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Video has gradually emerged as the most effective brand-marketing tool in contemporary business. A report by Forrester Research shows that over 76% of online shoppers find a company more reliable if it features visual content on its site. To appreciate the popularity of this promotional tool, consider a report by Etail Insights showing that YouTube is now the 2nd largest search engine, bigger than Yahoo, Bing and all others combined. If you are looking for an effective branding tool, it is time to contact a video production company to come up with a compelling product. Other than the irrefutable statistics, there are other practical reasons to use this media for this purpose. Take a look: 1. Encourage Sharing According to eMarketer, over 80% of viewers share the content online and this means your videos can go viral very easily. If you have thumbnails on your social media platforms, you will get more attention as opposed to any text message you have used. 2. Enhanced Engagement Text messages are arduous to read and internet users don't have the time. When you use visuals to explain your company and promote it, you will have captivated the attention of many users who want quick access to information on the go. If you have a creative call to action, it is easier to generate leads. 3. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) This is the holy grail of online marketing and if your website is not ranking highly, it is time to change tactics by contacting a video production service provider. Visual content gives positive signs to search engines and indeed, it is no secret that Google ranks sites with visuals highly. This form of content also improves conversion and helps you build invaluable inbound links based on the visuals you have on your website. 4. Customer Loyalty The open rate for newsletters and emails containing visual content is over 200% compared to texts only according to Forrester Research. These marketing tools are crucial in building customer loyalty and if this marketing tool helps retain your customers and engage new ones, it is important to embrace it sooner than later. 5. Personalization It is easy to customize your brand using video production as opposed to texts. When you watch promotional content online, it is very easy to identify your firm even before a few seconds of the video plays. It is easy to use your own color themes, logos and other graphics to connect with your target audience and to increase brand awareness. A tailor-made campaign is great if you want to make a mark in your particular niche. 6. Cost-efficiency Brand marketing has been the Achilles heel of most businesses due to the costs involved. However, with emergence of affordable and innovative video production, it is now possible for startups to compete with established firms in their niche by leveraging versatility of their productions. If you want to enhance your company's visibility online then talk to an established video production company to create professional videos. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/9400145

1. What went wrong between you and your ex? Interrogating a woman about her previous relationship is never a good idea. Relationships end for a reason. First dates are supposed to be light, a laid-back meeting to see if there's chemistry. Don't get too deep and risk scaring her away. 2. If you could change 3 things about yourself, what would you change? Asking a woman what she would change about herself implies that you don't like something about her. Women never want to hear that you dislike anything about them. Stay away from negative conversations, and focus on the positive ones. 3. How much money do you make? Her salary, or yours for that matter, is irrelevant. The purpose of a first date is to get to know each other, not to find out how much is in each other's wallets. Concentrate on the conversation, not how much money you both have. 4. Do you still talk to your ex? The past should stay in the past. If she communicates with her ex, it's not important as of now. Focus on the present. 5. Tell me about your most recent dating experience. Talking about your last dating experience is really awkward. When a girl is on a date with you, there's no need to worry about who she went out with last week or even last month. 6. Have you had any plastic surgery? You might be dying to know how the woman you're sitting across from looks so amazing, and if she's had any work done, but now is not the time to ask. Questions about plastic surgery and enhancements are personal. Save those questions for when you really get to know each other. 7. I have a question about what I saw on Google... Revealing to a woman that you online stalked her in any way is creepy. No need for Google questions on a first date. 8. What size are you? Asking a woman her waist size is inappropriate, insulting, and offensive. If you like the way she looks, her size shouldn't matter. 9. What was your GPA? When you're over the age of 21, your GPA isn't important. Being book smart is valuable info to some people, where real-world success matters to others. 10. Where do you see yourself in 5 years? You never want a date to feel like she's on an interview. When you ask a woman where she sees herself in 5 years, she'll most likely feel like she's being grilled. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/9400616

