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Some Of My Social Media Videos

September 26, 2013 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

I did a lot of videos over the summer, and my goal is to come out with one video every week about social media, blogging, and business. Right now, there are only videos about social media and blogging, but I can guarantee you that videos about business will show up as well. If you want to learn a lot about social media and blogging, these five YouTube videos will help out a lot.

In addition to those five videos, you can subscribe to my blog where I will give you free access to the Mastering Pinterest Video Tutorial where I share my knowledge about Pinterest and becoming a power user.

You can see all of the videos here.

3 Ways To Get More Traffic And Sales From YouTube

September 24, 2013 by Marc Guberti 3 Comments

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!

September 1

September 1, 2013 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

The countdown starts. I’ll be going back to school soon while I know others have already started. Although you may not be going to school, changes are you have a lot of things to do during this span (September to June) compared to the summer as well. This is why systematizing your business or at least finding some areas to systematize is essential towards the growth of your business.

Find ways to make things happen automatically. Scheduling tweets isn’t exactly a systematized process because I schedule tweets every day. However, when I’m in school, I don’t have to take out my phone to send out a tweet. HootSuite does that for me.

That’s why I did 52 videos in August for YouTube because I publish 1 video every week. Those videos are scheduled, and now I don’t have to go back to YouTube until next summer. I have the choice of whether or not to use YouTube throughout the entire school year.

I wrote a majority of my books over the summer because I won’t get as much time when school starts. All of the books I mentioned in blog posts were finished in summer. I have from now until June to write an entire book.

I have scheduled blog posts days in advance in the event I got a test that I needed to study for throughout the night. I am scheduling even more blog posts just to make sure nothing happens.

I have only attended business expos in the summer. If I had to attend business expos on a weekly or even a monthly basis, I would be faced with a schedule conflict.

I read books (not given as summer homework) over the summer so I won’t have to worry about them when school starts. I will be reading every night when school starts, and reading 2 books simultaneously never works.

If scheduling pins were free, I would have scheduled pins for a long amount of time. I’ll have enough time to send out 10-30 pins a day despite there not being a free way to schedule pins…yet.

If I didn’t systematize my business at all, having to maintain school, track, and my business would have been difficult. However, I have been able to systematize many aspects of my business. The only things I have to do throughout the school year are tweet, pin, write 1 book, and write blog posts.

Going into summer, I knew some ways of systematizing my business. I knew writing books and scheduling blog posts (only to a certain degree) could be systematized going into the summer.

I didn’t read any books this summer until the middle of July. I didn’t even bother doing YouTube videos until the middle of August (a lot of videos have been done in the process. They’re all done though).

Last year, I had nothing systematized. This blog didn’t even exist last year. I kept on doing the same amount of work day in and day out. I wrote books during the school year, and as a freshman at the time, the school work was the easiest. I got lucky.

When I go back to school, I will know that parts of my business are systematized. Doing a YouTube video doesn’t have to be a part of my schedule until June. I only need to write one book, and if I finish that by the New Year, I won’t have to worry about writing another book for 6 months.

Not all of the parts of my business are systematized, but enough of them are. Next year, I will be able to systematize even more parts of my business. I only started systematizing YouTube less than 15 days ago. Next summer, I’ll have 3 entire months to do that. I may be able to systematize my pins (by then, some kind of Pinterest scheduler will have launched). I may have more days scheduled on this blog. I may read 20 books next summer that weren’t assigned by my teachers (20 books in a summer is setting the bar high, but I would rather set the bar high than set the bar low).

Last year, nothing was systematized. This year, some parts of my business are systematized. Next year, a majority of my business will be systematized. What can you do today, tomorrow, this week, or this month to systematize your business? Start systematizing now!

Systematizing YouTube

August 28, 2013 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

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

August 26, 2013 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

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.

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