small business Articles

What constitutes a small business varies widely around the world. Small businesses are normally privately owned corporations, partnerships, or sole proprietorships. What constitutes “small” in terms of government support and tax policy varies by country and by industry, ranging from fewer than 15 employees under the Australian Fair Work Act 2009, 50 employees according to the definition used by the European Union, and fewer than 500 employees to qualify for many U.S. Small Busines...

Video Contests for Small Businesses: Intuit’s SMB Video Throwdown

Recently an old friend of my from my college days contacted me about a video contest his son and daughter in-law were finalists in, and he asked me if I would vote for their videos on the site. Turns out the contest was hosted by intuit, ...

Tips for Avoiding Deceptive SEO

The good folks over at Small Business Trends have compiled a quick list of how not to get fleeced by your SEO company. Since we at ReelSEO feel no one should ever get fleeced we thought it was worth mentioning here. SBT's list includes looking ...

How To Produce "Business-Quality" Online Video On A Small Business Budget

Can businesses today really create sustainable revenue and long-term profit around regularly publishing professional-quality online video, and keep their production costs well below the standards of broadcast-quality? Yes, if they're willing to be what I call "videoratis" - a video professional and publicist skilled at ...

Service Providers for Real Estate Videos and Slide Shows

A while back ReelSEO interviewed the CEO and Co-Founder of Wellcomemat.  We know that using online videos and slideshows for marketing real estate online can be incredibly effective.  In fact, in September of last year, we covered some research which showed that the use of ...

Grant Crowell On Web Marketing Today

Dr. Ralph Wilson of Web Marketing Today interviews ReelSEO's Grant Crowell on how small businesses can benefit from combining online video marketing with search engine optimization. (This interview was originally done at the PubCon conference back in November 2008, where Grant was a featured speaker ...

Mixpo Partners With Major Media Publishers To Bring Online Video Marketing To Local SMBs

As newspapers and media companies continue to struggle with overall revenue declines and as the economy has many small and medium sized businesses watching their advertising budgets much more closely,it is critical that media publishers diversify their interactive product portfolios in such a way that ...

Interview With Mixpo's CEO Anupam Gupta - Video Marketing for SMBs

http://www.reelseo.com/anupam-gupta/ I had the pleasure of catching up with Anupam Gupta, the CEO of Mixpo.com to talk to us about video marketing solutions for small and medium sized businesses. Mixpo is an online video marketing/advertising platform that is designed to provide turnkey video marketing solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. Mixpo has developed a proprietary technology platform that leverages the power of video to drive action and deliver measurable results for SMBs.

Online Video and The Law (for Video Search Marketing Dummies)

ReelSEO's Grant Crowell hosts this special podcast highlighting legal issues involved with marketing video online.. Grant shares his own research and interviews with several intellectual property attorney, who are also all speakers at search marketing conferences.

Video Agencies' Marketing Tips for Small Businesses

Four online video production agencies for small businesses shared their perspectives and tips for small businesses  at the Search Engine Strategies conference on the panel, Using Video in Small Business Marketing, moderated by The Kelsey Group's Michael Boland.

Video Now Passing Search In Total Views

Online video views are now surpassing searches performed on the top 5 search engines, according to the most recent two months of stats released by comScore. In October 2008, 12.6 total billion searches were made – as compared to 13.5 billion videos viewed. "Video is ...

SES Search Usability Panel's Recommendations for Video SEO

ReelSEO's Contributing Guest Reporter Erika Blackwell continues her coverage of the Search Engine Strategies Chicago 2008 conference, and asks the Usability and SEO Panel – What usability tip do they recommend to clients when it comes to featuring video on their website? The panel's reply: ...

Fighting IP Extremism With Online Video – The Lawrence Lessig Interview

We caught up with Professor Lawrence Lessig, founder of Stanford Law school's Center for Internet and Society, and the opening Keynote Speaker the Search Engine Strategies Chicago 2008 conference for "Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy”. We asked Professor Lessing if ...

ReelSEO.com To Feature Multimedia Coverage of Search Engine Strategies (SES) Chicago

Online video marketing leaders and video search evangelists ReelSEO.com, to offer unique multimedia coverage of special sessions at the 2008 Search Engine Strategies conference in Chicago. Newport Beach, CA (PRWEB) December 4, 2008 -- ReelSEO, the web's premiere source for internet video marketing news and ...

Search Engine Strategies Chicago 2008 – A Video SEO Preview

ReelSEO, will be providing coverage of the Search Engine Strategies 2008 Conference and Expo,December 8-11, 2008 at the Chicago Hilton Hotel. Coverage will include blogging, podcast, and video clips on video marketing sessions and speakers prior to, during, and after the conference.

Distribution Deals Help Google Increase TV Ad Inventory

As of September Google has been selling time through Google TV Adwords for NBC advertising inventory. The announcement was made on September 24th on the Google offline ads blog. Again they've made another deal, this time with Bloomberg TV. Starting November 6th Google started allowing ...