How to Use Facebook Layouts to Attract Visitors to Your Website
Nov 5th, 2008 Posted in Internet | no comment »
Michael Mulkern asked:
These days, the proliferation of social media on the internet has driven a lot of businesses to consider marketing their products via social media, whether directly or indirectly. Whether it’s MySpace or Facebook, many are getting on the social media bandwagon because of the huge reach such portals have over millions of internet users who are a part of the social media community. If you run an online enterprise that is dependent on internet traffic, you should already know by now the importance of providing something – be it in the form of content or product – that will bring in both new and repeat traffic to your website. This article will show you how to use Facebook layouts to attract visitors to your website.
While many businesses prefer a more customized network as an essential tool to engage their customers, the number of businesses taking advantage of the inexpensive yet effective Facebook platform to engage in viral marketing is increasing by the day. These businesses are benefiting from the sheer number and demographics of users on Facebook, so it makes prudent sense to hop onto the Facebook bandwagon. But how do you go about using Facebook effectively as a source of increased traffic to your website?
The first and most important aspect of your Facebook profile should be your profile page. Not only is it the one page you have most control over, it is the place where you can convey your message to the hordes of other Facebook users. First impressions are important, and your profile page makes the first impression for you and your business. Many underestimate the number of page views a profile page generates. Connect to your customers, associates, and friends using the profile page; the connections you display on your profile page will stir the interest of profile viewers to know more about the people you’re connected with and you yourself; both as a business and as an individual entity.
While many use Groups to engage in viral marketing, you should consider using Facebook Pages instead if you’re looking to customize your Facebook layout. Facebook Pages are more customizable as compared to Groups, because you can add HTML, Flash, or applications to your pages. These little add-ons extend your pages’ functionality and make it more interesting for users to peruse your profile pages. Also, there are no limitations as to how many “fans” in your group that you can message, so it gives you a wider reach to your targeted audience, making it a viable option for small businesses that are looking to establish their presence on Facebook.
But if you have the budget, Facebook also allows you to reach an even wider audience. Whatever your budget, you can choose a simple short-run flyer for a few dollars or even a customized “sponsored group” campaign in Facebook for a few hundred thousand dollars. Social Ads is one example of an affordable ad that you can consider, as these ads are placed on profile pages and news feeds and gets your business out there via click-throughs.
So you see, there are many options for you to choose from when using Facebook layouts to attract visitors to your website. Whatever your budget, Facebook is a viable solution you can consider when you’re looking to increase the traffic to your website.
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These days, the proliferation of social media on the internet has driven a lot of businesses to consider marketing their products via social media, whether directly or indirectly. Whether it’s MySpace or Facebook, many are getting on the social media bandwagon because of the huge reach such portals have over millions of internet users who are a part of the social media community. If you run an online enterprise that is dependent on internet traffic, you should already know by now the importance of providing something – be it in the form of content or product – that will bring in both new and repeat traffic to your website. This article will show you how to use Facebook layouts to attract visitors to your website.
While many businesses prefer a more customized network as an essential tool to engage their customers, the number of businesses taking advantage of the inexpensive yet effective Facebook platform to engage in viral marketing is increasing by the day. These businesses are benefiting from the sheer number and demographics of users on Facebook, so it makes prudent sense to hop onto the Facebook bandwagon. But how do you go about using Facebook effectively as a source of increased traffic to your website?
The first and most important aspect of your Facebook profile should be your profile page. Not only is it the one page you have most control over, it is the place where you can convey your message to the hordes of other Facebook users. First impressions are important, and your profile page makes the first impression for you and your business. Many underestimate the number of page views a profile page generates. Connect to your customers, associates, and friends using the profile page; the connections you display on your profile page will stir the interest of profile viewers to know more about the people you’re connected with and you yourself; both as a business and as an individual entity.
While many use Groups to engage in viral marketing, you should consider using Facebook Pages instead if you’re looking to customize your Facebook layout. Facebook Pages are more customizable as compared to Groups, because you can add HTML, Flash, or applications to your pages. These little add-ons extend your pages’ functionality and make it more interesting for users to peruse your profile pages. Also, there are no limitations as to how many “fans” in your group that you can message, so it gives you a wider reach to your targeted audience, making it a viable option for small businesses that are looking to establish their presence on Facebook.
But if you have the budget, Facebook also allows you to reach an even wider audience. Whatever your budget, you can choose a simple short-run flyer for a few dollars or even a customized “sponsored group” campaign in Facebook for a few hundred thousand dollars. Social Ads is one example of an affordable ad that you can consider, as these ads are placed on profile pages and news feeds and gets your business out there via click-throughs.
So you see, there are many options for you to choose from when using Facebook layouts to attract visitors to your website. Whatever your budget, Facebook is a viable solution you can consider when you’re looking to increase the traffic to your website.
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Should You Promote Business Through Social Networking Sites
Nov 4th, 2008 Posted in Home Business | no comment »
Mike Claggett asked:
Networking whether for socializing or for business is what makes the world go around. Not Love. Well love keeps it positive and interesting, but without socializing, love doesn’t have a chance. Don’t think so? Then how do you explain sites like MySpace has literally millions of users and all of the on line dating sites combined have less.
Do you know what the main purpose of a social networking website is? If you are an avid internet user, it’s you likely do. Social networking websites are online communities that make it easier for internet users to meet and communicate with each other. If you are an internet user who enjoys using the internet to meet new people, there is a good chance that you already belong to a social networking website. What about an online blog? Do you have a blog? In a way, your blog is like having your own personal social networking site. If you have a blog, do you know that you could use your social networking website to promote your blog?
The goal of most business owners is to make a profit. There are of course a few that have business web sites only to support their products or provide information. But for the purposes of this article, I’ll only be talking about sites with the primary purpose of making money. Obviously the hope of the site/business owner is to generate income from the selling of a particular product or service. However, to sell that product or service business owners need to alert the general public and preferably a targeted portion of the public at large (Thier niche), to the availability of their products or services. Customers cannot buy a product or a service if they do not know that it exists. Obviously that’s why, as a business owner, you need to advertise your business.
