Category Archives: Blogging

5 Ways to Make Money While You Sleep… Yes, You Can!!

Most things that sound too good to be true are, but this one is not! Actually, I am going to give you more than one idea! You really can make money while you sleep to help supplement your main source of income. All it takes is a bit of foundational work and the knowledge of what resources you should be taking advantage of (of course I am going tell you those as well).

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing happens when your marketing efforts bring another organization visitors and/or customers. In return, the other organization provides you with monetary compensation for each visitor/customer. Affiliate marketing can involve providing links on your website to products from other organizations or including ads for other organizations on your website. If your link provides the organization with a sale (someone purchases a product after clicking on your product link), you receive monetary compensation. A great place to start with affiliate marketing is with Amazon Associates. They offer a simply set up (or get your VA to help you set it up) and Amazon has a huge product selection, so you can always find something to tell your viewer they should use.

Creating a Service

Here you want to brainstorm ways to convert your expertise into a practical service to meet your customers’ needs. For example, a travel blogger could offer a trip planning service leveraging his/her knowledge on the industry to save clients money. While it takes foundational work to create the service, once it’s made you can benefit from selling the service over and over again to new customers. Since the service is supposed to supplement your main income, it does not need to be highly involved or extensive. A healthy food blogger, for example, could offer a one or two hour sit down with a family to help teach them healthy meal planning and shopping. An hour or two could be all it takes to provide your audience with an effective service, and you with a new source of income.

Creating a Product

Here the idea is to brainstorm ways to convert your expertise into a tangible product to meet your customers’ needs. You will want to build something that once it is created, it is ready to go and doesn’t take any effort on your part. For example, if you’re a photographer, sell photos through stock photography. If you’re a food blogger, sell e-books that are collections of recipes. Most of the work is with creating the product. Once that’s completed, you’ll just need minimal advertising efforts. You can even just link to the product on your website, and make the occasional promotional social media post, and call it good.

You can bundles some of your best work together that would help others as well. Think of it as a forms packet or templates that will save people time. If you have an awesome tool that you use for your own business it might also be helpful to others. Start selling your tips and tricks!

Creating Evergreen Online Webinars

Take all that industry expertise and knowledge you’ve got, and monetize it! Ask yourself, “What does an individual need to know to become an expert on given topic, tool, etc?” Answer that question with your knowledge in the form of an online training session or webinar. When you first start out, focus on creating “evergreen” content (information people can use over and over at any time). Something that you don’t have to do live or be there for. For example, “How to advertise your organization on Facebook” as opposed to “How to advertise your organization on Facebook during Halloween.” The more “evergreen” the topic, the larger your potential audience becomes and the more you can potentially make from the service. Then once you have a good following, you can get more specific.

Create a Seminar or Class

For some topics, presenting the ideas in person makes more sense than presenting them online. That’s where the idea of a seminar or class comes in. Take the knowledge you’ve got and present it to a live audience. While it does take work to prepare the presentation, coordinate a venue, and advertise the event, you can charge a lot more for an in-person event than an online webinar. Plus, an in-person event provides the opportunity for you to mention at the end your other products, services, or online training!

While unfortunately you will never be able to make your entire income in your sleep, you can definitely make enough to merit the foundational work passive income requires.

These are little bonuses to make sure you are supplementing your everyday income. Each strategy makes sense for different organizations and industries, so take time to think about which option (or options) make the most sense for you and your audience before you try them. Passive income options do take time before you start to see returns on your investment, so be patient. But know that they are a successful way to make money, so also be excited about the new income opportunities!

If you’d like to take advantage of one (or many) of these passive income strategies, but don’t want to go through the work of navigating the different options or completing the foundational work, Alpine Small Business Solutions if here for you! We can handle passive income strategies, or any aspect of business building, you would like help with. Simply shoot us an email or call us up.

6 Dos and Don’ts of Facebook Boosted Posts

Boosting Facebook posts can be an effective social media marketing strategy. Without knowledge on how it works or the benefits it offers, however, marketers may be unnecessarily wary of taking advantage of the great tool. Boosting posts is not a tactic to be used all the time, but is one that should be used intentionally to support your organization’s social media marketing efforts.

