Tag: YouTube

  • Affordable Video Hosting for Small Businesses

    Affordable Video Hosting for Small Businesses

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    Entrepreneurs and small-business owners often think that incorporating video into their marketing or communication plan — let alone configuring a website for video — is costly, complicated and beyond reach. With the launch this week of Vimeo PRO from Vimeo, nothing could be further from the truth. Online video is expected to account for half…

  • Is Your Business Ready for Video?

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    If the findings of a recent report are any indication, you should be slapping pancake makeup on your business and telling the director that you’re ready for your close-up. The survey, from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, shows that 71 percent of U.S. adults who use the Internet have used video-sharing sites such…

  • Why Facebook’s Friends May Fade

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    This won’t come as welcome news to the folks at Facebook, but its customer-satisfaction ratings aren’t much to boast about. Among its social-media peers, Facebook landed at the bottom of the keeping customers-happy list, according to the 2011 American Customer Satisfaction Index E-Business Report. With a score of 66 out of 100, only airlines, subscription…

  • myBrainshark Makes Your PowerPoint a Big Star on YouTube

    myBrainshark Makes Your PowerPoint a Big Star on YouTube

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    Brainshark Inc. has just opened up an ocean of access to its on-demand multimedia customers by introducing a new feature that enables businesses and entrepreneurs to share their PowerPoint presentations on YouTube–at no cost to the participating company. Started 10 years ago, Brainshark provides a web-based Software as a Service platform that allows your business…

  • How to Play a Segment of an Embedded YouTube Video

    How to Play a Segment of an Embedded YouTube Video

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    On the web, you have about two seconds to engage any given visitor, so getting right to the point is crucial. One way to accomplish this is to skip the excess footage at the beginning of an embedded YouTube video to start with the most relevant “scene.” Here’s how it’s done: Pull up the video…

  • Optimizing Video for Search Engine Rank

    Optimizing Video for Search Engine Rank

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    Piggybacking off my February 2010 Entrepreneur magazine column (“Video SEO for Your Website“), a reader in New York City wants to know exactly how to optimize the video on his company’s website. From Bob Bello, Founder and President of CiscoKits.com: “I would like to improve and make sure the videos I am putting on my…