Avoid Scams that Target Wahm’s Online Home Business

Women and Online Home Business Working from home is a fantastic way for moms to earn some extra money and still watch the children. Every woman who wants to become a Wahm has traveled down the same path. Unfortunately, that path is littered with scams and traps to take money and time from honest women looking to make money from home. Internet marketing is not dangerous by itself but with a little common sense and extra research, you can find legitimate work at home opportunities without getting scammed. The first step is to search for jobs in the right places. Don’t simply click on ads to find work. Try to find helpful groups of Wahms who have successful work at home jobs to guide your search. You can try searching on message boards or finding e-mail groups for ideas of where to start your work at home job search. Many of these women can give you insight into which work at home opportunities are actually worth your time. Online Marketing Scams Keep in mind that there are no real ways to get rich quick on the Internet or by working at home. The only people who get rich are those who are scamming others. Never believe an ad or an ’employer’ who claims that you will get rich instantly. There are also a few red flags to look for when you are searching for Internet jobs. You should never have to pay for work or job lists. There are plenty of free listings available that can provide tons of work at home opportunities. Companies that want to charge you for lists of jobs are just trying to get your money. The lists are often filled with dead job leads, or lists of companies that want to charge you money. Many work at home scams will also require you to pay a start-up fee or cover the cost of ‘necessary’ training. Again, legitimate jobs will never require you to pay them any money for you to work. Another warning sign is if the ad or website tells you to ‘Act NOW!’ You should always do research before joining an online business company and never feel pressured to make a decision right away. Many websites are set up with text that says that the offer will expire on today’s date. But if you revisit that website the next day, the ad says that the offer expires on that day. If you are unsure about a company, do some research on the Better Business Bureau website. The BBB has files on all businesses that have had complaints filed against them. You can see what other people have to say about a particular company and be steered away from scams. Be advised: Scammer’s Internet Marketing Guide There are some scams that have been around for years that should be avoided at all costs. These online Home business scams have unfortunately been successful for the scammers, so they continue to take the money and time of hardworking Wahms. If you see an offer for any of the following types of jobs, run the other way. Envelope stuffing is a common scam, although it is being seen less and less these days. These jobs are normally listed as mail service jobs, and then you are asked to pay for a start up kit. After you receive a start up kit, you are given instructions to place your own work at home ads. You basically just sell the start up kit to other people and become a scammer. Craft assembly scams can take many forms. Typically, you receive a set of crafts to complete with instructions. You generally pay for the set and then are told you will be reimbursed for the kits and also paid for their assembly. After working hard at assembling the kits and returning them, you will be told that your work is not up to their quality standards. You will be out the cost of the kits, and they will sell your crafts anyway. There are legitimate jobs out there for Wahms, but you have to do some research on the opportunities first. If you do your research and are careful, you can successfully work from home and never be scammed. My Best Wishes José Franc Admin of josefranconline.com

Baidu becomes Google’s biggest ally in mobile page speed

Chinese search engine Baidu will soon support Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) in its search results, expanding the reach of AMP significantly. Columnist Hermas Ma believes the worldwide impact on mobile page speed will be notable. The breaking news came on March 7, 2017, that Baidu is now supporting Google’s mobile framework, AMP. The tech leader of Baidu MIP, Gao Lei, gave a speech at Google’s first AMP conference in New York. He confirmed that Baidu is working hand-in-hand with Google to accelerate the faster web globally. Baidu MIP, which stands for Mobile Instant Pages, is Baidu’s own version of Google’s AMP. The technologies of MIP are very similar to AMP. In fact, coding an MIP page is just like coding an AMP page, except MIP pages are more customized and optimized for the browsers in the market of mainland China. Baidu says that a Mobile Instant Page can reduce the rendering of above-the-fold content by 30 percent to 80 percent. Moreover, the tap-to-open rate will increase by 5 percent to 40 percent. And similar to Google, Baidu has been considering potentially giving the MIP pages a ranking advantage in search results. The two search engine giants are collaborating for the first time to tackle the problems of slow pages and unfriendly user experiences on mobile devices. Lei says that they are trying to avoid websites investing redundant resources to adopt both AMP and MIP. This implies that the future of AMP and MIP may look even more identical; that said, a one-for-all global mobile framework could be in the making. Baidu certainly is not going to abort its MIP project and replace it with Google’s AMP, as there have been over 1 billion MIP pages indexed by Baidu already. We have yet to confirm with Baidu exactly what they have aligned with Google, and how. They say that there are still technical issues to solve. However, Baidu has confirmed that users can eventually open an AMP page from a Baidu SERP. We don’t know how they plan to do this, whether by opening the AMP pages directly from the SERP or translating them into MIP pages. At Merkle China, we’ve already seen Google and Baidu taking the first steps. Prior to the announcement, the AMP Project website could not be loaded successfully in mainland China. I could only dial on a VPN to check the reference on www.ampproject.org. However, all ampproject.org links are now accessible. When we check the CDN, we see Google enabled the CDN for China, and it loads extremely fast! Given that most AMP traffic originates from Google organic SERPs, it wouldn’t have make sense for AMP documentation to be available in mainland China prior to the announcement. But now developers within the Great Firewall will be able to view and implement this documentation in preparation for Baidu’s support of this framework. This collaboration will certainly benefit mobile internet users, who will be able to enjoy hyper speed on their devices. Of course, it will also benefit brands that want to build a larger presence in mainland China. It is unclear whether users out of the Great Firewall can open an MIP page from a Google SERP; that will depend on whether Google decides to provide support MIP in its search results or accept the customized MIP pages as AMP pages.

