As you have probably have heard, Facebook has now over 500 million active users and is still growing. If you have a business and you are still not marketing your business on Facebook, you are crazy. Now is the perfect time to be using Facebook. Below is a 97 paged presentation by Chad Richards, he is going to share with you effective ways of using Facebook to market your business. Also have shared a fantastic presentation by Onitz on how to set up super cool Facebook fan pages. Enjoy

Facebook For Business
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Facebook Fan Pages – A Step By Step Guide
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It can be hard to track how you are performing across social media and across the internet, but with powerful monitoring tools you can judge the effectiveness of your social media efforts and keep track of what people are saying about your business, your products or services.

Here are three of the best social media monitoring Tools for free to monitor your brand’s performance and results across multiple social media sites.

Addict-o-matic

Addict-o-matic – This tool gives you comprehensive information that will be invaluable for monitoring your performance in social media. It gathers information about your keywords or brands from across the Web, including Flickr, news, YouTube, Digg, Blogs, as well as most known social media platforms. You can also create a custom page with the latest buzz on any topic you want.

Boardreader

Boardreader – is a search engine for forums and message boards for your keywords, bringing up the latest results which you can click through to, as well as graphs that will trend your results over certain time periods. Keep an eye on the conversations in forums, as these can give you an insight into how people feel about your brand.

Social Mention

Social Mention – is an social media search engine that searches user-generated content such as blogs, bookmarks, events, news, comments, and videos all in real-time. As well as displaying the latest results, it also gives you a related keywords, reach and many other useful metrics.

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Getting backlinks to your site is essential if you want to increase your rankings in the search engines to get more traffic to your site. If you want to find places in your niche where you can leave links, you’ll learn how here.

Before you submit comments to blogs or forum signature links, look for sites rank 3 or more it gives a good indication of a popular site, Use plugin SEO Quake or SEO Firefox to check for page ranks.

When you leave your comments, make sure its valuable information and related to the post. You can instantly build a good reputation in these communities and reach out to your prospects with just a few forum posts and a very enticing signature that shows them the links to your website.

1/ Finding Blogs

If you want to find a Wordpress-based blog in your niche where you can leave comments and get valuable backlinks in the process, here are some examples of what you can type into Google to find them:

Just enter your keyword, you get sites that have those words somewhere on the page

“your keyword” + “do follow blog”

or try

“your keyword” + “do follow blogs”

If you get a lot of blogs that have their comments closed, you can use the
following command to exclude those from your searches.

“powered by wordpress” your keyword -comments are closed

2/ Finding Forums

“your keyword” + “forum”

“your keyword” + “forums”

Doing these methods manually can be time consuming, I recommend outsourcing these tasks or use automated tools likeSEO Blueprint

SEO Analysis Tools helps you to analyze and measure the ranking potential of your web pages. In just a single click you will get a crystal clear report on changes that must be done to your webpage such as on-page and off page optimization and optimization of competitor analysis. I currently use some of these tools for my full time job as a search engine optimization specialist. Let Me know what you think by leaving a comment below!

Link Diagnosis

Link Diagnosis – Using this online tool and its addon for Firefox you can get a detailed view of the backlinks to your site and get information such as Page Rank of the linking page, link strength, keywords used etc.

Rank Checker

Rank Checker – is a free Firefox plugin tool from Aaron Wall – founder of SEOBook.com. Rank checker is used to automatically track your rankings (and rank changes) on Google, Yahoo and Bing.

Majestic SEO

Majestic SEO – (Free limited use) is a comprehensive backlink analysis service developed by Majestic-12 allowing for monthly backlink reporting and charts. This tool is mostly used by SEO specialists.

Spydermate

Spydermate – Free SEO analysis tool that offers on-page keyword analysis, overview of your site’s search engine rankings and site-by-site competitor comparison great tool for both SEO experts and SEO beginners.

There are several ways to make money online, I have tried and tested different online business models, some were successfully, some were not, but its down to what you feel comfortable with doing. I have shared methods that have worked for me. Hopefully this article will help you decide which method is best for you.

