Join me, along with Colin Martin and Marc Bullard , in a free webinar next Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 5:00pm ET to learn the secret tactics successful marketers are using on free hosting sites such as YouTube that are bringing an avalanche of traffic to their websites. How to share your YouTube video on all of your other social profiles. How to decipher YouTube’s statistics program to create better videos. Super Bonus: How to add duplicate video content to your channel without it being rejected (a tip YouTube doesn’t want you to know about!). link]. MORE >>

Yet how many of us scramble to post on a blog or upload a  video to YouTube without taking time to survey our target audience ? If you want to create content that engages readers, you have to know their online habits and interests. Here’s a quick list of survey questions for your target audience: What are the five top web sites you visit frequently in your work? What are your online reading habits, blogs, websites, articles, videos, podcasts? Do you use social media like Facebook , Twitter or LinkedIn ? Do you access web content via RSS feeds? Subscribe to e-newsletter and blogs? MORE >>

Since videos are posted to YouTube and other video directories besides their own website pages, their viewers need to know who the commercial is for. I was shocked to read some sample scripts for video commercials being filmed at the studios of iMotionVideo last week in Orlando. People are still confusing features and benefits in their marketing messages. Some videos are great to watch, even if you’re not interested in what they’re selling. But others…OMG, it’s just sad. It’s a good thing iMotionVideo provides a professional actor, John Eastman. Digg this! MORE >>

Uploaded to YouTube, named it, described it, tagged it. Copied the embed code from YouTube and posted it into the html side of blog platform. What’s the quickest way to use videos for content marketing ? How can you shoot a video clip in your hotel room while at a conference? I’ll demonstrate here. plugged in my Logitech Webcam , pulled up a previous post on my blog, and spoke into the camera. It’s not perfect, but it’s good enough, and it was done start to finish in 30 minutes. Set up webcam, test for lighting. Wrote 300 words to accompany the post. MORE >>

use them to submit to video directories, post to YouTube , and it all counts to get found in Google searches. What’s the best way to write a script for a video ? Content marketing with videos is a key marketing tool, and it’s getting easier to do. Here’s a new video the folks over at iMotionVideo Studios produced for me. just love this service. Left to my own devices, I’d probably make one video every few months. But with a low-fee monthly subscription for a year, I know I’ve got a one-minute video commercial coming every 30 days. Why would I want that many? MORE >>