Does your business offer products and services that are geared toward teenagers, and young adults? If so, it would behoove you to know that YouTube is the number one channel for teen social media. A poll by Harris Interactive has shown that for people who are 13-24 years old, YouTube has pulled ahead of Facebook [...]
Video Marketing: What Makes it Engaging?
Video marketing can be leveraged as a highly effective tool in your online marketing toolbox. Many companies are finding that video marketing provides a great means of growing their business’ online outreach, thus gaining exposure for their businesses as well as new sales leads. When it’s done well, video marketing can lend customers and prospects [...]
Online Behavior: Going Viral
Many considerations go into a social media marketing campaign: strategy, quality content, consistency, to name just a few. There is one factor, however, that you need to keep uppermost in mind at all times while engaging on social media: how online behavior, whether good or bad, can go viral. Good behavior – helpfulness, kindness and [...]
The Importance of Multimedia to Social Media
Never underestimate the importance of multimedia to social media. Sure, text is and will remain a vital component of blogs and communication on social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. The multimedia aspect, however, makes engagement potential skyrocket. Audiovisual aspects of social media interactions are often the very components that go viral and are [...]
Personalization in Retail – A Natural Outgrowth of Social Media Trends
We already know how much the personalization opportunities afforded by Web 2.0 technology have changed the online landscape. People can not only connect with one another in real time, across vast distances, but increasingly, they can also personalize their online experiences in many ways, from how they interact on social networking sites to how they [...]
Live Events as Part of Your Social Media Marketing Strategy
As vital as online relationships can be, they reach greater depths when nurtured offline. When you combine face-to-face (F2F) events with social networking tools, you can bring together the best of both worlds – online and offline – to help grow your business, enhance your connections and have a great time, to boot. Conferences and [...]
5 Ways to Use Video Marketing For Your Business
Video marketing is becoming more and more widespread among businesses, and for good reason. Since people tend to respond strongly to visuals, videos are a great way to engage customers and prospects. Videos can be uploaded to YouTube or similar video-sharing sites, then embedded on your business’ website or blog. The best ways to use [...]