No matter how many great strategies you use, if you do not really intend to reach out to your customers, there will be no point in starting an online business. Every business involves selling, and if you can’t socialize with your customers, try to understand them, and get ideas from them, you are destined to [...]

Google Plus. Are you familiar with it? It is a social networking and messaging system integrated in Gmail, and it is now one of the things you should not forget if you want to use Web 2.0 to your advantage.

Your Facebook fan page is a great medium to get more traffic to your site, establish your online presence, and generally achieve success. However, without anyone knowing about your site, achieving any of your goals is next to impossible.

The most circled Google+ user? Ironically it’s Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg with 475,697 followers. After Google launched its service on June 28th, he created his own profile and quickly covered the top spot. It was a cool move of him. That he created his own Google+ profile exuberated an aura of self-confidence. ‘We’re cool with [...]

Here's a new interview with inside views on Google+. Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media. Bradley Horowitz is Vice President of Product for Google's social products including Google+. Mini Reveiw: Tim O'Reilly isa bit more on the technical, abstract side, while Bradley Horowitz is more on the practical side, so a [...]

Nothing says 'We Don't Care!' better than a canned response. All responses below belong to the same support ticket. Message 1 Thank you for contacting xxx Customer Service. We have received your message and will respond within 24 hours. As a subscriber, you are very important to us. If we can be of further assistance, [...]

Facebook like buttons and fan pages not allowed in Germany's state of Schleswig Holstein anymore. You may think this is a joke, but it is not. German privacy protectors asked web sites owners to remove Facebook like buttons from their sites, and threaten to fine € 50,000. They claim Facebook Like buttons and Fan pages [...]

Some people are very hesitant when it comes to availing products and services online, even when it has now become a safe and easy method for everyone. However, you can’t blame them as there are still a lot of thieves and deceitful people lurking online. That is why you need to calm them; you can [...]

I just replaced wordpress comments with Disqus. In case you never heard of it: it's a service that allows users to post comments to a web site and, at the same time, get these comments posted to their social profiles, like Facebook or Twitter. There are more features, but the core for me is connecting [...]

There is something about Facebook that makes it so addicting for its members. Otherwise, it would not have been able to beat MySpace and acquire 750 million users through the years. Now, just what could this something be? It seems Google has figured it all out, and that is why it has added a good [...]

There are a lot of features on Facebook that you can use for getting more traffic. However, some of them are left behind, even when they can produce great results if used wisely.

With Google+ continuously rising to popularity, people just have to wonder what kind of people are behind this ever-growing company. So, what kind of personalities, habits, and responsibilities do you think the men behind Google have? Danny Sullivan, the editor-in-chief of Search Engine Land, helps us discover the answer by holding an interview session with [...]

Birthdays are important as they signify life and a great beginning. That is especially true when we are talking about the birth of the internet, of the World Wide Web. Some think that the internet and the World Wide Web are the same thing; people use these two terms interchangeably, in fact. However, they are [...]

With more and more people getting hooked, or at least interested, with Google+, Facebook just had to make a move. So, what’s Facebook’s decision? Start with passing the news feed control to users—consumers, developers, and marketers alike. Basically, what happens is that the news feed filter, which categorizes your friends' or fans' posts, is removed. [...]

YouTube is a great medium when you want to offer tutorials. After all, it is always easier to see how things are done compared to imagining it while reading an article. However, that is not only the great thing about YouTube.

No, I'm not It's just a quote from this video that I found. Actually, I never liked Facebook at all. That's why I'm promoting Google+ so much. If you're a happy Facebook user, click below and take a look:

On August 1, Adobe Systems publicly added a new product to their line of web design and animation programs. It’s still in beta, and it’s named Adobe Edge. Adobe Edge is a tool for creating website animations. It allows you to add rich motion designs to any of your HTML projects, regardless if it’s a [...]

Digg andReddit are not the only sites you can create buttons; you can also create similar buttons for the two most popular social networking and microblogging sites–Facebook and Twitter.

Google launches another part of the Page Speed family today—Page Speed Service—a  service that assists web masters and developers in optimizing and loading their sites faster. As we already know, Internet users can be a very, very irritable and impatient bunch. That is exactly the reason why webmasters like us aim to optimize our site’s [...]

“Against our privacy.” “Unprofitable.” “Leaves us with little choice.” These seem to be the issues that pushed Google administrators to change Google Places’s content and formatting and present a revamped Google Places last Thursday afternoon. If you visited Google Places on July 22, you have probably already noticed the difference—third-party reviews are completely removed. This means that [...]

