Setting Goals For Your Online Business

The need for goals

Reaching our goals helps us to believe in ourselves and setting goals is a great way to fuel our ambitions. It isn't just about creating a plan for our success in life, it's also to give us the inspiration we need to reach out and reap more than we ever thought possible. Goals focus our acquiring of knowledge and help us to set our time and resources in an order to get the very best for our situations.

In this article we'll discuss:

Guidance in your niche selection
What are niche goal projections and outcomes?
Are you busy or productive
Ninja productivity hack revealed
Video - Goal projections and outcomes
Guidance in your niche selection
What do you like to do? What are your habits, hobbies, or passions? There are a number of niche choices within any main topic when you break it down.

An example could be Baseball which is a very broad term with lots of competition. If we break that down there are many niche selections to choose from within that keyword: baseball teams, major or minor league, kids, uniforms, statistics, jerseys, caps, equipment, collectables, magazines, etc.

All of these baseball niche can be fine selections to build a website around and can be quite profitable. I have an entrepreneur friend that has a number of sites, one of which is a website about football snack helmets, which has been doing well for a few years now.

What are niche goal projections and outcomes?

A projected outcome of your goals within your chosen niche.

Niche - The topic or category that you've chosen for your site.

Goal - The end result that you are seeking.

Projection - An estimation of when the end result will occur,

for example:

First commission sale within 30 days.
>>>>By writing an article per day for 30 days.
First page ranking with my targeted keyword within 30 days.
>>>>By writing posts three times a week for four weeks, with each having an internal link to my targeted keyword page.

What exactly are you going to do to reach your goal? Or what are you willing to give up in exchange for the desired goal? Maybe turn off the TV for a few hours each day, or trade in some wasted time for, that same time being spent to reach your goals.

The law of sowing and reaping

There is a time for sowing and a time for reaping. The time spent sowing, or creating the business can be for years depending on the project and the desired result. Once the sowing time is up, the reaping time can start and be indefinite.

There are many tasks that need to be done with any set goal and each one takes time and effort to complete. I've heard that "excellence is a commitment to completion", so we need to be good finishers of each task and reach our goals.

The time spent sowing can be less depending on the effort given to it. If we sow little we will reap little also. If we are building a website and posting to it once a week it will take quite a while longer to reach our goals of filling it up with quality content, as opposed to posting 3-4 times per week.

Are you busy or productive?

The definition for:

Busy - actively involved in doing something, or having a lot of things to do.

Productive - achieving or producing a significant amount or result.

Are we busy doing many things without a proper order or timely, continuous task completion?

Example: spending hours on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter and also additional hours on other things without making posting quality content for our viewers our #1 priority.

It's easy at times to get involved or over-involved in a project that ends up taking a lot more time than we thought but aside from that we'll be more productive and reach our goals quicker if we properly structure our time and always make posting fresh quality content a priority.

Create clear niche images

We need to do some internal and external research and visually see some other website businesses within our niche. This will give a look at how the other niche sites are presenting themselves and their products. The internal research is making a list, over a couple or few days, of things that we love to do, or what are we passionate about. It's best to select a niche that you would like to spend a lot of time and energy on, not one that you'll get bored with or become disinterested with. We can also choose to create a nice affiliate website setup to inform about and promote products, or have a non-profit or personal site (.org). Many website owners have multiple sites.

Create a vision board

Do you have any wall space at home to devote to a vision board? They're great to increase motivation and energize your efforts as you pursue goals.

Take a nice area of wall space and fill it up with goal related images and headlines and pictures that inspire every time you look at it. See, visualize, and feel the goal being reached as you look at the board and are inspired to move forward and achieve. Keep on adding and replacing inspiring images and text to keep it fresh, in sight and also in your mind.

Websites like Pinterest are great for creating vision boards and one can create as many boards as they want for fun, or to keep private.

Ninja Productivity Tip

I guess it doesn't matter what type of business that you are promoting but all have dozens of tasks that need to be done continually and properly. Many have multiple internet businesses and always have a list of things that need to be done asap. Well here's a great tip I've used and recommend to you.

Plan ahead and:

Remove all distractions or find a place where you can be uninterrupted.
Choose only one thing to focus on completely for an hour and set a timer.
Stop when the timer goes off and leave it for the next time. Don't think about it anymore.
Take a short walk or take a non-sitting break, unless you've been using a standing desk. Lying flat on your back might feel good too.

Start the next task and repeat the process.

If a little more than 60 minutes is needed go ahead and finish the task before taking a break. If it needs much more time to complete put it away until next time. After you've powered through a focused hour and taken a break to refresh, you can set the timer for another 60 minutes and continue where you left off or move to another task.

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Improve Your Online Marketing Success

If your marketing efforts are failing over and over again, check to see if you have too many projects in mid-air with none of them paying your bills.

Never attempt to build a lot of AdSense websites, e-books, software, member sites... at the same time!

The only approach to get the desired income accomplished and become successful in your 'on-line' life will be to concentrate on one area, a single niche and one particular method before switching to the next 'opportunity'.

Whatever your ultimate goal is, you are not going to have much (if any) progress when you are juggling five or ten different projects!

'You absolutely must concentrate on one particular thing'!

Quit thinking like this: 'This project is actually 95% finished... now I can also work on this different idea and come back and finish up the remaining 5%!

