37 Instant Moneymaking Part-Time Businesses
Introduction
You're on the road to success - Congratulations! You bought
this report because you want information on starting a business,
part-time at first, without investing a lot of money, yet one
that will quickly be a money-maker. You'll find a number of
them here.
In each one we give the basic concept of the business, what
product or service it provides to your customers, and how it is
operated, and (if any are necessary) what equipment or
facilities or help will be needed.
But whatever business you choose, remember that no business can
succeed without your effort. remember that determination and
hard work are the mother and father of success. If you supply
those, and use the information we supply, you can't miss. Good
luck!
1. Television Computer Pictures
Lease a computer printer and a video camera and a monitor
screen that produces large-size, high contrast portraits of
customers in 30 seconds, while they wait. You will find this a
sure-fire crowd attracter, as the printer chatters away. Set up
in a crowded resort are. Charge at least $4 a picture, framed
in a simple mat, almost all of which is gross profit. Net cost
of all materials, about 8 cents.
Hot source: The equipment to do this is available from
Sketch Division, 140 Wood Road, Braintree, Mass. 02184
2. Badge-Making
Rent a small multilith printing machine and a badge sealing
machine, and using self-adhesive Presstype for typesetting,
design and set cut sayings for the badges. Sell as a custom
service, making slogans to order, or make a wide range of
far-out sayings in bulk quantities and sell them to local gift
and novelty shops for resale.
3. Run a "Consignment Shop"
It requires very little capital and accepts goods for sale from
members of the public and sells these items for them on a
commission basis. You might try a wide variety of items at
first, to see what sells best and most regularly.
4. Picture Framing, In Your Own Home
Relatively inexpensive materials with a good sense of color and
style and a reasonable ability with carpentry tools, will build
a large custom-framing business, since people who spend money on
art won't skimp on the frames either, if they want a
good-looking result.
5. Rental Equipment
Be the source of supplies for do-it-yourselfers. Working only
Saturdays and Sundays, when they do, you rent out power tools,
such as circular saws, jigsaws, reciprocating saws, gasoline
chain saws, electric drills, electric planers, belt and orbital
sanders, routers, paint sprayers, wallpaper-removal steamers,
staple guns, pumps, home cleaning machines, Roto-tillers, and
other equipment for daily fees. Operate out of your garage.
6. Talent Bureau, For Kid's or Adults' Parties
Using local ads, or your own contacts, line up 10 to 20 local
entertainers, magicians, comics, puppeteers and other talents,
and supply them for parties, club meetings and other functions.
Have a list of films you can also supply for the same, or other
groups, which they can project themselves, if they wish, or you
will supply an operator.
7. Throwing Parties for Profit
Everyone loves to go to a party, and nowadays some smart
operators make a mint running them for everybody who wants to
attend. You can too! Hire a hall and a band, plan to set up a
bar (if you can get a temporary liquor permit), and promote the
hell out of it with ads, handbills, bumper stickers and
lamp-post posters. Special parties aimed at a particular group
do best, such as singles, or under-thirties, or over-forties.
This idea is especially good in college towns.
8. Start a Hobby Center
Make money on your unused space (and maybe the power tools
you've already paid for!) Turn your basement into a woodworking
center, your spare bedroom into a photo darkroom, and your
garage into a pottery workshop with a wheel and a small kiln.
Rent the space and equipment by the hour, expand into more
hobbies as time and money permit, and charge additional fees for
instruction in any of those fields you're good at.
9. Organize a Babysitting Service
One of the troubles most people find is that their babysitter is
always busy just the night they want to go out. You set up a
service, finding good reliable teenage girls and boys,
middle-aged or older women, and act as a go-between, providing
sitters whenever your customers want them, collecting the fees,
and paying the sitters. Advertise your service, and handbills
house-to-house locally being a good way.
10. Make Money From Your Hobbies
Are you an expert at something that you do at home for fun?
Then make it pay off for you! If you're a gourmet cook, give
cooking lessons in the haut cuisine. If you're an accomplished
painter in oils or water-color, offer a portrait-painting
service. If you're a skilled carpenter, design and make custom
cabinets to order. Almost any hobby you're good at can be
turned to making a profit if you think about it carefully, and
decide who could use your expertise - as a consultant in that
field, if nothing else. All you really have to do to get
started is to place an ad!