What are boosted posts?

When marketers create a Facebook post, it enters the views news feeds and is seen by a fraction of the audience. This number varies based on a number of factors decided by the Facebook algorithm that attempts to measure the relevance of posts to audiences to avoid flooding their feeds with poorly written posts or ones that aren’t relevant to the viewers. Boosting a post ensures the post is found more frequently in the News Feed, which means more people will see your post (and hopefully in return your organization will receive more social media marketing benefits from the post). Below are some simple dos and don’ts of Facebook posting.

The Dos

DO boost posts that help your audience. The point of boosting posts is to get more eyes on your post. Getting more people to see how your organization provides value for them is a great way to gain new customers or reinforce the relationship with existing ones. Besides, viewers can tell pretty quickly a promotional post advertising a product or service from one that’s helpful content for them. Why pay money for an advertisement-type post that viewers are just going to glance over and ignore?
DO boost posts that offer a call to action. Posts that encourage visitors to check out your website, join an email list, download a free ebook, etc. (while still offering valuable content to the audience of course) are great ones to promote. Ideally, a boosted post will not only get more individuals seeing the value you offer them, but will direct them to an action that builds your business.
DO know exactly what you want to gain from the boosted post. Strategy is key to social media marketing, and it’s no different with boosted posts. If you do not know what you are trying to achieve, you will not be able to measure whether it was successful and it will be more difficult to pin point what made it perform well or poorly. Clearly articulate what you hope to get out of the boosted post (x number of people read about our new website launch, reach new audience members with our content post, etc.) before you boost it.

The Don’ts

DON’T be overly hesitant to spend money. It can be hard to press that button to spend money on a post. Besides, if you did your job right and created a great post it should perform as effectively right? Wrong! The Facebook algorithm results in organic reach having unpredictable and less effective reach. It’s part of Facebook’s business plan to gain money from marketers. Unfortunately, spending money to boost important posts is just part of the game. You don’t have to play the game with every post, but you should when it is relevant.
DON’T boost the post and never look at it. After you boost a post, make sure you monitor its success to gauge whether the return on investment was worth it. If it was, figure out what made the post so successful. If it wasn’t, figure out how to avoid that mistake for the future. Analytics are a big part of being successful at digital marketing. You have to adjust your plan when it isn’t working, and you have to know what worked. Make sure you are watching.
DON’T slide into a boosting rut. It’s important to always be tweaking social media efforts to figure out the most effective tactics and get the highest return on investment. If you boost an evergreen post that performs well, fantastic! But don’t hesitate to boost a timely post, a video post, and the like. Know that it’s important to test out different types of posts. Some might not work well for your organization or audience, and that’s okay. Trial and error is a key part of social media success.

If you’re convinced you want to take advantage of the benefits of boosting Facebook posts, but are still hesitant on the best way to do so, do not fear. Alpine Small Business Solutions is here for you! We understand the ins and outs of boosting Facebook posts to meet businesses needs and would love to help you use this tool to help your organization. Simply email us or give us a ring for help on this, or any aspect of business building.

7 Benefits of LinkedIn Blog Publishing & Why Every Online Business Owner Should be Using it

Sure, you understand the importance of content marketing to build your business, but if you’re not publishing on LinkedIn you’re missing out on major benefits. It’s not just another content publishing tool. It’s one of the best content publishing tools, offering many rich rewards to marketers who are smart enough to take advantage of it. Here are several reasons you need to begin publishing on LinkedIn today:

Easy to reach a tailored audience. Everyone on LinkedIn is either a current professional or aspiring professional seeking out career and industry related content. What other content publishing site offers that degree of audience specialization? You’ll be able to publish content to an audience ready to consume it, giving you a high ROI for the time spent crafting LinkedIn posts.
Reap content marketing rewards of a business blog in a fraction of the time commitment. While it’s usually recommended businesses maintain a blog, it’s not always feasible for every company. In those situations, publishing to LinkedIn is a great alternative. Employees can publish from their LinkedIn pages and then share to the company page to gain benefits of content marketing with less of a time commitment than maintaining a company blog.
Establish your influence in your industry. Consistently publishing quality posts will showcase your knowledge in your industry. Posts will link back to your profile and recent posts will be shown on your profile, which will help connect your professional insights to your LinkedIn profile. It’s a simple way to show, not tell, your expertise.
Humanize your company. Recruit various employees, from the company CEO to entry level staff, to craft blog posts to then share from your company’s page. The different writing styles will not only provide variety, but the different voices will humanize your organization and cause the posts to look less self-serving.
Access to a litmus test for your company blog. Granted, your LinkedIn audience is likely different than your company blog audience. But if a post really resonates with LinkedIn followers, it’s a good indicator the information and/or topic will resonate with followers of your company’s blog.
Gives you something to offer in LinkedIn Groups. Members of LinkedIn Groups are expected to provide value to the group, which can be achieved through offering quality LinkedIn posts. Sharing of great content is an effective way to strengthen your connection with group members.
Move potential audiences to view posts. Some consumers of content hesitate to view a blog post given the high volume of spam posts and not secure websites on the Internet. Posts published on LinkedIn are published on LinkedIn-meaning there is no risk for readers they will end up on a spam site or gain a virus from an insecure website. And since everything people publish is linked back to their account, there’s a lower amount of poor quality work. Consumers can be more likely to view a post on LinkedIn given the spam-free and higher quality nature of its posts.

Okay, so now you’re ready to take advantage of LinkedIn blog publishing. But how do you generate ideas? Try one of these strategies:

Read posts from top influencers in your industry. As you read articles, ask questions such as, “What important pieces of information did they leave out?” or “What’s a unique perspective I can take on the same topic?” Translate the answers into posts of your own.
Analyze your post metrics to see what topics most resonate with audience. Generate more posts on those topics. People love stats. Use this to your advantage.
Do an old fashioned brainstorm. Start with a broad topic (such as social media) and spend five to ten minutes writing anything that comes to mind. Set the paper aside and look at it again later with fresh eyes. Pick the best ideas and turn them into posts.
Repurpose old company content. Use what you’ve already created, such as website blog posts or newsletters, and tailor it to LinkedIn blog publishing.

Ready to take advantage of LinkedIn Blog Publishing, but don’t have the time or knowledge necessary to write posts consistently? Alpine Small Business Solutions is here for you! We’d love to help you with this, or any aspect of small business building. Just give us a call or shoot us an email today.

How to Delete Facebook Apps

Today’s tutorial request comes in from Daniel. Daniel was curious how to remove apps from his Facebook settings. He was worried that they were obtaining too much personal information.

10 Hidden Gems in Facebook Personal Pages

Facebook is a fantastic invention-you already love it, but there’s a lot hidden beneath the surface. We’ve dug deep into Facebook to find the top 10 hidden secrets.

Message Requests

Not every message that’s sent to you on Facebook shows up in your inbox. Messages sent by someone you are not friends with on Facebook go into a “message request” section.

To access these, click the at the top right of your screen. Then click “message requests” (to the right of “recent”).

Save Button for Posts

Sometimes we find great content on Facebook . . . right when we have the least amount of time to actually read it. Never fear-the save button is here! The save button allows you to privately save links to read later.

If the post you want to save popped up on your news feed, simply click the to the right of the post and click “save”.

If you’re viewing the post from a page, click … and click “save.”

To view your saved posts, go to the left menu and click “saved” (or you can go to Facebook.com/saved).

When you want to delete a post, go to the “saved” posts section. Click “archive” at the top and click next to the post you want to remove, then click “delete.”

Download Copy of FB Data

It’s no surprise that Facebook stores a lot of data on its consumers—A LOT. While you can’t stop Facebook from storing this data, you can access it (or at least some of it). Facebook allows users to download their information, which includes information you can see by using your account (such as posts you share and your activity log) and information you cannot see from your account (such as ads you’ve clicked on and IP addresses that are logged when you use Facebook).

