IMB Podcast #2 – YouTube Video Marketing

YouTube video marketing strategies.  How to use YouTube videos to get ranked in Google fast and get tons of high quality, targeted traffic back to your website. I discuss the 3 most important elements in order to get top YouTube and Google rankings, and tons of traffic, subscribers and customers by using YouTube marketing techniques.

Plus – The Health and Wellness Life Tip of the Day: 6 easy shortcuts you can use to eat your favorite foods and still burn more calories, lose fat, and have more energy throughout the day.

Products and resources discussed in the podcast episode:

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A Complete Guide To Facebook Timeline For Business Pages

Facebook Timeline For Business Pagesfacebook timeline for business pages

Facebook did it again. Whether you like it or not Facebook business pages are getting a complete overhaul and the new look will become permanent March 30th, 2012. (if you’re reading this after March 30th then welcome to the new interface:-)

There may be a lot of talk out there about how this will affect Facebook and how this will affect business on Facebook, but try not to buy into the hype – just focus on your business and how you can take advantage of the new changes.

Facebook is still going to be the #1 social network and will be responsible for driving tons of high quality traffic to your site or your business, if not more than before.

I have made a few videos below explaining how the new Timeline format is laid out, how to use Timeline for business, how to install a custom Facebook landing page with Timeline, and how to integrate other social media channels like YouTube and Twitter.   I will be adding future videos with more updates so please bookmark this post for further reference and subscribe to my YouTube channel to make sure you get those updates as they come out:)

Getting Started

This video is the introduction to the new Timeline for Pages  and the video will walk you through how to use Facebook timeline for business pages and some of the most important elements and aspects you need to understand.

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IMB Podcast #1 – The Foundation For Building The Ultimate Automated Sales Funnel

This episode covers the foundation of success for marketing any business today – online or offline.  How to be considered the expert and authority in your market and start having customers or clients begging to hire you, instead of the other way around.

For Transcript <== click Here

 


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The New Facebook Timeline For Business Pages Update

Facebook just made some major changes to the layout and the functionality of business pages.  Watch the video below for an explanation and update!

Some Important Notes:

  1. New Cover Photo. You can place a cover image that is similar to a website header image.  It must be at least 399 pixels wide, and can be up to 850 X 315 pixels in size.  There are some important restrictions on what you can have on your cover photo so please click the “learn more” tab after you click “add a cover” to find out the details.  (No price or purchase information, calls to action, etc.)
  2. Profile Picture Size: Your profile pic is now a square image of 180 X 180 pixels.
  3. You can no longer select a custom tab for the default landing page for new visitors who have not yet “liked” your page.
  4. You can pin posts you would like to highlight at the top of your wall now!
  5. New Message Feature. People can now send direct messages to your business inbox, similar to how the personal profile messages work.
  6. Custom Tab Pages Are Now Bigger. Custom tabs, or landing pages, are now 760 pixels wide (520 is the current size).  This will give more room for a much richer, higher quality page.
  7. Free Online Image Editor: Pixlr


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Why I Boycotted The Super Bowl Parties This Year

Almost exactly two years ago today I was right in the middle of Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings for a local business that I owned.  This wasn’t a bad business either – this was a business that averaged about $150k a year in net income every year.

Due to the snowball effect and a combination of a major franchise business model change (dramatically affecting high season cash flow), financing drying up, a bad economy, some bad luck, and some poor decisions I was out of cash and in a bad spot.  This was a very seasonal business with big profits in the high season months and negative cash flow in the low season.

To make a long story short, due to some other businesses I was supporting, the real estate crash, and too many personal expenses to maintain, I ran out of cash.  And there was so much fear flowing through everyone’s blood at the time, I couldn’t even sell a profitable business.  Basically I lost it to a big corporation who came in like a vulture and picked up the pieces.  (my business was actually the third highest grossing location in the franchise – a fairly new franchise with about 50 locations that grew much too fast).

Fast forward two years:

  • I am now getting 45,000 YouTube views and website visitors per month from people all over the world to my channels or sites in which I own or am a partner in and control.
  • I have clients paying my company mid five figures a year for marketing and consulting services.
  • I have a business where I can literally be anywhere in the world and make a living. (As long as I have a laptop:)
  • I can attend any event or activity my three year old son has or ever will have.  (He is a spitting image of me, with high energy, and he loves being active just like me).

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Which Presidential Candidate Will Use Facebook Ads the Most Effectively in the Upcoming Elections?

facebook adsA Story of an Underdog.

One of my mentors, Perry Marshall, told a great story about an underdog candidate running for mayor who unseated the incumbent candidate solely by the use of a well strategized, stealth Facebook ads campaign.  At the fraction of what a typical candidate would spend on a normal multimedia campaign.

