles and contact pages in your site or blog. Through this, visitors or viewers of your profile will then be linked to your twitter. You must follow as many visitors as you can and as much you are allowed to promote your twitter follow. This method requires a lot of efforts and may take a longer time than the automated bots to gain innumerable followers. But it much stronger and valuable than the bots because it is not dangerous and risk free. By risk free I mean that in this method you have lesser chance of getting blocked.

What can you do to boost your manual practice?

· Use an eye-catching banner or a very decorative background. Your banner must get the attention of surfers especially the knowledgeable in this field and link it to your profile.

· Arrange a competing activity like the use of trending topics in your twitter account.

· For your blogs, put a widget which redirects to your twitter profile.

· Add your twitter profile as your e-mail/forum signature and use it with every mail and forum posting.

· Make use of your twitter profile as an instrument as tech/ costumer support. Let people contact you on twitter.

· Feed twitter manipulators information of their interests.

· Ask or seek help from some users to suggest your profile. You may agree on exchanging commendations.

B. The second method is the use of Automated BOTs which may add followers automatically on your twitter account on a daily basis. After having followers of their own, they’ll reduce the number of people they follow. There is no need for you to have your own effort to earn this. Everything about follow and un-follow is taken care by bots. Some people have more than 1 twitter accounts so if the BOT adds 100 followers a day on each twitter account, this mean they are going to have more than 2000 followers in a few days. This one is often used by spammers and this is risky because some followers that may be added are spammers. Because with an automated BOT in place you never know who is a real one and who is not! So in just two days, one can have 2000 followers with no proper result at all.

Having a lot of followers on your twitter profile is really pleasant but we must choose the safer and sure way to have them. The first method, the manual one, wherein you do all the efforts to gain visitors and followers is better and highly suggested for security reasons. The first method allows you to choose your followers freely. Whereas, the second method gives you a faster chance to get followers and get spammed too. So, choose your option wisely and enjoy tweeting.

How to leverage the Facebook News Feed

2010-01-26T23:22:00.003+01:00

Facebook has become the heart beat of almost every people who uses World Wide Web very often. Not only the individuals, but also the big names in business are accustomed to the use of Facebook now a day. Presence of Big Names with their fan pages is the evidence that Facebook has touched the level of a superior social connectivity.
So, in the current scenario the extended knowledge of Facebook helps at a great helm. And the knowledge of putting your say in Facebook is of the greatest advantage. One can put his feelings, emotions, news etc. via two important home feeds in Facebook. These are Live Feed and News Feed
Though both are equally important and capable of expressing the way one feels, yet News Feed is considered to be the greatest and lethal most weapon. The main difference between a Live Feed and a News Feed is that the News Feed is an aggregate expression of the most interesting contents of your friends whereas Live Feeds reflect all the actions of your friends.
Why leverage the Facebook News Feed: Before discussing how to leverage the News Feed, I would like to tell you that why you should leverage them. The first point of consideration for News Feed against Live Feed is the fact that whenever someone opens/logs into his Facebook account the first page shows News Feeds only. So, a catchy description for a News Feed attracts the people and promotes your products as well. The second point of consideration is the merge of Highlights and News Feed into one stream. And the third point of consideration for News Feed is that it contains the most interesting topics and events. So, if you have a good post and your friends either like it or comment on it then it will appear as the most interesting post of that moment.
How to leverage News Feed: Now let’s come to our main point of discussion, the ‘HOW’ factors. I would love to share 4 factors as below:
The first thing to leverage your News Feed is to deliver some value to the readers or say to your friends. By sharing something which delivers some value you can really boost up the presence of that post in Facebook.
Make it interesting. Plunge into the humor side on vacation, weekend and holiday seasons. It works great because people on weekends and on holidays want some relaxation and so putting some humor gives you back a well commented post. Avoiding Business Links on such hours is really essential to minimize the risk where people hide your feeds forever.
Keep it in mind that all the five fingers are not equal. So, try different things on different times. There are some applications in Facebook like Zoo, Mafia, and Quiz etc. You can use them wisely. Though Mafia application says “Kill Some Time”, actually you can use it as a good option to leverage your News feeds. But please avoid sending too much of requests.
The current trends and topics on and around the globe is another good thing to use to leverage the feeds. For example the current topic of highest discussion is Haiti Disaster. So, a News Feed on Haiti is sure to attract many people to your profile and products as well.
With these four classic ways of leveraging your News Feed you can reinvent the power of networking every time you log into Facebook. Whether you are following a personal branding strategy or doing a product promotion, these tips can help you reach a much wider targeted audience. Have a great experience ahead.

