Since the release of the iPad, there has been a lot of buzz about the product, its functions and its cost. So, how does the iPad affect social media and can the iPad make social media even more effective?

There are several ways in which the iPad can help to make social media an even more effective tool for increasing your business.

• Business app development: The iPad is technologically more advanced than its predecessors. Social media, organizational apps and games are more sophisticated on the iPad. Flipboard, which is an extremely innovative social media app, is basically an interactive digital magazine. It can make updates daily (and even hourly). Flipboard can interface with all of your social media accounts. When the iPad was first introduced into the market, it didn’t offer very many tools for managing and tracking social media presence for business. However, that is something that Apple has been working on.
• Lots of buzz: A great deal of buzz has been created about the iPad. For a long time before it was actually in stores, it seemed to be all anyone was talking about on Twitter, Facebook and other popular social media channels. A lot of that buzz was concerning the branding of the product. Because the iPod has been around for such a long time and it is in most households, the name “iPad” drew the attention of a large number of people.
• Accessibility: The majority of social media platforms is accessible on mobile devices. Before the emergence of the iPad, the accessibility was there but it wasn’t great. The most positive aspect of being able to access social media channels through mobile devices was the convenience. The iPad offers convenience and functionality. As an iPad user, you will be able to connect with your online communities through the various social media channels very easily.

The iPad allows you to share all sorts of content through social media. Now you have the convenience of being able to connect wherever and whenever you want. Even from a physical comfort standpoint, the iPad is more comfortable to use than other devices that came before it. You lean back comfortably when you engage. Because of its size, you don’t need to be hunched over to use the iPad. That is better for your back and shoulders. If you are consistently comfortable, you will be more productive with your work as well.

Integrating the iPad into your social media marketing strategy

If you are an active Facebook user, it is recommended that you focus that part of your social media marketing strategy on conversation and interaction. When you use the iPad to connect with your Facebook fans, you should always make sure that your conversations are valuable for your business. You will see that this is a good approach for you and your business and one that brings you more business and greater success.

Text

A really useful feature of the iPad, with regard to reading websites and blogs, is that you can zoom in on a specific section of text by simply moving your fingers. This allows everyone (even people who have less-than-perfect vision) to easily read everything on the iPad. The large screen is so much more convenient and minimizes a lot of the frustration that occurs with devices with smaller screens.

Watching a video on the iPad

You will find it very pleasurable to watch a video on your iPad. Many of the online video sites have already converted videos to have the capability of playing on the iPad. You will be able to share valuable and informative videos with other people in your online communities. It is a great way to strengthen your relationships with them.

Attending meetings

If you are a frequent meeting attendee and you generally take your laptop with you, it is much more convenient to bring your iPad with you. First of all, the iPad is much smaller and lighter than a laptop. The iPad allows you to stay on top of your Email and social media channels that you normally are involved with during your meetings.

Presentations

The iPad is great for presentations. If you are travelling for business and giving a presentation somewhere other than your home office, everything that you can do with your laptop, you can do with your iPad. It makes not only getting to and from your business meeting easy but it also makes it very easy for you to successfully give your presentation without any glitches.

Viewing PDFs

You can easily read PDFs on your iPad, which you may need to view for business often. If you receive a PDF as an attachment to your Email, you can view it through the quick viewer. Another option for you is to convert PDFs to the ePub format and to view them with iPad’s book reader.

Conclusion

The iPad is a wonderful device that can be an important part of your social media marketing strategy and can really make it easier for you to maintain contact and interact with your business associates. It has tremendous capabilities and the technology is so sophisticated that it is not only very convenient but is also highly functional.

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The blog posting found on any one site normally reflects, at least in part, the personality of the author. This is normal and expected for a couple of reasons. Firstly most popular blogs gain their fame and favor by creating frequent and interesting posts. When writing this often it is easier for the author to choose a style that is the most ‘natural’ or easiest for them. Secondly people expect and look forward to blog entries that reflect personal opinions or perspectives. This helps to give a more distinct flavor and emphasize the differences between and amongst the many blogging sites found on the internet.

It is therefore of need and importance for anyone wanting to be at their blogging best to choose a style to which they are best suited and most comfortable. Considering that no two personalities are exactly the same it stands to reason that no one style can be reflected in the same exact way.

Here are 7 of the most common ‘styles’ of blog entries found online that have gained the appeal of readers. Perhaps one will be the perfect match for ‘showcasing’ your unique personality and strengths!

