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3 Ways To Get More Traffic And Sales From YouTube

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If you have a YouTube account, I highly recommend getting some videos done if you haven’t already. Videos are valuable ways to reach out to other people, and YouTube is the ideal place to use that advantage. Many marketers are using YouTube, but even when most of them get views, none of those views turn into sales or visitors on a blog. This even happens to many of those viral videos that have over 100,000 views.

The reason many people aren’t getting the results they want from YouTube is because they don’t know how to promote themselves. If you just upload the video and don’t promote yourself throughout the video or during the end, you aren’t using YouTube in a way that would give you more traffic and sales.

The first way to get more traffic and sales on YouTube is to constantly refer to your blog or products. In all of my YouTube videos, I introduce myself (Hello everybody, I am Marc Guberti) and tell the viewer about one of my products or blog (and I am the author of). Then, I go right into what I want to talk about in the video. It is important to consistently promote yourself with this method because people will hear the name of your product or your blog so many times that they will look at it. This will allow you to get more sales and traffic.

The second way to get more traffic and sales on YouTube is to include a link to your blog. Many people don’t think about the impact of adding a link to their blog. This seems like an easy task. All you have to do is copy and paste the link of your blog in the video (be sure to include http:// when you paste the link of your blog in the description). However, many people miss this step. This is how viral videos have no impact on the traffic and sales you get. They get the viewers, but the viewers have no other option to view other content. If people like your video, they will want to look at some of your other products and content as well. Give them that option.

The third way to get more traffic and sales on YouTube is to tell everyone where they can find your social networks at the end of the video. If the viewer likes what he sees, he will follow you on one or more of your social networks. If you actively use those social networks, that viewer will eventually click on the links of one of your blog posts, see one of your products, and eventually buy that product.

It’s not difficult to turn YouTube into traffic and sales for your products and blog. However, in order to get that extra traffic and sales, you have to promote yourself on your videos. Promoting yourself is a step many people miss which results in potential traffic and sales getting lost in the shuffle.

YouTube is a great way for you to increase your traffic and sales, and with these methods, you’ll be getting more traffic and sales in no time!

 

Why Social Media, 3D Printing, And Cars Are Huge

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There are over a billion people on Facebook. There are over half a billion people on Twitter. All of the social networks have millions of users. It’s not a mystery as to how social media is huge. If you say it’s because people can now talk to each other faster, you’d be wrong.

The reason why social media is huge is because it’s revolutionary. Social media dramatically improved one aspect of life. The fact that social media improved human interaction is just a coincidence.

3D printing is going to be really huge. It’s not because you can now print 3D objects that 3D printing is going to be huge. 3D printing is going to be huge because it’s a dramatic improvement of one aspect of life. If you hand make something, you can use a replicator to create a 3D file of what you handmade. Creating your own unique product couldn’t be any easier.

Cars are huge. Almost everyone has a car. There are plenty of traffic jams to account for that. The reason why cars are huge is because cars were a dramatic improvement. Instead of riding on a horse when you go somewhere, you can drive in a car (assuming you have a license). Cars go a lot faster than horses, but even when a car is going slower than a horse, it has its benefits. The car can go on as long as there’s gasoline left in the tank. A horse can only go on until it gets tired or hungry.

If you can find a way to dramatically improve an aspect of life whether that aspect is travel, communication, or something else, you will become a member of the elite.

5 Creative Ways To Generate And Keep Buzz On Instagram

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Unlike other social networks, Instagram relies on the fact that you are taking pictures primarily from your mobile device. Other social networks allow you to use a picture from the web or no picture at all.

Business owners and brands are now using Instagram, and the total number of users on Instagram has shot up like a rocket. However, few people are actually generating the buzz on Instagram so that people look at their products and services.

  1. Post 1-5 picture every day. If you have 10 pictures that you want to post today, it’s better to spread them out over a period of time so you have enough pictures to post for the entire week. Consistency is more important than getting a fast start.
  2. Host a giveaway. This method works well on any social network, but especially Instagram where you can take a picture of yourself holding the prize and sharing it with everyone. That picture will definitely get a lot of likes.
  3. Comment On Other People’s Pictures. The more times people see you on Instagram, the more they will remember your presence. When more people remember, this allows you to generate and keep the buzz. People who are remembered are the ones who become successful.
  4. Promote your Instagram account and pictures on your blog. The more you promote your Instagram account and pictures, the more traffic and followers you will get. Promoting all of that on your own blog is a great way to increase traffic and get more followers. This applies for any social network.
  5. Build a following. There are plenty of ways to do this. All four of the above ways will help you get a following while generating and keeping buzz. Another great way to build a following on Instagram is by following others back.

Systematizing YouTube

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Is not as difficult as it sounds. So far, I have 2 videos on my channel about social media, and I plan to be adding many more within the upcoming months. Systematizing our business has no longer become something awesome. It has turned itself into a necessity. We need to systematize some things so we can focus on other things.

A book is systematized once it is finished. Tweets can be systematized (but only for a few days at most), and blog posts can be systematized as well. However, YouTube is a powerful social network that can be systematized as well. Out of all of these options, I found that systematizing YouTube was the easiest.

