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Too much comfort, too many expectations, too little happiness
I find that I am the most happy when my joys are small, and somewhat infrequent. That sounds strange, doesn’t it? In this age of abundance to excess, why skimp if we don’t have to? Let’s take advantage of the cornucopia of desire fillers, we think. But what start out as desire fillers become desire fuelers. Have you ever noticed that you buy an expensive toy (a car, new phone, new tv) etc, and while you are excited and giddy at first, the happiness flatlines? You’re on to the next purchase, next toy. We become accustomed to our surroundings. We acclimate. We adapt. Science shows that our happiness returns to…
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Upload a video to Facebook
Have you seen how some videos play as you scroll past in Facebook, and some you have to click to play? That is the difference between videos uploaded to Facebook, and links shared from YouTube. In this video, if you are new to social media marketing/video marketing or would just like to learn without fumbling how to upload a video directly to Facebook, here ya go!
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How to get done what you say you’re going to get done for Social Media Marketing
You’ve heard it before. It’s not new advice. But where you’ve probably tried to use it, in some fitness arena, or with your New Year’s Resolutions, you might not have thought to use it with your social media strategy. Alright, alright. What is it already? you may ask. For whatever it is you want to do, Find someone to hold you accountable. Better yet, lots of someones. A group. Something. We make promises to ourselves, yet somehow these promises are so easy to back out of. I’m suggesting that, whatever first task you want to take with your social media marketing strategy, or your video marketing strategy, you tell people. Tell…
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Sometimes we have to fall, to fly
Last Saturday, I checked it off the bucket list. The Thursday before, I was writing in my journal, musing about my upcoming decision. While skydiving is fairly safe, 1 in 100,000 don’t make it, and those are WAAAAY higher odds than winning the lottery. Thinking “I want to be at peace with my choice. Yes, if I forgo it, I’m safer. But at what cost? Letting the fear win is NOT the answer. This experience, skydiving, is symbolic. Will I fly, or fall? Will I let my fear consume me and back down? I’ve been living in fear. Not all the time, not dramatically. But it’s there. The fear of failure,…
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10 Suggestions for what to talk about when starting Video Marketing
So. You’ve decided to start video marketing. You’ve set up your camera and you’re ready to go. AAAAAaaand Action! But wait! … what should you talk about? The simplest video is a “webcam” video, the form that most vloggers (people who create “video blogs” on YouTube) typically use. The camera (usually the webcam) is pointed at the blogger and they talk. For you, you can use your webcam or set up your camera or phone on a tripod. Answer each of these questions. You can get another person with you to ask them, and maybe ask more pointed questions if you are talking and they find a spot unexplored, or you can pause…
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Facebook Carousel
I posted this on Tutorial Tuesday on Facebook and YouTube, I’m just a slow goer getting it on here… *sigh*. But! I have it. It’s done, and here you are. Have you seen those sponsored ads where you can swipe between a few cool photos or offers while browsing Facebook? It’s called the Facebook Carousel. I’ll show you how to make one! Keep posted, this video is a basic “how-to”, I’ll make a snappier version in the future. 🙂
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What is Video Marketing?
We talk to people about what we do, we give them our business cards, we ask for referrals, put our ads in magazines and on Google, etc. We market ourselves, our services and our products. Video Marketing is used to the same purpose, promoting ourselves, services and products, it just comes in video form. “If a picture paints 1,000 words then one minute of video is worth 1.8 million, so say Forrester’s researchers,” as stated on “TheGuardian.com” Video Marketing itself is not new- since film was invented, it’s been used for promotion. Tv ads and trailers are still popular, but paying for ad space on the tv or big screen is not possible…
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Prime-Zoom-Telephoto-Wide Angle-Macro OH MY!
While messing around with my camera, and checking out another photographer/videographer’s equipment (CAMERA AND LENSES PEOPLE), I realized that I finally know what all the funny little photography jargon means, yay! That has given me some inspiration to distill it down, and pass on some of the knowledge. Today, I’d like to explore the words I threw up in the title. Prime. Zoom. Telephoto. Wide Angle. Macro. What all these words have in common is that they are types of SLR/DSLR lenses. (For the record, DSLR stands for Digital Single Lens Reflex. The SLR is the film version.) In my A+ worthy art above, I’m showing a somewhat visual idea…
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How-to pin a photo to Pinterest from Facebook
In the theme of tutorials, here is one about how you can pin a photo to Pinterest from Facebook!
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Scheduling decisions
Hey everyone! In an effort to be a big girl, I’ve decided to commit myself to some blog and video days! From now on, Tuesday is “Tutorial Tuesday” and Thursday is… well, just Blog Day Thursday. On Tuesdays I will post a tutorial about some aspect of Marketing/Videos/Technology/Social Media and on Thursdays I’ll submit a written blog to be read on whatever topic, most likely to be of the same genre as above. If you have suggestions for videos or blogs, especially something that you’re not sure of or struggling with, email me katiecurtisvideomarketing@gmail.com, or message me on Facebook or in any comment section and I can make a video/written tutorial…