The truth is, when you find yourself totally into the next project, it will take you forever to get back to completing the earlier one.

You need to concentrate on accomplishing one thing and doing it to the best of your ability, then automate that project before you proceed to the next idea when the initially project is actually 100% complete!

Creating a checklist will help you concentrate on some level, but you may well still become seriously unfocused.

Why won't the checklist work?

Simply because the record you have created will normally have a mixture of numerous projects, ideas and therefore it does not work.

You need to get rid of your old-fashioned 'to do' checklist, create an itemized checklist for each project and complete them one at a time, finishing each project before you go to the next new venture.



Another thought:

Whenever you are considering the purchase of a cool new product, program, e-book, etc.
Or maybe considering the beginning of a new venture, simply ask yourself,
'Does this move me nearer to things I want or perhaps away from it'?
The answer to that question will tell you what you need to know!

Then you will make the right decision on a purchase or change of focus.

When you have reached a decision as to what you should be doing to 'Improve Your Online Marketing Success', you will become more focused, and you will be able to find a lot of the tasks you have been postponing completed, which will help you to stay motivated.

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Best Google Website Tools in 2018

Google Analytics

In this digital age, the importance of data to a business/website should never be underestimated. In fact, without proper tracking of website traffic, a business is literally lost, especially when it comes to how to optimize the website and make full use of it.

Whether your website is run in the form of a personal blog, news portal, business or corporate page, ecommerce store, Google Analytics is considered an essential tool for every website. The more you use this highly powerful Google tool, the bigger advantage you have.

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. You can create goals and conversion tracking to get the most of your analytics information and use it to improve your website's content, user experience and optimization for better online sales.

Out of so many features in Google Analytics, I think the ability to identify the Source / Medium to your website is one of the best website tools. Based on the data shown, you can find out if your marketing efforts have been paid off or not. This can provide a solid reference for your next decision making in enhancing your website performance.

Google Data Studio

Trust me, for beginners, you might be overwhelmed by all the amount of data shown in Google Analytics. To be frank, sometimes you just need a simple report with chart, graph or pie to summarize the performance of your website.

Here is a free tool from Google called Google Data Studio, which gives you everything you need to turn your analytics data into informative, easy-to-understand reports through data visualization.

Analytics has always been a challenge for digital marketing, however, Google Data Studio allows you to create customizable data visualization and report. Besides, you can even share with your clients - a huge plus especially if you are working in a big group.

Quick tip: You can check out Google Data Studio Gallery to duplicate their samples and modify to your website use. After that you will be able to change and edit the metric according to your needs. Quite amazing, right?

Google Search Console

Previously known as Google Webmaster Tools, now rebranded to Google Search Console, this free web service is designed for webmasters. It allows you to check the indexing status and optimize the visibility of your websites.

This free tool is a MUST for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). The power to track your site's search performance is the most precious data to understand what the audiences want for your site.

Once the website is tracked by Google, you'll be able to view your organic search results right alongside the performance statistics for the organic search queries. This information helps you better understand how paid text ads and organic search results work together. If you analyse deeply enough, you will find many opportunities like identify relevant search queries that have low organic traffic volume and target these keywords in Google AdWords. This will increase your overall traffic, tailored to the objective of your website.

Google My Business

Are you operating a brick and mortar business? If you are, this free tools from Google is one of the most local SEO strategies to strengthen your website. Google My Business is a powerful tool for businesses and organizations to manage their online presence across Google, like Google Search and Google Maps.

As smartphone penetration in Malaysia approaching 100% by 2018, the majority of Malaysians are using smartphones for navigation, searching for instant answers or browsing social media platforms. Your business and brand need to be found online with the correct information.

Make sure all the listed information is correct, up-to-date and reflect your business. Remember, those info will appear when people search for your office or physical store via Waze or Google Map. We often see some of the business hasn't updated their address, phone number and business hours to the latest. Wish to gain my traffic to your website?

You should try the new the features from Google My Business called "Posts". The published content will display your image and short description with call-to-action link to your intended URL. For example, blog post "Should I hide or even remove client inquiry on my Facebook?" will appear at the bottom of our business info.

Google Keyword Planner

Building a website without keyword research is exhausting and time wasting in long-term. In order to reach the right customers with the right keywords, you should use Google Keyword Planner to discover relevant keywords. Inserting those keywords into your website will ensure your content remains relevant.

*To access Keyword Planner, you need to sign in to your Google AdWords account at http://adwords.google.com/KeywordPlanner. Create the account is free of charge and fast.

Yes, it's completely free, you can find new keyword ideas that are relevant to your product, service and target customers. Keyword planner will show you the search volume data in historical statistics which is one of the most important key factors for your website.

Furthermore, the data from keywords ideas is a useful tool for SEO to your website. Analyse the information and turn it to your next content marketing strategy. Based on the search terms data, you should have plenty of ideas what should can be inserted to your text to make it more relevant to your audience.

Google Tag Manager

This free tool helps you update tags and code snippets on your website and mobile app quickly and easily. You can insert JavaScript and HTML tags used for tracking and analytics on websites in Tag Manager without touching the back end of the website.

Many websites do not deploy tracking function or have unreliable data collection because of messy codes injection. To solve this, we highly recommend using Google Tag Manager to consolidate and manage all your tracking codes or scripts.

