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Starting and Growing a YouTube Channel

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Having a YouTube channel is a great way to reach out to your audience, and potentially earn money. You can repurpose content you've already created in to videos, or create new, short videos for your niche. There's a lot of great advice on how to grow a YouTube channel. Content Marketing Institute highlights having a compelling intro, doing keyword research (YouTube is a … [Read more...] about Starting and Growing a YouTube Channel

Guest Post: 5 Ways to Sell More Books and Reach More Readers with Video Marketing

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By Cristian Stanciu Did you know two thirds of online activity revolves around watching videos? You probably knew that a lot of all internet traffic is video traffic nowadays, but didn’t expect it to be that much. YouTube is one of the biggest examples that has over a billion users and more than 500 million hours of videos are viewed on it every day. And Facebook … [Read more...] about Guest Post: 5 Ways to Sell More Books and Reach More Readers with Video Marketing

Guest Post: 5 Reasons Why Video Should Be a Part of Your Content Marketing Strategy

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By Andre Oentoro In the last decade, the content marketing world has shifted from text posts to videos. Before, YouTube was just a site with only a dozen videos. Now, it’s the second biggest search engine right behind Google. Today, our social media feeds are dominated by videos. Whether it’s on your Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter, videos are taking over the Internet … [Read more...] about Guest Post: 5 Reasons Why Video Should Be a Part of Your Content Marketing Strategy

Resources for Making Videos and Marketing With Them

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Videos can be a great tool for marketing. But there's a lot to learn. Below are some resources to help you get started, and links to updates on major platforms. How to Use Video for Marketing How to create videos to promote your book on Front Edge Publishing How to create a successful YouTube channel on My Wife Quite Her Job A video hack to boost ecommerce sales on … [Read more...] about Resources for Making Videos and Marketing With Them

Guest Post: The 6 Best Tools for Video Marketing

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By Candy Video marketing is an attractive, versatile, and extremely effective way to reach your target audiences. As all we know, the mother of all social networks, Facebook, has been strongly favoring video content in its news feeds. To help you create compelling, inspiring, and actionable marketing videos, I list some main video marketing tools that you should know. 1. … [Read more...] about Guest Post: The 6 Best Tools for Video Marketing

Guest Post (Excerpt): Social Media Video Marketing – The Ultimate Guide

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By Koushik Marka Today we have a guest post from Koushik Marka, founder and CEO of Studiotale, about video marketing and social media. The post is an excerpt from Studiotale's full guide, "Social Media Video Marketing – The Ultimate Guide." The guide is divided into four chapters: types of video content, actionable tips, platform-specific tips, and online video tools. Read on … [Read more...] about Guest Post (Excerpt): Social Media Video Marketing – The Ultimate Guide

5 Strategies for Writers to Market and Monetize Their Work and Expand Their Audience

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As an indie author, there are so many tools and strategies you can employ to grow your audience and even monetize your work. Below are 5: videos, podcasting, merchandising, crowdfunding, and social media. Videos Videos are a great way to connect with your audience on a more personal level. There are a few tools and resources to help you get started in creating content: … [Read more...] about 5 Strategies for Writers to Market and Monetize Their Work and Expand Their Audience

Storytelling and Marketing with Videos

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There are many ways to tell stories, and to market your work. One way I've been toying around with recently is video. Here's an example of a video I made for my I Know Dino channel: In the future, I may add some audio narration. At the time, I was thinking people would only be interested in the visuals. Anyway, Content Marketing Institute shares a number of reasons … [Read more...] about Storytelling and Marketing with Videos

Indie Authors: Writing and Publishing Tools

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It seems that every day I come across a new site or tool that can help with writing, editing, promoting, or pretty much any stage in the publishing process. (The Book Designer has a great article explaining why authors should embrace new technologies.) Here are links to a few of the best ones: Writing Citation Styles: A repository for help with citations and … [Read more...] about Indie Authors: Writing and Publishing Tools

Photos, Stickers, Animation, and More: A Collection of Visuals for Authors

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When it comes to marketing, visuals are all important--both online and off. Photos Photos are great for blogs as well as for books. Make sure you have the rights to use those photos. That's where stock images come in handy. "4 Incredible Free Sources for Photos to Use in Your Book or Blog" on The Book Designer Stock Up (About Stock Up) Pexels "Wikimedia Commons … [Read more...] about Photos, Stickers, Animation, and More: A Collection of Visuals for Authors

Guest Post: 10 Ways to Drive Traffic From YouTube

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By Katherine Lane It has been 12 years since YouTube started to widen people’s entertainment sessions. The website has been a great help for those who want to watch a wide variety of videos online. Aside from satisfying people with its wide selections of videos, YouTube has been a great tool for marketers as well. However, since there are also a lot of marketers who attempt … [Read more...] about Guest Post: 10 Ways to Drive Traffic From YouTube

Guest Post: 6 Smart ways to create a popular YouTube channel

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By George Minton YouTube, the famous Google-owned network, has over a billion users, which is almost half of the internet users on the globe. Everyday millions of people enjoy the billions of new videos aired on YouTube. In fact, YouTube reaches more than half of its daily billion views on mobile alone. This platform has created a source of income for many people who have … [Read more...] about Guest Post: 6 Smart ways to create a popular YouTube channel

Indie Authors: Using YouTube

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Video can be a very important component of an indie author's marketing strategy. In addition to book trailers, authors can make videos for a myriad of purposes, such as Behind the scenes Showing off research that went into the book Interviews Having actors play characters or scenes Explaining concepts (for nonfiction books) Animating themes or … [Read more...] about Indie Authors: Using YouTube

Udemy: Increasing the Volume of Recorded Videos in 9 Easy Steps

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Publishing a course on Udemy has been a great learning experience. I've already gotten some feedback for my course, How to Create Beautiful E-Books. One of the suggestions was to increase the volume of my video lectures, so I spent some time researching how to do that without having to reshoot all the videos. Turns out it's pretty easy and straight forward, so I wanted to share … [Read more...] about Udemy: Increasing the Volume of Recorded Videos in 9 Easy Steps