This contest is hosted by @Samsung_Mobiles. This is the second contest and this time they are giving out a brand new Samsung Galaxy S ( worth 31,500 INR / $650). Your chance to win a Samsung Galaxy S just by tweeting out a simple answer and retweeting a simple tweet.

Check out the video review of the Galaxy S and below that are details on how to participate:

Whoaaa! Now that’s one smart phone! It’s got everything you need and way better than the iPhone. Reasons it is better than the iPhone or any other touch phone?

• Daily Briefing: Get stocks, news etc on your phone
• Social Hub:  Integrates your social profiles into your Phonebook.
• Layar:  Augmented location based reality browser
• Aidiko e-book:  Read e-books for free
• Mosaic Video Search
• Sensitive Touch
• World’s First Super AMOLED screen: Unbeatable Touch Screen Experience
• 1GHZ Processor
• Swype

My personal favorite is the screen. Super AMOLED Screen (Notice the last 3 letters? L-E-D!). The touch is really crisp and fast, very accurate.

Let’s get back to the contest!  How to participate?

1. RT my tweet by clicking the following link: http://www.sensonize.com/galaxy
2. Answer the following question: What makes ‘Samsung Galaxy S’ a classic example of #FutureBeyond thinking? (you need to answer this on twitter)
3. Get your friends to RT your answer tweet.

That’s it, 3 simple tasks to win a Galaxy S! For further details and rules about the contest,  please check the following link: Galaxy S contest.

Also, I would appreciate your feedback on the phone. I think it is the perfect phone for bloggers and social media users, what are your views about the phone and would you buy one for your blogging/social media needs? Share it in the comments!

Please share/like/tweet this post. Would appreciate it. Cheers!

We all know, eBay is the best way to get rid of the stuff you don’t need and make some extra cash.  But did you know that there are people making millions using eBay? I do not guarantee that you could make millions right away from eBay, but I am just saying that it is possible to make a decent amount off eBay.

When you start on eBay, it would be better if you start selling things that you don’t need. This way you would also gain some experience  and get rid off the things you don’t need anymore. Once you have a good hand over the platform and you are confident enough, you could start off with selling some products.

A friend of mine and I had planned to start an online ‘Geek Store’ (Geekstore.in) and sell products online. However it didn’t work out due to lack of time from both ends. The plan was simple, to list products on eBay as well as on the website and then ship them to the users. We also researched the market and got a list of amazing products for unbelievable prices! I wouldn’t talk more about this start up as this is yet on hold. We might start it sometime in the future if possible. (We’re still looking for people to contribute to this project, contact me through the contact page, Mumbai only)

Making Money on eBay is so much easier than in real life. List the products and get buyers to contact you directly. For example, the hottest product in the Indian gadget market right now is a ‘Spy Pen’. The small gadget can store up to 16 GB of video recording (aprox 5 hours) in good quality. Can you guess the price? $300? No. $250? No. $150? No! The price I found out in the local market was Rs 1,000 (about $22) for a 16 GB model (without any bargain, I believe the shop keeper would come down to Rs 750 if I bargained). When I checked on eBay, the price for a 8 GB model was Rs 1500 ($33). I mean, wow! this is amazing…A 8 GB one costs $33 on eBay, how much could you sell the 16 GB one for? No lesser than $40? Now, even if you’re getting the 16 GB one for Rs 750 ($16) and selling it for $40 (Rs 1978), you are still making a profit of Rs 1228 ($24) per sale. That’s sweet.

If you can find a good way that works for you on eBay, then go for it! The harder you work at it the more money you make.

I have never blogged about Facebook Marketing before, however, after some research and reading, here is what I have for you. Facebook currently has over 350+ million users and over 70% are active on the popular social network. Facebook connects users from all over the world under one single domain, which is why it becomes a great platform for marketeers. I am sitting here in India, but I can still connect to users in the US or in Europe via Facebook.

