Monthly Archives: January 2012

How to Setup a Facebook Ad

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It is really rather simple to set up an advertisement on Facebook. When you are ready to get started, you can use these tips and tricks to get you from start to finish in no time!

Know your Audience and your Business:

Your very first step should be research. Know what you want to get from your advertisement; whether it is more business or popularity; and know what your business offers and how it works. You need to find out who is interested in your product or service and then you want to research the best ways to get your message across to your audience. You can do this by searching for other businesses that are like yours and using their tactics to help you create your own!

Which Type of Ad do you want?

There are two different kinds of ads that Facebook allows; the Facebook Ad or the Social Ad. With the Facebook Ad, you are able to create an ad that is straight-forward and links to an application, a Facebook Page or even an external website.

The Social Ad, like the Facebook ad, is branded but it also uses social interactions that are performed by a user’s friends. Those interactions are used by Facebook as a headline and are displayed in a Mini Feed for the Facebook User to see.

For beginners, it is recommended to start out with the Facebook Ad at first. Once you get the hang of it, you can then start using Social Ads and make it easier by linking Facebook Connect to your website to make it easy for users to connect to your Facebook Page and then share it with their friends on Facebook. When you use this correctly, your benefits will be huge!

What’s next?

Once you have a good amount of followers on your company’s Facebook page, you are able to start using Social actions much more. You are able to get your messages going “viral” and get even more fans and more business for your company. The more your followers interact with your Facebook Page and your Ads, your information will be shown on your follower’s friends’ pages even more!

On Facebook, you are able to target your audience much more easily and more definitely than on Adwords. You are able to target by age, gender, state, city, workplaces, relationship status, sexual preference, and even your own keywords! There are over 33 million targetable people on Facebook today!

Figuring out Bidding and Budgets:

Facebook allows users to start out with a $5 minimum campaign or your minimum CPC/CPM multiplied by 2. It is suggested that you start out with at least $250 to test your ads. Facebook will assign a daily spending limit of your starting amount ($250) and this will be increased over time depending on how much you spend daily after 5 payments.

The budgets and prices you choose will vary based on your targeting options; ads get a lot of impressions so you should plan for this. Set your budget at what you can afford to spend and then test it from there.

CPC is the most recommended model for Facebook because it can end up costing less in the long term future.

Creating your Ad and Collection Data:

Next you will want to create an advertisement that appeals to your audience, ensure that your title is catchy and your ad is clear and concise. This way you can make sure that your users will read your ad and will be interested in clicking on it.

Facebook Insights or even Google Analytics can be used to track your ads and collect data to give you reports based on how often your ads are seen, how often they are clicked on and tips on how to make your ads more useful for your business.

Once you’ve begun, you are able to change your ads, change your budget and make changes with any other aspect of your campaign whenever you need to. This makes it easy to be seen by millions of Facebook users and create a target audience that will, in turn, create more business and more revenue for your company!

Don’t forget to have a fast internet connection in place so that you can enjoy an always on, rapid and responsive facebook experience. To be able to upload images and video you definitely need fast bandwidth and many internet providers are offering high speed internet at great discounts. Check out AT&T with their uverse deals where you can save a lot of many on your internet service.  Best of luck on your Facebook Advertisements and I hope you make a lot of money.

Apple Gearing up for a Productive 2012

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Could your boss buy you an iPhone?

According to Forrester Research’s annual Global Technology Market Outlook review, business spending on Apple devices will increase by 50% this year, as part of global iPhone sales of £75 million (and iPad sales of £35 million). More and more businesses who might previously have bought their employees a BlackBerry are trialling, or already buying, iPhones instead. Likewise, lots of firms are picking up iPads where they might earlier have bought laptops. Time to start talking to your boss about how much more productive and inspired you could be if you had an iPhone 4S.

 

China gets the iPhone 4S

The iPhone 4S finally launches in China, with the expectation of massive sales. Chinese telecoms companies are falling over themselves to offer the best deals on a 4S, with China Unicom giving away a free 32GB 4S for just £29 a month… so long as you’re happy to sign up for a three-year contract.

 

Apple smartphones are now available in over 90 countries, and the brand continues to enjoy enormous social cachet around the world, with customers repeatedly showing that they prefer iPhones over similarly specced devices that are cheaper or faster. This hasn’t stopped Chinese phone maker Meizu trying to cash in with an iPhone knock-off, the MX. The MX got its Chinese launch two weeks before the iPhone 4S, on January 1st, but only time will tell if the vast Chinese market embraces the fake or is willing to wait for the more expensive real thing. Meizu has copied Apple’s advertising and even the décor of their stores, down to the kind of tiny details that a US or UK court would pounce on, but Apple is unlikely to try to sue Meizu in the latter’s native China, where intellectual property laws are relatively weak.

 

Quad-core iPhone 5 or iPhone 6?

References to four cores, buried deep within the code for the beta release of iOS5, might mean that Apple’s planned A6 chip, already in trial production, may be quad-core. This year, if this happens at all, it’s likely to only ship in the iPad 3, but given that the iPhone 4S borrowed the iPad 2′s A5 chip, it seems only a matter of time before we see a quad-core iPhone too.

 

Owners of the iPhone 4S download more

Research by network management firm Arieso has shown that iPhone 4S users download an average of twice as much data as iPhone 4 owners, and three times as much as those still stuck with older models. This could lead to major network problems down the line, as phone operators struggle to cope with spiralling data use by customers who are increasingly using their smartphones as the main way they connect to the internet.

 

The main cause of this increase appears to be Siri, which requires constant communication with Apple servers to carry out the most basic of voice recognition features. Even asking Siri to set your alarm requires the use of data, as the request is sent to Apple to be processed. This could cause problems for people who have signed up for an iPhone 4S contract with a relatively low amount of data available.

 

Apple Legal Update

The Supreme Court in California just gave Apple $920,000 (around £600,000) back from the taxman, upholding an earlier ruling that the company had overpaid. The company is also fighting to try to pay far less tax than usual on its overseas earnings, which are massive (and likely to become more so, with the Chinese iPhone 4S launch). This has drawn anger and protests from US Uncut, the sister group to the British anti-tax-dodging campaigners UK Uncut.

Technology Doing Good: iPad Used in Speech Pathology

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Tablets like the iPad have made our lives easier by bringing our email, work, and communication on the go. However, can this tool be used to help people with speech problems, too? Many speech pathologists believe so.

Third party companies are developing iPad applications especially tailored for children with special needs. Among these is the application Prologuo2Go, an augmentative communication device for children who can’t adequately express themselves.

With applications like Prologuo2Go, children that need to develop their verbal skills can now point to pictures of what they wish to communicate to others. Games are developed on the iPad that make speech therapy and communication fun, colorful, and engaging. Even silly games like making a virtual cake on the iPad can teach children the steps of how to make something.

The iPad not only helps with speech development, but also aids patients with general developmental delays, delayed motor skills, autism, and even cerebral palsy. The iPad can also help those with trouble focusing in a classroom setting, giving them a tool through which they can complete tasks independently, at their own pace.

Additionally, the iPad allows many schools and medical centers to save money, as its $500 price tag is significantly lower than prices for many speech pathology and therapy technology. Its portability and capacity are added bonuses.

Author’s Bio: Margot is a guest writer and techie who advocates practical uses of technology. She loves to write for the Blog Content Guild and has a penchant for finding the best deal using Dell coupons.

Iomoio – Cheap MP3 Music Download

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