11. Publish a Buy/Swap Paper in Your Town
Get money from both ends in this sweetheart deal. Publish the
weekly paper with classified ads from the public offering stuff
for sale, arranged according to category, and charge the people
for their ads (some operators let them pay only if and when they
sell, but in that case charge them a percentage of the selling
price, 5% for smaller items, 2% or 3% for automobiles), and then
sell the newspaper (suggest price is 25 cents) as well, through
local newsstands and by subscription (in the mail). Once you
have a fairly decent circulation, local merchants will also pay
you for display ads, because they know people really read buy
and swap newspapers religiously cover-to-cover.
12. Do Custom Photo Developing
Quality is essential, and speed is generally also required,
although you can charge a premium for rush service. If you
already have an elaborate dark-room set-up in your home, so much
the better, but if not it can be fitted in anywhere you have
room, the basement being ideal, since windows are not a
requirement. You must be able not only to develop and print
every normal size of film from 35 mm to 8" x 10" but handle
enlargements up to a minimum of 30" x 40", and preferably 5" 8*"
or more, and do copying both of opaque material and slides. An
ability to offer retouching, restoration and coloring as well is
helpful, even if you have to send that specialized work out.
13. Publish a Part-Time Jobs Directory
Make this a newsstand book, as well as offering it, with small
ads, by mail order. List all the possible jobs people can get
part-time, especially angling it at college kids on vacation,
teachers after school hours, housewives with time on their
hands, and moonlighters looking for part-time second jobs.
14. Run a Children's "Explorer Club"
Take kids on Saturday and Sunday outings. Ten kids each day,
to zoos, farms, theaters, children's shows and sports events. A
small micro-bus (rented and, or eventually bought) can be used
to travel in. Many parents are delighted to have weekend days
to themselves, even though it costs them some dough.
15. Be an Instructor
Teach whatever you know. Your trade, profession, cooking
skills, a second language, woodworking, chess, photography,
knitting, karate, bridge, auto repair, etc. People will pay for
good lessons in these useful and enjoyable skills.
16. Run a Floor Scraping/Polishing Service
You buy or (at first) rent, a heavy-duty machine, and do the
cleaning and waxing of fine, hardwood floors. If the floors are
in very bad condition, machine sand them and them completely
refinish them with modern super-durable polyurethane finishes.
17. Operate a Children's Hotel
This is sort of a "boarding house" for kids while their parent
go away for a week-end or two-week vacation. Requires a large
house, and preferably, a large yard or grounds, swings, slides,
and facilities useful for kids. Must be done very responsibly
and carefully. Also, don't take very young children (less than
9 or 10 say) because they may require too much dressing,
feeding, etc.
18. Start a Mail-Order Business
Write a booklet about something people really want to know
about, print a few hundred copies, and place some small ads.
You'd be surprised how much money you can make. Sell modern
copies of out-of-print uncopyrighted material or books. Or sell
something unusual you make at home, providing that it is
something really useful to your prospective customers. Or sell
some of your ideas such as #2 badges, #37 genealogy, and others.
19. Operate a Xerox Copy Center
The secret of this is not just selling one or two copies of each
original (although on a 300-page original manuscript, that can
add up too), but using one of the latest high-speed high-quality
mass-production Xeroxes so that you can compete with the guys
operating those quick printing services, by turning out 100 or
200 resumes, letters, or circulars just as fast, and probably a
great deal faster, for the same (or potentially less if you want
to be competitive) money as they charge. This way you have two
kinds of work, giving you twice as many customers, and twice the
profit opportunity, and with the right location, a chance to
clean up.
If you want to offer even more services, and have the space in
your shop, as well as the potential customers, you can offer
Xerox reductions (New York Times-size page down to 8-1/2"x11"),
and Xerox copies in full-color, which are remarkably good. The
color machine will also make color copies directly from 35 mm.
color slides in one quick step.
Of course, you can consider using other brands of xerographic
copiers, such as IBM, Kodak, Savin, Canon, Minolta or others,
but although you may theoretically save money, make sure of
their service policies, and that they have field servicemen in
your locality, or you may find yourself stuck with a copier on
the fritz for a week, which could ruin your business.
20. Be a Local News Correspondent
For big city papers some distance from your town. When an event
occurs in your area you write the story for those papers (they
have correspondents in many big places but not in most small
towns or isolated areas) and they pay you for it. This is known
as being a "stringer". If you're good with a camera, take
photos to accompany the story.
21. Campground Store-On-Wheels
Use either a panel truck or a camper body on a pick-up truck
chassis. Go to public park areas and campgrounds selling
charcoal, paper plates, water-melon, ice cream, eggs, milk,
bread, insect repellent, sunglasses, newspapers, etc.
