The 6 Best Sites to Download Royalty Free Music For YouTube (Copyright Free, Commercial Use)

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The 6 Best Sites to Download Royalty Free Music For YouTube (Copyright Free, Commercial Use)

Are you looking for royalty free music for YouTube or other video projects on social media? The right track can transform your video and wow your audience, but the last thing you want is an unexpected copyright claim.

Sourcing totally free royalty free music to use in YouTube videos can be a minefield, and full of frustration. Simply typing "royalty free music" into Google returns hundreds of sites, many who require a one-off payment before the tracks they offer are actually royalty-free.

What's more, if you want to use music for commercial purposes (i.e. make money from its inclusion in a video in any way, including the monetisation of a YouTube video), the search can become even trickier. 

In this blog post, I have put together a list of the best online resources for royalty-free music tracks, in particular this list only includes sites that do not charge for commercial use of the songs available.  

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How to Add YouTube Poll Cards to Videos (And Everything Else You Need to Know)

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Would you like to poll your YouTube viewers? Want to find out what they think of your videos or products? You need the YouTube Poll Card!

In late 2015, YouTube rolled out a beta version of poll cards to a select number of creators. Fast-forward to now, and the feature is available to everyone. 

In this blog post, I will show you how to add poll cards to your YouTube videos, step-by-step. Let's go!

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How to Create A Social Media Marketing Plan For Business in 6 Easy Steps (Updated 2016)

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Do you have a social media marketing plan for your business, or would you like to create one? Many businesses struggle to pinpoint exactly what they want to get out of social media, and how to measure whether all of their hard work is paying dividends. In this blog post, I will show you how to create an easy-to-follow, robust social media marketing strategy in 6 easy steps.

Whether you're already active on social media or are starting from scratch, a plan will help guide your activity and provide you with solid reasoning behind everything that you do, from content creation to customer interaction, to advertising, and more. You'll be able to see how you are performing, experiment to improve results, and easily calculate your return on investment.

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6 Easy Steps to Create An Awesome Animated Promo Video For Social Media (Using PowerPoint!)

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Do you want to create a promotional video for social media, to be played on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other sites?? Not confident or skilled in video-making and editing? Don't worry! I have you covered.

In this blog post, I'll show you, step-by-step how you to create an engaging promotional video for social media using only Microsoft PowerPoint (and a few other, free web tools). I'll be using my own video as an example - a promotion for my new book, Successful Social Media Customer Service, with animated text and background music. In essence, it's simply a video recording of a PowerPoint presentation, but I think it does looks pretty pro! 

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5 Ways to Use Timely and Topical Events to Drive Engagement on Social Media (Innocent Case Study)

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Topical events provide brands with an endless, predictable  stream of inspiration for content on social media. As they often tie into the lives of your audience, they're always pretty popular, so it's handy to have a bank of pre-prepared posts that you can schedule for different occasions.

Innocent, the smoothie drinks company, produces some of my favourite examples of "bandwagonning" onto topical and timely events; tailoring the branding and tone to their audience. Take a look at 5 of their most recent examples and use them as inspiration for your own strategy.

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