tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16761153406176837862024-03-14T00:53:31.971+08:00Sparking OnlineExploring The Power of VIDEO.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17506621623486838416noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676115340617683786.post-39133538486554233942013-06-04T22:56:00.000+08:002013-07-14T21:22:49.507+08:00Exploring Video Newsletter of Talk Fusion<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Exploring Video Newsletter capabilities of <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://1567710.talkfusion.com/home.asp">Talk Fusion</a></span> is worth taking of your time, specially if you're a regular content creator sending your stuff to your online audience on their emails. Plus, be one of the proud users of this first in the world content service, the World's First Video Newsletter!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On readers or audience perspective, you are a regular consumer of newsletters. Weekly or monthly you received updates consist of news, contents, promos, tips, or sales pitches flooding on your email in the form of newsletters. Some catch your attention and others you just simply neglecting them. The next challenge for content producer is how they can grab your time, reading their contents from start to end of the article.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I made some video newsletter samples below featuring some of my favorite blog sites. What will be your impression if upon opening of your received newsletter will look like these following samples?</span><br />
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<a href="http://app.talkfusion.com/newsletters/vn_view.asp?shareMjE4NTky_%21CID%21#.Uax8NCgwcjs.facebook"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">SAMPLE 1</span></a><br />
<a href="http://app.talkfusion.com/newsletters/vn_view.asp?shareMjA4NDIz_%21CID%21#.Ua1Th_9G-pU.facebook"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">SAMPLE 2</span></a><br />
<a href="http://app.talkfusion.com/newsletters/vn_view.asp?shareMjE4NTc0_%21CID%21#.Ua3odJKmqlA.facebook"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">SAMPLE 3</span></a><br />
<a href="http://app.talkfusion.com/newsletters/vn_view.asp?shareMjExMzI3_%21CID%21#.Ua3q6LYm-3I.facebook"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">SAMPLE 4</span></a><br />
<a href="http://app.talkfusion.com/newsletters/vn_view.asp?shareMjA4MzI3_%21CID%21#.Ua3rKQalbzE.facebook"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">SAMPLE 5</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For sure it will catch your attention. Want to see how it shows inside your email or want a sample for your website too? Just reach me <a href="http://about.me/erwintiin73"><span style="color: blue;">HERE</span></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Looking on the perspective of content creator, publisher or blogger, using Video Newsletter is an edge in capturing your audience attention and held them glued more time on your sent article. And here's more features for your add-on connectivity and possible social media engagements, on the bottom portion of the video newsletter you can direct your audience to your website, twitter and facebook accounts. Watch it here below how it's done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Plus take a look how easily you can share your video newsletter to different social media sites you want!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If this prompt you now to avail this elegant service, <a href="http://1567710.talkfusion.com/for/pricing/"><span style="color: red;"><b>grab it here</b></span></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">These awesome video newsletters can be made by simply doing this easy 4 steps:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Log-in to your <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://1567710.talkfusion.com/home.asp">Talk Fusion</a></span> account and go to Video Communication Center then hover to Create Video Newsletter under Video Newsletter tab.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Second: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Under Template Options, you have hundreds of templates to choose from suited for your website or you can customized your template according to your desire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Third: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Inserting your text contents inside your chosen template, do some pictures pasting and video embedding you want to be featured.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fourth: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Filling up your contact details: url, twitter and facebook accounts then send. See result then who viewed your sent video newsletter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Or watch a video tutorial here below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">YES, I'm selling :). I'm an affiliate of Talk Fusion. What's your thoughts of Video Newsletter? </span><br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17506621623486838416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676115340617683786.post-34931847105419879382013-05-01T11:57:00.000+08:002013-05-01T11:57:31.579+08:00Creating A Google+ Hangout<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Creating a google+ hangout, now comes to your mind and now on your to do list. As it said, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7qlunRCjZ2U" target="_blank">"<span style="color: blue;">there's a lot you can do in a Hangout ...</span>".</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I collected some articles showing the benefits of google+ hangout. Here they are:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.marismith.com/ten-reasons-googleplus-hangouts/?doing_wp_cron=1367377603.8026928901672363281250#" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Meet with clients without leaving the office</span></a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.famousbloggers.net/google-hangouts-entrepreneur.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Live conferencing</span></a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.famousbloggers.net/google-hangouts-entrepreneur.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Integrate these tools with you other efforts</span></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now ready? Let's do the hangout.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1. Create your <a href="https://accounts.google.com/SignUp?service=mail&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%2F&ltmpl=default" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">gmail account</span></a>. If you have already your google+, just proceed to step 2. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> After you successfully created your gmail account, proceed to google+, then search and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> add friends to your circles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2. In the left side bar of your google+ home, find Hangouts under More. Click Start A </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">3. Install Plugin.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">4. Now you're ready to go! Invite friends inside your hangout. Explore the features. You </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> can Off / On your camera and microphone. You can have the Group Chat. Screenshare </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> is best for slideshow presentation!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I prepared also this tutorial "creating a google+ hangout" in a video.