Showing posts with label Online Business Tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Online Business Tips. Show all posts

Friday, October 30, 2009

How to Create a Social Network for Your Online Business

Social networks have proven their effectiveness in online marketing and brand promotion through all these years. The use of the social networks in the election campaign by President Barack Obama has revealed the reach of the promotion through the social networks. If the social networking concept has worked great for the election campaign, imagine the success that it could bring to the online marketing campaigns. Website marketing through the networking concept involves bring some social media features connected to your website.
Some of the online businessmen have a misconception that they will have to entirely recode their website to bring the concept of social media into it. It is true that you should create a networking site from the scratch if your brand is very popular. On the other hand if your brand is slowly gaining popularity you should think of integrating some networking features to your existing website. This can be done easily with the help of the networking software available in the online market. These networking software will be easy to install and will perfectly merge with your existing website.
Social networking is not just connecting to friends through scraps and messages. Social networking includes everything like online video sharing, picture sharing, public interest groups, forums and much more. The interesting fact is that almost all the networking options available out there today are equally popular. And so, selecting the networking feature to integrate in your website will be a bit tricky.
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Monday, October 12, 2009

10 New Ways to Make Money Online

So you want to ditch your
corporate cubicle and join the
ranks of web workers? But you
have a mortgage, maybe a
dependent or two, and a taste
for Venti Mochas from
Starbucks? You can make
money in the new economy,
though it might not be as easy or cushy as keeping your old
economy job.
I’m not talking about advertising or affiliate marketing or selling
your junk on eBay. Those are so last millennium! I’m talking about
the new new economy.
1. Offer your professional expertise in an online
marketplace.These days, you can do more than just sell your
old books via Amazon and your old Coach handbags via eBay—
now you can sell your professional capabilities in a marketplace.
No longer are you limited to looking for a permanent or contract
job on Web 1.0 style job sites like Monster or CareerBuilder. The
new breed of freelancing and project-oriented sites let companies
needing help describe their projects. Then freelancers and small
businesses offer bids or ideas or proposals from which those
buyers can choose.
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