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If you remember that curiosity killed the cat, you should also realize that cats have nine lives.  Sounds a little silly but it does apply to your brand when trying to rebound from a dry spell or giving your image a little oomph.  Being nosy and taking time out to observe and make notations can make a huge difference in your profits.

You know that cats tend to be very quiet, sneaky and are serious observers.  In fact, you may have a funny story about a cat walking up on you when it was the least expected.  Maybe you were caught cheating on your diet, your mate or just up to no good.  And you probably were very happy that the cat couldn’t tell others about what was witnessed, that’s where the similarities end.  The more words you use to communicate, the better.

Getting Up is Half the Fun

If you are a person that runs from a challenge, let me tell you that you may want to invest in some fight gear now – gloves, shoes and maybe a raw steak – because you will have to make some decisions that could make you or break you.  That is unless you take the time to work out the kinks.  But you can look forward to getting knocked down at least once while running your online business.

Start with the Basics

Using a keyword tool will help you a great deal, especially if you have a blog or e-zine that is online.  A great one can found at Google (Go to Products>Adwords>Tools and Analysis>Keyword Tool), Word Tracker and others.  Most of these are free though paid options are available but for now, you just want to find keywords relevant to your brand.

For instance, if a person were to call their business “Fancy Feline Footwear”, it may get some attention with the right marketing but very few people are looking for ‘feline’.  Most users want something for their ‘cat’, so this is a term you will want to make part of your search engine strategy.

Wander into Opportunities

You will have times when all of your orders have been fulfilled, you’ve blogged and maybe done some article marketing or bookkeeping and now you’re surfing around the net.  What are you looking for? Recipes?  Celebrity gossip?  How about looking for opportunities that will help you make money? 

If you believe that you have the perfect e-book in mind,  the discipline to teach an online class or just want to look into work-for-hire (WFH) opportunities such as writing sponsored posts for other companies or participating in marketing opportunities where you will be given a product to review and write about.  You can also find out how Pinterest can work for your business,  since it is the new social media craze.  Look directly into these opportunities and begin to do research on those companies that will allow you to make money while you retain your rights.

Your podcast can be converted into a video and uploaded to several video sharing services and if you haven’t sent your podcast to Podcast Alley or other podcast directories, get on it now.

Same goes for your social media accounts.  If you have not created a Facebook page or Twitter account for your business, get started and use the keywords found, update it with fresh (and relevant) content so you can become eligible for marketing opportunities in your industry.

This is the 3rd time that Facebook has changed things up on us.  So as of today March 17th, 2011 this works.

How many times have you created an event in facebook, only to have to manually click or Control click to select friends to and event invite one at a time?  Then do it again once you reached your limit.  Pretty tedious and time consuming, right!

If you do any kind of marketing  you probably ignored inviting your friends to the the events you’ve created because it took to long.

I created this video with the steps on how to solve this problem.. Below will be the step by step instructions along with the java script code you will need to make this work..Good luck..

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1.  Create and Event. Whether it is associated with a group or just and event, just create the event..

2.  Once completed, you will be asked to invite people to come.  Your Invite box will pop up with all your friends to start manually clicking on your friends one at at time.. max of 30 or so..You might be able to do more but i find it blows up on you..

3.  Copy the Java Script Below and paste it in the address bar or the browser URL.

Version 1:

javascript:elms=document.getElementsByName("checkableitems[]");for (i=0;i<elms.length;i++){if (elms[i].type="checkbox" )elms[i].click()};A

Version 2:

javascript:var x=document.getElementsByTagName(“input”);for(var i=0;i<x.length;i++) {if (x[i].type == ‘checkbox’) {x[i].click();}}; alert(‘Done, all your friends have been selected’);

4. Left click on the mouse in the URL Field and hit Enter.. Your friends will all be selected..

Click the Invite button on the Facebook page to finally sent the invites.

Thats its, super easy!

UPDATE 3/28/12:  I just tried this again to make sure that it is still working and it is.  I used the VERSION 2 javascript with Google Chrome and it worked fine.  For some reason I couldn’t get it to work with Firefox.  PLEASE NOTE.  If you use Chrome you will need to retype the word “javascript” in the URL before hitting enter, for some reason Chrome deletes it from the front of the script.  I have close to 5,000 friends so it took a few seconds, but it worked.  If it’s not working for you try clearing your cookies and cache and then trying again.  If that doesn’t work try in on a different computer.  Hope this helps..

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To YOUR Massive Success,

Brandon Koon

The old way of doing this doesn’t seem to work anymore.  So here is a new way that you can use.  This was shared to me by Nasif and you can check out his post on his blog if you want.

This is really frustrating for not being able to suggest or invite a facebook group, fan page or application profile page to all your facebook contacts in one click. How do you feel to select 500 friends with 500 mouse click?
The javascript code from John P’s blog http://onemansblog.com/2009/08/30/how-to-invite-all-facebook-friends-to-a-group-event-or-page/ worked well when I used it a week back back but tomorrow I noticed that the trick is resting in peace !
I was very much frustrated when I saw the code not working anymore. I decided to resurrect the trick back to life and I am successful in doing that. But don’t know when this trick will get murder again by evil facebook ! :s
There are two ways you can do it.

1. By javascript code and a little bit of stupidity

Click “Suggest to friends” on application profile page or “Invite to friends” on group, fan page or events page.

Right click on any friend and click “open in new tab”

You will land on a page which will only show suggestion window
At this point, paste the following code on to the address bar where the suggestion window is displaying:

javascript:elms=document.getElementById(‘friends’).getElementsByTagName(‘li’);for(var fid in elms){if(typeof elms[fid] === ‘object’){fs.click(elms[fid]);}}

Or

javascript:fs.select_all();

And there’s an even easier way to select all friends.

2. By using chrome extension known as Facebook Invite All

A million thanks to dawagner who made this wonderful extension. After you have installed this extension you will notice a a new button “Toggle all” on the suggestion or invitation window.

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Hey guys and gals..

I shot this quick video to show you how to create a fanpage in facebook.  Having a fanpage is very critical to your success on the internet and will help  you build your brand and presence online.

I also show you how to build a customized tab on your fanpage.  This is huge because you can basically put whatever you want on this tab.  I recommend turning it in to a landing page that you can use on the facebook platform.  Now in this video I show you a very simple way to add a custom page.  If you know HTML or FBML then you can build a much better and attractive page than what I show on this video.  I just wanted to show the average person how to do it that doesn’t know anything about HTML.  Enjoy..  Please ‘re-tweet’ to share with your friends.

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To YOUR Massive Success,