Determining the best prepper websites has been an interesting exercise! Prior to exploring this I had a couple of sites I tended to go to for my own information, but was somewhat surprised to find out there are literally scores of these sites out there. The quality and focus of each site varies greatly. In arriving at my top seven best prepper websites I used subjective criteria as opposed to objective data. At first blush using objective criteria, like number of website hits, may seem a better measure. However, number of website hits and subscribers can be a little misleading since some webmasters may be more skilled at building traffic than others. Plus some websites can get a high Google page rank, but haven't been updated in years. One high ranking site's founder and main writer is dead! In my opinion, number of subscribers and site hits correlates to popularity but not necessarily to utility of the site. One could argue that without utility the site wouldn't be as popular. True to an extent but there are a number of additional issues to consider. For example, is the website inviting and intuitive to navigate? How much advertising coexists on the site? Are the ads helpful or a distraction? Does the site charge money or have an upgrade available? Is it worth the extra cost? Etc. Here's the criteria I used in my evaluation: • Overall utility / usefulness; ease of use; intuitive; lack of clutter • Best organization of topics • Best prepper food / nutrition site • Best prepper networking site • Best prepper first aid advise site • Best use of prepper photos with articles • Best Suburban Style Prepper Site The list of criteria could go on but after researching and ranking dozens of sites the criteria listed above are the key areas where the sites listed below really separated themselves from the pack. Additionally, I would encourage you to use a selection of diversified prepper sites instead of just one. For example, a site for prepper nutrition, another for prepper first aid and another for networking allows for a comprehensive approach to gathering knowledge, then integrating and applying your skills. With no further adieu here are my results with a brief explanation for each category. 1) Best overall site for utility & usefulness, intuitive ease of use & lack of clutter: • prepforshtf.com o Comprehensive, easy to use and well organized. Excellent list of free Kindle books, tons of useful products, how to's, videos and useful ads. Overall a great resource! 2) Best Organization of Topics • offgridsurvival.com o This a solid site in the vein of prepforshtf.com. I gave offgridsurvival.com the edge when it came to organizing its topics as the site is very clean with a clear sense of purpose. This site tends to look a little more at current events and link them to living off the grid. Great source of intel! 3) Best Prepper Food & Nutrition Site: • Readynutrition.com o Packed with meal guides and nutrition tips all geared to preparing for survival mode. Lots of helpful tips for those new to prepping. 4) Best Networking Prepper Site: • Americanpreppersnetworkforum.com o Hands down, by far the best site for building a network with those of like mind. Does have a $60 upgrade option which opens the door to discounts on all merchants displaying on this site. Not a bad deal if you plan to shop. The site can take a little time to navigate but overall an outstanding prepper site to ad to your favorites list. 5) Best First Aid Prepper Site: • thesurvivaldoctor.com o Outstanding site for the prepper needing to ramp up his or her first aid skill set. Loaded with information and easy to navigate. Written for the lay person so no need to have a health care background. Another must have in your favorites. 6) Best Use of Prepper Photos with Articles: • theprepperjournal.com o A picture is worth a thousand words and this site does a nice job of integrating outstanding prepper content with relevant photos. A few too many links to non-prepper related material but the breadth of the relevant content is top drawer. 7) Best Suburban Style Prepper Site • thehomeforsurvival.com o Say what... suburban style prepper site? This is a prepper site built for the millions of us that aren't looking to move off the grid or spend half a million dollars to build a prepper home secluded somewhere in the Rockies. This is an uber practical, easy to navigate site loaded with useful topics any suburbanite can relate to. Put this in your favs. That's the list... your top seven! Ad these to your favs, visit them often, sign up for a newsletter or two and you'll be in good hands. Again, there are scores of prepper sites. These seven stood out. Additionally several of the sites above also rank at or near the top in objective data... just no dead owners (Google page rank, Alexa Rankings, etc). I welcome your feed back as I plan to revisit this topic from time to time. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/9350127

Wouldn't you like to get a jumpstart and achieve MLM success quicker? Perhaps you've wondered about Google alerts and how to use it for your business. This post will help you understand and use Google alerts to help move your business forward. Success in all endeavors is important and so we'll focus on attracting followers to your social accounts through the power of Google. It is important to share solid content and as well create content that is interesting to your prospects. In order to have such success, you will need to branch out and develop a taste for research. Setting Up MLM Success through Google Alerts MLM success depends on many factors and Google alerts can help you eliminate content problems to a small degree. Setting up the alerts is not, you will need a Gmail account. Once you have an account, perform a quick search for Google alert. It should be in the top three organic results. You may have to sign into the Gmail account in order to create an alert. At the top of the alert page is the search bar and type in a search term. Before you hit the alert, there is the options menu. You can chose frequency, sources, language, region, how many hits and where to deliver them too. Once you're happy, click on the alert button. This is only one step towards your MLM success. So what? Here is the big deal on Google alerts; your prospects are looking for great content to solve their pains, right. If you curate it, fill in the gaps or both you can build up your authority and awareness. This means more traffic in which you could possibly convert. This may mean increased opportunities to help them. So pick a few terms and create the alerts, this will fuel your social media content, while your working on offers and other areas. This will also help you discover new topics to write about. Don't Expect Immediate MLM Success from Google The process to success may be long and difficult, but using GA can help you. You will have to experiment and go after terms that you can cover without repeating the same noise. It's a tricky process, but MLM success does offer its rewards. There is no limit to the amount of search terms you follow, so pick the best ones. Read up on the alerts and your idea generation problems mellow out. Hope this will help. Thanks for reading. About The Author Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/9345927

