If you are not doing Video Marketing you are leaving traffic and profits on the table. Besides that great reason, do you know the top 7 reasons to create Video Articles? You’ll find the top 7 reasons and tips below:

1. Actually faster than a written article – I know that sounds crazy but it has been my experience. Once you get in the flow of this, it really can take you less time to create a Video Article than a text article. I still remember the first time that happened and I just thought it was a fluke. Now it is a consistent event.

2. Tools have never been cheaper or easier – I remember two things from when I first started: 1) the tools and training were expensive and 2) there were so many steps involved and it was easy to get stuck. Now the tools are in range and the steps are condensed down to just a few that anyone can do.

3. YouTube is the #3 ranked website in the world – It comes down to a simple question: Do you want to get traffic to your web sites and blogs by getting in front of where the traffic going? If you answered no I’m not sure why you are reading this article. If you answered yes, then you want to get your information on the #3 most trafficked website in the world.

4. Great tools for distributing your video – And you don’t stop at just YouTube. With video distribution sites such as TubeMogul (free) and TrafficGeyser (fee) you can quickly and easily get your Video Articles distributed all over the internet.

5. Your own TV station – We are at the point where anyone with a life improving message that is willing to learn the steps and put in the time can have their own “online TV station.” And you get to reach all over the world. Remember, www stands for world wide web.

6. It’s what we know – We all grew up watching video on TV. It is what we know. When your message comes in to your prospects home or office screen, just like TV, the potential for your prospect to know, like and trust you is just tremendous.

7. 50 times more likely to get indexed by Google – This is important if you want to get found on the internet. You Video Article is 50 times more likely to get indexed by Google than your text article. Am I saying you should now do only Video Articles and not write articles. Of course not. Do both. And repurpose those text articles into Video Articles.

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If you have been at home and wished you could remember a great website that you bookmarked while you are at work, social bookmarking is a tool you can’t do without. Once you start using a social bookmarking service, you will find the convenience something you can’t live without. Social bookmarking is more than just a convenient tool for mobility purposes, it can also help increase traffic to your website and elevate brand awareness.

Some Terms You Should Know
So it doesn’t sound like I’m speaking another language, here, there are a few terms you should know to understand the rest of this post.

Tagging-Tagging something in a social bookmarking tool is the act of assigning keywords to a piece of content.

Keywords-The most prominent or influential words in a particular piece of content. Keywords can also be tags, but in social bookmarking, the reader assigns the tags, so the tags may be different than what the producer of the site would have selected.

Bookmark-Similar to marking a spot in a book, online bookmarking allows readers to bookmark websites online so that they can return to the site and view it later.

Before There Was Social Bookmarking
The most “primitive” form of social bookmarking is to just send an email to someone with a link to something you want that person to see. Unless you have friends or networks on an online social bookmarking site, this is still one of the easiest and quickest ways to share a link to a website with one or a couple of people. 

To share a website with the Internet browsing public, or if you are just really popular and have a lot of friends, a social bookmarking site is now the way to go. From a business standpoint, it is good to submit your content to social bookmarking sites to refer traffic. Additionally, it is easier for others to share your content if it is already submitted.

But social bookmarking is much more than just saving a favorite website on a public site.

Benefits of Social Bookmarking for Businesses
Social bookmarking is considered to be one of the social media marketing tools, along with social networking, search engine marketing, forums and blogging. Social bookmarking sites like Digg.com, Delicious.com and Technorati.com allow users to bookmark online content in online services so that the bookmarks can be accessed from any computer with Internet access.

This makes is much easier to find and access websites with content you can use from anywhere. When you begin using social bookmarking sites, you are no longer shackled to your computer-but are free to move about the cabin freely.

Increase Brand Awareness, Inbound Traffic
You can increase inbound links through social bookmarking. Additionally, if your content ends up at the top of its category on one of the bookmarking sites, you can gather hundreds and sometimes thousands of additional visitors. Who doesn’t love a bit of extra traffic? Submitting your content consistently to social bookmarking sites, and having others view it through search and tag categories on the site will build your brand awareness, if slowly.

Most Frequented Social Bookmarking Sites
It can be a little overwhelming to navigate the maze of Internet marketing, bookmarking, social networking and social media marketing websites. There are a few social bookmarking sites that see more traffic and have the potential for more referrals than others. These are the sites you want to spend your time on, for the best results. (These stats are updated as of January 14, 2009 by ebizmba.com, according to the following, as stated on their website: combination of Inbound Links, Google Page Rank, Alexa Rank, and U.S. traffic data from Compete and Quantcast.)

Digg.com: This site has almost 10.5 million visitors per month. Its overall page rank is 8. If your site rises to the top of one of the Digg categories, you are almost certain to see a lot more inbound traffic. Site owners can submit their content to dig, and then get a button to put with the content to encourage others to also “digg it!”

Yahoo Buzz!: Has 2.5 million monthly visitors. Does not have as many inbound links as Digg. Is rising in terms of popularity.

Technorati.com: With over 75 million inbound links, Technorati sees a lot of traffic and is high ranking in search engines. A link on Technorati is helpful to any website’s traffic flow. Links to your site from high-traffic sites almost always result in a higher search ranking for your site.

Delicious.com: 175 million inbound links to Delicious.com makes this site one of the most populated social bookmarking sites. Delicious can function almost like a search engine itself. Delicious and Digg are the two most convenient social bookmarking sites for folks on the go, because you can log into your account from any computer to access your bookmarks, in an organized matter.
 
