Put Flickr on Your Facebook Page!

Are pictures and photographs part of your marketing strategy?   Sometimes a picture can grab interest quicker and draw a person into your marketing funnel faster than anything else.  Many of us use Flickr to store and share the files we want to share with our market.  It’s a great idea to share our pictures with the widest audience possible.  I like to use a wide variety of my pictures on my social media sites, as do many other internet marketers.  I do most of my photo sharing on Flickr, the most popular photo sharing service, and on Facebook.

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Embed Your YouTube Video into Your Facebook Page

Two of the most important Social Networking sites for every marketer should be Facebook and YouTube.  Facebook and YouTube dominate the social media sites with the highest volume of active visitors, and searches.  Video content is important in your marketing efforts, while some people love to read information, many people prefer the visual learning from video content.  Some of the top Internet Marketers use video as their primary sales tool, with even a few using only video, instead of traditional sales page.  

1. Logon to your Facebook account.
2. On the status sharing box, click the tiny arrow that says “More” and click “Link”
   
3. Put your YouTube video link on the field box and click “Attach“.
   
4. You will see the video preview, description and link after that. Click the “Share” button if you are ready to share it.
   

Distribute Your Blog Post to Facebook!

To be successful at Internet marketing, you need to have your content in many places.  Many times the difference between a successful internet business, and one that does not make a profit, is simply getting your story in front of enough people.  I’m sure you are constantly busy, making new content, trying to get the word out.  You need to be able to leverage your time and efforts, and let people know about your new posts with the least amount of effort.

1. Go to your WordPress Administration Control Panel – Plugins – Add New.
   
2. Put “Wordbook” on the search field. Once you see the search result, install the one that says, “This plugin allows you to cross-post your blog posts to your Facebook Wall. Your Facebook “Boxes” tab will show your most recent blog posts. By Robert Tsai.”
   
3. Once the installation is complete, click “Activate Plugin“.
   
4. Now go to your Wordpress Administration Control Panel > Settings > Wordbook and click the Facebook logo with the padlock icon on that page.
   
5. Logon to the facebook with your facebook account info. On the next page, click “Get Login Code for” button.
   
6. On the next page, click the “Generate” button to generate a code for your Wordbook plugin. On the next page, you should get 6-digits code for your Wordbook plugin.
   
7. Copy and paste the code to your Wordbook page setting and press “Submit“.
   
8. Click the Facebook logo with the padlock again. On the new windows that appears, click “Allow Publishing“.
9. Now go publish a WordPress blog post and you will see that the plug-in automatically submits the blog post to your own Facebook wall, with excerpt of the post and images! It will also display a nice WordPress icon next to the Wall title!

Installing Google Analytics on Wordpress Blog

Are you using Wordpress for your marketing?  Do you really know what posts are popular?  Do you know what keywords brought visitors to your blog? How did your visitors get to your site?

A common mistake a new internet marketer makes is not gathering statistics about their blogs starting on day one. Getting feedback on what posts work, and what keywords are producing your traffic, allows you to focus on your markets desires, and target the proper offers for making real money.

The solution is to add Google Analytics to your Wordpress blog. With Google Analytics you will be able to track where your visitors come from by country (sometimes this is really eye opening), what browser they are using, how long they stayed on your site, and many other factors. You’ll also be able to see what sites sent you the traffic, if it is the search engines, the social bookmarking sites, another website, or even if people directly typed in your site’s URL. This information is critical to planning your future posts, and for determining where you need to promote your site.

Many people have not used Google Analytics since they are convinced they will need to put the code on every page of their blog. Luckily there is a great Google Analytics Plugin for Wordpress which will place the code in every post for you.

The plugin is very simple to install, here are the steps you need to follow :

1. Login to your Wordpress blog to access your Dashboard.
2. On left side, click tiny arrow on Plugins section then click ‘Add New’.
   
3. Type ‘Google Analyticator’ on search box, hit ‘Search Plugins’ button. Click ‘Install’.

   

4. Click ‘Install Now’ when description window appears.

   

5. Wordpress will do the installation for you, don’t forget to click ‘Activate Plugin’

   

6. Don’t close your blog, but now login to www.Google.com/analytics using your Gmail account. If you don’t have it, create it first.
7. If this is your first time on Google Analytics, you have to fill the ‘New Account Signup’ form until you have this code on your screen. Copy the tracking code given :

   

   Otherwise, just click ‘Add Website Profile’ on your existing Analytics account and you will find the tracking code after you type your URL.

   

8. Back to your Wordpress, click ‘Google Analytics’ on Settings section. Make it enable, click the ‘Authenticate with Google’ link to make the stats appear on your dashboard and the last thing to do is… type your tracking code.

   

   

9. Click ‘Save Changes’ on the bottom of your screen. Done! You will see your stats on your dashboard.

While Google Analytics is a great tool, it does have one minor issue for a marketer.  The statistics are not real-time. If you start a new marketing campaign and were wanting to watch the statistics through the day, you cannot. You will need to wait until the next day to see your results.

The Google Analytics for Wordpress will give you the important information you need to monitor and market to your niche. Without accurate data, you are throwing darts blindfolded, with Google Analytics, you’ll have a laser focus, and start hitting the marketing bulls-eye.