Facebook provides a long list of what types of data is available in the downloaded information (which you can access here: https://www.facebook.com/help/405183566203254) but there are a few key subjects that may be of the most interest to people: searches you’ve made on Facebook, removed friends, pending friend requests, any friends apps or pages you’ve hidden from your news feed, list of people who follow you, and a list of topics that you may be targeted against based on your status likes interests and other timeline data.

To download the information, go into your settings section. Click “download a copy of your Facebook data” below your general account settings. Click “start my archive.” Depending on how long you have been on Facebook and how much you post, it may take a while, but they will email you when it is ready for you to view.

Adding a Legacy Contact

While it’s uncomfortable to think about, it’s important to decide what you want to happen to your Facebook account when you pass away. Facebook provides two options: delete your account permanently or leave up the account and allow loved ones to share memories on it. For the later, you’ll need to designate a legacy contact. They’ll be able to write a pinned post (which can be used to provide memorial service information or share a message on your behalf), accept new friend requests from loved ones, and update the profile picture and cover photo. They will not be able to remove any friends, read your messages, change or remove past posts, or actually log into your account.

To add a legacy contact, log into your settings and click “security” and then “legacy contact.” Type in your designated contact’s name and click “add.” If you later decide you want to change the contact, you’ll be able to click on the contact and click “remove.” Then you can add your new legacy contact.

It’s difficult, but important, to think about what will happen when you pass on. If you run a business, be sure to check out our post on how to prepare your business for an unexpected life crisis: link to post here.

Edit Ad Preferences

Ads can be annoying. Ads that relate absolutely nothing to your life or preferences are even more annoying. Fortunately, Facebook allows you to edit your ad preferences. Simply click (www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/edit/). The link will bring you to a page listing topics and sub-topics that Facebook picked based on your activities on and off Facebook. You’ll be able to delete irrelevant preferences, as well as add preferences from a set list of topics.

Send and Receive Money Through Facebook

Yes, you read that right. You can now send money to people through Facebook Messenger without a charge! First, you need to add a debit card. Click “settings,” then click “payments,” then click “add new debit card.” Currently, the only way to pay through Messenger is debit. You can also add a PIN if you wish for an extra security measure (click “settings” then click “payments” then click “PIN”).

Once your debit account is activated in Messenger, you’re ready to send money. Create a message and click the $ icon and enter the payment amount. Click “pay” in the top right to send it.

To receive money for the first time, open the conversation and click “add card” in the message to add your debit card.

Just like with other transfers, it may take up to three business days for the banks to make the funds available.

Embedding Posts

Did you know you can embed public Facebook posts onto your website? It’s simple and a great way to add visual content to your site. First, navigate to the post and click “embed post” from the drop down menu.

A box will pop up with a code, which you will need to copy and paste into your website.

Embedded posts are a great way to post testimonials, include examples, quote sources, show off your best content, and more!

Friendship Pages

This feature was developed during a Facebook Hackathon. It is basically a timeline, but for a relationship instead of one person. It gathers all the communication (posts, replies, tagged photos, etc.) that involve you and a friend you choose, and places it all in the Friendship Page. You can view these posts, and even personalize the cover photo and profile picture.

To access the page, go to your friend’s profile and click and select “see friendship” from the dropdown.

Play Chess With a Friend Through Messenger

Who doesn’t love a competition of intelligence and strategy between friends? Simply type “@fbchess play” into a conversation with a friend and Messenger will bring up a game of chess. To move type in the phrase “@fbchess” followed by the letter of the piece (K for king, Q for queen, B for bishop, N for knight, R for rook, and P for Pawn) and the letter and number of the location‑For example, “@fbchessPe4” would move a pawn to square E4. If you get confused, type in “@fbchess help.” If you wish to end a match, type in “@fbchess resign.” To pick which color to start with, type “@fbchess play white” or “@fbchess play black” (white goes first).

Play Basketball With a Friend Through Messenger

Maybe chess isn’t your thing. How about a friendly basketball competition? Simply send a friend a basketball emoji and then click on the sent image to begin the game. The scores will be logged in the message feed so you can brag (or listen to bragging) easily.

