Facebook mistakes that make you look like an idiot

The last thing anyone want’s to do, is to look like an idiot on Facebook:

but

a lot of people do, not because they plan to but because they make a few fundamental mistakes.

a. Making Offers on Facebook all the time.

Some marketers just cannot help themselves, they are so driven to make the next sale that they make offers on Facebook all the time and making these offers the wrong way. I have written a blog post on making offers on Facebook the right way which you can read here.

The main thing to understand is that people will only stay on your page if they are entertained, educated or find some other value from your page. Selling to them all the time does not add any value to your fan, it only asks for money. The secret is to provide tremendous value before asking for anything which means that you need to add engaging content to your page. A good rule of thumb is 1/10. Only one out of 10 pieces of content should be in the form of an offer. Think of television, they show you a few minutes of  advertising for every hour of content and most people still HATE those ads.  So keep selling to a minimum.

b. Not engaging with Fans

If your contents are not getting any likes, shares or comments then you need to re-evaluate what you are doing in terms of content. Ask yourself, what is a fan getting out of this page? Would I myself engage with this content? The most engaging content is surveys and questions. I am in process of compiling a list of engaging questions, which I will publish shortly. Also makes sure that your content has value to your fans e.g. If you are running a Fan site for sports, then fans want to see thing relevant to the specific sports. So you need to create content with stories about the teams, players and upcoming games. Please note that you don’t have to write everything yourself, content timely shared from other sites will help to keep your Fans happy.

Comments are the lifeblood of engagement. If you can get fans to comment, make sure that you comment yourself and are active on your own page. Once engagement gets momentum all you need to do is to set the ball rolling and engagement will follow. Remember this: An ENGAGED FAN is a HAPPY FAN.

c. Not building a list

This is a fundamental and sometimes fatal mistake people make on Facebook. If you are not building a list from your Fan page, then your are chocking off the lifeblood of your business and it will be very, very hard for you to make any money from Facebook. It is thus imperative that you build your list as this is the only real way tomake money from Facebook.

d. Not sharing your best content

To really differentiate you from your competition, you need to really push the line in providing value to your Facebook Fans. Share your best content with your Fans, don’t hold back. The more value you give and give and give, the more value your fans will give back to you over time. It comes down to the simple idea that you really need to care about and help your fans with the fundamental reason why they came to your page in the first place.

e. Lack of Passion

Look it is really easy, if you don’t really care – your fans will not care either. This comes back to the fundamental question, why are you in this specific business. If you are only in it for the money and not really passionate about it, then you should re-consider your business or niche. If you want to be a publisher, then you need to be passionate about publishing and then if you find a niche that does not really interested in but might look lucrative, then you need to find a content creator that is passionate about the niche.

I hope this post adds value to your Facebook business, please leave a comment below if it does.

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4 Steps for Facebook Fan Page Success

There are 4 major steps  to Facebook Fan page success.

 

1. Set up of the page. ( Doing it right and SEO compliant )

 

2. Getting Fans

 

3. Creating page content and a publishing schedule

 

4. Monetize

 

 

 

Setting up and running a Facebook Fan page can be very, very rewarding but at the same time it can be extremely time consuming.

 

Are you sick and tired of spending all of your time in front of a computer?

 

So what if we offered to do all the work for you?

 

Check out what happened to one of our clients:

 

 

 

Niche: Sports Fans

Blog: http://springbokfans.com ( 1000+ readers per day)

Facebook: https://facebook.com/bokfans ( 61 500 Fans )

Mailing list: 7 000 subscribers

 

Advertising Cost: ZERO

Income: Substantial

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Now, as you can see from the above, the Affiliate Power team are experts at this. we have built similar pages in various niches and now we are offering this as a

 

"Done for you service" - Yes, we will do everything for you.

 

There are 4 major steps t to Fan page success.

 

1. Set up of the page. ( Doing it right and SEO compliant )

 

2. Getting Fans

 

3. Creating page content and a publishing schedule

 

4. Monetize

 

Our service includes all 4 of these steps, all done for you.

 

AND

 

as a Thanksgiving Special we are offering a massive discount.

 

So go over to our Blog and read more about it and get started with your Fan page today.

