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Facebook Contests Can Help You Market Your Products Online

Regardless of the size of your business or what kind of products you sell, Facebook contests might be a great way for you to reach out to an untapped audience and promote your company online for free. While many people still look at Facebook as primarily a social media tool, it’s also a great way to identify people who are interested in specific types of products and market to them in fun and imaginative ways.

Your Facebook contest can take on many different forms, and hundreds of different examples of successful contests that have been launched on Facebook can be found every day. Generally, it’s best if you offer some sort of a prize that your target audience would be interested in winning, but it doesn’t have to necessarily be very expensive; gift certificates, small prizes related to your company and other inexpensive things work quite well.

The first and most important step is to make sure that your company has its own dedicated Facebook page. In order to do this, you must first have a personal profile on the site. After you’ve set up your business’s fan page, it’s next time to start getting people to “like” the page. You can start by recommending the page to all of your personal Facebook friends, but if you’re really serious about getting a large following, you will want to take advantage of Facebook paid ads that can target people in specific demographics.

After you’ve developed a very large following on your company’s page, it’s time to launch your first Facebook contest. The first question you need to answer is a simple one: what is your goal for the contest to accomplish? If it is simply building new members, then you could make it a requirement for members to recommend your page to their Facebook friends in order to enter.

Remember: you will get better at running successful Facebook contests the more you do it, so don’t limit yourself to one just because you feel it didn’t perform well enough. With consistency, you’ll find that Facebook can be one of the best marketing tools available for building fans and brand recognition.

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Secrets to Selecting Clickbank Products to Promote

There are numerous products in Clickbank but are you promoting those that are making money or are you still hanging to a product that is not converting.

The worst thing that can happen is you are promoting a product that are experiencing a lot of returns or products that are not selling well.

Therefore you must learn how successful affiliate marketers choose the products to promote.

1) First of all, you need to know where to find the information regarding the number of return for the product you are interested to promote. The best place to do that is cbtrends.com. I use this platform to search for more information other than that provided by Clickbank.

2) High gravity does not always mean good conversion. Affiliate marketing is a demand creation market, it is through the large scale promotion by affiliates at the same time that usually result in huge sales for that period. This is especially true during product launch period where all marketers are promoting similar product at the same time to create the demand. It is during this demand creation period where 80% of products sales are made. Once it is over, there is only 3 to 4 sales everyday as the market is already cold. Therefore you need to know roughly when the product is launched so that you can gauge if there is still a market for this product.

3) The quality of the sales letter. There is nothing more worrying for any affiliate than promoting a product with lousy sales letter. It can be lousy in term of copywriting or in term of website design. Therefore you should only promote stuffs that you yourself will be tempted to buy.

Commercial Loans – Take All Aspects In Consideration

As the saying goes, taking a loan is easier than surviving with it. A shrewd businessman is one who borrow but with an eye to repay it as soon as possible. Sometimes, business requirements arise because you get a new business order hat is hard to manage within your own business funds. You obviously cannot afford to lose big business opportunity only because the funds are not there.

These and other similar situations force you to take help of external sources of financing. These sources may be temporary or permanent, depending on the nature of funding. Large body corporate often have huge financial needs, and therefore, they resort to public financing by inviting deposits or going for a ‘rights issue’ meant for the existing shareholders. On the other hand, a new business concern or sole proprietorship undertaking would obviously not be able to take benefit of that sort – neither are these meant for them.

Before applying for commercial loans, first of all decide the type of debt financing that your business firm will be comfortably able to get. If you do not own any property in the name of firm, secured commercial business loans are out of question. You will have to rely on loans that do not require any security. These loans will offer you a limited amount – upto £25,000. The interest rate is likely to be little more than what you can get by pledging some property. The amount of loan that you can qualify for can be increased by involving some property in the loan transaction.

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