Facebook Money Sharing By Buxter (ClickandBuy)

Buxter’s parent company estimates 16,000 online traders accept payments via Buxter. They (Buxter) has now created a facebook application called “Buxter” - Very original I know

This social network site application ONLY allows Facebook Friends to send small payments of a “maximum” of 50 Euros directly to each other. All transactions are handled by Buxter and currently in US Dollar or Euros but the Pound will be added some time soon.

Facebook Friends share a lot of information already so the idea is why not allow them to share small amounts of money too?

Marketing wise, it’s a great angle on thier business model as I feel they’ll come across much less resistance that targeting communities that don’t share or used to the idea of sharing anything. Time will of course tell how all this will be received by the social network community and media as a whole but I think it’s a good thing.

ClickandBuy, the company that operates an online payment service across the web with an estimated 13 million users world wide is the one behind the Buxer Facebook application. The fact that they’re some company I’ve never heard of, I believe one would have to signup to their service first. This usually reduces the number of participants as many are happy with PayPal hence reluctant to go through the signup ritual with another payment processing company.

Basically;

• You’ll need a ClickandBuy account to use this application.
• You can only send money upto 50 Euros to your Facebook friends
• You can send other currencies but you’ll incur a 5% charge
• You don’t pay for transactions between Buxter accounts
• You pay to move your money to another account say a bank at a minimum of 2 Euros, 2USD or 1.9%

So, What Can You Use This New Buxter Facebook Aapplication For?

With my little thinking hat on some what, I can see several ways this can be explored. In general, just think outside the box depending on your intention obviously.

• Signup for an account as soon as possible if you think you’ll need it because usually when a new service is launched, it’s easier to get in than after they’ve tightened their belts.
• Use it to share your group outing’s expenses say you all went to dinner and now have to “chip in”.
• If you’re a marketer you could market your material and people could pay you through this feature.
• Facebook allows you to create a survey or poll “I think“. Poll your friends (I suggest a more specific group around a similar interest than spamming all your contacts) and ask if they’d buy a say $7 small report that shows them how to improve whatever the group is about e.g. SEO, Gardening, weight loss etc. If there’s an interest then create the report and advise they do the Buxter Application thing.

Can You See The Negatives To This?

• You must signup for an account with ClickandBuy.
• You can only hold a very small amount of money in your ClickandBuy accout at any one time meaning you keep paying the commission when you move your money out of that account to your bank.
• For those looking to use it as a downloadable product marketing tool, your friends can simply forward on your download link to the other group friends since its a community. There are product locking software packages for this but its yet another step.

All considered though, it’s a good application and I am sure we’ll see several of the limitations above removed or adjusted depending on user feedback and reception. The fact is that the less limitations they have, the more customers they’ll get as it’ll be more appealing to use.

Online marketers will be eagle eying this one no doubt

Out!

A few reasons make me think facebook doesn’t like me today

• I can’t access my inbox
• I can’t reply or post to my facebook wall

So I thought I’d log out of facebook and log back in then try.

That process gives me a page not found - Error 404 message as well and if I close the browser and access facebook, I still access my facebook profile as if I didnt log out. Obviously its caching my details and holding onto my last session as I never successfully logged out.

Right now, I cant be bothered to close all my open browser windows to kill the IE process so I’ll just revisit facebook at a later time :p

I guess that give me an excuse to stop procrastinating or using facebook as a means to avoid taking care of other more important stuff as needed LOL

In the mean time, I hope you can focus on the important things in 2010 rather than being caught up in non productive time burning activities. Just don’t forget to have some “ME” time in the process - you must strike a healthy balance.

Mmmh, do you think I am just I am writing this facebook post as a means to avoid doing the more important stuff?

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Automatic Targeted Twitter Followers

Create a great twitter following by being more specific and targeting those who really want to hear what you have to say.

Not easy eh!

Ensure you don’t waste your time and their time by finding people who want to hear from you and those you’d like to hear from.

Basically get followers interested in your niche and follow those individuals. You’ll find that because your twitter profile indicates your niche, most of those individuals will see this and follow you back.

This means you’ll build a huge list of real interested followers to target. Obviously, you should use the various twitter directories that are already online to find your niche interested followers. You can of course simplify your life with Automatic Twitter Following.

There after, please don’t spam or simply tweet about your products. Keep it human and imagine you’re actually trying to connect to a real human the other end of your tweets.

Most people visit twitter to get latest news updates or looking to find links to funny time wasting YouTube videos. Go on, give it to them; they’ll love you for it and always be on the look out

Of course add your offer of a product every so often say after 4 - 5 tweets though make sure you’re offering or recommending a descent product that you believe will be of help to your readers.

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We “all” know that YouTube has been redesigning their channel layout. Several advertisers and partners are already exploring this change and you can too but it’ll be rolled out to all users even if you don’t do anything. You just may be want to be at fore front of the chage and start customising your channel. Should there be any hicups on the planned switch over for all, details will be placed on the YouTube Blog.

Yes - Many don’t know it has a blog

This makes marketing on YouTube even more appealing as you present your video in a very custom area (channel) that you can personalise to your companies design.

Have a look at this short 5 min YouTube Channel Video

There’s a some what long feature list that shows the things YouTube has addressed with regards to the new channels design:

• Fixing some browser-specific layout bugs (especially IE6)
• Allowing you to default your channel to “grid” view
• Allowing you to re-order your uploads and playlists
• Adding transparency
• Implementing fixes for a lot of other bugs you helped find, such as grid view not always working correctly
• Ability to right-click and open videos in a new tab or window
• Full screen capability and the ability for transparency settings to go to 100%.
• You can now have the full range of ads on your channel
• Sort controls - sort by most viewed, date added, or highest rated
• Ratings stars can now be clicked
• Counts for the number of videos in each section when in the “all” view mode
• When playing a video, the video title now links to the non-channel video watch page
• View a small number of video comments as well as leave a quick comment
• The font size is now larger while browsing through videos
• You can make the list of your playlists your features content set
• There are new share controls underneath the videos
• Endless loading cycles should now be gone
• They say, “No more channels with messed up layouts”
• You get a search box when looking at uploads
• Honours are back
• Video thumbnails are now larger
• More interaction options under the video player
• You can now feature a video by URL
• The subscribe button is yellow again
• You can choose a featured video
• You can link directly to a specific video and a specific playlist on your channel
• You can rearrange boxes on your channel with little arrows
• You can message users
• You can delete recent activity items
• The subscribe button appears when you’re looking at your own channel

There are other feature YouTube says they’re still looking to include like:

• The ability to reorder your uploads, or your lists of playlists
• Making URL autolink (in both the video description, plus the channel profile area)
• Showing the upload date in the video description

There are to be more changes no doubt as YouTube gets more feedback from it’s users but so far so good.

I believe that now is the time for you to get your custom YouTube Channel if you hadn’t considered it before. A video presence is great marketing for your business and the fact that you can brand your channel better it adds to your visitors’experience.

William