Archive for September, 2009
Viral Video Marketing Your Way To Success
The definition of a viral video is basically a video clip which gains widespread popularity through the process of Internet sharing typically through email IM messages blogs and other media sharing websites. Brick Marketing’s viral video marketing is a service that combines the creation of a viral video and online video marketing.
Viral video marketing is a super way to build your online brand visibility among a host of other online business benefits. Take some lessons from the big guys about how to use video marketing the right way it’s about more than just traffic.
The amateurs like “Brookers” and “Lonelygirl” publish their video clips for fun and notoriety and the big corporations like Nike Warner Bros and MTV2 produce and publish them in order to drive traffic to their web sites and sell more of their products or services. Because the advertising cost relatively inexpensive. And it produces results.
Todays youth now spend more time online that watching television. It’s all about pageviews and favourites and bookmarks and links on blogs. Your YouTube video can assume viral status and be passed on via emails and blogs. Even be spotted on Facebook walls. Since the audience themselves decide whether or not your video is worthy enough to become viral or not. You better make sure it is. That is where StudioX comes in.
This piece also includes a best practices rundown by Justin Kirby managing director of viral marketing company DMC who did the planning seeding and tracking for this campaign. The creative was produced by Maverick Media.
People aren’t just watching video online either. They’re taking it with them by downloading video clips to their handheld devices like the video iPod and Sony’s video game console the PlayStation Portable. Now cell phones have the ability to watch YouTube videos.
For the online entrepreneur the web site owner seeking to make money online the purpose of your you tube video is to bring traffic to your site. The You tube video site is a phenomenon which has taken the internet by storm and unless you’ve been off in a far away place you will not doubt have seen one of the many videos which have been popularized by the site such as Tyson the rollerskating dog. Did you know that You Tube gets twice as much traffic as Google. That means that you tube alone gets one million hits a day.
Do a video contest because everyone else is. This onlinevideo “contest” fad will continue and it will become more difficult to activate consumers to promote your product. Do a search for “video contest” on Google and you’ll see four or five different ads for contests.
The David Chappelle video contest is a good example of a nice idea with some executional flaws. First it didn’t initially promote the contest on its own website because it wanted to focus people on buying the DVD. Second it petered out. Contest winners weren’t announced and insufficient media budget promoted the contest. To give you an idea of how abused contests are getting there was a summer promotion for a mayonnaise manufacturer looking for videos about may recipes.
However their are numerous ways to monetize viral videos. From contextual ad programs like Adsense Yahoo Publishers Network and Chitika to affiliate programs and product sales “revenue sharing is just one aspect of earning money through the use of online video.
Viral video marketing is the gift that keeps on giving. Internet video marketing is going to be the next big thing in SEO. The “ondemand” characteristic of video marketing is another great benefit. Why video marketing is the most powerful and effective method to earn profits The truly simple steps to get setup in a flash and add videos to your web pages Why you’re suffering even if you don’t know it if you’re only using other advertising and promotion techniques. The big reasons why video marketing is so effective and how you can capitalize on them and so much more.
Viral videos are those videocam recordings that get spread around the internet like wild fire. Without anyencouragement people share a video clip with everyone they know. And within days thousands of people have seen the video clip.
Facebook: Share share share. Other ideas include creating an event that announces the video launch and inviting friends writing a note and tagging friends or posting the video on Facebook Video with a link back to the original YouTube video.
Look at the evolution from where the internet first started. It started out with everything being free. Natural search was first starting. You could actually go to the top of a natural search engine within a day or two of launching a site and start getting traffic almost immediately.
Kevin Nalts is one of the mostviewed YouTube comedians with more than 650 short online videos seen more than 25 million times. By day he’s a Marketing Director at a Fortune 100 company and he speaks writes and consults in the area of online marketing and viral video.
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A Wise Old Man Made Up A New Word. His Word Was Prepentance.
A wise old man made up a new word. His new word was prepentance.
Its a brandnew year. 2009. If you have not already made your important decisions about how to use this New Year then perhaps you will consider some of these thoughts as you do.
A wise old man who used to help the Tabernacle Choir do their weekly radio and TV broadcasts called Richard L. Evans made up a new word. He took the word repentance and he added just one letter p. His new word was prepentance. Since no one had ever used this word before he used one of his broadcasts to explain it to everyone listening.
He said that everyone would have to make certain decisions about how they will live their lives. Then he said that some decisions are better than other decisions. For example generally quick decisions are not as good as well thought out decisions. A quick decision made under pressure is usually even worse. He said it is a whole lot easier to make a decision in advance than it is to wait for when someone offers you a drink of liquor or a cigarette to smoke or to do some illegal drugs.
He said prepentance could work for many other decisions too including how you will use your new time this New Year. Although everyone has time because that is what life is made up with. Few people understand time. Why is that? It is because time is merely a thought or an idea a concept. Time only exists in the human mind.
It is convenient to think of time divided into three partspast present and future. Until a few days ago the year 2009 was in the future. What do we know about our own individual future? We know practically nothing! It exists primarily in our imagination. In our imaginings of things to come some of us have hopes of the way we would like them to be but thats not prepentance is it? Those who are stronger have desires but thats not prepentance either. Those who are stronger have intensions and thats not prepentense. Those who are stronger still have objectives and plans. Since objectives and plans come from decisions then they are a form of prepentance.
Objectives and plans for this year of 2009 can be based upon our knowledge of past events our own or those of others. As humans we feel that we can mold our future by what we think and do in each moment of the present. The present is a collection an everflowing stream of thoughts and feelings in ones mind. The past is only a multitude of thoughts and pictures stored up usually in a disorderly fashion in the mind and especially in the memory about what happened to oneself and other people to things places and events. Your past is different from my past and both of our pasts differ from those of every other being who ever lived or will live.
