5 Common Myths about Facebook

Guest Post by Anil Gupta

Facebook has not only become a popular social medium, but also a medium where lot can happen in few minutes and few seconds. And all this while if you were thinking about doing business and making friends have been difficult, then out here in Facebook you’d have all the good things happening in front of you. But in spite of all these things there are many popular myths shrouding Facebook. The 5-most common myths of them are:

Myth-1- Facebook alone will get you clients and customers

Just think for a second! This is a greatest myth for the small business owners. By simply being on Facebook is no guarantee that your business will increase by volumes. It is very true and credible that Facebook helps in exposing and boosting the brand online. Your brand reaches out to millions, but the statement that your business will run solely on Facebook, is just a Myth.

Myth-2- Facebook Will Charge for the Services

This is absolutely not true. There are no immediate plans designed by the Facebook creators to charge for any kind of advertising. There is absolutely no registration fee for the new Facebook users. No, absolutely not!

Myth-3- Facebook's Founder Mark Zuckerberg Took the Idea Second Hand from Harvard Student Oriented Website


Mark Zuckerberg on the other hand had taken the idea from the simple interface website known as Facemash. The website allowed student community to compare and rate the pictures online, and which led to enhanced interaction.

Myth-4- Talks are Around to Procure Facebook for few billion dollars by Yahoo etc. However, all these turned out to be petty rumors

As per the internal early 2009 internal appraisal of Facebook, the online website has its current worth held at $4 billion, which is 4 times more than what Yahoo ($1 Billion) proposed to offer. In the interview to the Time Magazine, Facebook’s Founder expressed his opinion that selling Facebook is not the central focal point. On the contrary, Facebook wants to develop a more comprehensive base for interacting with the online audience.

Myth-5- Facebook Jeopardizes the Social Skills

Facebook offers an easier connects between the relatives and the friends at an extremely faster rate than any other way. The very idea that Facebook is turning the world, especially the younger lot into Hermits is not completely true. According to University of Cambridge Studies about the Facebook, it is found that Facebook offers amazing tools where relationships can foster and turn out to be fruitful.

Author Bio:
Anil Gupta writes about Making Money Online, Seo, Blogging, Affiliate Marketing and Social media related topics like Facebook Fan Page Promotion on his ScopeForMoney blog.

Free Tutorials of How to Use Facebook to Make Money Online

Facebook is now the biggest and the most widely used social media site on the Internet. Most Internet users have a Facebook account now and the majority of them are active in networking in Facebook. This created good traffic generation and revenue generation opportunities for people.

If you are doing something on the Internet to make money whether it's an online business, blogging, web publishing or freelancing, Facebook can help you. There are a number of things that you can do on Facebook which will boost up your traffic and profitability. Robert Grant from http://www.crowdconversion.com have been successful using Facebook as a source of steady targeted traffic to his business website and converting the targeted traffic into income. He has prepared a series of video tutorials with loads of information showing you how Facebook can drive good amount of traffic and make you money. The entire video series can be access at:

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It's totally free to access to videos and information. If you want to take advantage on Facebook to improve your online business profit, these free video series of Robert can help you out. You'll learn at least eight things that you can start doing on Facebook to make more money online......

How I Got My Blog Deleted and Restored by Blogger.com

Last week was really a nightmare to me. On the last Wednesday morning when I was about to publish a new blog post to http://moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com, I experienced an error of publication. I checked around in the Blogger dashboard to see what's happening and found that my blog has been detected by the Blogger's Spam-Prevention Robot as 'Spam'. And the system suspended my blog immediately as well. I wasn't panic when I first see this because I have experienced the similar case before. So, I went ahead to click on the 'Restore link' which show up after my blog being suspended. After clicking the 'Restore link', a request was sent automatically to the Blogger team to review my blog and have the blog restored.

