Product: Facebook Payday
Creator: Peter Koning
Website: http://www.facebookpayday.com
Purpose: This product is intended to show you how to make money on facebook using a simple system that takes minimal time to implement.
Price: $77.00*
Reviewed by: Shane Higginbottom

* As an added bonus Peter has created the Facebook Payday Action Worksheet System. This is a powerful tool to help you make money using Facebook. Combined with the 101 page manual, facebook tutorials, you’ll find everything you need to learn how to make money with facebook. A “quick start” your way to success. By itself, the Action Plan could be sold for $47, but you get it free when you order Facebook Payday today!.

Peter created this product with the intentions of making sure that anyone who bought it would be able to go from opening their first facebook account to understanding how to market yours or another product product on facebook, making money using affiliate marketingon facebook. Establishing your self on facebook and most of all using facebook to make money.

I’ll tell you, as a facebooker myself , there are many ways to get overwhelmed when it comes to trying to decipher all of the facebook ins and outs that comes with the facebook territory. Simple things to experienced facebook Marketers can be a headache to the newbies. Things like using your inbox, the walls, facebook pages,facebook adds and more, can all seem like a foreign language to someone wanting to make money with facebook for the first time.

Peter Koning stepped up and has offered a product designed to help people new to using facebook to make money get over the beginner curve quickly. His product is the best I’ve tested so far when it comes to guiding beginner to intermediate facebook marketers down the path of making money on facebook.

Who Is It For?

This product is easy to follow, and you can use it regardless of your facebook skill level. Peter has some pretty heavy interviews with some people who are making money on facebook, 8 of them actually, so you’ll need to listen closely, and take notes These mp3’s are just awesome!!.

The facebook Payday System was created for the beginner, but I would recommend it for the intermediate to advance facebook marketer too - you will stumble across a few gold nugget ideas that you didn’t know before, even if you are familiar with Facebook. Advanced facebook Marketers will probably find much of the Beginning material basic, but its good to refresh, never know what you have forgotten. Facebook Payday gets you familiar with how to set up a Facebook Account, install critical applications and the best facebook monetization methods, money making opportunites for facebook, how to create facebook applications and monetize existing facebook applications.

I was pleasantly surprised by some of the tips Peter has in the MP 3 interviews, in particular the monetization suggestions, as he offered a few ideas I had never heard of before. For example, the section where he covers Mari Smith – The Relationship Queen
Never one to keep knowledge to herself, Mari is the host of Facebook Fortunes, a free online class on social media marketing. In this interview, Mari gives several valuable insights on the proper frame of mind when going into Facebook, how relationships can help you go a long way, and the little things that can be crucial.  Theres not alot of talk about how to build relationships with facebook as a way to make money from facebook and it’s interesting how Mari leverages the networking power of facebook.

Why Would You Need This Product?

I’ll be honest with you, you don’t need this product. You can learn most of these strategies yourself if you are willing to spend alot of time and do some digging around. But if you truly value your time, why spend months researching when you could just spend a weekend listening to the Mp 3 interviews?

When I first started out with facebook, I spent three months straight gathering the information that I could have learned in a single weekend with the help of this training course.

What Is In The Product

The product itself is a series of mp3’s, e-books, facebook primer module and an action plan worksheet. The methods are largely taught via the e-book but the mp3’s come with transcripts and there are 8 of them included. The mp3’s are info packed so I’d recommend listening to them and making notes along with the transcripts. With a rest in between so that the information soaks in.

The E-books and Mp3’s start out assuming that you don’t even have a facebook account, so as to make an easy reference point for complete beginners. Peter walks you through the steps of Getting a facebook account. After doing that, you are walked through the steps of creating your profile, networking, building relationships, branding yourself and making money on facebook

The e-books and mp3’s aren’t just for novices. The first facebook primer module is the beginning of the system teaching you how to get started and then followed by the facebook pay day report and mp3 files they progress in a logical manner, call it a step by step progress as you advance through the system. The facebook payday process dives into other topics, such as Using Facebook for Market Research and Marketing, monetizing your RSS feed, and advanced traffic building techniques using social bookmarking sites.