5 Qualities For Affiliate Marketing

More and more people these days are turning to one of the most popular businesses around – the business of affiliate marketing. In this business, there are no bosses, deadlines to meet, or piles of work that have to be finished by the end of the day. In order to succeed, you only need the necessary tools. There are basically five things you can’t do without if you want to make it in the business of affiliate marketing. Below, you’ll find each quality you’ll need. 1.An Affiliate must Desire to learn The first quality you must possess is the desire to learn, coupled with the willingness to be trained. Treading through unfamiliar territory is tough indeed, especially if your lacking the right knowledge. This is a combination of the right frame of mind, coupled with a strong work ethic. When starting out, you’ll need to be willing to keep your eyes and ears open, using the experience of others to learn more as you go. 2.An Affiliate must Invest time and effort The second quality you must have is the willingness to invest time and effort in helping your business grow, even if you don’t see immediate results. Even though weeks may pass without hearing good news, it’s very important for anyone who wants to get  their foot in the business world. 3.An Affiliate must have Determination The third quality you’ll need is determination. If you want to make it in the world of affiliate marketing, you must possess to push yourself forward. The ability to push yourself to greater heights will determine what type of future you have. 4.An Affiliate must have Discipline The fourth quality is self discipline. If you teach yourself to work everyday with all of your heart and soul, you’ll be that much closer to reaching your goals and making your dreams come true. 5.An Affiliate must have Optimism The last quality you must have is optimism. Bad attitudes should never discourage an affiliate marketer from pursuing their dreams in order to make life better for themselves or anyone around them. The attitude you have towards the business should always be good, because you’ll have to realize that you’re the captain of your ship and your the one steering it towards destiny. If you put the above tips to good use, you’ll go farther than you ever thought possible in the world of affiliate marketing. You’ll need these qualities to succeed, as affiliate marketing can be a cutting edge career. With the above qualities, you’ll do just fine in the industry. My Best Wishes José Franc Admin of josefranconline.com

The most important thing to know about Facebook’s ad load problem

For almost a year, Facebook has warned that sometime in the middle of 2017 the social network will max out the number of ads it can squeeze in people’s news feeds. As a result of hitting that ad load ceiling, Facebook’s ad revenue growth will slow down “meaningfully” in the second half of 2017, said CFO David Wehner during the company’s Q1 2017 earnings call on Wednesday. But there’s a but. When Wehner talks about ad load, he is only referring to the ad load in Facebook’s news feed, a Facebook spokesperson confirmed after Wednesday’s earnings call that was once again dominated by ad load questions. That distinction is important because it means that Facebook’s ad load problem may not be much of a problem for long. Facebook may be running out of room for ads in people’s news feeds, but it’s starting to put ads in so many other places that ad load on Facebook may be stagnating, but ad load across Facebook Inc. is just beginning to ramp up. For example, the number of ad impressions that Facebook served in Q1 only increased by 32 percent year-over-year. That’s a slowdown compared to the four preceding quarters when the number was up by either 49 or 50 percent year-over-year. The reason for the deceleration? “Our decision to rank longer-form video higher in news feed,” said Wehner. “That means more time in video and that does come at the expense of some impression growth in news feed.” That’s weird, right? Facebook is pushing people to do something that makes Facebook lose out on money. Except that Facebook is betting eventually it will make back that money and then some. It is conditioning people to watch longer videos on Facebook. And it just so happens that those longer videos are the ones that Facebook is starting to insert mid-roll ads, or “ad breaks,” within. Those ad breaks could wind up fetching more money per ad for Facebook than the news feed ads currently going unseen, which might mean that Facebook could eventually even reduce the number of standard news feed ads to avoid feeling like Fox-era MySpace. Ad breaks are only the latest example of what Facebook has been doing for years to reduce the pressure to up the ratio of ads to organic posts in people’s feeds in order to up its ad revenue. A few years ago it started diverting ads out to other publishers’ properties through its Audience Network ad network. Then it started sending them to Instagram. Then to Facebook Groups. Instagram Stories, Messenger not included At the same time as Facebook has ramped up ways to redirect ads from the news feed, it is also rolling out new ad slots, like within Instagram’s Stories feed that’s used by more than 200 million people every day. Ads in Instagram Stories “are not in the ad load calculation, per se. It is different from the ad load commentary that I’ve given,” Wehner said on Wednesday. Also not included in the ad load calculation: ads within Facebook Messenger. Like ads in Facebook’s videos and Instagram’s Stories, Messenger has only started seeding ads in people’s inboxes. But it’s spent the past couple years conditioning people to become accustomed to hearing from marketers on Messenger. In 2015 Facebook redesigned Pages on mobile to make it easier for people to connect with a business through Messenger. Then in 2016 it opened Messenger to bots so that businesses could automate their conversations with customers. And in 2017 it is making it easier for the 1.2 billion people that use Messenger every month to find businesses within Messenger. “The top priority right now is just building up the base of organic interactions between people and businesses that they want to interact with. And once we get that to a big base, I think there are going to be a lot of opportunities to build a business,” said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday’s call. Something similar could be said for other new Facebook products. The company wants people to use Facebook’s and Messenger’s new in-app camera, so it’s added Camera Effects like illustrations and animated masks that people can apply to their photos. And if people use them, Facebook could start pitching advertisers on buying branded ones like the kind Snapchat sells. Facebook may be hitting a point where soon it can’t squeeze much more milk from its news feed cash cow. But it’s raising so many calves that it may not matter in the long run.