Have you been waiting for a button to invite people to your Google+ profile? The wait is over! With social buttons you can usually do 1 of 3 things: 1. You can share something you find interesting with your followers. When you share, it will show up in your stream or on your wall. The [...]

What are you going to do if something you invested time and effort on starts controlling you instead? Of course, you will surely start looking for alternatives that give you freedom and privacy! That is exactly the driving force of people who have left Facebook and started broadening their networks through Google+. Facebook has, for [...]

Have you tried promoting your business in social bookmarking sites? Social bookmarking sites can be great source of traffic and sales, just like Facebook and Twitter.  

Google’s CEO Larry Page just announced 10 Million Google+ users this evening. I’d guess most of those are tech savvy early adopters, click- and share-happy social networkers. With Google+ buzzing (pun intended) even before its official launch, you probably thought about adding a Google +1 button to your website. It could send a quickly growing [...]

Twitter only lets you submit 140 character updates or “tweets.” Nevertheless, we can’t deny the fact that Twitter is the best and fastest way for us to update customers, colleagues, suppliers, etc.

The real secret to becoming a successful marketer is discovering all the possible marketing platforms and wisely using them. If you’ve chosen the path of Smartphone apps creation, then there is one thing you need to keep in mind: you must create apps that work for various operating systems.

In a previous tip, we have discussed the benefits of creating a Facebook app. Today, we will talk about a similar topic–creating a great iPhone app.

Twitter has now become a very popular marketing platform. You can use it not only to directly promote your products but to create a buzz to get more traffic and further establish your online presence.

It is great to promote your website and gain traffic from Facebook. The same goes for Twitter as well as Digg. However, if you have, say, Facebook and Twitter, it is best to cross promote on them.

Sometimes you can’t easily attract attention with just some bits of info regarding your business and your products. At such, you might want to change the default settings on your Facebook fan page. This is so your Facebook fan page visitors will see something more entertaining and will be easily swayed to join your page.

If you’ve been doing any kind of Internet marketing for a period of time, whether it would be promoting your own offers or affiliate offers, chances are that you have been utilizing article marketing in your promotion efforts. Article marketing is a great, free way to bring targeted traffic back to your product page, as [...]

One of the best and easiest ways to drive traffic to your site is by creating a discussion forum on your Facebook fan page. You can then channel the forum traffic you get to your site.

In many situations, this simply won’t apply to you, as it does not make sense for most businesses to create an application on Facebook. Nevertheless, if you have the right business model and products, creating a Facebook app can be a great way to increase your business’s presence online. If you don’t know anything about [...]

Will you be launching a new product? Do you have somebody who is planning a product launch who you want to support? There are various ways in which you can support a product launch through Facebook. Nevertheless, one I personally recommend is to creating an event. After creating the event, you can then promote it [...]

In addition to sending updates to your customers and colleagues with your Facebook fan page, you can also use it to gather information from your fans, as I’ve mentioned previously. There are specifically three things that you should try to request from your fans.

I’ve added a new tool to Internet Business Mastermind that helps you to create high-quality articles in a shorter amount of time.  This tool is called the “Free Article Rewriter,” and you can find it here: http://internetbusinessmastermind.com/free-article-rewriter I’ll publish a longer post about it Monday, but for now you should be good by just going [...]

Another great benefit of having a Facebook fan page is that you can easily send out information to your colleagues and customer. If you already followed my earlier tip of reaching out to your subscribers with an autoresponder course and getting them to become your fan on Facebook, then you should now have a broad [...]

In web 2.0 marketing many people rely only on web 2.0 sites like Blogger and Tumblr. Well, you can’t blame them. After all, these sites are popular and acquire massive traffic every day. However, there is something yo must know: when it comes to dominating Web 2.0, trying as many options as possible is key. [...]

Toprankblog.com has compiled a great list of 4 free and 1 partially free reports on using social media for B2B marketing. Here are the direct download links for the 5 B2B social media PDFs, no sign-up required. B2B Tech Marketing and Social Media The Infinite Dial 2011: Navigating Digital Platforms 2011 Social Media Marketing Industry [...]

Twitter and Facebook are today’s hottest social network and microblogging sites. Having a member base consisting of millions, there is no wonder why they have become great marketing platforms as well. That is exactly why, in an earlier Web 2.0 marketing tip, I mentioned that you can use your email list to grow your Twitter [...]

