ARE MUSICIANS TAKING ON SOCIAL NETWORKING ON THE WEB?

If You Would Like to Connect With Some of the Top Musicians and create your own Social Network at the same time; Then Read On…

If you are one that loves music, and would love to network with these artists, then you just may have your opportunity. Many of the artists, such as 50 Cent, Ludacris, Kylie Minogue and many more have decided to move away from the vast space of MySpace, to a new alternative site, a site that is destined to be a star on Web 2.0. This site is Ning, a place where you can connect with some of your favorite artists.

How Does Ning Work and Will It Benefit My Viral Marketing Campaign?

Ning was founded by Marc and Gina Bianchini in October 2004 to provide an opportunity for you and me the ability to create our own social networks for anything and everything. Ning is the power behind the largest number of the Internet’s social networks, and social networking is all about viral marketing.

You will have the opportunity to use the latest and greatest in social networking, features that are truly customizable by you to fit your needs. This is a platform that provides all the features you need to be a success in the social networking arena. The only thing you need to bring to the table is your time and determination. With this you will be able to build your own social network. This is not a prefitted site, this is one you create yourself.

What is the Purpose of Ning?

The founders first started Ning on a very simple premise, they wanted to provide a way for anyone to create their own social networking site. They were expecting some amazing results and they got that and so much more! They have artists, athletes, musicians , educators, journalists, students, alumni, hobbyists, and any other group of interests you can imagine. The diversity of these groups is amazing and quite profound.

As you check out the Ning website, you will find a very informative FAQ section, where you can learn about their Network Creators community.

Are you a business or company that wants to promote your private label? If so, check out Ning for Business.

You will find these features on the Ning website as posted there:

# Members can invite new members, meet new people, and make new friends on your network.

# Full message center with address book importing from Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and Hotmail.

# See your network members when they are online now.

# Customizable profile pages just for you.

# Photo slideshows, video players, music players, and network badges, that can be embedded anywhere on the Internet, seamlessly funneling new people to your network.

# Set your own different privacy settings for every photo, video, group, or blog post they contribute.

# RSS feeds of your network’s features, such as members, discussions, photos, videos, music/podcasts, and blog posts.

# Got a logo or brand? Add it to make your network totally unique.

# Choose your own theme from the options provided then customize them to make them your own.

# Public or private, that is totally up to you!

# Choose how your photos, video player, music players, and network badges appear on your site.

# Do you want to ask your members some profile questions before they join? You get to create this, and the questions will be private as well as the answers, for your eyes only.

# Do you juse Facebook? Enable “one-click” Facebook Promotion so your members can add photo slideshows, video players, and music/podcasts from your network seamlessly into Facebook.

# You have the ability to moderate photos and videos before you post them.

# Choose from a set of supported languages (English, Chinese, Dutch, French, Portuguese, Spanish) or translate your social network into any unsupported language by changing one file in the code.

# Member profile questions created by you for your network.

# Member blog posts with photos, files, and widgets.

# Manage blog posts and moderate comments.

# Choose the option to publish in the future.

# Ability to customize the appearance of member profile pages.

# Option to add widgets to profile page.

Take advantage of this great social networking platform and create for yourself an even bigger and better network and keep your viral marketing campaign on fire!

Affiliate Programs and How They Can Boost Your Income

What Do You Know About Affiliate Marketing?

As you already know, Internet marketing uses the Internet to market products as well as their promotion. You can be using this method to promote your own products or the products of others.

This is where we get into the affiliate programs and how they can benefit you financially by earning commission on the quality products you are promoting for others.

There are several avenues of marketing that you can use such as your website and web pages, personal blogs and Email Opt-in lists. You are going to promote the product with a squeeze page or promotional letter, In your letter, you will include an affiliate link which will contain the affiliate identifier.

With your affiliate identifier link, your visitors will click on the link, be sent to the product sales page or website, and with their purchase, you will be given a percentage of the sales price. This is very similar to sales in brick and mortar stores, however with an affiliate program, your part is very simple and self running. All you need to do is do the initial set up and optimize the traffic.

