Facebook Ads

If your website or product is tailored to a specific target audience and you can define them fairly easily then Facebook can provide a lot of eyes in a short period of time.  Search for groups and pages that attract the audience you are after and join in the conversation.  Once your comfortable click on the Ads and Pages button on the bottom left of the page and take a look at their ad network.  It’s pretty cool, once you create a campaign you start with the entire Facebook population available and as you define your target that number adjusts to the number of people that meet those requirements.  I would suggest creating a page for your product or company first and then promoting that page with the ads.  That way people can become fans and respond easily to your posts, pictures and videos and even share your coupons with their friends.

While you are on Facebook, think about signing up for a new account with the Visa Business network and get a free $75 ad credit on Yahoo.  They used to give out a $100 ad credit for Facebook but I think that promotion may have ended.  If anyone is aware of other promotions please share!

T-Shirts

This guy came up with this idea to wear whatever t-shirt people sent him for one day and blog about it for a fee based on what day of the year it is.  So January 1st for example only cost someone $1 and likewise December 31st cost someone $365.  Well, it worked and he’s booked through late 2010 now but that doesn’t prevent you and your friends from doing the same thing to promote you site and products.  If you don’t have someplace local you can find numerous companies that will print low volume runs of T-shirts and if you aren’t the artist type Google can help you there too.  Then get your friends to wear the shirts wherever your customers hang out.

Triple Your Rewards

Don’t forget the more money you save, the more you have to invest in yourself and your ideas.  When buying a product online there are three primary ways to save yourself money.

1. Entry way – if you click through to your destination from a particular site you can save money or earn rewards.  If you’re a Delta Frequent Flier start your shopping at SkymilesShopping.com and you’ll earn points towards a free trip.  If you prefer American Airlines try AAdvantageEShopping.com.  And they work with 100′s of stores you already shop at like Macy’s, Barnes and Noble and so on.  If flying isn’t your thing you can also join a free shopping network that will give you an average of 1% to 3% back in cash at those same stores.  So if you estimate a single frequent flier mile is worth 2 cents it works out to about the same value.
2. Coupons/Promotion Codes – Once you are at the actual store website, select your items and are ready to check out you are facing savings method #2.  Most stores have a place to enter a promotion or coupon code.  If you don’t have one fire up Google and enter in the name of the store and ‘coupon’ or ‘promotion code’ and you’ll be suprised how often you’ll find a working code that can save you a few dollars or provide free shipping.  You can also try the name of the specific product you want as there may be a manufacturers coupon available.  Just remember most sites only allow one code per order so use the best one you find or split up your order if it makes sense.
3. Payment Method – Finally it’s time to pay and you get one last chance to earn a little something.  Use your reward credit or debit card or look for promotions to use Google Checkout or similar services.  And while I wouldn’t recommend signing up for a new credit card for that merchant just to get a discount, if your making a large purchase and are able to pay it off it may well be worth the effort.

And remember it’s the holidays and a time of giving.  So visit your favorite websites whether it be for a company you like or a favorite charity and look for shopping links to your favorite stores.  Chances are if you click through their link they’ll either receive a few cents for the visit or a percentage of whatever you buy and it won’t cost you anything extra.

Happy Holidays and may your family be blessed with good health and happiness.

You can both market on Facebook and have a permanent page for users to visit to see what others have to say about your product or service. As the most popular and most frequently visited social network, Facebook presents the marketing community with an unrivaled media for reaching people all over the world. Facebook Ads uses this large pool of participates to advertise using pay per click. Marketers can determine which users they want to target, by age, gender, hobbies, or anything aspects that users add to their profiles. By directing your ads to a specific interest group, you should have a better return on your marketing dollar. Facebook Ads is both ease to use and inexpensive.

MySpace is creating a site of their own for pay-per-click ads called MyAds. Currently it is being beta tested, but cost will be based on the number of clicks and per 1,000 impressions models. MyAds has many of the same advantages as Facebook Ads when it comes to targeting specific demographics. As older generations turn to Facebook, MySpace is becoming more popular with the younger generation, ages 18 to 24. This is certainly an important determining factor when deciding which site is right for your business.

The final site to consider is Sponsored Diggs, a bookmarking site for the latest in news, gaming, entertainment, and other social topics. Digg is branching out to include marketing on the site, with advertisement linked to specified Digg articles. The obvious advantage is that you can match your business with current news and people specifically interested in the same subject. However, Digg does allow readers to hide ads they do not want to see, so the time you spend getting your ad posted may not reach your intended audience.

2. Talk to other people
Go out and talk to people. They may told you about thier problem and you can find solution for it and make a lot of money. You can also write blog post about topic you have been discussing with your friends and include their statemets in it. Your content will be better if you include more points of view.

3. Visit gallery or museum
Ideas are often hidden in art or history. Take your time and go to a museum or gallery and relax yourself. You may find the way how to revitalise ideas from stone age and use it on internet.

4. Classes
You should never stop educating yourself. Start visiting pottery class and you may find great niche in pottery business. Or any other class – they are all full of niches nobody has covered them yet.

5. Read
Go to library and read books. They are great inspiration. You can also read news on internet and discover what world aroud you needs. Go to your news stand and buy magazine about something you have never taught about. Like at classes, you can also find great niches in magazines, too.

6. Blogs
Read as many blogs as you can. People often complain about bad experiences and problems in their life. You can easily find ideas how to improve you business. For example – you run gym and you read blog where blogger complain about lack of information on gym websites. You can go and write guide how to start visitng the gym, add gallery on your website… and you may attract few customers which are scared to look stupid when they come to gym.

7. Comptetion
You should always know what your competitor do. For example – you run online store with baby equipment and your competitor advertise a lot on sports news site. They invest a lot of money in it which means it probably works – fathers always wants best for their children.