How To

Blog entries that show or explain how to do something are very popular online. When you consider that a large majority of online searches focus on answers to a question the surfer may have you can see why this type post is popular.

Informative

Sharing information or explanations about a particular subject feeds the need of the many that are uninformed but would like to know more. This of course is a VERY large audience and a good direction to take your blog entries in if you are experienced in a particular field. Encyclopedias serve this purpose offline while sites such as Wikipedia do the same for online viewers.

Product Reviews

Reviewing a product or service in an objective manner is another popular style people use for content on their site. Everybody wants to know the opinion or experience of others especially when it comes to making a purchasing decision.

Linking to Other Sites

By locating information on other sites and then posting a link on yours to this information would qualify more as a ‘resource’ site. Your readers would regard you as the ‘go to’ guy for where to find information on various subjects. The advantage to this style is that all your outbound links will yield a good amount of incoming links as well thereby strengthening your search engine ranking.

Rant

This is a favorite of mine that I like to reserve the right to use whenever the mood strikes. Selecting or targeting a particular ‘pet peeve’ or current issue allows for your passion to really come to the surface. Pointing out what it is you are at odds with and why your readers should also be concerned is another popular posting style.

This particular style is obviously best suited for those who are not afraid to have an opinion or be outspoken about it. Many readers absolutely love this particular style!

Motivational

People are always looking for inspiration in some form or fashion and if you are a positive minded type person this style may be your calling. Sharing inspirational words or messages will attract a very broad spectrum of viewers.

Satire

Using satire is a very clever ‘tongue in cheek’ method of delivering news, rants and humor all rolled into one. Building a site upon this type approach can attract you links from many different sources due to the broader scope this style may appeal to. Remember you are incorporating a bit of commentary, personal opinion and humor about a wide spectrum of topics.

Your blog posting can and should be as unique as your personality. With all the different blogging sites found on the internet the way or style in which you compose your entries will be what sets you apart from the rest. Surveying some of the most popular blogs online will reveal quite a range of styles in which people have chosen to present their content. So fear not your individuality and uniqueness but rather embrace it. The 7 commonly used styles reviewed here today are very appealing to readers. Perhaps you may see one that is good match for your talents and personality. In any case you need to settle on a style with which you are most comfortable and will enable you to be at your blogging best for your readers!

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I have a new bonus for you when you join Jeff Johnson’s “Traffic Voodoo 2.0: Non-Stop Traffic” today, but first… Let me explain why you definitely need this new bonus:

There are currently 176 video tutorials waiting for you the minute you join the Traffic Voodoo 2.0 Private Membership Site and Coaching Club.

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That’s on top of the hundreds, if not thousands of pages of PDF tutorials ready and waiting for you the very first minute you access “Traffic Voodoo 2.0: Non-Stop Traffic“.

And Traffic Voodoo 2.0 is an “ongoing” coaching club so they’ll be adding new training material for you for the next year, probably even longer.

Which means by the time you are done with your Traffic Voodoo 2.0: Non-Stop training… you’ll literally have hundreds of videos, mp3s, and potentially thousands of page of content to download so you can keep them as part of your permanent “online training” library.

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Here’s why:

1. When you join today Jeff is giving you a free Lifetime Membership Upgrade to Traffic Voodoo 2.0 which means you’ll have plenty of time to access and download all of the training material.

2. Jeff’s personal team of “doers” (the guys who do this stuff for him every day) are in the “forums” almost every single day and they are willing to tell you exactly where to go to get started, how to put our strategies to best use in your own business, and help you whenever you get stuck.

3. Jeff will be hosting a series of Live webinars where he updates you on the newest cutting-edge traffic-getting, list-building strategies so you’ll know exactly how to turn your new found traffic into money… and he’ll answer ever single question you still have on those live training webinars.

But based on the feedback from the hundreds of people who have already decided to join Jeff’s Traffic Voodoo 2.0 in the last few days alone…

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Here’s how it works:

After you’ve been inside the Traffic Voodoo 2.0 training program for a few months, and after Jeff has had time to create dozens of new training videos, action plans, Cheat Sheets and process diagrams for you…

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The entire “Traffic Voodoo 2.0: Non-Stop Traffic” Training Program…

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That means not only will you have a Lifetime Membership so you can take your time downloading everything when you first join…

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Enjoy!

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Hello everyone, I wanted to let everyone know that if you’re trying to access the Butterfly Marketing 2 Early Bird site, that it is indeed down.