22. Create a New Tour-Bus Service
Even in affluent America, not everyone has a car, and even those
who do often prefer to leave long trips to a professional bus
driver. and although there are bus tours offered to some
familiar places, there are still so many interesting, even
exciting, places people would like to go to, if they were
offered the chance. Here's where you come in. You must be
creative about it, and study all the six-State areas around yourhometown, to discover some original and different places to
travel to on day trips which will "turn on" your prospective
customers, and get them to sign up.
The rest is easy. You get competitive quotes (from commercial
bus companies) for a quality bus to do the round-trip, with a
suitable stopover at the destination point (enough to do the
sights, shop and maybe eat as well). Then you figure you tour
price per person so you can make a profit even if the bus is
only half full or so. Then you have a safety margin - and if
you sell every seat you will do very well indeed.
Then all you have to do is sell. You put little ads in your
local papers, paste up flyers wherever you can (supermarkets are
good), contact local travel agents (of course you give them a
percentage on what they sell for you), local hotel clerks, etc.,
and you also contact women's clubs, religious groups, fraternal
societies, factory social organizations, and so on (they may
take a whole bus, or even two, and you give them a special
price, naturally).
23. Run a Pet Hotel Service
For dogs or cats or both. People will pay high fees to ensure
high-quality care fo the animal they love. Separate kennels for
each animal are essential. Good food and adequate care and
attention must be assured also. You can hire responsible
teenagers to help you. Advertise with posters in pet shops,
veterinarians' offices; and if they're cheaply available, get
the mailing lists of local ASPCA groups and other animal welfare
groups, as well as membership lists of dog and cat clubs.
24. Sell Second-hand Kids Clothing
Children usually outgrow their clothes rather than wearing them
out. So many families have such clothing left around. You
collect it, paying nothing or as little as possible. Then you
resell it; you can do the selling by ads, handbills or through
your church or community groups.
25. Breed Tropical Fish
This requires only a moderate amount of space and a small
investment in equipment. Properly done, it needs only a small
amount of your time yet can make you a good profit. You can
obtain your beginning stock from the large wholesale dealers.
You can sell direct to consumers (the hobbyists) or to stores in
your area.26. Make Plastic Engraved Signs
All you need is a simple-to-operate machine that engraves
lettering in various types onto sheets of plastic of many
colors, finishes and sizes. Perfect for signs for merchants,
banks, doctors, dentists, schools and colleges, private front
doors, and many other uses.
Hot Source for the Machine:27. Sell Christmas Trees
Seasonal, but if you have the time in the few weeks before
Christmas, can be a good money maker. Find a vacant storefront
or lot, or space inside a larger building, where people pass by.
But be sure to order a supply of trees enough in advance. And
if you own country land that is not being used, consider growing
the trees yourself. Your first crop can be ready in four years,
with steady crops from then on.
28. Open a Rubber Stamp Business
Manufacture them in your basement. The materials needed are
cheap. And the finished stamps can be sold to many people,
storeowners, offices, individuals. You can market them by mail
and through local merchants.
Hot Source: The machine and a financing plan to buy it ar
29. Camper's Equipment Rental Service
With urban living, the back-to-nature movement is growing and
camping is becoming very popular. Rent out tents, sleeping
bags, portable propane stoves, chairs, etc. Demand
identification from customers and reliable security (keeping one
of their credit cards is good).
30. Operate a Key-Safety Service
Each customer is sold a special tag to put on his or her key
ring. It says "Drop in any mailbox" and has the address of a
post office box that you rent (Don't use your home address for
the same reason your customers shouldn't have their home address
on their keys - dishonest people finding the keys will come
prowling around). You assign each customer's tag a code numberfrom a list that you keep. When someone's keys arrive at your
post office box, you return them to him, for another fee.
31. Be a Used Car Buying Consultant
With a knowledge of cars, plus the proper test equipment (for
checking the engine, transmission, brakes, font-end alignment,
and chassis), you go with your customer to check out the used
car he is thinking of buying. Advertise your service next to
the ads offering used cars for sale. After a while you will get
to know people in this field and you can pick up more money by
acting as a middleman in sales between private individuals.
32. Sell "Loss Leaders" for Profit
This may sound contradictory but it isn't. Supermarkets aren't
the only ones who use loss leaders. A good mail-order idea is
offering a cute item (worth much more) for $1 in women's
magazines, giving prompt delivery and including with it stuffers
(ads with order blanks) for half a dozen more expensive items.
The repeat business on the other items makes the $1 offer
profitable.
33. Baby Items Rental Service
You rent everything needed for a baby's care - stroller,
playpen, high chair, etc. When the customer's baby outgrows
them you rent to the next couple. Of course, you must
advertise, and also send direct mail pieces to all couples with
new births (get their names from hospitals and newspapers and
list brokers).