Social Media Strategy and your business website!

2010-01-11T16:27:00.002+01:00

You never can think of a business without a proper strategy and a business website. Same is the case when you plan your marketing via Social networking. While considering Social sites for marketing you must have an exact Social Media Strategy that fits best as per the site you have for your business.

Social Media Strategy is actually about the changes which are capable of a massive contribution towards the optimization of the concerned site to bring more traffic/users/leads/prospects. It is rather a modern skill which needs to be adapted to strengthen one's business. The following would provide you with tips for the better usability of the social sites to optimize your business website. The first step towards improving your business website is to provide it a better link ability. There are many sites that are regarded as static, in the sense that they are rarely updated. Here comes the role of Social sites which are being updated almost every fraction of second by its large user base. So, a word promoted with these sites can hit the high graph of traffic.

The three important requirements:

1^st: In order to provide the website a better link ability it is better to add a blog to it. This is the first step towards making your website a popular one. One must ensure the easy tagging or bookmarking of the website as per the applications of the social sites. Adding quick buttons to the website may also help and adding suitable links to social sites like YouTube, digg, facebook, Twitter, word press, blogger, MySpace, LinkedIn would also be of a great help.

2^nd: It is essential to give good amount of importance to the content and it is also desirable to have the content in the form of pdf, video etc wherever possible. They would simply enable content travel. One need not spend lots of money for re-inventing the same concept! Social networking in 2010 has a great scope.

3^rd: Moderation of sites are available free of cost as Ning and similar sites give the freedom of moderating a website with ease. The website which is Ajax enable simply improves the response time of the site! So using these free services to implement a strategy that promotes your site through social networking site is a good idea. There is a strategy called the associative media marketing which would combine the concept of social networking and social media marketing.

Social Media Strategy concentrates around user driven sites of good repute and related communities used to build reciprocal links to other sites & blogs. They really can create good volume traffic and a healthy ranking of search in search engines. Blame it on the competition that there is an immense need to improve the uniqueness of the business websites & blogs to get higher amounts of traffic. Maintaining a website with a proper Social networking promotion strategy in place would definitely do a magnificent job in promoting the business.

Social Media Networking- the key factor behind communications today

2009-12-27T14:13:00.003+01:00

With the world getting busier day by day, the importance of the role of the social media networking is increasing at a rapid speed. People today favors to be in touch with others through online with the help of the Social Media sites mostly rather than meeting someone face to face, chatting over the phone or sending mails. The ancient and traditional methods of sending good wishes and passing information through letters in post have been replaced almost completely by the e-mail services. In fact, in the very informal matters, one today loves tweeting, or scraping one instead of writing a very formal e-mail.

The various means of social media networking that are like prevailing everywhere and with everybody today are digg, twitter, facebook, stumbleupon and linkedin etc. What one needs to do is simply to register with these social sites and then get connected with all his friends. The members, in most of these sites can get in constant touch with their friends and can send fast messages easily. Writing a few words in the scrap book or the wall of one's friend is enough in the name of sending messages. The three most important aspects that are related to this trend are:

Creating a kind of awareness among the members of a group or that of the whole registered members of a particular site towards any current issue is easy. These social sites have several advantages over the means of communication nowadays. People, mostly, youngsters use to be in constant touch with each other through these sites and hence, connecting more than one person at one go gets easier.

Promoting a message or a particular product too gets easier through such social media sites. So, the demands of the advertisements published here are more.

Everybody irrespective of any boundary or cast owns the right to express their opinions and do the required modifications in the respective account/s in these sites.

The concept of the Social media networking has gained such a huge popularity today that the scopes of this service are getting higher every day. For that now even people are seen to be getting social media marketing training and in fact, social media marketing book too are out in the market for the interested people. Marketing through these sites is becoming a trend in every business having either a blog or a website or even an email ID.

Summary: Social Networking sites are becoming popular with every passing day. Most of the business also counts upon them now a day. From connecting with friends to marketing products and services Social media sites are there to help you most.

Twitter trending topics can create wide awareness among people

2009-12-22T23:02:00.003+01:00

The very words, Twitter trending topics, denote that it is all about certain topics that set a kind of trend and interest among the users of Twitter. Twitter today is one of those social networking sites which have been able to swipe quite many youngsters towards it. Such trending topics actually are a kind of segments where the users use to share their particular feeling and opinions which often, at a time, create a kind of wave among the users.

