Original images and smart looking website graphics used on your website can make a big difference to the way your target audience view your content. By using cool website graphics you can totally change the look of your website and keep your audience engaged. Another way to make your website stand out is by using personalised themes to make your website graphics stand out and not look like everyone else’s website online.
Not sure which website graphics I can use online.
If this is you, you are right to be wary of using website graphics that are not your property. Some images are protected by copyright.
If you see an image on Google Images and you are not sure if you can use it or not, you should check permissions. However, if you find an image that you absolutely must have on your site which has a copyright, you could possibly link from your page to its original source. This way you are not taking someone else’s copy written work. You could either link the image and you can write the following underneath your website graphics…….. “Image Courtesy of (and link back to their website here)” This should keep you covered.
Image courtesy of WhoIssandymoore.com
Website Graphics that you own
Of Course, it’s best to have complete permission, so if the image is yours, you are good to go. There are lots of different ways you can edit your own images to have that different edge. Inside Photobucket.com you will find an editing tool. You can change your images to suit your style. For instance the image above I have blurred the edges and put my image into a poster frame. There are a multitude of functions you can add to make your image your own and dress up your site with original website graphics.
Wordle
Now Wordle is heaps of fun and can really give your content a personal touch. All you do is go to create and type in the words that suit your website and voila …..!!! You have an original website graphic in a choice of colours and fonts.
A Website Graphic Library
You can’t go past this extensive website graphic library stocked full of any website graphic you could possibly think of. These are professional website graphics and the only ones you will need to give your site a look like the guru’s. With 30 different Modules, there’s something for everyone here. Just one piece of content from this package can save you either a hundred bucks on designer fees, or hours of time trying to do it yourself.
What’s inside the Website Graphic Library?
Inside you will find premium headers, 3D E-book covers, screen grabs, PowerPoint backgrounds, the latest in social media buttons, premium banner templates, web shadows, premium badges and it even comes with a stage backdrop builder. These website graphics also come with handwritten graphics such as arrows and question marks, some killer fonts a 3D Text maker, grunge text and also includes video player skins. You have never seen anything like it. Choc a block full of website graphics to use on your professional sites.
Did I mention it also includes attention grabbing signs, stickers and stars, add to cart buttons, price badges, check marks and bullets and so much more…. Just jam packed full of any type of website graphic you can imagine.
Website graphics and images
I have only personally used a couple of these sites since they were shared with me by a colleague. I am sure you will find them very useful.
Picsearch.com
Pixsy.com
ICanHasCheezburger.com
DumbJerks.com
xkcd.com
FunnySign.com
I love this image from funnysign.com below.
Here’s the last website graphic site I recommend for lots of cool buttons and fonts to make your website stand out.
Head on over to CoolText.com and start having a play around with all the different tools and website graphics.
With this extensive array of images and website graphics and ideas you will never be short of graphics again to dress up your website.
Posted on 29 January '12 by Sandy, under Blogging, Master Marketing. 17 Comments.
People are always asking me how I made 5,000 Facebook friends and the answer is very simple. I’ll give you all the details later in the post…… for now, I would like to focus on why some businesses can’t build 5,000 Facebook friends.
Why Can’t you Make 5,000 Facebook
Friends
One of the main reasons is that many people wishing to grow their business online using Facebook, simply don’t realise there is a process involved. What people do is they take it for granted that people will want to be their friend. This is not the case as a rule.
You must remember that not everyone on Facebook is there simply for business and not everyone is interested in what you have to sell.
Treat your Facebook friends with respect, the way you would like to be treated is a great way to start.
What is the process?
To start building 5000 Facebook friends the right way you need to have the follow.
A clear photo of yourself preferably in business mode. Many people put blurry images up which are very unprofessional.
Having a picture of you in a bikini or with your shirt off will not attract professionals interested in your business.
After all you wouldn’t go to a meeting in a bikini or with your shirt off.
Treat your Facebook friends like your business associates. One of the crucial mistakes people make when building 5000 Facebook friends is they force sell. What do I mean by “force sell”? Force selling is when you friend someone on Facebook you immediately post your business on their wall or send them a personal message saying “Hey Sandy, great to friend you, have your heard of this awesome new protein shake my company makes.” ? Or how about this one “Hey Sandy, great to have you as a friend here on Facebook. If there is anything I can help you with feel free to ask me.”
What’s wrong with this you say? Well for starters, how do you know I’m looking for help and secondly why are you assuming you actually can help me. You have no idea what my qualifications are and who I am. If you did you wouldn’t be asking such questions. These are actual greetings people have used with me.