Here is a breakdown of all of the content in Peter’s how to make money with facebook Facebook payday system. This is just a list of the main e-book table of contents, there is more information in the complete package that I will let you discover yourself for the sake of brevity.

1. Facebook Mindset
2. Creating Your Facebook Payday
3. Selling Your Own Products
4. Affiliate Marketing
5. Selling Online Advertising
6. Selling Services
7. Investing
8. Using Facebook To Make Money
9. Selling products on Facebook
10. Affiliate Marketing on Facebook
11. Online Advertising on Facebook
12. Selling Services on Facebook
13. Build Your Own or Monetize Existing Applications
14. When you should start using Facebook to make money
15. Things you should know
16. Summary:
17. Establishing Yourself on Facebook
18. Creating a profile
19. Adding Friends
20. Expanding your Network
21. Building Relationships
22. Call to Action
23. Contact Building Best Practices
24. Using Facebook for Market Research and Marketing
25. Facebook for market research
26. User behavior
27. Searching For Customers
28. Search Results from the People Tab
29. Search Results from the Pages Tab
30. Search Results from the Groups Tab
31. Search Results from the Events Tab
32. Search Results from the Applications Tab
33. Other Market Research Tools on Facebook
34. Facebook Polls
35. Facebook Mini-Feeds or News Feeds
36. An unusual technique.
37. Turning Your Facebook Contacts into Customers
38. Use market research to the fullest
39. Follow the communication, branding, and relationship-building advice throughout this reportSpeak their language
40. The most important thing: appeal to their identities
41. Summary:
42. Using Facebook to promote your business
43. Free Promotional Messaging
44. Private Messaging
45. Walls
46. Virtual Gifts
47. Discussion Threads
48. Facebook Pages
49. Joining Networks
50. How to Join Networks:
51. Group Creation Strategy
52. Observe
53. Think of a name
54. Advertise
55. Provide Value
56. Stay Active
57. Promoting products and services
58. Social Ads
59. Beacon
60. Driving traffic to your site/business
61. Include your site URL in various areas of your profile
62. Use applications
63. Useful Applications for Businesses
64. RadicalBuy
65. Business Cards

The Good Points

1. It’s easy to get started. This system is easy enough to follow. All it takes is basic web knowledge, some free time and you’ll be on your way to making money on facebook in your first week.
2. Simple, yet advanced topics are covered. Simple enough to get started, but advanced enough to keep more experienced Facebook interested.
3. The Guarantee. Peter is so confident in his system that he offers a 100% no questions asked money back guarantee.

Room For Improvement

No product is perfect, but here are a few things I would have done differently, had I created the system.

1. Videos. This is one area that people like me just can’t get enough of. I would have liked to have seen some videos I’m a visual learner, but that’s just me.

Should You Buy This?

What I like about Peter’s system is that he really does offer a method to make money on facebook very quickly, if you’re willing to put it to work. His monetization of existing facebook applications strategy is quite clever because it guarantees you get paid for producing your application “If you’re application becomes popular enough for businesses to capitalize on, don’t be surprised if you’re approached for sponsorship and partnership options.” I can’t guarantee you’ll get rich of course because like everyhting else in life it requires work.

If you want a quick crash course in making money with facebook, this is a package worth investing in. It won’t make the money for you, but it will give you a system that works if you sit down and follow it. Just don’t expect to get super rich super quickly - no system can promise that.

At $77 this is one of the better options out there for learning how to make money with facebook. With the money back guarantee that we’ve come to expect from products like this, you shouldn’t have any hesitation at least trying this system out if the offer is compelling to you.