Twitter has become such a popular and powerful marketing platform, thanks to it being  home to millions of members. In Web 2.0 Marketing Tip # 55, we discussed how Twitter can be a great medium for promoting your new products. However, that is not the only thing you can do with this great network. With [...]

Google announced that the algorithm changes from the so-called ‘Farmer Update’ are being rolled out internationally. But that’s not all. They’ve added a new feature to their ranking algorithm, and it basically says: If users let Google know they don’t like your site, your ranking will suffer. Google’s Amit Singhal explained it this way: “… [...]

When it comes to Web 2.0 marketing, you will find that Twitter is one of the most popular media to use. Not only that, but Twitter is also one of today’s most popular social networking sites. There is no wonder why  Twitter has become a great tool for marketing just about any kind of products [...]

Okay, so we know people are spamming the web with crappy content. Content that is scraped from other sites, badly spun, or at worst even translated to a different language and then translated back to English. Now one those web masters was “smart” enough to complain about his site not being indexed in the Google [...]

Social networks like Facebook and Twitter is creating a lot of buzz not only among regular folks who love to keep in touch but also in the internet marketing world. Well, it is unavoidable as these websites are teeming with millions of our potential customers. Are you using these networks to gain profits? If yes, [...]

In the previous Web 2.0 marketing tip, we talked about creating a social network of your own. Have you decided on creating one yet? This step can be very beneficial for you and your business. However, this step can be very tricky. After all, the question still stands: How do you get thousands of people [...]

It is always cool and beneficial to use existing and popular social networks for the advance of your business. However, if you want to feel more fulfilled, then you might want to start your own social network. Doesn’t that sound more exciting?

Have you created your own forum yet? Forums can be very profitable, not only money-wise but connection-wise. If you have already established a good forum and have drawn in a good number of “core” members and lurkers, then you have to take the next step. What is it? Start getting some good ole profits!

Forums are a great medium for connecting with people who share similar interests and thoughts as you; they are great places to establish connections and get customers. That is exactly why it can be very beneficial to start your own forums, even though it entails quite a lot of work. However, just because you have [...]

Always, there is a need for us to attract customers and lead them to our site, giving us traffic and, ideally, sales in the process. We can use different strategies, but one of the best and innovative ways to do this is to create your own forum and lead.

Disqus is a great site which you can integrate with your Tumblr blog. However, do you know that you can effectively use it with your primary websites? Yes, Disqus can actually come handy for when you want to interact more with your customers, when you want to establish deeper relationships. The best thing about this [...]

Search engines love blogs, and a lot of people love to create and read others’ blogs. However, one thing that turns off people is the fact that a lot of blogs request them to sign up just to allow them to comment. Sure, this move will guarantee that your blog is secured. However, for a [...]

Most marketers today create different Web 2.0 accounts such as in social networks, blogs, and social bookmarking sites to promote their website. Are you doing the same? It’s indubitable that this strategy can help divert more traffic and probably more sales to your website. However, it can actually be more beneficial if you are using [...]

In the previous Web 2.0 marketing tip, we discussed how useful RSS feeds can be for you, your business, and your customers. Today, we will look at an essential part of that plan. That is, we will look at how you can use RSS feeds to attract your readers to keep coming back to your [...]

Regardless if you choose to start blogging in Tumblr or you just want more of your site followers to get easily updated, you will find RSS feeds to be very useful. You see, the problem is a lot of people likes to read blogs, but often, they end up forgetting blogs they once liked or [...]

How big is your email list? If you have been working on email marketing for some time now, you have probably acquired a good number of subscribers already. Well, are you marketing on Twitter? If yes, then you must surely discover how you can benefit from using your email list to get more customers from [...]

In the last Web 2.0 tip, we discussed how you can quickly locate new Facebook friends using the email addresses you have in your autoresponder account. Have you done it yet? If yes, then you should be prepared to take another great step after that. That is to say, you should invite your Facebook friends [...]

Have you created a personal and business Facebook profile yet? Facebook is a very prominent social network, so it is just natural for you to use it as a marketing platform. While some simply creates a personal profile to keep in touch with colleagues and customers, a Facebook fan page will actually be beneficial.

Facebook has skyrocketed to success. It has become so popular today that you will surely be missing a lot if you do not use it for establishing your online presence and promoting your business. Now, one thing you must know when it comes to Facebook, though, is the fact that you must set up both [...]