If you are a registered Twitter user and if you want to express what is there in your mind or what you think about a particular thing that is currently happening around you then the best means for you to let others know your feelings is the Twitter trending topics. If the topics that you have shared are hot topics, which are of public interest and others too are feeling like giving their own view on that then one is free to do so and this way, a kind of networking takes place among the users of twitter. Thus, in other words, it can also be said that such platforms act as public poll places where everybody gets equal opportunity and same importance while speaking on a particular matter and one is not required being afraid of anything too. As you will be giving your opinion only and there is nothing like standing among hundreds while giving your opinion, you can enjoy complete freedom and safety.

Every turn and result of the Twitter trending issues discussed in this section depends on the response of the members. If the topic is that of creating social awareness and is for the welfare of people, then the results often have been seen to be playing a positive effect on the society and have also raised the attention of public.

So, at the end of all these discussions the conclusion that comes out is that the Twitter trending topics are for live users and live discussions take place into it. It involves all those members that are actively being in touch with this social networking site and feels responsible to discuss all hot issues.

Summary: Trending topics in Twitter give you the topics which are highly tweeted. At a single click of your mouse on the right panel of your Twitter account you can easily find the currently tweeted topics under this section. Click them, search out and save your time.

Building your name in the Virtual market

2009-12-14T23:23:00.003+01:00

How can you use social media to pull towards the prospects to your business? Assuming you’re submitting a sound product, a convincing offer, and are talking to the correct customer, social media tools make generating leads reasonably priced and time-efficient. Social media is an effectual way to produce leads for your service-based industry. You can construct your name within your business, connect with possible clientele and planned allies and use it to drive traffic to your url. One should participate in social media by lot of different ways like

Online networking,

Blogging and

Comfortable media – can help you build your status within your business.

Constructing your name online has three huge reimbursements – your trustworthiness goes up, people distinguish your business to be winning and a level of faith is established. How do you start? Show your information and know-how by providing helpful information. Helping people with their questions and recommendations and comment on blogs inside your industry.

Shared networking online allows you to make solid associations that can result in direct generation of leads for your business. Start talking to people in praising industries, help them out by referring client enquiries and you could just come across yourself in a strategic joint venture.

Social network like twitter, have broken down conventional barriers to thought leaders – find out who they are, adjoin them to your network and start a discussion. Constructing firm relationships with influencers and other establishment can result in a boost up to your business.

Twitter also allows you to unite straight away with media professional – edifice relationships with folks and proving them with information they need could revisit media opportunity to support your business.

There’s a range of habits to use social networking to catch the attention of visitors to your website. Here are two techniques.

Make use of group or social networks to give out your content by posting a linkage to your Twitter or Facebook profiles and adding together content distribution buttons to your web page (e.g. Tweet meme). The first tread here is to create substance significance distributing – if it’s not fine, no one will want to overtake it on to their network.
Generate a landing side for your social media profile. People will click on your website link in your profile to find out extra information about you. Make the a large amount of their attention with a enthusiastic landing page that explain what you do - how you can assist that person and offer a call to action detail what they should do subsequently.

Generating a new pilot can be as straightforward as picking up a number of new clicks on Twitter. The key (with leads of any type) is that they are pertinent and probable clients. If there is a high than 0% possibility that they may be involved in your products or services, then they are a precious lead.

What is your area of thought leadership? Post a Tweet today providing valuable content (a link to a newsletter, an article on your website, some information that tells people what you do) and offer people an opportunity to find out more about you.

Social Media Marketing - How to Build a Strong Relationship With Your Followers

2009-11-13T14:22:00.000+01:00

I asked myself this question a while ago: Now that I got all these followers, how do I connect with them and get them interested in me and what I have to offer? The answer to that question is quite simple.

Is the key to success in social media marketing to build a huge following? No. The key is to build a strong following of people who actually care about you and who you are. People that share the same interest in life and professionals that is in the same niche as you. There is a hole bunch of people on social media that acts like robots. They act like a machine that is programmed to do one thing and that is to sell their product or their business opportunity to everyone. We all know how annoying this is. It don't work! You don't sell your product that way and you create enemies instead of friends. People will unfollow you and in many cases report you as a spammer. You don't want that to happen.

