HOT MARKETING TIPS AND TOOLS
This blog reviews and curates good blogging and business practices by successful marketers and good marketing tools for bloggers, affiliates, work from home business, online marketers, and other entrepeneurs.
I originally wrote How To Start A Shopify Store after I took part in Fred Lam's 10 part training course, which was invaluable. It is not accessible now through another website so I will give you a link that takes you to his website, Starting From Zero. Fred Lam started his journey as a dishwasher and has now generated over $20M online.
He has done this using a 5-step system that he accidentally discovered and I had the privilege to participate in his training sessions that showed me how I can start my own online eCommerce business.
No one else on the Internet would show this unless you spend thousands of dollars. He is so easy to follow and gives you incredible information that fast-tracks your skills.
If you are interested in eCommerce, I would highly recommend following Fred Lam.
I have written this in good faith and I am not an affiliate and am not gaining any monetary payment for writing this post. I am sharing something that is of great value.
I want to provide some Tailwind Tribes for you to join so that you can focus on getting your pins shared and repinned, as soon as possible.
In the blogging world, people will expound on the virtues of whatever they use, so I did believe them but I only realised how powerful they were when the weekly statistics came rolling in.
I spent some time on Boardbooster as an experiment but I went back to Tailwind as I felt the results were much better, and quicker with Tailwind.
Tailwind Tribes were a great boost to getting my pins shared and repinned within their Pinterest followers and increasing my followers.
Tailwind Tribes is a great opportunity to grow your followers as the more you repin their pins, the more followers and repins you get.
I noticed that there is great benefit in focusing on repinning others' pins as I always had better growth when I shared others' pins more often than my own.
The layout of each tribe makes it easy to see who has shared your post, how many times your pins have been shared and repinned, both in Tailwind Tribes and in Pinterest.
Each of your pins has the logo of the person who shared your pin and each pin has a Tailwind logo with the total number of shares in Pinterest.
This is great as Pinterest has taken the number of pin shares off pins.
You can also communicate easily with sharers and Tailwind Tribes makes it easy for you to thank them for the shares.
I use the Tailwind icon and make a Tailwind sharing board on Pinterest so it makes filling my queues easy.
You can choose to leave your pins in Drafts and then pin them to Tailwind Tribes later. This feature (Tailwind icon) is only available on Chrome.
These results are pretty impressive, considering I have only been on Tailwind for months (spent some time on Boardbooster for comparison purposes ).
Note: when I joined late last year, I was able to join 14 groups. This has now been changed to 10 tribes, if you pay monthly.
I decided to give you a sample of how I have used Videze by uploading some of my videos.
I have promoted products and blog posts with intros, corporate presentations and split frames that highlight my post with images and pins that I use, and also snippets from blogs.
I have advertised Videze using different templates.
I have also made mini-posts based on my posts.
You can use your images or type a keyword into their search box and use their images. Same for music.
I think this will give you a good idea of how many options are open to you when you use the Videze software.
I am not tech-minded, and I will honestly say that it is easy to put a video together with Videze.
I decided to be an affiliate for this product as I can recommend it for its ease of use and its effectiveness in taking traffic to where you want it.
I would suggest that, if you are a blogger, you seriously consider using video to promote your posts.
You probably get sick of hearing that video has an 85% more chance of engaging visitors, but the proof is in the pudding.
My Twitter is my evidence as the engagement on videos is much higher than an image.
This was the engagement I had using an image promoting Videze for launching my new blog post compared to the promotional video I used at the same time.
Definitely more shares and love and views with video.
This also shows the higher engagement I had using Videze and this also resulted in a substantial number of clicks on JVZoo. 21 shares, 55 loves and 330 views.
PS: I rested this campaign and started it up again so these numbers have increased.
As mentioned in an earlier post, I also use Vidcurator and Vidicle to promote my blog posts and I am happy to have a repertoire of video software as it does increase engagement and bring more traffic to where you want it.
However, Videze is an all-in-one video software that takes care of all your needs!
What I like about Videze is the wide selection of templates that add pizzazz to your presentations, and you can promote one item but you can vary your presentation for your target audience.
They see different videos for the same product or post!
In this post, you will find out why Videze video software is superior to other video software and why you should be considering it as part of your marketing strategy.I know, from personal experience on social media, that I will click on an image that has the video icon so it is totally believable that video does have a higher engagement rate than other marketing strategies so it is wise to consider investing in some form of video software. Because of the higher engagement rate, it has the potential to grow at a very rapid rate, as well.
This is good news for your product, service, or blog. Before purchasing Videze, I had purchased Vidcurator and Vidicle, both of which are easy to use so very tech-friendly.
They each serve a specific purpose wherein you have a backing image and overlay it with text and/or images or repurpose blog posts easily. However, each software package performs one type of action so I find that, in the long run, the price of Videze is more economical while the production is also faster. Although I am working on a casual basis, I was committed to purchasing Videze as I was excited by all its different functions.
It was a tool that could add eye-catching intros to my videos or just whet the reader's appetite with a short burst of intro. Or I could choose a longer template to show off my products. So I purchased it and regard it as an investment.
I have seen marketers resell it for $10-20 above this asking price so all good with my purchase. I have found it particularly successful on Twitter and, as I mentioned before, people love pushing on that video icon!
I have one video below as an example but each video I have made is vastly different from each other because of the many different templates in the library. If you enjoy video-making, it offers the opportunity to use it for commercial work.
It is an important tool if you are considering a Commercial Licence, where you make videos for others, or if you want to make money by applying to have Youtube Ads on your video.
I have bought Videze and find it is simply a matter of choosing the type of template you want, customising it with your images, logo and text, and then rendering!
You can choose whether you use their images (mainly pixabay when I was trialing it) or you can use your own.
I know how much intros cost and this software will cost you much less than the quotes I saw for some intros.
The statistics say that information gained from a video has an 85% retention rate. So what better way to promote your business or blog.
*I am an affiliate for this product and I will receive a small commission, at no extra cost to you.
NB: There is other video-making software that is used by marketers, and as an affiliate, they encourage you to use it too because they have quite a high monthly charge for the service.
What Videze can do for you- the list of its features