The end of 2010 marked the end of a decade, and what a decade it was! Go Smart Solutions has continued to grow stronger over the past year, even launching two new services to help businesses and professionals succeed. We are excited to take the New Year by the reigns, but first, let’s take a quick look back on 2010 to see what the year has brought:

2 New and 1 Special Deal

FaceItPages.com launched in mid-2010 to enable people to create a great-looking DIY custom landing tab for their Facebook Fan Page or Business Page. At just $39.99 per design, the service fills the need for a more affordable personalized Facebook Page. To say “thanks” to all of you, our existing customers, we are offering a limited time discount of 50% off your next FaceItPages order! Just use the discount code “thankyou” when you check out.

VidShout.com launched in August of 2010, and gives entrepreneurs and businesses unparalleled exposure, branding, and lead-capture on a self-service video advertising platform. VidShout’s platform allows users to create video ads from photos using its online video wizard and syndicate their video ads across multiple online networks.

Growing, Growing… Strong!

2010 was good to ClassifiedFlyerAds, with oodles of people using the service to advertise their products, services, homes for sale and autos for sale. In fact, more than 200,000 listings using ClassifiedFlyerAds were made from our 36,000 member base!

At EmailFlyerAds, more than 24,000 real estate agents and brokers advertise their properties for sale using the email marketing engine. And with 42 million emails sent in 2010, the service continues to give real estate professionals the boost they need to get their properties the most exposure possible.

RentShout Adds LSI for Bulk Accounts

In 2010, RentShout released their Listing Service Interface (LSI), enabling larger volume clients and resellers to efficiently interface with the service. This feature was developed in response to multiple requests from the rental community. RentShout has grown to more than 3,000 members since its launch in 2009.

RealShout WordPress Plugin

Over 1,800 people have downloaded the RealShout Plugin for their blogs and websites, drawing in thousands of visitors to real estate sites all across the country!

A Technology Solutions Vendor that provides online advertising solutions, Go Smart Solutions, LLC, now creates online video ads and distributes them across the worldwide web with its new video creation and video syndication product for businesses, VidShout.

August 17, 2010 — Go Smart Solutions has created VidShout to satisfy the need for entrepreneurs, small and mid-sized businesses, and large corporations, the ability to add video to their online advertising efforts and get in front of the growing number of consumers and businesses who are using online videos as a way to research products and services online.

Video Distribution

VidShout offers businesses unparalleled exposure, branding, and lead capture on its self-service video advertising platform

VidShout’s self service platform allows users to create video ads from photos using its online video wizard and syndicate their video ads across multiple online networks. The video distribution provided by VidShout includes over 60 online properties including video networks, online directories, shopping sites, and social networks making it a powerful online advertising platform for businesses.

VidShout members create a profile and upload photos to create a video. Once photos are uploaded users choose to add music or their own voice file in .mp3 format as well as a custom banner for their video page. Users also have the option of uploading their own videos to the Vidshout platform.

Vidshout is a lead generating powerhouse. Each video a user creates using the VidShout platform automatically generates a free landing page that is fully branded and search engine optimized. Once a video is created using the video creation wizard or an existing video is uploaded to the Vidshout Platform users can then create a video landing page.

Landing pages created using the VidShout platform act like mini websites for online video ads. Users can add a description of their online video, their contact information, their logo, and a header. User can then choose their landing page from multiple landing page templates within the VidShout platform. Each landing page includes call to action forms, and links, making it easy for businesses to capture leads from their online video advertising efforts.

The Vidshout platform comes full circle by distributing its users’ videos across over 60 social networks and directories including Youtube, Vimeo, Google Base, PriceGrabber, eBay, Yahoo Shopping, Facebook, Twitter. VidShout has an activity and leads reporting tool that allows users to track opens, clicks, and leads generated to and from their videos.

“While other advertising companies are concentrating on video creation and video distribution, the Vidshout platform creates a one stop shop for businesses and entrepreneurs who are seeking video creation, lead generation, and video distribution that is simple, cost effective and time efficient. We will continue to build new tools to the VidShout platform to keep up with the growing demand for easy and cost efficient online video advertising solutions.” says Misty Lackie, Founder and CEO at Go Smart Solutions, LLC, creators of VidShout.

Vidshout is affordable for every budget with pricing plans starting at $19.99 and a 20% discount for yearly plans. This cost effective self-service video marketing platform allows users the ability to use one video advertising platform to create lead generating online advertising campaigns that are easy to create, facilitate, manage and track their campaign’s effectiveness and their ROI.

VidShout is part of the Go Smart Solutions, LLC ad service family. It is an online video advertising solution for businesses. Its user-friendly self-service platform allows members to create professional videos and search engine friendly landing pages which are distributed to a host of online directories, video networks, shopping sites, and social networks.

A cost-effective online advertising solution, VidShout also offers a powerful API that enables affiliates, resellers, software developers, or bulk advertisers to interface with its video advertising system. For more information visit www.vidshout.com.

Is 2009 really coming to an end already? It’s hard to believe that the year has gone by so fast, especially with all that has happened here at Go Smart Solutions! We have been able to grow our member base, even throughout these tough economic times. And while we know this is due to the value and results that our services deliver, we know that it is also due to our loyal customers. We are so very thankful.

We are excited about 2010, as we have no plans of slowing down! We will be launching even more valuable services soon, but here’s a quick look at a few notable milestones from 2009:

• EmailFlyerAds has grown to 21,600 members. Over 17,000 email flyers have been sent totaling 45,307,716 real estate emails!
• ClassifiedFlyerAds now has 23,800 members who sent out 120,000 ads in 2009!
• RentShout was launched in June this year, and since then has grown to 1,300 members who have sent out over 1,500 ads!
• RealShout is our latest reveal, launching earlier this month. This service will use Geo-targeted technology and proven Go Smart marketing systems to deliver leads to real estate brokers, MLS’s, and mortgage brokers.
• TwitBacks was a fun side project that took on a life of its own in 2009. With more than 152,000 members and 166,700 Twitter backgrounds created, TwitBacks was a fun success!

We hope your year has been as great as ours, and wish everyone the very best for 2010!

Read our newsletter for a more in-depth look at 2009.

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At Go Smart Solutions, online marketing is part of the fabric that makes us who we are, as we constantly strive to deliver the best and most effective marketing solutions through our brands. In just a few days, we’ll be mingling with the best and the brightest in this industry at the WebmasterWorld’s Search & Internet Marketing Conference, more commonly known as PubCon.

While we’re there, we’ll be learning about the latest trends and techniques in Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing, Social Media, and pretty much everything that has to do with internet marketing. And of course, you better believe we’ll be implementing the best solutions into our products!

From the event site:

When it comes to creating marketing buzz online, webmasters pretty much invented the concept. PubCon is four days of leading edge education and networking in over 90 sessions featuring 200 expert speakers in Social Media, Affiliate Programs, Search, and SEO/SEM. These aren’t people who just talk about this stuff – these are people who do this stuff.

We are excited to share and implement what we learn. Also, if anyone plans to attend PubCon in Vegas next week and would like to meet up, let us know! We’d love to sit down and talk about online marketing face-to-face with you.