by Youssef Kassab | Dec 10, 2010 | How-To Guides
With Facebook now having more than 500 million users worldwide every business should have a presence there. In this article I am going to tell you how to create your Facebook presence with tips on how to get followers and keep them coming back.
If you want to start the “social networking” adventure you need first to create a page. Pages were previously known as Fan pages and users had to be fans of a certain product or service or business. Facebook renamed Fan Pages to just “Pages” and users can now “like” the page instead of becoming a fan.
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by Youssef Kassab | Nov 29, 2010 | How-To Guides
It is time for Twitter to let its users monetize their tweets! Users should have the option to allow daily/weekly “Ad” tweets to be sent to their followers. The tweets could be based on certain keywords specified by the publishing user or even better based on the keywords in the tweets of the user. This will help advertisers in their online marketing efforts, will help Twitter make more profit and will let publishing users make some money.
Another way to monetize tweets is by subscribing to affiliate programs and selling items to your followers. Sites like adbrite.com and many others will let you sell their items from your website with a special link that identifies you as a publisher. You can use the same link (using a URL shortener is still possible) with a sexy message to incite your followers buy the products. Some affiliate programs offer up to 50% commissions. (more…)
by Youssef Kassab | Nov 1, 2010 | How-To Guides
Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging website. It enables its users to send and read tweets (that are text based messages up to 140 characters displayed on the user’s profile). Tweets are publicly visible. Users may follow you to get your tweets and you can follow other users to receive their tweets. Twitter can be used either through the Website or through external applications installed on PCs or on Smartphones.
Twitter has gained popularity worldwide and currently has more than 100 million users. People use it to create, discover and share ideas with others. Twitter is being used by business to communicate with their customers, listen to their needs and answer their questions. Customers can tell the businesses about their experience with their products and whether they were satisfied or not. (more…)