If you want to be a ghost writer, be prepared to work for a high cost, expensive services clientele. It takes something in the ballpark neighborhood nowadays of figures in the five to ten to fifty thousand dollar range to hire a great book ghost writer. You can hire a book editor, a book doctor or a book coach for much less than that. Prices for editing and assistance with you yourself actually writing your book run for far less. I have worked directly, myself, on some upwards of 50 book manuscripts for a wide variety of client authors. I don't do screenplays; I have edited them, and I do an adequate job, but you really need to know the film industry to create the very best in scripts and screenplays. So I leave that sort of project to experts, optioned screenwriters and produced script writers for TV, who are on our team. What I specialize in is books. I can whip out a great, revised and edited book for an author client without having to worry about whether or not it's misspelled, has grammar or syntax issues, or is colorful enough to grab a literary agent's attention. Well, that is one way to put it. To be honest, I work over the top to produce the best manuscript I can possibly give each of my author clients, and that can mean working like a dog sometimes. It depends. Some clients hand me easy background notes, book outlines, chapter by chapter outlines - I'm the one who requests them from each client - and some clients don't. They need to either write out a full manuscript and have me edit it for them, or book coach them into writing it out, or book doctor an existing manuscript by performing content and/or developmental editing on it for them. So when you're a book ghost writer service, you can handle both ends. When it comes to screenplays and scripts, I have other people work on them. The right thing to do is to specialize for a while, I believe, and then when you're bored it's time to move on to a different specialty. I know a ghost writer who grew tired of writing screenplays, so he moved on to the prose writing and editing of book manuscripts. It doesn't hurt to step out of one field and into another. I started out editing people's book manuscripts for free, also for low cost, and I then stepped into the field of book ghost writer services in the early 2000's. It's been lots of fun for me, and a real roller coaster ride. My daydream is to continue with getting author clients over to the correct literary agents and commercial book publishers. It's more than just a dream, I'm able to do that. I have people on our team who handle that, and they have the right connections. But I'd like to shift eventually over to doing that myself someday. It's more lucrative. A book ghost writer on our team landed a $75,000 advance for a book where she only wrote the proposal and query letter. The book was published, selling quite well. She used the advance to make a down payment on her new house. She's very gracious and is always willing to bend to the needs and desires of her clients. But she won't take on the "wrong kinds" of non-marketable book projects. Only the ones she sees as potential winners, which have a great chance at being marketed appropriately. So I need to enter that field myself someday down the road. Right now, I'm taking it easier, mostly farming work out to writers, editors, marketers and others on our team, and trying to get my own three books, the ones I wrote myself, published. I smuggled one of my author client's books into The Library of Congress, early on in my career, and we have placed several more of them over there through the years. I've gotten my books into Google Books, Smashwords, Amazon, bookstores, and plenty of my author clients have been published on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, other media outlets, brick and mortar stores, online venues and the Public Library System, as well as around the world. Our books and some of mine have landed in France, Great Britain, Rwanda, China, Canada, Germany, Spain, South America... it is rather the glamorous side, the life of one book ghost writer running her ghost writing services. But there are also many pitfalls and drawbacks. The main one is getting out enough advertising to bring in the clients. The second most important aspect is finding ways to get our author clients to sign a firm Contract, and then stick with the project. I'll write another article about those two topics soon, I promise! GHOST WRITER, INC.'s Karen S. Cole - ghostwriter, editor, proofreader, rewriter, illustrator, book doctor, book coach and published book author - and our team of 200+ writing field related workers, many of which are NYT, New York Times and Amazon bestselling ghost writers and authors. We maintain contacts with top field literary agents, major international commercial publishers, and Los Angeles and New York industry TV and film field professionals. GWI will find a home for your book, getting you published no matter what, as long as you continue to pursue your dreams. The skies are literally the limits! Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/9347580

The web has billions of pages made up of social media, content, images and videos that it can be overwhelming for you if your website is struggling. To remain relevant in the sea of information that is the web, you ought to come up with effective methods of advertising your website online. A website that promotes your services or products and still manages to valuable to your readers is indeed your greatest tool and by being a little creative and proactive, you can expand your reach and boost traffic. 1. SEO When you start by optimizing your content for the search engines, then you manage to improve your online visibility and boost traffic in the process. Optimizing your content calls for the incorporation of search words or keywords to make your site popular on search engine searches. Apart from ensuring that your content is rich in the right keywords, you must also ensure that you do frequent updates and maintain consistency for this approach to work to your advantage. 2. Blogging Blogging is all about offering original, valuable and free content on the site to attract new visitors and to maintain your current users. The choice of topics you make will determine how successful blogging as an online advertising channel, but you should remember that it should not be used to promote your products or services but rather offer helpful information on topics related to the products or services. Still on blogging, you can write for prominent blogs that are in your niche and ensure that you have links to your business website in the biography you include in the guest post. Guest posts can actually fetch you huge traffic compared to using the company blog or website. 3. YouTube Web users just love videos and you can create and post relevant videos on YouTube to ensure that your content is easily found on the popular platform. When you do this, you stand the change to have your content indexed by Google which is very popular search engine and you can also have your video embed by users and shared on their social media and blogs. You do not even have to create a viral video to have it work for you in terms of online marketing your website; all you need is relevant quality content. 4. Social Media It is very similar to email marketing because it makes it possible for you to interact and communicate with potential customers and also encourage their buying powers. The content you choose for your social media will determine the likes and shares that you get as well as the repeat visits you get from your brand. You need to be very active to use social media as a web marketing tool. The good thing about it is that when you include something interesting it will get shared fast and people will be talking about it and making recommendations on your behalf. It is a channel that can help you create a strong brand in no time at all. Targeted traffic never disappoints for an online business because you end up reaching the right people likely to do what you expect them to do once they go over your content. There are so many online advertising options out there for you. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/9347211