Passion is simply a driving force that makes us do things. When you make your passion your work, your work is no longer boring. You will love to work simply because it’s something you love.

Now in this article I am going to outline how you can find your passion and make it profitable. Doing something that you love is good, but it’s not the whole equation.

As a human being you will have countless hobbies and interests, but which one of your hobbies will turn out into a profitable business model? To help you out let me share this diagram:

You have to find out a hobby that you love; you have to be good at it and finally it should be something that pays well.

Take a note that passion is the combination of all three circles above.

Finding a Hobby That You Love

Photo credit: Courosa

Take a notepad and write down all the things that interest you. For an example I like art, music, games, movies, writing, food photography, eating foods, webdesign, teaching, astronomy & jokes. The list will go on as I grow older and learn many new things.

You can also checkout your facebook profile to see the list of things you have liked, so you will find out the things that interest you.

Now list the things you love to do and give them star marks depending on how much you love them. For an example I will give blogging & webdesign 5 stars because I love these 2 things more than others.

Then I will give 4 stars to movies and 3 for music and games. The purpose of this exercise is to find out the winners.

Then pick your top hobbies and see if you can dedicate 5-10 years to any one of them. When I started blogging, I asked myself can I blog for 5 years? The answer was yes and I started blogging.

When you will find a few hobbies that you can dedicate 5-10 years or an entire lifetime, you have yourself some master hobbies.

How to Figure Out If You Are Good At It?

If you want to turn your hobby into a passion and make it profitable, you have to be really good at it. For this ask opinions from your friends/family and listen to what they have to say about your ability. Let’s take skateboarding for an example. Do you have some mad skills?

If you are good at computers, are you the one person your friends/family comes to when it is about computers? Do you know a lot about this hobby of yours? Take an online trivia quiz and see how much you know.

If you are already good at what you love, then it’s an advantage. If you are not then this can be improved. When I started blogging and web design, I was not good but I learned and improved myself over time.

Who would have thought that a passion of bird luring can be a job, More here Photo credit: Lee Harris

How to Find If the Hobby Pays Well?

Does the hobby pays well?

If you have finally found something that you love to do and you are good at, then there won’t be a problem to make it profitable. If you like something and there are few more people around who love this, you bet you can make a business around it.

Here comes the cool part!

How many people you think who are interested in this stuff around the world? The best part of building a business online is that you can reach people all over the world. The whole world is your audience.

Let’s take the example of skateboards, what businesses can be done around just skateboards?

• Skateboard sales
• Skateboard repairing
• Skateboard designs
• Stickers
• Custom arts/graffiti
• Stunts
• Training
• Retro skateboards
• Skateboarding gears
• Tee-shirts
• Skateboarding videos

And so many things you can start just around your passion and turn it into a profitable business online.

How much this passion costs?

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You will know it better, how much your passion costs but for this example of skateboarding I did some internet research. An average skateboard costs roughly $50-$200. Then you will need a helmet, elbow pads and knee pads. That’s an additional $100-$200. A small ramp for performing jumps cost around $50. Source

If an average skateboarder had to change/upgrade their gear every 1 year, then he/she will be spending roughly $1,000 every year for this hobby.

In just 5 years an average skater is spending $5,000 on their hobby. This number can grow bigger if they decide to purchase expensive boards and commit to this hobby for more years.

Total the amount you are spending to get a clear idea of how much your hobby is costing you.

How many people having this passion?

We have internet so we don’t have to do any guesswork. I went to google keyword tool and typed the word “Skateboard”

It returned 7,480,000 searches. This means that every month over 7 million searches are done that are related to skateboards.

I went to facebook and I found that skateboarding the sport has close to 9 million fans and skateboard (interest) has around 700,000 fans. So you see how big this hobby is.

I went to just 2 of these sources (google & facebook) that’s not the entire internet and not even the entire number of skateboarding lovers.

If I take just 1,000 skateboarders from this pool who will become your customers every year and they will make you earn $1,000 each, that means you have (1,000×1,000) = $1,000,000 –a 1 million dollar a year online business.

Have You Found Your Passion Yet?

Go ahead and start your homework. Write down your hobbies and figure out which ones you love most. Then check them to see if you are good at it and improve it. Determine how much your hobby costs. Then do some online research to find how many people are into that hobby using google keyword tool and facebook.

