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30 June 2010How to make money online discussed on Channel 7

On Monday 28 June, I appeared on Channel 7's The Morning Show with Larry Emdur and Kylie Gillies to discuss HOW TO MAKE MONEY ONLINE.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH

On the show, which is Australia's highest-rating morning television program, I revealed that online businesses can be very rewarding but they do require effective planning like any traditional business.

With web businesses, you need a web business strategy that derives from groundwork research you do to identify your target audience, find out how your competitors are attracting them to their website, and plan how you will do it better.

You also need to align yourself with a good web designer, who isn't just going to design you a website that looks good, rather a web designer who understands the web from a business viewpoint.

This will ensure your online business website is designed to give you the best possible opportunity to succeed - to the standards Google expects and with common traits that traditionally attract maximum return on investment (ROI).

Ideally, your website designer will equip your online business with a Content Management System. At KAYWEB, we save clients thousands of dollars per year by allowing them to update their website themselves, with no technical knowledge required at all, using KAYWEB CMS.

Once your website is built and your content is in, you need to market your online business so people attend.

The Morning Show hosts Larry Emdur and Kylie Gillies were also interested in the need to integrate social media in an online business marketing campaign, the common mistakes people make in online business, and the defining traits of successful internet entrepreneurs.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH MY INTERVIEW ON THE MORNING SHOW

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04 June 2010Facebook privacy concerns discussed by Zuckerberg

04 June 2010Will gesture-based gaming take off?

It is interesting to see the Microsoft people at the D8 conference demonstrated the next generation of the X-Box, unveiled under the codename Natal.

This is gesture-based gaming.

See video, courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, below:

Do you believe this will take off?

Based on how silly the Microsoft demonstrator looks when showing some of the games in action, I have my doubts :)

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31 May 2010Facebook tops Google-less list of most-visited websites

An interesting list was released last week, ranking the 1000 most-visited websites on the internet (excluding Google and YouTube). Facebook topped it.

This is hardly surprising considering TIME's cover story on Facebook last week revealed that "1 in 4 people" using the internet not only have a Facebook account, but have visited it in the last 30 days.

This means that 25% of all internet users visited Facebook in the last 30 days!

Others high up in the list include Yahoo, Live and Chinese search engine giant Baidu.

The top 10 included two websites which doesn't have advertising as an option - Wikipedia and Mozilla.

To see the full list of 1000 most-visited websites on the internet, please click here.

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28 May 2010Facebook and Google take privacy debate global

Recently, internet giants Facebook and Google both admitted to making errors in practice that breached the privacy of many millions of people, whom they knowingly or unknowingly possess information from.

I have been following the debate closely. It has encouraged government response, blogger response and news articles and interviews in the most prestigious news houses in the world.

I thought my best deed of this still-developing debate would be to post links to what I've been reading.


The verbal stoush between Google and Australia's bumbling Communications Minister Stephen Conroy - SMH.com.au
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Admission of "bunch of mistakes" by cocky Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a letter to Robert Scoble - scobleizer.com;

 

New York Times exclusive Q & A with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg - nytimes.com; and


Pete Cashmore, CEO of social media blog Mashable, suggesting on CNN that despite privacy setting changes by Facebook, the privacy war is NOT over.

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22 May 2010Google TV launched with key partnerships
19 May 2010Clever project management tool Liaise back at DEMO

I covered the launch of Liaise in a blog last year.

Below is a video interview with Sidney Minassian at DEMO 10, where he updates us on the latest progress of Liaise, which is set to exit Beta at year's end.

Click here to download Liaise BETA now!

08 May 2010Cashmore discusses Facebook Open Graph, Apple v Adobe

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08 May 2010Facebook stamps its authority with Open Graph

Facebook users deliver a mountain of information about themselves to Facebook via their Facebook profiles. What somebody 'likes' on Facebook or shares on Facebook tells plenty about that individual.

With Facebook Open Graph, websites will be able to pull key information about a visitor using their Facebook profile, and show them information based on their interests, or their friends' interests.

For example, imagine you are about to buy a digital camera online. Next to the 'add to cart' button, you see that 8 of your friends have 'liked' this same digital camera, or better still, actually purchased this digital camera from the same store.

This is a personalised shopping experience for you; and it is also beneficial to the website store, as it increases the likelihood that you will actually purchase that digital camera also.

As with any time Facebook does something, the negative of Open Graph is with the Privacy of Facebook users.

Well, to complainants, I say get over it and get off Facebook. This is just the beginning.

21 April 2010Commonwealth Bank targets kids with online gaming

The online game - Coinland - is detailed in the embedded video below.

Online gaming is another way businesses can interact with a newer generation of clientele.

About Haig

Haig Kayserian is an internet business consultant with clients across Australia, the United States of America and Asia.

The company he founded - KAYWEB - has offices in Sydney, Melbourne, New York and Manila, providing premium websites and apps solutions to businesses, organisations, government and individuals.

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