Archive for April, 2010

Making Money on Hubpages Takes Work

April 15th, 2010

Today, I was talking to someone who recently started writing at Hubpages and also has written a few posts over at Xomba, another great site to write for, and she mentioned to me that making money with Hubpages seems like a lot of work.

It’s funny, because I hear these sentiments all the time. People seem to think (at least in the very beginning) that making money online or generating interest in your content online is going to happen very fast.

We often confuse the fast nature of the Internet with quick, overnight success.

I asked my friend if she has ever done anything worthwhile that didn’t take a lot of work. She replied, “Well, no.”

Making money on Hubpages–a very cool site not only for the fact that it allows you to write content that gets to the top of search engines and can be used to earn money and promote your work but also because it is just a fun place to be–takes work and of course time.

I recently read something on the Hubpages blog (it could have been written by Ryan Hupfer, I’m not sure) about how Hubbers make more money on their Hubs months and years after they’re written. I can back this up from experience writing at the site.

You will earn money for something you write today for years to come. But it takes work to figure out what works well on the site and what kind of content will get search traffic.

13 Ways to Pump Up Your Facebook Fan Page and Get Attention

April 13th, 2010

If you’ve created a Facebook fan page, then chances are you want people to see it, to interact with it, to like it even, and maybe tell their friends about it.

Well, just putting up a Facebook fan page isn’t going to be enough. I found a solid list of 13 Ways to Make Your Facebook page truly epic by using time-tested “old-school” marketing techniques.

The rules of marketing and promotion haven’t changed–only the field of battle has.

The first rule from the article titled 13 Old School Marketing Techniques for Facebook Fan Pages is to Advertise.

You have to advertise your page or else other people will never find it. In the Internet world, links are everything (especially if they’re pointing to great content, otherwise what’s the point?). So you want to build links from your blogs, websites, forums you belong to, etc.

Send as many links as possible to your fan page. Write the URL on your business card and hand it out. Get it out there.

Another couple of rules condensed here for brevity purposes are add content, and add lots of it.  Give your company information.  Don’t skimp on adding some personality to the forms where you can fill in company info.  

Add favorite websites, add links to your blogs, sites, ecommerce pages, and whatever other forums you use online as business fronts.

Add content by writing about things of interest to you and your customer (optimally).  Import your blog’s RSS feed.  Add youtube videos.  Put in the time to add interesting and helpful “stuff” to your Facebook fan page and it will be a lot stronger for it.

Parting Words…

The real key to creating a phenomenal fan page that gets traffic and excites people about your brand (and even leads to sales) is the put in the effort to make your page worthwhile, helpful, and valuable.  

There are too many lazy Facebook fan pages out there, which is a good thing because it means you can beat them easily and take their traffic.