Then after about 5 minute I can't seem to use the Blogger Dashboard anymore. So I tried to login to my Blogger account again. I can't get in. There is an error message said that my Blogger account has been disabled. At this moment, I started worrying so I checked my Inbox and read a new email received from Blogger.com. The email said my blog http://moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com has been reviewed and permanently deleted.

I'm so disappointed and hard to accept the lost of the blog. My mood down to the bottom. I can't seem to do anything because the email from Blogger team said Moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com has been permanently deleted.

So how I got my blog back online?

I'm not so sure if it was me who brings the blog back online.

The next few days of my blog deleted, I did some searches on Google to see if anyone encountered the similar situation and managed to get his/her blog back online. Guest what I found a guy that was managed to get his blog restored after deleted! He contacted the Blogger team in IT department. Someone in Blogger.com replied his request and restored his blog. When I read this, I'm feeling a little hope. I went ahead to send an email to the Blogger team to ask that if it is still possible to have my blog back online. I also apologize for any spam that I might have done unintentionally.

Few days later I was able to login to my Blogger account again but the blog http://moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com still hasn't restored. I clicked the 'Restore Link' in my Blogger account again to have another restore request sent automatically to Blogger.com. This time really works. Within about 10 hours, I checked that my blog is up again. Oh man! I'm so excited when I first saw my blog is back online. I thank a million to the Blogger team.

This is how I got my blog deleted and restored.

If you have the same situation and you are sure that your Blogspot blog isn't violated any term and condition of Blogger, I would suggest you send a polite email to the Blogger team to request your blog to be restored.

Till now I not sure if my blog was really violated any rule or policy of Blogger.com and causes the deletion. Over at Griz's blog, How to Make Money Griz pointed out that the possible reason is due to AdSense optimization of the blog which causes Moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com detected as spam and deleted. This may be the reason. Griz gave some good points about how Blospot blogs can get banned. Blogspot blogs that Made-for-AdSense (MFA) would certainly be deleted. But how to determine a blog or site is MFA, this is still in question. A blog that lacks of content with a lot of AdSense ads is obviously MFA. But for the blogs that contains loads of content and fully optimize with AdSense, will they be seen as MFA as well? Well it's hard to tell. But the best thing we can do is always making sure that our blog or site isn't against any policy should you use AdSense or Blogger.com to make money onlne.

Finally thanks for everyone who welcome me back.

Unique Ways to Get Visitors to Your Blog

When starting a blog, it's important to note that you're most likely not breaking new ground, no matter what you're blogging about. The internet has been around for many years, and when something new comes along, it takes about five minutes of internet time for it to suddenly become old. So if you want visitors to seek out your blog, and to look at you as someone who both knows what they're doing, and provides information in such a way as to gain repeat customers, its important to look like an expert.

Whether you're talking about politics, news, or sports information, the best way to set yourself apart from other blogs is to find your niche. Sometimes that can simply mean that you write only about baseball if you want to go into the sports field, but more often than not, you should pick a side. If you want to start an NFL blog, decided what team you think you could cover better than the other blogs out there. Once you've picked a team, say the New Orleans Saints as an example, do your research. I don't mean just read the local papers, or watch highlights of the team. I mean research what kind of information your competitors are bringing to the table. If they aren't covering the upcoming draft as hard as you'd like, make that your area of expertise. While the marketplace may be flooded, any time you can carve yourself out a slice, readers will come.

After you've gotten your corner of the web, make sure people know you're out there, just waiting for them to come join you. One of the more interesting ways to draw attention to your blog would be to use the ultra popular video service YouTube. Anyone anywhere can post almost any video they can find or make on the service, opening the door for your own free advertising. Make funny or topical videos, and continue doing it, and pretty soon you'll have a cult following that is willing to talk about you to anyone, and everyone they know.

Another great way to get your name out there is to look at the other blogs that cover your ideas not as direct competitors but as part of an ever-growing family. Link to them, list them in your favorite set of blogs on a topic, and even contact them to see if they want to do some sort of collaboration. Assuming they aren't too big to notice you, this is a fantastic way to grow your site while making contacts that can be useful down the road.