When it comes to advertising there are many business owners who literally cringe at the thought of putting together an advertising or marketing plan or campaign. Have you planned your campaign and are you working your plan? Is it costing you more than your are making? There is a good chance it is because most traditional advertising methods cost money. Many cost a LOT of money.
As a business owner you want to make a profit and not spend any more than is absolutely necessary to make the profit you want/need to, right? Fortunately, if you believe that all forms of advertising take money, you’ll be glad to know you are mistaken. Although you may have to spend some money to make your business as profitable as you want it to be, there are ways to promote your business and the products or services that you sell without having to spend any money at all.
Promote your blog through your social networking site and vice versa? Why would you want to do that? Honestly, in this day and age, if your in business and have to ask yourself that question you probably need to look into the upside of owning operating your own blog and reciprocally linking with one or more of your own social networking site pages. The whole purpose of a blog is to document your thoughts, views, and opinions on a particular topic, issue, or subject to boost your credibility in the eyes of your reader as an authority on what you write about. What good will your blog do if no one reads it. Social networking sites are a way to get readers for your blog.
Is your curiosity peaked yet? There is a good chance that it is and rightfully so. One of the ways that you can promote your online business, without having to spend a dime, is by using something that is readily available online. That thing is an online social networking website. A large number of internet users, in fact literally millions of them, belong to at least one social networking website, if not several.
When it comes to promoting blogs, there are many blog owners who decide to let the search engine do the work for them. Search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN use special techniques that read/scan the content on your website. That content is then used in part to link your blog website with particular keywords. This means that you run a blog on graduating from high school in New York, there is a good chance that your blog will appear in searches done on New York high schools.
Although many blogs are successfully ranked in search engines, not all are. That is why you are advised against relying solely on search engines, when it comes to promoting your blog. There are other ways to promote your blog besides social networking, such as “blog and ping” or “Tag and Ping” but I’ll leave those subjects for another article you can find at my blog.
When it comes to social networking, there are many individuals who think of building new online friendships or online relationships. While these types of relationships are the most common, did you know that social networking is also used for businesses? A lot of businesses? In fact, that was originally how social networking got started.
As previously mentioned, if you love meeting with or talking to people online, there is a good chance that you belong to a social networking website or community. The individuals that you talk with and that are in your community are likely the individuals that you wish to target. Since most social networking websites work to connect internet users who have the same goals and common interests, there is a good chance that your online friends will enjoy reading your blog. But, before they can read your blog, you have to let them know that it exists.
Although social networking websites are traditionally focused on those that would like to make online friends or develop online relationships, there are networking sites that are designed primarily for business owners. Ryze.com is a good example. These websites will not only allow you to share your business information with other business owners, but it will also allow you to develop close relationships with those that share an interest that is similar to yours. Essentially, this means that you could not only learn valuable business information, but you could also walk away with a new business partner, a new friend or a business prospect.
When it comes to promoting your blog on social networking websites, you have a number of different options. Your first option is to include a link to your blog in your community profile or profile page on your social networking site. This will allow other community members to checkout your blog, only if they wish to do so.
The other way is to inform your online friends of your blog through Private Messages (Or PM’s). Once you join a social networking website and create or join a network of friends, you should easily be able to communicate with those friends. Sending each of your friends a private message with information and a link to your blog tends to be more effective than just placing a link in your profile or on your profile page. As well, a PM is more personal. Naturally, you will want to offer the link to your blog in a kind of “Oh, by the way”, fashion or maybe asking their opinion of one of your recent or past blog posts. The last thing you want to do is make it appear you are soliciting your new friend.
As previously mentioned, social networking websites with a focus on businesses, are a great way to promote your business. However, this does not mean that you should completely forget about the other online social networking websites, the ones that are designed to make online friendships. Although you may not learn any valuable business tips by joining “Yahoo! 360″ or “MySpace”, if you are subtle in your approach, you may be able to end up with new customers and new customers is exactly what your business needs.
As you will see, there are like minded people that will join an online community to make friends and or to learn more about what they are interested in from the people they meet in a social networking community regardless whether it is business related or not. There are a number of different ways that you will to go about promoting your own profile or profile page so as to not appear as though you are actually advertising. If you are planning on joining a traditional online social networking website, to gain access to millions of potential new customers, you are urged to be careful when making your online Social Networking webpage or profile. One thing that internet users hate is being solicited for business using the guise of wanting to make friends.
This does not mean that you cannot use social networking to your advantage; it just means that you need to be careful with how you do it. Instead of creating a “MySpace” page or a “Yahoo! 360″ page for your business, you are advised to make one for and about yourself, but, of course, you will want to include information on your business as part of your ‘interests’. You never know, but, in addition to promoting your blog, you may also make new friends along the way as well by linking to your social networking profile page from your blog.
By joining a social networking website, especially one that is popular and has a large number of members, you should be able to generate interest in your business, including the products or services that you sell. If your social networking friends are interested in the same things as you, and your blog and is compelling enough to drive your social networking friends to your business site, that interest generated traffic could turn into sales; thus making your social networking experience more than worth your time and effort.
After all, it’s FREE, it’s easy, there is the potential of making additional profits doing it, and it can be a lot of FUN! There is nothing quite like making more money and having fun doing it.
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Networking whether for socializing or for business is what makes the world go around. Not Love. Well love keeps it positive and interesting, but without socializing, love doesn’t have a chance. Don’t think so? Then how do you explain sites like MySpace has literally millions of users and all of the on line dating sites combined have less.
Do you know what the main purpose of a social networking website is? If you are an avid internet user, it’s you likely do. Social networking websites are online communities that make it easier for internet users to meet and communicate with each other. If you are an internet user who enjoys using the internet to meet new people, there is a good chance that you already belong to a social networking website. What about an online blog? Do you have a blog? In a way, your blog is like having your own personal social networking site. If you have a blog, do you know that you could use your social networking website to promote your blog?