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's Hangout Time! See you soon in one of your hangouts!</span><br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17506621623486838416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676115340617683786.post-39332372132599832802013-04-14T18:16:00.000+08:002013-04-14T18:16:51.257+08:00How To Earn From A Video<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">How to earn from a video? For most people, it's only a fun but for some, it's income generation while they enjoy doing it. Uploading video is now considered as one of the many income stream options we can have on the internet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">How much we can earn on video uploads? So far, a six figure US dollar income is possible as proved by these two extra-ordinary guys in <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Youtube</span></a> </span>platform: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/sxephil" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Philip DeFranco</span></a> and <a href="http://www.jameswedmore.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">James Wedmore</span></a>. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">No doubts, </span>Youtube<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> is the clear winner platform to start pulling money using your video uploads. How? Please check my article </span><a href="http://sparkingonline.blogspot.com/2013/02/youtube-let-you-earn.html" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">YouTube Let You Earn</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. But there are also other video platforms worth looking. Here's your list.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1. <a href="http://publisher.dailymotion.com/en/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Dailymotion</span></a>. Make Money Sharing Dailymotion Videos. Boost your website, blog, and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> social pages with quality content and receive advertising revenues along the way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2. <a href="http://www.viddler.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Viddler</span></a>. Unlike the other video platforms I cited here, Viddler is Not Free! But of </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> course, it has its own advantage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">3. <a href="http://mylikes.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">MyLikes</span></a>. It is a social media platform for advertisers and social publishers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There you are, your alternative video platforms other than youtube! Let's start exploring it and see some additional income streams from our videos.</span><br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17506621623486838416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676115340617683786.post-85363224215632998282013-03-24T21:40:00.000+08:002013-04-17T15:41:27.238+08:00Benefits of Video Email<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">Video is 7% words, 38% voice & tone and 55% body language, according to </span><a href="http://www.hustream.com/home" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">HuStream</span></a><span style="color: #333333;">. Now which one you prefer to receive on your email, Written Text or Video? That's the charisma of Video Email. So, what is video email? You can simply put it as your replacement to your full text less dynamic email. Higher engagement to your customers and prospects can be attain using video messages.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">Looking at this </span><a href="http://columnfivemedia.com/work-items/wistia-infographic-youve-got-video-mail/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">infographic</span></a><span style="color: #333333;">, it's crystal clear where video email is going to be an undeniable part of your incoming marketing strategies. Look at the 64% of the small businesses which are not using yet but has plan to use video on their marketing works soon. See the 45% conversion rates! And here it is, goodbye to be a Spammer, with a 54% increased click-through rate of your sent emails!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Your benefits in using Video Email:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1. Yes, increase your click-through rate. Seeing the image like shown below inside your </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> inbox will surely </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">press your finger to the mouse and play it. The power of a captivating </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2. More likely, you will have a buying prospective customers. Watching you in a video at a </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> regular basis will make you </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">closer to your </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">prospective customers and current customers </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> alike. It will create the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">personal touch on them, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">knowing you as close friends or </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> associates in the least time possible. Video generates </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">more trust than written text. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> People buy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">to whom they </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">know and trust.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">3. No room for confusion for your viewers. You will be relaying the correct message tone </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> (words, voice, </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">body language and emotion) to them. Sometimes text conveys different </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> interpretation on every </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">reader. Lots of social media status posts were have been the </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> cause of misunderstanding on different </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">parties. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">4. You have the wow factor on your online marketing! Check these oozing samples:</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a href="http://bbemaildelivery.com/bbext/index.php?p=land&id=D8A7B261B7795C95E040730A07097694&share=f" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">From Bombomb</span></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> <a href="http://viewidc.com/l4w06lm3" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">From Flimp Media</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As part of the <a href="http://mysocialgameplan.com/about/social-media-facebook-group" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">#SMPro Expert Spotlight Blog Series</span></a>, this blog post
highlights Dan Polley, a social media marketer for his personal brand,
<a href="http://polleydan.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">polleydan</span></a>, as well as his food blog, <a href="http://chefduo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">A Duo of Chefs</span></a>. He works for a newspaper
for his daytime job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dan Polley blogs at mansquees from
polleydan about business, social media and other things that make him go squee.
