Continued from Previous Post “So You Want To Make Money From Your Phone Part 1” ….

HOW?

This is the very most important part! Now you get the basics you need to learn to apply the principles. The next thing I am going to share with you is the key to unlocking the power of the internet to grow your business so pay very close attention. You don’t have to spend hours every day in front of your computer adding friends on facebook in order to have a successful internet business! In fact, most people who do this end up with nothing but a lot of wasted time and a list of old high school buddies who they never cared to re-connect with anyway.

Creating a successful internet marketing business will require some time on your part in setting up some of the initial websites and profiles, but ongoing maintenance can be done in 10 minutes a day from your cell phone. I suggest you work backwards by first creating a sales site. This will be a website where you will promote/sell your products/services/opportunity. There is a good chance that you have already done this but in case you have been living under a rock I suggest you do that now. Utilize the wordpress platform which is easy to install and maintain. See these video tutorials.

Second you need to create your own website blog where you can contribute to your industry and your associates. This is where people will come to learn more about you. If you haven’t already done this I once again suggest using wordpress. Focus on providing consistent (but not necessarily daily) content that is insightful, informative, and entertaining. If you are branding yourself I would also suggest some content that is personal in nature. Make it easy for people to get to your sales site from your blog but don’t make it too “in their face” either.

Then focus on creating professional & personal profiles on the main social media networks. Link these to your personal site/blog and not your sales page. Remember that any attempt to pitch your product/opportunity on these sites is considered spam and everyone hates it. Add friends but be selective. 500 contacts that are a part of your target audience are far more useful than 5000 contacts that you randomly added as friends.

Then the only thing you need to consider is the ongoing maintenance. This is where the true power of the mobile phone platforms come out and while I suspect that most of our readers are android users this material applies to everyone so pay very close attention because I’m going to spell it out for you…

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Why did you arrive at this page? We are going to lay it all out… step by step how to launch/maintain your business online using as little effort as possible and while on the go from your cell phone.

Perhaps you are among these two groups?

1. You own a business already and you are wondering how to utilize the internet to increase your business.
2. You already do internet marketing and are wondering how to use your phone to be more effective.

Let me lay this out for you as clearly as I can step by step…. Are you ready?

INTERNET MARKETING:

If you haven’t already figured out the internet is the new marketplace. Newspapers, Radio, and even TV are almost extinct. People ages 18-34 spend 4.5 times as much time each day on Social Media websites than they do on newspapers, radio, and TV combined. You need to have an active presence in Internet Marketing and specifically on Social media sites.

WHY? The internet has brought the consumer closer to the company. Your credibility as a person and as a company are greatly increased when people have direct access to you. Remember that the internet is just another form of media. Only different from TV, Radio, & Newspapers in the fact that it is faster, everywhere, and more effective in delivery the information to the consumer in every other way. Get with it.

WHERE ONLINE?

There are basically three different genre’s of websites you need to concern yourself with.

1. Social Media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, & Youtube where people meet in a social form connecting with other people and sharing information including pictures, videos, links, etc. This is where the most people are spending the most time.
2. Branding Sites & Blogs. This is where individuals, organizations, and companies get exposure by contributing content to the general public. This content is generally either informational, entertaining, or personal in nature and most often specific to a marketing niche or subject.
3. Sales sites. Online shopping carts and other websites that promote products, services, and opportunities where people can make a purchase or request additional information.

Your focus needs to be on all three of these! You will need to make yourself accessible to people via the social media websites and syndicate your content in these mediums in a friendly and social way. You need a personal/corporate (depending on your project) website and/or blog where your audience (target market & friends) can learn more about you and increase their trust in your knowledge and sincerity. You need a sales site where you can directly expose those who care to your product/service/opportunity. These three different sites that you must have will interact together to create a powerful online marketing presence.

HOW?

This is the very most important part! Now you get the basics you need to learn to apply the principles. The next thing I am going to share with you is the key to unlocking the power of the internet to grow your business so pay very close attention…

Part 2 will be posted later this week. To ensure that you receive it please subscribe to our site here.