To read more about the product and buy your copy, click here -

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Want to see two blogging heavy weight bloggers battle it out with real money on the line? Garryconn.com and johncow.com are going to do battle. Its called the cowpetition. Watch as they make money blogging

How this benefits you is that you get a front row seat and get to watch as these two A-list bloggers go about competing against each other all in a classroom sort of format. Go to http://www.garryconn.com/cowpetition The cowpetition will run for thirty days.

• If you have ever wanted to get an inside look over the shoulder of a successful blogger as he goes about
• choosing his blog niche,
• setting up his blog,
• getting it monetized
• driving traffic to it
• and then making money blogging then this is going to be something you’re going to want to participate in.
• Best of all it wont cost you and single penny.

The classroom will be delivered in email format to you once you sign the cowpetition on Garryconn’s cowpetition page.

“When the competition begins, I will be sending you detailed documentation on how I am progressing in the competition. I am going to reveal to you every chess move I make in this game. You are going to know everything I do, all my tactics and all my strategies. When it’s all said and done, you will have gained the knowledge to duplicate my successful method and use it for yourself towards your own MMO dot Com ventures.”

SO how did this come about. Yesterday over on Garryconn.com there was a pretty interesting thread that got hot and heavy and ended amicably between johncow and garryconn in a competition. Garryconn basically spilled the beans on this shady blogger trying to scam his way to fame and fortune.

Heres the post : johncow’s life long dream of scamming the blogosphere

If you havent been keeping up with what is happening in MMO blog arena. Basically what happened was that some time ago, johncow tried to fleece an un-suspecting buyer by trying to sell his blog for 50,000.

the ultimate scam is that John Cow dot Com was being offered for sale to any ignorant individual who had $50,000 USD to shell out on their next biggest error in judgment. It’s one thing to trick people into buying a bullshit eBook for $19.95, but I tend to get pissed off when I witness higher grade behaviors that involve serious money that could seriously impact the financial well being of an individual who could potentially be tricked into buying a web site at such a high expense.

owner of John Cow dot Com openly admit that he is honest about screwing people over leads me to believe that he too would be honest (after the fact) about screwing over the person who made the idiotic decision to invest $50,000 USD into the site.

Whether or not the actual sale was made is still unsure but it shook up the MMO and IM blogging circles. As just another blog that tried to fleece someone by selling a scammy blog. There have been quite a few of these happening lately and well garry has had it with this and called johncow out.

It now appears as though there are multiple writers for johncow and theyre stirring or trying to stir up some controversy. This post thread is actually a lesson in itself.

You can the whole thread and the call to action between these two bloggers over at garryconn’s blog.

Johncow basically challenged garryconn to a friendly competiotn as to who can get a blog set up in an non make money online niche get it making money and then try to sell it. The loser forfeits his bid price at blog auction.

So there is real money being put on the line here.

There have been other competitions in the past between some other bloggers, you know the usual, who can get more RSS subscribers in the shortest amount of time but nothing like this has been done before.

The Advantage to you is that you get to see first hand how the guys who are making money online set up their blogs and get them profitable in very short periods of time.

Again like I said this cowpetion is going to run for 30 days, so for theirty days you’ll get a classroom format from garryconn in your inbox and if you were smart you’d doing as he is sending you the lessons. I dont knwo about you but this is just priceless information.

I don’t mean to sound like a blind follower here but I do respect garryconn, he has a family (large family) and earns his money honestly with out having to scam people with BS products and out dated run of the mill blog posting all  trying to get you to buy something.

Wish the same could be said for many other bloggers but it just isn’t so.

I’ve e-mailed Garry many times and every time he has written me back same day with an answer to my question and given me more than what I asked.

So if you’re looking for real help and not hype garbage BS, then I hgighly recommend you get in the class and start that blog you’ve been wanting to get going as the classroom go along.

I’ll be posting regular updates about the make money blogging class, hope to see you there.

I’ve been on the hunt for a custom blog design, for quite some time really. And to be quite honest with you I am having a hard time deciding on who I want to do the custom design for the blog and how much will I be paying to have a custom blog design done for me.