1/ Offer Or Sell A Service

The best and the least expensive way to make money online is to provide a service to other people, whether you are a dog groomer, programmer, seo expert everyone needs something done for them, you can do this by advertising your services offline through friends and family, make sure you set up your own blog or site advertising your services and promote your brand online using social media.

2/ Create And Sell Your Own Products

You would need a bit of capital if you are going to create your own products, unless you have graphic design and programming skills, you would need to outsource the work if you want quality and professional looking products. You can create ebooks, training materials, webinars, software and much more. Read my free product creation report for more details – Download Free Report

3/ Set Up Your Own Retail Store

I have sold products via Ebay its a great way to make extra income, but depending on what product you are selling, Ebay can be very saturated and you would need to stand out from the crowd, the alternative to this is to have your own retail store. I use and recommend Niche Blueprint 2.0, its a step by step training course that teaches you how to market and set up your own online retail store quite easily.

4/ Set Up Your Own Social Networking site

Creating your own social networking sites is not difficult at all, there are free scripts and paid scripts you can used to create a social networking sites you could use scripts like Ning, Kickapps, phpfox and many others. If you need to make changes to a script just hire a programmer from many of the freelancers websites such as Get A Coder.

Other Ways To Make Money Online
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Before you start creating your online business, make sure you do your market research first check out pervious Posts: Find Product Ideas , How To Choose The Right Niche (part 1)

I had the privilege to one of the beta testers for this new keyword research tool called IM Eye created by Tim Godfrey and Steve Clayton. This tool is one of its kind and if used correctly will greatly improve your success online.

IMeye works in a completely different way to other popular tools like Keywordspy, Spyfu, Market Samurai & Keyword Elite, as excellent as they all are.

IMeye uses a proprietary method of gathering the best keywords out there, doing all the analysis and research on them and then storing them in a huge database ready for your use. All you have to do is tell IMeye what criteria you want for your next big project and IMeye delivers the top matching keywords instantly!

EXAMPLE

The first thing to do is set the criteria anyway you want:

- Monthly research volume is 20,000 over
- The competing pages < 20,000
- Intitle competing pages < 50,000
- Adwords CPC’s are > $ 0.20

IMEye will give you all the best keywords, it will tell you what Adwords CPC’s to bid on, which domains are for sale, all the information you need to profit from your project.

You can also search by  ecommerce product keywords that are selling and affiliate marketing e.g. Clickbank

IM Eye also filters out keyword match domain names, domains for sale, Amazon, Youtube, BlogSpot, Squidoo and other social media sites that are in the top ten of Google.

There are many different ways of using this keyword research tool, the skys the limit. Also Tim Godfrey and Steve Clayton will be adding more new features too IMEye in the future, which will make it even better.

To find out more about IMEye watch the demo video >>>click here

If you have any comments or questions let me know.

In the pervious posts I talk about how to find a niche and how to preform indepth keyword market analysis. Check out pervious Posts: How To Choose The Right Niche (part 1) ,  How To Choose The Right Niche (Part 2)

Get to know your competitors better, Who are your competitors? What are customer needs and preferences are you competing to meet? all this shapes your business decisions. Competitor analysis identifies the strengths and weaknesses of competing products or services. Find out exactly where your competitors traffic is coming from. Find out exactly which keywords are sending them the most traffic.

Here are some tools that is great for competitive analysis.

KeywordSpy

KeywordSpy – SEO & PPC Keyword Research software tool, that unveil your competitors most profitable Ad copies and keywords.

Quantcast

Quantcast.com -presents the demographics of web sites as well as the estimated monthly unique visitors, similar sites and the profile of a typical visitor of the site. Unfortunately, the results are sometimes unusable, because there are simply too many sites quantcast doesn’t know yet.

Compete

Compete.com – provides information for every site on the internet including site traffic history, competitive analytics, visitors, keywords that are driving traffic and more.

Google Adplanner

Google Adplanner – Free research and media planning tool that connects advertisers and publishers. Provides statistical profile of visitors to any website.

