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5 Reasons Why You Absolutely Positively Need To Take YouTube More Seriously

September 1, 2014 by Marc Guberti 2 Comments

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Although YouTube is the leading social network in video creation, and it is also the 3rd most popular website on the entire web, few people are taking advantage of this powerful social network. A majority of YouTube users do not use YouTube to build a presence on the web, and some users have not uploaded a single video of their own to YouTube. If you are like one of the many people who has even never tried YouTube or stopped a while ago, you need to start taking YouTube seriously, and here’s why:

YouTube gets over 1 billion unique visitors every month. That’s more than most websites, and that audience is ginormous. There will be millions of people in that audience who will be targeted viewers. Targeted viewers are the ones who would enjoy viewing videos that match the types of videos you upload on YouTube.
Some people have made full-time incomes on YouTube. The Google Adsense Program is at its prime on YouTube. Some people have been able to make millions of dollars from Google Adsense, and it wouldn’t be so bad to become a part of the seven-figure club.
You can promote your other social networks on YouTube. You can promote the social media icons with YouTube’s channel feature, and you can also promote your other social networks in the actual YouTube video. At the end of every YouTube video, tell your viewers where they can find you, and be sure to tell your viewers to subscribe to your channel.
People watch video content for a long time. If you upload valuable YouTube videos, people will watch your YouTube videos for a long period of time. The longer someone watches your YouTube video, the more likely that person is to subscribe to your channel and follow you on your social networks.
People search YouTube to learn about products and services more than any other social network. That means if you are selling or reviewing products, YouTube is the perfect place to go. People want to see what the product actually looks like and hear someone explain the features. For those kinds of desires, people go to YouTube for the answers. You can start reviewing your favorite products or review your own products. It’s entirely up to you.

Those are the five reasons why you need to take YouTube seriously. Are you going to use YouTube more often and start to take it seriously? If so, these articles may be of good help.

Super Productivity Overload: How To Have The Most Productive Week You’ve Ever Had

August 31, 2014 by Marc Guberti 2 Comments

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When looking back at all of the weeks I have been working, I can easily look back and identify when I was the most productive. From July 21st to July 27th, I did an array of tasks:

Write 20 blog posts
Write 20,000 words for an upcoming book
Do 12 scripts for a membership site
Schedule 50 Facebook posts
Do 10 YouTube videos
Schedule 5 YouTube videos

All of the things you see here got accomplished in just seven days, and none of those are typos, and I didn’t stuff in some extra 0’s just to make everything look better. I am a big supporter of the weekly score card which I used when accomplishing these goals. One of the big things I noticed on this score card compared to others was that there were fewer things on the list. My typical score card has far more than 10 things on the list. I cut some of those off the list which narrowed it down to six. I could now focus more of my attention on six goals compared to spending less attention on ten or more goals.

I decided to go back and see how I was able to do all of these things, and then I put a few things together:

The two week family vacation was coming up which meant I knew I would be kicking back and relaxing during those two weeks (yes, I do kick back and relax). This week is similar to what runners would call sprinting to the finish line.
I had more deadlines. One of the reasons was that I only had two YouTube videos scheduled which would not have lasted the entire vacation. I would have missed a week, and for someone who has the need to be consistent, that would have been bad. In addition, I knew I would only have four days to complete an entire membership site which is why I knew all of the scripts had to be done in advance.
I had more time to focus on less goals. Although these goals were by no means walk in the parks, I could zone in on them instead of overwhelming myself with too many goals in one week.

In other words, this was a strong sprint to the finish line filled with fewer but more important deadlines. Most people wait to do the strong sprint to the finish line weeks before the end of the year. Now I have been finding any excuse possible to sprint for the finish line. That is why I am the most productive during the summer. It is my long and strong sprint to the finish line so I did more than was expected of me before school begins. Last year, I did 40 YouTube videos in two weeks just so I would not have to worry about them during school (some of those videos were even done past midnight).

Are you ready to have the most productive week of your life? Find your reason to sprint to the finish and only choose to do the goals that are going to bring forth the biggest impact possible.

How To Properly Write Your First Blog Post

August 29, 2014 by Marc Guberti 4 Comments

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Every blogger has that awkward feeling. It is the absolute struggle to come up with an idea for your first blog post. You can write about anything, and that’s the main reason why writing the first blog post feels so awkward–anything doesn’t really narrow it down! There are so many topics, sub-topics, sub-topics of the sup-topics, and other things to choose from. It’s just too much.

What makes the situation awkward is that people overthink the situation. Overthinking makes the entire experience more awkward because many people try to put all of their knowledge in a particular area in one blog post. In order to make the experience less awkward, I am going to share with you good limitations you can use so you write the first blog post faster.

Create a blog post relating to your niche.
Choose a topic you know enough to the point where you do not have to do any research.
For how-to articles, make it a list of three. No more and no less.
You have a 200 word limit. That will make the entire experience less awkward.

