Facebook is the new marketing avenue – it’s the next marketing opportunity. Social media (a.k.a Facebook) provides the way to interact and communicate with customers with ease. Even more, social media is able to build strong long term relationship with customers.

Enter Social Media and the Internet

Traditionally, marketing communications were conducted via print, broadcast and such traditional media through disruptive advertising, where advertisements appear in between the content of interest for the customer.

Traditional media does give a large reach to a marketer with its programming of mass appeal. However, the wastage is equally high, since a large portion of the audience would belong to a different segment than the one that is to be targeted by the marketer.

The revolution stirred by the internet as a medium took place because of the fact that it is highly personalized and provides more content on-demand than any other available medium. Social sites proliferated far and wide in their usage.

The power to create and distribute content is equally available to every user, irrespective of him/her being a customer or a marketer. In the earlier forms of media, that power rested with the editorial staff of the channel or the advertiser, but hardly ever with the user. The medium is completely personalized, and a user can create or join groups and further create content based on what he/she likes.

Opinions are free and fair. This is one reason why social media is of utmost concern to marketers, since buying decisions are no more influenced as much by advertisements. The traditional word-of-mouth marketing approach has grown leaps and bounds on social networks.

Facebook Marketing

With 500 million (and growing) unique users worldwide, Facebook is the number one social networking site in terms of activity and subscriptions. What started as a garage initiative by Mark Zuckerberg has now become the biggest phenomenon on the internet.

A user interface that allows for quick communication and the ability to create fan pages and groups at the click of a mouse button are what make Facebook extremely popular. Another important reason for its immense popularity is the wide variety of social applications that have been developed and made available within the Facebook environment.

These applications can allow users and friends to do joint activities like playing games that run endlessly, sharing photos, videos, and web links, and many more.

How does Facebook help marketers?

Traditionally, media plans were drawn to include television channels, publications, or any other media that can grab maximum eyeballs and effectively reach a selected target audience. The science of segmentation and targeting has become only more accurate in the case of social media.

Facebook provides a wide variety of avenues to communicate with the audience, which opens up an entirely different world of possibilities to have a fruitful dialogue with customers. Some of these methods used popularly by marketers are:

Advertising: The first opportunity, which is the most obvious one, is advertising on Facebook. The difference, however, is the fact that you can create your own advertisement in a matter of minutes and also specify the details of your target group in terms of demographics and types of discussions where you want your advertisement to appear.

Fan Pages: Facebook allows every brand, as well as individual users, to create fan pages for their favorite celebrities and their own homegrown businesses. Large brands have also created their official pages on Facebook that have a huge, immediate fan following around the world. The fan page has immense utility to convey first hand information about the brand and also to collect immediate and frank feedback from your customers.

Branded applications: One of the most effective ways to engage a user toward your brand is by creating an application; this could be a game or a contest, with your branding coming across subtly through it.

What makes Facebook even more exciting is the way it allows you to target your communication sharply just to the customer segment you want to attract. It also provides analytics and page insights that give good feedback and measurement on the activity done. The options provided by Facebook can be creatively explored and used judiciously for bringing about maximum benefits to any brand.

However, while doing all this, you need to be aware of the fact that customers have an equal say and have the ability to respond immediately to any of your actions with a thumbs up or a thumbs down. Availing the service of a social media consultant to work out a social media strategy may be required so that your efforts will not be in vain.

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If you’re currently are T3Leads member, you probably already received an email from T3Leads regarding the new version of T3Leads.

Built on next-generation core technologies, T3Leads is proud to announce the launch of our third generational lead optimization platform. The system offers a quick, concise way for Affiliates to gage performance while employing the newest tools to further enhance the T3Leads experience.

The dynamic core system includes:

• More than 20 fully customizable JavaScript iFrames
• Upgraded launch support
• Innovative conversion tracking
• Enhanced reporting
• Competitive conversion rates among top-quality leads
• and more!

T3Lead’s new platform is user-friendly, efficient, and designed to handle the most demanding Affiliate operations.

T3Leads at a glance

T3Leads is your premier destination choice for quality leads and market opportunities rivaled to none. T3leads focuses on the finance industry, which happens to be one of the most lucrative industries on the Internet. T3Leads directly cooperates with a large network of banks and other financial institutions.

Merchants: Extend your customer reach and open new revenue streams through our proprietary lead generation platform which filters out the junk to bring you unparalleled performance. Our technology will truly impact your business sales flow while lowering your advertising costs.

Affiliates: Gain a competitive edge with our diverse network of lead products, along with the latest in lead optimization technology. Ensure that you are driving the highest revenue for your traffic while promoting the strongest offers in the market with the latest in lead optimization technology. Our customizable solutions provide the tools you need to scale your business, while our proven lead technology maximizes your lead revenue. Learn more about affiliate marketing solutions.