And you can always find him tweeting, photographing and sharing food and
recipes at A Duo of Chefs and on his social networks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Below, Dan Polley discusses his background, provides some tips and
offers opinion and insight into the landscape of the social media industry. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1. <b>Where
did your interest in social media marketing originate, how has it
developed </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b> and what role does it play in your professional life now?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> My interest originated
with my wife, who would come home and tell me about </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> information she heard on
Twitter. It was always information I had not heard before, so </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> after a while, I
broke down and decided to join Twitter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Now I use social media
in my day job and for <a href="http://polleydan.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: blue;">my personal brand</span></a> and <a href="http://chefduo.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;">food blog</span></a> to market </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> and curate content. But the most important aspect I
find is the ability to facilitate </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> making personal connections, including with
other members of this #SMPro group.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">2. </span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Who
do you read, follow or pay attention to in order to stay ahead of the curve in </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> social media?</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Nationally, <a href="http://www.jonloomer.com/">Jon Loomer</a>, <a href="http://www.amyporterfield.com/">Amy Porterfield</a>, <a href="http://www.christopherspenn.com/">Christopher Penn</a>, <a href="http://pegfitzpatrick.com/">Peg Fitzpatrick</a> and <a href="http://www.chrisbrogan.com/">Chris </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.chrisbrogan.com/">Brogan</a> have taught me a lot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> But I got my start in
social media in Milwaukee, and there are a few people locally who </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> deserve
recognition, too. <a href="http://www.philgerbyshak.com/">Phil Gerbyshak</a>, <a href="http://sarasantiago.com/">Sara Santiago</a>, <a href="http://jimraffel.com/">Jim
Raffel</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/joesorge">Joe Sorge</a> are </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> all people I respect and admire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">3. </span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">What
do you believe to be the biggest misconception some businesses still have </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> with
social media?</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> I think the biggest
misconception is that social media is free. It’s not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Social media takes time,
both in learning about how to use networks correctly and to </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> their potential,
and in conceiving and implementing a marketing effort. Certainly it </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> takes a lot
of work to make sure any social media efforts yield success, but it also takes </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> a lot of time, a lot of monitoring and a lot of testing. You have to constantly
measure </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> your efforts and refine them if something isn’t working.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">4. </span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">A
lot of businesses steer clear of social media due to the potential
ramifications of </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> making a mistake in such a public environment. What would your
response be to </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> that concern?</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Businesses are going to
make mistakes in all aspects of their business. Social media is </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> one area that
they can use to manage those mistakes and interact with customers. In </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> that
respect, it’s tremendously worthwhile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">5. </span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">With
the rapid evolution of internet marketing, are offline marketing channels now </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> a
waste of time? Or is it all still valuable?</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> As long as people still
live their lives offline and interact with each other offline, there </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> will be
opportunities for offline marketing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Frankly, I don’t think
online and offline marketing are much different in that when </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> implementing
marketing efforts, people and businesses need to be aware of how they </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> will
affect people and think about the user experience. If you can do that and
create </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> something worthwhile instead of just creating something for the sake of
creating </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> something, your efforts should pay off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">6. </span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">How
have you integrated social media effectively into your (or your clients) </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> business strategies? How are you proving a return on investment?</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> One thing that is
difficult to measure is the strengths of my connections. But making and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> strengthening those connections means that people are more likely to interact
with my </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> content.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> In terms of
measureables, income from affiliates is huge, and an important way to see </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> that
people are interacting with content.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> For my day job,
click-throughs are a huge part of what we want, and measuring that </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> data helps
us see what readers want.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">7. </span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">What
sort of marketing advice would you give to a person who said that their </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> business simply does not fit with social media?</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> I would say they are
wrong. There are lots of networks out there, and certainly lots of </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> niche ones,
so there should be something that a business can grab onto and use. It’s just </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> a
matter of researching networks and brainstorming ways to use them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">8. </span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">If
you had to give up all but one social network, which one would you keep and </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> why?</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Twitter, you have me.
