Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Viral Marketing > 7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos 7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos by Tamar Weinberg on January 28, 2010 Share In the past few years, video has come a long way. As someone who once didn’t like online video, it’s now part of my daily life. Today, video’s potential is obvious: it can be a marketer’s dream and yield tremendous successes. Inspiring videos, too, can be viral. MORE >>

Video is a wonderful tool for telling a compelling story. It can be valuable for SEO , useful as a straight-forward marketing tool , and increase the reach of your message via social media in countless ways. That said, one of the challenges a number of my clients face is a desire to use video but a very limited budget with which to work. Maybe video wasn’t initially a part of the plan, or perhaps it was but the budget for it was eaten up by other urgent needs. There is an unholy trinity that rules all video projects. Guest post by Sue O’Hora. MORE >>

Social Media Video 2013: The concluded election has us looking into 2013 and beyond. You, as supporters and fans of Socialnomics understand this and is why you demanded a revised version of my book Socialnomics and its Social Media Revolution video – the are both finally here! Social Media Video 2013 | Fatboy Slim Music. Social Media Video 2013 | New Music. Social Media Statistics 2013 from Video. Every minute 72 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube. 93% of marketers use social media for business. The future is all about digital media. MORE >>

Powerpoint presentations, Adobe pdf’s, photographs, news stories, blogs, videos, and other online content are now shown in search results – making it Universal. If your business puts video online, make sure it’s optimized for search engines. The best thing you can do for your videos is to put them on YouTube. YouTube videos in particular show well in Google because Google owns the company. While there are many video sharing sites, YouTube is by far the most popular, even for B2B. In fact, Corning’s video has gone viral with over 15 million views. MORE >>

Marketing Pilgrim has an interesting take on video marketing. like what Frank Reed says in this paragraph: You must consider how your product is able to be ‘pitched’ via video. So what if you feel that video is too expensive? Either enter the video marketing arena and make an honest go of it or risk losing business to the competition. Video marketing is not a necessity. wouldn’t recommend it for every client, but videos are powerful marketing tools. What are your thoughts on video marketing ? MORE >>