If you’ve spent any time on Facebook, then you’ve probably already seen too many bad social marketing offenses to count… I know I have!

So here are what I consider to be the top 3 most stupid Facebook marketing mistakes:

1.  Saying too much in your friend request.

I have several different accounts on Facebook and it always amazes me how many people do “in your face” marketing when they send you a friend request.  Let me explain…

When you click on the “add as a friend” box, you have the option of including a personal message.

Most people don’t bother with including a personal message, then just send the request.  Others will write some kind of reference so that you know why they are requesting you (we’re in the same group, I like your blog, we have similar interests, etc.).

However, about 5% of my friend requests will send me something like this:

“They say opportunity only knocks once.  Well it’s knocking, so let me in so I can help you get on the road to success.”

“Join me now in XYZ company… we’re making millionaires!

http://www.link-to-promotion-page.com“

“Come and join me at PeopleString where you get paid to network!

http://www.link-to-signup-page.com“

Of course not!

Facebook is about networking with people who are interested in you and the things that you write about.  It’s about building rapport and establishing a relationship.

When you ask someone to connect with you on Facebook, it’s kind of like introducing yourself at a party.  You don’t walk up to someone, shake their hand, and then immediately try to recruit them into your business or sell them your product.

You shouldn’t do that on Facebook either.

2.  Using a promotional image in profile.

I NEVER add people as friends if they use a promotional image as their profile image.  It tells me that they are only there to make a sale and that they aren’t REALLY interested in establishing relationships.

They are just opportunists.

In my experience, these types of people send tons of junk email, spam my wall, and bother me ceaselessly without any type of meaningful interaction.

From a business perspective, it makes no sense for me to try to connect with people like that… it’s a waste of my time if I’m not connecting with real people.

3.  Spamming other people’s walls.

This is a HUGE pet peeve of mine.  I absolutely hate it when people spam my wall with advertising for their opportunity, business, or product.

It’s my wall.

If you want to talk to me, then I would love for you to leave a comment, but my wall doesn’t exist to be a billboard for your advertising!

And the same goes for fanpages and group pages… NO SPAM!

As a matter of course, I usually “un-friend” people who spam me and delete their posts.  I just don’t want to deal with people like that.

And that’s my Top 3 List… do you have any stupid Facebook marketing mistakes that you think should be in the top 3?

Using public domain is one of those little insider’s secrets that a lot of people use to legally steal content and tap into millions and millions of pages of material that you can use for anything you want without asking permission or paying for it.

What is Public Domain?

Public domain is material the public can use anyway they want. Public domain falls into 4 main categories:

1. Generic information like facts, numbers, ideas, titles, blank forms, etc.
2. Works granted or donated to the public domain. Although it may seem strange, sometimes copyright holders make their work freely available, without copyright, for anyone to use. One example of just such a donation is P.T. Barnum’s autobiography.
3. Works by the government or its agents.
4. Formerly copyrighted works that have fallen into public domain or lost their copyright due to a number of different situations.

Public domain can come in the form of comics, movies, books, music, art work, software, or any other intellectual property. Just think of all the possibilities!

When you add up all of the different sources of public domain information it comes out to millions and millions of pages of free information that you can use in any manner you choose.

Click here to learn more about Public Domain Riches… I highly recommend it!

How Can You Use Public Domain In Your Business?

The short answer is that you can use public domain for anything that you want to use it for!  You’re really only limited by your own imagination.

You can literally chop it up, use it completely intact, create derivative works based on it, combine it with other materials, etc.

So here are 8 awesome public domain ideas to get you thinking:

1.  Create A Digital Information Product.

This is probably the easiest method for taking advantage of public domain.   It’s also the most often used!

You can easily compile the material as is (or with a few slight edits) and turn it into an ebook. Then you can sell the ebook, give it away to subscribers, offer it as a backend, etc.

2.  Create A Physical Information Product.

Just as you can create a digital information product out of public domain, you can also create a physically delivered product, such as a book, pamphlet, booklet, etc. to sell on Amazon or in your own shopping cart system.

