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How long should a video be? Well, that reminds me of a story.  Last week, I spoke at SES London 2013 at a conference session entitled, " Keys to Success with B2B Video " and during a ClickZ express clinic entitled, Optimising Video for Maximum Visibility .” I also participated in two Roundtable Forums that enabled attendees to Meet the Experts: one on “Branding Through Social Media” and the other on “Video Optimization.”  And one of the questions that I was asked again and again and again was: “How long should a video be?” Is There A 'Right' Answer for Video Length? This isn’t surprising. This has been a popular question since at least 2009, when I tackled it in the first edition of my book, YouTube and Video Marketing: An Hour a Day . (I said, “Keep videos 2 to 3 minutes long.”) And it was still a popular question in 2011, when I addressed it again in the second edition of my book. (I said, “Long enough to reach a point.”) But the question took on a new urgency in...

This week we’ve heard from blog sellers , and blog buyers . Whether or not you’ve been inspired by what they’ve had to say, I’ll bet that the conversation has raised one key question in your mind: What is my blog worth? Image courtesy stock.xchng user ba1969 These days, we’re seeing blogs being recognised as valuable business tools, both for business-to-business as well as business-to-consumer connections. So if you own and run a blog, it makes sense to understand its value. Today’s challenge is to do just that. The basics If you’ve been following along this week, you’ll already have a few of the key metrics for a blog valuation in mind: the age of your blog uniqueness and quality of blog design traffic levels, sources, and quality visitor stats: bounce rates, time on site, conversions, and so on current monetization approaches and levels associated social media footprint. Andrew Knibbe of Flippa recommended that we use the marketplace as a yardstick by...

Single family home tenants are 18 percent more likely than apartment tenants to stay in their current homes five years or longer, suggesting that demand for single family homes, the fastest growing rental category, will be more stable than multifamily demand, according to a new national opinion survey released today by Premier Property Management Group. One of every four (26%) single family tenant plans to stay in place five years or more, compared to one out of five apartment dwellers (22%), according to a new national survey of renters by ORC International for Premier Property Management.  Founded in 1938, ORC International is a leading global market research firm and since 2007 has conducted the CNN|ORC International poll. One factor contributing to single family stability could be high marks renters give the quality of single family property management.  Some 80 percent of tenants in single family rentals said their property management was...

Home improvement retailer Home Depot’s (NYSE:HD) performance over 2012 has inspired a lot of confidence in investors. The company’s stock rose by over 40% during the year as the management posted strong and consistent sales growth over the first three quarters. The primary reason behind Home Depot’s meteoric rise has been the recovery of the U.S. housing industry as 2012 finally saw the resurgence of key housing metrics such as record levels of home construction, declining vacancies, lower mortgage default rates and rising home prices. Home Depot certainly seems to have leveraged the increased demand for homes and home-related products well. Its total sales were up about 3.9% for the first nine months. Meanwhile, the company has also done well to complement top line growth with key cost reduction strategies, boosting the bottom line. The company’s net earnings were up by a healthy 13% over the nine-month period. As the company gears up for the launch of its fourth...

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A lot of these apartments, in Phoenix Island, Hainan province, are probably empty. (Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty Images) The real estate market in Phoenix Island, a development project in the Chinese island province of Hainan, was so inflated, so outrageously expensive and unsustainable, that it became known as the Dubai of China. With its palm tree-lined streets, glimmering high-rises and ostentatious sports cars, it even looked a little like Dubai. And now, also like Dubai but maybe more in the vein of south Florida, the Phoenix Island real estate market that drove so much local economic growth has imploded . Phoenix Island is an extreme case, but it’s in many ways symptomatic of China’s skyrocketing real estate market, which is both a blessing and a curse for China. A blessing because it helps to drive economic growth and domestic consumption, which the country’s economy needs more of to be healthy. It’s a curse because, as Americans are well aware, it can burst, pulling down much of ...