How to make money from social networking

How to Make Money From Social Networking

Social Networking has become enormously popular over a relatively short period of time, with hundreds of millions of users putting their profiles on sites like Myspace, Facebook, Bebo or one of many other similar sites. Some people join Social Networking sites to promote their business, some to just banter with existing friends, some to make new friends over the internet and some just for fun of it.

Most of the Social Networking sites have no membership costs, but some dealing with specific niches do charge.

So why would someone go to all the expense to set up, host and provide such facilities for free? Simple really, by having a large client base, they can charge other companies to advertise with them. The larger their client base, the more those advertisers will want to advertise with them, so they will be able to charge the advertisers more money.

So if you were to set up a new Social Networking site, how do you compete with the likes of Facebook and Myspace that are already well established? In order to attract the big advertising bucks, you need to build a big client base, but why would a prospective client come to you and network with a handful of people when they can go to Facebook or Myspace and network with millions of people?

A new Social Networking site called Zenzuu have come up with a novel solution that is of benefit to their clients. 80% of the revenue that they get from advertisers will be paid to their active client base. People can join for free and actually be paid. That will give Zenzuu a big advantage in attracting new clients over the more established Social Networking sites. Their rationale is simple, if you are going be Socially Networking anyway, one company pays you and the other one doesn’t, which one would you join?

But isn’t 80% an awful lot to give away? Zenzuu do all the work for only 20% of the advertising revenue. Again, there is a method to the madness. With the extra people attracted by the payout, Zenzuu reason that it is better to get 20% of millions of dollars than 100% of hundreds of dollars.

The next obstacle is that if people join to make some money, it does not mean that they will tell their friends about it, so it may not necessarily grow that fast anyway. Well Zenzuu have thought of that too. They offer extra payments to those who introduce others. The more people that you introduce, the bigger your slice of that 80% of the advertising revenue.

You might start thinking now, oh no, sounds like network marketing (multi level marketing) again. Well yes it is, but it is the only network marketing company that I know of that you can join without having to pay anything, with no monthly subscription or purchase required; yet you can still make money from it. This is why Zenzuu is growing extremely fast as a lot of the big hitters in network marketing are joining and recruiting like crazy as it has obvious advantages over all other network marketing companies.

I will say however, that for people who join and do not introduce many others, I do not believe that they will make big money. I really big earnings will be for those that introduce the lots of other people.

So if you don’t really want to introduce loads of other people, is it really worth joining Zenzuu?

Well only you can answer that. However, I would say that if you are into Social Networking, Zenzuu is growing very fast and is likely to become one of the biggest Social Networking sites on the internet within the next couple of years, so you will have plenty of people to network with.

As for being paid, well even if it is not a large amount, I would rather be paid something than nothing for an activity that I will be doing anyway.

How secure is cloud computing

How Secure is Cloud Computing?

If you are an executive of a large company, one of your responsibilities is to make sure that all your employees are using the right software and hardware so they can do their jobs properly. It is not enough to buy just the hardware. You also need to buy software licenses so that your workers are equipped with all the proper tools. And when new employees come in, you have to make sure that the current software license lets the new user work. This task alone can be quite stressful. To make things easier, you must make use of cloud computing. But what exactly is cloud computing, and how can it help your company?

Cloud computing is a style of computing offered as a service over the internet that is often virtual and dynamically scalable. One of the most often used is email hosting. The best thing about it is that users are not required to learn the technological infrastructure that supports them. Cloud computing will take care of it all. Most applications cloud computing uses are business related such as an email server platform. Users can access them through a web browser. You may wonder why it is called cloud computing. Well, the term ‘cloud’ is actually used as a metaphor for the Internet and the idea is composed of a combination of platform, software, and infrastructure services. The actual software, however, are kept securely on the servers rather than on your computer.

The truth is you may have used some sort of cloud computing and may not even aware of it. You already have an experience with cloud computing if you have an email account with Hotmail, Yahoo mail, or Gmail — these are popular Web-based email services. What you do is to log-in to your email account remotely instead of running an email program on your PC. But is cloud computing really secure?

A lot of people admit that cloud computing is here to stay, and pretty soon millions and millions will be using it as well. Many companies are really worried about this due to the security concerns that come with jumping the firewall. Furthermore, how can you trust the cloud if you don’t even know where exactly your data is being stored? The worst thing that could happen is when its systems are down, you are down as well. And if you did not purchase all those servers to run the application, there would be no local systems for back up.

But others are saying that there is nothing to worry about because the security of data in cloud computing is quite the same as with the data security at a remote data center. This means that data at the majority of companies actually has higher security risks in their own environment compared to a well-managed cloud.

The best thing to do is to teach your team about cloud computing. To learn more about the security implications of cloud computing, you can go to Cloud Security and other trustworthy online resources. To ensure data privacy, make sure that you always know where your data is stored and who has access to it and who doesn’t.

Interaction is where the outdated idea of mass marketing, advertising together with

Interaction is Where the Outdated Idea of Mass Marketing, Advertising Together With

… Broadcast Media, finally bite the dust!

Because no longer is the Marketing message, «We want your money». To day the Marketing message has to be «We want your opinions».

Because the moment you put that into real practice you can have everything you’ve always wanted, sales, customer relationships and also Brand loyalty.

And the next time you hear those words «Let’s research it» remember that research works against the very thing you desperately need in your Marketing efforts, creativity and risk taking, both crucially necessary to the successful development of your products or services.