The goal of most business owners is to make a profit. There are of course a few that have business web sites only to support their products or provide information. But for the purposes of this article, I’ll only be talking about sites with the primary purpose of making money. Obviously the hope of the site/business owner is to generate income from the selling of a particular product or service. However, to sell that product or service business owners need to alert the general public and preferably a targeted portion of the public at large (Thier niche), to the availability of their products or services. Customers cannot buy a product or a service if they do not know that it exists. Obviously that’s why, as a business owner, you need to advertise your business.
When it comes to advertising there are many business owners who literally cringe at the thought of putting together an advertising or marketing plan or campaign. Have you planned your campaign and are you working your plan? Is it costing you more than your are making? There is a good chance it is because most traditional advertising methods cost money. Many cost a LOT of money.
As a business owner you want to make a profit and not spend any more than is absolutely necessary to make the profit you want/need to, right? Fortunately, if you believe that all forms of advertising take money, you’ll be glad to know you are mistaken. Although you may have to spend some money to make your business as profitable as you want it to be, there are ways to promote your business and the products or services that you sell without having to spend any money at all.
Promote your blog through your social networking site and vice versa? Why would you want to do that? Honestly, in this day and age, if your in business and have to ask yourself that question you probably need to look into the upside of owning operating your own blog and reciprocally linking with one or more of your own social networking site pages. The whole purpose of a blog is to document your thoughts, views, and opinions on a particular topic, issue, or subject to boost your credibility in the eyes of your reader as an authority on what you write about. What good will your blog do if no one reads it. Social networking sites are a way to get readers for your blog.
Is your curiosity peaked yet? There is a good chance that it is and rightfully so. One of the ways that you can promote your online business, without having to spend a dime, is by using something that is readily available online. That thing is an online social networking website. A large number of internet users, in fact literally millions of them, belong to at least one social networking website, if not several.
When it comes to promoting blogs, there are many blog owners who decide to let the search engine do the work for them. Search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN use special techniques that read/scan the content on your website. That content is then used in part to link your blog website with particular keywords. This means that you run a blog on graduating from high school in New York, there is a good chance that your blog will appear in searches done on New York high schools.
Although many blogs are successfully ranked in search engines, not all are. That is why you are advised against relying solely on search engines, when it comes to promoting your blog. There are other ways to promote your blog besides social networking, such as “blog and ping” or “Tag and Ping” but I’ll leave those subjects for another article you can find at my blog.
When it comes to social networking, there are many individuals who think of building new online friendships or online relationships. While these types of relationships are the most common, did you know that social networking is also used for businesses? A lot of businesses? In fact, that was originally how social networking got started.
As previously mentioned, if you love meeting with or talking to people online, there is a good chance that you belong to a social networking website or community. The individuals that you talk with and that are in your community are likely the individuals that you wish to target. Since most social networking websites work to connect internet users who have the same goals and common interests, there is a good chance that your online friends will enjoy reading your blog. But, before they can read your blog, you have to let them know that it exists.
Although social networking websites are traditionally focused on those that would like to make online friends or develop online relationships, there are networking sites that are designed primarily for business owners. Ryze.com is a good example. These websites will not only allow you to share your business information with other business owners, but it will also allow you to develop close relationships with those that share an interest that is similar to yours. Essentially, this means that you could not only learn valuable business information, but you could also walk away with a new business partner, a new friend or a business prospect.
When it comes to promoting your blog on social networking websites, you have a number of different options. Your first option is to include a link to your blog in your community profile or profile page on your social networking site. This will allow other community members to checkout your blog, only if they wish to do so.
The other way is to inform your online friends of your blog through Private Messages (Or PM’s). Once you join a social networking website and create or join a network of friends, you should easily be able to communicate with those friends. Sending each of your friends a private message with information and a link to your blog tends to be more effective than just placing a link in your profile or on your profile page. As well, a PM is more personal. Naturally, you will want to offer the link to your blog in a kind of “Oh, by the way”, fashion or maybe asking their opinion of one of your recent or past blog posts. The last thing you want to do is make it appear you are soliciting your new friend.
As previously mentioned, social networking websites with a focus on businesses, are a great way to promote your business. However, this does not mean that you should completely forget about the other online social networking websites, the ones that are designed to make online friendships. Although you may not learn any valuable business tips by joining “Yahoo! 360″ or “MySpace”, if you are subtle in your approach, you may be able to end up with new customers and new customers is exactly what your business needs.
As you will see, there are like minded people that will join an online community to make friends and or to learn more about what they are interested in from the people they meet in a social networking community regardless whether it is business related or not. There are a number of different ways that you will to go about promoting your own profile or profile page so as to not appear as though you are actually advertising. If you are planning on joining a traditional online social networking website, to gain access to millions of potential new customers, you are urged to be careful when making your online Social Networking webpage or profile. One thing that internet users hate is being solicited for business using the guise of wanting to make friends.
This does not mean that you cannot use social networking to your advantage; it just means that you need to be careful with how you do it. Instead of creating a “MySpace” page or a “Yahoo! 360″ page for your business, you are advised to make one for and about yourself, but, of course, you will want to include information on your business as part of your ‘interests’. You never know, but, in addition to promoting your blog, you may also make new friends along the way as well by linking to your social networking profile page from your blog.
By joining a social networking website, especially one that is popular and has a large number of members, you should be able to generate interest in your business, including the products or services that you sell. If your social networking friends are interested in the same things as you, and your blog and is compelling enough to drive your social networking friends to your business site, that interest generated traffic could turn into sales; thus making your social networking experience more than worth your time and effort.
After all, it’s FREE, it’s easy, there is the potential of making additional profits doing it, and it can be a lot of FUN! There is nothing quite like making more money and having fun doing it.