Not only is it easy, but it will also increase your traffic dramatically–if you are consistent with YouTube. I have been publishing YouTube videos every Saturday, and I plan to keep it that way. That’s one YouTube video every week, but how could that be systematized?

Since I publish 1 YouTube video every week, I only need to do 52 videos every year. This means if finish all 52 videos in one month, you have 11 months when you don’t have to worry about YouTube at all. Just schedule your videos on the exact day and time you want them to be published.

For other people, this will be even easier. You may only want to do 1 YouTube video every month. All you have to do is 12 videos for the entire year. If you did all 12 of those videos in a week, you would have the entire year to do other things to grow your business.

That’s how you systematize YouTube. The more ways you find to systematize your business, the better. The more you systematize, the less work you have to do every day. After summer, I go back to school, and my schedule gets hectic. That’s why it’s essential for me to systematize any areas of my business that I can. You have reasons as well. No matter what your reasons are, you need to start finding ways to systematize your business.

20 Social Media Statistics That You Need To Know

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It’s always difficult to decide which social network you should use. All of the social networks have millions of members. I use Twitter and Pinterest every day. I will be using other social networks every day as well (Instagram, Tumblr, and Google+).

I am not jumping right into those social networks because it’s better to focus on an individual social network. Once I reach 3,000 followers on Pinterest, I’ll incorporate another social network into my business plan (UPDATE: I now have over 3,000 followers on Pinterest).

You may be juggling around social networks, or you don’t know which social network is right for you. These are 20 interesting statistics that will help you decide which social network to use.

  1. Pinterest users spend an average of $180 per purchase which is far greater than any other social network. Facebook users are second at $85.
  2. The fastest growing demographic on Twitter is the 55-64 age bracket.
  3. Companies that generate over 1,000 likes also receive nearly 1,400 visitors on their website a day.
  4. 50% of Twitter users are more likely to purchase from brands they follow.
  5. 80% of pins are repins.
  6. 40% of marketers use Google+.
  7. 45 million photos are uploaded to Instagram every day. That’s 521 photos every second!
  8. Instagram has grown very fast in less than 3 years.
  9. 24% of teenagers who use the web also have Twitter. Some of them are moving from Facebook to Twitter.
  10. Facebook has 665 million users who are active every day.
  11. Over 6 billion hours of video are watched every month.
  12. Companies with over 1,000 followers generate more than 800 visitors to their website every month. I can vouch for that.
  13. Pinterest hit 10 million unique U.S. visitors per month faster than any other website in history. It’s growing, and it’s growing fast.
  14. One out of every 7 minutes spent online is on Facebook.
  15. The average Pinterest user has 171 pins, 229 followers, 3 boards, and 28 likes.
  16. 720 million minutes were spent using Pinterest’s mobile app in 2012.
  17. 60% of Google+ users log in every day while 80% of Google+ users log in every week.
  18. Every minute, 700 YouTube videos are shared on Twitter.
  19. There are 2.1 million LinkedIn groups.
  20. Over 400 million tweets are sent every day.

11 Ways To Get More Retweets On Twitter

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When your tweet gets retweeted, it is being shared to potentially thousands of people. If you get retweeted by a person with over 100,000 followers, your tweet will be in front of over 100,000 other people. This is why it’s becoming more important to get those retweets. Here are 11 ways to get more retweets.

  1. Tweet consistently. If you want people to retweet, they have to know when you tweet. Use HootSuite to schedule your tweets.
  2. Tweet motivational quotes. Everyone is looking for those quotes, and almost all of the motivational quotes I tweet get retweeted.
  3. Have a following. Having a following always helps out towards getting more retweets. If you don’t have your first 1,000 followers yet, here are 10 proven ways to get your first 1,000 followers.
  4. Retweet other people’s tweets. Give and you shall receive.
  5. Start more conversations. The people who you talk with may decide to retweet one of your tweets.
  6. Include RT, rt, or r/t at the end of your tweet. Asking improves your changes as long as you avoid saying, “Please Retweet.”
  7. Put tweets up on your blog. Although I don’t do this, I have a Twitter icon which leads to my account. Both work.
  8. Make your tweets retweet-worthy. A tweet with a typo doesn’t get retweeted by anyone. Everyone will notice the typo instead of the rest of the tweet.
  9. Be relevant. If you tweet about baseball, news about baseball teams is what your followers want to see.
  10. Stay on the lookout for the ripple effect. If someone retweets your tweet to 100,000 followers, chances are that some of those 100,000 followers are going to retweet your tweet as well. You won’t get all 100,000 followers to retweet your tweet, and you’d be lucky if you got 100 of them to retweet your tweet. However, you’re bound to get at least 10 retweets that way. The small ripple turns into a big ripple, and then you become viral (being viral isn’t as easy as it sounds though).
  11. Keep on tweeting. You only get all of those tweets by not giving up. When you keep on tweeting, you will eventually get to 100,000 followers. You won’t need the person with 100,000 followers to retweet your tweets. You’ll be that guy with 100,000 followers.