Social Media

Monetizing Your Facebook App

February 26th, 2008 • Althaf • 1 comment • Related • Filed Under

This post was guest blogged by Michael Conrad from Make Money Online blog.

Since it was released, thousands of users on Facebook have taken their turn in trying out Facebook’s API’s. The programs range from simple games to mini book stores. At first, these programs were created for the user to have something interesting to put on their page, but the developers got smart. They said, why should we spend so much time making these programs when we don’t receive anything back from them? That is where monetization came into play.

Facebook allowed the developers to display an unlimited number of advertisements in their programs. Developers got to work including advertisements on their download pages and inside the actual programs. After some testing, it was realized that contextual advertising was probably not the best route, so developers focused on promoting affiliate links, or links that send you to a product page. Instantly, developers started to see profits skyrocket as users would them their program to other users, and thus more people would click on the links.

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Review Thursday – Web2Submitter

January 17th, 2008 • Althaf • 9 comments • Related • Filed Under

In this week’s edition of review Thursday, I bring you Web2Submitter, a software that supposedly reduces your Web 2.0 promotion time by many many hours a week. It is basically a Syndicating tool; in other words, a social bookmarker.

I have owned this software for the past 6 months. Before we go ahead, please take a moment to read my Affiliate Review policy. Let’s move forward.

Web2Submitter allows you to submit to about 9 different Social sites from various niches plus Onlywire.com, a one click social submission site. The owners Brandon and Jack claim that this tool saves several hours in a week by reducing the time taken for submission. Everything basically is done from a single interface. All you have to do is click the button once to login and click again to fill in the info and click a third time to submit. As easy as 1,2,3.

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Top 5 Marketing Strategies for the Year 2008

January 8th, 2008 • Althaf • 2 comments • Related • Filed Under

I have been suffering from a bad toothache since 2 days. I finally got through the waiting list at my dentist with an appointment in 2 hours. Today’s post is pretty short, but I promise I will elaborate it later.

The Top 5 Marketing Strategies in 2008 for a long term business will be:

  1. Profile Marketing: Participation in Niche Communities and establishment of a powerful profile.

  2. Influential Marketing: Contribution of Authority content to niche communities to build influence and a strong following

  3. Linkbait Marketing: Creating irresistible knowledge content to pull backlinks from high profile sources.

  4. Facebook Marketing: This trend is slowly gaining and people are waking up to the possibilities of Facebook for their businesses.

  5. Social Media Marketing: This encompasses everything above and more.

I will elaborate on these later one by one. Let me get ready for my dental appointment.

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Social Media Trend – Genesis and Evolution Part 1

January 1st, 2008 • Althaf • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

Today is the 1st day of 2008 and I thought of beginning the year with a post looking back at the genesis and evolution of Social Media and Marketing. I am going to utilize Google Trends to provide a visual understanding of the topic in question. This post doesn’t really contain my thoughts, but primarily information based on Google’s Search database.

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