 

Feel free to contact me with any questions

 

Peter

Affiliate Power

Connect on Facebook: https://facebook.com/workwithpeter

 

P.S. This is an opportunity to take advantage of the holiday sales period right now.

 

So, if you move quickly, we can have your page and running in time for this weekend, which is the busiest online sales period of the year.

 

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How to create your Facebook publishing schedule

Do you have a Facebook publishing 

schedule?

As you know the secret of success on a Fan page is engagement. To create engagement you need a proper publishing plan and we have found that not a lot of marketers have a well structured publishing schedule.

A publishing schedule should start with the fundamental question: "What is the outcome that I want with my posts? Am I posting on purpose ore am I just posting something when I feel like it or see something interesting?

Here is a short checklist of the things we take into account when producing a publishing schedule for our posts.

a) What is the outcome we want to achieve?

b) Create a profile of your average fan and tailor your posts to that fan profile. [ This is an important step people neglect ].

b) How often will we post?  [ It is important that you do not post too often because fans get tired and leave but if you don't post regularly, then nothing will happen on your page. How often you post also depends on your niche. An example would be a sports page where fans want updates during or after a big game or event. So it is important to really think about this.]

c) 90 % of our posts will be images or videos - It just works

d) Have specific plans for specific days. We have special posts scheduled on Mondays ( just after the weekend), Wednesday's  - a midweek post that might be a little longer and the Sunday evening post [ Just to let your fan know that your are thinking about him or her.]

e) Recycle popular posts  - This is extremely important. Remember that Facebook works like a news feed and only a small percentage of your fans will see a specific post. So  recycle your content by scheduling popular posts into your publishing plan.

These are just a few - So go and POST ON PURPOSE.

 

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How to generate 61 550 Fans without advertising

61 550 Fans without any advertising [Case Study]

 

 The secret of creating this many fans without any advertising is to produce engaging and timely content.

This client of ours is in the Sports Niche and the results show what a good coaching program is worth to a client.

 After signing up for our coaching program a few months ago, these are the STATS:  

NICHE: Sports Fans Blog: http://springbokfans.com  1000+ readers per day Facebook: https://springbokfans.com/bokfans   61550 Fans Mailing List: 7000 Advertising cost: ZERO Income: Substantial Coaching relationship: Ongoing

As you can see this highlights the value of good coaching.

 Here is a short checklist for you to use to enable you to have more fans on your Facebook page.
 a. Determine your outcome: ( What should your result look like in the next 90 days )

 b. Strategy

 c. Your plan - ( Do you have a Facebook publishing plan? )

 d. Are you building a list?

 e. Monetizing

 A lot of people shy away from coaching because of various reasons but the results above show how shortsighted that would be.

 So, if you are interested to hear more Click here and don't become the victim of yet another lost opportunity.

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Surviving the Wild Outdoors

Surviving the Wild Outdoors

How to listen, learn lead..

Leadership is to listen, learn and then lead.

In this TED talk Four-star general Stanley McChrystal shares what he learned about leadership over his decades in the military. How can you build a sense of shared purpose among people of many ages and skill sets? By listening and learning — and addressing the possibility of failure.  
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Noah ‘Apparently Kid’ Goes To The Texas State Fair

Texas State Fair shows off Noah the "apparently" Kid.

Remember Noah Ritter, the adorable kid who went viral after being on the local news for saying ‘apparently’ over and over? Ellen DeGeneres instantly fell in love with him, and now he frequents her show. Ellen recently sent Noah to the Texas State Fair to enjoy the festivities, and of course sent a camera crew to apparently capture all the fun.     Enter of Free Giveaway by Clicking here

Mike Tyson Plays Himself In Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out

Jimmy Fallon loves all things old school. As the holiday season is just around the corner, Jimmy was reminiscing with his celebrity host Mike Tyson about receiving Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out for the original Nintendo for Christmas when he was a much young lad. That got Jimmy thinking. Wouldn’t it be awesome to have Mike Tyson play Mike Tyson on the Nintendo? Naturally, he set up the duel for everyone to enjoy on The Tonight Show.