The biggest advantage in creating a physical product is that it may be more appealing to your niche or target market… especially if they’re less sophisticated.  In addition, physically delivered products can often command a highter price than ebooks or other digital media.

Be sure to think outside the box a little on this one…

Public domain material can be:

• Read out loud into a a microphone and then record that onto CD’s
• Divided into sections and turn that into a home study course
• Or even re-packaged into a booklet or series of reports.

3.  Use Public Domain Products To Upsell Your Own Products.

Upselling is a really powerful strategy for increasing your revenue…  if you have additional products to offer.  Public domain can give you the opportunity to offer an *upgrade* to your customers.

Simply use a public domain product as it is or modify it slightly and you have a product to use in your upsell in no time.

4.  Create Articles Or Mini-Courses Out Of Public Domain Content.

People and online businesses are starving for great content, and public domain can help you give it to them!

You can literally slice up public domain material into smallter articles and distribute them online to gain traffic to your website. Article marketing is a great way to gain targeted visitors to your site… especially when the content actually comes from public domain works.

5.  Use Public Domain As A Bonus To Your Own Products.

Just like we talked about using public domain to upsell your products, you can also use it to create really great bonuses for your products.

People love bonuses, and sometimes they’ll even buy a product BECAUSE of the bonuses.   This creates a great opportunity to use public domain and create a really unique bonus!

6. Create A Product Based On The Public Domain Work.

Some people call these types of products derivative works.  All that really means is that you use the public domain material as the basis to create something completely different like a video, software, Cd, etc.

7.  Use Public Domain On Your Website As Content And Partner With Google AdSense To Generate Revenue.

Use the material you gather from public domain to create an information rich website.  Then place Google Adsense ads within the site. Every time someone clicks on the Adsense ads, you earn a percentage of that advertising revenue.

If done right this can add up very quickly and it’s a great way to profit from public domain!

8.  Use Public Domain To Increase Your Organic Search Engine Traffic.

As I said above, you can cut up public domain content into separate articles and distribute them, but you can also slice up public domain content to create articles for your own website and get some great organic search engine traffic.

The number one reason people go online is for information research, so be sure to use great keywords and then create website content based on public domain material infused with those keywords.

When you post keyword and content rich webpages to your site, the search engines will rank you higher and more of those targeted visitors will find you.

There are tons and tons of other ways that you can utilize public domain works, but hopefully this will give you some idea of the possibilities.

Click here to learn more about how to find and use public domain…

I wanted to develop a new website for my Nu Skin products (an MLM company that I recently got involved with).  I wanted to create a blog where I could review products and provide content.

So, my first stop was to decide on a domain name.

I knew that I couldn’t use any domain with the term “Nu Skin” in it because it was a trademark infringement.  That’s one of those things that I’m always careful about.  So after looking at all the domain names available I settled on Elite-Skin-Care.com.

The domain fit the image that I was looking for, it was fairly short, and it was available.

Whoohoo!

I bought the domain and immediately set out on creating a blog complete with a logo that incorporated the domain name, several keyword rich blog posts, free ecourse, reviews, etc.

It was a pretty nice looking blog… if I do say so myself!

And things were going pretty well with it.  Some of the content had started getting indexed, I started getting subscribers, and traffic was on the rise — everything you want to happen with a new blog.  I was quite pleased with myself.

Then I got this notice in my inbox:

Re:  ELITE SKIN CARE  – TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT

Dear Ms. Yates:

Elite Skin Care, LLC is the owner of the registered trademark ELITE SKIN CARE® (the “ELITE Trademark”) for use in connection with skin care products and services.  We have used the ELITE Trademark since 1993, and the mark has been registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office since 2004 (U.S. Trademark Registration No. 2821236).  By virtue of our long use of, and investment in, the ELITE Trademark in promotion and operation of our business, the ELITE Trademark has come to be a well-recognized and valuable asset of Elite Skin Care, LLC.

