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Limited Chance - Join the UK’s Top Business Growth Expert on Facebook
Posted by: | CommentsDid you claim your FREE Facebook URL name yesterday???
If not, check my last article on here. And now here’s an invite.
I’ve finally given in and am opening up myself to Facebook.
I’ve resisted up until now - for many reasons (I’ll reveal them sometime).
But now I’m on the freakin’ thing (and already wondering if I’ve done the right thing…).
And I WILL be both using it to help you grow your business and lead by example in showing you HOW to use Facebook to get more customers, keep ‘em longer and get them spending more.
I’ve worked with the world’s best on this.
Come join me, become a fan and enjoy. Head here to join me on Facebook.
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See you there!
Henry
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FREE - How to Claim Your Name URL on Facebook Forever
Posted by: | CommentsBREAKING NEWS!!!
Do you use Facebook?
If so, you MUST read this.
Last night Facebook made a big release - one of the biggest virtual land grabs ever - the rush to claim your own name on Facebook.com.
And you NEED to be part of it.
Right now if you want to send someone to your fFacebook profile, you have to figure out a URL that looks something like this:
www.facebook.com/people/Your-Name/1234567
(That’s an inactive URL so don’t click it.)
But wouldn’t you rather own www.facebook.com/yourname?
And this becomes even MORE important for Facebook Fan Pages (not your regular friend profiles, the pages you can set up to promote your business.) Can you imagine how devastating it would be to have someone else own your company name in Facebook?
In the past, it was easy to own your own name on Facebook, all you had to do was to spend a large amount with Facebook or be a huge celebrity, and it was yours.
But starting LAST night you can claim your name as a facebook URL. Plus, you can claim names for your business pages too.
But here’s the catch - it’s first come, first serve. Imagine a couple of hundred MILLION people all try to grab their name at the same time, and there will be some interesting server shenanigans occuring.
Here’s what to do.
Login to Facebook NOW then go to www.facebook.com/username
You will see a form that will give you several suggested usernames, and the ability to choose your own. Either choose one of the names suggested or type in your own.
Repeat this process for any Facebook Fan Pages you administer, though there are three catches: first, your page must have over 1000 fans prior to May 31st 2009, you can’t claim something generic like travel or insurance, and you can’t claim someone else’s trademark.
In fact, if you have a registered trademark, I suggest you go to
http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=username_rights
right now to prevent others from grabbing your name.
If someone else has already has your name, get creative - add a period, or a dash, shorten it, lengthen it, or slap a number in there somewhere.
That’s the drill. I suggest you do it now - even if you don’t use Facebook much or at all. Grab your names while you can. You WILL want them in the future.
Dedicated to your success,
Henry.
PS: MAKE SURE YOU POST THIS TO YOUR TWITTER ACCOUNT USING THE TWEET THIS BUTTON BELOW. Your friends, family, subscribers and customers will be a little bit upset if they miss out on grabbing their own Facebook URL!!
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10 Simple Ways to Swamp Your Website With Visitors…
Posted by: | CommentsIn this months VIP Inner Circle call I uncovered just how ANY business can:
“Uncover the Hidden Wealth Buried Deep In Their Website”
(VIP members will receive the CD with this months Inner Circle Instalment early next week - if you’re not yet an Inner Circle member, accept your free trial and gifts here - FREE GIFT).
So, whether you are an independent entrepreneur, a ‘traditional’ small business owners, a coach, consultant, author or BIG business there’s a whole lot of information on that recording that few people know. For example:
- The 4 types of websites you MUST use.
- Why the type of website you use means win or bust.
- Why 90% of websites FAIL miserably to generate money.
- Why using Facebook, Twitter and other social networking to build your business is like walking through treacle.
- How to dominate any niche market on the internet so fast it’ll make your eyes water.
- And loads more.
But this isn’t a pitch for that call.
Quite the opposite.
My early days as a marketer were MEAN.
And I mean I was a real stinge bag.
I really didn’t want to tell anybody ANY of my secrets unless they ‘crossed my palm with silver’.
And in fact, there is something to be said for that.
But over the years I have ‘mellowed’.
Whether that’s driven by an aging drop in testosterone or the philosophical change I attribute it to I’ll leave to you to decide.
But it’s good news for you…
Because you’re in the right place to get up to the minute, useful stuff on how to destroy recession and achieve your goals.
And here you go…
“10 Easy Ways to Swamp Your Website With Visitors…”
#1: Articles - write short, informative articles about how YOU and your business can SOLVE people’s problems. The submit them to the top article directories (ezinearticles, articelbase, goarticles and more).
#2: Press releases - YEP! Press releases are great for generating online traffic (and if you know what you’re doing, a LOT of FREE publicity offline too). Submit them to the top press release distribution site (NOTE: you need to find purely online distribution sites like prweb AND others which have a closer relationship with journalists).
#3: BLOGGING - you need a blog! No time to go into depth here - but trust me…
#4: Pay per click advertising - e.g. Google Adwords… To my knowledge there is NO faster way to generate bundles of ready to go, targeted traffic to your site than pay per click. Only downside is it COSTS MONEY. And you MUST know what you’re doing or you WILL waste a LOT of money. I’ve used pay per click to generate millions of visitors to my sites and have never failed yet to earn at least 3 times what I spend. (Join my Inner Circle for my upcoming Adwords Mastery call - Click Here).