The best example of using this tool is to use Facebook Ads. While more and more businesses are spending on Facebook Ads, most of them do not install Facebook Pixel into their website for conversion tracking, optimization and remarketing purposes.

Facebook Ads is already integrated with Google Tag Manager for smooth and easy installation. All you need to do just click and follow the instructions given without any need for complicated coding.

Test My Site from Think With Google

In order to rank well in mobile Google Search, your website should have fast loading speed and a mobile-optimized website. Use the Test My Site tool from Think with Google to check your website score on mobile performance. After a few minutes, you will receive recommendations on improving website performance across all devices.

Nobody wants to wait for slow websites or browse non-mobile friendly websites. The suggested time is 3 seconds from Google, which means if your site doesn't load completely within 3 seconds, most people will most probably go elsewhere.

Just insert your email address and you will obtain the detailed analysis about your website. The content of the report is simple, but provides valuable insight into how Google ranks your website speed.

The report will become a crucial reference to your webmaster or web developer to further optimize the website. If you need even more in depth report about how Google renders and indexes your website, you should use the PageSpeed Insight tool.

Google PageSpeed Insight

If you have web developers or web designers that really want to understand the factors to increase your website speed, give PageSpeed Insights Tool a try and check your score on your website's speed and optimization.

The latest version now shows the data from your First Contentful Point (FCP), the measurement when a user sees a visual response from the page. DOM Content Loaded (DCL), as well as the measurement when HTML document has been loaded and parsed.

PageSpeed Insights is handy in providing insight on how Google indexes your website differently for desktop and mobile versions.

Here are some website speed optimization tips from PageSpeed:

Avoid landing page redirects
Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold contents
Enable compression
Leverage browser caching
Minify CSS
Minify HTML
MInify JavaScript
Optimize images
Prioritize visible content
Reduce server response time
Google Trend

Wish to see the latest trends and data from Google? You can search anything via Google Trends and even narrow down to specific country or category. This tool is useful to identify latest trends or viral news in your location.

Ideally, once you identified a trend, you can craft new blog posts, new promotions or ideas that reflect the said trend.

Don't forget that you also can view the interest traffic of search terms using Google Trends.

With this, you can spot the best time to launch specific campaign. This is helpful for seasonal campaign or annual promotion because you can discover the best timing for your ad hoc digital marketing campaigns.

Google Alert

If you want to be aware of a particular topic and all the related information that bubbles up in the news, you can have them all automatically delivered to you with Google Alert and get notified every time when your keywords or phrases have new updates.

Google Alert is good for simple keyword monitoring, with updated on every mention of those keywords being sent to your email inbox for almost real time notification. Of course, you can choose the frequency at which you'll receive them - once per day, once per week or even get them as they just happen.

A useful tip when creating the Google Alert is to avoid using generic keywords but create alerts that are more unique to your website. The more precise the keywords, the more relevant are your alerts. For that, you should utilize the search filters wherever possible, such as languages, region or sources.

Summary

So, that's it, above are the 10 must-have free Google tools to improve the performance of your website. Make full use of all tools from analysis, research or monitoring to achieve the objective of your site.

What are your favourite tools from Google? Do you know any other Google tools that we should cover? Let us know in the comments below!

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Google Tools For Enhancing Digital Marketing in 2018

Pretty much all the major businesses, regardless of industry or status, use Google to fulfill some kind of requirement. Be it Google Drive, Google Docs or ever familiar Gmail, it seems as if everyone depends on at least one of Google's Services to support their daily life work routine. That being said, there are a few hidden gems in Google's Toolbox which at times do not get exposure and consequently remain underutilized.

Although, it is true that Google has innumerable apps, however there are some which can have a serious positive impact on digital marketing initiatives for businesses and those seem to be on the low a bit. Moreover, Google's products generally have "freemium" models, which offer an invaluable opportunity to improvise with a variety of unique techniques and dive in on what suits the niche brand most.

Everyone is testing out the latest and most effective tools from the world's most gigantic Internet powerhouse. So it is advised to give a few of these seemingly under- recognized tools or products a try for better results.

Powerful Google Tools For Digital Marketing

Google Trends

If you are looking to boost up your SEO strategy, Google Trends is a tool that should not be neglected. It allows you to see how frequently a Keyword is searched so you can get a measure of its popularity.

Google Trends instantly creates a graph of the search volume categorized by language, country, region etc. revealing how the key phrase has evolved over a specific period of time. It also predicts how these phrases will trend in the near future, thus helping you in making more precise and prepared decisions.

Most importantly, Google Trends makes it relatively very easy to stay up-to-date with a certain product's or service's marketing language so that one can jump into interactive conversations about topics which are relevant to his/her niche.

Think With Google

Think With Google is more like a creative brain-faith we can depend on when searching for inspiration and improvisations for our digital marketing strategies. The resource contains valuable insights on industry trends, analytical research and statistics, tips on marketing techniques and unique outlets to give us new ways to venture for further success.

When devising your online SEO marketing strategy, especially if you have an E-Commerce Website and you are investing on a quarterly and yearly plan basis, do not skip out Think With Google. This tool also helps when a marketer is suffering from a writer's block too.

Go-Mo

According to experts' reports, almost 66 percent of people say that a mobile-responsive website makes them more likely to buy a product, use a service or engage into reading in the case of blogs.

So it is very important to tap into the mobile revolution or one's business may soon be left behind due to lack of innovation.