34. Operate a "Give a Party" Service
You rent out everything needed for a party: tables, chairs,
punch bowls, table cloths, cutlery, and napkins. You can also
supply waitresses and bartenders, finding them through agencies
that supply temporary help such as Manpower. But if you can
find good workers yourself, you can save the agency fee and make
more money.
35. Operate a Miniature Slot Car Racing Track
In your basement (or wherever you can fit it) build a large and
elaborate miniature slot car racing track (with a least 6 or 8
slots). Local kids, and often adults, pay you by the hour to
race, using either your cars or theirs. To boost interest you
can hold monthly contests with trophies.36. All-Service Service
You line up the specialists in fixing almost anything, and take
care of getting them customers by delivering handbills to homes
and placing ads in supermarkets and local papers. They pay you
5% of every job refer to them, which can soon add up.
37. Genealogy for People Who Want Roots
You seek out the records in public or university libraries,
county courthouses and elsewhere, as necessary, for a sliding
fee, depending on the size of family, difficulties in getting
information, geographic dispersion, and other factors.
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Earn money from faceboo.com from your student life : A complete tutorial
Facebook.com is a well known social networking site that has been around for a few years, mainly circulating among college-aged students. Initially, Facebook was
created by Harvard students as a sort of real time yearbook where they could see and get to know their fellow classmates before actually meeting them in person.
So in summary, facebook is completely public, and anyone can join. Given that, it is
important to know the ins and outs of facebook.com, including the secrets for making money using facebook.com. In fact, did you know that you can even make money on facebook without any business, goods, or services of your own? It’s easy, and all it
takes is a little know how.
This report will tell you everything you need to know to get you registered, connected, and ultimately richer! Read on.
What is Facebook.com?
Facebook is a powerful social networking site that connects members with others
around them. Facebook can serve a lot of purposes: it can act as a constant way to read about your friends and and to update them on your life; users can employ it as a photo album to broadcast their images to people all over their network; it can serve as a
means to gather your favorite links for others to see, and of course, it can be used to meet new people and learn lots about them right away and from the comfort of your computer. In fact, for many, Facebook is like a catalog of romantically-eligible
students in their area, that they can browse through in their pajamas, and then send short, informal messages to if they’re interested. It’s a great way to connect without having to deal with rejection or awkwardness (at least initially), and since so many
people use facebook, most college students think nothing of receiving a message from
a fellow student that they have never met.
To put it glibly, Facebook is huge, and its members have recently been referred to as a “fleet.” In order to really get this idea across, here are a few fast facts about Facebook and its members:
There are currently more than one BILLION photos on the site...considering there is only a few more than 6 billion people on the earth, that’s a pretty phenomenal statistic. Facebook is a bigger photo sharing site than Flickr, a
web 2.0 site that was created exclusively for that purpose.
To handle the incredible degree of data transfer that is constantly occuring
through Facebook, administrators need to utilize 2 terabytes of RAM across many Memcache servers.
Facebook handles 600 million searches each and every month using a search index of 200-gigabytes and featuring real time updates.
So now that you know a little bit about the scope of Facebook, how can you learn more and get involved? It’s simple, and the first thing you need to do is register, and get yourself involved in a few networks and groups.
How is Facebook Organized?
Facebook’s organization is in terms of networks, and these networks are always pre-set
to a specific school, organization, or region. This is why your email address and home town are important input when you register. When you sign up for Facebook, you can immediately get plugged into the networks that are meaningful to you. You’ll be in constant contact not only with your school friends and coworkers, but also with anyone else that might be in your hometown. This way, you can maintain friendships even
after you leave college or your place of work, but at the same time, you can make new friends in your area. Facebook is all about getting to know new people that you are
likely to come in contact with, as well as getting to know the people that you interact with every day a little bit better.
For this reason, although you will be able to search for any registered Facebook member, you will only be able to view profiles of the people in your network. These searches will not be divulged to the search-ee, and likewise, if people search for you,
you will not be notified by an administrator. The only way to find out someone was on your site is if they leave a message. However, this is not neglectful on the part of facebook, but rather serves as a measure to prevent an enormous amount of probably needless information coming to you about how which people viewed your page.
How Do I Become A Member?
To join Facebook these days, all you need is a valid email address. If you want to be able to interact with people from your university or workplace, register with the
appropriate email account for automatic connections. In addition to meeting with coworkers and classmates, you can also register for a regional network so that you can
meet people in your area who are also Facebook members. This is particularly a great idea if you recently moved to a new area and you want to meet new people and/or get
involved with the community.
