5 Steps to Monetize

Recently, a lot of questions about how to monetize a site or blogs come into my mail, from basic requirement, preparations until step by step process. Honestly speaking, it required a careful strategic planning, it is not done in one night or instantly. It was a process carefully planned based on your own goals, type of site/blogs/business models/product or services.

basically monetize is about generating revenue from your asset, converting benefits into payment and become a cash. Few assessment would needed first to identify the step by step process such as type of your product, your own business model, identify the marketing channel, did you have your own community? if not, then building traffic is a must, etc etc, and each of the process required their own KPI (Key Performance Indicator).

To simplify the answer, perhaps this infographics below can help you "how to monetize"

Ways to Monetize

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Gamifications : Winning Technique for Engagement

Gamifications is a term for using a game like mechanism and thinking in a non-game context in order to engage user or solve a problem, learning or getting the Data, including improve user experience and gain ROI.

it can be based on rewarding the point for use by sharing their locations, sharing photo just like Foursquare and Facebook.

This technique include :
Achievement badges, leader boards, progress bar, achievement level, redeeming  trading, claiming, gifting, sharing, exchange point, virtual currency,   challenge, performing some task.

And now, marketing are often used this technique to engage their customer in Website or social media. Why Gamifications is Winning? check this below.

Gamifications is Winning

How Casino Make Money

Everybody loves an entertainment, include adult. 

Casinos are one of the favorite entertainment for adult. we often spend some money in there for fun, but for the casinos this is a Business, they are offering fun, excitement, adrenalin rush, and Hope. did you know what is the detail?

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The Power of Pinterest

by Aaron Pragnell : why-pinterest-could-be-the-next-social-media-giant

Pinterest is becoming the next big name in the social media space.

For those who do not yet know, Pinterest is an online pinboard that lets you put your favorite images on a single Web page. You can share your “pins” with your friends or browse pinboards created by others.

Pinterest has become a popular tool for users trying to plan weddings, decorate their homes and share recipes, among other activities.

Conceptualized by Ben Silbermann, Evan Sharp and Paul Sciarra, Pinterest was launched in 2009 and since then has experienced rapid growth. According to statistics released by ComScore in February 2012, Pinterest has more than 10 million monthly unique visitors and is now the third most popular social networking site behind Facebook and Twitter.

With these staggering numbers, it looks like Pinterest could be on track to become the next social media giant.

Pinterest originally received a total of $500,000 from about 10 different angel investors in early 2010. In 2011, Pinterest raised $10 million in a series A round of funding and then later in the year, another $27 million in a series B round of funding. The $27 million dollar round of funding valued the startup at roughly $200 million dollars. Funding was led by powerhouse venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

When it comes to successful startups, Andreessen Horowitz has had its hands in nearly every popular one, including Airbnb, Digg, Facebook, Foursquare, Groupon, Instagram, Skype, Twitter and Zynga. Almost all of these companies either were acquired or went public.

Pinterest has grown from roughly 1 million users in July 2011 to more than 20 million today. In May 2012, Pinterest raised $100 million more in funding, which now values the company at $1.5 billion. Not bad for a site in operation since only 2009 and yet to make a dime in revenue.

Pinterest, though, has stated on its site that it has “tested a few different approaches to make money, such as affiliate links” and “might also try adding advertisements, but haven’t done this yet.” The focus currently is on growth and it has definitely excelled in this area.

The Web site industry is all about knowing your user and the more you know the better. This is the key to success in this sector and a big reason behind Facebook’s success. It knows its users and as a result, advertisers have flocked to the site where they can focus their sights on target customers.

Content Strategy for Small Business

Why Content is important for you? there are several reason for it. and of course all of it are essential for your website, blog or social media.

content become important, it is not just a word, or just some stuff, it was an information or a tools that a visitor would find helpful when visiting your site or blogs. It also can be a differentiation for your business in the different things and stand out from the competitions.

A good content is making sure that you provide all the information and useful also making sure these content in the pages are as complete as possible and answer all of a user's potential questions. Make sure your content are easy-to-read, complete, and informative also it can inspiring others before you looking to adding other content.

No need to become a smart-ass just to writing the content, but one thing for sure, you need a Strategy to writing a content. Especially for a Small Business Owner, You look at things like developing, curating, information architecture, writing, editing and marketing. compare to the others Big Company, they have a resources to hire a PR or Marketing Agency to do this. as a Small Business owner, sometimes we have to do this on our own. 

based on this, lets focused on one of these Content Strategy :

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6 Tips for Using Pinterest

Pinterest is a virtual pinboard. Pinterest allows you to organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web.get inspiration from people who share your interests.

A pin is an image added to Pinterest. A pin can be added from a website using the Pin It button, or you can upload images from your computer. Each pin added using the Pin It button links back to the site it came from.

This 2 Descriptions is from : http://pinterest.com/about/help/

now, are you ready to Pin?

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How a Bad Infographic can Ruin your Business

A good infographics should consist a real data, good design, present it with storytelling and can be share to anybody. 

This one is tell us How a bad one can ruin our business, please avoid bad infographic

source : http://www.loveinfographics.com

What is Digital Marketing

In this info-graphics  it is very clear about what is Digital Marketing. in-fact you can google it, and learn from google.com.

But for the  Next Question, what kind of Industry and Business type are using Digital Marketing? what is their success factor? what is their conversion rate to the sales? if there is a direct impact to the sales figure. 

5 Internet Entreprenuers

What is Entrepreneurs?  they are a person who take care and in charge for Business and Financial, also taking a risk into it. They are providing an employment, seek a revenue for company. They are also a creative people who can distinguished their business from competitions.

These Infographics show 5 of the Biggest Internet Entreprenuers in 2012. 

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Fast Cash using Assets

Current assets are important to businesses because they are the assets that are used to fund day-to-day operations and pay ongoing expenses. Depending on the nature of the business, current assets can range from barrels of crude oil, to baked goods, to foreign currency. 

In personal finance, current assets include cash on hand and in the bank, and marketable securities that are not tied up in long-term investments. In other words, current assets are anything of value that is highly liquid. 

Read more: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/currentassets.asp#ixzz2KQwZ18i1

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