The Latest Internet Marketing Tool – New social Marketplace

The Latest Internet Marketing Tool – New social Marketplace

social first introduced the Marketplace application in mid 2007 as a way for people to post classified listings on the site. Now social has launched its new, updated Marketplace. This time the Marketplace is powered by a company with a funny name, Oodle. Despite the name they are a big online classifieds company founded by former Excite and eBay executives. Oodle has built a completely new version of the Marketplace focused on giving people a place to buy, sell or give things away to the people they know.

This social Marketplace Guide is a practical Step-By-Step Guide for all of you who want to learn how to sell your items effectively on the new social Marketplace.

Using the social Marketplace you can sell, give away, buy, ask or search for anything you want. You can also use the Marketplace to support your favourite charities by selling your unwanted goods for a good cause. Additionally, you can see what your friends are buying and/or selling. social users can post their Marketplace listings free of charge. Your listings will be viewable to millions of social Marketplace users worldwide. If you have previously used the old social Marketplace, you should see it bookmarked in the lower left hand corner of your monitor. And, if you had active listings in the old Marketplace, you should be given the option to transfer them to the new social Marketplace. If you have not used the social Marketplace application before, you can find it here: facebook.com/marketplace.

Ok, let’s get down to business. As I mentioned, this is a

Step-By-Step Guide how to sell in the social Marketplace effectively

So, here we go:

Step 1 – Take a Photo

Grab your digital camera and take a nice close-up picture of the item that you wish to sell. It is best to shoot against a light, solid background. Transfer your photo to your computer as a JPG-file. If your item is something that can’t be presented with a photo, don’t worry, you can still get it listed.

Step 2 – Log On

Log on to your social account and fire up the Marketplace application. Just click the Applications menu in the lower left hand corner of your screen and choose Marketplace. You are greeted with the Marketplace welcome screen.

You have four main options at your disposal:

Sell It Sell for a Cause
Give It Away and
Ask for It

In this guide we are concentrating on the Selling-for-Money side of things, so you may leave the screen as it is and write a short description of your item in the box where it says “Sell something to make extra cash.” When you click the box it will change into “Yourname” is selling..?. Write your main headline for the listing here. After writing your headline description, click the blue Post-button.

Step 3 – Write Your Advertisement

After you have written your headline for the listing you are presented with a new screen with more options related to your listing. Write a punch line type of a description in the box “Why are you selling it”?. You could write “I need money to buy more stuff.” but, even though it might be the case, I don’t think it would get your listing noticed. Consider this space as your sub headline for the ad. Write this description like you were working in an advertising company. Or, if you feel more conservative, just describe your item as funky as possible. You have two lines to hit the point.

Next, state your asking price in the Price-box. You know what its worth.

Write your location. This is a must. Just write in your city.

Choose a category for your item. At the time of writing this book, there are only the following 13 categories available:

Baby & Kid Stuff
Books & Magazines
Cars & Vehicles
Clothes & Accessories
Collectibles
Computers & Accessories
Electronics
Furniture
Home and Garden
Musical Instruments
Sporting Goods, Bicycles & Equipment
Tickets
Everything Else

If you can’t find a suitable category for your item, you can always choose Everything Else, however it is not a very good category to be listed under.

In the next box you can provide a wider description of your item. Here you have more room than just two lines. Describe your item with as much detail as you can. You know, size, colour, condition,.. those sort of things. But, don’t stress yourself too much with this; you can always change it later. Once you have created the best advertising text ever, hit the Browse-button to locate your photo from your computer, USB stick or where ever you think you saved it in Step 1. Yes, I know, … I can never find my images either. Don’t panic though, you have time to locate it; the screen isn’t going anywhere.

You found it? Good! Actually, you can upload two photos if you wish. For instance if you are selling a book, it is a good idea to upload both front and back covers. You can upload even more images later on, but for the sake of this exercise, one is enough.

Tick the Terms of Use-box and click the Submit-button.

Step 4 – Rather Unnecessary Step

The next screen has your details on it and your only option is to click the Continue-button. I really don’t know why this screen exists, but since it does all we can do is click the button.

Step 5 – Publishing

Next you will get a screen asking if you want to publish this listing in your own social profile. This is a good idea. You will get a choice for a Full, Short or a One Line description. I would recommend you’d choose the Short-option. You may tick the Always do this for Marketplace-box if you wish to use this same option every time you list something. So, if you wish to publish this listing on your profile, click the Publish-button, but if you only want it to appear in the social Marketplace, choose the No, Thanks-button.

Step 6 – Promotion

This step is your first chance to advertise your new listing. This is also a good idea. You can Recruit Friends to Promote your Listing in their News Feed. You can add up to 5 of your friends by clicking on their pictures. You can also choose them by writing their names in the Find Friends-box. Once you have chosen your friends who might be interested in promoting your listing, click the Send Request-button; or if you don’t want to bother your friends this time, choose Skip.

Step 7 – Personal Marketing Message

You will be presented a confirmation screen with your details. You can add a personal message to this post by clicking the blue Add Personal Message-hotlink. If you don’t want to add your personal message, just click the Send-button. You also can cancel this message altogether by clicking Cancel.

Step 8 – Done!

Congratulations! You have listed your first item on the social Marketplace. Listings take approximately 30 minutes to be included in the search index.
You will be presented with the screen titled “Manage My Listing: Active”. Here you can review your listing and, if you wish to make any changes click the Edit Details-hotlink in the light green bar. You can also delete your listing as well as promote your listing with a social Ad. I will not get into details how to produce social Ads in this book. That topic, among many other good ones, will be fully covered in my social Advertising Guide.

That’s it, you’ve done it! Good work! Thank you for reading so far.

Additional, good to know stuff:

Editing Your Listing

You can easily edit your listings after you have published them. Just click the Edit Details-hotlink on the screen mentioned in the Manage My Listing -page, and you will get pretty much the same screen as when you were writing the listing in the first place. You can change every detail of your listing here as well as upload more images if you wish. It is a good idea to show as many images as you can.

After you have made your changes in this panel click the Submit-button to get your listing updated. You will again be presented with a useless confirmation screen as seen. Just ignore it, and click the Continue-button.

Next, you will be asked if you wish to publish this updated listing on your social profile as in Step 6. You may choose to publish again, or you may just click the No, Thanks-button.
Finally, you will see your updated listing on the “Manage My Listing”- screen.

Managing Your social Marketplace Listings

You can easily manage all of your social Marketplace listings in one convenient location. If you click the My Listings-hotlink in the Marketplace menu, you will see your current listings. This is your place to manage all your listings. You can add more listings, edit them and after you have sold your items you can delete them.

As I mentioned earlier, you can also sell your items for a cause or you can give them away for free (don’t know why, but you can). You can also find something you need for yourself. These functions are not covered in this book, but I’m sure you’ll manage them with the principles covered here.

Ok, I hope you enjoyed this social Marketplace Guide. I wish you luck in selling your stuff through Facebook. I sold my first item, an awesome Jimi Hendrix Wah-Wah guitar pedal in just 3 days.

Best regards,
Kris Olin, MscBa, marketing

This social Marketplace Guide is also available as a fully illustrated PDF-version.
You can download it FREE: www.facebook-advertising-marketing.com

The social Formula – A Social Marketing Guide

The social Formula – A Social Marketing Guide
Welcome to the newest and hottest way to make the best of your advertising dollars, working with The social Ad Platform. I’ve found the perfect formula to turn those high click rates into pennies on the dollar.
The social Formula – A Social Marketing Guide

social Marketing Will Boost Your Business Tenfold

social Marketing Will Boost Your Business Tenfold

social Marketing – To keep your business current in todays world, you must know how to use the latest social media, viral strategies and marketing techniques, including social with its variety of powerful features and tools. It is an awesome place to meet people from all walks of life and all areas of the globe.

social has taken the world and the internet by storm in the last few years. Only Google gets more visitors, as social currently holds the number 2 ranking. It is a given that internet marketers would take a closer look at such a huge market, and it is inevitable that most of them would approach it the wrong way and shoot themselves in the foot. People can be very LOUD and annoying with their social conversing, which is the main problem with most social marketing strategies. If you do not want to annoy anyone on facebook, you need to read further to find out some great social marketing tips that will help you succeed.

Each social media site has its own unspoken rules and regulations, and since social media is somewhat new, you need to learn the inside scoop. It is not any different when it comes to Facebook. You have to be sure you play by the rules if you are going to market yourself or your business using social media on social or any other social site.

On facebook, you can connect with friends, family, people with similar interests, but its main purpose is to socialize. You can connect with like minded people who are in the same groups, have the same interests, or likes as you. Also connect and collaborate with individuals from all over the globe, posting events, photos, videos, meet new people, invite others to become friends with your friends, or recommend good groups to join.

social allows you the potential to build relationships with your customers and get more connections faster than ever before. You can propel your business faster if you use social Marketing to show your true self and gain trust with your connections. However, its purpose is not to spam members with your incredible new business opportunity or amazing new product. Business opportunities and new products are topics that many social users are interested in, but there will be a time and place for discussing these topics.

Spam advertising is not for social media. social is a place where you can build rapport and relationships. Its the same on any social media site, including facebook, that this is how it must be approached when looking to market yourself. Individuals on social may think you are pretty cool, but that does not mean they will purchase any products or leave their business to join yours.

You must offer value and quality content. Content that makes you stand out from the competition and makes people want to find out more about you. social is a free form of marketing that should be taken advantage of if you know how to do it correctly.

Marketing with Facebook, so how is it done? If you do this right, you can bring your message to thousands of people within the social community with several different applications and options. There are status reports, groups, information boxes, video, and more. Put a link to your blog where they can connect with you and learn more about you. Do a name search of your prospects from your list and connect with them as this will increase your email opening and response rate.

Depending on how you use social marketing techniques and strategies, you can make it or break it with your results. If you take some time to study these carefully, you will be well on your way to great success in social marketing.

Secrets to Mega Marketing on Facebook

Secrets to Mega Marketing on Facebook
75% Commissions! Great Sales Page! Excellent Customer Value! Cutting Edge Marketing Information from Facebook. Put it at The Top of Your Sales Funnel and Customers Will Eat It Up!
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How to use social for Your Network Marketing business

How to use social for Your Network Marketing business

Your mentor told you to start with Twitter and Facebook. You are told to just start putting content and money will start comeing in. No training is provided for you to learn how to set up your account. Well you are at the right place today because I will tell you exactly how to use social account for your Network Marketing business. Let’s do it!

Let’s talk about a few of the don’ts. First do not put a picture of your product or your business. It is Facebook, not picture book. When you describe yourself in the info area, don’t just say “I am here to help you towards financial freedom or I will teach you how to make K a month” Videos or pictures that might look like you are a business professional should not be place on your account. Example, pictures from your New Years Day party or from the football game where you might have had a little much to drink.

What are the dos? First it starts with your picture. A nice smiling sort of business casual would be great. Your bio should describe you and your business, not just you. Your selections in your favorites should match each other. If you are a fan of Golf but you choose a book about hockey as your favorite book, it does not really match even it is true. Your information box should be basic information about you like if you are married, who are you married to and your links to your webpage.

You should become a fan of realted page topic. Notice I said related. Start making friend requests in those pages and add a note like “HI Jane, I see you are a fan of …., so am I, let’s connect! John”. Most people will accept your request. Send them a welcome message after they accepted your friend request and begin a conversation. Notice I said a conversation, not a sales pitch.

When placing content on your social account, use common sense. You want to add value for all your friends. This is done by placing motivational quotes, forwarding good articles, videos and so forth. You want to provide interesting content so your friends want to know what you are up to. social is not a place to sell products or services but a platform to sell you as a leader.

Once you have been established on social for a while, you can start a business page where you would provide information to others for free to help them in their business or their lives. This would help building your brand and create a perception that you are an expert in your field. You can also use social Pay Per Click but they are very strict and there is a cost associated. Make sure to learn the guidelines .

Knowing these simple guidelines on how to use social for your network marketing business will make a ton of difference in your success. To be successful with Facebook, you must become a person of value, a person your friends would want to know about. Put in place what we discussed and success shall follow you.

To your success

Ghyslain

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