By the way, I am about to launch my next online course that will guide you to start an online business from home around your passion. Feel free to check it out here.

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Want to sell a single product, or run a full featured web store? You need to implement e-commerce on your website. Thanks to the technology, you can have your own store running on your website within few clicks.

Let me share all the ways you can implement the e-commerce function to your online business:

Read on!

Embedding a Third Party Store on Your Website

Say you are an affiliate of some sort of company which gives you your very own e-store in a separate web address. All you have to do is to send the visitor to that link and hope they purchase something.

One of my clients had her own website of cosmetic products and virtual makeovers. However her store page was simply linking to an external URL to check out the products. What I did was to embed that whole e-store experience to this store page.

The makeover page is in iframe showing perfectly on site

Now whenever people clicked onto the store, instead of leaving the site they were simply finding all the products in one place. This was done through an iframe.

Just paste this iframe code in your store page in the HTML section or ask your webmaster to put this for you,

<iframe src=”THE SOURCE WEBSITE” width=”600px” height=”800px”></iframe>

You can change the height and width of the iframe window by changing the numbers.

An iframe lets you embed another website on your page. If you are using wordpress, then you won’t be able to use iframe right away.

First you have to install this plugin called inline iframe then activate it.

Then put the code into the store page in HTML editor view.

I recommend you to use WordPress as your preferred web building platform, simply because it is easy and saves hours in creating web pages.

Selling a Single Product on Your Website

This one is simple, all you need to do is to create a buy now button in PayPal and paste the code in your website along with your product details.

If you are using a third party payment processor like 2CheckOut you can create a buy now button from them and put it on your site, more on that later.

For WordPress users please check out this article on how to use PayPal to sell e-goods.

Setting up an Online Shopping Cart

Use this simple and free shopping cart system called Ecwid and have a simple to setup e-commerce store on your website.

Sign up for a free account, integrade on your website and all you have to do is to click a few buttons and add the product info.

For the payment options you can use PayPal to accept payments. However the problem with paypal is that when people want to pay, they have to use their paypal account and balance to pay. And if they want to use credit card, they have to use the card they have previously linked in their account. As an online vendor you must be able to accept major credit cards along with paypal.

I use 2checkout as a payment processor and it accepts all the major credit cards and paypal payments. It is a secure payment processor you can trust.

Dealing with PayPal, I have had my account blocked couple of times with my funds. On the flip side I have user 2CO for years with no trouble.

Once you have a 2CO account just link this with your Ecwid shopping cart and you will be processing credit cards in no time.

To setup your account in 2CheckOut, read this page for instructions. You can also have buy now buttons that will allow you to eliminate the need for adding a third party shopping cart. 2CO has its own shopping area and recurring payments.

So there you go, now you learned how to setup e-commerce on your website using 3 different methods. Go on and start selling online. All the best!

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Mike Tyson Will Kill You

What happens when you find yourself in a boxing ring against Mike Tyson and your whole life is depending on it? I know you don’t have a chance of winning when you are up for a professional boxer –but how much effort you will give to fight him. I’m sure you will give 110% of your strengths on it.

Keep that in mind that’s important!

Now here is the thing, when you are up against for someone in a fist fight, no matter who is your opponent, visualize that the person is Mike Tyson or Undertaker –you choose. Then give that exact effort you would have if you were actually playing against a larger opponent.

Last night I was watching one of my favorite movies Predator. It’s a movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger –I think most of you will know about this movie. It’s a movie where a group of elite commandos are in a jungle against a deadly alien.

So one by one their team mates get killed and then they set some traps to catch this alien. At night they were all waiting for that alien. Suddenly something sets off the trap and a thing comes in contact with one of the commando members.

That officer was shocked and in fear of that alien he grabbed his knife and kept stabbing that thing until it is dead.

Then later they found it is a wild boar he killed, not the actual alien. So what is the takeaway here?

Wild Boar

A wild boar itself is a dangerous creature. But the commando thought it was the alien, far stronger opponent than the boar. He had perceived in his mind that he is battling something he can’t defeat.

I learned something new that night. If you think your competition is bigger and stronger than you can handle, you will give more than what you have. Thus giving you an advantage and hopefully win the battle.

