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Google Video Launches for Internal Business Use

This morning Google is launching Google Video for business, a customized video platform aimed at businesses for internal use. Think training vides, HR videos, etc. (anything that isn’t outside facing). The product is included in Google Apps Premier Edition for free, with 3 GB of storage per user account. – TechCrunch – Google Video Launches for Businesses

This launch will obviously have a limited use for now, but if you’re looking for a video service/vendor for internal use, Google might be a good vendor to check out, especially if you have users who are familiar with YouTube (it has similar functionality).  I’m guessing that Google will look to expand this in the future and possibly become a competitor in the online video industry – it’s just a logical jump from owning YouTube.

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Using Social Media for Long-Term Results

If you’ve had any success with using social media to increase the traffic to your website, you may have noticed that you usually get a spike in traffic which often goes back to original levels.  While getting a spike in traffic might be nice (or not nice if it crashes your website), if your traffic goes back to the original levels, you’ve lost an opportunity to convert some of those people to long-term visitors.  Traffikd has a good article with some ways to try to convert traffic spikes from social media into long-term visitors – Social Media Marketing: Getting Long-Term Results.  A summary of things to consider from the post:

  • Subject of your posts
  • Tone of your Posts
  • Targeted Social Media
  • Timing
  • Potential Impact
  • The Needs that are Met by the Post

While Traffikd’s post focuses mostly on blogs, these techniques can also be used on your business website.  It is important to maintain a customer-centric design by keeping the needs of your customers in mind with your content (and your design, layout, etc.).  The customers who visit your website are who provide the return on investment (ROI) for your website.

What’s worked for your business website in terms of social media?  Please share in the comments below.

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More Tips for Getting People to Sign Up for your Website or Social Network

Joshua Porter is offering a free chapter of his book, Designing for the Social Web.  The book is geared towards web designers and developers, but this chapter has some great tips for what to put on your website or social network to entice visitors to sign up.  Most importantly it shows you how to put yourself into the shoes of your visitors to understand what information they need in order to understand what your website is about and what they’ll get out of signing up.  Next is understanding how the site works and how to sign up…. worth checking out.