I’ve been on vacation for about 2 weeks now. no-where sunny or anything of that nature It’s winter and I like to be out and about here In snowy Canada, playing hockey and all that So its good to be back and back to the keyboard. But now that I am back I am continuing my search for a custom blog design, or a custom blog design service to suit my needs. Maybe its the holiday shopping bug that got into me maybe its because the new year is coming around and I am currently goal setting and one of the goals is to have a custom blog design done for me.

Not any easy task if you want an honest opinion as there are so many talented blog designers out there.

So lets have a look at some of the reasons why you would want to have a custom blog design done.

First off from a personal perspective:

I am currently using Chris Pearsons 3 column copy blogger theme. As much as I do like the 3 column copy blogger design and the clean white space it provides to feature content, the one problem I have with it is that it breaks in Opera. Not cool in my mind. At first I thought it was just me and something I did to it, but I have seen a few others with this design and they break as well.

Here’s a few other bloggers using the copyblogger design on their blogs

http://blog.biklopsdesign.com/

Keener living

TropicalSeo

OsCandy uses the copyblogger 3 column theme by chris pearson as well.

Another problem I have with using a freely available theme is that as you can see from just a few examples there are many others using it as well.

This doesn’t lend well to better blog branding when so many others are using the same blog template or theme.

When your prospects recall your brand, make sure it makes them smile. If not … you would be better not being recognised at all - ChrisG

"we are moving towards a world where online reputation and personal branding are taking hold. If people connect more to one another through their personal brand online, we are going to see the connection for emotional branding in these channels."  - Six pixels of separation

As bad as this sounds when I am surfing for information when I come across a blog that uses a theme or design I just saw 30 mins ago I just click on to the next browser window or hit the back button or close the window altogether regardless of the content. Why? I’m a visual creature to a large extent if the theme doesn’t grab me in someway I am not going to stick around. My attention span is very precious to me its the most important commodity there is.

When I am surfing for information I am an information consumer. SO when I land upon a blog or a website that information had better consume me quick. Strange really isnt it. Do we consume the information or does it consume us. Either way the consumption process happens or better happen quick and something anything on that page has just got compete for my gold-fish like attention span or Im outta here.

Image is everything and this is where the importance of blog design comes into play. Look at some of the A-list bloggers that have had a custom blog design done with-in the last few months or longer.
 

Copyblogger 

Problogger

JohnChow

Shoemoney

ChrisG

HERE’S WHAT I THINK

DO I think blog design is important I will say YES.

DO  I think a good blog design will positively impact your traffic I will also say YES.

The most important point though, is to realize that a good blog design is nothing without presenting your high quality content. With out content your blog design will not matter much at all and is a waste your money.

Another point worth mentioning here. If you cannot afford to have a custom blog design made for you, don’t let that stop you from producing killer flagship blog content. Or Pillar content.

" A pillar article is usually a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice." - Yaro Starak

What you perceive you believe 

It’s human nature that what you perceive you believe. Being it real or not is a totally different thing, but it still hold true. When you see someone driving down the highway in a BMW, your first immediate impression is wow, that guy/gal is loaded. You have no idea if he is loaded in debt. But you know he’s loaded and you want to drive that car have his success, have his lifestyle. All based on an impression, on an image, on a perception of a reality. Or is this person faking it till they make it

Yes marketing has something to do with this as do hefty price tags on luxury automobiles. But its still all a perception.

Same holds true when, As neil patel at quicksprout.com so eloquently put it: " if people don’t see you as successful then you are less likely to succeed yourself" Appearances are not deceiving they’re reality.

Let me ask you this what do you think you wind up on a professional looking blog, or custom design. Using the blogs I’ve mentioned so far as an example.

Is this blogger is successful?
Knows what theyre doing?
Is trust worthy. Are they real?

These are of course just very basic assumptions.

But dig a little deeper and you’ll see what makes an authority blog and how to the reality matches perception. And how you can mimic these blogs and create this for yourself.

I’ll save that for the next post.