With the open network, I’m managed to make connections </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> online and parlay them
into offline relationships. There are lots of other networks that I </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> love, but
Twitter is the biggest and the best to meet people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">9. </span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">How
do you deal with the 24/7 aspect of social media marketing? Do you ever step </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> away from it all and recharge?</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> I used to do poorly with
this, checking my networks often and every day. But then I got </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> burned out in
2012, and I adjusted my schedule and what I do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Now there are two ways I
handle with the everyday wear and tear of social media </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> marketing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> I take most of the
weekend as time to recharge. I post photos and tweet and spend </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> some time on
Facebook, but not as much as during the week. And at nights, I try to </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> make sure
I keep off of my smartphone for about an hour before I go to bed. That way I </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> don’t go to bed feeling like I’ve been online all day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">10. </span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">One
of the most exciting aspects of social media is that it’s always changing, </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> evolving and progressing. What changes do you expect to see in social media
over </b></div>
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> the next 12 months?</b></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Niche
social marketing. I think that will be a big thing going forward as business
seek </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> to maximize their time and return on investment.<br />
<br /> And in the wake of Google’s announcement about Google Reader, I think email </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> marketing will see a huge impact. I think there’s a big opportunity there for
businesses </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> to engage their customers, and I’ll be watching that particularly
closely in the coming </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> months.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">You can find Dan
Polley online here:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Blogs: </span><a href="http://polleydan.wordpress.com/"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue;">mansquees
from polleydan</span></span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;">
and </span><a href="http://chefduo.blogspot.com/"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue;">A Duo of Chefs</span></span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 115%;">#SMPro is a group of professional social media and
digital marketers who have made a simple agreement to support, assist and
promote each other via social media. With member backgrounds spanning the
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</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Interested in participating? Join the conversation on </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/124284594365010/"><span style="color: #1155cc; line-height: 115%;">Facebook</span></a></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">, </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SMPro&src=typd"><span style="color: #1155cc; line-height: 115%;">Twitter</span></a></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">
and </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/115403056140622785725"><span style="color: #1155cc; line-height: 115%;">Google+.</span></a></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17506621623486838416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676115340617683786.post-6808860967387740792013-03-08T13:28:00.000+08:002013-03-08T13:33:54.770+08:00The Power of Video<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://sparkingonline.blogspot.com/2013/01/you-can-earn-online.html"><span style="color: blue;">first article</span></a> of this blog showed you how excited I am to the vast mine of undiscovered opportunities on the internet. For sure, it's pretty normal for starter like me and for those people who are about to jump in to feel that way. On that post you can easily determine that this blog is not focusing to any specific online thing to handle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now, after 2 months with 7 article posts and gathering 1000 pageviews, starting today <a href="http://sparkingonline.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;">Sparking Online (Exploring The Power of VIDEO)</span></a> will laser focus on VIDEOS. What are the benefits, role, methods and who are the players in making Videos as online marketing tool? These are some of the questions to be addressed on the next succeeding articles by this blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Take a look at this striking <a href="http://app.talkfusion.com/fusion2/viewTemplate.asp?mailId=MzIyNTMyNQ%3D%3D&glb#.UTlKUKM_fHM.facebook" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">video clip by Talk Fusion</span></a> (which I'm affiliating with), delivering thoughts on the future of video as effective medium tool for internet marketing. The following infographics will show you convincing datas on this claim.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1. <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/169025792236285105/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">By 2013, over 90% of internet traffic will be video based</span></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2. <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/169025792236260248/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">If you're not using Video Marketing, you're not connecting with your customers.