If i got paid hourly for the time I spent on facebook i would not need to do anything else to support myself. I am sure I am not the only one who mis-employs hours of mine (or my employers) time on facebook. I have friends that work in tech support for a company that owns several internet dating sites and people were on facebook there so much that the management has blocked the employees from even accessing the site. That behavior coupled with a study by Men’s Health that “proves” that spending some of the bosses time on social networking sites is really beneficial to your effectiveness at work and not the contrary as the management at my friends work place suggests. That is what prompted me to download and review a few popular FREE facebook apps in search of how to get the absolute best facebook experience from your mobile phone so that the boss does not know how much of his/her time you truly spend chatting with friends, looking at pictures and playing mafia wars. Once I find a way to do that from my phone, game over my productivity goes from 50% to 1.5% maybe… that game has my goat.  They announced that they had an iPhone app for their game (silly misguided creators) but have yet to show an app for android.  In that event, look out.

So, Mafia Wars aside, I was not able to find a free app that really effectively delivered the entire facebook experience to my fingertips on my super sweet android G1 phone. But i kinda am OK with that and I’ll explain why. First off I want to say I was really disappointed with androids browser version of facebook.  If I was logged into chat when I was on my computer then I was logged into chat when I got on the mobile browser and accessed facebook.  So what would happen is I would get an email saying hey so and so added you as a friend I would open my phone to confirm the friend request it would log me into chat and someone would chat me while I was on my phone and i was not able to chat them back.

So my need for a facebook app was created, I wanted an app that was first and foremost free. That’s the whole idea with this android market thing if i remember right… and i wanted to access all the content pictures, chat, comment on status’ and pictures and albums and what not. And I wanted to be able to be logged out of chat and just do facebook sometimes too.

I started with fBook. it was the most popular and seemingly most relevant of all the free apps so i downloaded it and played around for a couple hours. I like that i am able to access photos and comment on them, that’s huge for me. However i was bugged that you couldn’t access stuff on the wall to comment other than status’. I like making smart alek comments so that was a negatron there. I was also bugged that its basically a window for the mobile version of faceboook but i liked that they organized it by tabs which made it a little more accessible.  I loved that i could upload photos straight from my mobile phone so that made things instantly available to me jealous friends when i was on awesome vacations… however my two biggest beefs with fBook are 1. the chat tab. They should just get rid of it. its only for private  messaging which you can do alot easier and faster from other places in the app and the actual feature it should run, (facebook chat) runs shoddy like the browser runs it.  However after experimenting with the FBabble app I kinda like that fBook drops the chat ball. Sometimes I want to chat, other times I just want to facebook and comment and write on walls.  My other huge beef with fBook is I am unable to access fan pages. and being that android social media  (that’s us) has a fan page http://budurl.com/vafa that I like to be able to edit, I was prettty miffed about that. But thats what I love about a rooted G1, I can use it as a wireless router and then no matter where I am my computer can log onto the wifi that my phone is emitting and I can edit and change my facebook anything: profile, fan page, whatever.  All using the internet my phone is providing for my computer, yeah its slow, but its better that paying 80 bucks a month for a wireless aircard…

FBabble is great I like that its quick, easy and makes perfect sense. you can have multiple chats open, you can swipe your finger to change from conversation to conversation you can do other stuff while the app is open and it will alert you when someone you are chatting writes back. I love that the whole status is displayed when people are logged in.  4 stars.  My only beef with FBabble is that sometimes as you open and close the app  it will confuse who said what… but its not that big a deal.  I’m not enough of a space cadet to forget or not be able to tell what i said verses what the person I’m chatting said.  All that aside, its true its not perfect… but I couldn’t find an app that really satisfied all my facebook needs…  So, you developers out there and anyone reading this post. If you know of an app that really gets everything done on facebook cleanly and efficiently, let us know!  If your experience is the same as mine, maybe its time to write a new app that can truly do it all.

WARNING: Proceed at your own risk, this may damage your phone and/or make it unstable. This is for advanced users only and should only be attempted by those who understand the risks of the following changes

Why should you root your Dream/G1?

• You can install a full Linux distribution, like Debian.
• You can run applications that require root, like Screenshot and or any other application.
• You can install the latest Android build directly from the Android source tree.
• Customize your boot image.
• Create full backups of the state of your phone.
• Create custom ROMs.
• Install Applications to your SD Card to save space.
• Use your phone as a tether to connect your computer/laptop to the internet.
• Turn your phone into a wireless router that provides internet access.

Well, hopefully one of those reasons convinced you to get root access on your phone!

The Most Important Things You Need To Know!