However replacing research with interaction changes all the opportunities to successful marketing. «Yes», you can say,» «Interactive Events will create my new products»

However at the moment Big Business is not making the correct decisions regarding interaction. Maybe some people within these organisations know and understand what’s happening out there in consumer land. But the dreadful fact is that giving their voice to such statements would, more probably, seriously damage their career growth!

These days I search everywhere for the headline «Interactive Communication is a winning combination for all…The Client…The Media…and last but by no means least…your customer»!

It never appears.

Interactive Communication finally allows the revolution to commence. The revolution against one-size fits all advertising; the bland all-knowing corporate voice, the lack lustre politicians busily furnishing their own nests…from our money.

The fact of the matter is your customers, you, me and everybody else, do not trust business. We find it highly insulting to be treated this way and we mistrust you in numbers far greater than you or your advertising/marketing people allow for.

Dialogue, two-way conversations, would start to change these hostile attitudes. You really do need to commence interactive events – right now. And you can do so in existing media.

Before I go on, I must emphasise that on no account let your Advertising Agency tempt you into spending big bucks on the Web.

Already the Advertising-as-Usual crowd is pouring billions into the Web, however be warned, as they said in the «Cluetrain Manifesto», «So you advertise on the Internet…so what»?

If you think you are wasting money on Advertising-as-Usual be very careful. The Internet, possibly, is a bigger waste of money than Advertising-as-Usual, and, as we all know, right now that is one Mother of a huge waste of money!

«Why?» you may ask «has it all changed from the safe secure way of marketing in the past».

Simply put, Advertising-as-Usual, together with its handmaiden Broadcasting-as-Usual have treated us with too much contempt.

According to a recent article in the Times, TV executives commonly think of viewers’ phone revenue as «moron tax».

And this attitude of utter contempt pervades the executives of advertising and Broadcast-as-Usual, and expresses itself in all the offerings of a rip-off culture, from government to TV companies.

And bear in mind that Advertising-as-Usual and Broadcast-as-Usual hold Clients in great contempt as well. They rejoice in removing large chunks of your Marketing Budgets, to then waste them in rip-off ventures that only worsen the publics’ contempt for you…so in effect they are spending your money to get you into a ever worsening situation.

Trust is a must have asset. You now must harness interactive communication to get the trust, and results, because if you don’t somebody else will and they, in turn, will drive you out of business.

Trust based relationship lies between the extremes of command and control and empowerment in business.

Interactive marketing communication, using existing media, is a practical way of reaching out and building up a powerful relationship, and trust, with every single person you need to make your business successful.

How to choose the shopping cart

And there is also an option which is to sell through your website and for that you need shopping cart. Let us look at few e commerce shopping carts which would help us to sell the products through own website.

Simple carts

If you just have only few products to sell online, than you just have few available options. One you can use the sites like half.com, eBay as they already have their brand design and online presence. The other available option is the payment processing capabilities. For example: PayPal, Google check out. These carts work quite well if you have an existing Ecommerce website design. They would let to use their website to organize your products, while generating the payment button code which you can paste and copy into the web pages. This code generates the button in your web page which is when clicked takes the visitor in the service of payment.

PayPal

It is an online process of payment which is owned by eBay. Before using PayPal you need to register the account. You need to set up the PayPal account than connecting the bank account with the PayPal account. To create the product within the PayPal account, you need to select the services and products tab on the main account page, than the website link on the services and products page. This would help you to buy the buttons page. You can select the mode of payment button than you can easily follow few directions. It is quite an easier process for creating an email or button link to the product you sell.

Google check out

Google has also introduced its services of online payment. To start using google check out, one needs the google account. The process is more or less similar to PayPal. Also Google Checkout may be used as the payment processor, in the shopping carts which you yourself host. When it is used as a payment processor in the complete feature shopping cart, buyers can easily store their details of payments with Google and they do not need to enter the data in your website.

Custom developed carts

Apart from the regular carts, there are also custom developed shopping carts. They are created either by the programmer who sells the cart to the client or they are based on the existing carts. You should carefully analyze and research your requirements.

How to choose a camera bag

How to Choose a Camera Bag

The most important criterion is that the camera bag is easy to carry, so the camera does not get in the way as you go about life, but is still there for the unexpected shot. There are a wide variety of camera bags on the market, this in response to the extensive range of cameras available, and an even wider range of different photographic purposes. A good camera bag is for much more than carrying the camera, there is a host of important accessories and essential bits of equipment to carry around as well.

Define the essential pieces of equipment to form the basis of your starting set up or walking around camera gear. Walking around is photographer’s term for this minimum set up that is convenient and light enough to carry while you walk around but is versatile enough to get some sort of reasonable shot of most situations.

Even the simplest Point & shoot camera may need memory cards, spare batteries or a battery charger. Of course sometimes if you have more sophisticated camera gear the amount of equipment required varies and for you may need more than just a walking around set up, so you need a larger camera bag. The answer is to buy two or more bags rather than try to compromise on one to fill a number of roles. You might end up with bag that does none of them very well and is really a waste of money.

As well as convenience, the bag serves to protect the exposed LCD screens and the camera body from scratches. Those easy to operate control knobs that stick up are also more vulnerable to accidental knocks, so a bit of cushioning is important even for a compact pocket size camera. There are small bags with a loop to attach the bag to a belt so the bag not only protects the camera it is a very convenient way to carry a camera.