This is the worst one. “Hey Sandy, I love networking and I see you do also. What do you think of my business opportunity http://pushymarketinglinkhere.com?
The most popular strategy for making 5000 Facebook friends is the attraction marketing strategy. I’ve been marketing on Facebook for over 3 years now and I would have to say three quarters of the business people on Facebook are not using this method.
Once friended, they also think this is a rite of passage to then send their business opportunity link by either a personal message, via direct email or posting directly onto their new friend’s wall.
What’s my secret to 5000 Facebook Friends?
I can tell you this… I don’t do any of the above. However, what I do is take an approach of actually making friends and sharing valuable information with them. You have to remember these people have friended me for the following reasons. They want to get to know me, they are looking for a business opportunity or they are looking for what I sell.
They are attracted to the way I market my business online. They see that I’m not spamming my business opportunity but having conversations with my friends and they want in also… they see this as a safe environment to be in. They need this safe environment where they can relax and take their time and get to know, like and trust you.
So, how do I use attraction marketing to gain 5000 Facebook friends?
When you are just starting out you will want to friend about 15 to 20 people per day. This is time consuming, however done the right way can get you great results in no time.
Choose friends with a professional image
Make sure when choosing friends that you surround yourself with those people whose profile image is of them. Don’t go choosing people who use their pets, cars, babies or the latest rock star or Hollywood icon. If you’re using Facebook for business you want to position yourself as a professional so, make sure you also have a professional looking photo of yourself.
Like this
Not like this
When people friend you, do this.
When people friend you on Facebook, except the friend request then send this message below. This is the exact message I used to gain 5000 Facebook friends.
Hi firstname,
I’m glad we could connect here at Facebook and I’d like you to know that I mainly use Facebook to build my successful online business.
Feel free to share your blog URL with me if you have one, I’d love to learn more about you, what your interests are and what you’re into online.
Hope your week is a successful one.
Warm regards,
Sandy Moore
Skype: sandymoore1
sandytmoore@gmail.com
whoissandymoore.com
Above is the exact message I used every time I received a new friend request or sent a new friend request. You will notice there are no links to my business opportunity plus I have added a few options for contacting me. You will find by using this message invokes curiosity and your new friend will ask you what business you are in. This gives you the opportunity to send them your free offer and an option to take a look at your business if they choose. This is a much better way to 5000 Facebook friends without having to spam everyone you meet with your business opportunity.
Use the attraction marketing method to build 5000 Facebook friends and remember is not really about the number of friends you have but the way you interact with these friends.
How to build a relationship with 5000 Facebook friends.
Now, just because they are now your friend does not mean you can start spamming them with your business opportunity. In fact, I can say that I have never posted my business opportunity unless someone has requested it. I would go to the extent of not even posting my business opportunity on my own wall and only post valuable information that will help others. Remember, the average person wanting to learn more about marketing their business online has little or no knowledge on the subject. Take an interest in their posts by commenting and starting discussions and just basically being your friendly self.
How to interact with 5000 Facebook friends?
When interacting you’re 5000 Facebook friends you should be sharing valuable information with them. This information should be shared via your website/blog. Not your business opportunity website. You can share posts about your products and services, new stock, marketing tactics, reviews etc…. what you share specifically depends on your business and what you do. Not only do you share this information on Facebook, there are also hundreds of other social networking sites you can share your valuable information.
Last tip for 5000 Facebook friends
It won’t take too long to get up around the 2,500 mark and when you do making Facebook friends becomes much easier. You now look popular to other people on Facebook and they will soon start sending you requests in bulk, which certainly takes the pressure off your friending regime.
Social Networking can be a time consuming strategy, however being a free method for lead generation, can definitely work to your advantage.
I think Facebook should lift the 5,000 Facebook friend limit….. what do you think?
P.S. I love what I do and so can you…. Connect with me HERE
You might be just starting out in your online business or perhaps you are struggling to get your business ranked on the search engines. You could even be a seasoned marketer that just needs a little motivation to get started this year and if that’s the case I encourage you to join the 100 day challenge.
No matter where you are at in your business you want to start each day by ticking off something on your list…….. achieve a goal! By achieving goals first thing in the morning you will be totally motivated for the rest of the day. Being a part of the 100 day challenge will give you the incentive to carry out these goals every day without fail.
What can a 100 Day Challenge do for you?
The 100 Day Challenge gives you 100 days of opportunity, growth, discipline and 100 days of being intensely focused. This is your opportunity to set some amazing goals and raise the bar on your own performance. This is why I have joined the 100 Day Challenge and I encourage my colleague’s to join me to help them achieve new goals in their business.