So instead of thinking you are against a dog, think that you have to take down a bull. How’s that?

In business we fail not because our competitor is strong. We fail because we take them lightly. Why are you so over confident? Just think that you are battling a giant corporation and give your full effort in it. Don’t rely on your luck, just do it.

We are capable of doing more than what we can. That’s where the 110% came from. So tell me what you have learned from this post?

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Richard Branson – Virgin Group

Few days ago someone at the yahoo answers community asked “How to become an entrepreneur?” I see the trend here. People are now leaning towards being their own boss and quit the 9-5 lifestyle.

So in this article I am going to answer this question in detail and tell you how exactly you can become an entrepreneur.

Do I Qualify as an Entrepreneur?

I have started working on my own business when I was 15 years old. I never wanted the idea to have a boss and go into the rat race. I started my own t-shirt design store at that age. It failed, and I started working on direct marketing. I learned how to sell and talk to new people. I learned how to improve my personality.

I invested some of my family’s money in transport with my mom. That failed miserably. Then I started my computer parts selling business. I was buying gadgets in cheap to sell them for high margins. Then I started a website, then a blog and went online.

I started doing online marketing with blogs and I started to see profit. Then I became a web designer and that went very well. Then I started working as a consultant for online & offline businesses; that went very well too.

I also share my journey that inspired so many of my readers to start their own. So far I was never held in a job and I created jobs for others.

So How to Become an Entrepreneur?

Being an entrepreneur is not just about being in business. It’s an upgraded mindset. Do these things and you are an entrepreneur:

1. Do something, start something, make it happen. Entrepreneurs are the moving force of the society.
2. Learn to improve yourself. Know your weaknesses and work on it.
3. Listen to people, listen what they have to say. They will listen to you too.
4. Don’t be afraid to share your opinion. Be that person in the group who likes to share things.
5. Take a stand. Choose a side and defend it with your courage.
6. Learn new things every day. Read a book, watch a movie, go somewhere.
7. Say YES to opportunities. Your friend wants you to take to a boring party? Go there! You never know what you will find.
8. Be positive, be optimistic. The glass is half full.
9. Count your blessings. Be happy for the things you have.
10. “Be the change you want to see in the world” ~Mahatma Gandhi
11. Push your limits. I couldn’t do more than 2 pushups, now I can do 25! I am aiming for 100.
12. Dream big. Don’t be afraid of thinking the impossible.
13. “Actions speak louder than words.” Talk less and do more.
14. Get up and get going. Don’t leave something for tomorrow.
15. Be aggressive in pursuing your goals.
16. Always give priority to your family. Friends come and go but family stays forever.
17. Be funny. Crack jokes, make a laugh. Why so serious?
18. Get angry! If things are not right, then make an effort to change it.
19. Make peace with your past. Learn to accept it and do great things so people forget your past.
20. Help a stranger. Be kind to people. A.R.K. (Act of Random Kindness)
21. “Stay hungry, stay foolish” ~Steve Jobs. You have an entire universe of things to learn.
22. Grow wise not old. Use your age & expertise to help younger people, not to boss them.
23. Listen to a boring story from your loved one. It’s not for you, it’s for them.
24. Make people happy. It doesn’t take much effort to do it.
25. Know that this is not the end. No person can change your destiny. You are your master.
26. Inspire and empower others around you. People will love you for that.
27. Selfishly keeping something is easy, but giving it away takes courage. Give more.
28. Try to be an example. Do something that others will follow.
29. Care about people, not material objects.
30. Improve your health. Take a walk, exercise.

And most of all, love your life and it will love you back. So you see that being an entrepreneur is about being a new breed of human being, far more superior to the average people.

Hope to see you on the entrepreneurial boat real soon! And if you are already a sailor, then well done!

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So you just started your first business and you need a paying customer. How do you find one? If you have a point of sale, then getting your first few customers is easy, they just have to spot you. However when you are running a consultancy business, how will you get your first customer on board?

I am going to give you some practical advice that will help you get customers. When I started my first web design business, I used the exact same principles to attract clients.

Let Your Network Know that You Are Open for Business

Are you open for business?

How does a shop find its first customer? Simply because people can see that this shop is open. So what you have to do is to let your existing network know that you are taking clients. Have a facebook account? Entitle yourself as the CEO/Consultant or what you like better on the work field.