Go-Mo uses Artificial Intelligence and helps in making this transition to the digital world, a very comfortable experience. It is free for the first year.

It instantly generates a mobile-friendly version of one's website. So you are no longer restricting your targeted on the go customers with a website that is almost impossible to navigate through.

Google Analytics

Studies show that Google Analytics is an overlooked tool among small and medium scale business enterprises. Without Google Analytics, executing website marketing strategies is like walking blindly in the dark.

Website analytics reveal critical data and results on how existing and potential customers interact with marketers online. When evaluated efficiently, the analytics insights offer plenty of opportunities for customer engagement enhancement and higher conversions as well.

So it is a must use tool for digital marketers who want to evolve and succeed gradually.

Lastly, as the horizons of technological advancements are widening day-by-day, one can expect a tech giant like Google to introduce more such effective and helpful tools for improving the digital marketing platform. However, it is not only the responsibility of technology leaders, but of users too to take the platform to a more evolved, matured and efficient level.

With the help of these effective Google Tools, you can take your industry's digital marketing outcomes to a whole new dimension. The tools help any digital marketer to strategize and implement each and every technique as efficiently as possible.

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Video Marketing: Look Into The Future

It is 2017 and the world has become digital. Video marketing has slowly but surely turned out to be the go-to medium for promoting a brand. Social networking platforms are dominating the market as far as video-sharing is concerned. Consumers are becoming more and more keen to educate themselves about a product before purchasing it or learning about a service. A well-crafted video goes a long way in giving potential customers the specifics they require before they take the next step.

There are several trends observed in video marketing that can surely help in shaping the future.

DIY (Do It Yourself) Videos

Of late, YouTube has become the go-to place to promote how-to videos. People love to learn a new skill or become independent. An interesting make-up tutorial or a carpentry workshop will go long way in making folks self-reliant. A great marketing video developed by a Product Video Company for a particular brand can also double up as a training content.

Welcome to the World of VR

Virtual reality (VR) as a concept is already a big thing in the gaming universe. This technology requires a virtual reality headset and produces visuals, sounds as well as other sensations that artificially reproduce a user's actual presence in the imaginary setting. It is only a matter of time when VR will be used as a marketing platform to promote a brand.

Innovative Techniques

When it comes to developing quality videos, it is important to consider all options. Some of the creative ones like drones or time-lapse videos have slowly become popular techniques in video production. If you wish to stand out from the crowd and attempt to impress the audience then using unconventional methods can do the trick.

Live Video

This trend is already emerging as a winner in several social media platforms especially Facebook Live. With live streaming videos, users can be part of the action as it happens. The brand engagement is immediate and viewers can give their feedback immediately via comments.

Strong Storytelling

An emotionally powerful story can always tug at your heartstrings. So a marketing video that has strong storytelling with a crisp video & audio can work wonders. An appealing background music can help viewers connect with the video. A good Explainer Video Production Company should be able to develop an engaging video that leaves a lasting impression in the minds of viewers. An impactful video ought to evoke the right emotions or stir your senses in the correct way. All of this can lead to the video being in your minds all the time, thus increasing brand awareness and ultimately growth in sales.

All businesses, big, medium or small, have started the realize the significance of video marketing and how it can help organizations greatly. This marketing platform has shown that it is an effective tool to craft brand awareness, create a positive brand image and ultimately increase sales for your product/service. With technology developing at a lightning speed, the future of video marketing looks bright.

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Top Tips for Video Marketing

Video marketing is going beyond just a fad that some people do and is quickly becoming an essential aspect of digital marketing strategies. Since more businesses are using video, the expectation of quality, and the need to create a piece that will capture the attention of viewers, for the right reasons, is more important than ever before. The competition for your attention is fierce - marketers know that they have only seconds to get you and keep you on their video, with most reports indicating that the average is 10 seconds.

That's it. 10 seconds is all you get for a viewer to decide whether they want to spend more time on your video or keep scrolling. Not a lot of time is it?

We've pulled together some of our top tips to help you get started with video marketing: 

1. Start with a script - now we don't mean a script that your read off making your delivery stiff and uncomfortable, we mean have an idea of what you want to talk about and how its going to flow. If you're showing products, make sure they're within reach. Check your lighting and eliminate background noise (I even put a note on my door that alerts everyone that I'm recording).

2. Observe your own viewing habits, what captures your attention? Do a peer review of videos in line with your business - what did you like about the videos, what did they do well? How often do they post? How long are the videos? What could they have done better?

3. The first introduction to your video that your prospect will see is your thumbnail, so make it visually appealing and include text.

4. Even before your thumbnail is how they found you in the first place, so optimize your description and title for SEO and tag your video with relevant keywords.

5. Your video, although short, should have structure, start with create a story as a part of your video to keep your prospects engaged. Think of your video like a funnel, drawing your prospect further in.

6. A pitch is inevitable, but don't make that the intent of the video, give your prospects a tip that they can use right away.

7. Always include a call to action - this can be subtle in your video, but also in your description.

8. Don't make it your goal to go viral, make it your goal to provide informational content.

9. Keep it fun, but not too edgy (unless that's your market), if you are going to go viral, you don't want to go viral for the wrong reasons.

10. Don't be afraid to include subtitles for those who watch without sound. Many people who are at work, or scrolling through their feed without headphones, will typically watch but not listen to videos.

