Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 27, 2012

More and more, online marketers are integrating social media with e-mail marketing , but the integration may not necessarily be what you think. Here are three ways you can incorporate social media with your e-mail marketing and two of them are probably something you haven’t thought about. Keep it short.

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

It’s only been a few days since Facebook released its Look Back video for users. The video goes back through your Facebook history from the past 10 years and highlights the most liked, commented on, and shared items in your timeline. Well, the good news is Facebook is working on allowing you to edit your Look Back video.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

One might be tempted to think that, since YouTube is the second largest search engine online, video marketing is an over-used–or, at least, widely used–form of online marketing. While 73% of B2B marketers use video in their content marketing strategy, they aren’t using video exclusively.

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Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 7, 2015

If you need proof that social media continues to improve, just look at the two recent updates from Twitter. If you have a business account on Twitter and you tweet from your mobile phone, you can now capture, edit, and share videos right from the app in your phone. Social Media is a Huge Driver of Engagement.

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Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 7, 2015

If you need proof that social media continues to improve, just look at the two recent updates from Twitter. If you have a business account on Twitter and you tweet from your mobile phone, you can now capture, edit, and share videos right from the app in your phone. Social Media is a Huge Driver of Engagement.

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Small Business Mavericks

JULY 6, 2012

The mark of a good social media website is how serious its owners are about improving it. If the ownership team is serious about creating a useful and rewarding user experience and trying to keep up with the rapid changes of the web, then you have a good social media website. Now you can share videos too.

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Small Business Mavericks

JULY 1, 2012

If television advertising has been off limits to you because of the high cost of production, maybe you can turn to online video marketing – or video branding if you prefer – instead. It seems that YouTube is working on putting together a marketplace where video marketers and on screen video talent can hook up.

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 24, 2012

What’s the one problem that every small business owners faces when it come to social media marketing ? There are just not enough hours in the day to manage a business, often work in the business, manage traditional marketing problems, and then manage a wide range of social media interactions.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

According to one survey , Facebook is the riskiest social media site for businesses online. 43% of businesses found video sharing sites to be slightly risky. 43% of businesses found video sharing sites to be slightly risky. It’s not really surprising. But the rest of the results of the survey are quite interesting.

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Small Business Mavericks

JULY 6, 2015

Social media has become huge lead generation tool for many businesses and online entrepreneurs, but there is more than one way to generate leads through social channels. The following five methods of generating leads through social media channels are popular and growing more so every day.

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Small Business Mavericks

JULY 6, 2015

Social media has become huge lead generation tool for many businesses and online entrepreneurs, but there is more than one way to generate leads through social channels. The following five methods of generating leads through social media channels are popular and growing more so every day.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

It’s good that you are active on social media, but how effective is your marketing? It’s not that there are right and wrong ways of marketing through social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, but you can be more effective with a few simple tweaks to your strategy. Mix it up a bit.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

It’s good that you are active on social media, but how effective is your marketing? It’s not that there are right and wrong ways of marketing through social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, but you can be more effective with a few simple tweaks to your strategy. Mix it up a bit.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 8, 2013

Video marketing just keeps getting better and better. For instance, your YouTube video channel will look the same on a desktop as it does on a laptop or a TV. Even smartphone users and tablet users can see your YouTube videos the way you intended for them to be seen. Try these: The Pet Collective. Laura In The Kitchen.

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Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We all know that these platforms are social media where you can connect with friends and family to keep abreast of things in each other’s world. Social media is the new way of advertising and marketing your business. You then post the video to YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

» Is E-mail Marketing More Effective Than Social Media Marketing? What may surprise many small business owners is that social media marketing is so far down the list, especially when it comes to two-way communications. This compared to only 8% for search engines and 5% for social media.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 11, 2012

Social media marketing started as a real hit and miss affair. Over time it has slowly come together and social media experts can now really work the boards to drum up a lot of visitors. People can follow those who publish videos that interest them. Those five social media components now fit very well together.

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 2, 2014

If you don’t have a social media policy in place, I strongly encourage you to figure it out and get it going because your employees are active in social media already and some of them might handle your email and postings. Older workers who are just figuring social media out will make mistakes, too.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 30, 2012

Social media is everywhere and it can often be a little daunting when for a small business owner about to engage in a social media marketing campaign. All to often a business will focus on one or two social media platforms, particularly Facebook and Twitter since they receive the most mentions.

