So what’s Twitter’s response to its competitors? (In 140 characters or less)

The Twitter Business Center

I’ll be the first to say, “It’s about time!”  I’ll also say it’s a respectable offering to all the loyal Tweeters out there.

At this time Twitter is in a beta testing period, and will only be offering access to the Business Center to a select few. However, as testing continues they will extend the invitation further.  For those of us who haven’t been fortunate enough to get the fancy invite, here is what you can expect if everything goes according to plan.

Account verification will be given to all business centers members. This will eliminate impostors and increase trust in your followers when they know it’s really you.  And, you don’t have to jump through a million hoops to get verified. Fill out a simple form, and presto, your legit.

Multiple Contributor controls will be included in the new center. This gives the ability to add multiple users to a single account to allow each user to tweet on behalf of the business.  This one has been around for a few months, but it’s a nifty tool to add to the kit.

Direct Messages can be sent by any of your followers.  You’ll no longer have to follow someone back to enable this function.  HUGE. But honestly, this could be huge in a few ways. Hugely annoying for those of you with a big list, trying to remain private.  Hugely awesome for those of you who are just getting started and want to connect with your followers.

All in all this is a Business Center that many of you would benefit from having access to.  I’m still curious to see how the Business Center will look once it comes out of beta testing.

If and when you get an invite to the new Business Center, how will you put it to use? Comment below and let me know…

Facebook has always offered 2 options to their advertisers, CPM and CPC.  Advertisers can either pay per impression or per click.  I’ll go ahead and assume that’s enough explanation on that .

Here’s the big change…

Until now, CPM advertisers have been #1 on Facebook’s ‘top friends’ list.  Facebook has shown their loyalty by giving CPM advertisers priority over CPC advertisers.  But this is no longer! Facebook is reducing the number of clicks received by CPM advertisers and reducing their priority.  Guess who is top priority now?  Yeah, the CPC advertisers are.

Simply put, CPC advertisers will receive more clicks and CPM advertisers will get fewer clicks despite the fact that they’ll still be getting impressions.  Facebook stated these change are happening because,  “we continuously work to make our ads system more accurate in order to further improve the effectiveness of your advertising campaigns…”

Lucky for Facebook this not only benefits the effectiveness and accuracy of their Ads system, but it also enhances their bank account.  CPC is on average double the cost of a CPM click.  Some might say that Facebook is giving priority to their wealthier friends. Who can blame them?

Unfortunately these changes will close a really nice loophole in Facebook Ads, but I’ll take it because it’s refreshing to see Facebook make an effort to improve their ad system and get rid of the junk.  The CPM loophole was really abused anyway, and just bread a bunch of ad space hogs that “gamed” the system and made it difficult to real advertisers to get in on the action.

If anything this just makes more room for the legit advertisers who are trying Facebook out for the first time.

I’ll admit that this news is great for me. Honestly, I saw this coming, as I’m sure some of you did.  If Facebook wants to continue to be a competitor in the online Ads front, then they have to make sure their true spenders and advertisers are being taken care of. With that said, I feel very taken care of.  Do You?

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Here’s my buddy Perry explaining how he makes money with social media.:)

If you’re ready to get in the game, follow me on Twitter at:

http://www.twitter.com/ryandeiss

…and follow Perry at:

http://www.twitter.com/perrybelcher

UPDATE: This video has received such rave revues that I’ve convinced Perry to do a free training webinar on the topic of “Winning At Social Media” on Thursday, December 18th at 8pm eastern.

To register for this free event, go to:

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The fact is, most business books kinda suck and would be better off as 15 – 20 page reports. Personality Not Included is definitely an exception…

The author, Rohit Bhargava, spends the first half of the book explaining the importance of incorporating personality in business. It’s good information, but without the Part 2 of the book it would be “just another business book”.

But in Part 2 he includes exercices and turnkey techniques you can use to actually put his information into action. It’s the kind of thing you’d expect to see in an expensive home-study course!

My advice: Buy this book, read it, and implement the techniques in your own business.

It’ll probably be the best $15.61 investment you make all year…

Well, it seems my love/hate relationship with the “Warriors” continues…

Although I wasn’t personally named, anyone can tell that this post is about me and my Continuity Blueprint training program. Normally I don’t respond to these sorts of things, but I take offense when the word “LIES” gets thrown around.

Watch this video and judge for yourself…

NOTE: You can read the original post here:

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-internet-marketing-discussion-forum/23161-lies-about-continuity-membership-income.html

CLICK HERE to get the TRUTH about Continuity Blueprint…

You can get all the details at:

http://www.income.com/blog/2008/10/29/the-death-of-blogrush/

Pardon my crudeness, but it takes balls to risk your own cash and pursue a big project like this.

That being said, it takes MUCH, MUCH bigger balls to make the hard decision to cut your losses and move on.

Only a Grade-A, Status Quo Coward would chastise John or relish in the “failure” of BlogRush, so be on the lookout for “haters” and tell them Ryan Deiss said they’re a “coward”.

Seriously…tell them that.

If you’ve found it difficult to recruit affiliates because you’re not a “big name” in your market, this video may help.

In it I talk about the difference between Active and Passive Affiliate Promotions, and why you should focus on one and not the other:

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I’ve got another buy button split-test for you…

This one proves that size DOES matter.

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So I have set out to create the perfect salesletter template / templating system.

This is where I need your help. If you have a great guarantee, scarcity statement, offer, PS, call to action or any other part of a salesletter that has always performed strongly, please post it here.

I’ll be giving a copy of my $2000 List Building Bootcamp DVD’s to the person with the best addition and I’ll have other prizes for all those who throw something worthwhile into the pot. Thanks in advance, and good luck!