Anyone can join the 100 day challenge which is run by a professional team of marketers made up of Easther Sudharta, Clint Butler, Fontella Williams and Pat McKeon. Once you have registered, all you have to do is attend a weekly webinar to get your next task and execute it during the week. Over the 100 days there are incentives and this week they are giving away free training with one of the Co-leaders, which is gold in itself. All of these leaders have been at the bottom and they have a lot to share.
So, Why am I taking up the 100 Day Challenge?
Good question!
My number one reason is to encourage my peers to take their business to the next level, many who are just starting out and some who have been online for a while and need to boost their rankings. The 100 day challenge will do this and more for your online presence, which I have recently proven by coming 14th in The Top 50 MLM Blogs Challenge.
Anything is possible when you set goals, focus on the task at hand and have the sheer determination to be a leader.
I have some goals I want to reach and although I already have a successful online business I still feel it’s necessary no matter what level you are at with your business to constantly push yourself further. The internet is one place you can get lost if you don’t keep your eye on the ball so to speak.
♦ My first goal is to get my new website up and running TheOnlineBusinessBuilder.com.au. I’ve been helping people globally for the past 3 years get their business up and running online and establishing themselves on page one of the search engines. In 2012 I’m taking the next step to assist small business and individuals in my local area to also star on page one within their niche.
♦ The second goal I have set in the 100 day challenge is to post at least every second day to my blog. For me this is a challenge right now as I am running a business, assisting my team and running solo raising my 2 boys. Blogging once a week is usually the maximum I can squeeze out so, this will definitely be a challenge.
♦ My third goal (don’t laugh) is to execute the first two goals to the best of my ability. Now that I have made my goals public… I guess it’s now up to me to carry them out. Not that it will be difficult too do… I love what I do with a passion…. I will just have to organise my life to fit in a little better around the 100 day challenge.
Support?
You are never alone when you take on a challenge such as the 100 day challenge. You are continually supported by the co-leaders of the challenge, plus you also have the support of everyone else in the challenge. That’s well over 100 people all sharing and commenting on every post and giving your content mega support.
Could your website do with this kind of Luv?
If so, it’s not too late to join us…. Simply go to this link http://www.mlmglobalchampions.info/ click on the “REGISTER NOW” button and I’ll see you there.
Are you up for the 100 Day Challenge?
Blogging goes hand in hand with social media marketing and one of the largest social networking sites is Facebook. Once you have completed adding content to your website you will want to share it with as many people as possible. Today, I want to share with you some of the Facebook groups designed for sharing your valuable information and reaching the masses.
What to Share in Facebook Groups?
Many marketers and business owners know that Facebook is a great place to share and unfortunately abuse this resource by spamming a link to their business opportunity. They then wonder why this strategy doesn’t work for them long term and the simple answer is people do not want your business opportunity constantly thrust in their faces. Everyone is doing it and if you are one of these people, you should take note of what I’m about to share with you.
Facebook Groups using Attraction Marketing
If you haven’t caught on to the art of attraction marketing yet I suggest you read up on this quick smart. It’s been around online and offline for a very long time and can work for your business with amazingly positive results.
This brings me to what you should be posting on Facebook groups and Fan Pages, which is quality information about your business or industry.
Hundreds of people join Facebook groups and “Like” Fan pages generally because they want information about a particular subject the group or fan page offers.
So you should join groups and pages relevant to your business. Here’s an example – if you are just starting out in the entrepreneurial world you could join my group “Creating Entrepreneurs One Step at a Time”. Here you will find seasoned entrepreneurs and those just starting out and wanting information about how to get started. It would be silly to join a group about weight loss if you sold stationary for instance…. I think you get the idea.
Please Note: The Facebook groups I have provided below may not be suitable to everyone.
How do I find Facebook groups to post to?
This is easy, just go the Facebook search bar and type in the words for your industry and see what pops up in your niche. For example, if you were in the Travel Industry you would type Travel into the search bar and then search. As shown below, there will be a mix of groups and pages that appear, just choose which ones suit your business the best.
Below you will find the list I personally use for online marketing, plus a few extras.
Sandy Moore Online
Creating Entrepreneurs One Step at a Time
WHAT CHA GOT? ADVERTISE HERE!!
MOTIVATED ENTREPRENEURS
Easther Sudharta Online Game Plan
MyOnlineGameplan -Taking Marketing to the Next Level
Network Marketing Australia & NZ
“REED ZODIAC ROOM!”
4,500 Network Marketing Friends In 45 Days
“Social Media Can Set You Free”
Add Networking Friends!
