As summertime is a period of reflection, in between applications of sunscreen and dips in the pool, thought I’d spend the next two columns pondering the good and the bad of social media, starting with the good part. (You’re right. It is not a coincidence that I’ll be on vacation during the two weeks these [...]

Videoblogging is the next generation of posting ideas and products over the internet. Everybody knows about textblogging. Now they use videos for a better way of expression. This form of communication may entail a lot of resources, but it is all worth it. If pictures say a thousand words, videoblogging exceeds that by far. A [...]

Here are several fixes you can do that will make your video readable by the search engines. Search engine crawlers read html very well, but not your video. At the present time, Google’s freshbot crawler cannot read inside a video. You will need to help that little freshbot. Consider these factors: 1. Make sure that [...]

Summer Special New Video Micro Campaign Site Special designed to promote a particular product, service, or special promotional campaign, includes a basic five page Micro Video Campaign Website with four 30-60 second video presentations using one onscreen actor filmed in studio on a white, black, or green screen background, plus custom signature music all done [...]

Video streamed on the web is a powerful medium to reach your online customers, and contrary to popular belief it is now no longer beyond the budget of small businesses. Below are six ways to use video to build your business. Many of them do not require large funds to implement – just a little [...]

After Google, YouTube is now apparently the most-used search engine in the world. YouTube now allegedly sees more searches than either Yahoo or MSN. I think that’s amazing. And I also think it is an amazing opportunity for those of us who want to increase traffic to our websites. But does YouTube really represent a [...]

IF VIDEO KILLED THE  radio star, online video will surely kill the static Web. Video is poised to permeate the Web in a way that goes far beyond YouTube’s user-generated clips. The Web’s design and flexibility make it a powerful visual medium, with moving images, Flash and animation fast becoming the lingua franca. This presents [...]

You have a website, and perhaps you’re even a professional salesperson, and as such you know that the best way to sell someone something is face-to-face, but have you seen the price of gas lately? So whether your customers are local, national, or international, the cost of getting to them is just too darn high [...]

Jerry Bader, Senior Partner at MRPwebmedia announced the introduction of Cache Closed an entertaining marketing resource for medium sized businesses fed-up with ineffective Web advertising schemes and the never-ending pursuit of search engine optimization rankings. See http://www.CacheClosed.com Ontario, Canada–June 20, 2008 – MRPwebmedia, a Canadian Web marketing video and audio production firm with clients in [...]