As you might know Social Marketing is all about getting out there and join the conversation. Facebook has many, many Internet Marketers using the platform as a Social Marketing tool. This blog post explores the new Beta-Released PeopleJar. Check it out:

PeopleJar, a startup that hopes to help users with similar interests connect using a highly-customizable search engine, has soft launched to the public.

The site is very well done, sporting a clean and intuitive interface, an exhaustively customizable search engine, and generally high production values. After creating a detailed profile that includes information on their education, country of origin, and interests, users can browse through a number of Networks ranging from Science and Technology to Yoga. Each Network behaves much like a Facebook Group, allowing users to post public messages to a Wall, and connect with other members of the same group.

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Google Adwords official blog just announced that they are going to enhance the Google Adwords Quality Score mechanism:

In July 2005, AdWords introduced minimum bids for keywords based on Quality Score. This system allows us to show very high quality ads to Google users, while also giving advertisers control over their keywords. Since 2005, we’ve improved Quality Score in many ways, such as the inclusion of landing page quality and landing page load time as factors. Along the way, we’ve also received much helpful feedback from both users and advertisers.

Today, we’d like to let you know of further improvements we’ll introduce in the coming weeks — based, in part, on this feedback. First we’ll outline the key points, and then dive into the details:

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The amazing thing about the Internet is that it never intended to be a vehicle for making money. Online business purely got born out of the vision of someone who realised the full business potential from an entrepreneurial point of view.

One of the absolute misnomers about the Internet is that it is a playground for the corrupt, those not fit to be part of the free community, those who monger about with no integrity whatsoever. Unfortunately, or fortunately for your sake, that is just one side of the coin. I believe than that which is inanimate, for example money, cannot be corrupt. Being corrupt is a human trade and any system currently available, be it the Internet or the Government, can be abused for personal gain. That being said, the other side of the coin is just as much a reality and it is a personal choice on which you are going to focus. There are rotten apples in every basket.

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Should you feel you have the heart of a true entrepreneur, and by implication the constant inclination to make money, I can assure you that online ways are plentiful. There is not one arena in this day and age which levels the playing field for everybody like the internet marketing arena. Basically anybody who can afford an Internet connection can play along. Now that last statement probably eliminates millions of South Africans at this stage. However, our bandwidth is getting cheaper and cheaper. One of these days more of us will be able to participate in the entrepreneurial revolution of the human race as we know it.

South Africa should not sit idly by and watch how millions of dollars, pounds, rands or whatever currency are earned by some other country. We have just as much right to delve into the river of overflowing blessing as anyone else out there. You have to keep in mind that the opportunity of earning online money is no respecter of currencies or boundaries. For me to sit in Pretoria, sunny South Africa and earn American dollars literally while I sleep, is no fairy tale. I think the main problem in our country is probably disbelief in the fact that even a person living in a third world country can make online money from within the comforts of their own home.

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