#5: Joint Ventures - Overlooked ny most because they THINK they are hard to setup. Yes, you need to know who you are partnering with is trustworthy but they’re easier than you think to make work. The premise is simple. Someone other than you owns a list of customers and prospects in a complementary market to you. You mail an offer to their list and they take a slice of the profits (there are a lot of other ways to cut the deal too)…
#6: Videos - Youtube, Viddler, Google Video and hundreds more video sites are frequented by the people who buy from you… Video marketing is POWERFUL…
#7: Podcasts - This one sounds a little technical. In essence you created an audio track about your topic and publish it to iTunes and more, people find it, listen to it, trust you (if the content is good) and go to your sites…
#8: Social Bookmarking - Like just bookmarking a web page on your browser BUT, millions of other people can see what has been bookmarked and therefore see what is popular… If they see something they are looking for that has been social bookmarked by someone else then they’ll have a peek and often head to your site…
#9: OFFLINE - Ahh! I hear you cry… Well don’t! Offline is an awesome way to drive online traffic. Everything from making sure your website is on your flyers, postcards, business cards, brochures etc to dedicated offline campaigns to generate online traffic.
#10: Social Networking - Ummmm have you got a LONG time? No time to digress here but I’ve yet to find anyone who has made any real money using social networking (other than people selling info on how to make money from social networking). YES, there are applications for social networking which can be useful and yes, it can drive traffic. BUT, by golly it can take a LOT of your time (and there are in my opinion better ways to spend your time).
There’s 10…I’ve got over a hundred more up my sleeve…
Let me ask you a question…
How many of just those 10 do you use?
Look, WHATEVER business you are in, you CAN use the internet to significantly increase demand for what you have, referrals and repeat spend. If those 10 are new to you then come join my Inner Circle and let’s get you making best use of what’s available - Click Here to Accept Your Free Trial and Free Gifts
Dedicated to helping you make easy work of marketing your business,
Henry…
PS: PLEASE POST ANY QUESTIONS AND COMMENT ON HERE RATHER THAN EMAIL ME. IT’S MUCH EASIER — THANKS!
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How to Use Social Media for Profit
Posted by: | CommentsThere is more and more and more ‘buzz’, hype and talk about social media.
For most it’s a confusing, new ‘idea’ that doesn’t immediately reveal its value to your business.
I’m going to shed some light on what it is, how it can HARM you and how it may HELP you.
So what is social media.
In simple terms it’s a number of different internet applications and ‘places’ where you can connect with friends, family, clients and peers.
The common social media types are:
- Facebook (I’m sure you know about that one).
- MySpace.
- LinkedIn.
- Flurl.
- Twitter (this is an intersting one…).
- All the types of BLOG (a little like this site).
And there are hundreds more.
Their power is in their ability to allow you to very quickly become ‘friends’ with your family, friends, clients and peers and SHARE stuff.
For personal use it’s fairly obvious what they’re for.
You can keep in contact with Aunty gertrude in Australia, fin old school friends, share pictures and stories.
But what about for business?
How can you REALLY use them to generate clients and profit.
FIRST OFF - BE CAREFUL!
Using these applications means you become VISIBLE, very VISIBLE. That’s great IF you want people to see what you share.
Dangerous if you don’t.
Where social media can help you is as follows:
- Keeping in regular contact with clients. e.g. you could set up a Facebook group for your clients, invite them to join and there share stories, client testimonials, offer, new products etc.
- You CAN create a ‘viral’ presence. Again, with Facebook the idea is simple. Your clients, friends and family will most often see what you post. They may well see something of interst, join your group and in turn become a client.
- You CAN use social media to ‘MOBILISE’ huge groups of people and MOVE them and their interest to specific things. e.g. IF you had a Facebook group for business you could run an open day and use Facebook to drive PART of the registration for that event.
BUT… These types of MEDIA (and that is ALL they are - like newspapers, magazines etc) are NOT a replacement for sound marketing systems dedicated to attracting the best, highest spending clients.
They are ANOTHER tool in your kit box.
The rules are also a bit different.
Social marketing is all about VALUE for FREE. You must ADD value to your audience.
For example you could provide an eBook to your Facebook group which details the “The 7 Reasons to Sell Your House Now Before the Real Market Crash Occurs”.
That eBook would explain the 7 reasons why the property market crash has hardly even starte and stimulate interest for estate agents…
Get the idea?
The key with all avenues to success is to use ALL the options available to you.
Social media is becoming more and more important. Have a ‘play’ create some ‘groups’ of people and just be careful about delivering HIGH VALUE, useful content and NOT just sales messages.
And keep in mind social media is called ‘Social’ media for a reason.
It is for SOCIAL interaction. Building friends, acquaintances, relationships. DOING so WILL stand you in good stead.
Oh…And to get an idea of how these things work…
AND, join me on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/henrypbaker
Have a great day,
Henry.
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