Are you on linkedin? Then do the same and entitle yourself to this new business of yours. This is a small trick but it simply works. A lot of people and their friends are constantly checking you out and when they see you are offering these services, they may be interested in being your customer.

Post an update to your twitter/facebook profile that you are taking clients. If you have a blog already, then post about this on your blog and let your readers know that you are expecting business.

Sanjida did it cleverly by sharing about her work on facebook & also sharing updates regarding her coaching career. She also went one step further by creating a separate facebook page for her coaching services.

She has close to 2,000 friends on facebook and followed by 844 people. Sanjida has a total reach of 2,844 people in her facebook network alone. She is more likely to get her first coaching clients than someone who hasn’t done it yet.

Create an Online Portfolio

Register a separate web address and setup a portfolio especially for your business. The reason for doing this is to put the main focus on your work. When someone visits your portfolio site, they should be able to concentrate on your work. As a web designer I took screenshots of the websites that I designed and put them together as a slideshow.

In the beginning when I didn’t have much work to show, I simply put together my blog and other personal projects over there. Then when I got a long list of projects, I simply put together the top 10 or 20 designs on the slideshow.

Creating an online portfolio works wonders. It is online 24/7 and potential clients can see it and share it with their peers and business partners.

But what if you are not a designer? You are a consultant, what you can showcase on your portfolio? You can record a few video clips or podcast sharing some insights about your market. If you had a chance for speaking on a conference, make sure you add the video recordings of that event and embed it on your website. You can upload videos on YouTube and embed it on your portfolio.

Add an about page on your portfolio with your bio and a professional headshot. Create some pages describing the hiring process + add a phone number/email form for people to contact you.

The best way you can do is to put the contact info in the footer so people can see this on every page of your portfolio site. Add testimonials, if you have some.

Setting up an online website is easy. You can create it using WordPress and it will cost you no more than $100.

{ If you like to learn how to build a website for your business, then take a look at my WordPress Video Course }

Show That You Know What You Are Doing

And how will you do that?

You can do it simply but writing some blog articles or recording a few videos. When I started my music promotion venture I did videos and wrote blogs on how to promote music. It brought me lot of attention and people were looking up to me as an expert. You can do the same and post articles or videos every week.

So what will you share with your audience?

Start by sharing small tips on how to solve a problem. For an example you are an antique dealer. You can share tips on how to transport these antiques without breaking them. Or you can share how to clean antique items.

A blog is a double edged sword

A blog is a double edged sword. First, you can show that you know about that particular subject topic and second, you are attracting people who are interested in that topic (your potential customers.)

I have covered the technical part of setting up a blog here.

It is clever to build that blog under your portfolio website. Individual articles will be shared on social media and come up when people type them on google => bringing new people to your portfolio site.

{ By the way, if you need help with social media or setting up your website/blog/portfolio –I am open for business. Get in touch with me. }

So there you have it, my best advice for you to get customers. These tips helped me win customers over and over again and it will help you too. Just be positive and wait for the magic to happen. It will feel great when you will have your first paid client.

Also do remember that you are building a business, so be patient and improve something small every day.

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So you must have heard of affiliate marketing and people can make money being an affiliate. But what is it exactly and how it works? In this article I am going to share what affiliate marketing is and how it really works.

To make it really simple, I am going to share a real life example. I have launched BlogKori Academy which is an online coaching platform. My readers can join this course and learn from me through videos. My course is priced at $49-$99.

Now the thing is, in order to have more sales, I need to attract more students. My resources and reach is limited. So what I did was to offer an affiliate program. In this program someone can join as an affiliate (for free) and promote my course. When they make a sale, I will pay a percentage of the profit to that affiliate. This is called an affiliate commission.

I am using software so the sales tracking and commissions are managed automatically. So you see that this way I can reach more people and sell more. On the other hand my affiliate is making money by promoting my stuff.

It’s a win win situation for both of us. So this is how exactly affiliate marketing works.

You go ahead and sign up for a product’s affiliate program. The sign up process is free 99% of the time –because the seller wants to bring in more promoters on board.

Then you will get a special link that will act as a tracking code for your commission. Promote this product on your blog, website, email and friends; when they make a purchase you make money.