It has come to our attention that you are using the trade name/trademark “Elite Skin Care”  in association with the marketing, sale, distribution or identification of skin care products.  Elite Skin Care values its ELITE SKIN CARE trademark very highly and takes this unauthorized use of it very seriously.

We assume that your unauthorized use of a mark identical to the ELITE Trademark is without intent or desire to confuse the public, nor is it your intention to trade upon Elite Skin Care’s goodwill associated with its ELITE Trademark.  However, your use of the identical mark in connection with your business of marketing or selling skin care services/products is confusing and may mislead customers and potential customers into believing that your skin care products/and or services originate from, or are associated with those of Elite Skin Care, LLC.  This confusion may cause material and irreparable harm to the ELITE Trademark by eroding the distinct association among our Trademark, our products and services, and our company.

As such, your use of Elite Skin Care constitutes an unfair business practice as well as trademark infringement under the federal Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. Sec. 1051 et. seq..  These actions may subject you to payment of actual and treble damages, recovery of profits, reimbursement of attorney’s fees and may also include injunctions against your further use of your infringing mark.

Accordingly, we request that you immediately cease any and all further use of the Elite Skin Care trademark, as well as any other marks confusingly similar to Elite Skin Care, including, but not limited to changing your business or trade name; terminating your use of the website address www.elite-skin-care.com and any other web address containing the term Elite Skin Care ; and removal of the term Elite Skin Care from any and all advertising, marketing and promotional materials and website informational materials used in connection with your sin care services or products. .

Please confirm within 10 days of the date of this letter that you will comply with the terms of this request.  This letter is without prejudice to the assertion of any and all legal remedies that we may pursue as necessary to protect our rights.

Sincerely,
Simon Wong

It would be fair to say that I was a bit ticked off… but then I thought about it.

This was totally my own fault. I was so wrapped up in the idea that I couldn’t infringe upon the Nu Skin trademark that I didn’t even check to see if there were any other trademarks against the domains that I was looking at.

REALLY stupid mistake… a mistake that I’ve never made before.

So… I completely removed the site — what else could I do?

It means a couple of weeks worth of work wasted and a little bit of money down the drain.  I hate that, but I still have a lot of content that I can use elsewhere.

It could have been A LOT worse.

Plus it was a really valuable lesson to make sure that I don’t get ahead of myself next time and do my homework before I buy the next domain.  I’ve been in business a long time — I knew better.

Hopefully sharing this story will keep you out of hot water.  Research your domain name before you buy it to make sure someone else doesn’t already own the trademark.

As you know, I wrote the original post on March 24th at around 3p.m.  By 8p.m. the same day, this message was posted to my blog:

Hi Ms. Yates,

Wow, did this ever get mixed up. Let me clear up a few misunderstandings. Article Marketer didn’t cease operations, it split into two companies, DistributeYourArticles.com and ContentCrooner.com. The customer list was split randomly. Your account was assigned to DistributeYourArticles.com. Each company continued to honor the subscriptions of its assigned customers.

Alas in your situation, when you contacted PayPal, ContentCrooner’s customer service responded to you about your refund request even though it should have been DistributeYourArticles that responded. The transaction that you asked to be refunded was from January of 2009, long before the split. You have noted here that you had some transactions from February of 2010. You should by all means talk to DistributeYourArticles about those transactions.

I personally apologize for any confusion.

Regards,

Ken Vogt
ContentCrooner.com

I manually accept all comments, so I didn’t allow this one on the blog — preferring to correspond privately to try to solve this problem. So here’s how that conversation went (I blocked out any sensitive information):

Hi Ken,

While I appreciate your contacting me directly through my blog, perhaps it would be better if you contacted me directly.

The dispute in question is from Feb 28, 1010… not 2009.

Here is the paypal transaction number:  #xxxxxxxxxxxxx

I was charged from Articlemarketer.com, not distributeyourarticles.com, from which I already pay a monthly fee.