To play the game, flick up on your phone to launch the ball into the hoop and try to get as many in as possible.

Facebook for personal use offers hours of endless entertainment, from dominating at a basketball game to reminiscing over old memories when viewing the Friendship Page. Facebook is a great tool for businesses as well. If you’d like help utilizing the benefits of Facebook for your business, simply call us or email us today! We are here to help with any aspect of business building, including social media marketing through Facebook.

What is a Google AdWords Campaign?

Working with your business on the Internet should be easy, right? You just post a few things on your website, and the customers start rolling in! It’s so simple. Yes . . . but . . .

There are better ways for you to draw potential customers to your site with a quality pay-per-click (PPC) effective Google AdWords campaign. Your ad is written with specific keywords that are targeted to your company. When someone searches online for that word or phrase, your ad can appear, and people click on it to go to your website. This is a good thing!

For example, go to your Google home page. When you search for a specific word or phrase, there are ads on the right side of the page. Your goal is to have your ad at the top of the page, and to have it intrigue people, so they want to click on it!

This is one of the best ways for you to attract more customers. Your company only pays for the consumers who click through to your site. However, the more clicks, the lower your rate can be, and the higher on the page your ad appears.

How can you get there? By hiring an expert Virtual Assistant or Online Business Manager! You need the expertise and experience of a researcher and writer to create an ad that will be relevant and interesting to your specific customers. This ad can introduce your business and describe what you’re selling (new or different from what’s available through other sites). The ad is also a marketing tool to let people know what services you offer.

Google Ad Words | Virtual Assistant

Why would you want to try this on your own? If you broke a bone, you could maybe try to set it yourself, but chances are you’d prefer that someone with medical expertise take care of you. And if you needed the services of an electrician, you would probably want to hire someone with training and experience to complete the job in a skillful way.

So why not hire a person who knows what to do to get you optimal results with your Google AdWords marketing campaign? Hire an assistant or manager who knows how to explore your business and research the best keyword alternatives for search engine optimization (SEO) to make your ad outstanding. That’s imperative before the writing even begins!

The virtual assist Organic SEO Manager ant or business manager will focus on how your business is different and the best concept to attract people. This will get your business noticed! Then the quality of the ad will target specific relevant searches.

Additionally, your manager can track your ads, PPCs, and site visitors to provide you with ongoing feedback and current ideas for SEO. Let an expert handle the busy, time-consuming work of this important marketing tool, while you focus on what you do best!

To get a free report and consultation about your business, please contact Alpine Small Business Solutions at this site: https://www.alpinesbsolutions.com/seopreliminaryreport/.

How Long Should A Blog Be?

In this big world of content management, social media and blogging, it is easy to get lost in all the details that are available. The beauty of the web is that it is never constant and is an ever changing environment. That means if you are a business or entrepreneur you need to be sure that you have flowing and updated information on your own website. This ensures optimal Search Engine Optimization (SEO) ranking on such sites as Goggle, Bing and Yahoo. One way to ensure that you have fresh content on your websites is to be consistent in blog writing.

What is a blog, you might ask, well a blog is essentially a journal or diary that is on your website. It is a place you share information pertaining to you and/or your business. A blog can provide up-to-date news, technical information, political topics, business support, health, wellness, sports and other topics that burn passion in your heart. One of the most common question asked by businesses and new writers wanting to join the online social blogging community is, “How long should a blog be?”

Many professional bloggers have a different answer for this. The best way to put it is that there is no right or wrong answer! Some may say a blog should be 250-500 words while others say 500-750 words and there are even those who swear by 700-1,000 words! Then you have those that will not give a number and just say however short or long you need the blog to be in order to get your message across!

It’s actually quite natural to have blogs with different lengths. A blog post should be as long as you need it to be to make your point across to your reader. You want to keep your audience engaged. Your topic will determine the length of your blog. If you are blogging about where the best place is to buy eggs vs. who should one vote for, the length can vary greatly! You will also want to reflect on your blog once finished. Is it too wordy or is it too concise? If you don’t feel good about it you should change it!