I am personally promoting a lot of affiliate products in my network. One service that I am promoting for years is the web hosting service from hostgator. This is the web hosting service that I personally use for my blogs and I am happy with them. This is why I am excited to talk about it with my friends, clients and blog readers.

There are many affiliate marketplaces where you can find products to promote. For an example Amazon has its own affiliate program. If you recommend books on your page, you can create an affiliate link and make small chunk of change when someone buys them. Physical products don’t pay that well to the affiliates however digital products pay the most.

You can sell software, e-courses or e-books. My course is a digital product and I offer 50% commissions. So you can go ahead and promote my course here.

Video: How to promote BlogKori Academy and make money

So now you have learned how exactly affiliate marketing works. It is a legit way to make money on the internet. It takes no money to join. But a piece of advice, only promote the products/people you trust and believe in.

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By default we all like to play it safe and be defensive. It is something that most people are doing, I was doing it for years and chances are that you are doing it still now. But it is time you should level up and show some aggression.

We are the masters of our own selves. You will be treated the way you want others to treat you. You can barely make a living or choose to be in the elite’s league. The choice is yours.

I realized this while playing some video games. I like to play some action games and in one mission I was stuck. I tried to play defensive, I tried to go stealth but I was failing every time.

It was taking me forever just to go from one room to another. Time was running out. I was afraid of my enemy, I was afraid to get shot and most of all I was afraid of failing the mission.

Then my brother asked me to play rough, to play aggressively. I took his advice and charged on to my enemy. Yes I did take some hit, did some mistakes but at the end I succeeded within the time limit.

So what we can take from this small example? It has been long since we are playing it safe and being defensive. It is time to take action and claim what is ours.

Only those willing to risk going too far can find out how far they can go -T.S.Elliot

Look at your market & see who is leading. Do you ever felt that it should be you who should be there in the top? Did you ever felt that you could do it better? By any chance have you ever wonder what would it like to be in the winner’s league?

Who knows you might do better than the current market leader. You just have to go for it, go turbo and give your 110%.

Go ahead and claim your spot. Be that dominating force in your market and change it once and for all.

Funny thing is, as long as you are happy with what you are, you will stay here forever. So this is the time you must raise your bar of expectation, think high and dream bigger.

Welcome to BlogKori. My entire life I was in my comfort zone, I was nobody. Things changed dramatically when I went to the extreme. I rediscovered myself as a warrior, built a business and earned raving fans.

You want to do the same? Then go ahead and start reading my blog. Returning readers, I am doing a reboot of my blog. It will now cover the topics of entrepreneurship, marketing and small business tips.

Thanks for being with me,

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Internet is tempting for the new user. You may have a friend who knows someone who knows someone who made a lot of money using the internet. Yes it is true that you can make money on the internet and you can build a business around it. I have done this so I can say to you yes it works!

There are get rich schemes and click schemes. Recently a site popped up into my radar, a website that pays 4 dollars for every click. Yes simple you just have to click on the ad; a timer will run for 30 seconds. Keep viewing this website for 30 seconds and BAM! You just made $4 online!

Click on 10 ads and you will make $40. Click on 100 and you just made $400/day. How long will it take for you to make $4,000? Just 10 days. How much you can earn in a month, 12,000 dollars!

Just the time you realize that you were dreaming. Yes seriously, four dollar click or any site that will offer you a dollar for a lousy click is a scam. I have seen them come and go all these years.

Okay let me show you their website and their terms,

See! you will need to buy a membership to be able to withdraw your earnings.

So how much is the membership you say?

Yeiks! $99 EVERY MONTH JUST TO BE ABLE TO WITHDRAW THE MONEY? –yes I had to go full caps!

And when do they pay?

75 days to process your payment and only if you stay with the terms? Good way to rip people off.

Now go again to the purchase page and see how much they charge for advertising on their network,

1000 hits for $10. So that means for every click they charge 1 cent per click. So if they are charging a penny for a click, how they are able to pay you $4 for that click?

I am sure by now 4dollarclick user must be feeling like this,

Wake up my friend! The internet is full of scams like this. Scams like get rich quick and get tons of visitors to your internet website.

By putting together this article, I want to help you save yourself from these types of scams. There are real ways you can make money, go ahead and read this article to find out.

