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How Do You Make a Viral Video?

June 8th, 2011 No comments

I often get asked how one makes a viral video. The answer is creativity with an edge. This one starts off pretty dark, but watch it to the end – it’s brilliant – and it got me to write about it.

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How to Register for Podcasts and Premium Content

May 18th, 2011 1 comment

To make it even easier to register for our News at Noon podcasts, Industry in Focus Reports and other premium content, I’ve created this video to show how to register step-by-step.

The biggest obstacle to a smooth registration has been the confirmation step. After submitting your registration, the system sends you an email with a confirmation link in it. You MUST click the link to complete the registration process and be able to login.

The confirmation step is often missed when the email ends up in the registrant’s “junk” or “spam” folder, so always check there if you don’t receive your confirmation email swiftly (within a half-hour).

But the best way to ensure that you receive the email is to “whitelist” the mhmsm.com domain in your email program. Often, all you need to do is add “update@mhmsm.com” to your address book.

Here are some specific instructions for whitelisting a domain for some common email programs.

Google GMail

Whitelist a Sender or Domain in Gmail

To make sure Gmail never filters as spam mail from a certain contact or domain:

Follow the Settings link in Gmail.

Go to Filters.

Whitelisting an Email Domain in Gmail, Page 1

Click Create a new filter.

Type the desired email address under From:
To whitelist an entire domain (all mail from an address ending in “mhmsm.com”, for example), type the just the domain name or the domain name preceded by ‘@’. To whitelist “mhmsm.com”, for instance, type “@mhmsm.com” (not including the quotation marks).

Click “Next Step »”
You can click Test Search before, of course, to make sure you did not mistype.

Whitelisting an Email Domain in Gmail, Page 2

Make sure “Never send it to Spam” is checked.

Click Create Filter.

Mozilla Thunderbird

Add “update@mhmsm.com” to your Address Book

Outlook

Click the “Tools” pull-own in the main menu and select “Options.”

Whitelisting an Email Domain in Outlook, Page 1

Click the “Junk E-mail…” button and select the “Safe Senders” tab

Whitelisting an Email Domain in Outlook, Page 2

Enter “mhmsm.com” into the “Add Address or Domain” pop-up box, then click “OK” and click “OK” again.

Whitelisting an Email Domain in Outlook, Page 3

In the event your registration fails or if you don’t receive your confirmation email, please start a ticket at MHMSM Support and we’ll get you fixed up ASAP.

Positive Response of Manufactured Housing Industry and Opportunity for You

April 22nd, 2011 2 comments

In Tony’s Monday Masthead blog post, we featured this 3 year old video:

Manufactured Homes & Wind Storms…This may blow you away!

The video was very popular with retailers and community owner/operators among others. As a response to your calls and inquiries, we are going to offer an updated version of this copyrighted video, customized with your company name and phone number!

Use it on your website, in your blog or on your Facebook Fan Page.

We can make it for you at a fraction of the cost in time or money it would cost you. Please call 859-755-4115 or email Bob@MHMSM.com for a free quote.

We all want more sales and customers. Videos like this can make it a reality for you! Call or email today.

Selling Manufactured Homes Using Video

February 9th, 2011 3 comments

Video is becoming ubiquitous on the Web. In fact, web users are beginning to expect it in many situations. And since some 80% of home sales begin with research done online, it is in your best interest to know that you can do place video in your listings, too.

You can even post a video Press Release online, as here for the Great Southwest Home Show.

If you use a Content Management System (CMS), such as WordPress or Joomla!, it makes the job of inserting video into your website a whole lot easier, but it can be done with any website.

First, you need to create your video. If you have any number of devices from a camcorder, to a modern still camera, through an iPhone or Android smartphone, you are in business.

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5 Minute website self-evaluation

January 30th, 2011 No comments

One of the services we offer is a website review. In a website review, we go over every page of your website and check for any missing elements or erroneous entries that might have a detrimental effect on your Search Engine ranking.

But do you need a full website review? Here’s a short video that will enable you to do a quick evaluation of your own website based on four critical factors. If you find your site coming up short on these, a full website review should be considered. It can save you a lot of lost business in the long-term and lost money in the sort term.

Click here for more information on Website Reviews