Affiliate Program Detail

• Minimum payout: $100
• Payment options: ACH, Check, ePassporte, Paypal, WebMoney, or Bank Wire Transfer
• Affiliate tracking software: In-house proprietary platform
• Realtime statistics: Yes
• International acceptance: Yes

Last but not least, if you’ve been planning to attend to Affiliate Summit East 2010 (August 15-17, 2010 in New York City), you can meet the T3Leads team, T3Leads has been registered and will be attend there.

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Affiliate marketing is basically where the affiliate gets paid for bringing buyers to the merchants. When the customer makes his purchase, you get a percentage of the sale as a ‘commission’. The percentage you get varies from vendor to vendor. But as an affiliate, you get to choose the best option for you. Therefore, if a prospect buys a $100 product and it pays 50% commission, you will receive $50 as a reward for your work. Quite simply, you find online methods to introduce your chosen product to interested people and leave it up to the vendor to do the rest.

For some people, affiliate marketing is becoming the first choice at the start of an Internet marketing career. It’s an easy way to get a taste of online marketing without having to create your own product or deal with supply and support issues. Technically, you don’t even need your own website and you can start right away. You can choose to work part time to build a generous residual income as affiliate marketer.

What you should look for before promoting

Now we are going to talk about affiliate programs and what you should look for before joining or promoting them.

It can be more difficult to sell something that you have no interest in, so pick a product or program that you would be interested in purchasing yourself. The chances are there that many others are also interested in the same program and products. This is basic consideration for choosing products you would to promote – Yourself is as measurement to choose products that you would to promote.

Of course, you can’t just base your decision to promote an affiliate program on weather or not you like the product, but it is a good place to start. Now let’s go over some other thing you should consider.

1. Quality of Product – Look for a product or service that is of high quality. For instance, look for one that is associated with many experts in your chosen niche. This way you will know that the standard is likely to be good.

2. Popularity – Pick a product that caters to a growing target market. This will make it much easier for you to make sales. There are plenty of ways to find out what products are popular, including looking at the best sellers on Amazon and EBay, but if you are selling something related to a niche that you are interested in, you will know what a popular item is.

3. High Payout – Do not waste your time with programs that do not reward substantially for your efforts. A program with a compensation plan that pays out a residual income and a payout of 30% or more would be a great choice.

4. Lots of Tools and Resources – Selecting a vendor who provides you with lots of tools and resources (such as: banners, articles, templates, product images, and more) will help you grow the business in the shortest possible time. Not all affiliate programs have these capacities.

5. Knowledge – Have a thorough and intensive knowledge about the affiliate program that you intend to promote. Knowing the kind of program you are getting yourself into will help you anticipate and prevent any problems you may encounter.

6. Pre-Requisites – Be aware of any minimum quotas that you must fulfill. Some affiliate programs impose pre-requisites before you get your commissions. For instance you may have to make more than a $100.00 or make five sales before you receive your payment. If the sales target is too hard to achieve you may want to rethink joining.

7. Has Good System – Check out weather or not the program has an automated system that allows you to check your referral statistics and compensation at any time.

8. Rewards and Incentives – Does the program offer strong incentives for customers to make additional purchases or for members to renew their memberships. Affiliate programs that provide continuous help and upgrades for its products have the tendency to retain more customers. These things can assure the growth of your business.

All these points above are able to ensure that you’re promoting the good and profitable program. Once you have got a good hold of the ropes of Internet affiliate marketing and your commissions are rolling in, you may consider giving up the day job and joining the many of affiliate marketers making a substantial income online.

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Regarding to the new features, PeerFly has made a complete post on its blog. All new features are really awesome, as publishers you definitely will love them. So here’re the new awesome features.

Early Payments

When it comes to affiliate marketing, there are times when waiting for Net-30 just won’t do and you need money right away to pay off a credit card or other bill. Whatever the reason, PeerFly now offers an emergency (within 8 hours) and early (3 days) payment request feature.

Tiered Payment Schedule

PeerFly now has a tiered payment schedule system whereby you are eligible for faster payment turnaround times based upon how much revenue you generate each month. For example, if you generate under $1,000 a month with PeerFly, you will be paid on a Net-30 basis. However, if you generate over $1,000 a month you will be paid once every 2 weeks.

RSS/XML Feeds

PeerFly now has XML/RSS feeds to help publishers and developers take advantage the custom interface at PeerFly. You can use feeds to get the information such as: All Offers, Popular Offers, Paused Offers, Account Info and Daily Earnings.

PeerFly Stats Firefox Plugin

The Firefox plugin / addon displays your current day’s total as well as unpaid balance in the bottom right corner of your Firefox browser. The plugin is very simple and easy to use and is a great timesaver for people who constantly checking their stats. If you’re currently a publisher on Peerfly, I guess you have already received email from Peerfly about this Firefox addon.

Also, Tyler Cruz has made a complete and nice post on his blog regarding these new features – PeerFly Launches 4 New Awesome Features. Just check it out!