Use Social Bookmarking for Research
One of the best ways to use social bookmarking sites to improve ranking of your site is to see what others are finding “Delicious” or “Digging” and learn from those posts. Whether it is the format, the subject matter or other benefits offered by the popular posts, you can always find something to emulate to improve your own site’s rankings. Why re-invent the wheel? Obviously, I am not advocating for copying anyone’s content. That is not only unethical, it is illegal. However, you can always learn from people who are doing well in their fields.

Getting Started and Making Full Use of Social Bookmarking Sites
It is easy to get started with social bookmarking. Simply go to one of the sites above, create an account and begin bookmarking! You can set up a profile to allow you to find others with similar interests. From there, be sure to categorize your bookmarks.

Categories will make it easier to find the information you have saved. When you submit a piece of content, you will tag it according to your own experience and preferences. It is always interesting to see how different people view the same piece of content. Your tags will help others find the content that you submit to the sites.

One thing that you want to avoid with social bookmarking is developing a pool of the same people to bookmark your content every time. Other users will notice this, and it will affect your credibility. In social media marketing, credibility is everything. Without it, you are just another bit of noise.

Want to see how easy it is to bookmark a site?  Simply click on the bookmark/Share icon below to get started.

To Your Social Media Success!

Dave

There are many strategies out there today on how to use social media marketing.  From driving more traffic to your website to engaging with friends, fans and followers.  Whatever your social media objectives are and whichever strategies you decide use, there are definitely some key aspects that can “make or break” your social media efforts. 

I call them the “ATES” of Successful Social Media Marketing and I have listed the best and worst of them below: 

The 4 Best ATES – Do These 

LocATE – The first thing any person or business needs to do when deciding on a social media strategy is decide who you are trying to communicate with.  Will it be more social or business oriented, male or female, young or old, etc.  From a purely business standpoint, deciding on your “target market” will point in the right direction on which social media sites to spend your time on. 

Once you decide that, you need to then try to find the right people, conversations and groups to engage.  For example, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter all have internal search functions that can help you locate people with specific backgrounds, interests and even geographic locations. Once you find a person or group of interest, simply follow, connect or befriend them. 

ParticipATE – Making friends online is not much different than making them in person.  The more you put into any type of relationship, the more you’ll get out of it.  Translation…make sure you spend the time to nurture your “friendships.”  How?  Join in the conversation – give advice, feedback, useful information, answer and ask questions, re-tweet, give thumbs up, bookmark pages, leave comments on posts, etc.  These are not hard to do and don’t take a lot of time, but can really help you gain respect within your “community.” 

AllocATE – This really goes hand in hand with participation.  You need to allocate enough time to your social media effort in order for it to give you whatever results you are looking for.  Social media is a courtship not a “one-night stand.”  I know many people are concerned that it can take up too much time, but that can only happens if you let it. 

There are ways to systemize and automate the process but not the message.  There are ready available tools and applications that can help you and many of them are free.  These include such things as TweetLater, TweetDeck, Ping.fm, Friendfeed and many more.  You might also want to consider using Virtual Assitants (VAs) to manage some of your social media tasks.  Just remember, there is only one you and you should never outsource your own “voice.”  

IntegrATE – If you are going to use social media as part of your marketing, you need to be sure to integrate it into your overall marketing plan.  Social media should be in addition to, not instead of other forms of marketing.  Fast and easy ways to get started?  Place social site widgets on your blogs, websites and e-mail signatures.  Use Twitter as a way of answering consumer questions or Facebook as a way of announcing live events or webinars.  Uploading short videos to YouTube or staring a Blog are both things that you can do for free but can drive a ton of traffic to your business. 

The 4 Worst ATES – Don’t Do These 

DominATE  Social networking is not about being the life of the party and dominating the conversation.  Posting 50 tweets in 5 minutes to take up all the space on the screen to get noticed will certainly do so, but you’ll also loose followers.  Good friends listen to others and don’t dominate the conversation.  

AlienATE – Goes hand in hand with dominating the conversation.  In this case I am talking about social networkers that are only there to sell, sell, sell.  All their messages are “buy this me and you’ll get rich” oriented.  If every conversation you participate in is about you and what you have to sell, make no mistake, you will alienate your friends and lose followers.  Can you make posts and comments about your products and services?  Of course, just don’t make them the only thing you ever post and post them infrequently. 

ProcrastinATE - If you don’t have a social media marketing strategy, what are you waiting for.  Social media is NOT a fad and many of your competitors are already engaging with your customers and prospects.  You don’t have to be an expert to at least get started.  Sign up for a Twitter and Facebook account and observe what others are doing.  Get educated on the basics and progress from there.  You can get my free e-book “7 Steps to Social Media Success” to get you started. 

ComplicATE:  Some people get so overwhelmed with social media that they do nothing.  You talk to one person and they love Ning, Plaxo and StumbleUpon.  You talk to others and they swear by FastPitch, MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn.  Which are the best for you?  The ones where your potential clients, friends or fans with mutual interests hang out.  Go where your clients, customers and prospects are. 

It’s not about quantity so much as it is quality.  It’s better to really engage in a few strategic sites and do it well, than have dozens of sites and never engage in any. 

For more information on how you can integrate social media into your current marketing efforts go to http://www.streetsmartsalesandmarketing.com/SocialMedia.htm 

To Your Social Media Success,

Dave