</span></a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">3. <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/169025792236205490/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Online Video watching outranks other online activities.</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">4. <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/169025792236104498/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">144% Products are more likely to be purchased with videos.</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">5. <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/169025792235016342/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Video email advantage.</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That's it. We will be talking all about videos from hereon. How do you often use video on your marketing drive? How's the experienced? </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17506621623486838416noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676115340617683786.post-21753532565560168202013-02-27T10:30:00.000+08:002013-02-27T10:30:58.791+08:00YouTube Let You Earn<div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">800 million unique visitors each month!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">No. Not <a href="http://sparkingonline.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;">Sparking Online</span></a>, lol. It's the #2 search engine, the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Youtube</span></a>. It's every site owner's traffic dream! An awesome run considering it was just started 8 years ago. It is safe to mention that each one that touched the net were exposed to Youtube in any other ways. Now, what's in store on us ordinary net citizen for this extra phenomenal site? Are we just contented using it or we want to earn from it? I knew, like me, most of you want to earn while using it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">How? This man (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/sxephil" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Philip DeFranco</span></a>) knows the answers, that's why <a href="http://theultralinx.com/2012/11/youtubers-earn.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">he is earning</span></a> at least a million dollar a year doing Youtube thing. Here's what I understand how these people like Philip earned on the medium.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Firstly, by being on a Youtube Partner Program, you will be entitled to have an option to monetize your posted original videos. Advertisements will be run in your videos where your corresponding income depends on the number of clicks on the featured ads appearing in your videos. You can visit this MTM blog to know more about <a href="http://www.midtnmusic.com/what-is-the-youtube-partner-program-and-how-to-earn-passive-income/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Youtube Partner Program</span></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Secondly, by using it as a tool in marketing. Most internet marketer use videos to produce more audience engagement on their contents and website, Youtube videos has a huge chunk on this. See on this post how big brands utilized the medium on <a href="http://blog.wooshii.com/2012/12/biggest-youtube-marketing-success-stories-2012/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">their biggest marketing drive</span></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now, let's get our camera and start pressing the record button and build our youtube channel. Happy video recording towards another online source income provided by this <a href="http://dailyinfographic.com/a-brief-history-of-youtube-infographic" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">8-year old medium</span></a>. </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17506621623486838416noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676115340617683786.post-69463444524863720302013-02-18T21:13:00.000+08:002013-02-18T21:16:36.460+08:00Buffer Your Social Media Contents<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://bufferapp.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Buffer</span></a> rocks! That's the way I say it now. It is an online tool in managing your social media contents. In my <a href="http://sparkingonline.blogspot.com/2013/02/two-weeks-without-article-in-blog-why.html"><span style="color: blue;">previous article</span></a>, I pointed out how I often use it nowadays. If you're that person who don't want to missed your regular schedule post on your social media universe, then Buffer is all you need. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Buffer will help you like it helps me in 3 ways:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1. It will <b>simplify</b> the way you will prepare your regular social media post in facebook, twitter and linkedin accounts. All you have to do is to decide how many posts you want in a day, then keep adding your desired contents as many as you want it. The contents you added will be in queued according to your preset time schedule of posting. Take a look at this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b0zJgWp10g" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">video</span></a> by Ms. Ileane of BASICBLOGTIPS how Buffer works. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2. It will give you <b>more extra time</b>. Instead of keep minding the time of your schedule posts each day, leave it to Buffer where your prepared contents have been line up for publishing at the desired time you set. This tool is a sure leverage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">3. It will show that you have <b>consistency</b>. Posting on schedule without a missed shot is a great way of showing to your social media audience your discipline and consistency in publishing or sharing contents. Buffer doesn't miss posting as long as you supplied contents inside it. I never passed posting at least 3 posts a day on my <a href="https://twitter.com/ErwinTiin" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">twitter</span></a> since using the tool.