May 17, 2012

Twitter as a marketing tool for make money and new business opportunities

Twitter is the new revolution to make business don´t matter if you have a big or a small business. If you are in business and not have your own Twitter maybe you are losing money.

The New York Times reported for example some successful cases where twitter is used as a marketing tool for doing business and make money:

“SAN FRANCISCO — Three weeks after Curtis Kimball opened his crème brûlée cart in San Francisco, he noticed a stranger among the friends in line for his desserts. How had the man discovered the cart? He had read about it on Twitter.

For Mr. Kimball, who conceded that he “hadn’t really understood the purpose of Twitter,” the beauty of digital word-of-mouth marketing was immediately clear. He signed up for an account and has more than 5,400 followers who wait for him to post the current location of his itinerant cart and list the flavors of the day, like lavender and orange creamsicle.”

The great advantage of Twitter is that it costs absolutely nothing and their expansion and market penetration is growing very rapidly.

When I start my Twitter account I was a little bit disappointing but when I discovered applications such as TweeDeck I understood the huge potential of Twitter. These tools make Twitter a great chat with text messages where I can chat with hundreds or thousands of people at once depending on how many people follow me.

I invite you to use Twitter by clicking here on this link. Visit also TweetDeck in this link.

You can read the full quoted from the New York Times by clicking here on this link

7 tips to have Sales Success and make more money with your business

Learn secrets or tips to sell is one of the most important aspects for success. Always we are selling something … sometimes ourselves. For instance, we are selling ourselves as good professionals to get the best job possible.

At Aspire Now website gives us Seven Keys to Sales Success. In summary they said:

1. Work your plan – double your manager’s goals for you, or double your sales figures.

2. Deliver what you promise.

3. Offer what you can deliver today.

4. Build relationships, not orders. Build 4×4 relationships.

5. Use your network. Keep people informed.

6. Keep some in reserve.

7. Spend time wisely. Time is our biggest resource — and our smallest. Use it well and make the sell.”

About the first tip they said:

“1. Have a planned quota or goal to achieve? Now double it. Set your goal as double or triple whatever your boss told you to sell. People tend to miss their own goals – on average, they only hit about 80% of the goal. Therefore, your goal needs to be higher than your manager’s goal for you. If you are in business for yourself, take your sales goal that you know you need to sell to make money, and triple it. Strive for that goal, rather than the break-even goal. You’re in business to make money, not lose it, right?”

You can read the full article from Aspire Now by clicking here in this link

Photo via Sxc

Insert ads in your images and photos and make money by internet

The new trend by internet is the technology that allow insert ads in your photos and images, so the bloggers have a new way to make money with their blogs within a process called monetization.

Under a system similar to Google Adsense you can put relevant ads directly on your images so you can make money with ads that appear in your images.

Who actually is offering that service is PicadMedia.

As Picamedia is still in beta you can participate for invitation but also you could apply to be part of its advertising program in photos or images. The technology used is similar to You Tube use for insert ads to videos.

One of the best qualities of  Picamedia, is in my personal opinion, that the ads are not invasive, so them are displayed naturally on the images and photos.

I invite you to visit PicadMedia and apply to this new form of advertising images by clicking on this link here

Google help you to ensure the identity of your website and your business

Several times I have said that a website is an important business tool and the best of all is that is inexpensive or ussually free.

When you launch a website for your business you have the whole world front of you for speak about your business ideas. However, one must be very careful with the risks that someone takes the identity of your website and your business.

Fortunately for this we have the help of Google that through their “webmaster tools” allows you to take a series of assurances.

That tools are free. You need to paste a HTML code in your website in a simple and easy instalation, after that you can access a several stadistics about the traffic of visitors and you can learn about your potential costumers and test the content of your website.

I invite you to use these free resources to protect your website and your business through your Google Webmaster Tools by clicking  here.

How sales by internet: Increase your website Traffic

How do I sell online? You might have a website to sell your products via online but do not reach the customers.

Selling by Internet is a great business idea but sometimes you feel frustrated because customers do not arrive.

CNN Money give us some excellent advice here quoted in part.

First you need to increase traffic of people visiting your website. For that your address must be SEF (Search Engine Friendly). In other words each of your pages should be easy and simple names that search engines like Google or Yahoo as your potential customers can easily find.

See this website for example, every time you link an article it appears in the title. Other websites have indescifrales codes for you and difficult to search for search engines such as Google. Others use pure flash in their design and never change the name of the link.

You can also increase traffic by allocating the right words in the meta tag of your page. This is a simple process. Redesign your website with these advices and make the purchase process simple by “single click”.

You can read the full article from CNNMoney by clicking here in this link

A Recognized Quality of Leadership


Excellent article. Strong leadership could be a great thing for a company as Apple or any corporation or maybe for a country.

This is an automatic post from a blog that allow that your comments will send to your own blog automatically. 

You can Read the Article at HuffingtonPost who is the blog where I left my comment.

A low cost Marketing Idea: Use A Blog

Use a blog can become a valuable marketing tool as the New York Times told us in an interesting article.

There is not unanimity but some experts believe that using a blog can be a powerful marketing tool for small businesses because of their low cost.

Others believe that while it may be useful to have a blog requires certain skills and a long-term commitments. For mantain a blog you need to write frequently and read a lot by internet in order to catch the last trends that you put in your blog.

Perhaps small entrepreneurs are not willing to assume these commitments.

Either way, have a blog should be considered for any small business because its setup is very easy an inexpensive.

The photo is taken from The New York Times and show to Sarah E. Endine who has a blog about her business. She took the photo when arrived the first shipment of cacao from South America, so she write a post about it in her blog.

If you need advice you can reach us for free information.

You can read The New York Times article that I have commented in this post by clicking here in this link