When you register, note that you will need to choose a user name that includes at least your first name and one letter from your last name. Moreover, profanity is not
allowed, and you may not use celebrity names.
Making your Profile:
Once you register, you will be prompted to make a profile. This is your lifeblood as a facebook member. In it, you will detail the schools you’ve attended, the history of
where you’ve worked, your interests and hobbies, your favorite sites, links, videos, etc,
as well as your photo and links to your photo albums. On your profile, you can also
link to your blogspot, xanga, or myspace page, so that readers who are interested in you can learn even more about how you tick.
Another cool feature about your profile and your friends profiles are your photos and photo albums. Specifically, if you like a photo that a friend has listed you can actually order your own prints of the photo directly through Facebook through My Photoshop. You will also have an area on your profile called your “wall.” Your Facebook friends
can leave messages on your wall, and you can review and respond to these messages. Anyone else who views your profile will see these messages as well, and in this way,
you can have a conversation, or get to know more about the people that someone is already friends with.
Your Personal Photo Album
On your Facebook page, you can also upload an unlimited number of photo albums, as well as notes, commentary, or even full length stories for each photo. You can further make your facebook page into a personal commentary by linking your external blog to your facebook page. This way, anyone that comes across your facebook page will
have easy exposure to your blog. This inter-linking is a great way to generate traffic if you’re trying to get more people to see your blog.
The FaceBook News Feed
Once you’re a member, Facebook will keep you in the loop! It is their mission to keep people connected, and everything about facebook is geared toward that. For instance, each time you log in, you’ll be brought to your homepage where you’ll have access to the latest posts and addendums from your friends’ profiles using the “Facebook News
Feed.” Although this feature sounds like you’d be receiving headlines, from around the nation, facebook is much more of a microcosm than that. Instead, you’ll receive
“news” of what your friends have recently reported to their profiles. In fact, you’ll get
to know every single update they may have made to their profiles in the recent past,
down to the minutae of whether, for instance, they recently updated their favorite book list. In addition, you’ll be able to see the newest photos your friends have added and
see if they have created any new and interesting groups, or if they have joined any existing groups.
This theme of keeping tabs with the people you regularly interact
with is the key to Facebook—and it has come under fire of late, because some users just don’t want to know that much about their friends—it’s like a barrage of
information with every click. Alternatively, some users don’t want their friends and acquaintances, or worse, their coworkers or boss, to know quite so many things about them—some of which may be incriminating or open the possibility of fraud or
blackmail. For these reasons, the Facebook creators have modified their method of exposure control, which you can read more about in the following section, “Will Everyone See My Facebook Page?”.
Although some say that Facebook takes the personal aspect out of friendships, for busy college students, it really is key to keeping in touch with your friends with rapid
updates according to your own schedule. And although there are some facebook dissenters, it’s amazing success (see stats below) is just so phenomenal, that it’s obvious people in general are happy it’s available.
Will Everyone See My Facebook Page? And other privacy issues:
This decision is yours to make. You have the control over whether you make your
page completely open to all readers, or if you restrict access to confirmed members. Facebook has a complete arsenal of privacy settings to make sure that you feel comfortable with the information you post on your page.
Once you register to become a Facebook member, you will be able to navigate to your privacy control panel where you can change your privacy settings in general, or even
for specific photos, notes, profile subsections and more. This way, if you add a picture that is particularly risqué, you can block most viewers from seeing it, but still allow
most everyone to see the more generic or less offensive posts that you have.
Alternatively, you’re more than welcome to open your entire page to viewers, and
many members—particularly the younger ones who have not learned about the potential dangers of identity theft—choose this route. Finally, facebook allows you to
specifically block certain members, so that they are unable to access your page under any circumstances. These people will not even know your facebook page exists. As a corollary to this, you can also just make a limited profile that certain friends are
capable of accessing, whereas your closer friends are able to access your detailed profile. All of these measures are in place so that you will feel as safe as possible sharing your information, so that you will be likely to share quite a bit, as well as continue using Facebook regularly.
Even given these privacy settings, Facebook has recently endured criticism about how much people can access, however, especially now that they have the facebook news feed, which is like a constantly updated blog where you can see every change your friends and acquaintances have made to their profiles. Some students have become worried that it’s too much of an infringement on their privacy, and Facebook’s creator Mark Zukerberg has advised students not to include their phone numbers, campus or home addresses, or other strictly personal information like birthdays, particularly
because these pieces of information invite identity theft and cyber stalking.
