HyperFBTraffic is a brand new product that will be launching Tuesday September 7th, 2010.

I am currently building a wicked bonus package that I will give for free to anyone who purchases this product though my affiliate link.

The bonus package that I am creating is going to be awesome.  I’m not announcing it yet, but I will be early next week so stay tuned.

In the mean time if you sign up for my mailing list you will be the first to know about my bonus package, which I will only be offering for a limited time.

Check out the Pre-Launch video showing how the creators of this product are making well over six figures a month from facebook traffic!

Cheers,

Garin Kilpatrick

Yesterday Facebook Launched Facebook Places.

I can already hear the worriers screaming about how terrible this is, because places is the ultimate stalkers tool.

But seriously.  Watch the video below.  When I did I thought of the millions of meetings that will take place serendipitously thanks to this new innovation.  I am not one to look a gift horse in the mouth.  I think places is a great thing.

This is not just a social innovation, but also a new way for businesses to reach out to customers in the immediate area.  Already foursquare facilitates special offers for it’s users with deals such as free lattes for foursquare mayors of certain Starbucks locations.

Once everyone has places, imagine how interaction will change.  The world will have another means become more social.  I think that this is the kind of “openness” that Mark Zuckerberg is talking about.  The kind that improves lives.

You might think that facebook places serves stalkers, but it is my position that this small risk is far outweighed by the immense value in the serendipity places will supply.

Here are some links about the new Places feature of facebook:

emarketer.com: The Advertising Opportunity in Facebook Places

mashable.com: A field guide to Facebook Places

techcrunch.com: The Facebook Effect: Foursquare Had Its Most Signups on the Launch Day of Places

Let me know what you think of facebook places in the comments below…

By: Kelly Ann Carpentier

David Kirkpatrick

David Kirkpatrick is, no doubt, a brilliant writer. He clearly knows a thing or two about writing a good story. The Facebook Effect is no exception. The only problem that I had with this book was that is seems like the same story could’ve been told in 100 or less pages.

Had I not been writing a review of this book, I probably would’ve put the book down after the first chapter. The tale of Facebook, and the making of what we know it to be now, is astonishingly simple, and can easily be straight from the files of ‘why didn’t I think of that?’

Kirkpatrick’s use of overly descriptive detail regarding characteristics of the major players can easily be found as offensive and derogatory. To be that descriptive is not necessary, and is yet another factor that takes away from the power of everything fascinating about Facebook.

If one of Kirkpatrick’s goals in the book was to create sympathy for the often criticized and embattled Facebook Founder, Mark Zuckerberg, he certainly put his best foot forward. But at the same time, Kirkpatrick describes Zuckerberg as a person with revolting hygiene and sanitation habits, who has no manners, and is completely void of consideration for others. In addition, Zuckerberg is painted as narcissistic and exuding hubris at best.  This double-sided description of all things Zuckerberg seems carefully balanced and even a bit strategic.

Mark Zuckerberg wins the hearts of the intellects with reclusive tendencies everywhere. How he deals with his fame and fortune in the decades to come will be very interesting to watch unfold.

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By: Kelly Ann Carpentier

The presence of facebook in Social Media is growing daily, which means that the number of prospective fans for you and your business is growing just as fast. But how do you keep up? One of the hottest things going in marketing right now is a Facebook Page. Here are 10 different methods you can use to promote and grow your Facebook community:

1. Promote your page with a widget

It sounds easy enough but I can’t tell you how many people still don’t do this. You can integrate facebook with your site using the “Like” widget. People who visit your blog won’t know that you have a fan page until you tell. Don’t miss out on this prime opportunity to convert your blog readers into facebook fans!

2. Put up a featured discussion in your LinkedIn group

If you don’t have a LinkedIn group for your industry, make one. It’s your way to demonstrate your expertise, thereby driving business to your company.

This discussion can lead to opening the doors to a higher level of customer service that you might not have otherwise had.

3. Link to your Facebook page on your LinkedIn profile

One of the best places to promote your facebook page do that is in the description of your current position. When you describe your position and the company, put a hyperlink to the fan page at the bottom of the description.

If you don’t have a LinkedIn profile, you should get one. Linkedin is one of the best ways to network on a global basis and draw business to your company.

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Yahoo has created a tool that makes it so that you can download the emails of your facebook friends.  After doing this you can import those addresses into your address book, so that you can localize your contacts.

By: Garin Kilpatrick

Despite over 400,000,000 users on Facebook there has still been a lack of awesome information in one place about the very best Facebook tips and tricks.  Until now.

While writing this post I scoured the blogosphere, the firefox plugin directory, the userscripts database, and facebook itself for the very best tips and tricks.

Enjoy!

1. Create a Custom Username for your facebook Profile or Page

For example, the custom url of my personal profile is: http://www.facebook.com/garinkilpatrick/

You can customize the URLs of your own facebook profile and pages by surfing to: http://www.facebook.com/username/

2. Export your facebook Status Updates via RSS or Text Messages

If you go to facebook.com/notifications you will be able to choose how you would like to syndicate your status updates, as RSS or Text Messages.

3. Import your Tweets as status updates

With the Twitter app for Facebook. This app will import all tweets as status updates, which may alienate your fb friends with useless @replies if they do not have twitter.

4. Schedule your Status Updates on facebook and Twitter

Sendible.com is a site that allows you to import your contacts from a variety of address books, and schedule status updates to multiple networks.

Status updates supported by Sendible include: your Facebook Wall, Facebook Page, and other Social Media sites like Twitter and Linkedin.

5. Sync Photos of facebook Friends with Microsoft Outlook Contacts

OutSync is a free Windows application that syncs photos of your Facebook friends with matching contacts in Microsoft Outlook.

This application allows you to select which contacts are updated.

With this app you can update all contacts at once or just a few at a time.

6. Customize your facebook Page

With the Static FBML app by faceboook.

Using this app you can create a custom “welcome” tab for your facebook page, customize the sidebar of your wall, and more!

7. Export your facebook Events to your Google Calendar

Add your facebook events to currently logged in Google Calendar.

8. Download your facebook Albums from Friends, Events, and Groups

FacePAD is a plugin for Firefox. better known as the Facebook Photo Album Downloader will allow you to download your friends’ entire Facebook albums with a click of a button.

9. Flickr to Facebook

An unofficial Flickr to Facebook uploader (bookmarklet).

This app allows you to easily upload photos to Facebook from Flickr.

10. Upload photos to your facebook account with Picasa

The Google owned Picasa comes complete with an uploader app for Facebook.

This app also gives you the option of uploading the Picasa captions and resizing your photos before uploading them to facebook.

Add a simple button to Picasa that lets you upload your photos straight to Facebook! You can put photos in an existing album or create a new one.

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