Monday, 5 December 2016

Online Marketing Strategies, Tools and Tips


The internet has proven to be one of the best means of marketing. There are numerous methods by which you can market your products online. The advantage of internet or online marketing is that the cost involved is lower as compared to other methods of marketing.

Online Marketing
Effective Online Marketing can help you earn big!

Other major advantages include its wider reach in the global market, increasing number of internet users, greater flexibility and better chances of building a healthy customer relationship. Here are a few methods by which you can market your online products easily.

Blogging


Blogging is one of the most prolific methods of online marketing and everyone is inclining to this method as it is easier in comparison to other methods. You can start a blog for any kind of business, no matter big or small. Here, you are required to write about your products and services in a way that the reader easily comprehends. This is highly beneficial as there are many readers who prefer to read blogs. All you need to do is to promote your blog in a manner that drives readers to your blog.

Social Media Marketing


This kind of marketing is on the rise these days due to the increasing number of people using the social media to keep in touch with their loved ones. There are different social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc where you can build a relationship with customers and hopefully, sell your products. The communication done through social media is friendlier than the one in other kinds of marketing methods.

Email Newsletters


Email marketing involves sending emails to targeted customers. These emails contain newsletters that talk about your products in a way that lures customers into buying them. Most successful email marketing packages comprise of colorful backgrounds, professionally designed graphics and brilliantly written description. To make a success out of an email marketing strategy, you need to prepare the email newsletter in such a way that it arouses interest in a customer and not annoy him.

Article Marketing


This is more or less like writing blogs, the only difference being the fact that articles are written and submitted to top article directories whereas blogs are written on CMS’s like WordPress and Blogger. When you describe your product in the article, you need to make sure that there is some extra information that the reader might find interesting. This may induce an interest in the customer about buying your products or services. At the conclusion of the article, you provide a link that leads the readers to your website which helps in bringing more traffic to your website, thus making your business an imposing success.
Social Meta Tags Testing and Approval Tools


Social Meta Tags Testing Tools

Tools for testing and approval

A. Twitter Validation Tool

Twitter Validation Tool
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards/validation/validator

Before your cards show on Twitter, you must first have your domain approved. Fortunately, it's a super-easy process. After you implement your cards, simply enter your sample URL into the validation tool. After checking your markup, select the "Submit for Approval" button.

B. Facebook Debugger

Facebook Debugger
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug

You don't need prior approval for your meta information to show on Facebook, but the debugging tool they offer gives you a wealth of information about all your tags and can also analyze your Twitter tags.

C. Google Structured Data Testing Tool

Google Structured Data Testing Tool
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

Webmasters traditionally use the structured data testing tool to test authorship markup and preview how snippets will appear in search results, but you can also use see what other types of meta data Google is able to extract from each page.

D. Pinterest Rich Pins Validator

Pinterest Rich Pins Validator
http://developers.pinterest.com/rich_pins/validator/

Like Twitter, Pinterest requires an approval process to enable Rich Pin functionality. Use the Rich Pin Validator tool to test your data markup and apply for approval at the same time.
Color Code Generator


This Color Code Generator will help you get the six digit color code i.e hexadecimal value. It could be very effective if you want to get  a perfect combination of colors for your blog and if you have a good experience about color picking and selection matching, this will help you to make your blog to look really professional.

hex codes, color chart, color codes

The Color Code Generator is also very useful when you try to blend the Google Adsense Ads with the site content.

Instructions:- Drag the bar on the "Hue" selector to the area of your desired colour palette. - Then click inside the Brightness/Saturation area and drag the cursor until you have achieved your desired colour. The "Swatch" bar shows you the final colour result. - The hexadecimal colour code is generated in the "Hex" box. Simply copy the six digit code i.e #000000

How to add Hex Colour Code Generator

To install Hex Color Code Generator on a Blogger/Blogspot page or post, copy the following code and paste it in the post or page HTML:
<center><object border="0" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E -AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" height="480" id="obj1" width="480"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.2createawebsite.com/build/color.swf"><param name="quality" value="High"><embed src="http://www.2createawebsite.com/build/color.swf" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" name="obj1" width="485" height="485" quality="High"></embed></object></center>
That's it!
How to play .DAT or any video file in mx player

How to play .DAT or any video file in mx player

mx player

MX player is the best video player available for android phones. The biggest strength of MX Player is that it can play a wide variety of formats. You can play any video file in mx player. Some formats are not supported by default like .DAT video files but you can add these formats manually.