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Leaving Insightful Facebook Notes to Generate Traffic to Your Site
Nov 4th, 2008 Posted in Internet | no comment »
Michael Mulkern asked:
Many online marketers are looking to Facebook notes to drive traffic to their websites. This fascination with Facebook is easily understandable. Facebook is one of the most popular social networking websites in the world. According to some estimates, Facebook attracts more visitors each month than any other social networking website available today.
Facebook is the most popular social networking website among many English speaking countries. Unfortunately, in the US, MySpace is still more popular than Facebook. At the time of this writing, MySpace has approximately 2 times more US users compared to Facebook.
However, this weakness can be easily mitigated when one notices the tremendous global popularity of Facebook; a popularity that extends to Canada and the United Kingdom. Facebook marketing is one of the most popular demands I receive from my clients. As a result, I have developed several marketing strategies that can be easily applied to Facebook by the novice webmaster.
One of the easiest methods of generating links on Facebook is by leaving a message on your contact’s Facebook note.
Facebook differs greatly from other social networking websites. Facebook prominently features applications as part of its product experience. These applications are programs that can be applied to any Facebook user’s profile. It is like an application you install on your computer. The applications are applied universally. Whenever a Facebook user logs into his/her Facebook account they will be greeted with the same applications, regardless of which computer they are using.
Several applications come ‘preinstalled’ whenever someone sets up a Facebook account. “Facebook Notes” is one application that comes preinstalled in all accounts. Facebook notes is a simple application that acts as a virtual notepad that can be used by all. Facebook users can write in their own notes or in the notes of others.
This presents two opportunities for traffic generation. You can generate traffic by promoting your website on your own Facebook note or you can promote your website on someone else’s Facebook note. Leaving a promotional message on your Facebook note is a simple affair. However, you should exercise caution when promoting your website through Facebook notes that belong to other people. Overt promotion can be seen as spam by some users and may result in you getting banned from Facebook. Exercise caution when you promote your website on someone else’s application.
To successfully promote your website, you should ’soft sell’ the website’s address. The best way to achieve convert marketing success is by genuinely contributing to the Facebook note. You should make informative and constructive contributions to the Facebook note. You can gently mention the website at the end of your post.
It would be even better if you utilize html to embed the link in some text. Facebook note accepts some html, but it does not recognize Flash or javascript.
Leaving an insightful message in a Facebook note application is just one way to market your website on this popular social networking platform. I have spent years perfecting the art of social network marketing and have seen many trends come and go. But in the dynamic and ever-changing landscape of the internet, Facebook is an immovable mountain that is here to stay. Websites who fail to leverage upon the phenomenon of social networking websites risk getting left behind.
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Many online marketers are looking to Facebook notes to drive traffic to their websites. This fascination with Facebook is easily understandable. Facebook is one of the most popular social networking websites in the world. According to some estimates, Facebook attracts more visitors each month than any other social networking website available today.
Facebook is the most popular social networking website among many English speaking countries. Unfortunately, in the US, MySpace is still more popular than Facebook. At the time of this writing, MySpace has approximately 2 times more US users compared to Facebook.
However, this weakness can be easily mitigated when one notices the tremendous global popularity of Facebook; a popularity that extends to Canada and the United Kingdom. Facebook marketing is one of the most popular demands I receive from my clients. As a result, I have developed several marketing strategies that can be easily applied to Facebook by the novice webmaster.
One of the easiest methods of generating links on Facebook is by leaving a message on your contact’s Facebook note.
Facebook differs greatly from other social networking websites. Facebook prominently features applications as part of its product experience. These applications are programs that can be applied to any Facebook user’s profile. It is like an application you install on your computer. The applications are applied universally. Whenever a Facebook user logs into his/her Facebook account they will be greeted with the same applications, regardless of which computer they are using.
Several applications come ‘preinstalled’ whenever someone sets up a Facebook account. “Facebook Notes” is one application that comes preinstalled in all accounts. Facebook notes is a simple application that acts as a virtual notepad that can be used by all. Facebook users can write in their own notes or in the notes of others.
This presents two opportunities for traffic generation. You can generate traffic by promoting your website on your own Facebook note or you can promote your website on someone else’s Facebook note. Leaving a promotional message on your Facebook note is a simple affair. However, you should exercise caution when promoting your website through Facebook notes that belong to other people. Overt promotion can be seen as spam by some users and may result in you getting banned from Facebook. Exercise caution when you promote your website on someone else’s application.
To successfully promote your website, you should ’soft sell’ the website’s address. The best way to achieve convert marketing success is by genuinely contributing to the Facebook note. You should make informative and constructive contributions to the Facebook note. You can gently mention the website at the end of your post.
It would be even better if you utilize html to embed the link in some text. Facebook note accepts some html, but it does not recognize Flash or javascript.
Leaving an insightful message in a Facebook note application is just one way to market your website on this popular social networking platform. I have spent years perfecting the art of social network marketing and have seen many trends come and go. But in the dynamic and ever-changing landscape of the internet, Facebook is an immovable mountain that is here to stay. Websites who fail to leverage upon the phenomenon of social networking websites risk getting left behind.
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Myspace Layouts an Invaluable Tool
Nov 3rd, 2008 Posted in Internet | no comment »
Shant asked:
MySpace layouts are an invaluable tool as they enhance the profile to a great extent. This site has millions of users, and besides this fact, this site is the only place where you can keep changing layouts. Since this is a social networking site, people will have accounts for various reasons. They could be looking for lost friends, or to make new friends or even form new social groups.
Whatever the reason, there is a great deal of necessity to keep the profile enhanced. A large number of visitors are likely to look at your profile every day, as the size of the site is extremely large. Now when they look at your profile, imagine they are greeted with a lot of boring graphics and images. This is where the MySpace layouts come into use.
They will become invaluable, as there will be so much change to the profile, once the layouts are used to customize the same. You can choose layouts of various designs and graphics. This will be a great benefit to the users as well as the visitor. The user is benefited because he can showcase what he likes etc. And the visitor is benefited because he can get to look at some interesting stuff.
