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Blogging Birthday Bash – 23 Days of Birthday GiveAways!
It starts tomorrow, December 1st!
My Birthday is December 23rd and this year I’m giving YOU the gifts! Each day beginning on December 1st, I will be giving away gifts. Some days I’ll give links to great gifts and other days I will select one lucky winner from everyone who has registered for my Blogging Birthday Bash through the special pop-up box on this page to receive a special gift.
On the 23rd, I will select 1 lucky winner who will receive a fully customized Facebook Fan Page designed by me! So be sure you register and get your name in the drawings. Then visit my blog each day to see what great gift I’m giving away for the day!
Tell all your online friends to join the party too! I love a crowd! 
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Facebook is not Just for Kids
Facebook is not just for kids, contrary to popular belief! In a recent update from Experian® Hitwise® Facebook users 55 and over, increased by 108% from September 2008 to September 2009. As more baby boomers are taking advantage of the many features of Facebook to connect with friends and family, market and grow their business relationships and even develop an online presence through Facebook for a new business, it is clear that Facebook is no longer just for the kids.
The 18-34 year old age group still leads the way in using Facebook, but the boomers are “hot on their trail.“ And overall Facebook grew 194% within a year.
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U.S. demographic breakdown of visitors to MySpace and Facebook |
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MySpace.com |
Facebook.com |
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Age |
September 2008 |
September 2009 |
Year-over-year percent change |
September 2008 |
September 2009 |
Year-over-year percent change |
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18-24 |
36.94% |
32.27% |
-13% |
24.50% |
26.96% |
10% |
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25-34 |
20.02% |
22.43% |
12% |
19.64% |
23.31% |
19% |
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35-44 |
22.94% |
22.21% |
-3% |
30.33% |
18.46% |
-39% |
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45-54 |
14.69% |
16.25% |
11% |
19.03% |
17.74% |
-7% |
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55+ |
5.42% |
6.84% |
26% |
6.50% |
13.53% |
108% |
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Source: Experian Hitwise |
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So, do you have a presence on Facebook? There are more than 300 million others who do. Experian® Hitwise® data reveals that Facebook is 2nd only to Google in the amount of visits to their site, and Facebook is #1 for social networking sites.
So again I ask, do you have a presence on Facebook? Everyone wants to be found in Google searches, and it looks like the next place to be found is Facebook!
Don’t know how to get started? Check out this easy to follow, step-by-step guide The Start Here, Now Do This Social Media Guide, to establish your Facebook presence, or just give us a call!
Video Marketing is Taking the Web by Storm,
I have just returned from an incredible trip to San Diego with a business associate of mine, Sue Painter of The Confident Marketer and some other friends where we learned some amazing Internet Marketing secrets to really explode our businesses. (and yours!)
We were at the Paid For Life conference in San Diego with Mike Koenigs and Brenden Bouchard and a host of other speakers such as Russell Brunson, James Malinchak, Paul Colligan, John Carlton and others. These thought leaders shared massive amounts of information with the participants on ways to grow your online business and the one recurring theme was Video.
With Google’s recent purchase of YouTube, it stands to reason that video is a SEO booster. We came away from the conference with a passion for making videos of just about everything we do. Trainings, speaking opportunities, how-to videos, video testimonials from clients and more.
If you haven’t started using video for your online marketing – now is the time! You can easily get started for less than $100 with a Flip Camera. Carry it with you everywhere. You never know when a marketing opportunity will present itself for you and your business. Point – Click – Record!
Niche…I finally found mine!
Well, I’m celebrating my first year in business this month!! YeeHaw!! I have learned so much this past year and made an incredible amount of new friends and business acquaintances. I have poked around and tried to determine what my “niche” would be. That’s a pretty common question in the VA world. What’s your niche? Well, I didn’t have a clue for the first year. I just needed to get this business going and I would be whatever “niche” I needed to be to get a paying gig!!
As the sun sets on my first year in business, I finally have it. My niche is to support online business entrepreneurs with setting up their products and services through online shopping carts, autoresponders, Ezines and Squeeze/Sales pages. This is an incredible industry. If you think about it everyone has something to sell, they just don’t know how to sell it. My business will help them discover how to put it out there and grab some attention.
I’m still refining and tweaking how I will actually marketing my new niche, but I’m pretty darn excited to have discovered what it is. As as always, I’ll still be offering great administrative and creative support to clients to allow them to have a few extra hours in each day.
What’s your Niche?