It takes real work and dedication to earn from the internet. Some people will just ignore this fact and go for the quick money. I think this is why people get scammed over and over again and sites like 4dollarclick pops up.

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Google recently showed a prototype demo of a new technology called google glasses. It’s a futuristic visual device that you can attach on your glasses and everything will show just like in the sci-fi movies.

Take a look at this official video if you haven’t seen it yet,

I kind of laughed the entire video because everything was staged and edited. It was not the actual thing. The actual google glass may get close to what it shows on the demo. Imagine you are walking on the street and it is analyzing everything it sees.

This one is even better:

But from a marketing perspective I have to say “Well done google!” this is something new and going towards a new direction.

Facebook introduced their family of apps on smartphone while google is just one step ahead to create a brand new marketplace. Baidu another search engine from China announced a similar product called “Baidu Eyes” –right after google.

So what would it like to have a smart glass instead of a smartphone? The possibilities are endless. You can search, shop, listen to music, watch videos and call your friends. Suddenly wearing glasses will be cool.

How will your websites look like on the smartglass platform? There will be room for wider display because your screen is not limited in pixels.

Since new technologies are emerging, I highly recommend you to claim your local business or shop on the maps.

Having your business listed on the map will help people walking on the streets with these smart devices be able to find you easily.

Adding your listing to Google Places for Business is free, and Google doesn’t accept payment to include particular listings or sites in our search results. However, we do offer locally-targeted advertising through Google AdWords Express.

To add your business on google places, visit this link –sign in with your google account and add your business. You will then receive a postcard in mail with a verification code. Verify your listing and your business will appear on google places/maps.

Your business place page will integrate with google plus and users can post photos and write reviews about your business.

So go ahead and prepare for attracting more customers to your business with the help of new technology. What are your thoughts? And why stay limited to just glasses, go for contact lenses

(Enjoy this action clip from Mission Impossible 4)

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I am talking about the new “Home” app that facebook announced lately. It is based on android and much more like a shell on top of the android OS. So what it does, it will turn your phone into a new facebook environment. It will replace the default home screen and the menu will be replaced with your facebook home.

Now tech heads are getting psyched about this announcement by the facebook founder, I feel there is a long term strategy by this social network to take over the smartphone operating system market.

For a starter facebook is taking help from android to spread across smartphone users, then they may build their own facebook OS for mobile devices and fulfill their dream of the facebook phone.

I see this is a brilliant concept and it will give the users a much more personal feel out of their smartphone experience. But how you can use this facebook home advantage for your own business?

Let’s talk about how the new FB home app will work and how you can make the best out of it:

Facebook Cover is Your Idle Screen

It is still not confirmed that if the fb cover page will be set as your phone’s wallpaper, but I am getting a hint that it will be. So you better use a cool new picture on for your FB cover that will align nicely on your phone’s idle screen. Your profile picture will be the only icon over there as the access to your facebook home (in your smartphone experience.)

The Facebook Home Feed

Upon opening up your menu, instead of a finding a list of apps you will be greeted with the new facebook home feed. The new home feed is the upcoming facebook multiple feeds platform and it will be much more organized and based on visuals. This means more images and visual content will show up on the home. Facebook home will have messages, chat heads and other apps and features built in to the “Home” app platform.

Use Your Facebook Profile for Marketing Activities

Facebook is not personal anymore. The new and updated platform is now much more wide and open. Your cover picture is public and most of your updates are open to friends of friends. This makes your profile and content accessible to almost everyone connected to your network. Facebook pages are having trouble to reach all of their fans, while your profile will be able to reach all of your friends. You can add upto 5,000 friends and unlimited people can follow your updates.

Put More Focus on Visual Content

Want to take advantage of the new facebook home app? Aim for much more visual content, post images, photographs, infographics, data visualizations, charts, meme’s, comics, drawing, illustrations. Image content gets much more interaction comparing to status updates or links. Your pictures and photos will show up in the news feed.

Make a Mobile Version of Your Website

Now that more people are using smartphones and soon more people will have access to the FB home app, you should start building a mobile version of your website if you haven’t done yet.

List Your Location on Facebook Page for Check-ins

If your business has a physical address then make a place page in facebook. List your address on that page so people can check in your place. It’s easy just make your page category into a local business, put your address and a map and check in option will show up.

So what are your thoughts on the new facebook home platform?

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