Finding the next STAR (YBV actively recruits young and talented digital marketers)

Looking for a summer internship? Your Brand Voice is currently seeking Marketing Interns this summer in Orlando, Florida. Send your résumés to social@yourbrandvoice.com and check out the link below for more info. http://bit.ly/OeaceV —

"There are so many young and talented digital marketers out there. We just want to find the best and give them experience in managing big brands at a world class level," Bryan Bruce Founder YBV

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Klout Perks. The Rise of the Influencer.

Because they feel I am so influential :)   McDonald's targeted me in a promotion with Klout to give me a $5 McDonald's Arch Card......this will allow me to try the new Egg White Delight McMuffin and see breakfast in a whole new way.  See it's already working.  I had to hurry though, because these Perks were limited, so I had to quickly click through to claim mine!

Moving me down a very definitive process

      Until finally I reach the promise land.

What you should know :
1. My Arch Card will arrive in 3-4 weeks.
2. They are encouraging me to use the hashtags #FlipYourMorning to share this Perk.
3. This Perk is only available to influencers living in the US. Brand influencers are not eligible for this Perk. One Perk per household. 

Bryan Bruce

Your Brand Voice Inc. 

7932 West Sand Lake Road Suite 205

Orlando, Florida 32819

bryan@yourbrandvoice.com | 407-203-6767

@bryanbruce | www.yourbrandvoice.com

Email Subject Line Testing

Your Email Subject Gets You Clients

One of the things we do that contributes to high engagement rates is subject line testing. The subject line is the primary reason why people choose or not choose to open an email. We will test up to 4 versions to see what gets the best open rate, then use the winning address to send to the rest of the list. We typically see about a 25% increase in open rates, but have seen it double before  - just from this piece of our approach.

http://yourbrandvoice.com/interactive-marketing/email-nurture-marketing

CONTACT YBV

Your Brand Voice

Orlando, Florida

T 407-203-6767

Email: social@yourbrandvoice.com

What is Vine?

Just when you thought you had a handle on the social media scene, up crops a new platform to master. Meet Vine, a social app where you can browse through six-second long videos from your friends and others you follow. The videos loop continually, and you can scroll vertically through them just like your Facebook news feed.

Vine vs. Instagram via Willa’s World

Here’s how to make a video: You hold your finger down to record, and lift it up to stop. You can do this as many times as you want until the six seconds of footage is full.

Like Instagram, Vine is another way to capture a snapshot of the human experience, six seconds at a time. Although it doesn’t seem like it, a lot of visual content can be shared in such a short time. People use Vine to share what they’re doing, like Instagram (“Hey, I was out doing this fun thing with these fun people”), but it is also increasingly used to record and share practical jokes or just funny videos. Another popular Vine category is optical illusions, like watching a cookie magically disappear from a plate.

Vine links with Facebook and Twitter, so you can follow friends from those networks. And of course, like Instagram, you can “Like” and comment on friends’ videos. The video will repeat until you scroll down past it.

Since Vine’s January launch under the Twitter umbrella, it has enjoyed remarkable popularity, especially with high schoolers. It’s one of the top free apps in the iTunes store currently, outpacing SnapChat and Google Maps. It’s only available for iOS at the moment.

I see Vine’s appeal; the potential for humor and creativity is high because of the video format. It’s easy to get lost scrolling through videos and wandering through a compressed, handheld YouTube. But another social media platform to follow? Ugh. If it were up to me, I would add a video option to Instagram and call it a day.

Via http://www.zuckerbergmedia.com/

Ahimsa (Sanskrit: अहिंसा; IAST: ahiṃsā, Pāli: avihiṃsā) is a term meaning to do no harm (literally: the avoidance of violence – hiṃsā).

When we think of non violence, we think of not harming others - being kinder and more aware of this kindness that we can give of ourselves in order to make the world a better place, to allow the chi to flow… 

But wait- what about you?  Are you sacrificing yourself in order to practice ahimsa?  Surely you aren't punching yourself, but are you punching yourself with words and negative self talk?  Are you not feeding your body healthy, life giving foods?  Are you keeping your body, which is 70% water, hydrated?  Are you taking time out for yourself everyday to balance what the external world has shifted?  In times of stress and pressure, are you putting yourself last or just forgetting yourself altogether?  When you get on a plane, you are instructed to use the O2 mask on yourself first.  Why?  Because you cannot help others when you don't have enough fuel for yourself.  Sometimes this becomes a habit (doing doing doing for others…).. we don't realize it and we believe we are doing good things, and we are.  But the true god, the true holy spirit, the entire universe, exists within YOU. 

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How can YOU practice ahimsa on a daily basis?

Do you have a personal example?

  

Nicole Grappo, YBV Spiritual Advisor