If you’re a manufacturer and don’t have anything on YouTube, you’re missing a great opportunity. Next to Google (who by the way owns YouTube), YouTube is the highest searched. Internet viewing was up 35% and mobile viewing up 20%. recently read a post by Rich Brooks  in Social Media Explorer that explored ways to maximize your YouTube presence. Make it findable - both in and out of YouTube. What are you doing to leverage your YouTube videos? The numbers are staggering: In May of 2011, there were 15 BILLION videos streamed. MORE >>

The biggest criticism I hear about the local, mobile, social Web is that it doesn't yet just justify the hype--that it generates little to no return and distracts companies from focusing on those parts of their business that actually produce revenues and profits. The very act of choosing to put any resources (people, money, or time) into testing the value of the local, mobile, social Web for your business automatically makes those resources unavailable for something else. Internet Marketing Business Facebook Social media Social web Twitter YouTubeby Tim Peter. MORE >>

Buyers have gone mobile. 73% of B2B marketers are not even measuring mobile traffic by device, according to SiriusDecisions , let alone creating optimized web experiences for smartphone and tablet visitors. If you have a website, it’s already mobile, whether you know it or not. People are visiting your sites through mobile devices every day. Many great brands are embracing responsive to create more mobile-friendly website experiences. That’s why even Google recommends adopting Responsive Design an industry standard as mobile devices proliferate. MORE >>

Or YouTube. Few companies did anything significant in mobile. Don’t worry about whether you should be spending on paid search with Google or whether YouTube search grows even faster or whether Facebook does its own search. Internet Marketing Facebook Google linkedin marketing twitter YouTubeImage credit: Getty Images via @daylife. Sometimes I am making a speech and I realize that I am meeting a lot of traditional marketers–people my age (or even I admit, a little younger) who are trying to make the adjustment to digital. They paid attention. Or Twitter. MORE >>

Modern Marketers’ roles are constantly changing, as buyer behavioral trends and digital channels, such as social and mobile, are dictating the research, discovery, and buying processes. PlaceIt - We can’t all be great designers, but this drag-and-drop tool helps generate realistic product screenshots, and can help jazz up your mobile marketing presentations. YouTube - By creating a YouTube video page, you can centralize the great video content you spend time and money on to engage with prospects and customers ( and you can check out the latest viral must-see, while you’re at it.). MORE >>