Neither will be bored to use the site and the profile as there will be so much to look at. Right from cartoons to celebrities, the themes can be chosen with variety. And if the users are trying to showcase their interests, it gets even better, as you can do so with a visual treat. Now that the visual treat is mentioned, it must be remembered that this is what anyone will go by when looking at the profile.
If they notice a unique layout on your profile, they will be sure to remember it at any cost. And this should be the one thing that should be in your mind while selecting the layout. This is when MySpace layouts will become invaluable tools, as they will suit anyone’s requirements. There will be almost every color and theme that a user will want.
So even if you have any specific occasion in mind, you will be able to find the designs. And let us not forget that you can even design ones of your own choices as well. This is sure to get you all the more praise and attention as you could shell out something really phenomenal. This is what any user will want. With the use of a variety of layouts, there will be plenty of new people who will be flocking to look at the profile.
A lot of new contacts can be found, and there will be a lot of new things to do on the site. Even activities such as blogging and various others can be improved with the help of the layouts.
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MySpace layouts are an invaluable tool as they enhance the profile to a great extent. This site has millions of users, and besides this fact, this site is the only place where you can keep changing layouts. Since this is a social networking site, people will have accounts for various reasons. They could be looking for lost friends, or to make new friends or even form new social groups.
Whatever the reason, there is a great deal of necessity to keep the profile enhanced. A large number of visitors are likely to look at your profile every day, as the size of the site is extremely large. Now when they look at your profile, imagine they are greeted with a lot of boring graphics and images. This is where the MySpace layouts come into use.
They will become invaluable, as there will be so much change to the profile, once the layouts are used to customize the same. You can choose layouts of various designs and graphics. This will be a great benefit to the users as well as the visitor. The user is benefited because he can showcase what he likes etc. And the visitor is benefited because he can get to look at some interesting stuff.
Neither will be bored to use the site and the profile as there will be so much to look at. Right from cartoons to celebrities, the themes can be chosen with variety. And if the users are trying to showcase their interests, it gets even better, as you can do so with a visual treat. Now that the visual treat is mentioned, it must be remembered that this is what anyone will go by when looking at the profile.
If they notice a unique layout on your profile, they will be sure to remember it at any cost. And this should be the one thing that should be in your mind while selecting the layout. This is when MySpace layouts will become invaluable tools, as they will suit anyone’s requirements. There will be almost every color and theme that a user will want.
So even if you have any specific occasion in mind, you will be able to find the designs. And let us not forget that you can even design ones of your own choices as well. This is sure to get you all the more praise and attention as you could shell out something really phenomenal. This is what any user will want. With the use of a variety of layouts, there will be plenty of new people who will be flocking to look at the profile.
A lot of new contacts can be found, and there will be a lot of new things to do on the site. Even activities such as blogging and various others can be improved with the help of the layouts.
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Facebook Emerging as a Complete Social Phenomenon
Nov 2nd, 2008 Posted in Communication | no comment »
Sarah Shaukat asked:
We have been hearing about the new emerging trends of social media from quite a long time now. Besides other popular web services, Facebook is one of the biggest social networking website so far. Facebook is all about connecting people and providing them the ability to them to share. People can share photos, videos, ideas, links and lots of other things on Facebook. In no time they can meet their friends from workplace, school, college, groups and from anywhere around the world. Facebook is highly popular among high school and college students in particular.
Launched in the year 2004, Facebook is a complete social networking website, founded by Mark Zukerberg, a former Harvard student. With the passage of time, Facebooking has become a complete addiction among youngsters, encouraging them to spend hours on it. Some popular Facebook features include “Status update” that describes the current whereabouts and activity of the user. Another one is “The Wall” which is a space on each user’s profile page that allows friends to post messages for the user to see. Other than this it also includes a “poke” feature that allows one user to send a “poke” to another one, basically “nudging” them to attract their attention.
The platform of Facebook allows anyone, anywhere to built applications. It has grown so wide now that it brings all other social networks on Facebook. One of the most admired applications on Facebook is the Photos application, where users can upload albums of photos, tag friends, and comment on photos. The applications developers at Facebook have been constantly trying to create viral applications that can become popular by a simple word-of-mouth. Facebook incorporates various social applications such as Orkut, LinkedIn, MySpace and some other virally growing applications ranging from “Honesty Box”, “Will you kiss me”, “Rock You” or “Flirtable” to an unlimited number. Facebook also now includes various location and mobile social networking applications in which you can share your location with your friends and let them know what you’re up to or in some other cases the users can vote and win free mobile application and games.
An annoying drawback of Facebook is that it has grown up to vast extent, aiming to become everything to everybody. It has lost its exclusivity by overcrowding people from every race and culture. If we compare it to other social networks, their main objective is to keep themselves restricted to a particular segment such as LinkedIn focusing on business/professional users. One of the biggest disadvantage of Facebook is related to privacy issues where the complete user information (even a lot of intimate information) is published online, making it accessible to strange people and potential stalkers at the click of a button. Facebook can solve these problems by initiating separate closed communities for specific schools and organization using the domain extension of .edu links.
In the end, keeping aside the criticism for a while, we must appreciate the amount of popularity Facebook has attained in a short time. It features all the elements of web 2.0 services which include (sharing, communities, user generated content etc), but keeping its focus on a specific segment and making things less complex for people will help it to become one of the most successful social networking website of future.
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We have been hearing about the new emerging trends of social media from quite a long time now. Besides other popular web services, Facebook is one of the biggest social networking website so far. Facebook is all about connecting people and providing them the ability to them to share. People can share photos, videos, ideas, links and lots of other things on Facebook. In no time they can meet their friends from workplace, school, college, groups and from anywhere around the world. Facebook is highly popular among high school and college students in particular.