You need:
1. MX player (Install from play store)
2. Arm v7-Neon (XDA)

Follow these steps to add file extensions manually:

Step 1: Open mx player -> Settings

Step 2: Open List

Step 3: Open File extensions

Step 4: Tap Add to add new extensions

Step 5: Write extension name (example: DAT) and tap OK

Step 6: Select added extension (i.e. DAT) and tap Decoder

Step 7: Select software decoder (S/W)

Step 8: Press back button to close settings and tap refresh button in mx player

Step 9: You’ll see new video files of added extension. If you see any other data file then you can hide them by long pressing them.

Step 10: Now play any video file in mx player.
Manually installing Android ADB USB Driver

Manually installing Android ADB USB Driver

This tutorial explains how to install the Android ADB USB driver manually.

1. If yon don't have Android SDK installed, please install it first.

2. Open Start menu. Select Android SDK Tools -> SDK Manager. Right-click on it and select "Run as Administrator".

SDK Manager

Running SDK Manager as Administrator is very important. If you just click on it, the SDK manager will start, but will encounter errors when you try to install new components!

3. In the SDK Manager select "Extras->Google USB Driver". Enable the checkbox and click "Install 1 Package".

Google USB Driver

4. When the Google USB driver is installed, plug in your device.

Warning: The driver won't install automatically. We will do it manually in the next steps.

5. Open the System Properties dialog (press Win+Break on the keyboard or locate "Computer" in Start Menu, right-click on it and select "Properties".

6. Click on the "Device Manager" link.

Device Manager

7. In the Device Manager locate your Android device. Then right-click on it and select "Update Driver Software".

Update Driver Software

8. Select "Browse my computer for driver software".

Browse

9. Select "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer".

list of device drivers

10. Select "Show All Devices".

Show All Devices

11. Press the "Have Disk" button.

Have Disk

12. Enter the path to the Google USB driver. Normally it is located in the following directory:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\extras\google\usb_driver

driver path

13. Select "Android ADB Interface" from the list of device types.

Android ADB Interface

14. Confirm the installation of the driver by pressing "Yes".

driver by pressing

15. Confirm the installation again by pressing "Install".

Confirm the installation

16. When the installation is done, press "Close".

installation done

So this was our guide on Manually installing Android ADB USB Driver, I hope the methods given above helped you.
How to Backup and Restore your "IMEI/NVRAM" by using MTKdroidTools

How to Backup and Restore your "IMEI/NVRAM" by using MTKdroidTools

These are the instructions to backup and restore IMEI NVRAM data on your Android Device using MTK Droid Tools.
MTKdroidTools

Backup IMEI NVRAM Data

Step 1: Download and install Android ADB Driver on your computer.
Step 2: Now, enable USB Debugging on your Android Device. To enable USB debugging: Open Settings > About Phone > Built Number (Tap on it for 5-8 times).
Now, Again go to the Settings > Developer Option > USB Debugging > Tick to Enable.
Step 3: Now, connect your Android Device to the computer.
Step 4: Download and extract MTK Droid Tools on your computer.
Step 5: Now, Open MTKDroidTools.exe on your computer and wait till it loads your android device information.
Step 6: Now, in MTK Droid Tools, Click on the Root button to get root permission on your android device.
Step 7: Now, Click on IMEI/NVRAM button.
Step 8: Now, you will be able to see a popup window, in that click on the Backup button.
Step 9: Now, MTK Droid Tools will backup your IMEI/NVRAM database to the BackupNVRAM folder (exist in the MTKdroidTool folder.


Restore IMEI NVRAM Data

Step 1: Enable USB Debugging on your Android Device. To enable USB debugging: Open Settings > About Phone > Built Number (Tap on it for 5-8 times).
Now, Again go to the Settings > Developer Option > USB Debugging > Tick to Enable.
Step 2: Connect your Android Device to the computer.
Step 3: Open MTKDroidTools.exe on your computer and wait till it loads your android device information.
Step 4: Now, in MTK Droid Tools, Click on the Root button to get root permission on your android device.
Step 5: Now, Click on IMEI/NVRAM button. Step 6: Now, click on the Restore button then it will ask you for a .tar or .bin file.
Step 7: Locate the data from BackupNVRAM folder and your IMEI NVRAM data will be restored instantly.

Keep in Mind:  [*] Know your IMEI: You can know the IMEI number of your device by dialing: *#06#   [*] Rooting your device with the MTK Droid Tools may void your device warranty. So, be careful about what your are doing.  [*] Flashing IMEI other than the original, is illegal so be careful.