For of all sad of words tongue or pen
The saddest are these: It might have been.
Alexander Pope
Prepentance is the preremedy. Youll never have to feel as sad as Alexander Popes words describe if you choose to use prepentance as the way you think and do now or how you choose to make use of your time. We can manage ourselves this way and not worry about how we spend our time. Where is our time leading us? Through prepenting by choosing what we think and do it can lead us progressively and surely towards the ends that we have selected for ourselves. Prepenting can bring us to the most enduring personal satisfaction and prevent pains due to unnecessary loss.
You are superior to the average person. You think and act continuously in a special way. You have made certain good habits those that lead you to your goals that have become second nature. You are altogether dropping certain bad habits those that would lead you away from your goals. Yes you are prepenting! Time is a series of opportunities to do the things you want to do to move you toward the things you want.
If you arent going anywhere and dont want anything it doesnt make much difference what you do with your time. Therefore as much of your waking time as possible should be spent thinking about your goals and moving toward them. Only when that is your mode of operation will the future be overflowing with satisfaction rather than regret. Use this basic thought as motivation to seek out and read many good books and surround yourself with people who can support your best objectives and plans for the New Year.
Remember that the precious gift of time can only improve based upon with the results we want to get out of it. We can decide how we shall spend or if we are wise invest each minute and hour as it comesas long as it keeps coming we never know when it will run out. Wasted time cannot be recaptured. Adopt if you havent already an attitude of prepentance or at least choose to seek satisfaction bringing objectives and plans in your use of time.
About the writer: Owner of numbers of service businesses. Writer consultant coach for other managers and owners who want increased profits by using methods and procedures to manage and market profitably. Why not explore ways to improve the effectiveness of your organization with an friendly management audit? Put “MA” on the subject line of your email to yesdocmillergmail.com to raise your hand.
7 Ways To Make Money Using Nothing More Than Your List
7 Ways To Make Money Using Nothing More Than Your List
An optin list can be quite crucial to any site or internet based company. Even for a small venture such as a niche profit site an optin list can make a world of difference and also add some extra income for your pocket. Rarely would you see an ecommerce site big or small that is without an optin list.
An optin list allows for a company to market their wares and site via an email. With an optin list a site and a subscriber consents to sending and receiving a newsletter from your company. Through this you can keep your subscribers abreast of what is currently available in your site as well as whatever is coming out.
And because there is mutual consent between the two parties any mail sent to the list is not considered as spam mail. There is a great number of successfully read promotional materials such as catalogs newsletters and such that are sent because the subscribers themselves have signed up for them meaning they do want to be sent those items.
Building a list is crucial only a small percentage actually subscribes for an optin list. Many people find promotional mails annoying but of you provide a good newsletter or promotional material you will see your list build up and grow. You can also achieve this by having good content on your site. If people like what they see and read on your site then they surely would want more. Newsletters would be a way to attract them back to your site. A little teaser or appetizer if you will.
But other than marketing your wares and your services an optin list can also be used to earn extra profit. Not all lists can be used though. It would be good to first build a successful list with a huge number of subscribers. The more subscribers you have the more money you can get. Here are seven ways to make money using nothing more than your list.
1 Place advertisements. There are many corporations who will be willing to pay to put their banners and ads on a list with many subscribers. Selling or renting out lists is not a good idea so rather than doing that many companies would just rather place ads with lists that have a huge subscriber base. Your newsletter could be placed with many ads and each one spells money.
2 Have affiliations with other companies that have at least a semblance or relation to what your site is about. Here other companies will provide links and brief descriptions of what they offer products and services. With every click made on the link that directs or leads a subscriber from your list to their site the company will pay you. This P4P or pay for performance.
3 Make deals with other companies by asking for a small percentage of sales done through your list. With every sale done by customers that have come from your list and have gone there because of your newsletter the other company will pay you a small percentage of your sales. The more people who buys from them the more earnings you get.
4 You may also get products from other sites on a consignment basis and sell them to your list via your newsletter. Place descriptions articles and photos of the product in your newsletter. There will be those who will buy from you and when that happens you can order the product from the other site and sell it to your buyer.
5 Sell ebooks or a compilation of your articles on your list. Manuals and howto articles are in great demand. Many people will be willing to shell out money to gain knowledge about a certain topic and subject. With your existing list trusting your expertise in that area an ebook could be offered and sold or used as an incentive.
6 Create a network out of your list. Get people to invite more people to view your site and subscribe to your list. The larger your list is the more people will be able to click on your links and affiliate links as well as make your advertisement rates higher.
7 Subscribers are willing to pay for information if they know that it can be trusted and relied upon. Use your list to get more and more people to subscribe to you as well as browse your site. Lastly you can use your list to earn money by making them your partners. Your list will be the bloodline of your growth and increase.
About the writer: With more than 25 years experience in the private club industry Bob Bodman has been involved in nearly every aspect of club management development acquisition planning and membership marketing. Prior to forming CLUB RESOURCES Bob founded Pacic Century Clubs Inc.in 1991 to provide Membership Marketing and Strategic Planning servicestoclubs under development and ClubSurvey.com which he founded in 1998 to deliver MembershipFocusGroups and Surveys to many highend clubs including Monterey Peninsula Country Club Cordevalle and Los Altos Golf and County Club. Earlier in his career Bob served as General Manager of Burning Tree Country Club Greenwich CTand The City Club of San Francisco which was part of the largest private club management company in the world.Additionally Bob is the author of Standards of Operation and Performance for Private Clubs and Establishing a New Membership Director Position and coauthor of the The Guide to Membership Marketing.ClubResources.com