Launched in the year 2004, Facebook is a complete social networking website, founded by Mark Zukerberg, a former Harvard student. With the passage of time, Facebooking has become a complete addiction among youngsters, encouraging them to spend hours on it. Some popular Facebook features include “Status update” that describes the current whereabouts and activity of the user. Another one is “The Wall” which is a space on each user’s profile page that allows friends to post messages for the user to see. Other than this it also includes a “poke” feature that allows one user to send a “poke” to another one, basically “nudging” them to attract their attention.
The platform of Facebook allows anyone, anywhere to built applications. It has grown so wide now that it brings all other social networks on Facebook. One of the most admired applications on Facebook is the Photos application, where users can upload albums of photos, tag friends, and comment on photos. The applications developers at Facebook have been constantly trying to create viral applications that can become popular by a simple word-of-mouth. Facebook incorporates various social applications such as Orkut, LinkedIn, MySpace and some other virally growing applications ranging from “Honesty Box”, “Will you kiss me”, “Rock You” or “Flirtable” to an unlimited number. Facebook also now includes various location and mobile social networking applications in which you can share your location with your friends and let them know what you’re up to or in some other cases the users can vote and win free mobile application and games.
An annoying drawback of Facebook is that it has grown up to vast extent, aiming to become everything to everybody. It has lost its exclusivity by overcrowding people from every race and culture. If we compare it to other social networks, their main objective is to keep themselves restricted to a particular segment such as LinkedIn focusing on business/professional users. One of the biggest disadvantage of Facebook is related to privacy issues where the complete user information (even a lot of intimate information) is published online, making it accessible to strange people and potential stalkers at the click of a button. Facebook can solve these problems by initiating separate closed communities for specific schools and organization using the domain extension of .edu links.
In the end, keeping aside the criticism for a while, we must appreciate the amount of popularity Facebook has attained in a short time. It features all the elements of web 2.0 services which include (sharing, communities, user generated content etc), but keeping its focus on a specific segment and making things less complex for people will help it to become one of the most successful social networking website of future.
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Social Networking Among All
Nov 2nd, 2008 Posted in Home Business | no comment »
Jonathan Mac asked:
The Internet which is considered as the world’s largest library is also used for absolute communication. National borders aren’t even speed bumps on the information superhighway. The rapid growth of the Internet through recent years is because of the intensification of social networking websites. These social networking websites are welcomed by people from teens to businessmen.
Social Networking among Teens
The social networking websites are given a warm welcome by teens because of the easiness to get new friends online. Repots indicate that teens are using the Internet extensively to communicate with each other through the social networking websites. Social networking is booming as teens could share their ideas, post comments, upload photos, and share the information about the latest happenings in their world and so on through them. Social networking websites like myspace, friendster, and facebook has become socially acceptable among majority of teens.
Social Networking among Advertisers
Social networking websites are also welcomed by advertisers around the globe. For example, the famous social networking website, myspace generates over $1 billion as advertising revenue. There is nothing to wonder why these websites draw many advertisers. These social networking websites have the ability to draw the attention of a massive audience and hard to reach young consumers. And this is what advertisers are looking for. Moreover, social networks are able to target advertising based on the profile of the consumers.
Social Networking among Business
Nowadays, businessmen consider the social networking websites like myspace as opportunities to promote their business. As the web traffic in social networking websites are high, these businessmen have a higher chance of building web presence than the competitor who is not utilizing these methods. The next important reason why people use these social networking websites for business promotion is because of their ability to build effective backlinks. With a little patience and persistence one can utilize the social networking websites like myspace to build web traffic and sales.
Social Networking websites for all
The recent growth of social networking websites has grabbed the attention of web designers also. The professional web designers around the globe design social networking websites based on one’s need. These experienced social networking web designers are capable of creating stunning networking websites for different uses. It means that you can even own a social networking website like myspace with the help of these web designers.
However the social networking websites added to the growth of the Internet. More people spend more time in using the Internet than ever before. Communication has never been easier than at present. All these changes are seen because of the rapid growth of the social networking websites.
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The Internet which is considered as the world’s largest library is also used for absolute communication. National borders aren’t even speed bumps on the information superhighway. The rapid growth of the Internet through recent years is because of the intensification of social networking websites. These social networking websites are welcomed by people from teens to businessmen.
Social Networking among Teens
The social networking websites are given a warm welcome by teens because of the easiness to get new friends online. Repots indicate that teens are using the Internet extensively to communicate with each other through the social networking websites. Social networking is booming as teens could share their ideas, post comments, upload photos, and share the information about the latest happenings in their world and so on through them. Social networking websites like myspace, friendster, and facebook has become socially acceptable among majority of teens.
Social Networking among Advertisers
Social networking websites are also welcomed by advertisers around the globe. For example, the famous social networking website, myspace generates over $1 billion as advertising revenue. There is nothing to wonder why these websites draw many advertisers. These social networking websites have the ability to draw the attention of a massive audience and hard to reach young consumers. And this is what advertisers are looking for. Moreover, social networks are able to target advertising based on the profile of the consumers.
Social Networking among Business
Nowadays, businessmen consider the social networking websites like myspace as opportunities to promote their business. As the web traffic in social networking websites are high, these businessmen have a higher chance of building web presence than the competitor who is not utilizing these methods. The next important reason why people use these social networking websites for business promotion is because of their ability to build effective backlinks. With a little patience and persistence one can utilize the social networking websites like myspace to build web traffic and sales.
Social Networking websites for all
The recent growth of social networking websites has grabbed the attention of web designers also. The professional web designers around the globe design social networking websites based on one’s need. These experienced social networking web designers are capable of creating stunning networking websites for different uses. It means that you can even own a social networking website like myspace with the help of these web designers.
However the social networking websites added to the growth of the Internet. More people spend more time in using the Internet than ever before. Communication has never been easier than at present. All these changes are seen because of the rapid growth of the social networking websites.
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How to Get Noticed and Find Friends at MySpace
Nov 2nd, 2008 Posted in Marketing | no comment »
Daniel Millions asked:
MySpace gives you an instant presence on the web. As soon as you register free, you can customize your page. You can even change your name again after you have already picked one. You do choose a permanent name for your personal address on the web when you register.