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My favorite feature is the Analytics inside where you can see the engagement indicators of your posts. Through this feature, I saw last Sunday that my shared article on twitter attracted 233 clicks. I love its analytics feature!</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17506621623486838416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676115340617683786.post-13007475215706279152013-02-11T21:57:00.000+08:002013-02-11T21:57:30.447+08:00Two Weeks Without An Article In The Blog, Why?<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Two weeks without posting an article on this blog, shame on me. Experienced bloggers are strongly advising to post regularly on a blog, even the bright Neil Patel is doing <a href="http://www.quicksprout.com/2013/02/07/how-i-grew-quick-sprout-from-121311-to-244923-readers-in-30-days/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">8 posts a month</span></a> on his Quick Sprout. What happen? I did identify the 6 culprits. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1. <a href="http://www.filipinobloggersworldwide.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">FBW</span></a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Recently, I joined its facebook group. It is compose of Filipino bloggers around the world, networking together in promoting their respective owned websites. As a fresh starter, I was busy familiarizing daily the actions taking place inside and it is exhausting for me keeping up the activities but very productive. The group Rocks!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2. Disapproved Adsense Account. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm disgruntled figuring out what's happening with my adsense application. <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">My previous application has a url of </span><a href="http://erwintiin.blogspot.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">erwintiin.blogspot.com/</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. I edited my blog site's address to </span><a href="http://sparkingonline.blogspot.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">sparkingonline.blogspot.com</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Now, every time I resubmit for application, the url appearing is always the </span><a href="http://erwintiin.blogspot.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">erwintiin.blogspot.com/</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, I look over in the application how I could change it to </span><a href="http://sparkingonine.blogspot.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">sparkingonine.blogspot.com</a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222;"> but there is no option to change or update it. This troubled me lots of time. A huge hug who can help me fixing it. I'm looking for alternatives now, thank you for this </span><a href="http://www.filipinobloggersworldwide.com/2012/04/top-15-google-adsense-alternatives.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">article of FBW</span></a><span style="color: #222222;">.</span></span></span><div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Writing this post while not signing-in in my facebook account really helps. Notifications, chats and news feeds are head turners which defocus you in writing your article. Shut off your facebook when writing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">This app is so cool and super useful. I settled exploring it so many days back and use it for 2 weeks now. </span>Hootsuite<span style="color: #222222;"> was my favorite but I found myself now more time using Buffer. It automates your article posting schedule according to your desired settings. It is your robot publisher of your prepared or want to be shared contents. If you're still not using it, what are you waiting for? It's </span><a href="https://bufferapp.com/app/profile/510735dfbda332495300002a/buffer" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">FREE</span></a><span style="color: #222222;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">If you have a passion for certain interest/s and want to share it to the world but the following concerns obstruct you: (creating a blog, get inspiration, take time to write, skill to write), then Scoop.it might be your answer. I was struck by this </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Bnr6QKKcsII" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">video</span></a><span style="color: #222222;">. Plus this </span><a href="http://basicblogtips.com/scoop-it.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">article of Ms. Ileane of BASICBLOGTIPS</span></a><span style="color: #222222;"> pondering me the past weeks and resulted making my account on it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">With kids and distant family going to Manila for a brother's wedding day is pretty hard to set aside a blogging time even we stayed there for 5 days. Extra curricular activities set in. Take a look at this picture with my kids in a 440 years Fort Santiago structure remains.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17506621623486838416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676115340617683786.post-44555478457356250862013-01-27T18:06:00.000+08:002013-01-27T18:06:03.616+08:00Top Youngest Billionaires Will Shape Your Online World<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The world's youngest billionaires are at the age under 35 years. Yes, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg top it all. The <a href="http://money.ca.msn.com/savings-debt/gallery/the-nine-youngest-billionaires-in-the-world#image=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">top ten</span></a> combine worth reach $38.8 Billion, enough to topple the Google's two founders worth. On the total combined worth amount of the group, 67% of it, engaged in internet or online related stuff, I will be featuring these 5 extra ordinary online kids. Fasten all seat belts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1. Mark Zuckerberg at 28. His platform is massively crowded by a billion number of users. Facebook dominates. He is revolutionizing people's connectivity worldwide with no cost. Started on his Harvard <a href="http://bloggerzjunction.blogspot.com/2013/01/mark-zuckerberg-biography.