Instead of these personal facts, you can create a name for yourself on facebook by
listing your favorite books and movies, your favorite restaurants and the ones you can’t stand, even your hometown and whether you’re in a relationship. It is better to list
these things as a means of allowing others to get to know you without being able to easily use your information to their financial benefit. But do keep in mind when you make you profile, that with such an enormous network, there is plenty of room for
scammers to infiltrate the site and try to use your information for data mining. In other words, you might find yourself receiving a lot more junk emails than you did before
you created a profile. But for most people, this is just a small price to pay to be part of the greatest social networking site currently available.
With competitors like Friendster, Greatest Journal, and Xanga, as well as international clones (such as one in
the social networking business, but it is probably doing the best. It’s in the best
interests of Facebook, however, to make sure that they respond with care to their users concerns, and that they remedy everything and anything as soon as possible.
About…
Creating clubs and groups
At any given time, facebook users can be part of up to five networks, only one of
which can be a regional network. The other networks can be university or workplace,
as long as every member has a valid email address to authenticate their affiliation with the network. Within those networks are smaller sub-networks called clubs and groups.
Facebook users can join existing groups or create their own. Some political groups
exist, but the great majority of them are social and fun, which reflects the real nature of facebook.com: to meet other users near you in a social setting, and not necessarily for career networking and the like. In fact, in general, the most common use of facebook
is reading about other students with an interest in asking them out on a date.
Once you sign on and get registered, there are tons of ways to get help when you’re creating groups or joining existing groups. The staff is friendly and supportive, and the other users are great help if you have trouble with any facet of the site. If you want to join a group, you can do so automatically if the group is “open.” Other groups require
that you inquire of an administrator whether you can join or not, and then you have to wait for approval. Finally, some groups only allow you to join by invitation.
Creating events:
If you’re looking for something to do; facebook is there for you. You can search their “events” listing for an idea of what people in your area have planned for that evening, and what you might be able to get involved with. Plus, you can even create your own events by going to the My Events page and creating your own event. You can even
invite people who aren’t registered with facebook to these events, as long as you know their email address. Indeed, the objective of facebook is to increase your social networking powers, and they’ll do anything they can to help you! And once an event
is over, you can post pictures from it so those who were there can remember the fun they had, and those who weren’t there can see what they missed.
Adding friends and recruiting new members:
If you have a friend who is not yet a facebook member, you can easily invite them by going to the invite screen and entering their email address. They will then receive an automated email encouraging them to register and telling them that the invite came from you. You can even import a list of your contacts and invite everyone in one bulk email. This way, you can quickly notify your friends that you are a Facebook user and you want them to join you!
Poking and Sending Messages:
In addition to groups, you can also create party notices and events, and send messages
to your friends via email. As a user, you can interact with others by adding friends to
your page (this is based on a mutual agreement to “become friends”). In addition, you can more informally say hello to someone you don’t know or haven’t heard from in
awhile by “poking” them, the Facebook code for saying hello.
Sending messages and pokes is very easy. Just click the appropriate box and type in your message. Next time the user logs in, he or she will be automatically notified that they have a new message or a new poke and they can easily respond.
You’ll be surprised at how friendly some facebook members will be, both in poking
you and in responding well to your pokes. In general, the entire network is congenial, and there is a sense of collegiality, which is probably a holdover from the fact that this
all started as a university networking site.
The entire site exudes a feel like it is a fraternity, at least if you are truly a member of a particular network. For instance, when you sign on, be sure to check the networks in
place for your high school, college or university, or your graduate school. You will be surprised at the number of people who are already signed on, and you might get the chance to reconnect with friends that you lost touch with long ago.
These networks are also a great way to get involved with a new area if you’ve recently relocated. You can get to know others in your area that are in your age group or have common interests, and you can browse their profiles at your convenience.
The Share Feature
Once you and your friends are registered and ready to go, you can also use the share feature to clue them in to a particularly interesting story you’ve written or a
particularly funny picture you’ve recently taken. The share feature can be accessed
from your profile, and you can send specific pieces of information to all your friends to
be sure that they will take notice, even if they don’t happen to come across your facebook page that day.
In addition to adding friends, removing friends is also possible. With each, the process
is reciprocal. In other words, you cannot add a friend without them agreeing to “friend you” back, and if you choose to remove a friend from your list, your name will automatically be removed from their list as well. However, they will not receive any
other form of notification that you have chosen to remove them.
On your friends list, you can also list “friend details;” information about your friends
that others will be able to see. Once you initially list the detail, it will appear in gray, and your friend can then read it and confirm that it is true. If they do this, then the detail will change to black.
If you want to get some information about someone before meeting them in person and without them knowing that you were asking about them, facebook is the place to do it.
