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You got that right! I’ve found a lot of useful resources here since I started following a few months back.
Hoping to catch a few more informative posts about the SBA program you’ve included here, Jeremy. I really need a bit of capital to get my start-up online hobby shop off the ground and I think joining a peer-to-peer lending system just might do the trick. Regards from Indiana.
They do. Very useful stuff too.
I’ve been thinking of putting up a Facebook fan page for my site. I thought generating the number of likes would be a problem. This listing most probably have solved my main problem. And with the ShoeMoney discount, I’ll be getting 1K likes at great value.
I have one but it still isn’t generating traffic. It’s nice to know there’s a service I could avail without spending much. Until when is the ShoeMoney discount valid?
I’ve come across an ezine article that says if a website has had growing profits for 3 years and has a fantastic domain name and high growth potential, then it may sell for much more than 2 years profit. Follow-up question: How do website brokers actually appraise a site?
There are plenty of strategies to generate and maintain traffic via a Facebook fan page. $.06-.08/fan is a good deal. However, I think you also need to work on getting the most out of the community you manage to create by making a genuine and useful contribution to the chatter. There’s always the possibility you could lose your fans with too much self-serving comments.
I couldn’t have said it better. I can’t count the number of times I’ve “unliked” fan pages because of endless self-serving links and comments.
Any way you look at it, you can’t deny the fact that business is business and the every man for himself rule is put into play almost always. Self-serving comments are just crumbs of the whole pie…
My site’s not earning more than $50K but my friend’s does. I think he’ll be interested to sell one of the many he’s currently running.
FB fan pages are so common these days that people don’t have the slightest inkling of how to properly use them anymore. Are you going to use this just for building a brand? Do you want your fan page to drive traffic back to your website to help generate sales or opt-ins? Great tips on using grow Fan, too.
I read somewhere that the five (5) cardinal rules of building a massive Facebook fan page are: 1. Entice people to become a fan 2. Keep the content coming 3. Create a personal connection 4. Interaction is key 5. Sneak Peek. What do you think, Shoe?
Not only is Facebook a great place to expose yourself to thousands of new customers, but Google is now using content from social media sites in their search results. Growing Facebook fans has never been easier with your pro-tips, buddy.
With Sockeye Networks, I was able to go beyond the obvious keywords in my target niche and expand my marketing efforts to include all the possible searches a potential customer is using to find my products. Thanks for posting yet another superb list, Shoe.
Their database contains only e-commerce keywords related to goods and services widely used today. Apart from eliminating the clutter of unrelated searches for information and other popular topics, having 98% pure keywords up your sleeve makes web marketing an even more exciting journey.
I dunno about you but the Facebook fan page growth “secret” takes the cake among all the items for this week’s list. Besides getting access to easy financial assistance, knowing you can up the ante on your FB fan network is just exciting. Definitely a winner!
I viewed the sample file and I must say I was amazed just how extensive their list of keywords seem to be. With more than a million possible keywords to choose from, I’d say we have us here an awesome deal.
I’m planning to apply for a loan from the bank. I was not exactly looking forward to the process. I still remember how tedious it was the first time. I’m glad I stumbled into the peer-to-peer lending on the list. For once, I’d like to do away with the tons of paperwork involved.
You’ll find P2P lending a lot easier. I recently applied for a $10K loan and everything was fairly easy. I was able to launch my online business earlier than I anticipated.
I’ve heard a lot of negative feedback on this SBA program. Is it really legit or just another money-making scheme? (Just thinking aloud, Jeremy)
Interesting post about peer-to-peer lending, Shoe. I guess it is a great alternative to traditional lending. I still think that it is better to save up for big purchases, and have a solid emergency fund available for true emergencies. This way, you are never forced into a borrowing situation. Nonetheless, they don’t seem to have links in Texas. Any comments on this?
Predictive dialer seems like an awesome tool to have for my marketing services company. Are they offering discounts for ShoeMoney readers, Jeremy?
If I were a telemarketer, that software would be on top of my wish list.
I bet you would. It must be very convenient to do away with manual dialing in telesales. I’m thinking that software would make it even more easier for telemarketers to make those annoying calls at home.