It’s pretty safe to say that too many people were trying to access the server to get their copy of this Awesome Home Study Course and it killed Mike’s servers.  I’m sure he will be sending out a notice shortly and when he does I’ll let you all know that the server is back up again.

Don’t worry, Mike is experienced with issues just like this and I’m sure he will take care of everyone who has been trying to get their free copy of this awesome course.

Stay Tuned and if you haven’t signed up for the early bird notice, it’s very likely based on the server shutdown that there may not be any copies of his course left by the time the official doors are suppose to open, at any rate you can try and sign up for early bird notice anyway by going to the Butterfly Marketing 2.0 Site

Well, Mike Filsaime has finally lost his mind and is giving away his Butterfly Marketing Home Study Course worth $1,997 absolutely FREE!

Mike’s website script (that comes with this course) has been responsible for making me a lot of money over the past couple of years, so much so that I could quit my job and work from the comfort of my home.  The thing is, I’m not the only one who’s made a lot of money from using this one marketing course and have it change their lives.

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Using this tool you can track what your customers and competitors are saying about you, your products, or services and even track an entire Niche Market

Have you ever wondered what your customers are saying about your products or services and wish you had a way to track this? If you have been building a business of any kind it’s likely you’ve asked yourself this question… but you’ve probably wondered how you could also track your competitors and keep track of what they are doing in your market.

Lets face it, staying on top of your niche markets and your competitors is vital if you are going to stay on top of your game, it’s also vital to have this information so that you can develop products or services that your customers say they want, even if they aren’t telling you directly what it is they say they need. I have been using this tool to track all of these things in the niche markets that interest me for quite some time now and the gems I am able to gather because of this knowledge just cannot be beat.

I’ve been contemplating whether or not I should reveal this information here simply because I will be arming not only your competitors with this same information, but also my own. Now if you’ve purchased any of our products you probably already have this knowledge, but for most, this very well could be a shocking little secret that you wished you knew about a long time ago.

Google’s Tools Rock!

If you’ve spent any time here on M3 then you know it’s no big secret that I love Google. Out of any other company out there, Google has been responsible for helping my businesses to grow more than any other and it’s due to the tools and data we are able to extract from this phenominal search engine and as you will soon see, this tool is just one of the many you should be using that’s within their aresenal.

The tool I’m referring to is called Google Alerts.

Now before you go hog wild and start creating a plethora of alerts, I highly recommend that you go get yourself a new GMail account specifically to track all of your alerts because it can easily stuff your inbox with more alerts than you can handle and I would hate to see you plug up your primary email address with all these alerts. So head over to Gmail and grab yourself a new email address.

Now that you have that all taken care of, let me show you what you can accomplish with this fantastic tool.

How Does Google Alerts Work?

There are currently 6 different search Types you can perform and they are ‘News’, ‘Web’, ‘Blogs’, ‘Comprehensive’, ‘Video’ and ‘Groups’. A brief explanation for these types of searches is below:

• A ‘News’ alert is an email aggregate of the latest news articles that contain the search terms of your choice and appear in the top ten results of your Google News search.
• A ‘Web’ alert is an email aggregate of the latest web pages that contain the search terms of your choice and appear in the top twenty results of your Google Web search.
• A ‘Blogs’ alert is an email aggregate of the latest blog posts that contain the search terms of your choice and appear in the top ten results of your Google Blog search.
• A ‘Comprehensive’ alert is an aggregate of the latest results from multiple sources (News, Web and Blogs) into a single email to provide maximum coverage on the topic of your choice.
• A ‘Video’ alert is an email aggregate of the latest videos that contain the search terms of your choice and appear in the top ten results of your Google Video search.
• A ‘Groups’ alert is an email aggregate of new posts that contain the search terms of your choice and appear in the top fifty results of your Google Groups search.

There are also 3 different types of Alert Frequency and they are ‘As it Happens’, ‘Once a day’ or ‘Once a week’.

How Would I Use This Tool to Track a Niche, Competitor and/or Customer?

Lets say you have a business in the Dog Training Niche and you want to track what people are saying about your product. All you have to do is:

• Enter the Search phrase you want to track
• The Type of search you want to be alerted for
• The frequency of the Alerts
• The email address you want the Alerts to be sent to
• Click Create Alert

So for our Dog Training Niche let’s say you have a website called ‘www.GuardDogTraining.com’ and you have an ebook called ‘Pro Guard Dog Training’, you would create two alerts, one for ‘www.GuardDogTraining’ and another for ‘Pro Guard Dog Training’ and then you will receive an email from Google whenever the Googlebots find an instance of your alert phrase.