And one bonus tip: Video marketing takes time - more time than you realize! Invest in editing software, and expect that you'll be spending a few hours editing, creating the thumbnail, and perfecting the description.

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Video Marketing Mistakes That Every Marketer Should Avoid

In today's digital era, a marketer should not underestimate the power of video, as it solidifies your presence over the internet or intranet. It's no real surprise that it has now become the need of the time, without which your digital marketing strategy is incomplete. To hit the head like a pro, you need to get out of your comfort zone and jump on the bandwagon that gives you the results. Customers or visitors find videos more interesting and easier to communicate than the content itself. It clarifies and conveys the thoughts better than the written text. While indulging in the strategy, here are some mistakes that you need to avoid, have a look to know them.

Creating Never-Ending Videos: Just because videos have now become an integral part of digital marketing strategy, doesn't mean you make it lengthy or never-ending. If you did so, it'll only ruin your impression and break your images in front of the clients. Thus, you should keep in mind the duration of the video and try to make it as short, simple and knowledgeable, as possible.

Try Not To Push Sale: While creating a video for your company, you need to keep in mind the point that it is to attract people and advertise your products or services to them in a smarter way. If you are not doing so, it'll break your impression and deliver the wrong results. Make sure the video you create convenience them to try out your products and services, rather than trying to foist it on them forcefully.

No Title And Description: Video makes it easier for a viewer to understand your offerings, similarly, title and descriptions help the Google to index it for better ranking. Thus, you should create SEO-friendly title and description that justify your video and make it easier for search engines to index it.

No Call-To-Action: Be it content or video content, a call-to-action phrase is very much important to attract the audience and, to increase the chances of conversion. If you are not adding it to your videos, so, it'll zero your efforts of generating the leads.

These are a few video marketing mistakes that being a marketer, you must avoid. To add a professional touch to your videos, you shouldn't hesitate to take the assistance of the experts. Do remember, video marketing has the power to make or break your company's impression and, you should use this tool ideally to make it work for your goals.

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How Video Marketing Can Help Your Business

Reaching the target audience and encouraging engagement are challenging for businesses today with all the updates and changes. Out of all forms of media circulating on the internet, video is the one that's on top. Why is it the top and rising trend today?

Think of a topic and there's probably a video about it. For many people, videos are fun and easy to consume. It's no wonder why it's effective at marketing your products or services. Want to know other benefits of video marketing?

Improves SEO

To get more visibility, businesses also put effort into search engine optimization. The good thing about videos is that it can boost your website's traffic. Videos increase a visitor's time on your page if you get them hooked enough to finish or watch a good chunk of it. You can also share it on platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and many more.

Works for Many Types of Audiences

Making a fun and creative video is hard, but watching one is not. Your target audience can view it anywhere and anytime--from their sofa, on the commute, at the office, before they go to bed. The possibilities are endless. People go on the internet to relax and unwind. Most times they won't be inclined to read through your explanation about your product.

It doesn't mean that they are completely shut off from buying. It just has to be less work and more entertaining. How do we do that? Show it with a short entertaining clip, an effective script and attractive graphics.

Highly Shareable Across Platforms

You've seen how many videos go viral on social media in a matter of hours. It doesn't have to be boosted. All you need is to be innovative enough to catch the interests of your target audience. Aside from that, social media platforms now prioritize video content more than images and text posts. They also increase your posts' reach when you can gain more personal engagements such as reactions, shares, and comments. And there's no content more capable of doing that other than video.

More Effective for Ads

Compared to banner and sidebar ads, video ads are not immediately skippable. Within the short time frame, you have the opportunity to capture your viewers' attention so that they continue watching. There's definitely more you can accomplish, given the right copy, so don't forget to include a call to action.

Don't be afraid to experiment with video marketing if you have not tried it yet. Videos have no limit, you can make use of imagery, sound, and message. It's all up to your imagination to craft an effective video that will compel your customers to patronize your brand and buy your product or service.

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Promoting Your Content Effectively So That It Gets Noticed

Writing great, effective, valuable content is absolutely critical to the success of your brand. However, once you have written that amazing content, you still need to promote it so that other people pay attention to what you are sharing with them and to what you are offering them.

The many purposes of your content 
You probably already understand this really well but your content serves many valuable purposes. One of the most important purposes is that it should elevate your brand and enable you to bring your business to the next level. Of course, that will only happen if you promote your content effectively so that other people pay attention to what you are doing, buy into your approach, tell other people about your offerings, and become loyal to you on an enduring basis.

There are several steps that you can take in order to cause your content to get noticed.

Send out Email blasts: The fact is that If you have a person's Email address, they opted in at some point in the past. Otherwise, you wouldn't have the Email address. That is just common sense. So, with that in mind, it makes perfect sense for you to send out a targeted Email blast to your Email recipients. Because you already have an established connection with those recipients, there is a really good likelihood that they will open your Email and (hopefully) read it in its entirety.

Your Email blast is married to whatever content you are posting at the time. You will want to post the content and then send out the Email blast. You don't want to do it the other way around. Without the Email, there is a much smaller chance that your online connections will be aware that you have just posted the content that you want them to read. Don't forget to include a call-to-action (CTA) in your Email. That is the way that your recipients will connect with you (whether that means clicking on a link, Emailing you back, or some other means of communication).

