Valuable YouTube Tips That Are Often Overlooked

Today I wrapped up a presentation I’ll be giving this week to a group of transportation and tourism professionals. In that presentation I have a short video on YouTube tips that I’ve used for years, but that I have come to learn are still largely undiscovered.

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My Social Media Christmas Wish

What would you like to accomplish in this lifetime that could only be possible by integrating hundreds of friends – or millions of people? That’s my secret social media Christmas wish. What’s yours?

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Why I Like Postling

Postling is a relatively new service that makes it easy to manage all of your social media in a single interface. The primary reason I use Postling is to receive notifications when comments are made on my Facebook page – and now you can do the same with your YouTube channel.

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Your Social Media Structure

The process of achieving practical results with social media should be familiar to most entrepreneurs and small business owners: First you design, then you build, and when all of that is in place, you get out there and engage with customers! How can you use social media to build a structure that engages your community with your expertise?

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Social Media Dashboard: Test-Drive for Engagement

API’s now allow for integrating multiple networks and functions so that you can streamline your activities. The challenge is finding the right tools for you – those that fit your style and allow you to more effectively engage with your social network communities.

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GroupMe for Small Business and Family

GroupMe is a free service that allows you to simultaneously text-message or conference call a group of mobile devices. It works with any type of mobile device, and anyone in the group use the unique number to text the group or initiate a conference call.

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Tall Tweets for Tweeting Longer than 140

Tall Tweets is a new Twitter service that allows you to tweet more than 140 character messages by automatically slicing your message into multiple and successive tweets.

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Using Social Media to Enhance Your Sales Process

Using technology to collaborate with your prospects and customers respects their valuable time – while also making the most of yours. Now you can use social networking and marketing to share the information that is necessary for prospects to learn what they most need to know about you and your business, and to encourage more qualified inquiries.

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Quality or Quantity Blog Posting for SEO?

The search engine optimization of your blog is most effectively enhanced by increasing the frequency of your posting and by attracting more inbound links. If you had to choose, it would be preferable to opt for delivering quality content less frequently. However, you are less likely to get noticed to attract those links if you are posting infrequently.

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QR Codes for a Good Cause

QR Codes are currently a thing of curiosity. Yet, the more everyone gets familiar with them, the more likely they will find practical uses. This is another example of social entrepreneurship in action, a trend that you should consider for your small business. Remember that markets are communities. Help them and you may be surprised at the mutual benefits.

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