You can always update your page at MySpace. MySpace is fascinating when you see what everyone is doing with his or her page. MySpace makes it simple to create very different looks using one of their many theme pages. It is easy to tweak the pages with backgrounds, graphics, avatars and your own images. You can find graphics and other stuff made by other MySpace users on the web. You can entertain visitors to your web page by putting games and other applications on your page.
Your profile is your space at MySpace. It is like creating your own little virtual living room. Visitors to your site can play your current favorite music and watch the videos that make you laugh. It is all about sharing your thoughts and being yourself while knowing that there are others like yourself at MySpace.
Looking at people’s profiles is a favorite pastime of visitors and MySpace users. The home page has daily featured people, music and videos. It is easy to find people with the same taste in life because you can search for profile pages by using the search tool.
Socializing through instant messages makes it possible to meet and chat with friends that are registered MySpace users. A privacy setting allows users to control who gets to see their page. You can set the privacy setting so that everyone or a select group can visit your page.
A popular feature on each page is the comments section. This feature allows page visitors to leave a comment on the page. Many users especially like when they get many, many comments on their page. It is a virtual tribute to the popularity of a person’s presence on the web.
The friend request tool is another popular feature at MySpace. MySpace users can meet new friends or connect with old friends by reaching out with the friend request tool. Having many friends will enhance a user’s ability to get numerous comments. Many people with a MySpace page love it when their page has frequent visitors and comments.
Pop culture has exploded at MySpace. If you want to be heard or seen, you have to post your profile at MySpace. New music and videos by other users including popular entertainers can be heard on MySpace. You can experience new media files from popular entertainers before the music, images or video is widely released.
Visitors can search through a huge database for new and popular entertainers who have their own MySpace page. Many entertainers use MySpace as a venue to gain new listeners and viewers while keeping their regular fan base happy. Other entertainers use MySpace to launch their presence as media entertainers.
Using the social networking features at MySpace will keep you up to speed about what is going with your friends and people in the world of popular culture. By registering at MySpace, visitors will be joining one of the largest social networks on the Internet. If you cannot find that certain somebody at MySpace, it just means that, you are not looking hard enough.
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MySpace gives you an instant presence on the web. As soon as you register free, you can customize your page. You can even change your name again after you have already picked one. You do choose a permanent name for your personal address on the web when you register.
You can always update your page at MySpace. MySpace is fascinating when you see what everyone is doing with his or her page. MySpace makes it simple to create very different looks using one of their many theme pages. It is easy to tweak the pages with backgrounds, graphics, avatars and your own images. You can find graphics and other stuff made by other MySpace users on the web. You can entertain visitors to your web page by putting games and other applications on your page.
Your profile is your space at MySpace. It is like creating your own little virtual living room. Visitors to your site can play your current favorite music and watch the videos that make you laugh. It is all about sharing your thoughts and being yourself while knowing that there are others like yourself at MySpace.
Looking at people’s profiles is a favorite pastime of visitors and MySpace users. The home page has daily featured people, music and videos. It is easy to find people with the same taste in life because you can search for profile pages by using the search tool.
Socializing through instant messages makes it possible to meet and chat with friends that are registered MySpace users. A privacy setting allows users to control who gets to see their page. You can set the privacy setting so that everyone or a select group can visit your page.
A popular feature on each page is the comments section. This feature allows page visitors to leave a comment on the page. Many users especially like when they get many, many comments on their page. It is a virtual tribute to the popularity of a person’s presence on the web.
The friend request tool is another popular feature at MySpace. MySpace users can meet new friends or connect with old friends by reaching out with the friend request tool. Having many friends will enhance a user’s ability to get numerous comments. Many people with a MySpace page love it when their page has frequent visitors and comments.
Pop culture has exploded at MySpace. If you want to be heard or seen, you have to post your profile at MySpace. New music and videos by other users including popular entertainers can be heard on MySpace. You can experience new media files from popular entertainers before the music, images or video is widely released.
Visitors can search through a huge database for new and popular entertainers who have their own MySpace page. Many entertainers use MySpace as a venue to gain new listeners and viewers while keeping their regular fan base happy. Other entertainers use MySpace to launch their presence as media entertainers.
Using the social networking features at MySpace will keep you up to speed about what is going with your friends and people in the world of popular culture. By registering at MySpace, visitors will be joining one of the largest social networks on the Internet. If you cannot find that certain somebody at MySpace, it just means that, you are not looking hard enough.
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Facebook: $750 Mil in Hand Worth More than $2Bil in Sky
Nov 1st, 2008 Posted in Business | no comment »
Joseph Pratt asked:
It came up conversationally, but I believe I’m the only person at my company to have firsthand experience as a user of Facebook.com. It was kind of funny to have all these online advertising professionals asking me all about the website everybody used in college. Didn’t they get the memo? I’m new. I should be asking the questions around here. The subject of Facebook.com is an interesting one that’s worth a closer look.
Without question 2005 was the year of MySpace. Before Rupert Murdoch’s $580 million social networking venture took the interactive world by storm, it’s difficult to believe that even the most optimistic of the billionaire’s lackeys would have predicted that new acquisition would more than quadruple its reach within a matter of months. With 23.5 billion page views by February, MySpace became the second most trafficked site on the Internet.
Murdoch’s success naturally generated buying interest in anything deemed online social networking. One proposed deal in March 2006, was Viacom’s unsuccessful $750 million bid for Facebook.com, the phenomenon started by wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg. After Facebook.com declined the offer, its founders pegged Facebook.com’s worth at two billion dollars. Perhaps the brilliant sparks from MySpace’s success has blinded Facebook.com to the flipside reality of Friendster’s paradise lost. There’s a real chance Facebook won’t see an offer this generous again.