You would not want to write 750 words on where to buy eggs. This will bore your reader and you will lose their interest! However, if you want to write that much when it comes to the heart of politics, especially if it is something you are passionate about, go for it! If you feel that a blog is getting too long and is becoming a book I strongly suggest breaking it down and creating a series of blogs. This will help with your SEO and will keep readers coming back for more.

There are advantages in both short and long blogs. Short blogs take a shorter amount of time to write so if you want to write everyday then a shorter blog would be the way to go. If you expect 800 words or more every day, you may lose interest in blogging soon after starting. However, as easy as short blogs are they will not implement On-Page SEO techniques, which are ultimately, what attracts attention to your page. While lengthier blogs do take longer to write, readers who appreciate the content will value the information and will draw attention to your site. Readers also enjoy images within blogs which allows them to connect more with the topic being blogged about.

Many bloggers like to change it up and have a short blog and later that week they may have a longer blog. I personally think a variety of blogging is good. You don’t want to be predictable. Readers often enjoy reading short blogs more often because their attention span does not stay on the subject, therefore when writing both short and long, you give the reader reason to check back frequently and even subscribe to your blogs. Keep your readers coming back for the variety you may offer them. As long as your keyword density is intact and you are getting your point across you should be set.

The more the blog is to the point, the easier it is for the reader to extract the information you are relaying. Readers tend to scan not read long blogs, keep the content compelling and strong. The first paragraph of any blog should grab the readers’ attention so they want to keep going. You could create a series of blogs to make your blog grow quicker. By doing this your readers will be looking forward to reading about what you have to say next. Don’t be afraid to use the thesaurus to find new vocabulary and be ready for the replies you may receive. Keep your own interests in mind; do you like long or shorter blogs? Remember to keep an optimistic mind and you will be a successful blogger! Most of all…Happy Blogging!!!!

What is Blog Bookmarking & the 20 Sites You Should Be Posting Your Blog to…for Free

In most cases the whole reason you have gotten into blogging is to share information about your dog, your business, your mandolin picking progression, your health and weight loss or the experiences that have shaped and shifted your life. You have also likely learned that blogging will help you gain visibility and traffic to your website and is a necessary step in increasing your SEO. That is all well and fine, but how are you going to achieve the traffic and visibility to your content. Unless you are a SEO ninja or have a super sweet SEO team backing you, you likely have to take things into your own hands and learn the ropes. The question most people want to know is HOW?

The answer is easy! Harness the power of Social Media & Social Bookmarking. With a few strokes of the keys and clicks of the mouse YOU, my friend, can make some serious magic happen! Within minutes of submitting your blog to various social media outlets, social bookmarking and directory sites you are instantaneously and automatically connected to thousands of other like minded folks all over the world. Which means that traffic and visibility to your blog and website is happening all the time even when you are sleeping, showering or shaving! How flipping cool is that, right?

If you want to brush up and learn more about social bookmarking check out the wiki page.

There are hundreds of social media and social bookmarking sites out there. Some fail, some suck, but the bottom line is that there are way too many for me to list here. I have been doing this for a long time and with endless hours of trial and error, I have finally come up with a dream list of 20 Social sites that you SHOULD be posting all your blogs to. The best part is they are all FREE to submit to.

If you have a site that you post to and love and don’t see it in my list below, feel free to hook me up with the details. Post in the comment string below or send me an email. I would love to check it out.

Don’t have time? Does all this info makes you dizzy? No problem, we got ya covered. Contact us, today and let Alpine Small Business Solutions take care of all your social media and social blog bookmarking for you.

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Bored with the Same Old Skype Emoticons? Check this out!

Do you use Skype for business and pleasure? If you are like me, I am on Skype all the time. Chit chatting with my clients, my team and my family.

It is such a great tool for business professionals and is totally free. It includes screen sharing, video calling, file sharing, Facebook integration and other really nifty add ons. Because I have unique needs I opted for the upgraded version and in my opinion totally worth the affordable yearly fee.