You will want to keep track of the responses to the Email blast so that you can include it in your analytics (to make sure that you identify what is working and what is not). These data are extremely important to your business. After a certain number of days (within a week after you have sent out the first Email blast), resend the Email blast. There may be many people who didn't open your Email the first time around who will open it the next time around. Their not having opened it may have nothing to do with anything more serious than the fact that they were busy and distracted at the time when they received it from you.

Engage your connections as much as possible: The only way to truly secure a solid relationship with the other person is to engage that person as much as possible. If you are not sure how to go about engaging, there is a great deal of information online that can help you with that. Assuming that you are a member of the most effective social networks, you should start there. Each one gives you the opportunity to engage other people. Not only will you be able to do that but you can do it in a really effective, really deep way. That is exactly what social networks are made for.

As far as engaging is concerned, you should just jump right in there. When you are doing the research to determine which groups are the right groups for your business, it is important that you identify groups that are relevant to what you are doing and appropriate. After you have identified those groups, join them and start to become a valued part of the discussion. As thought-provoking questions and comment on what other people are saying. Engaging other people is an extremely important part of your brand and it will help you to bring your business to the next level. There are many opportunities to engage other people and you just need to identify which ones are the best fit for your brand and your business.

Connect with other people through your social media channels: You have golden opportunities to connect with other people online in many different ways. One of those ways is social media channels. Interacting with your fans and followers is a great way to promote your content. Once you have discussed your content, you can expect many of those people to want to read your content. That is certainly effective promotion. If you aren't sure where to find people who you believe would be interested in the topics that you write about, search for groups that are related (or mention) those particular topics.

As you are searching, you should put in the right keywords and/or key phrases. That will help you to identify the right groups and the right people. You can use the keywords and/or key phrases that you have used in your content. Another part of your connecting with other people through social media channels is identifying the influencers with whom you would like to share a connection. Those influencers will help you to bring your business to the next level.

Once you have established those connections with influencers, you can allow the influencers to carry you to the next step by using their name/influence to interest other people in what you are doing. That will be very attractive to your other online connections.

Try to get your content included in many different ways and places: You have something really valuable when it comes to your content and it definitely needs to be shared with other people. In fact, when given the opportunity, the other people would definitely agree with that. You just need to make them aware of what you have to say.

Part of the answer to that is about the exposure of your content. If you are able to post your content in many different places on a regular basis, other people will start to get used to seeing your posts, reading them, interacting with you, and become loyal to your brand. That is exactly how it works.

Conclusion 
Your content is essential to the success of your business. However, that doesn't only mean that you need to write top-quality content. It also means that you need to promote your content so that other people have the opportunity to benefit from your words of wisdom. You have a lot to offer. Perhaps, you have a lot more than you are even aware of. However, it is very important that you spend your time and energy promoting your content in an efficient, effective way.

Your time is extremely valuable, just as is the time of other people. The bottom line is that your content will be totally ineffective if you don't tell other people about it. After all, you are not in it all by yourself. You need other people to ensure your brand's success.

Michael Cohn is the founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of CompuKol Communications. He has over 25 years of experience in IT and web technologies. Mr. Cohn spent a significant amount of time at a major telecommunications company, where his main focus was on initiating and leading synergy efforts across all business units by dramatically improving efficiency, online collaboration, and the company's Intranet capabilities, which accelerated gains in business productivity. He also reduced company travel and travel costs by introducing and implementing various collaboration technologies.

His expertise includes business analysis; project management; management of global cross-matrix teams; systems engineering and analysis, architecture, prototyping and integration; technology evaluation and assessment; systems development; performance evaluation; and management of off-shore development.

Mr. Cohn earned a Master's degree in project management from George Washington University in Washington, DC; and a Master's degree in computer science and a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, NJ.

Mr. Cohn is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

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Easy Virtual Assistant Jobs From Home For Moms

If you had been searching to earn a living while at home with your kids, here are 3 easy virtual assistant jobs from home for you:

Amazon Virtual Assistant

Duties are wide-ranging requiring you to perform many types of tasks including, data entry, web research, customer service, order processing, sourcing and many other tasks.

By experience, most employers do not require previous experience as an Amazon virtual assistant. Training is provided and the tools you would need are provided as well by the employer. The tasks may feel daunting at first but once you have processed all the information, the tasks are pretty much easy to do as you go on.

Social Media Virtual Assistant

There are employers that are only needing an extra hand to post things that are created into various Facebook pages or groups, Instagram and other social media platform that we already know and use on a daily basis.

Often times, photos and contents are already provided and will only be needed to schedule for posting to that which is incredibly perfect for moms looking for very flexible working hours.

Additional tasks may be added from time to, like interacting and responding to people's comments and queries. This job is the most ideal and very easy virtual assistant job from home for moms.

Research and Content Writer

If you are highly articulate in writing, then this is another easy and ideal job for you. Ideally, most employers would prefer someone with a decent knowledge of SEO or digital marketing. But as with other jobs, there are a lot of employers also willing to consider candidates who are willing to be trained and willing to put in the work and research relevant topics required for the job.

Having been a career woman before becoming a mother, it was a no-brainer choice to become a stay at home mom for our son. However, as it had been nearly 4 years, I could not shake off the feeling of needing to do something that would make me feel more fulfilled as a person. There was always this feeling of wanting to go back to having a career but at the same time, also wanting to be there for my child. After some thorough research, I delved into the world of being a virtual assistant or remote employee.