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How to create a Viral Facebook Post

Creating Viral Facebook Posts:

Is there a secret to creating Facebook posts that will help them to go Viral? Why do posts like the one below go viral?   The secret is the really get into the mind of your audience and try to understand what they really want and feel. Most people will really think that they deserve more out of life and will relate to a post stating that. We used this concept very well on of of our niche sites.   There is not a supporter out there who does not want a ticket to the World Cup, so this type of post is sure to get almost guaranteed results. You can apply the same principle to any business or niche. The best type of posts that we have found are:   1. Lists - ( Top 10 of anything really works well.) 2. Why post 3. How posts 4. What posts 5. Videos 6. Inspirational quotes.   We have built whole pages around motivational quotes - like the one below.     One of the things that most marketers neglect is the re-promotion of old content.  Facebook insights is an invaluable tool that you should use to see which of your content is most popular and re-post your popular content regularly. The most valuable think that you should take away from this post is that you should really think about what you are posting and how every post will engage with your audience. Place yourself in the shoes of your readers and your posts will go viral more often. If you would like to get more ideas on making money with Facebook Click Here      

Glow In The Dark Trick Shots Look Amazing

After years of churning out viral trick shot videos, it seemed that there was really nothing left. How many times can you throw a basketball into a hoop in a unique way? Somehow, the trick shot masters of Dude Perfect figured out how to make a new, creative, and original trick shot video.

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Michael Jackson’s Thriller Sung In 20 Different Style Halloween Styles

Anthony Vincent of Ten Second Songs is a cover artist master, recreating popular songs in countless different styles and genres. In honor of Halloween, Vincent covered Michael Jackson’s spookiest hit single Thriller in 20 different Halloween/heavy metal styles, such as Ozzy, Marilyn Manson, and more! Happy Halloween!

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What the Bottle Saw

During Brian and Allie’s wedding, James C stuck a GoPro camera on the side of a bottle of Fireball whiskey. Then, he passed the bottle of booze around for everyone to take a sip. After the wedding, he chopped up the footage to create this unique GoPro perspective video.
Congrats to the happy couple!

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Tap Dancing Priests Are Better Dancers Than You Think

Most people assume if you’re a Roman Catholic priests you can’t have any fun. But that’s not really true. Just check out these tap dancing priests from Pontifical North American College in Rome. During a fundraiser, Reverends David Rider and John Gibson tear the house down with their epic tap dancing.
 

 

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Man sees with Bionic eye -[ BREAKTHROUGH!]

We can now build Bionic eyes - WOW!


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Women Feeds Bambi in her kitchen

Ever since Bambi, it has become a common fantasy to have a deer as a pet. In this viral video, Deer Mommy calls her baby deer into the kitchen from the wild, and gives deery a bottle. So jealous!  


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Motivation Manifesto, Videos

Videos by Brendon Burchard and the Motivation Manifesto:

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The Motivation Manifesto: Definition of and Formula for Motivation

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Kiss my Mouse!

This is what I want to say to doubters on the 10 Year anniversary of Facebook..

Yes, the Internet is still the BEST business opportunity out there..

Proving that anybody can make it online..

What you need is a recipe with the following ingredients:

• The right mindset: - You need to think like an Entrepreneur, not an Opportunity Seeker and you need the will of an Entrepreneur to build a business
• A Vision – An Entrepreneur is a creator of opportunities and this start by creating the right Vision
• Strategic Thinking: This is the most neglected area of business thinking online, people think tactically - ( Remember Massive Action? ) Massive Action is great but THINK before you act and test your actions, if you are going the wrong way, CHANGE direction..
• Work, Work, Work: Yes, success is created by blood, sweat and tears..

What are we saying – Is it going to be easy? NO!

Is it worth it? – Hell Yes. Watch the Video below..

Now after you watched that – are you read for your own online success story?

I am inviting you to join our team of successful online entrepreneurs, today – Click Here

And say to the World --- Kiss my Mouse

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Sharing Ideas

The Internet is all about Sharing Ideas and being creative but we as Internet Marketers have saturated the Internet with garbage content. Always selling, selling selling.

What if we just started sharing ideas?

Here are a 3 radical ones..

1. Give away your best content for FREE  -share it with everyone..

2. Forget about leads ( this is old school selling.. ) – Let people download your content without having to fill in their email address. WHAT? Are you serious? You might ask.. What about building my list? My argument would be that more people will join your list if you have good ideas and they will be people that are responsive.

