My first video on VideoFyMe

This is my first #video on #videofyme – #cesarramirez – #followme
http://CesaRamirez.com

I’m doing a test on this iOS App called VideoFyMe. So the cool thing about this app is that it can shoot a video to Facebook, YouTube, Blog, and much much more. I highly recommend using it to build your user following from viral locations.

If you ever wanted to have hooks in all the right places, VideoFyMe may be the app for you. Leave some feedback and let me know how you enjoyed this app.

Harnessing Your Internet Marketing Skills: What You Should Know

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Internet marketing is a necessary strategy one should have in his/her arsenal in order to advance one’s business. Although you might not necessarily need the Internet to sell your products, you still should utilize it to lead potential customers to your website. When they reach your website, you can then market your products and services, which they can check out personally if you have an actual store or shop.

1. Learn About Internet Marketing

If you don’t know much about Internet marketing, you should surf the web and read about how it revolutionized modern advertising and marketing strategies. Get to know how you can utilize banner ads, web pages, online shopping and online marketplaces. Websites such as Craiglist, Amazon and eBay can help you get a better idea of what you should do with your own sites.

If there are websites that can teach you the right Internet marketing strategy, then there are also blog articles and resource pages that can boost what you currently know about marketing your products and services. Read as much as you can about Internet marketing, so that you can get a pretty good idea about what you need to do.

2. Sign Up For Online Marketing Classes

Since you will be too busy with your business to take up a regular marketing class, you can instead take an online class that will teach you the different strategies of Internet marketing. You can learn a lot from free online classes, resources and journals. Take one basic course at a time, so you can really focus on what strategy will work best for your business.

3. Check Out Which Social Media Will Work For Your Business

Whether it’s Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn or Google Plus, you won’t do wrong with trying to advertise or market your business through social networking sites. You have to pick the right social media for Internet marketing. Yes, there is such a thing as the right social media. You have to harness where to focus your resources exactly. It would be perfect if you can balance the number of people following all your social accounts. However, since that will take a lot of effort and energy, you should put extra attention on the social media where you have a large following.

4. Choose The Best Strategy

Based on what you have read on the Internet and what you read from blog articles, you can produce a strategy that will help your business in attracting customers through Internet marketing. Your products and services must speak for themselves. Look for similarities and differences with your competitors. Know what works for them and what did not, and always learn from the experiences of the other websites.

Before investing all your resources in one particular strategy for Internet marketing, make sure you have all the right material to market your products and resources. Don’t dive into something you are not sure of. Although risks are unavoidable in Internet marketing, you have to take all the possible precautions to protect your investment whether it’s a traditional ira or SEO.

How To Take Advantage of Pinterest in Internet Marketing

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Pinterest is not like Facebook and Twitter wherein interaction is the name of the game. Pinterest relies heavily on images, videos and descriptions, making it one of the most obvious methods you can market your products and services through the Internet. Established in 2009, Pinterest has over one million visitors daily who pins, re-pins, likes and shares the boards created on the site.

And thanks to iOS and Android applications, it has now become easier for business people to present their products and services in a more interesting way. Truly, Pinterest is now an Internet marketing tool that marketers can utilize in order to make sure their products and services reach the right audience.

1. Create Unique Boards

Don’t just create vague and general boards such as “things I like,” “fashion” or “Pearl Rings.” Create something that will surely be noticed by potential customers. If you are selling dresses, you may term it as “cute and fashionable dresses from the US.” If you are selling iPhone accessories, you should also create a name that pertains to those products.

2. Use High-Quality Images

Potential customers will naturally be more attracted to your boards if you use high-quality images that will show the beauty of your products. You can only imagine how uninteresting images with crappy resolution are. Use images that are 600 to 800 pixels wide and 1000 pixels deep. If the image is too small, your followers may not be able to re-pin it. And if they can find the same image with a better resolution on another website, they might use that image and you will lose traffic on your site.

3. Invite Followers

Doing Internet marketing on Pinterest relies heavily on how many followers you can attract. Since Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are still the most popular social networking sites out there, you must post links there to your Pinterest account. Also, you might be able to attract more customers if you give out prizes for your followers who can get the more likes for a board they re-pinned from your account.

4. Add Detailed Descriptions

It is not only important that you post high-quality images on your Pinterest account. It is also highly vital that you add detailed descriptions on your boards. Describe your products or your services and make sure to word the descriptions in such a way that can attract consumers. Give the details they need and answer questions as they were posted.

5. Link The Boards Back To Your Actual Site

A Pinterest account is not enough to make a successful Internet marketing bid. You have to link the boards to your website wherein they will find more information about your business. Pinterest is one of the top social networking sites that has a high referral rate, so you have to make use of this interesting tidbit.

People pin thousands of boards every day, and they follow people they don’t even know as long as their boards interested them. To have a successful Internet campaign on Pinterest, you have to make sure your boards are interesting enough for potential customers to re-pin them and follow you. Treat your Pinterest account as you would treat your actual business’ website. It is an avenue wherein your business can thrive.

Your partner in success,

Cesar Ramirez

Internet Marketing On A Budget

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A lot of people don’t know they can actually be successful in Internet marketing without spending so much money. Having a successful business that uses a lot of Internet marketing does not always have to be expensive. There are certain methods you can find on the Internet that will allow you to conduct your business without shelling that much cash.