However you choose among the myriad of ways to get your site into the general public's purview, know that the top factor that must be remembered is to be prolific. Continue posting when you're feeling blue, or sick, or just bored with the whole endeavor. Taking even one day off can mean the different between having a thriving site, and a ghost town.

Knowing Your Target Market for Effective Blogging For Business

Although you must have begun blogging for business after carefully selecting a good theme for your blog, you still need to be very sure of knowing your target audiences before you actually come up with your blog. It is important to understand the kind of people you want to address in your blog before you go ahead and start posting content on it. You need to do proper research else you will fail in your goal of creating the blog.

The people who surf the web have diverse backgrounds and liking so it is important that you understand what segment of the market you want to target. Which is your target market and this largely depends on the kind of service or product you offer. Once you identify the target market, it becomes easy for you to devise your blog in way that caters to the needs and interests of the customers. The nature of the product decides the demography of your customer. Before coming up with a theme for your blog you need to draft a kind of profile of your prospective customer whom you want to address in your blog. The target market segment comes with the basic demographic profile that can be segregated on basis of age, gender, and social or economic status.

• Age: what does your target market actually covers, does it comprise of children, teenagers, adults, or senior citizens?
• Gender. Are your target clients male, female, or transgender?

When considering the theme of your blog you should make sure that the theme of your blog or profile should match the target audiences. The above mentioned classification can be really broad but they certainly cover all the probable categories of the clients. These profile or sets of traits should match the characteristics or features of the products or services that you are offering. Remember, however, that these classifications are still relatively broad and apply only to basic commodities where product differentiation by consumers is still not so distinct. Examples are medicines or medical services, foods, educational services, and others.

For stricter market segmentation, you can differentiate your target markets or narrow them further according to customer temperaments, needs, goals, and fears. Specifically, you can distinguish them according to:

• Needs – sense of accomplishments, sense of belonging, self actualization
• Goals – productivity, efficiency, savings, safety
• Temperaments – serious, happy go lucky, complacent
• Fears – old age, poverty, ill health, rejection

There are still more categories to further narrow your market segment such as educational attainment, life style, mindset, family size, political views, etc. These are relevant if the products or services that you are offering are highly specialized or customized such as travel or vacation packages, luxury cars, high tech gadgets, and other.

Having a clear picture of the common characteristics of your target market when blogging for business will help you decide what theme or blog design to use, the appropriate mode or tone of your article, and the right web graphics that you need to employ.

These details may overwhelm you at first. But, you should realize that your purpose for blogging is to attract web users who are more likely to use your products or services and to influence them to buy and patronize what you offer. Bear in mind as well that customers now are more discriminating, especially if the products are quite expensive. They scrutinize details and compare them with competing brands.

So to make your blog more effective, know your products well and create a profile of your target market based on your products' characteristics and features. Then, post blog content that will appeal to your target market. Remember, your business blog is created to generate sales. Keep your focus so you will not waste time and effort when blogging for business.

How To Make Money Online Automatically

Guest Post by Aiden Clark

Im sure you are very much aware that there are literally millions of different methods to make money online but choosing one that fits your specific lifestyle maybe a little harder. You may have also already experienced a fully automatic business without even knowing as there are many online marketers who use such systems.

When people search the internet for a cure to a problem, people are more likely to sign up for a newsletter or a free course that will uncover a few secrets that is related to what you these people are searching for. The information is delivered to them automatically using an autoresponder.

If you capture the emails of these people that are interested in a certain market then you can follow up later on with valuable information and tips related to the niche and then you can recommend paid products or services on a regular basis that would benefit the person on your list.

To achieve this business model you would need to create a free course or a series of emails that would benefit your subscribers. You must provide them with something valuable in order to persuade them to sign up to your list. Useless information or free article content is not good enough and will harm your reputation.