Now, if you use Skype you know that they are pretty limited on the amount of emoticons they have to offer…It can totally get boring . So I decided to head out on a search to try and spice it up a bit. After a few google searches I found these and since I am all about spreading the wealth, I just had to share.

Check out all the hidden and the secret smileys I found!

Use them often and have some fun with sharing your emotions!

		Finger	(finger)
		Bandit	(bandit)
		Drunk	(drunk)
		Smoking	(smoking)(smoke)(ci)
		Toivo	(toivo)
		Rock	(rock)
		Headbang	(headbang)(banghead)
		Bug	(bug)
		Fubar	(fubar)
		Poolparty	(poolparty)
		Swearing	(swear)
		TMI	(tmi)
		Heidy	(heidy)
		Mooning	(mooning)

		High Five	(highfive) (hifive) (h5)
		Face Palm	(Facepalm) (fail)
		Fingers Crossed	(fingers) (fingerscrossed) (yn)
		Lalala	(lalala) (lala) (notlistening)
		Waiting	(waiting) (forever) (impatience)
		Tumbleweed	(tumbleweed)
		Working From Home	(wfh)

Check out this list of Skype Emoticons and Smileys – Enjoy!

		Smile	🙂 :=) 🙂
		Sad Smile	🙁 :=( 🙁
		Big Smile	:D:=D:-D:d:=d:-d
		Cool	8)8=)8-)B)B=)B-)(cool)
		Wink	:o:=o:-o:O:=O:-O
		Crying	;(;-(;=(
		Sweating	(sweat)(:\|
		Speechless	:\|:=\|:-\|
		Kiss	::=:-*
		Tongue Out	:P:=P:-P:p:=p:-p
		Blush	(blush):$:-$:=$:”>
		Wondering	:^)
		Sleepy	\|-)I-)I=)(snooze)
		Dull	\|(\|-(\|=(
		In love	(inlove)

		Evil grin	]:)>:)(grin)
		Talking	(talk)
		Yawn	(yawn)\|-()
		Puke	(puke):&:-&:=&
		Doh!	(doh)
		Angry	:@:-@:=@x(x-(x=(X(X-(X=(
		It wasn’t me	(wasntme)
		Party!!!	(party)
		Worried	:S:-S:=S:s:-s:=s
		Mmm…	(mm)
		Nerd	8-\|B-\|8\|B\|8=\|B=\|(nerd)
		Lips Sealed	:x:-x:X:-X:#:-#:=x:=X:=#
		Hi	(hi)
		Call	(call)
		Devil	(devil)
		Angel	(angel)

		Envy	(envy)
		Wait	(wait)
		Bear	(bear)(hug)
		Make-up	(makeup)(kate)
		Covered Laugh	(giggle)(chuckle)
		Clapping Hands	(clap)
		Thinking	(think):?:-?:=?
		Bow	(bow)
		Rolling on the floor laughing	(rofl)
		Whew	(whew)
		Happy	(happy)
		Smirking	(smirk)
		Nodding	(nod)
		Shaking	(shake)
		Punch	(punch)
		Emo	(emo)
		Yes	(y)(Y)(ok)
		No	(n)(N)
		Shaking Hands	(handshake)

Skype Emoticons and Smileys, like all other Emoticons and Smileys, have evolved
over recent years. Initially they were simple graphics and about the same size as
the font text in the messaging service or website where they were being used.

		Skype	(skype)(ss)
		Heart	(h)(H)(l)(L)
		Broken heart	(u)(U)
		Mail	(e)(m)
		Flower	(f)(F)
		Rain	(rain)(london)(st)
		Sun	(sun)
		Time	(o)(O)(time)
		Music	(music)
		Movie	(~)(film)(movie)
		Phone	(mp)(ph)
		Coffee	(coffee)
		Pizza	(pizza)(pi)
		Cash	(cash)(mo)($)
		Muscle	(muscle)(flex)
		Cake	(^)(cake)
		Beer	(beer)
		Drink	(d)(D)
		Dance	(dance)\o/\:D/\:d/
		Ninja	(ninja)
		Star	(*)