Facebook.com is essentially an online medium of communication for college students and high schoolers. For its valued reach Zuckerberg and his crew of Harvard dropouts (taking their cue from Bill Gates, no doubt) must be looking for Google-sized compensation, but the two billion dollar figure is arbitrary and difficult to justify. Perhaps Facebook is emboldened by their own wise decision in not selling to Yahoo for $15 million in 2004.
Zuckerberg was likely trying to establish a market value for his creation, not an unwise move on the face of things. However, Viacom’s offer was not by any stretch of the imagination pocket change and the number of entities that can and will double the bid Facebook already got is finite.
Facebook’s traffic numbers, as referenced on Alexa.com, during the last three months are not encouraging; that is, if the goal is to fish for more and greater buyout bids. The numbers actually have trended downward since March, anathema for enticing hyper bidding growth. These diminishing statistics can be at least partially attributed to the cyclical nature of the school year since Facebook, after all, is geared towards the college student. It doesn’t matter how great the product is, it won’t keep students from doing their own thing during summer vacation and this yearly dip is potentially damaging.
Seeing as how fast online fads can expand and contract in social networking as we’ve seen in its short time span, what if the numbers don’t come back? What if something new pops up in two months that steals Facebook’s thunder? (And, again, MySpace’s success serves as good reason why this thunder is worth stealing.)
Facebook.com’s success has also been marred with some controversy that could taint its popularity with students. At Syracuse University a flap over freedom of expression ensued when a Facebook.com group went overboard in critiquing a student teacher and ended up with expulsions from the class and social suspension before three students transferred. After Penn State’s football team beat Ohio State this year students rushed the field and made a ruckus. Overwhelmed police made only two arrests that day, but later in the week they logged onto Facebook.com and, like Canadian Mounties who always get their man, got plenty of names and faces and photos from the info posted by students about their on-field shenanigans. Kids talk and these stories spread like wildfire, which may affect Facebook.com negatively – they can’t control misuse of their product and the negative repercussions that come from it.
The future is promising for the social networking business space and I don’t believe Facebook.com is doomed. Still, given the nature of short-lived and over-hyped dotcoms, Facebook may have reached their growth climax this school year, with possibility for expansion and success only contingent on acquisition. Time may not be on their side because as the pages of the calendar turn there will doubtlessly be new fads and trends that will threaten to m
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It came up conversationally, but I believe I’m the only person at my company to have firsthand experience as a user of Facebook.com. It was kind of funny to have all these online advertising professionals asking me all about the website everybody used in college. Didn’t they get the memo? I’m new. I should be asking the questions around here. The subject of Facebook.com is an interesting one that’s worth a closer look.
Without question 2005 was the year of MySpace. Before Rupert Murdoch’s $580 million social networking venture took the interactive world by storm, it’s difficult to believe that even the most optimistic of the billionaire’s lackeys would have predicted that new acquisition would more than quadruple its reach within a matter of months. With 23.5 billion page views by February, MySpace became the second most trafficked site on the Internet.
Murdoch’s success naturally generated buying interest in anything deemed online social networking. One proposed deal in March 2006, was Viacom’s unsuccessful $750 million bid for Facebook.com, the phenomenon started by wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg. After Facebook.com declined the offer, its founders pegged Facebook.com’s worth at two billion dollars. Perhaps the brilliant sparks from MySpace’s success has blinded Facebook.com to the flipside reality of Friendster’s paradise lost. There’s a real chance Facebook won’t see an offer this generous again.
Facebook.com is essentially an online medium of communication for college students and high schoolers. For its valued reach Zuckerberg and his crew of Harvard dropouts (taking their cue from Bill Gates, no doubt) must be looking for Google-sized compensation, but the two billion dollar figure is arbitrary and difficult to justify. Perhaps Facebook is emboldened by their own wise decision in not selling to Yahoo for $15 million in 2004.
Zuckerberg was likely trying to establish a market value for his creation, not an unwise move on the face of things. However, Viacom’s offer was not by any stretch of the imagination pocket change and the number of entities that can and will double the bid Facebook already got is finite.
Facebook’s traffic numbers, as referenced on Alexa.com, during the last three months are not encouraging; that is, if the goal is to fish for more and greater buyout bids. The numbers actually have trended downward since March, anathema for enticing hyper bidding growth. These diminishing statistics can be at least partially attributed to the cyclical nature of the school year since Facebook, after all, is geared towards the college student. It doesn’t matter how great the product is, it won’t keep students from doing their own thing during summer vacation and this yearly dip is potentially damaging.
Seeing as how fast online fads can expand and contract in social networking as we’ve seen in its short time span, what if the numbers don’t come back? What if something new pops up in two months that steals Facebook’s thunder? (And, again, MySpace’s success serves as good reason why this thunder is worth stealing.)
Facebook.com’s success has also been marred with some controversy that could taint its popularity with students. At Syracuse University a flap over freedom of expression ensued when a Facebook.com group went overboard in critiquing a student teacher and ended up with expulsions from the class and social suspension before three students transferred. After Penn State’s football team beat Ohio State this year students rushed the field and made a ruckus. Overwhelmed police made only two arrests that day, but later in the week they logged onto Facebook.com and, like Canadian Mounties who always get their man, got plenty of names and faces and photos from the info posted by students about their on-field shenanigans. Kids talk and these stories spread like wildfire, which may affect Facebook.com negatively – they can’t control misuse of their product and the negative repercussions that come from it.
The future is promising for the social networking business space and I don’t believe Facebook.com is doomed. Still, given the nature of short-lived and over-hyped dotcoms, Facebook may have reached their growth climax this school year, with possibility for expansion and success only contingent on acquisition. Time may not be on their side because as the pages of the calendar turn there will doubtlessly be new fads and trends that will threaten to m
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In 2.0 you can set different privacy settings to different modules on your page. You just click the little pencil looking thing on the module, then you can choose to only have friends view that.
You can set it so that the whole page is friends only, or so that non-friends can only see some of your profile. IMO this is better than just the either everyone can see or only friends can see.