You can view the profiles of other registered users in your network, and they will have
no information that you were ever there unless you choose to leave a message.
In addition to connecting with your friends on facebook itself, you can also get a
“badge” from the website that you can add to any additional personal websites or blogs that you may have. This way, you can broadcast the fact that you are a facebook
member, and get more exposure to your facebook profile, in case you’ve recently become a member. You can even use your badge as a personal signature in internet forums.
Finally, you can be sure to keep in touch with your friends via your status page. When
you sign on, you will be able to set your own status, and see whether other friends are online and available for chatting. This is one of the few instances in which you can
directly contact your friends for a chat, rather than leaving a message on their wall.
Making Money with Facebook.com:
The Facebook creators are not at all averse to broadcasting ads as a means to produce revenue. In fact, they have three widely known methods for helping to get an
advertiser some exposure. (Facebook estimates earning one million dollars per week
in revenue.)
Here are some of the traditional ways:
(1) local text ads, which can be posted by the college itself (that pertains to a particular academic network) or by businesses in close proximity with the colleges.
These ads are estimated at about fifteen to twenty dollars a day, and when you consider
the extent of students that will see the ads every day, or even multiple times each day,
it’s no question whether the decision to advertise on facebook is a good one.
These ads are not very expensive, but at the same time, they aren’t going to reach
every single person out there. This is a good way to get started on the advertising boat, but it won’t necessarily bring in a windfall of cash.
(2) traditional banner ads, which any business in the nation can purchase. These ads are the same as the banners you see along the top or down the side of any other site
that accepts advertisements. Contact facebook directly for price quotes on these banners.
These ads are more likely to bring in a lot of money, but of course, they will cost more
too. If you are able to put up the necessary revenue up front, then you should go for some of these ads. They are guaranteed to reach a lot of people.
(3) sponsored groups can also be made. So for instance, if Apple computers wants to create a group, they can pay Facebook to advertise the group. Such sponsored groups
are quite common on facebook, and again, you can contact their staff directly for more information about these types of advertisements.
These groups are interesting in that, if they become popular, they can really bring in a
lot of interested buyers. In this case, it can often be a random guess whether your sponsored group will take off or not.
A Potential Advertising Option In the Making:
Another way that Facebook very recently started generating revenue is through
“virtual gifts” that users can give to their friends for a dollar each. As of this report,
these virtual gifts were no more than a month in the making, but they already seem to
be popular among users, and those that receive gifts can display them like trophies along the wall section of their facebook page. This new feature is still only offered to
limited schools, but it is likely that advertisers will be able to sponsor certain gifts, and make a percentage of each gift purchased. With the number of students that use this
site as a college dating site, the giving and receiving of gifts is bound to become popular. Currently, they are planned to cost one dollar per gift.
Many experts think that this new gift giving feature will explode in revenue because it will be seen by users as a high end version of “poking,” or saying hello to other users, and poking is already an enormous is already such a big activity on Facebook, where you reach out to other users. When you pay money to do the same thing, it will mean more, to the gift receiver, and many predict that and “people will be sucked into doing
it.” If the facebook gifts do succeed, facebook might then increase the stakes by offering “limited edition” gifts and higher end icons. After all, this is just giving away money to facebook for intangible virtual gifts, but it might very well take off.
Another way you can make money on Facebook is through “sponsored stories.”:
Advertisers are already making use of this feature, in which they write up a “story” that appears on the News Feed of facebook members. This story is generally tailored to
appeal to the reader, and will often offer a discount on a product or service that the reader might be interested in. Each day, users will see one of these sponsored stories, and it will slowly move from the top of their news feed to the bottom throughout the
day.
With any of these advertising options, facebook tries to ensure that the advertiser is well suited to their audience to best prevent users from become frustrated and upset
with the abundance of advertisements. Keep this in mind when thinking about advertising on facebook. You will be a prime advertiser if you are within close proximity to a large university or if your offer is catered to college students, high school students, or recent college grads, especially if you can offer them a special student discount. If none of these things apply to you, then perhaps you should
consider an alternative place to advertise, at least until more non-college-aged people join facebook. At this point, facebook has only recently become open to the public, so
it will be some time before facebook is constituted by a broad audience.
A Secret for Free Advertising:
Sure all of the above ways of advertising are great because they will undoubtedly reach
a large audience and get noticed, but what if you just don’t have the available revenue
to pay facebook upfront, but you still want to get some exposure for your service or product among the 18-25 age bracket? There are still some things you can do to make money with facebook, even if you have no business, nothing to sell, and no service to offer! That’s right, there is money to be had in facebook, and now that you know the
ins and outs of the site, how to register, and how to create a great page with lots of exposure, you can use your facebook page for your benefit.
