Finding the MashedIn widget and service, I immediately found a benefit to taking advantage of its features.
MashedIn connects to your LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook accounts to create both a widget for your website, and a personal link for your emails, etc. Using the personal link was an immediate hit for me.
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Working with Animoto!, a video creation software online, a variety of artists images have been used (with their permission) to create a promotional video for the artists' community website Arts, Artists, Artwork. This first cut includes the images submitted to date, and I am still ( Read more ... )
Once a website is online, getting traffic and increasing traffic share is the most common goal. After all, the website has been put out there with a purpose in mind relating to persuading, informing, educating, and selling. While social media offers one channel for traffic to find your site, it is also one that remains a short-term immediate benefit as it happens more in real time in a social sphere. You post a link to your site that you want to share, those who are online and respond to it, come visit your site. Days, weeks, months later, you either repeat the same process again and again to sustain that traffic flow, or you seek out other alternatives to keep ( Read More ... )
Turn your photos & videos into pure amazing.
Animoto automatically produces beautifully orchestrated, completely unique video pieces from your photos, video clips and music. Fast, free and shockingly easy. ( Read More ... )
Recently, needing to transfer rather large files, I found this fantastic service. The free level gives you 2gigs of storage right out of the gates. Installing their secure api application, and having created a secure online account on their website, you create a virtual folder on your desktop that quickly and easily manages files to be ( Read More ... )
Many people are looking at how to leverage social media to generate business. To jump into social media with the sole focus upon 'sell, sell, sell' is bound to result in huge results. However, the larger percentage of results will be broken trust-relationships.
Many of the social media platforms are clamping down more and more on the way marketers engage people on their social media sites. They are looking out for their user base. Just as you would protect your own client list, they're protecting their client list and best interests. So what do you do? ( Read More ... )
After fielding so many questions, hearing so many comments, as part of so many conversations with clients and people online, the decision was made to launch a simple social media video segment that addresses more the fundamentals of social media and networking, versus all the technical aspects. Instead, many glimpses and tricks will be covered, and more of the why, what-for, and how-to stuff will show you what you need to know to get the ( Read More ... )
This short video is the current sample of putting the I Choose Love song by Shawn Gallaway to a slide presentation of the Maya Sacred Path to 2012 Tour that took place Dec 3rd through 12th, 2009. This video is on display as presentation for review by participating parties for approval processes. Until approved for release, this material is completely unavailable through any Creative Commons licensing. ( Watch the Video ... )
Many conversations these days pertain to what the website is for, where the web is going, whether the same strategies from five years ago hold true today. Before the buzzword social media and web 2.0, everyone knew the importance of a list and having regular email communication to their clients and audience. In larger organizations, the web and email may have had much less prominence, as they opted for the traditional print media channels for the client / audience communication.
Today, so much more is possible directly online.
Any business can start small and scale up to meet the needs of a growing business. First and foremost, this must be ( Read More ... )
This short video is the current sample of putting the I Choose Love song by Shawn Gallaway to a slide presentation of the Maya Sacred Path to 2012 Tour that took place Dec 3rd through 12th, 2009. This video is on display as presentation for review by participating parties for approval processes. Until approved for release, this material is completely unavailable through any Creative Commons licensing. ( Watch the Videos ... )
Getting traffic to your website is and should be a top concern for anyone with, or planning to create, a website. No matter what community online I spend time interacting with, the common question of how to get more traffic to your website is raised. It makes perfect sense.
The whole purpose of the website is to inform customers, and to create relationships with new customers. You'll notice it states: Create relationships with new customers, and NOT get new customers. Those days are gone, and social media is a driving force restoring best practices that focus upon building relationships with people, as people. Along this journey into social media, there were many marketers who used this effectively with poor practices that result in damaged relationships. This article focuses upon the outcomes of this journey, and re-establishes the tried and true considerations for ( Read More ... )
OMC Social Media Solutions regularly provides website solutions to clients. After having built a number of them, initially with WordPress and then having to deal with all the upgrades and maintenance, clients becoming savvy enough to do their own thing, and the need by many for additional tools to complement their website functions, this template-site offers a host of options that are easily customized.
More importantly, this template is built upon a powerful website hosting software platform that not only helps you to ( Read More ... )
Leveraging the Internet has become a major source of new business offering:
With the increase of website communities, technology advances dramatically enable and empower individuals with natural interests and passions, relationships and communities, that generate a great deal of traffic, interest, and interaction.
Any company looking for new ways to leverage the web in innovative ways, the options are ( Read More ... )
The structure of the site I implement and use that goes quickly and easily when organized makes implementing the solution available very affordable to you, and me. Speaking today with another about "what next" for them to do, so they can go ahead with the site implementation, I provided the following reference useful for all who are interested. ( Read More ... )
Building your website has never seemed easier than it is these days. There are so many varied solutions, and each one with its benefits, and its drawbacks. With all these solutions the business person / website consumer often finds themselves scrambling to add other functional elements to support their online business efforts. Things like ( Read More ... )
I recorded this video a few days ago to share with people the advantage of using the Custom Share feature on their Profile - Wall - view. Today a notice popped up in Facebook about changes to their Privacy Settings that ( Read More ... )
The month of October saw the creation and development of the i2i Eyewear Inc. website and online wholesale ordering system for their retail clients. With new features released via the hosted CMS, CRM, Ecommerce engine, the online web-store was created quickly and easily using an import feature.
i2i Eyewear Inc. carries exclusive designer brand eyewear for the ( Read more ... )
Just released today, the Basic Facebook Setup Guide will take complete newcomers to Facebook and walk them through the various stages of Account Creation, Profile Updates, and Privacy Settings. A few other minor points are introduced along the way that barely touches upon the marketing side, but prefaces the importance of ( Read more ... )
It's not often I get to write about Internet Marketing related software tools from a perspective of support. Quite often, I'd be found ripping some programs apart, demanding more for the consumer. In this instance, I see extremely high value with the use of tools like this one I'm suggesting as a useful add-on tool.
Many competitors of yours use the Google Adwords to buy paid traffic for prominent placement on Google Search pages. You know those advertisements along the right edge? With this tool, you can see ( Read More ... )
Traffic to your own domain will be affected far greater having the blog on your domain and utilizing the technology to have it spidered frequently.
As for the question of whether a blog benefits your website's SEO, there is no doubt about the blog's benefit to your website with Search Engine Optimization. That is, if it is being used properly.
Using the blog properly requires a few key points to be observed: ( Read More... )
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