3. Give away Free Training – Again don’t let people opt-in to webinars etc. Make it totally open..

My thinking here is that the more we share with others, the more they will share with us. The Internet is all about cooperation and the more people we can cooperate with the best chance we will have for success.

So with this in mind we started a group on Facebook for sharing ideas. We called this group Nightmare to Millionaire. Reason being that so many Internet Marketers started out with a dream and are now living like slaves chained to their computers. We want to help change all this by building the largest group of people freely sharing their best information and ideas. A kind of “open-source” of ideas for online entrepreneurs. You can join our Free and Open group here.. Then please share some of your best content and also invite all your friends and contacts. Like I said, we want to make this the largest group of online ideas..

We’d love to hear your comments. Why don’t you start Sharing Ideas by Sharing this?

10 Facts about Business Blogging

 

10 Facts about Business Blogging

1. Nobody knows how many blogs are actually online;

2.150 Million people in the USA reads a blog at least once a month;

3.Businesses with a Blog experience a 77% median increase in lead inflow

4.70% of population say that Blogs Influence what they buy;

5.67% of marketers view their blog as "critical" to their business;

6.64% of the population trust the information in a blogpost written by someone they know.

7.More than 60% of US customers have made a purchase because of a recommendation on a blog..

8.Blogs are 63% more likely to influence a purchase than a magazine;

9. Blogs give you Creditbility and Authority influencing buying decisions

10.Blogs have 434%more indexed pages than other websites;

So why are you not blogging yet?

Click here..

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Amazing Selling Machine, Case Studies and Testimonials:

We are in the last 48 hours of one of the biggest launches the online community has ever seen and it is thus apt that we look at other people who has had success with the Amazing Selling Machine. Matt Clark and Jason Katzenback trained many students over the last couple of years and here are 3 Case Studies of ordinary people with extraordinary success:

• Case Study 1: A $723,972.44 Business from Scratch

Two "normal" people who dramatically changed the direction of their life in a matter of months. Julie, a business consultant, admits having known so little about internet marketing that she thought traffic was "something you got stuck in on the way to work."" Julian, a sales and marketing professional, describes his online sales experience by simply saying, "I'd been failing online for 12 years... Doing everything I could think of."

Now, in an incredibly short period of time, Julie and Julian have finally achieved success with their largest month to date bringing in $280k worth of sales. Check out this video to see exactly how they found success and the business advice that changed it all.

• Case Study 2: From 10 Hour Days to a 4 Hour Workweek

Former ASM students all have FASCINATING stories. Take Maggie Umlauf for example. She was a medic in the Navy having signed up just two months out of high school. She then worked her way through college and later, graduate school where she gained her Masters to become a Physician's Assistant. While her career was extremely rewarding, working over 10 hour days was a regular expectation.

It seems like Maggie and her husband, Jim, had the PERFECT life... But they both longed to start a family and knew Maggie's hectic schedule would be a challenge to say the least. So when Maggie stumbled across a video series JUST LIKE THIS ONE explaining how to build a physical products business, she told Jim she'd like to give it a try and work fewer hours and from home. Her husbands response was apt: "Everyone wants to figure out how to do that!"

Most of their students had very little to no entrepreneurial background whatsoever... but they've been able to build wildly successful brand new businesses using what you're about to learn. That's because these two guys make it INSANELY easy to follow along and get results.

• Case Study 3: $50,000/mo. in Just Six Months

Check out the story of Shawn and Kelly. They both had a little bit of experience building a business but couldn't pass up this course when a colleague told them about it. Now just six months later, they're earning over $50K a month working just hours a day while traveling. Check out the full story here.

Click here to read more about the Amazing Academy

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Motivation Manifesto, Quotes

Some of the best quotes from Brendon Burchard, author of the Motivation Manifesto.

Brendon Burchard just launched his new book, The Motivation Manifesto and his new motivation course , Achievement Accelerator and we thought you might enjoy a collection of Brendon’s best quotes: See below:

  

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Amazing Academy, training Videos

Amazing Academy and Amazing Selling Machine Training Videos:

Matt Clark and Jason Katzenback, founders of the Amazing Academy created these 4 Videos which is a must see for every internet marketer.

In these videos you will learn how to create and automated business selling physical products, which products to select and sell and much. much more.

