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Promoting your business with YouTube's Search Stories Creator

If you liked watching that search story video on the Super Bowl and wanted to create one of your own to promote your business, it's easy with YouTube's free Search Stories Video Creator. Just type in your search terms, add music and voila! it automatically creates a search story video for you.  Here's s quick one that I put together in just 5 minutes:

You can add web, image, blog or book searches to your stories to promote your business, products, books, DVDs or services. Give it a try here: http://www.youtube.com/searchstories 

Post a link to your video creation in the comments if you like.

Enjoy!

Linda Locke
Social Media Coach

Facebook Changing Page Fans to Likes

I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me! ~ Sally Field

 
If you have a Facebook page, listen up.  Changes are coming again -- Facebook recently announced they're tweaking the way people will connect with you (and your brand) on your Page -- replacing the Become a Fan button with a Like button instead. It's a subtle difference, but Facebook says that statistics show that people are more likely to click on Like rather than Fan so the change could increase your fan base no matter what they call it.

What do you think?

Read more here: Facebook to scrap `become a fan of' for `like'

Linda Locke
Social Media Coach

Linda's Social Media Goodies for 4/2/10

 
Here's a roundup of the social media goodies that I discovered this week.

Enjoy!

Linda Locke
Social Media Coach

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