YouTube Can Be An Outstanding Tool To Promote Your Website and Opt In PagesPosted by Bonnie Holscher on January 24th, 2010

You Tube started out as a fun place to post your home videos and began to be utilized by internet entrepreneurs to share their products and sservices.  Entertainers started to promote themselves by posting music videos and now You Tube has become one of the most widely used promotional tools available to anyone who has a computer. 

The internet business owner can not only promote what they have to offer, they can also do trainings as well.  Entreperneurs like Alex Mendossian, Jeff Herring, Andy Andrews and many, many others use video to share messages,  make announcements of new programs and new offers regularly using video as the media means to reach their followers and students.  This creates that all too important personal touch that the internet can sometimes leave out.  Who is the person behind the website or voice or email?  Like it has been said that people will do business with those they know, like and trust.  What better a way besides meeting someone face to face than to hear them and see them on video. 

Most cameras these days have a video function on them and now the ever popular Flip Video Recorder makes doing random footage quite easy. Nowadays it is also advisable to get testimonials for credibility and what better way to do it and share them.   Windows has a movie maker that makes editing and adding titles and URL’s easy as well.  So if you are serious about building an online marketing business, it would be wise to look into adding video to your work and watch it grow.  One nice thing about posting to YouTube is that others can share your video with those that they know or those who  follow them and your message becomes viral and can travel all over the world.  Imagine how many lives you can touch.

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Twitter Is A Great Way To Connect For Friends And BusinessPosted by admin on April 17th, 2009

Sometime back in the summer last year, someone told me abut Twitter and that I should get invloved.  I said yeah, yeah and opened an account.  But Twitter looked greek to me and so I did nothing with my account and even forgot I had it.  Along came a friend of mine in Califiornia who is building an amazing internet business and said she was really involved with this social networking and I should get going with it too.  While on the phone, we pulled up my account and of course, there were no tweets.  She sent me a tweet and taught me how to tweet back, direct messege and find friends.  I thought hmmm this is interesting.

Fast forward six months and now there is not a day that goes by that I do not bing up my Twitter account and talk with others and share great moments in my day.  I never dreamed that I would be following almost 2800 tweeple and had almost that many following me.  As you can see that I have learned some of the terminology also.  I also have my tweets going to my Facebook as well to stay in touch with them as well. 

Now there is #followfriday also that is great when someone recommends you to follow to their followers. Be sure to  Follow me at The Valentyne if you have a Twitter account and if you do not…get one.  The world of social networking is not only fun but a great way to connect and reach potential tweeple that have the same or similar business interests.  Either way it is an amazing world.

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