What kind of business are you running? If it is related to music, then you might want to join Last.fm. This social network is one of the most popular and probably the largest music catalogue today. Not familiar with it? Well, let us discuss this site in more detail.

In the previous Web 2.0 marketing tips, we have continuously talked about the various uses and benefits of Tumblr. Today, however, we will put this popular blogging site aside and look at profitable alternatives that you might not have used yet.

Tumblr can be a great platform for establishing your online presence as well as promoting your business. However, without a good theme to represent you and your business, it might look unprofessional and turn off your customers.

Tumblr has become a popular blogging platform not only because of its very user-friendly interface. There are a lot more to Tumblr that you can surely take advantage of for developing your business.

Twitter has skyrocketed to fame due to its user-friendly interface, very simple setup, and the fact that it takes just a few words to tell the world how you feel and what your thoughts are. However, it is the fact that it only allows a few characters that puts it at a disadvantage when comparing [...]

If you want your site followers to stick longer and keep coming back, then you have to employ various strategies that will make your website more dynamic. There are a lot of strategies you can employ, but one of the most appealing choices will be to create a scrolling Twitter feed.

When it comes to Web 2.0 marketing, it is essential to learn about and use different social sites, specifically networks like Facebook and Twitter. Are you using both these networks for your campaign? It can be very beneficial to market on different social networks. However, it can also be tiring–logging in and out and continuously posting [...]

What do you think about your business? Is your business continuously growing? Are you getting more customers? Is the profit you get stable? Well, what do you think about charities? When it comes to becoming a good businessman, being knowledgeable is good, but having a heart is better.

If you are one of those hundreds of common marketers, then you will surely be afraid of committing mistakes. This is one thing that hinders not only Web 2.0 campaigns but generally all marketing campaigns there are. Is it the same for you? If yes, then you are bound to fail!

Social networking and bookmarking sites are all the rave today, especially with the popularity Twitter, Facebook, Digg, and StumbleUpon are savoring today. With thousands and millions of people using these platforms, it’s undeniable that they are media you must use to achieve success with Web 2.0 marketing. However, there is a pressing question that relates [...]

It does not matter if you have just started with your internet business or if you are already an expert handling several businesses at once–time will always be essential for you. There is an old adage that says, “Time is gold.” However, for serious marketers like us who want to achieve success, time is definitely [...]

A few days ago I told you about a technical problem with the free downloads. I finally fixed it, simply by deactivating the plugin that caused the problems. It was the W3 Total Cache plugin. I’m a little bit sorry about deactivating it, because having it was a huge performance boost for wordpress. Unfortunately it [...]

No matter how great a marketer you are and no matter how good your products are, you will find that there will always be some people who will say bad things about your business or products. That is unavoidable; after all, different people have different opinions. That does not mean you won’t have to do [...]

Have you been building an internet business, but it isn’t as successful as you’d like? Then take a moment and read this article. The intended effect: Complete freedom. The side effect: You STOP wasting months or years of experimenting with business opportunities before you finally succeed. Many people start their own business to gain freedom [...]

When you login for the free downloads it seems that the login is not working and you can’t get the download. Actually it is working, but you have to REFRESH the page after login. Click the refresh button in your browser or use the key combination Ctrl + F5 on your keyboard. This problem is [...]

If there is one thing about Web 2.0 that make it sooo great, it will be the fact that users are given more freedom to express their thoughts. Some marketers think that this is a disadvantage since customers can give negative feedbacks. However, you must look at the bright side instead. If you allow your [...]

The reality is that changes are coming… They must come. You must share in bringing them. ~John Hersey~ You’ve probably made that mistake yourself. Excited by unlimited opportunities you take on dozens or (in my case) hundreds of projects…and in the end there’s little chance of creating anything of excellence. Simply because you’re diverting your [...]

Web 2.0 marketing is very different from traditional marketing In traditional marketing, what simply happens is that you’ll create an ad, purchase ad space somewhere, and then wait for the buyers to come in. They might come, or they might not. It’s quite the opposite with social networking sites. In Facebook, Twitter, or other social [...]

32 Free e-books for you – and much more to come week by week. One of the reasons to become a member of internet business mastermind is that you’re getting lots and lots of free downloads. There are free e-books, free software, and free web site templates right here at internet business mastermind.com. So let’s [...]