This transaction was disputed directly through Paypal with the transaction number above attached.  I was also falsely charged for a second account (transaction number:  #xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) on the same day.

Since you seem to understand how this misunderstanding happened, perhaps you could look into it and issue the refund that I deserve.  I would really like to update my blog post with a statement about how your company corrected the problem and that I can now fully endorse your company.  I’m sure that you would like to see that as well.

Please let me know if there is any additional information that you need to rectify this situation.

Best Wishes,
Arvada Yates

His response:

Hi Arvada,

I am happy to talk to your directly. I contacted you through your blog merely because that is where I saw your comments. Please understand, Article Marketer split into two companies. Your account did not stop nor did operations cease, it merely started being serviced by DistributeYourArticles on October 13, 2009. This is not to say that you shouldn’t get a refund. I am just letting you know you need to talk to DistributeYourArticles since they are the ones who got your money. Our customer service person never should have contacted you about the matter. I have no sway over the folks at DistributeYourArticles. I am only trying to help you get the matter resolved.

Regards,

Ken Vogt
ContentCrooner.com

My response:

Hi Ken,

The charge was made by “Articlemarketer.com” and the dispute was sent directly to the company that owns that particular subscription.

I get charged on a completely different subscription by distributeyourarticles.  The two charges are completely unrelated.  Distributeyourarticles didn’t get my money — Articlemarketer.com got my money from a year old subscription that should never have been charged.

Obviously if the dispute was sent to Content Crooner via paypal, then they were the ones that ran the old subscription and charged my account… the other company (distributeyourarticles) didn’t own that subscription, article marketer owned it.  If article marketer now owns content crooner, then your company is the one that owns that subscription and charged the account.

When I joined distributeyourarticles, I had to sign up for a completely new subscription — there was no carryover from article marketer — the subscription didn’t move over.

Please explain how you believe that distributeyourarticles charged my account when all the information I have from Paypal points to you guys.

Arvada

Ken responds:

Arvada,

The dispute was not sent to Content Crooner by PayPal. Chris Ellington and I founded Article Marketer. We split up. In order to continue servicing our Article Marketer customers, we created two companies. Accounts and their associated revenue were assigned randomly to our new companies. Chris’ s company is DistributeYourArticles. Your Article Marketer account was assigned to DistributeYourArticles. DistributeYourArticles got your money for your Article Marketer account. If you also created another account with DistributeYourArticles, they got that money too. Let me assure you, we didn’t get a dime of your money at Content Crooner. I am trying to help you. Please contact (email address removed) about this matter.

Regards,

Ken Vogt
ContentCrooner.com

Okay, I now have a direct contact to at distributeyourarticles.com, and I’m obviously not getting anywhere here, so I contact Chris Ellington:

Hi Chris,

My name is Arvada Yates and I’m a customer with you at DistributeYourArticles.com.  I joined your service after Article Marketer split.

On Feb 28, 2010 my paypal account was charged by Article Marketer twice for a total amount of $130 under an old subscription to Article Marketer… something that shouldn’t have been charged.  The transaction #’s are #xxxxxxxxxxxxx and #xxxxxxxxxxxxx.

I tried to resolve the issue through Paypal, but the only people that answered my concerns were the folks over at Content Crooner.  They were unable to resolve the issue and paypal closed the dispute.

As you might imagine, I was a little irritated to be charged for an old account and not getting any satisfaction from Article Marketer or Paypal and I wrote about it on my blog:

http://www.arvadayates.com/content/articlemarkete-ripped-me-off.html

My post got Ken Vogt’s attention and we’ve corresponded about this issue (that conversation is below).  He insists that you guys are the ones that have charged my account.

Can you help me Chris?  I already get charged monthly for your DistributeYourArticles.com service and shouldn’t have been charged for anything else.  I would like a full refund on the two transactions listed above.