How can Facebook help marketeers?
Facebook provides a great platform to market your product for free — Fan pages. A fan page is a page created by a user (usually the marketeer) to promote his product. The marketeer then uses this page to connect to more people all over the world and displays his product/services to interested users.  Normal users like you and me become a fan of the product/service if we’re interested in it. But to make your page visible to normal users the marketeer has to use another Facebook platform known as — Facebook Advertising.

Why use Facebook Ads?
Facebook ads is a great way to reach your target audience. Your target audience might be college students, singles, men, people between the age of 25-35 etc. Facebook ads make  it easier for you to get more customers/fans towards your services/products. Setting up an advertiser account with Facebook  is easy, just sign up for a regular Facebook account and then visit their advertising page. Facebook’s advertising program converts way better than any other advertising program because it allows you to select the age, gender, occupation etc of the target audience.

What’s next?
Many marketeers try to gain more fans (by black hat/spam or legit advertising methods), but it always doesn’t guarantee you better results. A good marketeer would always try to keep users engaged by holding contests, asking questions or posting stuff which interests users (quotes, offers, images, videos, news etc). User interaction is always needed on a fan page or it won’t convert well. Having a large number of fans doesn’t guarantee sales or conversion. The best is to allow your fan page to grow on it’s own while you keep posting content on your fan page on regular basis.

Tip: Run your campaigns on international holidays, for example Christmas. Facebook was the most visited website on 25th December 2009. Conversion is higher on holidays (according to my research).

It’s been an amazing week. Over 40 subscribers added in the past 7 days, which is great since Google Wave invites have become very common these days. I have decided to give away 10 Wave invites instead of 7 due to the great response from the contest. The winners are *drum rolls*

• evilkorn3000@******.com
• devarajbidare@*****.com
• blackerail@*****.com
• rajeelkp@*****.com
• shirazkhaleel@*****.com
• daniel.balderas@*****.com
• battu.sandeep@*****.com
• puneeth3428@*****.com
• rocky888888@*****.com
• cyrilbenedict@*****.com

Congratulations to the winners! Enjoy being on Google Wave and you can add me to your wave too – sensonize [at] gmail.com. It will take up to 3 days for you to get your wave invite, invites have been sent from my end. I still have about 5 invites left, use the contact me page and email me to get one Do add some more info about you and your website. It’s always great to know more people on the internet.

Cheers!

I’m up with another mini contest which will last for a week. The contest is simple, all you need to do is enter your email address in the below “Subscribe Box” and hit enter! Make sure you confirm it by clicking the confirmation link you get in your inbox. Do leave a comment below if you’re in the contest, this would double your chances of winning an invite

Prizes:
My current subscriber count stands at 724 subscribers.
750+ subscribers = 3 7 Google Wave invites
800+ subscribers = 5 10 Google Invites
1000+ subscribers = 7 15 Google Wave Invites

(Edit: This contest has got an amazing response! hence, I have doubled the amount Google Wave Invites. Do share this post with your friends )

Current Subscriber Count:

Invite as many friends to increase the amount of Wave Invites to be given away! Contest ends next Monday (30th November 2009) 23:59 IST.

Do stumble/digg/tweet this post. It’s simple and only takes a click. Cheers!

Youtube — The most popular video hosting service on the internet. Many people have already taken benefit of it’s popularity and have shown their talents to the world. Many businesses who use Youtube to increase their market reach. Many talented individuals have made their names in the Music industry by just posting a video on Youtube. Here are 6 ways to make money from Youtube:

1. Video Units. This is the easiest way to make money online with Youtube. All you need to do is login to your Adsense account and link it with your Youtube account. Then customize the videos and

2. Run affiliate ads on YouTube videos. You can place links on your videos or put them in the description. I’m sure you have seen those floating links on videos.

3. Provide regular quality video content. Perhaps, you can become a ‘premium’ publisher and Google will split ad revenues with you.

4. Start a video blog or site that features various YouTube content. These blogs and sites can be anything from cute animal videos to craft tutorials. Then, run relevant ads and affiliate programmes on your blog or site.