Yay! I can’t wait to answer an annoying phone call sooner or later from a bumbling telemarketer while I am having a nice bath.
Why are telemarketers almost always catch us at our most vulnerable? Do they keep a vulnerability schedule? LMAO
Someone recently recommended HostNine Reseller Hosting platform to me. He said that it enabled him to host his websites all around the world and in a good number of servers. I thought that kind of service would be extremely costly. I’m glad I saw your listings. I can’t wait to check out what other offerings they have.
check out their reseller cloud hosting. one of the coolest web hosting services i’ve seen so far.
But isn’t cloud hosting more costly to set-up? I’ll probably give the reseller hosting a try first.
Jeremy, does this mean that garnering as much Facebook fans as possible nowadays is mostly a gimmick, not mentioning a rising niche in web marketing? Hope to hear solid advice from you ASAP.
I guess quantity merits more oomph than quality in the current social media marketing setting. While there may still be loyal patrons out there rooting for your business or product, there are also bots and illegitimate Facebook accounts thrown in the mix that muddle things up.
So much for social media marketing. Enterprising web-based con artists are exploiting every available niche and cranny they can get into. From Twitter to Facebook, they are just all over the Internet.
That’s why the gradual evolution of the Internet as an open information source into a tightly-centralized directory of businesses and resources is a sign of continuous progression. So don’t feel incensed the next time you go through a lot of security checks when you access your Facebook page. At least you’re guaranteed that unscrupulous individuals won’t be getting their hands on your product’s or brand’s 411 anytime soon.
For borrowers, the disadvantages are borrowing from the unknown and an unregulated institution. You don’t get the stability of borrowing from a financial institution (though it’s fairly easy to argue that Lending Club and its investors are stable), and despite what Lending Club boasts, there is a possibility you will find higher interest rates on the loans than a local credit union personal loan. But again, perhaps you wouldn’t even have been able to get this loan without Lending Club in the first place.
Major lesson learned from my first attempt to apply for a loan with another peer-to-peer lending program was to read the fine print thoroughly. I thought I was getting an 8% interest rate, which was pretty much the ceiling for me. I was surprised to find out later that I was actually paying 10%. Good thing I was able to complete my payments in less than a year.
There’s always that risk, yes. The only way around that is to do your research first and make a shortlist of reputable P2P lending programs/systems before applying for that needed loan.
I think a Facebook fan page is a great PR tool/platform. A lot of successful fan pages I’ve seen do away with hard selling and use the platform to actually provide relevant and useful content.
To take the discussion up a notch, let me just ask what really makes a Facebook fan page truly successful? Is it the number of fans alone? Is it the number of traffic generated by the fans? Kindly provide additional details on this one, Shoe, since I am really interested to give Grow Fan a go sooner or later.
User engagement is a big factor in generating leads. Basically works in both offline and online marketing or PR strategies. The more customer/user engagement there is, the more chances of utilizing word of mouth to crunch more leads.
This is especially true in terms of keeping users engaged. Look at Facebook now. It is so interactive that it has managed to hold on as the most popular social networking site longer than its predecessors. Moreover, its fan pages are just what you need to take web business up a whole new level. With a strong fan page as the foundation for your business in social marketing you will be in position to grow your sales. It is important to be careful when doing this as to not turn away your fans (after all, even the biggest rockers give their fans a show for the price of a ticket or two).
It’s rare to find a site now that’s not using social media for self-promotion. And since there’s nothing bigger than FB right now, it would be a shame to waste the opportunity available in that platform. Adding FB like scripts and creating fan pages is now a given for every site that needs to be promoted.
But with so many fan pages vying for traffic, you’ll need all the strategies and tools you can access to get ahead of the pack.
Just one quick query to finally clear up this issue: Doesn’t Facebook have a user-regulation system that blocks suspicious users? I mean look at the site now. It is gradually transforming into MySpace and Friendster combined with a bit of 4chan for kicks…
It does have one. But there’s just people who are good at circumventing systems, exploiting loopholes, or finding workarounds.