Thanks for your time,
Arvada Yates

I was pleasantly surprised to find that one of the charges was refunded through Paypal a few hours after I sent the message above.  Then I received the message below:

Hi Arvada,

Yes, I will absolutely help you. We are very happy that you have chosen the DistributeYourArticles community as your article marketing service going forward. I see that one of the two accounts you referenced was assigned to DistributeYourArticles. My team refunded that $39.95 Article Marketer payment a little bit ago. It should appear in your PayPal account straightaway.

However,  I don’t want you to have to suffer through anymore rigmarole with my former business partner, so I have copied him on this note. I have provided specific instructions he should follow in order to grant you your refund in spite of his “assurances” that he “didn’t get a dime of your money”.

The fact of the matter is, he is holding onto about Ninety Bucks of your money. It was credited to contentcrooner on March 3, 2010 in PayPal transaction xxxxxxxxxxxxx. When he reviews the information below, it will be clear to him that your money is in his pocket.

Here’s the complete information about your two Article Marketer accounts, based on PayPal’s records:

This account was transferred to DistributeYourArticles
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
UserName Arvada
Author ID: xxxxxx
PayPal Email: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subscription Date: May 28, 2008

Date of Cancellation: Mar 12, 2010
Subscription Terms: $39.99 USD for each 3 months
Full Refund issued: March 25, 2010

This account was transferred to content crooner
xxxxxxxxxxxxx
UserName trusite
Author ID: xxxx
PayPal Email:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subscription Date: Feb 28, 2006

Date of Cancellation: Mar 12, 2010
Subscription Terms: $89.95 USD for each year
Dispute Date: Mar 3, 2010
Time: 13:34:22 PST

Ken -
To make it easier for Ms Yates, I’ll point you directly at the information necessary to immediately resolve this matter. She is a valued member of the DistributeYourArticles community, and you ought not to have ground her through your rhetoric mill and made her work so hard just to avoid sending her a refund. You have access to the same information as I, and you should have done the right thing from the start. This is truly a no-brainer.

Step-by-Step Instructions:
1) Open the accounting spreadsheet.
2) View Mar 2010 payout tab
3) Look at rows 34 & 35.
4) Note that the funds are held by PayPal. That is Ms. Yates’ PayPal dispute against her $39.95 Article Marketer payment.
5) PayPal transaction xxxxxxxxxxxxx resolved that dispute this afternoon.
6) Look at rows 37, 90 & 93.
7) Note that Ms. Yates’ $89.95 payment was credited to content crooner, held by dispute, then credited to contentcrooner.

Ken – I respectfully request that you make a complete refund of the Article Marketer payment that was credited to content crooner. However, what the content crooner service chooses to do for Ms. Yates is between you and your conscience… and her blog audience.

Arvada – I look forward to seeing you around the DistributeYourArticles community

Chris Ellington
Founder, ArticleMarketer
CEO, DistributeYourArticles

Within a few hours of receiving this message, I received a refund of the other charge and an apology from Ken Vogt.

Therefore, I am happy report that I have received a complete refund on all the erroneous charges from Article Marketer.

Clearly, there would have been no refund if Chris Ellington hadn’t come to my aide… at least that’s the way it looks to me.  I think you could reach a lot of conclusions about both companies from the email messages I’ve posted here.  I will leave you to judge these companies yourself.

Clearly, this all resulted from one simple blog post — never underestimate the “power of the pen.”

For my part, I can now completely endorse DistributeYourArticles.com and I would like to publicly thank Chris Ellington for helping me to resolve this situation.

ArticleMarketer.com

Article Marketer is an article distribution service that I used to use last year.  I was pretty happy with the service, but they discontinued their service last October and split into two different services:  ContentCrooner.com and DistributeYourArticles.com

Now I use DistributeYourArticles.com… the service is pretty okay, and I pay a separate monthly fee for it.

So here’s the rub on how they ripped me off…

After Article Marketer discontinued their service in October, they turned around and charged me their yearly fees on two different accounts on February 28, 2010.  Total amount charged was about $130.