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

There are several ways to measure a successful social media campaign. The same can be said for videos; again, those that are funny will often see more shares than bland or dry videos. When looking to increase social media sharing of your content, make sure you are doing so for the right reasons.

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 28, 2013

The home page shows a search box that allows you to conduct a search for any topic using two social networks – Google+ and Twitter. You can also search for information by specific vertical: Links, Tweets, Photos, Videos, Experts, and Trending. That makes the Topsy social analytics tool very valuable for businesses.

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

We would much prefer an image, or better yet, a series of moving images in the form of a video, to the written word. However, while videos are a great marketing tool , they can also become a business’s worst enemy. A video for the sake of a video is not a good idea. So what makes a good video?

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 4, 2011

The ONLY Way To Manage Your Twitter Account » Is Social Media Inherently Viral? Social media offers Internet marketers a powerful way to get our message across, but it is work. 3 Responses to “Is Social Media Inherently Viral?&# Did you know Jackie Chan died? I didn’t either.

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Small Business Mavericks

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

A recent survey shows that Facebook is the king of social media for small businesses. But look at the numbers for other social media services: Video sharing - 14% and 23%, respectively. If you own a small business and you are ready for social media , your best bet is probably Facebook. Evidently so.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 24, 2011

Social Times is predicting that social media marketing is going to get harder , not easier. In the past few years, social media have been growing. So if growth of the social media platforms is going to slow down, what’s that mean for marketers? I can see their point, and I agree. Are you ready?

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

» Is Social Media Spam Here To Stay? Spammers are going to do their best to weasel their way into your social network so that they can push their content higher up in your search results? Isn’t that what social media marketers have been preaching about five years now? emphasis his) Wait a minute!

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 22, 2012

In fact, you can often see video footage of an event that was taken via cell phone. That was a novel way to connect two social media platforms for marketing purposes. So how are marketers using this to advantage? They then featured those photos through a collage on their website for all to see.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 8, 2011

But did you know that social media marketing can lead to the collateral effect of additional inbound links through others blogging about you? If you post great content in your social media efforts that in turn gets the attention of bloggers who write about you and link to you, then you will be doing yourself huge favors.

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 21, 2012

Find pictures, videos or web pages of interest and you can ‘pin’ them to your pin board – and you can have more than one pin board. The pin board concept has a wide range of uses, to quote their help page : People use pinboards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes, and share their favorite recipes.

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Every time someone new conducts a search or uses social media, the Internet changes. Use videos effectively - Videos are powerful marketing tools. Create great videos, post them on YouTube, and embed them on your blog. Branding authority blogging Google Authorship Social Media Video Marketing'

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 19, 2011

All you have to do is set up a YouTube account and start producing and uploading videos. You have to create good, entertaining videos that people will want to watch. 1, if you produce good videos that are entertaining and informative, then you can gain a following on YouTube. OK, it’s a little more complicated than that.

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Small Business Mavericks

JULY 30, 2012

It means that, more and more, small business owners should think about using Google+ as a social media service. Not only does it help your reputation by posting often to Google’s social media service, but your posts and comments on that service now could be integrated into the SERPs. But what does that mean for you?

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 27, 2014

Add visual elements – You can add banners, images of your products, or even videos to your LinkedIn page. Social Media LinkedIn LinkedIn optimization LinkedIn page social media optimization website traffic' Keep the content relevant and post it often. If you don’t, you’ll fade into obscurity.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 14, 2015

Here are six powerful ways to generate leads for any business using the tools of the Internet in 2015: Social Media – Social media really needs no introduction, but there are a ton of channels to choose from. Videos are not just relegated to that one channel alone, however.

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 3, 2014

And they love video. That’s why Flipagram is promising to be a popular new smartphone app that allows users to make short videos using their own photos and music provided by the app. All you’ll need is a library of photos and someone to put them together in a simple video format. People love to show off.

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Small Business Mavericks

JUNE 25, 2012

Social media - There are several social media websites you can promote your website through. Videos – Post videos to YouTube and other video sharing websites. Online press release – Distribute a press release through one of the many online press release distribution websites.

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 21, 2013

Specifically, there are three new improvements to Flickr that I think make it worth sharing photos (and videos) to again. Here they are (in a nutshell): 1 terabyte of space for storing photos and videos. You can share videos up to 3 minutes in length. Social Media blogging Flickr photos videos yahoo'

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