With nearly a year's experience, I am seeing myself becoming successful in this career as I go along. The only secret is to get started and hone your skills along the way by either learning new skills, whether self-taught or via an extensive paid training. There is a future in this career and definitely, so much potential for earning a good and decent salary.

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How to Get Media Exposure For Your Website Or Blog

There are several proven ways to get media exposure for your Website or Blog. From Social Networking to YouTube Videos and it does not have to cost you anything. Except you internet connection that is. Turning a Blog post into a video is among many exposure tactics used by Super Successful Marketers. But it always is and always will be the quality of your content to get media exposure for your website or blog.

To turn a blog post into a video use a Free Tool called "Lumen 5". You can easily search your browser and access this valuable tool. Please take your time and learn your way around Lumen 5, it's a great way to get media exposure.

With video ranking, the SEO is pretty much the same as with a website or blog. To get media exposure for your website or blog you need to be extremely descriptive and precise. Tell YouTube what your video is about. And always place your Target Keyword as the first word in your video title. In fact, try having around 3 target keywords in the video title. But be sure the keywords are used within context of the title.

Now the same target keywords must be present within the first sentence of the video description. But they must also populate the content of the description, and again. Always within context. Just cramming a bunch of keywords together that makes no sense will get your video nowhere.

The video description is your opportunity to convince the viewer that this is what they have been looking for.

Next we will look at another way to get media exposure for your website or blog. And it is something you most probably use every day. You guessed it... Facebook!

Create a Facebook Page related to your website or blog niche. Then you install a plugin called "Hello Bar" and follow the simple guidance to link your blog to that Facebook page. The Hello Bar displays as "Like Us On Facebook". But we're not done with the Plugins yet.

Another plugin I personally use is called "Tweedis" which is equally simple to understand. This allows you to use Highlight Text that is shared by your blog readers. Place one share option in the beginning of your Blog Post. And also one in the centre and at the end of the post.

In conclusion to plugins you want to use a plugin called "Digg Digg". That's the floating share button you see on so many professional websites and blogs.

These are all great tools and have proven themselves successful many times over. But without Unique and Compelling content any exposure tool may end up appearing pretty useless. Time is the most important ingredient to your online success. And to get media exposure to your website or blog will take time. Because you must build reputation and inspire your audience with content.

Remember, you're building an Empire and not a Shelter. Building an Empire takes time, and if it was easy then everyone would've been DotCom Millionaires by now. Just a thought.

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Using Social Bookmarking To Promote Start-Up Businesses

What Social Media Engagement Achieves For Business

Social media in essence is in relation to engagement through sharing, which for business means targeting your product range, your articles, or your services at engaging a potential customer or client base. Collectively, products, services and articles are known as content, and it is through offering quality content that success through your channels can be achieved.

Social marketing has around 900 million users globally, and covers every topic range you can think of. As well as engaging a potential customer and client base or readership, social media is also relevant to search engine optimization.

Social media is a unique format as it helps you promote your content on to your audience, and in turn it generates traffic via people sharing your content with others, and through SEO. Perhaps more importantly than this, however, social media with its online reviews helps a business build trust, and nearly every brand you can think of uses social media for this reason.

Think of this as: you come across two companies offering the same services; one has 250 Facebook likes, the other 43 - which one would you opt for? So regardless of whether you're an online retailer, an affiliate marketer, offer a service such as tuition, or run a news site, social media can assist you build your business online. Google estimates that by 2015, UK consumers will have purchased £40bn of products and services online.

Popular Social Media Sites And Their Uses

Getting to get grips with the nuances of social media's role in promoting your business can cause more than its fair share connected with headaches. Here is a list of the most popular social media sites and their uses:

Facebook is predominately for sharing. This can be products, articles, or services. In a nutshell, it's for sharing your content with as many people as possible.

Twitter is about sharing news on any subject. Don't let the word news make you feel it not apply for products. New product launches, new stock ready to be sold - Twitter is good for all of this.

Google+ is in part a combination of the two and has become important for search engine optimization if nothing else.

Blogging is a great way to impart news and expertise on your readership, customer and client base, or followers. It offers a good way to attract visitors on your site via search engines.

YouTube is about showcasing videos to a wide audience. It is being utilized by businesses all the time to sell products and services. As YouTube is owned by The search engines, videos tend to feature prominently on search engine results. You can also utilize the YouTube ads to make a secondary income stream.

Pinter est and other bookmarking sites are very good at showcasing visual products. If your business is selling something online, albeit a product or service, ensure you are posting on Pinter est and as many bookmarking sites you could find.

Social Media And Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Good positioning on search engines is about unique quality content that is well shared and well linked to from other websites. By sharing your content on social sites, the more chance there is of people liking it on Facebook, re tweeting with Twitter, or sharing the pin on Pinter est. Links are important for good SEO and posting your content on social sites provides a link from the social site to yours, and in every case this can be targeted to a specific web page.

By web page I mean a specific solution, service, or article. This also ensures Google indexes the web page. That is to say, it adds it to its database, ensuring it can be found on search engines.

Finding The Best Social Media Sites For Your Business

To find the best social sites suited to your business, think as to what your business is trying to do. If your business sells products or services, then use social sites that showcase pictures and videos to sell the product. YouTube, Pinter est, Delicious and Instagram are all really good for showcasing products.

