Internet Marketing For Small Business

Looking for Free Stock Video Footage? Here are a few sources you might like to try.

Here’s a new site site that is offering Free Stock Video Footage with no catch. You can use the footage for personal use or commercial use – there is no stipulation. stockfootageforfree.com

Istockphoto also offers free videos every month that you can use. Make sure to check the details to see if you need to buy an extended license. Free Video of the Month Archive.

Archive.org has creative commons licensed video as well as video in the public domain. Here is a list of videos tagged with free stock footage.

Video in the public domain is becoming easier to find on the net. Here is a list of 9 public domain video sources put together by WebTVWire.com

Bingobango has gone through the internet archives and put together a few autumn clips available here, some Halloween clips, a nature assortment  here.

What’s your favourite source of free stock video?

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Here are some more Twitter tools and tips to help you get tweeting.

I use Tweetdeck.com to organize all my Twitters.

I search Twitter with search.twitter.com. Search for your subject, your name, your company’s name, your competitors’ names etc. to see what people are talking about. Start talking with them, and building relationships.

You can also search for hashtags on Twemes. Hashtags are a tagging system on Twitter where you put a # in front of any word you like. They are kind of like Technorati tags that way.

Use #hashtags to groupd your tweets on one subject. More info on how to use hashtags here.

Use RT – this means ReTweet – to take someone else’s Twitter post and send it to your followers. To use it just add RT to the top of your tweet, followed by @originalsendername, and their original message.

RT @originalsendername original message

Search Twitter users bios on Tweepsearch. Find people in your industry or genre to befriend.

Share photos on Twitter with Twitpic.

Check out popular videos on Tweetube. Share videos on Twitter with Tweetube. 

Why did someone unfollow you? Check out Tweet Effect to find out which of your Twitter updates might be responsible for people following or leaving you.

TweetLater is an excellent tool for Twitter automation. You can automatically follow those that follow you – and send an intro message with it. Some marketing experts say this is the best way to build authority. Others disagree. Your choice. Tweetlater also lets you program your tweets to send at specific times, though I think that’s kinda crummy. You’re not in a dialogue if you’re not there.

Visit the TwiTip (Twitter Tip) blog which is edited by Darren Rowse from ProBlogger Blog Tips. Follow Darren on Twitter.

Vist the Twitter Fan Wiki to look for tips or info, or to add your own.

How To Get more Followers
Kevin Rose just put out his list of how to get more Twitter followers. Kevin would know – he is the founder of Digg and has over 88,000 followers on Twitter making him the second most followed after President Obama.

Want to check your stats or see who else has loads of followers? Top Twitter users posted here on Twitterholic?

Follow me on Twitter – Twitter.com/ireneduma

Have you noticed Twitter tweets going by with words that start with the # sign in them. Like this one? #FBTip

It’s called a hashtag, and is a way for you to organize or add a metatag to your tweets. It groups tweets about the same subject all together.

Are you familiar with Technorati or Flickr tag? Hashtags are the same but instead of adding them to the bottom of your post, you just add them right in your Tweet’s sentence by putting the # sign in front of your word. Any word you want.

Why use a hashtag?
If you add hashtags to your tweets it will be easier to search and find any posts you made on that subject. For example Facebook Marketing guru Mari Smith uses this little word prefaced by a hashtag or pound sign -#FBTip – for all her Facebook tips that she posts to Twitter,

Just do a search on search.twitter.com. You can also search for them on twemes.com, or tweetchat.com.

Start using your own hashtag for your own tips or sets of categories you want instant access to. For example if you are a blues band (are you listening Porkbelly Futures?) you might want to use #bluesmusic whenever you post some news about your band, or CD or other post on topic that would be interesting to other blues music fans.

#bookadvertising would be a good one for Book Trailer Production company Bookshorts.com.

Learn more about Hashtags and how to use them in this video from Facebook Mari.

Get more Free Facebook Tips from Mari.

Become my Twitter Friend on Twitter.com/ireneduma

Have you heard of Facebook Pages? These are different than Facebook Profiles.

Profiles are for real people only, and you can only have one profile on FB.

Facebook Pages are for businesses, and you can have as many as you want.

Here’s why you should make one pronto if you have a biz…

• Facebook pages are free.
• Facebook has a high page rank so a link back to your web site will help with your Search Engine Placement.
• You can have more than 5000 friends. Facebook groups have a cap.
• You can have a nice large image prominently displayed on your site.
• You can import your feed from your web site. Don’t have an RSS feed? Nows the time to switch over and get a WordPress blog site as a web site. You will have an RSS feed instantly.
• You can have fans, photos, and video

When building your web site, always use your keywords. Remember – your keywords should be based on how people actually search, not just how you think people search. Use keyword tools for that.

To create your facebook page, scroll down to the bottom of any Facebook page and click on advertising. Then click on Pages from the submenu on the top. It’s just to the right of advertising.

Or just click here for Facebook Pages

Here’s where you can search all the other Facebook Pages.

Tags: facebook pages, facebook marketing, personal branding with Facebook

I just found this Facebook marketing tips guru who actually has really smart and doable tips. Her name is Mari Smith, and if you subscribe to her emails, she will send you 7 easy marketing tips for Facebook. I am up to day 4 so far find them very worthwhile.

Tip #1 is all about setting up your profile page properly. Tip 2 is your profile pic, Tip 3 is about how to make your blog posts appear in your Notes section of your site automatically, and Tip 4 shows you some cool business applications or tools that you can use with Facebook.

Mari also has a Free Facebook Tips ebook  (and non-free social media classes and VP courses.)

Mari is also a Twitterer and posts her Facebook tips on Twitter too. You can see them all by using this Twitter Search Tool and querying Mari Smith and new #FBtip = Mari Smith’s #FBTips

Did you notice this  # sign in front of a word #FBtip  – it’s a hashtag. Learn  what are hashtags here.

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