To Vimeo, Or To YouTube, That Is The Question

YouTube Or Vimeo

March has been an exciting month for Black Dog Education! With the coming of a new Spring season, we’ve seen the coming of a new video marketing strategy.

Instead of solely depending on YouTube for our video needs, we’ve decided to leverage the amazing power of Vimeo Pro for our video hosting. You may be sitting there thinking, “Shut the front door! Isn’t YouTube the cat’s pajamas for small business video marketing?” And yes that’s true, YouTube is extremely important to any business’ online video marketing distribution strategy. But with its low quality compression settings it doesn’t always flatter our videos. This isn’t to say YouTube is bad, it just doesn’t work harmoniously for our videos specifically.

Let’s take a trip down memory lane, shall we? Here is our very first video from Black Dog Education, uploaded to YouTube on April 8th 2011.

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How To Avoid These 4 Social Media Land Mines

Social Media Pitfalls

In the past 5 years social media has exploded onto the Internet marketing scene. This huge sensation has completely changed the way businesses of all sizes interact with leads and current customers. But is it all it’s cracked up to be?

According to a recent article by Gizmodo “3% of adults had gotten into a physical fight with someone based on an experience they had on Facebook”.

Social media is still a relatively new form of communication. And this shocking study conducted by Pew shows that users are still trying to figure out its role in their personal and professional lives.

In light of this and numerous other startling tales of the web, we’ve developed a plan to avoid 4 serious problems when trying to promote your business with social media.

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Increase Fan Chatter With Facebook Photos

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Thanks to the web a picture, now more than ever, is worth a thousand words.

With tools like social media, websites, and web directories many small business owners can make a first impression with potential customers for little to no cost.

To help small business owners better utilize the power of images, we’ve developed a 4 part series on what you need to know about Facebook photos. In part 4 of the series, Cierra gives some tips on how to get more comments out of your fans with photos.

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Strategic Facebook Tagging Tricks

Thanks to the web a picture, now more than ever, is worth a thousand words.

With tools like social media, websites, and web directories many small business owners can make a first impression with potential customers for little to no cost.

To help small business owners better utilize the power of images, we’ve developed a 4 part series on what you need to know about Facebook photos. In part 3 of the series, Cierra explains some tagging tricks you can use to help promote your business.

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Are You Using This Facebook Photo Tool?

Thanks to the web a picture, now more than ever, is worth a thousand words.

With tools like social media, websites, and web directories many small business owners can make a first impression with a lot of potential customers for free or a very low cost.

To help small business owners better utilize the power of images, we’ve developed a 4 part series on what you need to know about Facebook photos. In part 2 of the series, Cierra explains how you can use 5 pictures to help mold your brand’s personality on Facebook.

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