Thinking this must surely be an honest mistake, I contacted Article Marketer through Paypal’s dispute resolution process.  Here is the entire transcript of what was said:

• 3/15/2010 15:29 PDT – PayPal: Buyer escalated this dispute to a Claim.
• 3/15/2010 15:29 PDT – Buyer: This service no longer exists. Article Marketer closed it’s doors on October 13, 2009 and I should never have been charged again after that date. Feel free to check their website at http://www.articlemarketer.com and you’ll see that they’ve canceled their service. I did have a subscription for this service over a year ago when the service was still running. When they shut their doors, I assumed that the subscription was canceled too… apparently it wasn’t because they charged me again. I have since found the subscription in my account and canceled it, but that doesn’t negate the fact that they have charged me for a service that isn’t actually available. In addition, I tried to resolve this dispute with them, but they denied my claim. Please issue a complete refund as soon as possible. Thank you for your help!
• 3/15/2010 15:18 PDT – Seller: Hi Chris, Our refund department denied your request. I made a mistake when looking at our records and I misread the date. That payment was made over a year ago, but still being used to being in the year 2009, I thought it was a recent payment. I apologize, but you don’t qualify for a refund with a payment that is that old.
• 3/13/2010 17:36 PST – Seller: No problem. I’ve forwarded your request to our refund department. You should have your money in a few days.
• 3/12/2010 16:44 PST – Buyer: I didn’t realize that I needed to cancel a subscription for a service that no longer exists… I thought that would automatically happen at your end. I have now canceled this account. I appreciate your attention to this matter.
• 3/12/2010 14:20 PST – Seller: New update. Before we can process the refund, we need you to cancel your subscription here at PayPal. We’ve sent you an email to the address associated with your Content Crooner account explaining how to do it.
• 3/12/2010 14:10 PST – Seller: After looking over your claim, you qualify for a refund. I’ve notified our refund department, and you should have your money in a few days.
• 3/12/2010 13:33 PST – Seller: The buyer originally signed up for a an annual subscription with Article Marketer (AM), an article distribution service — Subscription #: S-5KG596183C2608234 on 2/28/2006. His renewal date was 2/28 on each following year as he continued to pay for annual subscriptions up until 2009. When the buyer signed up, he agreed to Article Marketer’s Terms of Agreement that his billings would be handled on a recurring billing basis. The below paragraph is just one paragraph that refers to the recurring billing: “Recurring subscriptions automatically renew on the billing date until canceled through your PayPal account. If you would like to cancel your Article Marketer subscription, login to your PayPal account. You will find complete instructions in the PayPal help system. Type “How do I cancel my subscription?” into the PayPal help system search box. You may cancel your subscription through your PayPal account at any time without refund.” Since the beginning of October when Article Marketer split, the decision they made was to split the company into two companies, Content Crooner and Distribute Your Articles. The buyer’s account was transferred to Content Crooner at that time and was notified via email on November 2, 2009.
• 3/3/2010 13:34 PST – Buyer: This service no longer exists. Article Marketer closed it’s doors on October 13, 2009 and I should never have been charged again after that date. Feel free to check their website at http://www.articlemarketer.com and you’ll see that they’ve canceled their service. Thank you for your help!

After these defunct subscriptions were initially charged, I went back into my paypal history and found that there were two subscriptions still active for Article Marketer… I assumed that when they dissolved their service that they would cancel subscriptions on their end.

Apparently I was wrong… so I went in and canceled these year old subscriptions.

That doesn’t change the fact that Article Marketer charged me for a service that they no longer offer on a subscription that should have been invalid and then refused to refund my money.

PayPal’s Response

No joy — They’re letting Article Marketer keep my money!

PayPal was not able to resolve this case because the item in question was
virtual or intangible. We are not able to adequately investigate payments
for intangible items, services, licenses, or other digital content. Because
of this, PayPal has not taken any action at this time. We do keep track of
buyer complaints, though, and have noted your dissatisfaction in the
seller’s account. Sellers who consistently are subject to buyer complaints
are investigated.