You need to realize though that Not All Affiliate Programs are the same, so choose wisely.

What you need to know and look for in choosing the right affiliate program:

1) Training and Support

Affiliate programs will usually provide training and support, which is crucial for those just starting out on Internet Marketing. This is so important as it will be the only way for you to become effective as well as profitable. You need to look for affiliate which offers sufficient training and the know how in selling their product. There are however, Internet marketers who have experienced great success in affiliates without the training and support, but wouldn’t it be nice to have that training and support?

2) Look for High Commissions

You are going to put in the effort to bring in the traffic to the affiliate product with your sales pitch, then directing the customers to the affiliate sales page, and for your well earned efforts, you will receive a percentage of the sale in form of commissions. As you look at the different Affiliate programs to market, look at the amount of commission they offer, some are hardly worth your effort.

The most popular site to promote affiliate programs is Clickbank. You will soon see that Clickbank is the largest online marketplace on the Internet. Clickbank places hundreds of thousands of products which are sold on a daily basis. There are some that pay up to 75% of the purchase price.

3) Affiliate Referral Programs

There are a few programs that will offer you a chance to recommend their affiliate programs yourself. This sill ultimately award you with a greater percentage of all the sales generated for the program you recommend. This is where your viral marketing techniques will come in effect, the more you recommend, the more money you will make.

4) Triple Combination; Affiliate Training and Support, Referral Commission and Product Commission

You will be happy to know that there are some programs out there that offer the best of all three worlds of affiliate marketing. You can have all of these with training to help you in your marketing efforts. A wonderful example of this is the Internet Marketing Center’s Affiliate program. With this combination, you can reap huge commission benefits.

You can make some good money with Internet marketing bringing you closer and closer to your goal of financial freedom. But remember, you need to be willing to put in the time and effort.

You Ready To Become A Published Writer?

Well, now is your chance to get all those words out of your head and into your own published book. If you have written an Ebook, why not a WEbook?

So Tell Me, What is WEbook?

You are being introduced to a brand new, one of a kind, online book publishing company. This is a revolutionary move for book publishing. This is a groundbreaking era of User Generated Books. Music has become a major part of the web, WEbook will become a major influence in the marketplace for writers to earn revenue from their writings. They will be able to sell their work in markets such as Barnes and Noble and Amazon. WEbook will be working with the mainstream in marketing these books. Along with the marketing, they will also be providing some great give-aways via the web and mobile phones.

What is the Prognosis?

Excellent and bright! This model, who is funded by Greylock Partners along with some other individuals, hopes to be the web’s leader in this type of media industry. If you haven’t noticed, there have many collaborative publications and wiki’s that have been steadily making themselves known. You will begin to see projects like this start showing up in several media forms, the majority being creative writing.

What a great forum for wanna-be writers to begin to use their talents, to fulfill their dreams of becoming a published author. Just imagine, with all the talent we have here on the web, bringing them all together, meeting and communicating with each other, exchanging creative ideas, the possibilities are endless.

It doesn’t matter if you are a fiction writer, or non-fiction, short stories, children’s books, thrillers, and so much more. This is who WEbook will be about, all about YOU!

WEbook is YOU!

WEbook is you, your best friend, your neighbor, your uncle who has been working on that thriller for years. It may be your buddy who thinks he only knows how to blog and that’s it. This is for anyone who has a creative mind and loves to write.

Why WEbook?

Why Not? This is a great chance for a broad community of writers to come together and finally become known for their talents. You may have written several Ebooks, or essays, or even a great article writer, but who knows this besides you? Don’t you think it is time for you to be an author and see your creative works published and be able to earn revenue on it?

How Do I Get Started?

Just start writing, add one sentence to another. If you have an idea, start writing, don’t stop to make corrections, just write, let your creativity flow. Short articles become chapters, chapters become books. Have your family or friends look over your work, do some editing where needed. You will find out tons more information on their website.