Post Your URL
Advertise Here
Ultimate Success In Network Marketing
Live More Work Less Lifestyle Gathering Place
Get Your Blog Followers
Wa’Dell L Jones & The MLM Success Tribe
Blacks Doing International Business with all Races
Attraction Marketing Training with Mavis Nong
Aussie Thunder
Motivated MLM Dads! But who may need Help!
Post it here daily
Add Networking Friends!
Broadcast Bloggers
Blogging
Network Marketers Unite
‘Social Media Trends’
FB For Fun and Profit
Moms Who work from Home and Want to Network
If you have a group you would like to add your group to the list, you are welcome to leave me a comment with your group in the comment box. Let’s make this a list to remember.
Designer Website | New Business Through The Door?
So, you have a state of the art designer Website that you paid an arm and a leg for but is it bringing new business through the door for you? Are the search engines finding your designer website or is it sitting idle in cyber space gathering dust.
This would be the same website that looks a million dollars and emptied your bank account of the money you had set aside to spend on your marketing. Many businesses are having trouble understanding why their website isn’t generating walk in traffic and buyers like it should be.
Is your static website doing the job you thought it would?
Is it an automatic prospecting system that generates bums on seats, people through the door and copious amounts of sales online and off?
If your designer website is simply an information site so people can find you offline, it probably suites your needs. However, if you were expecting your designer website to pay for itself while also bringing in more targeted traffic to your business… you could be waiting a long time.
What Type of Designer Website Works Best?
The type of designer website that works best for your business is one that works, for you. Before I go into detail, I would like to explain a few things to you about your business and potential prospects or targeted traffic, when you are using the internet as a prospecting tool.
I know most business owners are great at sales and selling to their target audience which are your walk in the door or click on the website customers. The biggest problem you have is to get those customers through the door and to click on your site.
As a rule business owners like you are pretty good at selling. If you had 10 people sitting in front of you or calling you on the phone and they wanted to hear what you have to tell them… you could probably get 4 to 5 of those prospective customers over the line without any trouble…… right?
Designer Websites, do they work?
What is actually constraining your business is not your ability to sell, it’s the actual number of people / leads or qualified prospects sitting down in front of you. So, how do you get the prospect through the door? One of the best ways to do this is to go online if you are not already. One of the most brilliant insights of the internet is that people go online, let’s say to search for fold away deck chairs. This is called your target audience if you are in the business of selling deck chairs. What they haven’t decided is who they are going to buy these deck chairs from.
Now if your designer website isn’t set up the right way with the right content to attract the robots that are crawling the internet for fresh content, your website simply will not be found by your prospective buyers. Your website is place of information for your prospective buyers and with any luck they will purchase from you while they are on your site. That is, if you have the right information and they can find you in the search engines.
Are you the Master or Mistress of your Website?
If you need something changed on your website like a phone number, a product price an image of your new employee, you just call your web designer to change it right? This is just about the limit of fresh content that most websites see in a year and of course there is no way the search engines will be crawling your website looking for one new phone number on your website that is on page 20 of the search engines. So your website stays static and may jump a spot or two because of your new info…. but that’s about it.
Every time you need a new change on your website you are forced to call the person who made your designer website so they can make the changes for you.
An automatic prospecting system or your wordpress.org website transforms visitors into paying customer which is critical for your business to prosper long term online. The main reason why most designer websites don’t work very well is that most business owners and small to medium businesses are far too tactical when it comes to marketing on the internet. Basically, this means that you might be running with some SEO or some pay per click advertising, which isn’t really having an overall defining strategy to how you are marketing your business on the internet.
Designer Website | Framework
To market yourself or your business successfully on the internet you need to use strategies which actually work. A marketing plan and framework that will drive endless leads and prospects right into your business. Fresh content which will be crawled by the search engines and in turn land your business on page 1.
This framework consists of creating content, finding your target audience, marketing your content then connecting and converting your visitors into ongoing paying customers. You need to know who your customer is, you need to give them continuous content they are searching for, which will provide them with the information on the product they wish to purchase. You need to get that information out there so your customer can find the products they are searching for. You are then connecting with your customer so they can purchase the product they set out to buy. If you are not on page 1 within your niche you will not get their business, your competitors will.
The above is the most crucial strategy for turning your website visitors into a long term paying customers. By using this framework in your business and the strategy of an automatic prospecting system to transform your static designer website, building your business online has a whole new meaning.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to put your web designer out of business. On the contrary, once you have your new website that is performing for you, your web designer will make it look just like before or can even give you a new fresh new look to match your new website.
I Don’t Have a Web Designer – what’s my Next Step?
That’s OK you can either follow the step by step instructions on WordPress 2.0 or you can get an expert to set it up for you.
For more information about your own Designer Website and how to get started you can contact us here.