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">dorm in 2004 with his 3 friends</span></a>, now amassing his worth to $17 Billion. And there will be more surprises from this kid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2. Dustin Moskovitz at 28. One of the 4 students who started facebook on their dorm, Dustin, the world's youngest billionaire is now worth $3.5 Billion. He left the social network platform giant last October 2008 and found his own company Asana. The company is considered as the <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;">ultimate task management tool. I will try his platform now for my team, besides it's </span><a href="http://asana.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">FREE</span></a><span style="color: #222222;"> up to 30 users using it. For sure his company will impact huge how the corporate world will run or manage a project. Please check this article of </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://scopegater.com/dustin-moskovitz-the-worlds-youngest-billionaire/" target="_blank">Scopegater</a> </span><span style="color: #222222;">for more of Dustin's bio. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">3. Sean Parker at 32. The </span><a href="http://www.biography.com/people/sean-parker-20906371?page=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">darling of the tech world</span></a><span style="color: #222222;">, Sean is a tech super genius and the founding president of facebook. A hacker that catches the attention of the FBI and CIA. Builds the famous company names like Napster, Spotify and Airtime. Although it's struggling time for his new start up 7 month old Airtime company, he is worth $2 Billion. Nothing can stop this brilliant guy from creating magnificent online things. Stay tuned.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What is a blog? As a newcomer, I see blog as finish digital written product of what you're thinking to convey to your online audience presented in a platform like what you're seeing right now. I would say, whatever you're doing or thinking right now, you can express it by writing it in a blog. Each one of us has something to share and could own a blog.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #edf6fe; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 21px;"><i><span style="color: #333333;">There are all sorts of blogs out there, some for personal use, business, hobby, interest, travel, food, recipes, pleasure, topics of the world, issues, life, advertising, writing about a product, introducing an artist and getting yourself out there for the world to know about you and who you are and what your purpose of a blog is. </span><a href="http://talinorfali.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/what-is-in-a-blog-why-do-we-blog/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">TALINORFALI</span></b></a></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 24px;"><i><span style="color: #333333;">Blogs are usually (but not always) written by one person and are updated pretty regularly. Blogs are often (but not always) written on a particular topic – there are blogs on virtually any topic you can think of. From photography, to spirituality, to recipes, to personal diaries to hobbies – blogging has as many applications and varieties as you can imagine. Whole blog communities have sprung up around some of these topics putting people into contact with each other in relationships where they can learn, share ideas, make friends with and even do business with people with similar interests from around the world. </span><a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/02/05/what-is-a-blog/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>PROBLOGGER</b></span></a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">A blog is basically a type of website</strong><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333;">, like a forum or a social bookmarking site. As such it is defined by the technical aspects and features around it, and not by the content published inside it. </span><a href="http://www.dailyblogtips.com/what-is-a-blog/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">DailyBlogTips</span></b></a></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Why people do blogging? One reason is personal: hobby, views, ideas, cause, drive, interest, event, opinion, issues and so many personal things to inspire people to start a blog. But for me, the most driving force why people blog nowadays is the huge potential income on it. Even big companies are now having their own blog pages on their websites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So for us interested individuals, the question is: Is there really an income in blogging? The answer is YES. There is no exact earning range, it might be from a zero dollar (starter) to a million dollars (established blogger). Take a look in <a href="http://getlifestrong.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/pete-cashmore-the-95-million-guy/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">my other article post</span></a> featuring a six million dollar a month blog company.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Since we can earn in blogging, let's start doing it. How? I just started to blog less than 2 months ago and here's what I did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1. I registered a FREE account in <a href="https://signup.wordpress.com/signup/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Wordpress.com</span></a> and did some basic settings, then do the </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2. I registered a FREE account in <a href="https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=blogger&passive=1209600&continue=http://www.blogger.com/home&followup=http://www.blogger.com/home&ltmpl=start#s01" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Blogger</span></a> last 2 weeks ago for much better monetization </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> options. Here's my <a href="http://sparkingonline.blogspot.com/2013/01/you-can-earn-online.html"><span style="color: blue;">first post in Blogger platform</span></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Creating those FREE blog website accounts and posting articles regularly is my way to gain exposure in blogging industry. When the right time to monetize the blog comes, I will set up then a domain and a hosting plan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Right now, I'm posting 2-3 articles a week in my wordpress blog <a href="http://getlifestrong.