How To Use Twitter to Update Your Facebook Status

Every internet marketer faces one big challenge, leveraging your time on the important social media sites.  To keep in contact with your followers, it seems like you are always bouncing back and forth between the two giants of social sites, Facebook and Twitter.

Many times the message you send on Twitter is the same message you want to share on Facebook.  So you login to Twitter, type your message, and update your status.  Then it is off to Facebook, login, then retype the same message and update your status.  I’m sure your time is as valuable to you, as mine is to me, and retyping or even the “cut and paste” of the same message is frustrating.

Luckily for all of us marketers, there is a good solution to this problem.  You can use Twitter to update your Facebook status by using the Twitter app for Facebook.  By adding this app, you can login to your Twitter account through the application in Facebook.  When you post your update, it uses Twitter to update Facebook status, and updates your Twitter status, simultaneously.  That makes for nice time savings, and makes me feel much more efficient.

The easiest way to add the Twitter application for Facebook, so Twitter can update your Facebook status, is by searching for Twitter on Facebook, you’ll find the application on the first page of your search.  Make sure you choose the option to allow Twitter to update Facebook, or you’ll end up only updating Twitter.

To have this feature on your Facebook account, do this following steps :

1. login to Facebook, and click ‘Applications’ on bottom-left of your screen.
2. click ‘Browse More Applications’

   

3. type ’selective twitter status’ on search box and click the application

   

4. click ‘Go to Application’
5. type your Twitter username and click Save

   

6. click ‘Allow’ then click ‘Allow Publishing’ to continue the process
7. That’s it..! Any tweets you post that end with #fb should now update your Facebook status.

If you want to remove this feature, just click ‘Applications’ as you did on step #1, then click ‘Edit Applications’ and click ‘X’ on right side of ‘Selective Twitter Status’. You won’t be able to update your Facebook status from Twitter again after removing it.

There are some negatives with this approach.  First, it is a one way process.  Only Twitter can update Facebook, you cannot send a message directly in Facebook and have it update your Twitter status.  Secondly, since we are stuck with Twitter for the dual updates, we are limited to only 140 characters.  I’m not sure about you, but many times I want a message longer than 140 characters.  This leaves me with using Facebook for my longer messages, so for some updates I still have to do the two sites differently.

Using Twitter to update Facebook status using the Twitter App for Facebook is just one way you can leverage your time, and efforts in your social media marketing.

Creating Email Subscription Using FeedBurner

We have all heard the saying “the money is in the list” referring to building an email list, so you can keep in contact with your market. But for the new internet marketer, the cost of subscribing to an email autoresponder service can seem very expensive.

With the two major companies, Aweber and GetResponse, you are charged for the number of email subscribers on your list, and with their recent price changes, it has gone beyond the price “comfort zone” of many marketers. Spending $50 to $100 a month may not seem high to an established internet marketer, but when you’re starting out, every marketing penny counts.

If you are serious about making money online, you must create an email list, even while you are pinching your pennies. One great solution is to offer an email option from your blog. You can create a simple system for sending out your blog posts by email using Google’s Email Subscription via FeedBurner service. The FeedBurner service will allow you to start collecting and emailing subscribers for free.

To use the email subscription via FeedBurner, you will need to sign in to your Google account, and add your blog feed. You then add to your blog or web site, your readers fill out the form and subscribe to your blog feed. You can even add the subscription form as a widget in Typepad or Blogger. Your readers would then receive your new blog posts in email.

Here’s the step by step instructions in detail :

1. go to www.Feedburner.com
2. login using your Google account. if you don’t have it, create it first by clicking ‘Create an account’.
3. once you’ve logged in, type your feed address. then click NEXT.
   if you’re using Wordpress, usually your feed address is http://yourdomain.com/feed
   but if you’re using Blogger, your feed address is http://yourblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml

   

4. on the next page, customize your Feed Title and Feed Address. then click NEXT to continue.

   

5. click NEXT once again to get additional feature for free, FeedBurner Stats.
6. click on check-box where you want to enable clickthroughs or other stats. then click NEXT to continue.

   

7. to enable the email subscription feature, click Publicize tab then click ‘Email Subscriptions’ on left side and click ‘Activate’

   

8. you should see this code after ‘Activate’ button clicked :
   <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=YourBlog&amp;loc=en_US">Subscribe to Your Blog by Email</a>
   you can directly use that code on your blog or if you want to use it with image or icon, just use the highlighted code given below :
   <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=YourBlog&amp;loc=en_US">
<img border="0" src="http://link-to-your-image-file"></a>
9. you’re done! do some test before you publish it. you should see the Feedburner’s subscription page after clicking that link.

The FeedBurner service does come with a cost. The cost is in the features you lose. You can’t have a list of custom messages sent to new subscribers on a scheduled basis. Also, you will not have the detailed statistics you get from the paid autoresponders.

I suspect it is much easier to get listed on one of the email blacklists or caught in junk folders, since you don’t have the teams at Aweber or GetResponse working with Internet providers to keep you off of the spam lists. One other big issue, blog posts are not the greatest email format for email marketing, but keeping in contact with your market with FeedBurner emails, is much better than no emails.

Using the email subscription via FeedBurner is an inexpensive way to start collecting subscribers into your sales funnel. As your sales increase, you can move up to the more feature rich services from GetResponse or Aweber.