You know video is the ultimate medium for marketing your business – but it takes time and skills to make a video right? WRONG!

I’m going to show you how to use a free Google tool to source images, edit these into a video, add music, produce your video and upload it to YouTube in 5 minutes or less!

Better yet you don’t need to have a camera, editing software or any video skills.  If you can type your name into a search engine you can use this method.

ALL EXCUSES FOR NOT USING VIDEO MARKETING HAVE JUST BEEN ERASED.

You can simply and quickly create a video for your business like the one Google used for their Superbowl ad and like this one of ours:

The Video Tool I used for this video is “Google Search Stories Video Creator” at: http://www.youtube.com/searchstories

But rather than just sending you to the link, I want to show you HOW to create your Google Search Story video.

I put our video together (above) after watching a tutorial by Video Marketing Wizz (and good friend), Pam Brossman of  “Video Marketing Campus” and www.SocialMediaWoman.com Thanks Pam for letting me share this video:

So watch the videos and then create your very own “Search Story”.  You can have a marketing video “as good as Google’s” minutes from now.

If you are ready to really step up your video marketing, then I highly recommend Pam, and her Husband Steve’s, “Fast Video Results” course – Click here to view more details and subscribe to their website to get notified of their new training videos – they’re all awesome!

Love your comments, feedback, tweets, shares, posts, pings and make sure to leave a link to your ‘Search Story’ video (once you create it) with your comment below.

I spend a lot of time on Social Media Marketing ( I love it) but you do have to balance the time you spend on Social Media with the business outcome you receive for your efforts.

By integrating my Social Media Networks and Bookmarking sites I can distribute a single piece of content across multiple sites with the ‘push of a button’.

Watch the video to see step by step what tools I use and how to set this up to get maximum exposure for your information across social media sites with the minimum time investment ….

Love to hear your feedback and results. Leave your comments here, stop by our Facebook page at:
www.Facebook.com/MarkandZoe or connect via Twitter www.Twitter.com/zdeluca

As always, if you found this video helpful, share far and wide with your networks/friends – simply hit the “Like” “Retweet” or “share” buttons.

After all it feels good to share

This is so much fun I just have to share the amazing “Everybody Tweet” song by singer/songwriter Lynn Rose.

The “Everybody Tweet” Facebook page at http://www.Facebook.com/EverybodyTweet , states that “Everybody Tweet” is:

“A fun, clever, technologically-revolutionary collaborative project that demonstrates the mass appeal of what the 140-character social media site, Twitter, has on the world!”

I say it’s a whole lot of fun with some staggering statistics on the impact, and speed of growth, of Social Media.

Enjoy…….

Oh and definitely “EVERYBODY (RE-)TWEET” this one

Have an Awesome Day!

Video Marketing is the hottest trend in maximising Social Media Marketing right now.

The largest video sharing site, YouTube.com has 13 Billion video views – PER MONTH!

People are watching hundreds of millions of videos a day on YouTube and uploading hundreds of thousands of videos daily. In fact, every minute, 24 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube.

With that level of traffic it’s obvious that you should have a presence on YouTube and other video hosting sites, but….

Have you found yourself paralysed at the thought of actually making a video?

What do you talk about? How do you make the video? How do you upload it to the net? And how will anybody else get to see it?

If video marketing has all seemed ‘too hard’ and/or you have been making excuses as to why ‘you’ can’t possibly create a video – then this training is for you.

I recorded this video marketing training for my SocialMediaShortCut course (the full training is available exclusively through www.SalesPipeLinePros.com ) – but have had several requests for this information, so here ’tis.

To those of you joining me on the Video Marketing 90 Day Challenge, I trust this helps you to power into action!

Any questions contact me here, on our Facebook page http://www.Facebook.com/MarkandZoe , at my Youtube channel http://youtube.com/user/zoedeluca or on twitter at http://www.Twitter.com/zdeluca

And please share away with your friends and social networks.

Have an Awesome Day – Zoe

P.S. This is the first in a series of 3 SocialMediaShortCut trainings.  Make sure to join this site or grab the RSS feed for updates on when the other Social Media Marketing trainings are available.

Do you have a back up for your Wordpress blog?

Not just an export file of the content but a full database backup should your website crash?

In this video I explain why this is so important and how to install and use a simple WP DB Backup plug in.

All wordpress site owners need to watch this video. Seriously don’t wait to learn this the hard way after a server error and losing everything (like I did!).

Thank you to @thatMLMbeat for the heads up via Twitter that there was a problem with my blog. Now I encourage all of you to tweet this and share through your social networks.  I don’t want anybody else to have the sinking feeling I had last week of their entire blog being “goooooone”.

SocialMediaShortCut Course is Now Live!

Full details on exclusive training with me to grow your Business with Social Media Marketing at www.SocialMediaShortCut.com

So you’ve heard all the buzz about Social Media Marketing – sites like Twitter, YouTube and Facebook and their potential to grow your business.

But are you completely overwhelmed with the amount of information and training being thrown at you?

In my upcoming SocialMediaShortCut course I’m going to show you exactly what you need to know to get Social Media Marketing working for you and your business without it taking over your life!

Watch the video above where I explain what the SocialMediaShortCut is all about and why I have decided (finally) to launch a group coaching course.

For free Social Media Marketing training and full details on the SocialMediaShortCut course, sign up for the SMSC VIP List below.

If you are still deciding if video marketing is right for your business – then you should consider these incredible video viewer numbers from conSure.

YouTube’s been on a high-speed growth upswing. Last month, YouTube became the 4th most visited site on the web after it beat out Microsoft’s Live.com and MSN, with 85.1 million U.S. visitors.

That number may not truly reflect the viewership of the web’s most popular video website, though. According to some astounding numbers from comScore, online video is surging as 8.9 billion videos were viewed by 120.3 million U.S. citizens in July. That’s over 1/3 of the entire U.S. population. Just as astounding is that over 21 billion videos were viewed on the Internet according to the new numbers.

Read the full article from Ben Parr at Mashable.com here: YouTube Now Has Over 120 Million U.S. Viewers

Is Social Media a fad?
Or is it the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution?

Thanks to the World of Socialnomics for this astounding collection of statistics and facts on the growth of Social Media.
Watch this and then think about how your business is maximising Social Media Marketing ….


Much of this information came from the “Did You Know” video from Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod.
Here’s the full video….

I’d love to hear your comments on these statistics and thought provoking questions.

The World truly is ‘A Changin’ and Social Media is Definitely Not Just a Fad!

Update on my 90 Day Challenge and exciting details on my upcoming speaking engagement at Web Wednesday on the Sunshine Coast for the Creative Collective.

If you’re on the Sunshine Coast, or prepared to travel here, I’d love to meet you on the 16th of September.

See video for details and then visit the website at http://budurl.com/WebWds