You want to write a quick blog post the first time just so you know what it’s like to be out there. Blogging becomes less awkward as you publish more blog posts for the blog. Then you will get into a comfortable groove. The first blog post is the hardest, but afterwards, it becomes easier to write blog post after blog post.

Did you write your first blog post, and if so, how was that first blog post? After you wrote the first blog post, did it become easier for you to write blog post after blog post? Are there any words of wisdom you would like to offer people who have not written their first blog posts yet? Please share your thoughts and advice below.

4 Incredibly Easy Methods To Achieve Social Media Balance

August 28, 2014 by Marc Guberti 4 Comments

It is fair to say that social media has taken over the lives of many people. People’s emotions are controlled by what other people post, and many people spend hours surfing on these social networks without thinking of the tasks they need to complete. Some people have been known to become depressed by spending too much time on their social networks. However, that’s not because social media is bad. The reason people get depressed is because they spend too much time on social media doing the wrong things.

On social media, Facebook in particular, friends take pictures of themselves living the good life. This makes a person feel horrible because they are not up to par with that friend. However, just because a friend took a picture that indicates happiness, that friend may have only been happy in the moment. Not everyone is happy just because they’re smiling in their avatar.

For some people, their uses of social media has gone too far. With more time checking out tweets and liking posts but less time outside and being with the people who are important to you, some people have lost themselves on social media. However, this is the time to break loose of the addiction. Most of us need more balance between the time we spend on social media and the time we spend doing other things. Here are four ways to restore that balance.

Do less surfing. A big reason why most people get trapped in social media is because they surf it too often. Without question, more time is spent surfing social media than is actually spent taking the time to write posts. If you cut down the amount of time you surf by 15-30 minutes every week, you will notice more time opening up and you being able to spend more time doing other things that you love to do.
Limit yourself to three social networks. I do not suggest limiting social networks for the business side, but if you are addicted to social media, more social networks will not do you any good. If you spend 1 hour every day on each social network you go on, and you have seven social networks, that’s a grand total of seven hours being wasted on social media. Limit yourself to three social networks. If you have more than three social networks, enter humongous passwords with your eyes closed for the other social networks so they can’t get hacked and you don’t remember the password. Then, if you choose to recover your password, you will have to click “Forgot your password.” Now you have more time to think about what you are going to do and if you should stop before logging into the social network.
Do more things outside of social media more often. Some people are addicted to social networks because they have nothing else going on in their lives. Some people have no one to interact with outside of home, and more unfortunate, some people have no one to interact with in their own home. You need to pursue other hobbies that take up time. I run for a minimum of 30 minutes every day, and some of my runs exceed two hours.
Get fit. This is not the corny 4th example because I could not think of a good one. Getting fit takes a lot of time, and it gives you more discipline. Getting fit requires you to workout as often as you can putting in as much effort as possible. Soon, surfing social media will no longer be the priority. Getting fit will take its place. In order to maximize the effects of getting more fit, do workouts with a partner. You will both challenge each other to show up every day and get the task done.

Social media addiction take up hours of your time, but if you know how to fight the addiction, you will find more time to do the things you forgot you loved to do. Some people feel that social media is their only source of happiness, but there’s more to life than tweets and selfies. Although I am on Twitter often, I don’t let it consume my life, and no one should have to stoop to that level. If you are at that level now, do these four things so you can successfully break your social media addiction. It may take some time to pull it off, but the more you think about it, the less likely you are going to start. Make the choice to start now so you do not live in regret and a bigger social media addiction later.

The One Factor That All Popular YouTube Videos Have In Common

August 27, 2014 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

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The person in the video is someone who others would want to listen to.

The fact of the matter is that people are more busy than ever. Some people see their time as extremely precious because they are putting in a lot of work. Other people procrastinate too often, and when they are on task, that time is precious to them since they are rarely on task.

Then comes the need to learn more about the niche. The people who want to learn more about social media, blogging, productivity, and more (that would be you since you’re on this blog), there are two options for obtaining more knowledge. The first option is reading through a blog post, and the second option is watching a YouTube video.

Readers have the advantage of being able to skim through a blog post that would normally take seven minutes to read while being able to retain the main information. On YouTube videos, that opportunity is not presented because skipping through a YouTube video may possibly result in you missing out on important information. Then there’s the frustration of finding your place after you skipped through part of the video as well as the lag time for some videos and computers. This frustration leads to most people leaving the video.

That means you need to be someone who conveys information quickly and makes someone feel as if your video was worth every second. You also want to talk about a topic and talk in a way that people would enjoy watching the entire video.

We all know the difference between a good YouTube video and a bad one. I’m sure you could think of some good ones and bad ones right now (if you are thinking of mine, I encourage you to put them in the good pile of your mind). Make sure your YouTube videos are good enough to the point where your friends would want to watch them over and over again without you hounding them to watch your YouTube video “one more time.”

YouTube videos are supposed to be enjoyable to watch, not a drag. What are your thoughts on using this component for your YouTube videos? Do you have any other important words of wisdom to share for YouTube achievement? Please share your thoughts and advice below.