Keeps the internet content going…
Content is where it all starts, good content will come naturally if you are creating content regularly. Start by doing a video each week.
1) Get inspired.
Inspiration can come anytime, it’s not something you can force, but you can coach it out. Start by reading some news articles from your niche, something recent. A good way to do this is to get a good RSS news feeder, use google news feeder, or if you have an IPAD try skygrid. Enter the subject you are interested in and it’ll show you real-time information in the news regarding that subject. You can even keep it local, just that subject in just your area. One way or another you’ll have some opinions on the subjects they are talking about. Agree or Disagree, you now have original content in your head.
2) Video session time.
Facebook has been making moves into the local/location based marketing game very quickly in 2010. They launched their check in service during the summer time taking a hold of the craze that Foursquare started and Yelp has been trying to catch up in. The advantage for Facebook of course is all those users: ~500 Million at last count. Now they are launching up ‘Deals‘ which “makes it so incredibly simple to create an offer that small businesses, which might not have had the bandwidth to figure out how to use Groupon, will be more likely to give Deals a try.” Very exciting stuff and there are already a few neat examples in the wild: