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Posted on 22nd April, 2012 | No Comment

    Like to know more about this “ Timeline ” stuff?

Now you can…

Jo Barnes creator of Social Networking Academy is offering to help you out

with F.r.e.e Videos!

 Sign up below and you can get her Free Timeline Series.

Day 1
Day 2
Day 3

All expert videos so you can follow along and get your timeline page up and running. A Facebook Page gives a voice to any brand, business or organization. Join the conversation with other Facebook users today.

Here is the first Video. Click above and ….

Sign up for more Timeline info videos below. PLUS Fantastic Email Series with Jo and her Weekly “Social Power Newsletter!”

Posted on 30th March, 2012 | No Comment

Ok deep breath people. Facebook’s Timeline is here!

Before you throw up your hands and start screaming…. I have some help for you.

If you are not familiar with Jo Barnes from The Social Networking Academy, you are in for a treat. An Aussy who now lives in Thailand, is having a big of a rowe with her videos at the moment.

So far I have this one, she will have more out in a day or so. 

If you like what you see here you might be interested in joining her training group online. She has lots of training courses and a membership site, plus a very busy facebook site. I recommend her highly.

To join her Group  & Get Free Video training on TIMELINE on Facebook

  Social Networking Academy <click

 More videos coming.  She is working on a training course and will have:

Overview of Timeline
Overview of Hybrid Newsfeed
Overview of Pages
Adding Personal Details
The Status Update
The Cover Photo
The Center Boxes
Uploading Photos/Videos
Friends
The Subscribe Feature
The TIcker
Favorites & Smart Lists
Messages & Events
Account Settings
View Activity
General Settings

Plus Instant Access to
Brand NEW Fan Page Templates

Jos Free access to training and templates video
Plus little gift too.

You can also see my facebook business pages and my personal page.

Posted on 25th February, 2012 | No Comment

Visitors to your site are critical – getting them there automatically is even better.  So here’s how…

But, first…

Keyword research is really the first step in getting traffic to your website. Why? Because you have to target these keywords if you are to have any hope of actually generating traffic for them. This means it’s critical to select your keywords properly.

Here are the important considerations for your research:

• Are the keywords you’re interested in attainable? Take a look at the “strength” of others websites (and how many) are already targeting these keywords.
• Are these “buying” keywords? Some keywords will bring lots of traffic, but none of them will buy. What you want is buyers!
• Another thing to think about is affiliates. If you want to build a huge business, you’re going to need affiliates to help you. This means that some of your traffic focus should be on getting affiliates to your site.

This is critical to your business, but it takes a lot of time and effort. Hiring someone else to do it costs a lot of money. The upside is that these two factors keep most everyone from even doing their keyword research. If you’re smart you will use website traffic software  to help you with this process. This way you get this critical step done fast and done well.

OK, now we can talk about traffic…

Once you’ve done your properly keyword research, you’re now ready to start targeting these keywords to draw in visitors.

Here’s a very interesting video that you should
watch if you are interested in getting free traffic
from Google:

The video explains some important basics about
getting traffic from Google and it comes with a
downloadable PDF guide (completely free) as well.

SECockpit video < click

I recommend you check this out, as the PDF
describes a method for optimizing your sites for
both the search engine bots AND your human visitos.
This can make a very big difference, especially
since Google is increasingly looking for “human
factors” when ranking websites (watch the video
and you’ll see what I mean):

SECockpit video

It’s not often that you’ll see this kind of
quality info shared, so take advantage of it while it lasts!

Powerful Traffic Tactics:

• Most people overlook the power of Surveys!
• “Help” Websites
• Video Sharing Sites

Surveys

People love filling in surveys. And if you make it interesting, other people will post your survey on their website. It’s a win-win. They get a great perk on their site and you get a link back to yours. This allows you to get free website traffic  from other people’s sites! This is a sneaky little idea that most people never even think of. Just make the question interesting enough that people will want to share it with their own visitors.

I like to use  Survey Monkey. I recommend it!

“Help” Websites

These sites, like answers.yahoo.com are filled with people asking and answering questions for each other. But, like the surveys, that’s not why you’re going to pay attention to these sites. You are going to generate traffic, leads and sales from them. Of course, the process of digging through these sites and pulling out the content info of leads for your business is very time consuming. But a much smarter method is to use  website traffic software  to do it for you. These tools put the whole thing on auto-pilot and just deliver the leads to you each day.

Video Websites

Video is huge and sites like YouTube and Vimeo are extremely popular. In fact, YouTube has over 2 billion videos watched per day! If you’re not taking advantage of this rich source of website traffic  then you are really missing out.

And don’t worry if you don’t have any idea of how to make a video. One super easy thing to do is take an article or website you’ve written. Then just do a screen capture of yourself going through it. And like anything else, there is software available that will turn articles into videos for you automatically. Or use Animoto. Very easy to use. 

An example from one of my other niches.

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Summary

Figuring out how to get some visitors to your site is not hard at all. It just takes a little time and some ingenuity. Plus, there’s lots of great software out there to help you.

So, start right now and:

• Keyword research first is key -  get Seocockpit

• Set up some viral surveys
• Survey Monkey
• Build your traffic traps
• Website Squeeze Pages
• And don’t forget about video 
• Animoto

Posted on 2nd February, 2012 | No Comment

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Posted on 27th January, 2012 | No Comment

Frustrated by too little traffic & no revenue at your blog?

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Want to know the tricks of how to make blogging really pay?
Joan Stewart, The Publicity Hound, who has been blogging
for seven years and making money doing it, will give you a
treasure chest of ideas, tactics, tools and advice on how to
turn your blog into an ATM machine–without annoying your
readers.
    THE DETAILS

•The Number One thing your blog must have-

-without it, you won’t even make spare change

•The best way to use banner ads…yes, they CAN work!

•How to find graphic artists to create attractive banner ads for you

•How to upsell readers to products and services from within your blog posts

•2 red-hot websites where millions of people are flocking, credit cards in hand…you need to be there so they can pay you, too!

•5 types of products you can create simply by repurposing content you’ve written at your blog–and outsourcing most of the work

•How to find people willing to pay you to review their products

•How to repurpose content from your ezine, give it away at your blog, and make money doing it

•A quick way to profit from your blog when you’ve decided you absolutely hate blogging

•How to compete against major print publications and sell ads for your blog

•How speakers can use their blogs to book more gigs

•Tips that will help your affiliates lead more people to your blog and sell your products and services

•Tips on how you can be a super affiliate and earn big commissions selling other people’s products at your own blog  

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•How use your blog in tandem with your ezine

•WordPress plug-ins that put money in your pocket

•How to use social media sites to pull followers to your blog

•Why not promoting something within your blog post can sometimes be more effective than an overt promotion

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Posted on 19th December, 2011 | No Comment

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However, there are some precautions you should be aware of. To begin with there are NO REFUNDS. Indeed, no changing your mind later and crying FOUL on any of the programs or things you might buy from the site. When I first read of this policy, it was a bit hard to swallow, but quite honestly you have to think through the up side as well as the down side of such a policy. After all, you can invest in these exact same products & services at other sites at 100% retail and perhaps get a guarantee or whatever is promised, or you can save hundreds if not thousands of dollars and buy everything at 50% to 90% off. What do most people do? Purchase with eyes wide open. If you feel you sorta need a new tool or training program and it looks like a great deal… go for it. Otherwise hold off until a better deal is posted. Every day you’ll discover a new deal. It works like clockwork.

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Posted on 14th October, 2011 | No Comment

 Jo Barnes and the crew at the The Social Networking Academy had their 2nd Customer appreciation day.

The menu was FANTASTIC… Discover how to use Social Media to attract and engage quality customers to quickly grow your business.

SNA  Social Network Academy click here

Posted on 22nd July, 2011 | No Comment

At the SNA! Lots happening so I thought I would post a little about it.

Just now on the facebook page -  we’ve changed the pricing slightly to The Social Networking Academy and you can now join for only $1!

$1 for a 10 day trial and thereafter it’s $37 a month. What have you got to lose! Try us out for only $1 for a whole 10 days and I guarantee you won’t be disappointed! I can atest to that – I am a founding member – a life member.

Turns out that all I had to do was post this video of Chris Farrell and Jo Barnes. They can tell you about :

• How to write and ebook – 10 points etc – write a main point every day and in ten days you have your ebook.
• Chris talked about time management. We all have the same 24hrs but its what you do with it that matters. – What did I accomplish today. An appreciation of the day pad. A Thank you appreciation pad.

Chris and Joe listed some of there most favorite books. I wrote down the whole list. One of them was… The Power Of Intention by Dr. Dwyer

Don’t miss this great teleseminar video. ( It is 25 mins so save to RSS feed) To join and see all that Jo talks about in the video, go here

http://bit.ly/fbsocialnetworkingacademy  

Posted on 4th July, 2011 | 8 Comments

  Facebook post today that I wanted to share.

Congratulations to  The Social Networking Academy!

After taking my head out of the BBQ today, I’ve noticed that we now have over 7000+ fans. We now have almost 20,000 fans when you include our sister page, Free Fan Page Templates.

 Welcome all new fans!!! -Rhett

Fill in the form on the right to get 22 F.ree Videos on Facebook.

or go here  http://bit.ly/fbsocialnetworkingacademy 

Posted on 15th June, 2011 | No Comment

UpDate - Now up to … every Wednesday

SNAtv – Episode 7 The One with – The Advertising Frenzy  – Facebook and Twitter.

Twitter new interface – or switch to old way button – see birdy on right.

Free download how to use Twitter – (for members of course)

Cool Tool

Work for 25 mins and then take a break. Focus booster ap tells you nicely when time is up. I really like it! wwwfocusboosterap.com

Tip of the week – What are your goals for your business?  What is your overall objective. Take time out every week  ( an hour) and have a review – what went wrong, what are my priorities for my business. I have a business meeting for my offline business, now I will do the same with my online businesses.

Social Media Academy  The One about Apple and Twitter

• Jo Barnes has some updates:
  Twitter has a like button?
  Seems Apple had a falling out with fb.
  Now sweet on Twitter.

Jo talks about this on her SNA tv show this week.
Like to get your own Twitter like button?

http://twitter.com/followbutton

Follow @KathieMac

And lots more tips.

Join this membership

 (See the form on the right) for lots of info directly to your email about the SOCIAL NETWORK ACADEMY!