5. Accept direct ads on your YouTube content. If you upload your own videos on a regular basis and you have a decent following, you might want to accept ads on your videos.

6. Enrich your sales using YouTube videos. If you sell an item on an online shop and you are able to compliment your listings with YouTube videos, then it will be useful. Also, you can link to your sales page on your YouTube. This might help bring video viewers to visit your sales page.

So, do you use YouTube at all in your online business? Can you think of other ways to use YouTube videos to help you to make money online?

THE CONTEST IS OVER. WINNERS HAVE BEEN DECLARED. THANK YOU.

This is an exclusive Twitter Contest by @Samsung_Mobiles. You’re chance to win 2 Samsung Corby phones just by sending out a single ‘tweet’. This really isn’t a ‘Make Money Online’ trick, but you can always try your luck (Oh btw, I won a Samsung Star Touch phone last August from Samsung Mobiles via Twitter). You need to be a member of TWITTER.COM and must tweet a simple message out.

2 SIMPLE STEPS TO ENTER THE CONTEST:

1) Login to http://www.twitter.com or register if you still aren’t a member

2) VISIT THE FOLLOWING LINK TO TWEET: http://sensonize.com/corby — HIT UPDATE!

You’re done…!! You just entered to win a Samsung Corby!

MORE GOODIES:
~ EVERY MEMBER of #SamsungWhiteCorby gets the following:
*Lockerz.com invite — you can win iPods and Macbooks here everyday!
*3 Months of free web hosting from Limespace.net

& more freebies!!!

INVITE YOUR FRIENDS AND HELP IN PROMOTING TEAM #SAMSUNGCORBYWHITE ON TWITTER AND FACEBOOK TO INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING! THE MORE YOU INVITE THE MORE ARE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING!!

We are currently 93 strong in #SamsungCorbyWhite (updated every 24 hours) — Look who’s with us! http://twitter.com/sensonize/samsung-corby-white

Ends: 13th Nov 09, Mid Night IST

P.S For Lockerz invite, please tweet @sensonize on Twitter with your email address.  For free web hosting, please email sales[AT]limespace.net

Do Stumble/Digg this post…we need a lot of them to win this contest! Cheers!

Good Morning! This morning has been one of the best mornings in my life! I’m going to remember this day throughout my life…

Without wasting much of anymore time, Here is the article; (click for ePaper)

Thank you everyone for the good wishes and support Do leave your comments below…

Remember the time when people said how dumb Twitter was? Not anymore…Twitter can now generate huge revenue for you. I mean really HUGE! This month, Shoemoney made over $15,000 from Twitter with his 73,979 followers. Mind you, he is still a small fish in the Twitter world.

I have about 5,500 followers growing rapidly and I have made $30 in the past week from SponsoredTweets. Not much, I know. But still it’s a good amount to start off with Imagine, $30 for sending only ’1′ tweet out! Sounds awesome, doesn’t it?!

Join SponsoredTweets and start making money online! Signing up is free, and the returns could be rewarding! The ads are neat unlike Magpie which sends ads like ‘CAT FOOD – WISKAS, HOW DO YOU HANDLE YOUR FAX?’ etc..

You can also read my other articles about how to make money online with Twitter:  My first Magpie payout, Make Money with Twitter (Magpie)

P.S You can get banned from Twitter search if you continuously tweet the same ads out. Be careful while tweeting the links and only tweet them once a day. Follow me on Twitter – @sensonize

Happy Halloween!

Do you see the Retweet button the right side of this post? —>
The power tiny button on your page is to tweet the pages you like automatically, without copy pasting the URL and title. In just 2 clicks you can tweet the page you like to your followers.

Now, there is a button like this available for Facebook as well! Extremely simple to install and simpler to use it. In a click, you can share any page that has the button on Facebook!

How to Install it?
To manually install the plugin on a page, you need to use a javascript code. You can get the code from here: http://www.fbshare.me/

You can also download the WordPress version of the plugin from here (click)

Testing it live: Help me test the plugin and post your input in the comments please.

Thank you!