From now on I’m changing the feed settings to only display the summary of each blog post. As I will explain in a more detailed post later today, there’s going to be a lot of new content coming to the internet business mastermind blog. Up until now I had only 1 post per week. Sending [...]

A lot of people find it easier to start internet businesses. This is because with such a business, face-to-face communication is not necessary: what you really need are strong, persuasive words. However, if you think that you can act any way you want just because you are working online, you are gravely mistaken!

When it comes to Web 2.0 marketing, it’s important that you gain a lot of followers or fans, depending on the medium you are using. There are various ways you can accomplish this, and one we have already pointed out is the fact that you can start contests with reports, discount coupons, and the like [...]

If you want to establish customer loyalty, then it is essential that you keep close and continuously interact with your customers. You must engage them and let them air their thoughts. Only through this way can your business flourish and only through this can you acquire a lot of new customers every time.

Facebook and Twitter are great marketing platforms you should not miss using today. Why? The top reason will be: Because those are the places where thousands of your customers will be! While it is beneficial to market on both social network, however, in time, you will find that it can be tiring; you will need [...]

What kind of and which social networks do you use? If you are one of the regular marketers, then you are surely using the larger and more popular networks such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. Well, there is nothing wrong with starting your Web 2.0 marketing campaigns with these networks. However, it is worthy to consider [...]

Web 2.0 marketing actually involves a lot of interesting and fun aspects that will surely make you feel as if you are not working. However, at the end of the day, your goal for all Web 2.0 projects should still be to earn some type of return. Now, you don’t exactly need to get returns [...]

Regardless of the niche and the platform being used, there will always be people who have gathered numerous customers. When it comes to social networking, this becomes a more solid truth. In social networks like Facebook and Twitter, there will always be people getting so much attention–the “hot shots,” so to speak.

Forums are a good place to get noticed and to build relationships. However, not a lot of marketers realize how forums can be powerful marketing tools. That’s the reason why, in this We 2.0 marketing tip, we will discuss: How you can get traffic from forums How you build network through forum marketing Most marketers [...]

Twitter and Facebook are great marketing platforms on their own. However, if you want to optimize the result you will get from them, it is best to use them to complement your other Web 2.0 accounts as well as your primary website. Your web sites, blog, and Web 2.0 accounts are probably created at different [...]

LinkedIn is a popular social network for professionals. It is where you can establish your credibility and present your business as well as your offers. While a lot of marketers simply uses it for presenting their business profiles, you have to know that you can actually use it to generate organic search engine traffic for your [...]

If you have just began internet marketing, then you are surely out to find the best resources telling you what the best things to do and what the best strategies to use are. While there’s lots of advice floating around, free and paid, I encourage you to use your own judgment over that of so-called [...]

Marketing requires not only a good mastery of persuasion. It also calls for at least a mastery of the basic writing skills. The idea behind it is simple: You can be persuasive, but you can’t fool a reader with bad grammar. What do you need to improve your writing skills? Well…

In the previous Web 2.0 marketing tip, we discussed why you should create a Facebook fan page for your business and how you can make one. Today, we will look at how you can use you it to successfully boost your traffic and sales. The Power of Your Facebook Fan Page Taking some time and [...]

Many marketers believe that the only way to get traffic to a blog is to post frequently, ping, and optimize for natural search engine traffic. Well, those methods are actually useful and can get search engines’ attention. However, there is one great way to generate massive traffic for your blog without doing any of those! [...]

Web 2.0 marketing is a crucial topic in today’s marketing, even for businesses that usually operate offline. But since there are so many web 2.0 sites, and it’s just a small part of the bigger picture of your business, you might feel confused or overwhelmed. What you probably need is a simple step by step [...]

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Web 2.0 platforms can be used for a lot of purposes. However, most marketers typically utilize them for gathering information, which can be used for developing a business. This is probably true for your business as well. As I’ve mentioned in previous We 2.0 marketing tips, though, it is always better to give, so you [...]

No matter what social network you are using, it’s always a good idea to place a photo of yourself (or at least your internet business’s logo) where possible. Why? The reason is simple: in general, people will be hesitant to interact with profiles that don’t have faces attached to them. It’s just like when you [...]

Have you created an account on Twitter and Facebook yet? No. We’re not really going to look deeper into any of those two popular social networking sites. Today, we will look at another big player in the web 2.0 world: LinkedIn LinkedIn is currently (May 2010) at #17 at Alexa’s rank of the world’s most important web [...]