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The 5 Tips You Need To Know for Facebook Engagement

The Importance of Facebook Engagement Before we dive headfirst into strategies, we should define what we mean by Facebook engagement. Engagement sometimes means different things to different marketers and businesses, but in general, increasing your Facebook engagement means your audience is more likely to: Comment on your updates Like your content Share your content Look at your posts or videos Click on your links The more your audience performs these actions, the higher your Facebook engagement rate, and the more successful your business page will be, increasing traffic and conversions to your website. What’s not to like, right? Here are seven powerful strategies to achieve this. 1. Celebrate the Holidays (Fake Ones Too) Facebook engagement is all about relevance. If you post relevant content for your customers, then they’re going to engage with your content. One of the most straightforward approaches to creating this relevance is by acknowledging holidays throughout the year and working them into your post updates. 2. Start a Facebook Group Your Facebook activity shouldn’t solely be limited to your brand page. When you start a Facebook Group, you can drive people and therefore activity to your brand page. There’s a difference between a Page and a Group: A Facebook page is the public presence of a business, organization or even personality A Facebook group is a community of like-minded Facebook users that rally around a specific cause, organization or personality, holding small-group discussions about a shared interest So how can a group actually drive traffic to your page? Let’s say that your business is a real estate corporation. You maintain a separate page for it, where you post updates about the real estate market, home-buying tips, and anniversaries special to your brand. Simultaneously, you’re also a member of a real estate-based group, where the community regularly discusses market trends, its members’ home-buying and home-buying experiences, and any questions related to home ownership. By frequently posting and sharing information within the group, you’ll eventually be seen by members as a trustworthy source of knowledge—and traffic to your page will follow that way. 3. Post Surveys, Polls and Quizzes Taking the pulse of your audience is a guaranteed engagement-upping tactic. What fan doesn’t want to share his or her opinion when their favorite brand asks them a question? There’s perhaps no more direct way of engaging your audience because you’re asking them a straightforward question. In general, a survey is for more serious topics, such as what your audience thinks you can do better or their personal experiences with your brand. On the other hand, a poll or quiz can be a bit more frivolous in nature and play to your audience’s sense of fun. A poll or quiz can ask your audience: What you’re doing for the holidays What you think of current events in the news Whether or not you’re going to buy a hot, new product. 4. Time Your Facebook Updates Just Right Based on when you post to your page, you can drastically affect your engagement levels. The idea is to avoid posting when fewer people are around and post during peak times. It’s simple math: When more people are active on the platform, your posts stand to get more exposure. According to a compendium of 23 studies, the best opportunities for posting on Facebook are: Best Days: Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Best Times of Day: 9 am 1 pm 3 pm 5. Tell a Lot More Facebook Stories Human beings are hardwired to tell, listen to, and respond to stories. It’s in our DNA. According to a study published in Nature Communications, storytelling is associated with all sorts of cultural benefits, such as cooperation, preferred social-partner status, and higher reproductive success. With this fact perhaps in mind, it’s no wonder that Facebook last year debuted its Stories feature for both individual profiles and pages. Stories are brief, user-created pictures or videos that are uploaded to your page. The feature is centered on the platform’s in-app camera that lets you incorporate unique filters and lenses to shared content, as well as visual, geolocation tags to pictures. This content can be posted for only 24 hours, creating artificial scarcity and a sense of urgency to view said content.