Click here to watch all 4 Videos ( they are Free to watch ) - 

 

Don't delay in watching this as ASM is closing it's doors soon!

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The Motivation Manifesto, The Achievement Accelerator by Brendon Burchard

The Achievement Accelerator, a 5-week, online advanced personal development and self-mastery program, led by legendary high performance trainer Brendon Burchard, author of  The Motivation Manifesto.

You’ll love this – I think this could help you.

If you’ve been frustrated with how fast you’re moving toward your dreams, or struggled to succeed with sanity and constancy, then this is a must-watch:

As I said, this is a new program by #1 New York Times bestselling author Brendon Burchard. I’ve been telling you a lot about him lately.

Amazingly, he’s going to be mentoring people for an entire year to achieve their goals and reach their potential faster.

How often has a multimillionaire offered to share all their achievement practices with you, let alone train and support you for an entire year?

How much faster would you excel and reach your goals if you had someone that accomplished to ask questions to every week?

That’s what this is about, and why I recommend you watch this right now:

This is the transformational experience you’ve been waiting for. It’s your time,There’s a faster path to success and fulfillment in life. We all know that. But sometimes we need help. That’s why I love what Brendon Burchard  is doing for you guys. – Click Here

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Why giving away the Farm and more is a good business idea..

The internet was built on this idea of sharing information and making it accessible to everyone. The reality today is the online business models that are working are built on the concept of providing Free, Content, Free Tools, Free, Free, Free..

In doubt about this?

Are you using Google or any other search engine? It's FREE.. In actual fact go and have a look at everything that Google provides for Free.. You Tube? - Free! -- Yahoo? - Free.. Facebook? - ahem, FREE.. Twitter? - Free..

and these guys are just the start..

Have you noticed how Free online News decimated the market share of Newspapers?

All producers of paid content are fighting a never ending struggle against competition from Free content, Free Software Tools, Free Apps etc..

So what does this have to do with Internet Marketing?

We'll everything - Have you noticed how Google and Facebook never makes a sales pitch? Google Adsense revenues are in the Billions because the Free search Platform are a perfect place to sell an advertising system without ever doing a "hard sell".. Google does not even bother building a list.. Now, I am not saying we can all be Google, Facebook or You Tube but we can certainly learn from them and apply some of their strategies into our business..

All the training I see on internet marketing are about getting traffic, buying ads, How to blog, SEO etc.. But what about the most used and most effective strategy of all? Give people something they can use for FREE?

And when I say FREE, I mean FREE - No capture pages, opt-ins etc. Just give and give and give..  I know this sounds like a radical idea but is it really? Look at Google.. Free - no strings attached.. I am not saying that you should not build a list or sell any products. What I am saying is if you give enough value away on a consistent basis then you will build so much goodwill that selling will be automatic and without effort...

Let's put is this way..

If people Trust your FREE stuff - they will buy anything from you - - So make sure you give away quality. Google does not just give you a search functionality, they give you the best search engine ever made!

So how are we going to practice what we preach?

How would you like to Supercharge your Affiliate business for FREE?

We are building the BEST and the LARGEST Resource for Affiliates and it's FREE!

We call it Training on Demand!,  

AND we are going to provide the BEST FREE training to affiliates..

We are just starting but here are some Free Training you can access right now:

-How to create hundreds of Leads with Viral Marketing  ( learn from a lead generation specialist)

- Free Traffic Tips( From the Master of Internet Traffic.)

- You Tube Secrets( In addition to the Free training you get to download PDF cheatsheets etc.etc..)
AND we have only started.. We are going to update this resource constantly and will even ask our members to contribute training..

AND You can now get The Motivation Manifesto, by Brendon Burchard - as well as his  course [valued at $297]- 

So what do we charge for all of this? 

Here it is $10 000?, $ 5000?, $497? $97?.... $47?  No..

We will charge you the bargain basement price of $ 0.00 ( Zero USD..)

Yes, Zero, Zip..

Yes, totally FREE..

So don't delay -Go here before I change my mind and up the price ( It can only go up from here..).

And send this link to  invite everyone you know - your friends, business and customers will love you for

sharing this FREE resource..

Any comments on this idea? You can post them below for FREE :-).

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