Munich, 2008 — amiando, the leading tool for online event organization in Europe, today announced plans to implement Facebook Connect to boost the power of amiando ViralTickets, its recently released social promotion system for events.

“Events are the most important social happening. Therefore we will use Facebook Connect to let event organizers and their guests enjoy, recommend and promote events within the social context of their real identity and friendships on Facebook®. ”, said Felix Haas, CEO of amiando.

The key feature of amiando’s implementation of Facebook Connect will focus on boosting the power of amiando ViralTickets, the recently released social promotion system for events. ViralTickets enables event organizers to leverage the internet’s viral effects for their event marketing. Using word-of-mouth marketing they can sell significantly more tickets with less marketing effort.
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Increasing web site traffic is appealing to all of us who have web pages or blogs, or for those of us who promote affiliate programs. I will be showing you a few ways to increase your web site traffic with out spending a lot of money.

One free way to increase your web site traffic is to create a blog at Blogger.com or to create a lens at Squidoo. Both can be up and running in less than an hour and Squidoo also has a revenue sharing plan. Squidoo can be quite addictive and you can create an unlimited number of lenses. I will discuss lenses a little more in an upcoming article.

Facebook and Myspace also are a good way to advertise your links to the rest of the cyber world. You can post messages to your friends online to assist you in generating more web site traffic.

Another free way to increase your web site traffic is to contribute to popular threads at marketing forums with your web site address in your signature column. Warrior Forum.com is one of literally hundreds of forums which you can use to promote your site.

You can also place a free ad at the Free Ad Forum and get involved in some of the popular threads their as well.

You can post press releases at PR.web which is one of the more effective ways to promote your web site or product. It is one of the better sites to help you increase your web site traffic.

Writing articles and submitting them to EzineArticles.com and GoArticles.com to name a few of the hundreds of article web sites on the net. Make sure to place your web site address in the authors box. If it is a popular article it will begin to appear on other web sites as well. Your articles are free to use as long as the bio box is left intact.

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According to a report done by NetLab Centre for Urban and Community Studies at the University of Toronto, 55 percent of the American population is online. With the growing need for Web marketing in today’s business world, it is imperative for marketing students to stay informed about the latest marketing trends. Business-Programs.com offers up-to-date educational advice and resources for prospective marketing and business students.

April 16, 2007 — A new article on Business-Programs.com offers useful advice for capitalizing on online consumers as a unique new marketing channel. Business Program columnist Francine L. Huff highlights some of the major benefits of marketing via social networking Web sites in her article, “Web Marketing: Social Networking Pays Off” (www.business-programs.com/articles/web-marketing-social-networking-pays-off.html).

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