1. Free Hosting Websites

If you are a little cash-strapped to fund your own website, you can check out some of the free hosting sites out there. Although these sites would probably be chock-full of advertisements and pop-up banners, you can go around these things if you just know the basics of running a website. Also, most free hosting sites have ready-made templates that you can make use of in case you don’t know how to design your page.

2. Social Networking Sites

Usually, a great Internet marketing strategy would begin on a social networking site like Facebook and Twitter. As a businessman, you must understand how important social networking is now. With one click of a finger, you can basically let a hundred people know about your products and services. By simply sharing a link on your Facebook timeline, you will be able to reach potential customers.

3. Blogging

This might be a little tricky for people who don’t have the capacity to write their own blog posts. It would mean you have to hire a professional writer to place contents on your blog site or other free blog-posting sites. You have to make sure the content will be beneficial for your products and services, and that it will speak highly of your company. Blog posting is a great way to market your ideas, products and services. This is one of the most well-used Internet marketing strategy. Grab a high converting traffic blog here for only $25

4. Videos and Groups

You can create videos about your business and post them on video-sharing sites such as YouTube. Also, you can create a group on LinkedIn which will attract the attention of like-minded people. You can act as moderator in discussions and market your products and services to them. Just make sure not to hard sell anyone in a professional website such as LinkedIn.

5. Local celebrities

You can ask any local celebrity to endorse your products and services on their social networking accounts. Popular personalities are usually paid to endorse certain small businesses. If you don’t have a friend who is quite popular in your community, you can also send your products to well-known personalities and ask them to spread the word about your business.

6. Press release

Press releases are not just for newspapers and magazines anymore. There are PR websites that run such things. Most of these articles can be lifted from those sites and placed on various Internet marketing avenues (with attributions, of course). But before you start writing a press release, you must first be sure that something is worth writing about your business, your products or your services.

By simply making use of these few tips, you can begin the process of making a successful business run through Internet marketing.

 

Cesar Ramirez

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Bad Practices in Using Social Media for Internet Marketing

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The social media is indeed very effective in Internet marketing. This will provide you the edge that your business needs by making it known to others and by showcasing the benefits that it can offer to other people. However, this is also one of the most abused platforms of Internet marketing.

Many people think that social networking sites are just free-for-all platforms in Internet marketing where they can just do or say whatever they want. But little do they know that their careless words and actions can impact their Internet marketing negatively, and the effects can be long-term or even permanent.

So, it is important for you to know the things that you should not do when using the social media for Internet marketing. Below are the things that you should avoid to preserve the good reputation of your business:

1. Deception

Never ever deceive your audience. Do not pretend that your product is flawless because once your customers find out that you are lying to them, they will come back to haunt you with negative remarks and bad reviews for your site. As much as possible, be honest in your answers to your customers.

2. Limiting Your Views

Do not only limit your views on the things that you have learned or experienced. Open your mind to the ideas or suggestions of your critics. Use their inputs to transform your product or service into something better.

However, I am not saying that you should always jump the gun on something that you think is unreasonable. Let logic, surveys and other Internet marketing tools verify first if what they are saying are good for your business or not.

3. Working Beyond the Norms

Never go beyond the written and unwritten rules of the online community. Avoid berating or harassing other people no matter how obnoxious they may be. If you find that you are in a bad position due to the unruly conduct of others, simply block or delete them from your circle. It is a wise move to report the said users to the moderator of the site too so that they will be dealt with accordingly.

On the other hand, if the above-mentioned acts do not work for you, you can always answer those people in a constructive manner. Use logic instead of force in reasoning out with them. Always remember to keep your cool while putting your goals ahead of anything else when you are dealing with those kinds of people.

4. Being Too Pushy

Avoid spamming or forcing others to avail of your products or services. If you sense that the people whom you are talking to are not interested in any way with what you are presenting, politely excuse yourself from the conversation. Besides, it is a waste of precious time to be nagging people about something that they do not really need or want anyway.

In addition, never interrupt people during a conversation with others just to promote what you are selling. You may join the conversation though, if you are welcome, and creatively intrigue them so you can catch their attention. Once they do, that’s your cue to promote whatever it is you are offering.

5. Talking Monotonously

Stop talking like an automaton. Keep your tone in a conversational manner and add feelings into it. Remember to be straightforward as well. If you can explain your product in a couple of sentences only, then do it.

Do not keep on adding fillers, non-sense or other things that may blur the views of your prospective clients. Remember, you are there to inform them about your product and to get them interested, not to bore them, make them sleep or confuse them.

6. Keeping Your Internet Marketing Goal on a Short-Term Only

Great advice would be, go learn form the pros incognito, get an internship position at a place like YEAH Local or whichever business near you doing generally what you want to be doing eventually. The depth of learning achieved in real life application can be astounding. Choose your words and battles carefully. Think before you act. A great Internet marketing practice if to study and weigh the consequences of your decisions first before you do something. Never say or do something that you will end up regretting in the long run. Always put your goal into mind prior to laying down your cards.

With deep love, may your business be profitable today and beyond.

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Cesar Ramirez

P.S. Building a list and keeping that list informed of some powerful concepts such as these can help folks appreciate you more. What some may perceive as “common sense” other’s may have never considered these ideas otherwise. I remember when I first go started online, I use to get emotional and take things personally. I’m sure you’ve been there once or twice. I recommend you continue building that list using MLSP. Stay strong and let’s lock arms and fight the poverty mentality. Join my team here: MLSP Team

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