Thank you for your cooperation with our investigation.

Sincerely,
Krista

Protection Services Department
PayPal, an eBay Company

What Can You Do To Protect Yourself?

I personally think this is completely ridiculous and unscrupulous on the part of ArticleMarketer.com and I think Paypal has a very bad policy about intangible services.  In this case, the service was never delivered and the company had no intention of delivering the service… seems pretty cut and dry to me.

So how can you protect yourself against a situation like this?

1. Don’t do business with ArticleMarketer.com in ANY way.  They’ve proven themselves to be unscrupulous.
2. Don’t use PayPal to pay for ANY intangible service… That includes ebooks, virtual services, and anything delivered digitally.  Us a credit card instead.
3. Keep a close watch on your current subscriptions.  If a subscription service stops offering the service, be sure to go into your account and cancel the subscription yourself.

Hopefully this ridiculous situation will help someone else avoid getting taken advantage of too.  If you happen to have any latent subscriptions to Article Marketer, be sure to find them and cancel them immediately!

Well, Google gets so much search volume that I was compelled to give it another try.

This time I started a completely new account, new email, different credit card, different computer… even a different IP to set up the account because I wanted to be able to start from scratch with Google.

I followed their guidelines EXACTLY and got a 7/10 quality score for ALL my ads. Here’s what happened:

I still think their inconsistency and their interface sucks… but it bothered me that they wouldn’t accept my ads, so I kept messing with it until I finally got one accepted yesterday.

Now I have a whole new set of complaints…

The way that I finally got accepted was to create an advertisement that linked to one of my Facebook group pages.  My idea is to use Facebook to build a list.

And that brings me to my new Facebook complaint:

Facebook provides tracking code for tracking your clicks to outside pages, but not for other Facebook pages.

In other words, there’s no way to track how many people who click through to my group page actually join my group.

I can anecdotally watch my clicks and compare them to how many new members join my group, but I can’t be sure where the new members are actually coming from… they could be coming from any one of my pages, an email message, a search engine, etc.

There’s no way to track the clicks.

That seems pretty ridiculous since the page is one of Facebook’s internal pages.  I’m looking for a way to rig something up, but haven’t found anything yet (If you have the answer I hope you’ll tell me!).

Anyway, I’m planning to add some other ads to see if I can start to figure out what Facebook is looking for in their accepted ads.

The other thing that I wanted to mention today is that I created another new Hubpage at:

http://hubpages.com/hub/Nu-Skin-Business-Opportunity

I’ve been steadily creating new hubs for the last couple of weeks to see if they can bring in a significant amount of traffic.  So far I’ve been getting mixed results, but I’ll keep reporting on it and let you know how it goes.

Well… it’s actually worse.  It’s as bad as dealing with Google now.

Check out my video below and you’ll see what I mean:

In fairness, this was really my first time trying to run ads in Facebook, but I couldn’t help noticing that “big name” players like Amazon and Google didn’t seem to have any problem running all kinds of ads that seemed to violate Facebook’s terms.

There were also several other ads that I see running in the make money/mlm niche that are much worse than anything that I tried to post too.

Maybe it just depends on who actually gets assigned to manage your account over at Facebook… I don’t know, but this kind of inconsistency totally ticks me off!

So I created a hub about it today at:  http://hubpages.com/hub/120-Day-Ruby-Plan

So why did I create another Hubpage?

Because each time I create a high quality hubpage, it gets indexed in search engines and gives me another backlink to my website.  That means that:

1. More people will find my hub because there are more pages out there.
2. And more people will find my website because of the backlink.

It basically amounts to another way to get your message out there!

It’s called, “Why Your MLM Distributor Website Does Not Work” and it talks about why thos distributor websites don’t really work and what kind of website you should really be using to promote your network marketing business.

You’ll never get any tangible results as long as you’re depending on those company websites to make your sales and build your downline… so check out my article for more information about what you can do about it.

http://www.escape-your-cubicle.com/mlm-distributor-website.html