Act in social media as you act in life in general

Be a human being. A human being has real feelings, meanings and emotions. There is a lot off people out there that has the same interests and struggles as you do. By writing this I don't mean that you should post all your struggles and be a sympathy seeker. If you can provide a solution to peoples struggles you are king. Share what you found out to be the solution for you when you dealt with the same problem as they deal with.

Provide value

What do people found valuable? I bet that you just like me isn't a writer of novel or a person that comes up with quotes or good jokes all the time. The good thing is that there is so many great writers out there. The best ones lived in the past. Find a good quote and post it. Share your meanings on a news story, a book you read, a video you just saw or a hillarious joke you just heard.

Communicate

ReTweet posts that you found interesting. Reply to all DM's that doesn't contain spammy links. A link to connect on facebook is accepted and a good way to build a stronger relationship. Be grateful and thank people for RT and @replies. Respond to your at replies as quickly as possible. Even if it is a disagreeing comment, just write “I appreciate your ideas and comments even if we do not agree.”

Happy Tweeting :)

Magnus Haga is a award winning master marketing consultant that assists entrepreneurs in building a 6-7 figure first year income from home. Magnus specializes in Social Media Marketing and Pay Per Click Advertising. Read more about Magnus and how he can help you achieve your goals at: http://MakeMoneyWithMagnus.com

Social Media Marketing - 7 Ways to Explode Your Authority

2009-11-09T21:27:00.000+01:00

Have you ever asked yourself if social media is important for you business? The answer is without a doubt YES! You can say whatever you want, but in the end of the day people choose to follow you as a leader. They don't really care about what the product is or what the opportunity is all about. If people see you as a authority and as a person with real meanings and true values, that what they are going to buy in to.

1. Add a minimum of 100 targeted Twitter followers each day

These should be targeted followers that you have something in common with. Add people that is interested in what you have to say and could be potential prospects, customers or entrepreneurs to network with.

2. Respond promptly to all @replies

When people send you a personal reply on Twitter you should always respond as quickly as possible. Starting these kind of engaging conversations ca lead to new business relationships.

3. Make your tweets valuable to the reader

Constantly pitching their product or opportunity is the biggest mistake most new Twitter users make. This is a absolute NO-NO in social media and it's a huge turn off for your followers. You should focus on building true followers who are loyal, and interested in what you have to say. This is accomplished by posting tweets that are value packed. Post something your grandmother would be proud to read!

4. Add targeted Facebook friends

By adding targeted friends on Facebook each day, you will rapidly grow your network and be a authority on the fourth highest traffic site online. Make sure each friend is high quality and a person that can be a potential customer or partner.

5. Engage with your Facebook friends

When you start to explode your friend list like this, it is time to interact with your new friends. Make at least 20 Facebook engagements each day. Respond or welcome your new friend. Again DO NOT pitch your product or opportunity!

6. Facebook wall posts

Wall post is a very effective way to establish yourself as a authority and to increase your visibility on Facebook. Make posts on targeted profiles. Comment on something another person just said or create conversations. This will really increase your value to your friends and to the community.

7. Join Facebook groups in your niche

Joining groups and engage in conversation with others group members is also a great way to establish yourself as a leader and a authority.

Social media marketing - How to use Twitter to find prospects for your business

2009-11-06T16:54:00.001+01:00

Do you consider using or are you using twitter to market your business? Twitter is growing rapidly and is now one of the most visited sites on the internet. Twitter is a wonderful social media site and has endless possibilities even dough it looks and is in fact really simple. There is a large amount of software available for Twitter, both payed and free and a lot of courses that claims to explode your following. If you learn how to use Twitter you can drive a huge amount of quality traffic to your site.

Quality. The number one thing you should focus on when using twitter for marketing purposes is quality. Sadly like all social media Twitter is full of spam. If you do it wrong Twitter will be a horrible and confusing experience and provide nothing but worries. But if you learn how to find the right people to follow and how to get the right people for you, Twitter will be a entertaining, addicting and money making website for you. So how do you find the right prospects? Go to tweepsearch and search for, lets say "internet marketer". Then people that have listed this in their bio shows up. Try not to choose the ones with thousands and thousands of followers. Choose a person, that has f.ex 500 followers. Go into their Twitter profile and follow the people that are following them. Do NOT follow companies and "get rich quick" scams, follow users that has a personal photo and a real name listed. If you do not want to do this manually you can use Hummingbird and automate the hole process.

