We recently bought a CobraCrane BackPacker single arm crane to give our videos a more polished, cinematic look. We took the crane out for a “test drive” on a short tour through Oregon this past July (2012) stopping at Mt Hood, Bend, Crater Lake National Park and Bandon. The CobraCrane BackPacker is easy to set […]
Pinterest is a relatively new social media platform that is quickly becoming very popular; it now has over 12 million unique visitors each month. According to the company, Pinterest is a virtual pinboard that allows you to organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. By way of example, the platform […]
Twitter is a free social networking and micro blogging service that allows members to send an instant 140-character message (tweet) to any member who has chosen to follow them. With close to 500 million users and 100 million + active users, there is a good chance that any business has many customers who are […]
Broad reach into local markets that is made possible by the Internet and improving (and more ubiquitous) GPS capabilities being offered by mobile smart phones, has led to an explosion in services that allow business to connect with prospects in their specific geographic markets. Some of the most notable examples are Groupon, LivingSocial, Amazon […]
In addition to setting up Pages, another great way for businesses to engage with prospects and customers on Facebook is to create Groups for people who share interests in a common topic. In the case of Groups, everyone in the Group is notified when another member of the Group posts or comments so people tend […]
You can set up a Facebook Page using your personal profile account or if you only want to have a Page for managing your business you can set up business account to manage your Page (more on setting up a business account later). To set up with a personal account, go to facebook.com/pages/create.php to start […]
There are many different social network sites catering to different needs and interests. YouTube focuses on video sharing, Flickr and Instagram focus on photo sharing, and Twitter focuses on short messaging in real time. Facebook is a social networking service and website that allows members to create personal profiles, add friends, exchange messages, photo and […]
YouTube is clearly the biggest video-sharing site today. It’s 3 Billion+ monthly visitors account for more than 85% of all U.S. traffic to video sharing sites. Google Videos has now been incorporated into YouTube. Microsoft’s Bing Videos is mostly a search engine that index’s video content from other sites including YouTube. Yahoo’s video site is […]
Once your video is finished uploading make sure you take the time to choose which of the 15 types of video categories is the best fit for your video. You also want to choose which of the 3 thumbnail photos YouTube makes available is the best representation of your video (users used to have more […]
Once your video is uploaded (and even as it’s uploading), there are actions you can take to increase the likelihood of your video being discovered through the YouTube search engine and other search engines. It’s important to pay close attention to what you put in the title for the video, the description for the […]