1. Rooting (jailbreaking) your phone will erase EVERYTHING!!! (this includes SD card data)
2. This process could damage your phone. We have done it several times and many others have done it also, but there is still some risk which you take upon yourself.
3. Rooting your phone will prevent future over the air updates. In other words when newer versions of android are released in the future you will have to manually install them.

If you still don’t feel comfortable rooting your phone…

Even after our AWESOME instructions below then you can purchase a full video tutorial from our team. This video tutorial includes a clear picture of what your phone and computer screens look like throughout the process and will walk you through every tiny detail. This video is done in actual time and will allow you to clearly see the process! You can purchase the video at the bottom of this post.  It’s super super cheap considering it offers 100 percent surety that your doing everything right and not bricking your $400.00 phone…

Preparing to Get Root on your Phone
Getting root on your phone involves exploiting a security hole that existed in an early version of Android. The versions with the security holes are known as RC19, RC28, and RC29 (or RC7 or lower for UK phones). As of RC30 (RC8 on UK), Google patched the security hole so that your phone can not be rooted (don’t worry, we can still root it!).
To check your version, go to the Home Screen, click your menu button, choose “Settings”, and then click “About phone”. You will then see the following screen:

If you have US-RC30/UK-RC8 or higher, you will first need to downgrade your phone to a previous version. (Skip these steps otherwise)

Downgrading to RC29 (RC7 for UK):

1. Format your phone’s SD card to FAT32 mode:
   • Hook your phone up to your computer using a USB cable and then wait for the notification to show up in your title bar of your phone.
   • Click the notification, and then click “Mount”.
   • A new removable disk should show up on your computer. Right click it and select Format, and select FAT32 as the file system type. (THIS WILL ERASE ALL THE DATA ON YOUR SD CARD)
2. Download and unzip the RC29 or RC7 image file. Copy the DREAMIMG.nbh file to the SD card. (RC29 for US, RC7 is for UK)
3. Turn the device power off.
4. Hold Camera button, and press Power button to entry bootloader mode. You should see a gray/white screen with instructions to flash your phone with the update on your SD card. If you don’t see that, make sure you followed the instructions properly.
5. As per the on-screen instructions, press the Power button to start upgrade procedure. DO NOT DO ANYTHING TO INTERRUPT THIS PROCESS.
6. After it is finished, press the trackball.
7. A red and blue multi color screen will appear. That is what you want
8. Remove the battery and replace it to restart your phone.

Rooting your RC29 or lower phone:
On RC29 phones and lower, anything you type into your keyboard is also being run in a hidden console with root permissions. More information regarding that at the bottom of this post. But, to get root access, do the following:

Instructions:

1. Download recovery.img and copy it to your SD card (see the previous instructions on how to copy from your computer to your Phone’s SD card).
2. Download the Hard SPL and copy the zip file to the SD card.
3. All files must be on the root of your SD card.
4. Restart your phone. Wait for your phone to start up fully and show the home screen.
5. After your phone starts up, hit the enter key twice, type “telnetd” and press enter. (Yes, it will start up a contact search, don’t worry. Just type it.)
6. Download an Android “Telnet” application from the Market and connect to localhost.
7. If you connect successfully, you will have a root prompt “#”.
8. Type the following into Telnet (these commands will give you root access easier in the future):
   • mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
   • cd sdcard
   • flash_image recovery recovery.img
   • cat recovery.img > /system/recovery.img

Now you have root!

What To Do Now That You Have Root
Now that you have root, you will want to apply “Hard SPL” to your phone. HardSPL is what will allow you to apply flash images from other regions (like UK on US phones, and vice versa), create full backups of your phone, install the latest build from the Android source, and usually resurrect your phone if it is “bricked”. You have already downloaded the file to your SD card, so now you can apply it.

1. Power off your phone.
2. Start up in recovery mode by holding home and pressing power.
3. You will now enter recovery mode. You should see an exclamation.
4. If you do not see a menu on screen, press Alt-L to show the menu.
5. Press Alt-S to apply the update from the SD card.
6. After the update is complete, hold Home and press Back to restart.

And now, the last step! You are still running an old version of Android, but you want to upgrade to the latest and greatest update! You can do this, and not lose root by downloading modified versions of the updates.

First, download the RC33 update file. Or for UK users choose from one of the RC8 download files below