Find people in need of your services. My good friend Sean Malarkey (the author of Twixplode) tough me a awesome way to do this. Set up a account on Hootsuite. Lets say you have a store that sells car paint. Search for "scratched my car" and save the search. In that way, every time someone tweets those words you will see it on your dashboard and you can easily send them a DM or a @reply. This will really boost your traffic.

Build relationship with your followers. You should never find people and go sell sell sell. Build a relationship with them over time and interact with them. Always share things of value. Reply to your not-spammy DM's and Re-tweet tweets you find interesting. Write a strong bio and call yourself an expert in what you do. People really love experts!

Happy tweeting!

Generating free leads with social media - 4 ways to set up and use facebook to market your business

2009-11-04T15:17:00.000+01:00

Do you want to use social media do market your opportunity or product? Social media and facebook in particular is growing by the minute. If you want to get traffic and leads for your business or opportunity you want to be where people are. What's really interesting and what benefits you is that the average age of the facebook user also is increasing. It's not just for kids and teens. If you know how to use facebook and how to avoid the devastating mistakes that so many people make, it can produce a endless stream of free high quality leads for your product or business opportunity.

Here are the simple steps that you need to do and know how to do:

1. Set up your facebook profile. Your profile should be all about you, not all about your business. This might seem strange, but trust me, if you'r all about sell sell sell and people don't find something of value, they will hurry to another page. Nobody likes to be sold on the first date! There are 3 important parts of your profile page that you need to set up. First it's the picture. The picture obviously should be of you. Choose a picture where your smiling and that is pretty close up. Under the picture there is a small box for you where you can write a mini bio. Make it short and describe yourself to the reader. What is you profession, what do you like about it and what are your expert fields. The last important part is the URL field where you can put your landingpage, your blog or a link to your twitter profile.

2. Adding Friends. Off course if you want to generate leads you need to add new friends. Be careful not to add to many or facebook will block you. Go into a profile of a person that is already your friend and that is in the same business as you. Simply add some of their friends. Doing this you will find people that have the same interest and people that will find your opportunity or you as a person interesting.

3. Facebook Groups. A really good way to get out to your target audience and to generate new leads, is to set up a facebook group. Facebook lets you invite all your friends to that group and as people join this will become a highlight on their wall, so that their friends can see it and join as well. Other members of your group can also invite all of their friends. What's really great about facebook groups is that when you'r the admin of a group, facebook lets you send out a message to every member of that group. In that way you can, lets say once a week share something of value to your group members. You should also join other groups and share comments, pictures, links and videos to these groups.

4. The News Feed. This is what everyone sees on their homepage when they log in. Here everyone can post whatever they like. You can share a texts, photos, links and videos. Off course you need to share something to your audience. But what to share? The number one rule here is to share something of value for the reader. Share a good quote, a link to a informative article, a good video that you found on YouTube or your view on a news story and so on. You can also share something fun. It's very effective to share a joke or a fun video. What you want to achieve with your posts is getting people's interest and their comments. If people like what you share, they most likely will go ahead and check out your profile. Share something your grandmother would be proud to read!

Do you want to learn more about how I do it and get to know me? Visit http://bit.ly/19YMbr

My Story - What has this business opportunity meant for my life?

2009-11-03T23:49:00.000+01:00

A struggling student

Less than 3 months ago i was a last year nurse student struggling to make a living. In my country of Norway students get's a loan and a small scholarship while studying. This small amount of money (about $1000 a month) was not even enough to cover my rent, my bills and the everyday costs of living. So I'd had to work to supplement my income. I worked at the local hospital and kinda liked it in a way. It was a good working environment with nice colleagues. But that was about it of what was positive about it.

Working as a nurse is hard both psychical and physical. After about half a year working my back really started to say that enough was enough. I worked about every weekend and some evenings during the week. This really gave me no spare time and no time to enjoy life. Not enough time to spend with my family and friends, and not time to develop myself as a individual. With all this effort and sacrifice the result should really be to a least have enough money not having to worry about bills and debt. That was not the result.The result was that every month my debt and my loans were increasing. I still was not able to be pay my bills and still have money left over to enjoy life. Besides the fact that my student loan was increasing each month, I had to max out my MasterCard every month and the worst part; borrow money from family and friends.