Keep in mind this candidate was virtually an unknown before this election; he was young and had little experience compared to the incumbent mayor.   And this was a fairly large city budget they were competing for.  But he had one secret weapon:  he had a member on his campaign team who was schooled in Facebook advertising. And more importantly:  at using hyper-targeting strategies with his Facebook ads.

How did he do it?

He created tons of different Facebook ads targeting different groups of people, organizations, cultures, ethnic groups, etc.  They even created an ad written in the native language of a local Native American population.  The ad wrote: “We hear you.” – and written in their language!  It was probably the first ad of any kind they had ever seen in their own language.   They created ads targeted local churches, organizations, even an ad targeting only kids who were exactly 18 years old, that told them they are now 18 and at the legal age to vote.   Of course they created ads targeting people in their political party, but those are the obvious ads.

Facebook advertising can be a gold mine when you learn to target effectively.

The best part of this story is that the competing candidate had virtually no idea he was running these ads.  You see, hardly any of the target audience that would normally vote for his competitor, or any of the people on his campaign team, even saw these ads!

How would you like to advertise to all of your customers for $1 a day?  

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Creating an Offer Your Customer Can’t Refuse

A Thanksgiving Tip To Help You Build Your Entire Business Around.

Are you giving people a reason to come visit your Website, your Facebook page, or to come into your business or call you? Do you have something to offer that would truly get somebody excited or motivated to make a connection with you? Assuming you have a product or service that delivers exceptional value to your customer, lets sit back for a second and think about what that potential customer or client may be thinking about right now.

What are her fears and frustrations?  What is he motivated by? Is there a problem they are trying to solve?  Is there an underlying passion your service or product can help fulfill?

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How To Send a Video Email

The Easiest Way To Send a Video Email in Less Than 5 Minutes with Free Software.

In this video I show you how to use the free screen recording software Jing to record a video and send it in an email.   Think about the last time you sat down and tried to write out an email explaining something to someone – how much easier would that have been if you could have just recorded a quick video and hit send?  And how much MORE PERSONAL is that?

Sending a video email makes your life easier, makes the recipient of the email’s life much easier, and is just plain cooler than a regular email if you ask me.

Please comment or share if the video was helpful!

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Facebook Timeline

In the next few days, Facebook will be rolling out what maybe the best innovation in Social Media since, well social media. Introducing Facebook Timeline, a “new kind of profile.” In a nutshell, this new profile does exactly what its name suggestions, puts everything into a timeline. Facebook timeline orders everything from the beginning of time to the present. Giving you and your friends a compete timeline of your life; including, photos, check-ins, relationships, and everything in-between. Get a peek of the new profile:

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Claim Your “Place” with Facebook Places!

Make Sure You Claim Your “Place” with Facebook Places if you own a business and haven’t yet!

Facebook’s launch of its new location based application – “Facebook Places” with Facebook Deals is one of the biggest apps ever launched for Facebook. They have been working up to this point for a long time. If you have a mobile Facebook app on your phone and have recently updated it, take a look at where the Facebook Places icon is. Yep, right in the center. Below, I actually have a link to a live, VERY candid audio interview with Mark Zuckerburg on the day of the announcement.

Statistics say that 9 out of 10 people now have Facebook on their mobile phone, so get ready for everyone you know to be “checking in” soon. I have a feeling the phrase “check in” or “checked in” will soon be as common as “text me” or “call me” is now. I can just see the conversation now going something like this: “You were at The Ram last night? Why didn’t you check in?” Or “I saw that you checked in at the Ram last night, how long were you there? ”

Damn, I wish I could go back to college…

Just by looking at your phone you can see where everyone in your social circle is hanging out, as long as they have checked in. There are quite a few location based services like Foursquare, Gowalla, Whererunow is about to launch locally, and many more. All these services do virtually the same thing that Facebook Deals does, however the one major exception is that 90% of people are on Facebook and about 1% of people are on these other applications.

So if you have a mobile phone and do not have access to Facebook Places I would suggest running to your nearest wireless store or kiosk and getting one!!
With Facebook Deals local businesses will be able to offer instant redeemable coupons to people who check in to their business, AND to people who are within a certain distance of their business. This technology has been being used for a while by various companies, but nobody with the network that can even hold a candle to Facebook has been doing it. This is why it hasn’t been very successful yet, or created much of a buzz with the regular population.

But Facebook has been watching. And waiting. Until now.
If you are a business and would like instructions on how to get your business listed on Facebook Places, here is a manual from Facebook on how to do it:
Facebook Places Listing Instructions
Here is the audio interview with Mark Zuckerburg on the day of the Facebook Deals announcement: Mark Zuckerburg Interview

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