Archive for Video Marketing

Tips for a Successful Video Marketing Campaign

Share There is no question today that online video is becoming more and more popular. Over 26 billion videos are viewed per month in the US alone. Furthermore, videos account for 60% of all internet traffic. The best part about video marketing is that it costs a fraction of what it would cost to shoot [...]

Viral Videos and Social Media

Zack | December 1, 2009 | View Comments Comments

Share Have you ever seen this video? I am guessing if you have ever been on the internet or watched a video on Youtube you are familiar with “Chocolate Rain” or a number of other videos out there. These videos are called viral videos, for they move through the internet like a virus. The idea [...]

Speech Recognition Helps the SEO of Videos

Zack | October 1, 2009 | View Comments Comments

Share Videos have always been a great way to capture peoples’ attention and if a user video is done properly (i.e. a proper intro, tagline and call to action) it can be great as a traffic builder for your site. I recently came across a bit of information that seems like it would be quite [...]

Getting Hired by Social Media: The Video Resume

Zack | September 8, 2009 | View Comments Comments

Share It is not breaking news that the economy is not at its strongest right now and there are many people being laid off or just getting out of college that are not able to find a job to suit their needs Luckily for a lot of these people there is an answer to their [...]

United Breaks Guitars – Social Media Marketing causes PR Nitemare

Share Ahhh, I’m back now from a great vacation in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, and just as I got done complaining about the extra 24 hours it took me to get home after a fiasco with United Airlines, this great example of the power of social media marketing shows up on You Tube.  Now, if [...]

Flip Cam and Video Marketing

Zack | June 8, 2009 | View Comments Comments

Share Per our last blog post, we answered the question on whether or not a Video Marketing video needed to be done professionally or not. Here at Turbo Social Media we use the Flip Cam. The Flip Cam is the new technology in digital cameras, as it is an easy to use, cell-phone sized camera, [...]

Web Video for Social Media Marketing : Does it need to be “professional” or not?

Share Lately we’ve had a lot of questions about whether the video that is placed on our client’s websites should be produced professionally or not.  I’ve decided to write this post to address that exact question. First off, just having video on your site is not going to make your site more money.  It is [...]

Is the Traffic Geyser Video Marketing Submission Service all that it claims to be?

Share Today, I wanted to talk a bit more about the Traffic Geyser Video Marketing system. For those who don’t know about Traffic Geyser, it is a software subscription that you can rent on a monthly basis for $99 per month that allows you to submit videos to about 35 different video search engines, social [...]

How El Pollo Loco is beating up KFC on Social Media- And Succeeding!

Share I rarely write about big businesses leveraging Social Media Marketing, but I just couldn’t resist today.  Large corporations like KFC are being challenged by much smaller chains like El Pollo Loco.  For those of you who do not know these companies, both of them serve chicken and associated “family meal” type products, but KFC [...]

Effective Solutions for Turbo-Charged Word-of-Mouth Marketing, Delivered by Turbo Social Media

Zack | April 16, 2009 | View Comments Comments

Share Everyone seems to be Twittering, Facebooking, and blogging–but few businesses know how to use these powerful social tools for marketing, according to Matthew Arndt, founder of Turbo Social Media, a Pleasanton-based firm that helps companies understand and use this new marketing protocol to expand their reach and increase revenues. Recognizing the need for businesses [...]