Come and and be the first join this great new revolution of online book publishing. You are destined to be a success!

Time Management For Successful Home Biz

According to StartYourOwnBiz.com they have come up with some great advice on managing your home business.

This is a site that will give you more tips on getting started with the basics.

You cannot expect to get great results unless you are devoting the amount of time needed, you just can’t set it up, then hope that it runs itself.

Are you serious about working at home, making a success out of a home based business? If you are, and really want to make some money in the process, you will need to become a wonderful time manager. It is hard enough to manage the home itself, then you add in the kids, errands, etc…and you can see your time gone, out the window. If you are serious about being a success, making this home business really work, you will not be able to use the Lack of time as an excuse. You are going to have to make a strict routine in order to help you manage your time.

There is an old saying “If there is a will, there is a way”. You will be amazed at the extra time you can create just by organizing your work and home routines.

Here are some things you may want to consider as your design your plan;

1. Take a look at your typical day, where to do you spend your time and is it on things that are necessary? Ask yourself in which areas you can slice off 15 minutes here and there. If you spend a lot of time in preparing meals, how can you make this more time efficient.
2. Plan your errands in advance, giving yourself enough time to complete them instead of feeling rushed.
3. Teach your children to be self-reliant and self-disciplined, which will free up much of your time. You can give your older child the responsibility of helping with the younger children while you are ‘at work’, and reward them for their help as well as their understanding.
4. How much time do you spend watching the TV? You may not be sitting directly in front of it, but how many times does it grab your attention for a few minutes here and few minutes there. Before you know it, you have lost an hour easily
   
   The things listed above are not the only time mongers; there are the chores of gardening, shopping, bill paying, visiting with your friends and relatives, chatting on the phone, and don’t forget, just simply browsing the Internet and reading emails. All of these things can take up a lot of your time throughout the day.

You will find these things a bit difficult to change in the beginning, but you will for sure see the importance and recognize how much time you are losing each day. By implementing a time management regimen, you will find the time you need to make your home business a success.

It’s April and We Are Nobody’s Fool…

If You Were Browsing the Web On April Fools Day, You May Have Seen These…

April Fools Day is always at great day because you can play all types of pranks on your buddies, but with the Internet, it can be a blast! I did some looking around and I found some great information about one of the largest gaming industries and the pranks they played. This company would be none other than Blizzard, the top gaming industry on the web. According to Shack News, Blizzard Entertainment posted quite a few hilarious pranks on their website. One of the most popular of their spoofs was “PC MMO World of Warcraft will hit Atari 2600 in the form of World of Warcraft: The Molten Core.”…This was a very clever, and yes, extremely funny and entertaining bit of advertising. You feel like you are back in the early days of Pac Man again. If you have not checked it out, you need to do it soon.

Are You A Fan of Guitar Hero?

Another one of my favorites was Blizzards news of bringing you a Guitar Hero type character to the amazing new expansion to World of Warcraft called Wrath of the Lich King, along with its plans to marketing a pinata that can be a bit dangerous for any child, even adults for that matter. This is a Pinata that you would never allow your child to swing at. Remember folks, this was only a joke.

Ever thought of living on Mars?

Here Richard Branson, founder of Virgin along with Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be breaking a new frontier in the greatest adventure of our lifetime, a first for all to witness, The Adventure of Many Lifetimes; the first human colony to ever live off of this planet, the first to live on Mars. This was great; they even had a test you could take to see if you would qualify. Who knows… it could happen!

And finally, the greatest one of all, at least if you are as fed up with the whole political race as I am…the Hillary and Obama Deathmatch as seen here on ESPN’s website. It’s just too bad there wasn’t something that exciting really happening. According to the information on this website, Hillary and Obama would be able to settle the race by winner taking all, the loser heading home with his or her head hanging low, with a good ole deathmatch. There would have been several events which is officiated by Ron Paul, the Libertarian candidate. Check out the website for the cool challenges that could have happened.

Leave it to the Web to make April Fools Day a fun one, and I can only imagine what they will come up with next year.