If you wanted to be really aggressive about your alerts, and you wanted to cover all of the possible options, you would actually have to create 3 alerts for each phrase, one using Comprehensive (which includes, News, Web and Blogs), another for Groups and lastly one for Video. This would give you an alert for every possible option within Google Alerts.

Now let’s think outside the box for a moment …You could even create an alert to cover what might be a possible product you might want to produce. For example, let’s say you wanted to see what people were saying about “dog has problem losing weight” and could create an alert of this phrase to not only see what people are saying about this particular phrase, but find out where they are posting this kind of information to get answers. Are they getting answers to their questions? If not, then you may have an area where a product needs to be created to provide a solution.

Granted, this is just an example, but I think you can start to see where you might be able to do some pretty creative data mining using this tool.

Please feel free to post how you are using the tool and whether it’s giving you useful information.

Talk to you soon,

Michael

Learn How Michael Replaced His Corporate Job Income In Seven Days

When I learned that I had lost my corporate job due to a severe back injury, I must admit I had no idea how I was going to make ends meet since I was essentially bed ridden and couldn’t work my normal type of work as a Test Engineer.  I was making pretty good money on my corporate job, especially when you added the stock options I had and could pull from.   In this series of articles I’m going to show you exactly how I was able to replace my corporate income only after 7 days of starting my Internet business.

This series will start in about 2 weeks so keep your eye on this space for this remarkable and inspiring story.

Accelerating Your Business Profits by Setting High Goals and Reaching Them

One of the biggest stumbling blocks I see happening with many Entrepreneur’s that are struggling in their businesses is that they do not have the proper Mindset and aren’t setting their goals.   I can tell you from personal experience that your mindset is the biggest contributing factor in determining your success so we are going to discuss this subject in detail.

No matter which Millionaires you talk to, you will find that they all have this one thing in common no matter what business they are involved in, and that is, they set Clear, Lofty Goals and did whatever it took to reach the goals they set.  Believing is a powerful thing but before you can begin believing that you can reach a lofty goal, you have to set them.  If you never set them you are only going to have marginal success if any.

One of My Millionaire Mindset Stories

Before we get into the meat of the Millionaire Mindset I want to share a little story about how mindset can have a tremendous effect on your results.

In my working career as a welder / fitter I had decided that doing this kind of work was getting to hard on me physically, I had spent the past 10 years in this trade and it had taken it’s toll.  So I began to think about the other areas that I might like to pursue and ended up looking at engineering as a possible new career path.  The problem was that I couldn’t afford to go to school again and because I had a family to provide for I knew I wouldn’t be able to go to school full time and work full time on top of it.

Now I’m no different that anyone else but what I do have that seems to be different than a lot of other people is that I’m very stubborn and when I make up my mind to do something, I don’t take no for an answer.  This is key to one of the first things we will be discussing here with regards to Mindset and that is, BELIEF.   In order to overcome and to reap rewards from the things you want to pursue in life, you have to believe that you can receive/achieve it.  It is so vital to your success that we will be discussing it here at length.

There are Obstacles but the Goal is Set

Getting back to the story here…   So here I was, faced with understanding that I wouldn’t be able to work full time and also go to school to get a degree in Mechanical Engineering, so I started to think about how I could get my foot in the door some where that would lead me in that direction.  Once I had finalized that this was what I wanted to do, I began looking everywhere I could including the company I was currently working for, to see if I could start learning what I could about their engineering processes and also the tools that they used to do their engineering.

I managed to get a copy of their drafting program and began learning it in my spare time at home, as well as looking online at the tools the engineers were using at that time.  One of the biggest manufacturing organizations in that area at the time was The Boeing Company, which as you know, they build commercial and government aircraft, so I began to set my sites on getting an engineering type job with them.

OK, you’re probably thinking to yourself at this point that I must be out of my mind because here I am, no experience in engineering, no formal training, and I’m going to try and get a job at one of the largest aeronautical companies in the country?  Yes, that’s right!  When I look back on it now, it’s nothing short of amazing so let me back up a minute and describe to you quickly how it all turned out.

Once I began learning the drafting program that my current employer was using, I started asking a lot of questions to the guys in that engineering department and learned a lot, within just a matter of weeks, I was offered a job within their engineering department and to make a long story short, after about a year of working in that department, I was made the Supervisor for that department and was able to take some of their processes and improve them significantly.