Last but not least, BBB has determined that Peerfly business meets BBB accreditation standards (BBB Accredited business since 6/15/2010). This makes a proof that Peerfly really want to build long term and trust relationship with publishers and advertisers.

Because of their custom built software that they are using, this allows them to offer features and services that other networks can’t, like these awesome features. I highly recommend PeerFly and encourage you to sign up with them if you haven’t already!

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There are many different ways that you can use to make money starting immediately. Just remember that in order to do that, you have to advertise whatever way you choose to use.

1. Affiliate programs or affiliate marketing – You can promote many of other people’s products or services, you earn money for any sale or lead you generated. You just need to find a few of affiliate programs, sign up with them for free and then start marketing them right away. You can easily make money immediately with this way because when you sign up you are given everything you need to get started, including a website.

2. eBay store and use eBay auctions to sell products. Many people will start making money immediately from it. I have many friends who are making money on eBay. It doesn’t matter what products you sell, just try and find products that are in demand. So now you are sure that you can make money right away selling them.

3. Freelancing. Many people are really looking for a good freelancer online to offer them valuable services. Writing, website design, copywriting, advertising and many other things are the services that many people are seeking. You definitely can start making money today if you have good skill at any of these things.

4. Business opportunities. There are many different business opportunities online that you can use to start your own business online. These opportunities provide everything you need, including a website, to get started promoting it immediately. Take your time and find a legitimate opportunity that offers a good profit to promote it. Business opportunities usually are MLM online, membership referral program, and many more.

5. Create your own product. You can create your own information products online to sell. You can also create other types of products at home such as clothes, books,  handicrafts or any other type of product you can create that people would want.

These are just a few of the ways that you can use to make money online today. Choose the one that you will enjoy the most and get busy marketing your new business. The more marketing you do, the faster you will make money. Just don’t give up no matter what because there is definitely a lot of money that can be made online by anyone.

Just reminder, don’t take all these ways at the same time period. Just focus and concentrate on the one that you will enjoy the most. If you take all these ways, I can assure your focus and concentration will be divided and fragmented, it will not generate maximum result and it will waste your time and effort.

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Here are some of improvements of LinkXL 2.0:

Publisher Features:

• Quick indexing (about 1-2 days)
• Updated page metrics (PR, cache, site PR, links)
• Updated plugins
• Publisher approvals

Advertiser Features:

• Simpler campaign management
• Drag and drop
• Faster, more accurate search results

In many ways this sounds similar to the original LinkXL – please remember that the majority of the upgrade was to the engine.

Compared to Text-Link-Ads Inlinks, LinkXL is easier for publishers to get approved and get links sold. After the announcement, as publisher I just got 4 links sold on one of my blog, it’s truly earning money while snoring for me .

As advertiser you can build link at cheap price, and as publisher you can sell link and get approved into the system with ease. Make sure to check out the new and improved LinkXL 2.0.

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Brave Minisite Template is a new graphic package offered by Lucas Adamski. What caught my eye is a total integration to Wordpress. Each sales page or landing page template can be loaded into Wordpress. The Brave Minisite Templates are able to save tons of time with the sales page formatting because of the custom made WYSIWIG interface made especially for marketers needs. You will find all the necessary tools in seconds.

Brave Minisite Template offers minisite templates that come with PSD file, HTML and CSS files. Additionally each template is available in Wordpress theme. Each template has a PSD file where you can change header and headline graphics to your own. If you won’t know how to do it, there are video trainings showing you step by step how to edit each template in Photoshop. One of the main drawbacks is that you will need Photoshop in order to customize the headline and other graphics.

The Brave Minisite Templates are very quality and unique. Each graphic element is precisely designed and eye-appealing. Also, each template uses extra graphic elements useful especially while writing copy. These elements are header graphic, pre headline graphic, headline graphic, bullet points, 2 johnson’s boxes and order button. All done using simple WYSIWIG editor, so you don’t need to know any coding language.

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Buy Brave Minisite Templates Package

This product saved so much time and money I can’t even count it. Now, the price is much less than you would ever expect for such a big package. 7 Wordpress minisite templates with PSDs, video trainings and custom plugin could cost easily few thousand dollars. The last time I checked the price was only $97 $47, so check it now as I know this offer may change any time.

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As website owner or blogger, because it easy to share your page, your page will get more chance to be submitted to social bookmarking or social networking sites with these social bookmarking tools. So your page will get more exposure if the visitors share your page.

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Sharebar

This is my favorite Wordpress plugin to add social networking links/buttons on my blog. Sharebar adds a dynamic and fully customizable vertical box to the left of a blog post that contains links/buttons to popular social networking sites. For wide blogs, a vertical bar with popular sharing icons appears on the left of your post. If the page is resized below 1000px (default), the vertical bar disappears and a horizontal Sharebar appears under the post title.

Digg Digg

Make the buttons show at the left side of the post or page, scroll down as the people read the post, Mashable.com scrolling effect cloned.

GetSocial

GetSocial adds a lightweight and intelligent floating social media sharing box on your blog posts.

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