So, I am Opening For Business.

JonathanLB said:
If you can actually -- rather than spouting random crap you read in some article -- give me concrete examples of using something stupid like Twitter for any business purpose, please, let me know.
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Nationally, such brands as Starbucks and shoe-retailer Zappos have social media campaigns encompassing both Facebook and Twitter, and other major corporate Twitter-ers include Whole Foods, Comcast, JetBlue and American Apparel. PC-maker Dell announced Twitter had helped the company make $3 million since 2007 from customers who followed its links to make purchases.
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The strategy is a boon for carmakers, said Andy Sernovitz, author of ''Word of Mouth Marketing,'' because it gives a company direct access to an audience that has indicated it wants to receive information.
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Alexandre Acey, communications manager at Land Rover, said the company used Twitter as part of a coordinated media strategy that included posting tweets on Captivate -- those little information screens you sometimes see in elevators -- and on similar screens in taxi cabs to spread the word about launches of such models as Range Rover, Range Rover Sport and the new LR4.
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As businesses struggle to consider the uses of microblogging platforms such as Twitter in the workplace, Gartner, Inc. has highlighted the four ways in which organizations are using Twitter.

Direct — The company uses Twitter as a marketing or public relations channel

Indirect — The company's employees use Twitter to enhance and extend their personal reputations, thereby enhancing the company's reputation

Internal — Employees use the platform to communicate about what they are doing, projects they are working on and ideas that occur to them

Inbound Signaling
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So, help a brother out, I am advertising a training seminar I am going to hold at UCLA at the end of July. Here is the Craigslist ad: http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sgv/cls/1240170551.html. It is concurrently listed on actorsforum, here (of course), on both of my Facebooks, on Twitter, on Studentfilms.com, and on Mandy. Where else can I list it for free? I am investing a lot of time in this and I need to maximize exposure without incurring massive overhead to break even.
 
JonathanLB said:
What are you talking about?! Nobody puts videos on YouTube except for amateurs.
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This post wins for funniest quote. Surely you know the value of youtube. It by far surpassed prime time television years agao, my friend. If yuo are not utilizing it to your advantage today, you are stepping in line behind your competition. IN the meantime, you are making yourself look foolish by saying things like this.
 
I would LOVE to utilize YouTube to my advantage as well, however, after Google took them over, ALL of my videos saw a 98% DROP in traffic. When I first joined YT, I'd put a video up and within the hour, it would get 600 views. After Dec 2006, when I'd put a video up, I'd be lucky if it had 2 views within the first hour, and many videos I've put up haven't yet had 600 views in the 3 years that they've been up since Google's takeover. My pre-Google-era videos have about 50,000 views. Post-google, I can count them on my fingers!
 
It helps to promote them yourself. As with anything else, proper tags do wonders.
Let's not forget that content rules. While I put a lot of production value in my motorsports videos, a clip of me getting busted going 144mph with a locked down camera has hundreds of thousands more views than my best documentary. lol
 
I now tag my videos better than ever, but despite that, the post 2006 YouTube just doesn't bring any traffic to my post 2006 video uploads.
I recall in the early days of YouTube, that I could put a video online, and within 15 minutes, it'd be on the front page, taking about an hour to work its way down to the second page, and so on. Nowadays, when I upload a video, I can NEVER find it on the front page (this started in Jan 2007), and neither can anyone else. So instead of 600 views/hour, I get 1-2 a day.
As for sensationalism, even the video clip I have of the Shockwave jet powered truck crashing at 300mph during the Great New England Air Show didn't attract very much traffic. YouTube has changed.
 
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