One Door is Shut and Another Opens

A short time after getting the supervisor role, I was informed that the company was being sold to an organization that was in another state, so I put together my resume and began pursuing a position at The Boeing Company and in a few short weeks had an interview with the Manager for their Rack structures engineering department and accepted a position as a Lead Designer and got a significant raise in the process.

What is the Proper Mindset?

So what do I want you to take from all this?  In a nutshell, you should:

• Set Lofty Goals (So big that on the face of it, they seem impossible to reach)
• Plan how you’re going to accomplish your goals
• Take Action that leads you in the direction of your goals
• Get rid of the negative thoughts and instead Look for the Possibilities
• Believe You Can Achieve It and You Will
• Affirm Your Thoughts Out Loud (in other words, Talk About How You Are Going To Achieve It!)
• Expect The Results You Planned For

I have used these techniques throughout my life and this is just one of the examples I could give you, I have many many more.  Some of which are even more remarkable than this particular story.

It doesn’t matter if it’s a goal of getting a new job, or starting your own business, or reaching to get more traffic to your web site, it’s all the same, so sit down and nail down your goals on paper every single day and plan to succeed.  If you’ll follow these steps and don’t give up, YOU WILL SUCCEED!  It works every time I apply it and it will work for you as well.

Once you believe that you can achieve and receive, the rest is money in the bank and there isn’t anything that you can’t achieve if you can believe for it.

How Do I Develop This Kind of Mindset?

I do believe that some of us are better equipped to have the proper mindset due to the nature of our childhoods and how we are brought up but I also know that anyone and everyone can develop this kind of mindset with practice and by exercising our minds on a daily basis.  A positive mind is a happy mind and if you start to practice some of the things that we’ve talked about here and also use some of the references below, you will be well on your way to seeing all of your goals come to life.

My all time favorite books on this topic are “The Secret”, “Move Ahead with Possibility Thnking“, “The Magic of Thinking Big” and “God’s Will is Prosperity”

I have shelves full of books similar to these that I garner a lot of inspiration and guidance from.  If you would like a complete list of the books I read to help maintain a positive Mindset I’ll put something together for you.

Conclusion

After I worked for Boeing for about 3 years I decided I wanted to move onto software development and so I began training myself at home just like I did with the drafting and engineering field and as a result, I was interviewed by one of this countries largest engineering software developers and received a position with them as an engineer.   This move from being a design engineer with Boeing, yielded me getting a 25% salary raise on top of moving to a new field within engineering.

Keep in mind, here I was, working next to guys that spent 4+ years in college to get a degree in engineering, doing the same job they were, and I did not have a degree.  I was making the same salaries as the other engineers there despite the fact that I didn’t have formal schooling to do the job.

The entire reason I decided to tell you this story is because I hope it will inspire you, to show you that you don’t have to be super smart, or have a degree, or whatever it is that’s currently holding you back from whatever it is that you want.  Instead, look for the possibilities all around you, when you dream big and believe in yourself and the possibilities, doors will open to make a way, but you have to be reaching for those goals, and before that can happen, you must plan to reach them.

I’m no one special, I’m no smarter than you or anyone else, but what I do have is that I believe I can achieve anything that I want to in life and because of that, my mind finds ways to make it happen.  If I weren’t looking for these possibilities, I would miss the doors that open to make them a reality.  You simply miss the opportunities because you’re not looking for them and expecting them.

No matter what your background is, no matter where you are in life right now, changing your mindset is the one thing YOU DO CONTROL and it is where the battle is either won or lost, so I hope this will help give you some additional inspiration to not only reach your goals, but help you to see the awesome power we all have at our disposal.

The bottom line is if you believe you can move mountains, you can.  No matter how absolutely impossible something may seem on the face of it, begin to get your mind to believe by throwing away all of the excuses for why something can’t work and instead concentrate on why it can work.  The more you do this, the more your mind finds ways and avenues that show you how you can achieve what you want.  It never ceases to amaze me some of the miraculous ways doors open and things happen when you put yourself into this kind of position to believe.

I look forward to hearing about your achievements so please comment here on how you were able to succeed using these techniques, you may just provide the one comment that will flip the light on for someone who is currently struggling with their goals or achieving success.

Look out for another post with regards to mindset soon which is going to cover ‘Building Confidence and Eliminating Fear’

To Your Continued Success and Prosperity!