YouTube has launched InVideo Programming, wherein you could select one of your / or any video and showcase it on ALL your videos. Cool thing is, you can change this any time and it’ll apply to all your videos. Also insert a water mark like image in any corner of all your videos and help boost your branding.
It helps Drive viewership to a specific video and reinforce channel branding using InVideo Programming across all your videos.
With InVideo Program, there are lot of possibilities:
We could promote one particular important video and get more eye balls to it.
We could include a special promo video, entertaining, educating as well as calling the user to take action and subscribe or do something.
We could agree to help in any good cause and all youtubers could include 1 video in all their videos, that would significantly spread the message, than simply changing the DP in social networking sites.
Activate InVideo Program Feature:
You’ll see it under the menu shortly, once it’s publicly available to all (YouTube Partners)
Until then, you can find it hidden inside settings.
So goto Settings: Under the “Channel settings” you’ll find “InVideo Programming”.
Connecting a Billion people is not an easy job. Frequent outrages, law suites, drawbacks ..all part of the success, Facebook reaches more than a Billion active monthly user mark today.
Here is a message from its founder, Mark Zuckerberg:
This morning, there are more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month.
If you’re reading this: thank you for giving me and my little team the honor of serving you.
Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life.
I am committed to working every day to make Facebook better for you, and hopefully together one day we will be able to connect the rest of the world too.
We have been hearing this for a while: If you ask people, what’s the highly populated place ? People would say, Facebook!
As Facebook hits 1 Billion monthly active users, they have also released their first official ad
And a story of an Indian, using Facebook to get back his memory:
We all know how much time we spend on Facebook wasting 🙂 but still can’t deny that it’s a place most of us enjoy watching our friends and share stuffs about yourselves.
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This is done through the implementation of strict end-user policies and messaging security systems. These policies include the implementation of encryption codes in the IT environment preventing data loss, theft and other types of security breach. Secure messaging protocols on the other hand, secures communications and networks by ensuring that no one from the company divulges sensitive company information through emails and other forms of communications.
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So its here finally! Facebook allowing its users to promote their status updates for a fee of 0.30 USD!
According to Facebook, you can promote posts and important news, links and photos higher in news feed.
For now, you could pay them online via:
PayPal
Credit Card
MOLPoints
Western Union QuickPay
Moneybookers.
Well, I think this could help in terms of promotion. But how will your news feed look like if its filled with promotional stuffs most of the times. Would you still come to Facebook with the same interest to read those promotions ?
Were you earning good income from YouTube’s Instream ad options ?
But now, pre-roll ads, Mid-roll ads and post-roll ads options are missing from your account ?
Not really..
You can enable these ads only for videos with atleast 10 min of content.
Once you upload the video and the video is processed, goto Video Manager and click on the edit link beside your video.
Next, goto Monetization tab and then select pre-roll, Mid-roll and post-roll ads.
Another good news is, we need not enable Monetization individually for all the videos. Now you can set default setting, which will be pre-selected for all your future uploads.
Do not aim for perfection at first shot.
Remember the old saying: Rome was not built in one day.
Building your Blog / Business / Application etc
If you’re not already a celebrity like most of us, then you’ll surly have hard luck with most of the ventures. Many of them may even fail.
This fear of failure is what holds us back and keeps us resisting / postponing / not doing what we ought to do. Let me clear this once for all: Yes, you’ll fail.
It’s sure that we’ll all fail at one or multiple things in life before we succeed. But a person who never tried is always a failure.
Take The 1st Step
The glory of success lies in daring to start.
This might seem the hardest. The gravity seem to be more at this stag!
Lets see what might be holding us back: 1. I don’t have the proper resources to start with. 2. Not enough money. 3. No right set of people.
The common things: 4. He won’t let me do that. 5. She won’t let me do that. 6. They won’t let me do that ..
Yes, all these may be true. But still get started NOW. Start it anyway.
..and then figure out the solutions as and when you encounter the problems.
We all know that problems will always be there. The thing is, how we react( if at all ) and act( taking right decision ) and move forward( progress ) inspite of the problems which is trying to suck the charge out of us.
Set Backs
Yes, we’ll have setbacks once we start. I won’t be surprised with the set backs. You shouldn’t be either. Because we already know we’ll have setbacks.
We should have the right mindset and patience to even start all over again and never stop.
“Awake, Arise, Stop not til the goal is reached.”
– Swami Vivekananda
If you’re losing interest, then you’re not passionate enough in what you’re doing; and may be its not of that significance to the world and YOU!
Focus 1. Start ( ..with vision) 2. Fail (fail early) 3. Face setbacks 4. Figure out solutions
Be solution oriented and not problem oriented. 5. Concentrate / Focus on the right things.
“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”
– Stephen Covey
6. Start over again ( if needed ) 7. Keep up the curiosity, patience, passion, and the spirit of creating positive impact. 8. Keep serving, keep growing. 9. Stay tuned.
Some times tough decisions are needed in business.
Some can be proved as wrong steps. But still they will be right for your business!
Confused ?
Let me explain:
Facebook introduced Facebook feed feature, and millions protested against it all over the world back then. But the user engagement had increased, so facebook continued with the feature, later after 4 years, on January 25th, 90k people agreed to turnout for the protest in Egypt. And they organized using Facebook and the same feature helped them get out their messages to wider community of users.
Ruchi Sanghvi, ex-Facebooker
Our Own Application, TwitFever.com
Its a retweet club community application where there are many members who write and submit tweets in languages other than English. I love those members, as they are active in the community. Sometimes I use Google translater tool to convert the writing to English and read their tweets and articles.
But that may not be true with other members of the community. They might find it intrusive 🙁
They may find it difficult and sometimes annoying to navigate inorder to digg English content and then retweet them.
In situations like this, we’ll have to follow the guts. I know, non-English speaking members will be really angry on me when I inform them the new rules of allowing only English content. But when you’re clear about your target audience, you’ll have to make tough decisions even if you don’t like to be rude.
Possible Solution:
Branch out the application and make sub domains or host the same application on other domains for each languages!
Now that isn’t feasible for a application like TwitFever.com
This solution may apply for a business which has bigger audience.
With this situation what I learn’t is being tough in decision is a must in business and some times in life too.
You can’t please everyone with your action/decisions.
What to look at?
Some people may say bad things about your application or business. But don’t lose your focus and forget all the other people who din’t say anything! Posibilities are they are actually loving it, but are scared to face the few others.
Always measure based on reality, statistics and not just by looking at a small group of people who are against it.
Its “ok” to treat it as a feedback: check it, if valid, act, if not carry on with your good cause.
Bad News: you’re not going to fit in with everyone.
Good News: people with big destinies never do.
Accept the things you can’t change;
have the courage to change the things which you can;
and have the wisdom to know the difference!