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">GetLifeStrong</span></a> and 1 article a week here in my Blogger blog <a href="http://sparkingonline.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;">Sparking Online</span></a>. When you post your first article, keep it a goal in doing it regularly, 2 articles a week is a good start. Then start learning how to route traffic to your blog site. The more traffic visits our blog will accumulate, the more we approaches in monetizing our blog site. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For now, don't worry about traffic when we're just starting. Just sign-up for free blog platform (blogger or wordpress), then start hitting that keyboard and transmitting your thoughts to your potential worldwide online audience. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Make a website? Most of us may answer: I don't know that thing. We might think that building a website is for computer experts and IT people only, but stop and look, my 7 and 9 yrs old little girls just made their own yesterday! Here's their blog site <a href="http://planetoflalalele.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><b>Planet of Lala Lele</b></a>. Now there's no more excuse in building your own website. You can start practicing by making your website on a FREE platform like <a href="https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=blogger&passive=1209600&continue=http://www.blogger.com/home&followup=http://www.blogger.com/home&ltmpl=start#s01" target="_blank"><b>Blogger</b></a> or <a href="http://wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><b>Wordpress</b></a> and you can upgrade later on to PAID features of the platform.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And why we need to have a website? There are lots of answers to this question. One simple thing to do how to answer this, is by visiting now a certain website. Look back and think, what's that thing is saying to you by that website you're in now? Here's one common thing that it's trying to do with us, the owner of the site is conveying something to us, he COMMUNICATE to us. Yes, website is a tool to communicate with people worldwide in various reasons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Have you seen the father or mother of your grandparents? How about you, do you think the grandchildren of of your children will see your God-given image? Your personal website will do the trick. It can bookmark all your family undertakings from photos, hobbies, gatherings, events, and views. Websites will stay for hundred years and all your family members of all generations will see the family LEGACY fresh in real time anywhere in the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Most websites are built for business purposes. Owners are reaching worldwide market selling their products and services. Whatever your product or services now, open your mind for potential global customers, your website will do the magic for you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Book that might help on how to start is "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470560932/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=testing550d-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0470560932"><b>Building A Web Site For Dummies</b></a>". </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There you have it. Let's start building our FREE website and who knows, it might be our high-priced asset in the coming years. Happy building!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17506621623486838416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676115340617683786.post-7397028903048741262013-01-05T19:31:00.000+08:002013-01-05T19:39:31.633+08:00YOU can earn online<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yes! Welcome to Sparking Online. This blog will serve as our ship as we travel to discover gems deep down the internet ocean. We don't have a single gem yet in our hands but we have that strong feeling (and we believe, you too) that internet has tons of treasure undiscovered by most of us. Others are already possessing very tiny of it but considered already as financial icons of our times.</span><br />
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Look at Pete Cashmore, the 19 year old kid at that time starting the <a href="http://mashable.com/" target="_blank"><b>Mashable</b></a> blog, now a 27 year old <a href="http://getlifestrong.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/pete-cashmore-the-95-million-guy/" target="_blank"><b>$95M Guy</b></a>. </span><br />
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How about this story of <a href="http://www.geekwire.com/2011/hasoffers-twin-brothers-bring-face-affiliate-marketing/" target="_blank"><b>twin brothers</b> </a>which started in online advertising now considered as prominent figure in affiliate marketing. </span><br />
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Among others are theme designs, plug-ins development, basic website building, jobs available online (oDesk and Elance) and there's plenty out there waiting for us. </span><br />
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Sparking Online will be sharing to you the online gems by posting article updates as we cruise the internet ocean. This will be a very long but profitable journey. Come aboard and let's start the adventure together.</span><br />
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It's our Day 1 fellow treasure hunter. </span><br />
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