Have you made an incredible video to help promote your product or service? Then it’s time to optimize it for YouTube’s search so that your future customers can easily find it. There is no point in producing a quality short as part of your video marketing strategy if no one can find it. 8 Ways To Improve Your Video Marketing Strategy 1. Strive to make a viewer stay with you for at least the first 8 seconds. This is the most important time to grab a viewer, because if they click away before those 8 seconds pass, they do not count towards your # of views total. Save your biography for later. Get their attention first. 2. Make sure you have a Facebook page and post your YouTube videos there also. Also post your videos on your blog and Twitter account. This multiplies your opportunities for exposure and provides cross-channel traffic between the different social sites. Related: 10 Ways To Use YouTube Video Marketing To Promote Your Business 3. Embed your video inside your blog posts. Personally, I like to write a blog post to accompany my new videos so I can gain more traffic to my site as well [...]
Turbo Charge Your Video Marketing Strategy With Pinterest
It looks like Pinterest could be one of the best things that has happened to your YouTube channel and your video marketing strategy. If you still haven’t heard of Pinterest, it has become the latest top performing social media website, using pictures pinned on an interest board in lieu of traditional text or blog entries. You can check out my Pinterest site at http://pinterest.com/meloniedodaro to see how I’ve been using it. The Power of Photo’s on Pinterest The power of a good visual is proving to be incredibly useful when driving traffic to websites and its time to get your hands in the pot! As part of any video marketing strategy, you want to be sure that you are posting your videos to sites that will get you the most views by your target market, whether it be on your own Facebook page, YouTube channel, etc. Related: 10 Ways To Use YouTube Video Marketing To Promote Your Business Currently, the most active demographic on Pinterest is women aged 22-47. Businesses who regularly post on Pinterest are finding that views of their video are increasing by a whopping 300% – sometimes within days of posting a picture that simply leads to a [...]
Mari Smith’s Top 10 Facebook Tips
I just listened in on a Facebook webinar by my mentor Mari Smith, the Queen of Facebook. She provided 10 ESSENTIAL Facebook Tips and I’ve recapped them here in this blog post for you. If you want to make more money using Facebook, it’s essential you use it the right way. Follow these tips and you will have much more success with Facebook. Missed Mari’s Facebook webinar? Click here to watch the replay now Here are Mari Smith’s Top 10 Facebook Tips that she shared in her webinar: Facebook Tip #1: Understand Facebook edgerank This is the formula that determines who see’s what in the news feed. Only 16% of your content is being seen by your fans (some report it’s even less). Mari suggests checking how your Facebook content is doing by checking it out Edgerankchecker.com. Facebook Tip #2: Include photo’s Photo’s and videos get the highest edge rank which means they are the posts most likely to show up in your fans newsfeed. Keep your posts to under 160 characters. Maximize visibility to your site and increase engagement. Facebook Tip #3: Don’t post links via 3rd party apps Facebook doesn’t include the share button on your posts that come from [...]
