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Promote Your Small Business with Cool Video Content

Date: July 3, 2016 Category: Internet Branding, Personal Development, Social Media Marketing Tags: , , , , , , , , , , Comments: 0

Making a video for your small businesses has never been this easy. If you own a small business and you're active on social media, making videos was always on your mind. You've always wanted it but you never knew where to start. Just a few years ago, to make a simple video. First, you had to come up with a topic. Shoot the video, so you needed an SLR camera. After that you had to edit it. All this without any professional training. Seriously!! How many tutorials a person needs to watch to make a 3 minute video. Not to mention all the money you…

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Repurposing Content

Repurposing Content for Your Small Business

Date: May 25, 2016 Category: Internet Branding, Social Media Marketing Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Comments: 0

Repurposing content is simply the process of recycling old content and re-sharing it in new creative ways. The word repurposing in the dictionary is the process by which an object with one use value is transformed or redeployed as an object with an alternative use value. For me repurposing content is like tuning and styling your dad's old car. Remember that TV show "Pimp My Ride" with Xzibit. That's how you can effectively repurpose content. Take your old content, and make it look cool again. You spend many hours creating content. Wether its Video, Photos or Blog posts. You tend to feel like your content…

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Amazon Video Direct

Amazon Video Direct for Your Small Business

Date: May 18, 2016 Category: Internet Branding, Social Media Marketing Tags: , , , , , , , , , , Comments: 2

Amazon Video Direct is a video sharing website, that let's users upload videos and share them with Amazon Prime members. The video can be offered for free with Amazon Ads or sold/rented to viewers. When I said video sharing website, I'm sure your immediate reaction was -- Video Sharing Website? You mean like YouTube? It's been done Hamza. How about you tell me something I don't know. Well, here is a little unrelated but related story. Louis CK is a well established stand up comedian. Hilarious guy. I love him. Obisiously he makes a good living from his work. Although he has to pay so…

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microblogging

The Microblogging Guide for your Small Business

Date: May 11, 2016 Category: Internet Branding, Social Media Marketing Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Comments: 0

Microblogging is a combination of blogging and instant messaging that allows users to create photos, short messages and videos to be posted and shared with an audience online. Taking into consideration your schedule being so full as a small business owner. You would actually have the time to maintain a presence on social media platforms. No more excuses. You don't have to create optimized content to stay engaged with your followers. Its much easier and much more fun to microblog. Little History of Microblogging The first microblogs were known as tumblelogs. The term quickly became Microblogging. It was cemented in the social media vocabulary in March…

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Organic Reach

Organic Reach in Social Media for Small Businesses

Date: May 5, 2016 Category: Internet Branding, Personal Development, Social Media Marketing Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Comments: 4

The term organic reach in social media is simple. Its the users who get to see your posts without you having to pay to get their attention. Paying to get people's attention?!?! Who would even want that kinda attention. Especially if you're a small business. So, In your journey to build your brand online. You will meet so many influencers. Collaborate with many of your contemporaries. And read countless books about social media marketing and self development. It is very rare that you would hear anyone suggesting that you should pay Instagram or Facebook to boost your posts. And yet so many small businesses are…

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