You would then need an autoresponder service such as aweber or you can purchase software that can be installed on your own server to cut out the monthly costs. This will be used to automatically deliver your free course and to build a relationship with the subscriber, on autopilot, over a period of time.

Once you have someone on your list, it gives you the opportunity to grow a long lasting and trusted relationship with your subscriber and after a while the subscriber will be more likely to listen to your recommendations and purchase products or services through your link.

The best thing about this business model is every thing can be set up to deliver it all completely automatically which allows you to make money online for years to come without any interference from you. As long as you set up your autoresponder to send out the pre-written emails every week, you can spend your free time on advertising your landing page.

A landing page is basically a one page website that offers a free mini course or an ebook related to your market, on this page you will list the benefits or contents of the course and ask the visitor for their name and email address to receive it for free. Your autoresponder code from your service provider would be installed on this page.

Some people find it hard to believe that by offering a free course that you can actually grow a successful online business, but its a fact that the smartest marketers will not go in for the sale straight away as you may scare away the visitor. Its much easier to sell something after you have established a relationship with the potential client.

You can make sales from the same subscribers for years to come which allows you to continually grow your monthly income. Its alot easier to sell a product to an existing customer than it is to a new one. As long as you only recommend the best products within that market, you will be sure to find success using this kind of method.

Author Bio:
Aiden Clarke is an online business mentor that learns ordinary people how to start and develop a successful online business. He offers a free, 7 day course that teaches you how to copy his exact method that earns him at least $100/day. Visit
Profit-Academy.com today to get started.

5 Steps To Make Money Blogging - Make Passive Income!

Guest Post by Soli Katir

Don't worry. You don't have to be a computer whiz to make money online blogging. What you do is perseverance. This is what sets the winners apart from the losers. You can be one of those winners by following these five steps. Take them in order and do not skip a step and you will succeed. Once you have one small success under your belt, learn from it, and replicate it. This is how you will be growing your online blogging empire! You can do it!

Step 1: Set up a blogging account

You have websites out there like Blogger.com and Wordpress.com where you can set up an account and blog to your heart's content. The two I just listed are free to use. But do make sure to read their terms of use. I know Wordpress.com does not allow affiliate Clickbank links to be placed on any of their blogs.

Of course, there are other blogging platforms out there, but those two are the most popular. Look around and choose one that fits your style and one that allows you to monetize it.

Step 2: Research what people are interested in online

The best place to start is with keyword research. You can use Google's external keyword research tool to find out what people are looking for when searching Google. This will give you a wealth of information! Learn to read in between the words. Every term is a question someone has. Try to figure out what that is.

Step 3: Write content for your intended audience

You can also visit forums where your audience hangs out to find out what they are talking about and any issues they have. Once you know what's on their mind, give it to them. Give them good information and don't try to force a sale.

Remember that blogs are for information and not for selling. Don't let this trip you up. You might be surprised that a good informational article can do a better at selling than an actual sales letter. Think about when you read about this wonderful product that so and so found and it helped them tremendously. Didn't you want to know more about what it was to find out if it would work for you? Exactly! This is what you want to accomplish with your blogs. Give them useful information and make them thirst for more!

Step 4: Find or make products that solve the problems of your audience

If you find that many people need a solution for a certain problem, write it down and start looking for products out there that solve their particular problem. If you don't find one, think about creating your own.

Step 5: Put affiliate links or order links on your blog

Once you have found a product, you can do an internet search for product + affiliate to see if they have an affiliate program you can join. With affiliate links, you will be making a percentage commission every time someone that you sent over makes a sale.

This is the last step and it is the step that will make you money. You won't get just one payday, but several. This is what is called passive income. What you have just created will continue to work for you until the day you decide to take it down. Can you see the potential? If you continue to grow, the bigger your income can get. The numbers that you might see other internet marketers spewing is not just a dream, but it is a reality.

So, get to it! Make your blog, and make money!

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