Thursday, January 30, 2025

Vimeo Staff Pick Best Of The Year - Sierra ( An Amazing Short Film)

 

David Lynch Teaches You The Art of Life ( FULL 3HR Master Class)

A producer who was nominated for an Emmy recommended I take Master Class by Werner Herzog. I have to finish the  class and enjoyed learning from Herzog. 


 

Rabbits (2002) A Short Film by David Lynch


 

How to attach and remove the DJI Mavic 3 Pro ND Filters without breaking them.

LOL! SO GLAD I found this video. 😅🫠

 

10 Marketing Strategies Guaranteed to Grow ANY Business (PROVEN & PROFITABLE)

Increasingly these days, video content is tied into social media marketing.

-think about target audience

-find ideal segment of people you can best serve

80/20 - your existing customers

-take a look at your top 20% of your market

5;05 - Goals

-Goals don’t have to be rigid, but you should have a ‘North Star’ to guide you, an end goal, and make sure you’re on the right path

-end goal should be simple, then you work backwards

KPI

7;10 - Target Market

-about empathy & awareness, being able to put yourself in their shoes

-Marketing needs to be relevant and resonate with target audience

Need to relevant to right kind of people

-Think about specificity without using overused cliche phrases- 

faster, superior service, 

9;05 Ideal Target Market

-demographics details

age, gender, income

-geographics

-psychographic details- 

values, attitudes, lifestyle, belifs

10:35

Miracles & Miseries 

Miseries - fears, frustrations, problems, pains, all the things that they’re trying to get away from

Miracles- wants, dreams, goals, aspirations, everything they’re trying to move towards

-a solution with out a problem is fairly meaningless, you need a problem t to             solve

Miracles & Miseries essential form a gap

-gap between where they at right now with all of the bad

and where they want to be 

-it’s your job to bridge that gap away from Miseries and towards

the better 

“If you use this service, if you take me up on this offer, the better you’re able to communicate that all of your marketing and all of your sales         are going to be

---Type in google ‘Social media demographics”


15;15

What kind of content are you going to make?

Think about different length of content - Short Form / Long Form

17;45

Email Marketing Strategy 

-for email to put on list, create a ‘lead magnet’

-incentive to join the list, like freebies, or content upgrades 

-essentially something you can give away in exchange for 

a customer’s email address, so their enticed to join your list

-He says once a week is BARE MINIMUM. No less than once a week.

22;00

Start thinking about your customers as a funnel, and think about 

retention. Think about how to improve retention of paying customers.

Then Start finding areas where you’re loosing paying customers 

-if people are clicking on the sales page, but no one is buying,

then you know that you have a conversion issue on the sales page

-if everyone is joining your email list, but not opening any of your 

emails, we know you have congruence issues 

-If your not closing on sales calls, when you want to close 1 in 3, but

are closing 1 in 5, look at sales pitch/ pricing.

23;40

Customer Lifetime Value

what is the value of a customer over their lifetime.

-Can be thought of as revenue or profit.

-incredibly powerful exercise to run through to figure out just how 

valuable someone is to your business 

Find ways to encourage and increase retention 

-then find other ways to increase that Customer Lifetime Value

25;40

The final piece of his puzzle is Video!

The big question is how can you super charge everything that you’re doing with a video marketing strategy?

Youtube is the best place to do long form video content?




 

How to Create a Marketing Plan | Step-by-Step Guide

Increasingly these days, video content is tied into social media marketing. 

How to Create a Marketing Plan | Step-by-Step Guide

-understanding the purpose of behind your MP is step #1

Every Marketing Plan should have this

-Short & Long term Goals

-description of target audience and their persona

-one or more high level marketing strategies and tactics

-see Example layout at 1;55

-can also add KPI (key performance indicators), budget, and timeline of when the plan will be carried out.

-Consider revisiting Mission, Values, and Vision to clarify why your marketing plan is the way it is.

-see template at 3;27

-Create target Customer Persona 

-see template at 4;48

-template at 5;33 is also GREAT 

5;50

Step 5 - Outline Your Marketing Goals

-most important thing to remember is to be specific with Numbers

6;18

NO - My Goal is to increase web traffic 

YES - My Goal is to increase traffic to our site by 30% within the next 3 months 

-concrete goal, not broad statement

6;35

Love the template at 6;35

7;00- 6th step is to layout marketing strategy from beginning to end.

-see template at 7;14

-turn your strategy into  phases or steps

-see template at 7;37

7;48

-really like this template for Marketing strategy

8;20 

Marketing Budget

template is good, important to put in budget

9;38