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In the last post I talked about how to pick a product / niche idea and keyword research. Now you can take the keyword research to the next level and do a indepth keyword market analysis which will give us the evolution of interest over time and keywords that our competitiors are using.

SEO For FireFox

SEO For FireFox – Once you have install the plugin, their are lots of features you have access to:

A couple keyword research tools are located just below the search box including:

* Google Insights – compare search volume patterns across specific regions,
categories, time frames and properties.

* Google Trends – shows historical search volume trends.

* Google Sktool – The average amount of traffic the keyword matches each month
on Google.com

* SEO Book Keyword Research Tool – cross references many popular keyword research tools.

* Google Traffic Estimator – shows top bid estimates and click volume estimates
associated with Google Awords.

* Google Keyword Sandbox – Google’s keyword research tool.

In addition to pulling in this valuable marketing data this tool links to the resources where the data was pulled from, so it makes it easy for you to verify the data and further analyze it by citing the source. You can click on any of the data points to dig deeper.

Other SEO Tools for serious market research :
15 Useful SEO Tools

The first thing you need is to have a product or niche ideas, the best place to get ideas is yourself, what are you interested in and what knowledge or skills do you have, read this article “How to find product / niche ideas”

Once you have some ideas, you want to look deeper to make sure there is a good market for them before you even think about creating a product or service.

The best resources I use to ascertain if their is a market for my idea, are places that tell you what people are searching for.

1/ Google Search based tool

Google Search based tool – Enter your niche or product idea in the word or phrase box, or select a niche from the categories on the left handside.

From the keyword ideas list copy a keyword or keywords that you want to analyse more.

2/ Google Adwords Keywords Tool

Go into Google Adwords Keywords Tool and paste the keyword or keywords into the box.

Try and look for keywords that have around 2 – 3  words in them. With between 2000 – 5000 or more per monthly searches using exact match phrases.

3/ Google

Next I like to see what sort of competition there is for those keywords. Just look at page 1 of Google. You really are only competing against the first 10 websites. Type your search term (without quotes) into Google search engine. If the top ten positions have a page rank of three or less, then your niche will have a good chance of ranking in the top ten of Google. Use SEO for Firefox plugin, to check the page ranks..

More Niche market resources to try:
More Niche Resources
10 hot Niche Market Research Sites

Part 2 is going to talk about indepth keyword research….

Running and building your own online business can be very rewarding, but at times it can also be extremely challenging. Luckily, there is a lot of advice and lots of great resources to help you make your business dream come true. Here is a list of the best resources that I use most of the time to help build my online business.

These resources will help you learn how to start your business from scratch, help you find great ideas and help you stay motivated and make your business successful.

Entrepreneurs Journey

Entrepreneurs Journey – is a blog (weblog) website aimed at those interested in Internet business and Blogging. Entrepreneurs Journey provides useful content and interviews from entrepreneurs from around the world.

The Warrior Forum

Warrior Forum – Is the best place to learn about internet marketing, ebook selling and home based business.

Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneur.com – Great content on how to start an online business, also a great place to network with entrepreneurs just like you.

Think Big Magazine

Think Big Magazine – is a free online business magazine which shares stories that inspire and motivate people.

Meet Up

Meet Up – This is a great place to meet like minded entrepreneurs and business owners, which can help form mastermind groups, plan meetings and form offline clubs in local communities around the world.

Mixergy

Mixergy – Mixergy is where the ambitious learn from a mix of experienced mentors. Mixergy holds events were business people take some time out of their schedules to help teach others what they learned from their own experiences.

startups – uk based

startups – Startups.co.uk is the number one leading source of information for UK entrepreneurs. Whether you are a budding entrepreneur ready to start a business for the first time or you are an established entrepreneur looking to do it a second time, Startups.co.uk have all the news and information you need to get your small business starting on the right foot.

Other links to resources

Top Social Networks for entrepreneurs: visit website

101 Useful Resources for Online Entrepreneurs: visit website

10 of the Best Social Media Tools for Entrepreneurs: visit website

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