Building eCommerce

By john mce

When I first joined after being a Myspace user for some time, I found it quite uninspiring, great for finding old friends and people I have actually met. Unlike Myspace where requests come from totally random people all the time, the opportunity to interact with people in this way on Facebook is mush more focused on people you actually know.

In order to make my Facebook experience more diverse, I decided to look into the groups function of the website and set one up form myself as an experiment to see what opportunities a group can create. Setting up a group was pretty easy, but once they are finished there is not as many exciting adaption’s in my opinion to make them more appealing as there is on Myspace. There does not seem to be so many code generating sites Facebook out there as for other social networking sites. A standard group with an image and information, doesn’t look that interesting, but there are some good features not offered on Myspace such as a wall, where members can post updates and comments, the opportunity to leave the group open for members to upload images, comments & promote the group even to become admin if you want them too.

Once you have a group set up, you need to get people to join and find it, some straight forward options are to tell your friends about the group, which is offered once the group is set up, also to invite new members from your email accounts such as hotmail. If they find it interesting they will join and a notification will appear on their profile enticing others to join outside your friend network.

Step 2
Keep updating your own status about the group, this way friends will see updated status and will possibly join.

Step 3
Approach groups in your sector which have been set up for a longer period of time and have lots of members, then contact the admin and ask if they will promote your group. Build up a relationship with similar group admin, if they don’t cooperate, then you can join their group and approach their members and send them a friend request, be aware there is a limit to this before Facebook sees it as spamming so limit it so about 30 requests a day. This way you will be targeting members which already have an interest in the your particular sector.

Step 4 utilise external resources to get your group noticed,

Use Twitter to tweet about it, tag it in on Delicious and Stumble upon etc.

Find forums where you can answer questions on your chosen sector and add a link to your group.

Mention your group on your website or blog

Step 5
create interesting & useful video content and upload to your group and to Youtube to gain more group members.

Step 6
If you have a budget to promote your group, then a unique option facebook offers is the chance to advertise your group to its users. This is a very interesting function and is very focused in reaching the right Facebook users for instance, you can choose by age, location, interests etc, so you can target the right people for your product. You can start a campaign from as little as a pound a day and get a nice analytical overview of your campaign, which can be edited to suit your budget.

About The Author

John McE writes articles on a number of subjects including Internet marketing & Facebook For more information see see the Facebook 3D & facial recognition group.

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By Greg Morrison

The Wealthy Affiliates, Kyle and Carson, are young internet millionaires who have been making loads of money online since early in 2003. They started with very little money, while in college, and quickly became two of the most well known and top earning affiliate marketers in the internet marketing business.

Two years later, in 2005, they opened Wealthy Affiliate University to show other people how to do what they themselves achieved online. It is now one of the most popular and well respected internet marketing learning centers on the entire internet.

So what is it that makes a Wealthy Affiliate membership so valuable? What do they have that the thousands of other sites trying to teach internet marketing do not have? Are they as good at teaching internet marketing as everyone says they are?

Being a member of Wealthy Affiliate University for the passed three to four years, I will give you the inside scoop, and I will let you in on how they taught me how to become a 6 figure a year marketer.

Many sites out there trying to teach internet marketing are not really trying to help people make money, but they are just trying to make money off people by selling them information. They will sell a simple 100 page e-book and then let the customer fend for themselves.

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I think the thing that makes the Wealthy Affiliate membership site so effective at producing successful internet marketing students is not as much the enormous amount of information and tools they they provide with a membership, but their ability to organize this information in a way that you can easily follow along and apply the information so that you can generate profits online.

It really is amazing to see how amazing they are at organizing the information. They really have it down to a science. They actually care about their members, they actually want their members to succeed. And this is proven by the fact that they constantly are updating and adding information and tools to the members area. Not to mention that they have already produced thousands of successful internet marketers to date.

Some of the free tools they provide with a membership are the following:

1. Keyword Research tool - research keywords for your niches and web sites.
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These tools combined would cost hundreds of dollars elsewhere to subscribe to, but are again included free to all members of Wealthy Affiliate.

I can honestly say that Wealthy Affiliate University is by far the most advanced internet marketing learning center on the entire internet. If it wasn’t for them I’m not sure that I would be any where near as successful as I am today.

The rest is up to you. There are so many people out there that recommend this site and that site, but you are the one that has to make the decision for yourself what is going to work for you and what is not. All I can do is tell you what worked for me and hope for your sake you believe what I have to say.

So whatever your decision is moving forward I wish you the best of luck in your journey to learning the internet marketing business, and making it a profitable one at that!

About The Author

Greg is an internet marketer. He has come a long way, from drug addict in major debt, over $10,000, to a young online business owner making 6 figures a year! You can get more information on the Wealthy Affiliates at his site http://www.melovemoney.com/wealthyaffiliate