YOUTube Celebrities ‘Are you Video Marketing yet?’
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Let’s discover how you can benefit from Content Marketing using the Video and Social Media Networks.
You need to get found. 
Every visitor to your site comes from a Link, yes great!
Attracting web traffic has traditionally been based on Search Engine Marketing. The new web means visitors will come from search engines AND the Social Media sites.
The traffic you can generate from Youtube or Flickr or Digg or Stumbleupon is becoming seriously substantial. You need to position yourself for all forms of traffic to protect your business in the future.
“22 Ways You Can Profit from Video and Social Marketing”
Combine the Power of the top Video and Social Marketing Platforms to:
Achieve top Search Engine Rankings
Drivemore traffic from the search engines and the many Social Media sites
Brand you or your company with “Authority Status” in your niche
Get massive long term benefits for your business
Attract more customers
Enable potential clients to have a “peek” inside your organization to help them decide if they want to do business with you
Get feedback about your products or services
Launch new products
Put “new life” into existing products
Improve customer support, reduce costs and increase profits
Create more effective news releases
Strengthen client relationships
Improve staff relationships and involvement in company matters
Improve your online reputation
Get your marketing messages global
Create viral marketing campaigns
Get a higher page result ranking on Google and Yahoo
Find new business partners, JVs or affiliates
Get discovered by mavens in your industry – authority bloggers and journalists
Reduce advertising costs. Traditional marketing typically relies on non-interactive messages to induce a response e.g. newspaper ads, brochures etc. which all cost money
Encourage people to join in conversations with you using Social Media for example, by leaving a comment on your blog or sending you a message on Facebook
Get a multitude of backlinks from the Social Sites
Why Should Video be the Spearhead of Your Social Marketing Campaigns? this is your celebrity moment:)
1. Video content will create a relationship with potential customers much more readily than traditional text based content.
2. A well “optimized” video, with a comprehensive “distribution” strategy will generate incredible interest and traffic to your “offer”
3. The video sharing sites such as youtube, myspacetv, Google video etc. – some of the most highly trafficked sites in the world. The major search engines – Google and Yahoo. They have both adopted a “universal” approach to search rankings, that includes not just the traditional text-based results, but higher rankings to photos, audio and of course, predominantly, video content.
4. Well produced video content will quickly raise your online profile to “expert” status. Customers will flock to you ready and willing to be parted from their money.
5. All the major video hosting sites are FREE. They are all eager to display and promote as many “sales messages” as you can send them. It’s their business. A win – win situation. They get their advertising cash and you get exposure for your business.
6. Promotional Videos are relatively cheap to produce. Most of us have a camcorder, digital camera or camera phone. The software required is inexpensive or, in many cases, FREE!
7. Becoming a Video Blogger will elevate your status and trust among the online communities and Social Networking groups.
8. A good thumbnail of your video, along with carefully chosen tags and keywords, will “grab the attention” of potential clients on the most highly trafficked search engines and Social Media sites, giving you a huge advantage in an ever increasingly competitive marketplace.
The Proof of the Pudding is in the Eating! So eat this Content Buzz !
Is your FACE on myspace or are you on YOUtube? Do you Digg it?
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Do you yammer or do you Twitter? Are you LinkedIn or MIXXED up?
More importantly do you even know what any of this means? Whichever you are? you need to tap into the potential of the internet as a marketing tool.
Your own website is your business’s HUB, but social networking sites let YOU and your business create open arms to drive people back to your site.
The effort i am talking about is social networking, harnessing the Internet to be a part of virtual communities by visiting online destinations where people gather electronically. The KEY, to Internet Marketing and your success is ubiquity ‘kinda like uber big’ IS making your business’ presence known across a multitude of websites and discussion forums. With perseverance and tenacity, don’t be afraid to be controversial you’ll be able to creat some BUZZ, and soon people from other websites will be following you because they like what your sharing and they will share this with others.
TIP:
Keep your content and/or blogs relevant to your website! AND create or join a network of social sites of like-minded people on as many sites such as Facebook, Myspace, and LinkedIn to name a few of the MOST popular. Use micro-blogging sites to tweet off about meaningful and ‘contraversial’ topics that will get people to read and look at your information which essentially drive traffic back to your site.
BE clever, creative, roll up your sleeves and DIGG in!