Here’s one way: simply register on facebook and make a page where you talk about your business. Sometimes this can work wonders because it will promote a buzz
among the facebook subscribers, and if you have lots of friends on the site, you will quickly get lots of exposure for your business or product. This is also a great way to get free information about your business out there, because you don’t have to pay
anything to become a registered user, and then you can post whatever you want to your profile. Include pictures of your store front, some information about what you do or
what you sell…you can even upload printable coupons and list deals for other
facebook members. Of course, with this form of free advertising, it’s up to you to get the exposure by asking to join groups, and asking your friends to check out your facebook site. As with many successful businesses, your best source of advertising
will be word of mouth, but by making a facebook page with information of your business, you can promote it without ever paying facebook a penny.
This method is especially good if you are a recent grad of college or high school and
you are hoping to reach the people that you are or used to be friends with. If these people know you or know of you, then they are more likely to help you out by
purchasing your product or at least helping to spread the buzz around. Make sure you
do everything in your power to target them in your quest for advertising.
Join their
groups, friend them, and leave plenty of messages (but not too many, you don’t want to get banned!). In general, as long as you make a concerted effort to reach people on
your facebook page, people are bound to come across it, simply by statistics. So many people use facebook that you are bound to get readers.
In order to keep them on your page long enough to potentially buy your product, make
sure your site is aesthetically pleasing and that it has plenty of information about your product to keep potential consumers engaged. This part is up to you, but facebook is available to help you along!
Tips for Advertising your business on Facebook.com
Keep in mind that this all started with college students at Harvard. The decision to open it up to the public was made after professors and students at other colleges wanted to get plugged in, and its usefulness became really apparent. However, this
was a tool for the 18-25 crowd from the start, and in effect, the major audience is still this crowd. As an advertiser looking to make money with facebook, you need to
consider that your ads will have to interest college students...and one of the most important things for a college student is food. So, for instance, if you live in a college town, and you want to open up a local fast food restaurant, a pizza place, a hoagie or Chinese take-out place, or especially a delivery service, you can set facebook to
display an ad for your establishment each time a student logs in, and you will be guaranteed to get a rapid flow of hungry students if your restaurant caters to them (read: cheap, fast, and greasy, usually).
Facebook has become one of the best ways for
businesses to get exposure to the 18-25 crowd, and if you already have a business and
are looking to make extra cash, or if you are considering investing in a business, this is one of the best ways to make a lot of money, at least during the school year.
As of February 2004, statistics showed that 85% of college students (something like
3.9 million people) were using facebook (and of those, 60% were logging in every single day), and the social network has remained vibrant and expansive. The most recent report estimated the number of facebook members at 17 million, with people
spending an average of 18 minutes per day on facebook (many of the younger students will spend three or more hours per day viewing profiles and working on their own).
Now, it’s commonplace for high school students to sign on as soon as they get their acceptance letter from college, even before orientation! So the extent of people you will reach by advertising on facebook is truly impressive.
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Predictions for the Future
One of the most important things to consider is the fact that with time, facebook is
bound to evolve as the inaugural class that first used facebook graduates from college and bring their profiles and their addiction to facebook to their new jobs and to
graduate school. As an advertiser, this just means diversification, because after all, the exposure of new crops of students, existing students, and alumni to your ads is
expected to be a phenomenal way to make money.
In fact, some see facebook as automatically replacing a lot of the corporate intranets that are poorly formatted and do not catch on well. If employees come on with a knowledge of facebook and with experience using it, it would just make sense for the organization to adopt facebook and sponsor their own group. Ultimately, this may become the nation’s, or even the world’s best networking site—it has already become international; catering in particular to schools in Canada, Germany, and India.
So, as an advertiser, now is the time to cash in and make sure you get on the cash bandwagon before the price of ads skyrockets, as it is bound to do.
ites to Check Out for More Information
General information about facebook: http://www.facebook.com/about.php
Follow the Money: http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2006/08/ramifications-1-follow-the-
Testing Virtual Gifts: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/07/facebook-testingvirtual-gifts/
85% of Students use facebook: http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/09/07/85-ofcollege-
Great overview of facebook: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook
List of other social networking sites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites
The official facebook blog: http://blog.facebook.com/
Current Statistics on Wikipedia:
Users: 60,000,000; Page Views: 65,000,000,000 per month; Searches: 970,000,000 per month; Photos Hosted: > 100,000,000; RAM in memcache servers: 20 TB; Search Index size: 2000GB.
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