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Submit to Other Popular Sites

YouTube isn’t the only player in the game — there are many other popular sites as well.

Here is a list of some of the best:

 Google Video.
 Daily Motion
 Vimeo
 Lulu

Even if you submit the same video to these different websites you’ll be getting some traffic because the same people who visit one video sharing site may not visit another website. Also, you’ll find that sometimes one video sharing site ranks highly in the search engines, while another one doesn’t.

You want to have your video in as many places as possible so you have more chances of ranking and getting traffic as possible.

Tags: Video Traffic

YouTube

While there are many video sites out there, the most popular one by far is YouTube. You can get a lot of traffic to your website just by using this one video sharing website. The first thing you’re going to do is make your profile and include a link to your website in your profile. Just like people who visit article directories are interested in the author, people who visit video sharing websites are interested in who made the video. You also get a backlink by including this in your profile.

You can upload your video after you’re done producing it and creating your profile. Keep in mind that YouTube only allows you to have a video that is around 10 minutes long. That’s just fine because people’s attention spans aren’t that long anyway, and your end-goal is to get them to visit your website.

While you’re uploading your video, you’ll notice that YouTube allows you to write a description. This is an excellent spot to put in another link to your website. People who view your video will hopefully be interested enough to visit.

It should also be said that YouTube holds a lot of weight with Google. You can expect to get some Google search engine traffic just by having a video on YouTube.

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Get Into a Routine

Another way to get more done in less time is by first developing and then sticking to your routines. That’s because the more often you complete a task or a series of tasks in a predictable way, the easier and faster it is for you to do. And eventually you’ll be able to complete your tasks virtually on “autopilot” since you don’t even have to pause for a moment to think about what to do next.
Let me give you an example…

Let’s suppose you’re running an online business. And every day, you have some three fairly predictable tasks to do, such as writing and posting a blog post, submitting five articles to an article directory and answering help desk inquiries. After that, you work on whatever is on your to do list (such as marketing or product creation).

To boost your productivity, you should develop a routine to handle those three tasks.

For example, every day when you first log onto your computer you may:

1. Answer your customer inquiries first, since that’s the most important task of the three.

2. Write your blog post.

3. Since you got “warmed up” by writing a blog post, next you can write and submit five articles to an article directory.

4. Then start working on your daily to-do list.

Every day, you should complete these four steps in order the moment you log onto your computer.

You see, if you do the same thing every day, then you’ll never have to pause and think what to do next.

Since you’re doing related tasks (such as the blog post and article writing), you also don’t have to constantly “reorient” yourself from one task to an entirely different task. And that saves you time.

However, it’s NOT enough to simply do your regular routine. You also need to make sure you’re doing your tasks in the most efficient way possible…

Tags: Time Management

Create a Compelling Video

The very first thing you’re going to want to make sure of is that you’ve created a compelling video. This means you should capture people‘s attention, make them interested in what you’re talking about, and get more visitors to your website.

There many different ways to make your video, including creating a PowerPoint presentation and recording it, filming yourself, or using an automated process (such as Animoto.com).

You should experiment and remember to place a link to your website in the video so that people can see it clearly.

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Handle Tasks Quickly

Usually the best and most efficient way to handle any task is “touch” it once and take care of it rather than taking the time to try to organize the task for later completion.

Tip: Although note that you shouldn’t necessarily take care of tasks as they come in, as doing so will likely diminish your productivity. Instead, you should take care of them at some specified time.

For example, instead of returning phone calls the moment you get a message, instead you can return all your calls during a scheduled block of time that you set aside just for that purpose.

Now let me give you an example of what I mean by “touching” a task once and finishing.

Let’s take email. Sometimes people sort their incoming email into different folders by priority, such as family (non urgent) email into one folder, urgent business email into another folder and then non urgent business email into a third email.

Basically the priority is like this:

High: Urgent business email.
Medium: Non urgent business email.
Low: Non urgent family/friends email.

However, it’s usually NOT a good idea to sort urgent email.

That’s because in order to sort the email, you need to read it and take the time to determine that it’s urgent. Then you continue sorting through your other email and putting them into their proper folders. Finally, you return to your non urgent emails to answer them.

But you’ll need to read them again and then compose your answer. And that means you’ve handled the same email twice in order to reply to it – that’s a waste of time.

Instead, set aside a specific time to answer your email and then read one, answer it and move on to the next email (without sorting). That way you “touch” each email just once, which saves time.

Tip: The exception to this rule is if you do indeed have family and friend emails mixed into your business emails. In that case, in that case, you may want to save your family and friend emails for your non-work hours.

There are two ways to make sure you don’t handle any of these emails twice.

1) You can use a completely separate email for your personal and business emails.

2) If you get personal emails into your business account, then set up your email account to automatically sort personal emails into a “friends and family” folder. Then you can deal with these emails during your free time.

Tags: Time Management

Video Traffic

Videos are an amazing way to get traffic to your website. There many people who search for videos online to learn information or entertain themselves.

You can take advantage of this by creating your own videos and uploading them to popular video sharing websites.

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Ask for Advice

Here’s an easy way to boost your productivity: Ask for advice from knowledgeable others about how to complete a task in the most efficient way.

Example #1: Let’s suppose you want to do something you’ve never done before, such as set up a blog. If a quick Google search doesn’t return the results you’re seeking, then ask knowledgeable bloggers how they’d set up a blog if they were brand new to blogging.

Example #2: Perhaps you’re trying to set up a new business while taking care of a new baby. If you worked at it long enough, you’d probably learn through trial and error a few tips that would make your business time more productive. But you can save yourself by going straight to the source and asking other work-at-home parents how they juggle family and work.

Example #3: Let’s suppose you want to learn how to create and upload promotional videos on YouTube. Instead of fumbling around with lighting, audio, software and your camera, you should instead search Google or ask for advice to find out how to quickly and easily put together videos. Asking will not only save time, it will also likely save you money as well.

Tags: Time Management

Use HubPages.com

HubPages is a lot like Squidoo in many ways. They have modules that make it easy to add content to create a miniature website in a very short amount of time. The difference between HubPages and Squidoo is that HubPages is a lot pickier about what goes on your hub. You may only have two outgoing links to your site, including any RSS feed links.

Still, HubPages has a very dedicated community behind it that can drive a lot of targeted people to your website. They are also very well-liked by the search engines so the potential is great. One of the greatest things is that people love to comment on hubs and regularly seek out new ones, so you may get a lot of questions and commentary on your hub. This will help expand your reach as an expert.

Tags: Web 2.0

Find Smaller Niche Directories

Manual submission to the largest directories and automatic submission to other directories is great, but don’t forget the smaller directories. These are strictly focused on a specific niche, and many people who are interested in websites like yours visit them.

To find these directories you are going to have to dig a little bit. To do this, type in “your niche directory” in a search engine. (example: ‘gardening directory’)

Browse the directory and make sure it’s high quality and already has other links there. This means there is a higher chance that it gets traffic from people who are interested in your niche.

Don’t forget that these directories are also an excellent way to get back links to your website. In fact, you might find that the greatest benefit from the smaller directories is the backlink you get from a relevant site within your niche.

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Automatic Submission

Automatic submission as a great way to make sure that your site shows up in as many different directories as possible. While you want to manually submit to the most popular directories, it’s important not to forget the”little guys”.

There many different options for a automatic submission, and some are free and others are paid. If you can afford it, you may want to go with the paid versions to ensure that your submissions will go through. Plus, they handle all of the messy steps so that you can focus on other tasks in your business.

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