If you're in the selling game, make videos of your products, take good professional photos and find them on these sites, and ensure you link the pictures and videos directly to the content on your site. If you sell on eBay or an affiliate seller, try to link directly to the product page where a potential customer can buy it. Also, put the products on your Facebook or my space page, Google+ page, and Twitter. For service providers, a slightly different spin on social media promotion is needed as, more often than not, a service provider will sit in the middle of visual social media, and text-based social sites.

This also applies to affiliate marketers. If you can, represent your services that has a picture or icon, and publish the picture or icon on the visual sites. Use videos to showcase your services - if you can get testimonials from clients, well, that's gold dust. Publish regularly on your blog and tweet the articles, together with insights into the industry. This engagement will help build trust with all your existing clients, showcase your skills, and help you to be found by people wishing to become new clients.

Social Media Advertising

If you have the budget for it, Facebook offers advertising on a click-through basis like Google Ad Sense, or it can be used to earn likes. It is often in instances of experimentation. For affiliate marketing revenue streams, click-through will expose the user to your revenue stream, while a like will ensure every time an article or new product is published they'll be informed. It's trial and error and seems to work well for some businesses, but others have lost faith from it.

Saving Time

By now, you have probably guessed that updating social sites, especially if you publish a lot of daily content, is hard work. Larger businesses employ people to keep on top of it, something many start-up business don't have the budget or the time for. It is possible to help automate your social accounts updating using automatic syndication sites.

A Social Media Strategy

Step 1: Create a Facebook Page, Twitter account and Google+ Page For Business

These have their uses regardless of the type of business, and all help considerably with SEO. Ensure you create business pages on Facebook in addition to Google+. This keeps your personal details and indeed social media life hidden from your customers or clients, and it offers better options to promote a business.

Step 2: Identify Social Media Sites That Are The Most Important To Your Business

If your site sells products, make a list of all the online bookmarking and video sites you could find and create accounts. Ensure you use Pinter est and YouTube. If your business is for services, information, or is for an affiliate marketing revenue stream, you want to spread the word in as many ways as possible. Use blogging sites such as Tumble, Blogger and WordPress. org to syndicate your sites and services, and try to create news content if you provide services to show your expertise in your field.

Step 3: Use Social Media Tools Such As 'If This Then That'

'If this then that' or ifttt.com automatically updates your social accounts. This is easy to establish and works by syndicating the information across a host of social sites automatically as soon as one site is updated. This, as you can imagine, saves a lot of time. Be cautions, however, and ensure social sites suited to the business, such as bookmarking sites for online retailers, appear just as you want them to be found.

Automatic syndication has limitations and often links and pictures do not appear as you would like them to. Nonetheless, and especially for syndicating blog posts via an RSS feed, it is a very good time-saver for promoting your business via social media. Not all social media can be syndicated in this way, but the sites that committer syndicates to are well worth creating accounts on to promote your business. The more social media sites you post on, the better.

Step 4: Use #hashtags

Whenever you post your content, ensure you use appropriate #hashtags. This will help users find your content when they search for it. So if I'm selling tyres on eBay, #tyres, #cartyres, #car, #treys is good, and for sports news, #sports news, #football #cricket, and so on is good.

Step 5: Once It Starts

Once your content starts hitting the web 2. 0 world, monitor your accounts for feedback. Concentrate on the sites you've identified as important to your business and respond to questions and comments. When responding, try to be helpful and non-abusive, even if the commentator is not pleasant. Professionalism goes along way.

Step 6: Participation

Twitter and Google+ show trending topics and these include popular subjects people are discussing. It is worth performing the odd Twitter search to see what people are talking about in relation to your business, and making a contribution to the discussion. This is a good way to make connections and hopefully achieve more success.

Step 7: Monitoring Success

Monitoring success has confirmed to be quite difficult for social media. Unlike SEO results, which can be measured on click-through and content engagement, it is not so simple on social sites for a variety of reasons. You may feel if you provide news that 10 comments on one story is a good sign of success, while 100 likes of a product video on YouTube with no obvious link to sales most likely are not immediately obvious as positive.

It is worth remembering, however, that though people may not directly access your main site via social sites, it may prompt them to return later. Always keep in mind that social media is for sharing content, so any like, comment or re tweet is positive.

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Social Bookmarking Tips For Pros

If you are past the beginner stages for social bookmarking strategies, these tips are going to help you take your game to the next level. In this article, we are going to talk about strategies you can use to get your website noticed through the use of social bookmarking.

Syndication

If you have multiple profiles on social bookmarking sites, you may find it is difficult to get your website on all of them because you do not have the time to do this. One of the easiest ways you can fix this is by using a service like Only Wire that will send your bookmark to all of the sites you have entered your login information for. If you have sites you do not want to share certain bookmarks to, you can unclick those sites and only send them to the ones you desire.

Influencer Marketing

Having influencers with a lot of followers share your bookmarks is a great way to get attention to your website. When you are sharing with influencers, you want to make sure they have an audience that is similar to yours. If an influencer shares to an audience that is not interested in what you have to offer, you are going to be wasting your advertising dollars.

Social Bookmarking Conclusion

As you are looking through your marketing strategies, make sure you pay close attention to what is working for you. If bookmarking on social sites or using influencers that are doing it for you is working, put more money towards it. If it isn't, try another strategy and see if you get better results.

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