I think the fact that Facebook offers a lot of gaming options for users is just one of the reasons why it is constantly infiltrated by suspicious accounts. Whether you’re hooked on Mafia Wars or Zynga Poker, people just can’t avoid creating sham accounts just to keep their gaming privileges up and running.
Well, those are not such bad skills if used responsibly. It just so happens that there are others who make use of them for malicious means.
Addiction to glorified social networking games is malicious enough when left alone for a very long time. (Come to think of it, addiction to the Shoemoney Blog is a better alternative than playing farmer or mafia boss any day!)
Should you invest with Lending Club or is it too risky? I am not downplaying the benefits I can get from them but with all the black hat operations moving in and out of the web in the present, it’s better to be safe than sorry.
All things involving the subject of money involves an aspect of risk, which also increases as the amount of cash piles up. P.S. I would have appreciated a disclaimer in your post about the restrictions for Lending Club investors.
If you have a product that has promising nationwide appeal and you want to grow the power of your brand, then having a rich fan page environment is the way to go. This doesn’t call for the basic variety that only has a picture of your product on the upper left corner but a complete customized page. By the way, thanks for posting the Shoemoney discounts, too.
Great list! Btw, what happened to the stolen image issue you posted last week? Did iStockphoto finally gave their side of the story?
I don’t even have the slightest inkling what this hullabaloo is all about. Care to expound a bit, Jeremy?
major fail. they need some PR work done on that one.
I’ve just read his posts regarding that issue. I’m quite relieved that I never had similar experiences in my previous dealings with them. I think somebody just made a mistake in putting that image up for sale. They really should address that problem and ensure that it doesn’t happen again.
Tried making a fake account on Facebook, too, just to play more Farmville. Now that the game has jumped the shark, I am more comfortable stretching out here in my living room with a glass of Chablis and reading my favorite fashion magazine. Any updates on ER7, Shoe?
Is it just me or does anyone else think that most web marketing enthusiasts these days are getting more and more automatic each day? Predictive dialers and instant Facebook fans? Eventually, there will come a time when automatons will read the Shoemoney Blog for me. What do you think, Shoe?
I think this is a great example, too:
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Shoe, are we entering the Age of Instants? LMAO
There are certainly more technology you can use now than before. It provides an edge if you want to be highly competitive.
With the existence of almost life-like sex dolls, artificial food and drinks and Paris Hilton’s constantly changing bust size, that time won’t be far off, baby!
Interesting list. I’m curious about the traffic syndication technology. It would be nice to have a few automated sites that would give me more time to focus on other online money making schemes I’m running. But the price is a bit steep for me. I may have to do some further research to study the possible ROI.
Automation has certainly made running my sites a whole lot easier. I’m using a different service provider though with features are not as extensive as the one offered by GoogTraffic.
I spend a lot of time in keyword research that I should otherwise spend creating content. Good to know that there’s such a rich source of products and services keywords that I can have at my disposal.
Keep the great stuff coming, Shoemeister! Any updates on Jeff’s upcoming post yet?
“Are you fed up spending hour upon painstaking hour commenting on blogs, setting up profiles on forums, or submitting your content to social networking sites in the hope that it will increase your link popularity?
Do you get frustrated when after you spent all that time and effort you find out that your links have been deleted, no followed, or that the links just don’t help your PR?”
I feel like this was written with me in mind.
Looks like I have the answer to my backlinking woes.
Awesome list! Looking forward to more interesting resources next week.
Going beyond the obvious keywords in your target niche and expanding your keyword marketing efforts to include all the possible searches a potential customer is using to find your products has never been this effortless! Great list, Jeremy. Best wishes from Toledo.
Any ER updates? I’ve heard that there’s a long wait list long before the announcement was made. I hope there’s enough slots left for those like me who aren’t on that list yet.
Apart from predictive dialing features, web marketing in the near future will involve automatic tweeting capabilities if you like a certain post or article and WP and Blogger will automatically vie for page rank for your blog or site without having to go through a lot of kinks along the way. Too soon?
Excellent resources! You do come up with new cool new listing tools in your market place every week.
I’m using a different service provider though with features are not as extensive as the one offered by GoogTraffic.
thanks for the list guys..nice one