The ad that changed it all

Last summer I worked about 40+ hours a week at the local hospital when my school was off. This summer really made me realize that the education that I was about to finish and the job I would do, would not meet my expectations. To make a decent living doing this job, the result would be a life without freedom. Not enough freedom to do what I wanted, not enough freedom to live the life i deserve, not the freedom to do what I love and to be who I want. One late evening after coming home from work I was so sick and tired! I did my daily routine of checking my mail, reading the online newspaper and see what my friends were up to on facebook. Luckily I came over an add seeking entrepreneurs. Clicking that ad would show to change my life.

The ad revealed a business opportunity and a company that really opened my eyes. The structure of the web pages impressed me and all the info really got me interested. I read through all the info and then decided to submit my application to start my own business. The fact that i needed to submit an application made me confident that this was a serious opportunity. After submitting my application I got access to a business overview page that gave me valuable information and really made me decide to start.

So how has this business opportunity changed my life?

I no longer work endless hours at the hospital. After 2 months in this business I fired my boss! Who wouldn't love to do that? Besides making more money off course, I now have the time to do what I love. I have more time with my family and friends. My health both psychical and physical is improved. In just a few days from now I'm going to a wealth conference and marketing event in Las Vegas. This is like a dream come true for me and I never could have done it without taking the first step and explore this great opportunity.

To your continues success,

Magnus

To read more about me, what I do and how it can benefit you, visit: http://bit.ly/19YMbr

Litt om meg

2009-11-03T23:48:00.003+01:00

For kun kort tid tilbake var en jeg student som slet for å få endene til å møtes. Jeg gikk i underskudd hver måned og gjelden bare vokste og vokste. I tillegg jobbet jeg endeløse timer ved siden av skolen for å begrense underskuddet. Jeg slet meg selv fullstendig ut og til slutt møtte jeg veggen. En dag da jeg kom hjem fra en lang arbeidsdag bestemte jeg meg for at noe måtte gjøres. Det måtte finnes noe bedre! Det jeg fant var En hjemme- og internettbasert jobb med et høyt inntektspotensiale, et revolusjonerende system og full opplæring, trening og support.

Det jeg fant skulle vise seg å forandre mitt liv totalt. Det jeg fant var en jobb der jeg selv bestemmer, der jeg får utnyttet mitt potensiale og der jeg får betalt det jeg fortjener! En legitim, profesjonell og stabil hjemmebasert jobb, som ga meg muligheten til å gjenvinne kontrollen over min finansielle situasjon, min frihet og mitt liv.

Etter 8 uker leverte jeg inn oppsigelsen og var ferdig med å jobbe for noen andre. Jeg var min egen sjef! Jeg tjente 5 ganger så mye hjemmefra med en jobb jeg kunne nyte. I min fjerde måned tjente jeg 62.000 kr!

Jeg forteller ikke deg dette for å skryte, men for å simpelthen dele med deg hva som kan oppnås om du gir deg selv mulighten!

Siden har jeg ikke sett meg tilbake. For å lage en lang historie kort skjønte jeg, for første gangen i mitt liv at jeg ikke trengte å jobbe 50 timer i uka for å tjene drøssevis med penger. Jeg jobber vanligvis ca 20 timer i uka. Jeg elsker det jeg gjør og jeg er inspirert og brenner for å hjelpe andre mennesker. Jeg jobber sammen med de absolutt dyktigste personene i denne bransjen. Jeg har kontaktene. Mitt mål er å hjelpe deg med å tjene penger i løpet av 2 uker og erstatte din inntekt i løpet av 30-90 dager.

Jeg jobber med noen av de som tjener mest i denne bransjen. Ikke bare vil jeg vise deg hvordan du gjør eksakt det vi gjør, vi vil fortsette å arbeide sammen. Jeg vil være din personlige mentor på veien mot målet.

Hvis alt dette høres for godt ut til å være sant, foreslår jeg at du fortsetter med å gjøre det du gjør akkurat nå og putte de pengene du eventuelt har på en sparekonto. Du vil gå inn i den endeløse rekken av blakke folk som gjør at gründere som meg tjener enda MER.

Ikke la en som meg fortelle deg hva du skal gjøre. Ta din egen beslutning. Du vil enten være glad du gjorde det eller angre deg over at du ikke gjorde det. Dette handler om at DU kan forandre DIN økonomiske situasjon. Hvis du er serriøs i ditt ønske om å forandre ditt liv for alltid så fyll ut boksen under. Jeg er klar og villig til å hjelpe deg!