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Guest Post: Top 5 Drones for Kids in 2018

Drones are neat little flying devices and one of the most sought-after tech toys today. Not only are they for recreational use, they’re practical and can even be used for school projects. Perhaps you have been considering one for your kid, but not sure which one will be the best bang for your buck.

Here, we have reviewed the most top rated and high quality drones for kids in 2018.

DJI Phantom 4- Top RC Drone

The Phantom 4 is the latest version of DJI’s top-end consumer drone. It’s incredibly easy to fly, includes a high-speed sport mode and an excellent obstacle avoidance feature. Once an obstruction is detected, the drone will stop and hover in its tracks. The phantom also includes a 720p live view with 20mm wide-angle lens.

Home Lock, a return-to-home feature will bring the Phantom back. The automated and manual flight modes allow for easier control, which makes it the best remote controlled drone on the market. There is now a Pause button on the remote. If you press it, the drone will stop in place and hover. The Phantom’s VPS (Vision Positioning System) will prevent it from crashing into the ground when flying low in uneven terrain.

These high quality features land this drone in a relatively expensive category. Another downside to this one is of needing a third party app for real mission planning. As it weighs 3 pounds, you will need to register with the FAA before flying it if you live in the United States.

2. Hogs Star Wars Ultimate Millennium Falcon – Best For Indoor Flying

This ready-to-fly drone The Falcon is shaped just like the Stars Wars ship. It weighs only 2.24 ounces and because of its lightweight quality, its best to avoid flying it outdoors and suitable only for indoor use. Made of foam, the soft frame will allow it to bounce of walls and furniture without causing any damage. The ducted propellers also make it easy to fly and an excellent choice for beginners.

The Falcon can be charged via USB using a PC or a wall adapter. However, battery life is limited to 8 minutes max and takes over an hour to fully charge. Another downside to The Falcon is that the motors tend to make a high-pitched whining noise.

3. Hubsan X4 H107L – Best Drone On A Budget

Budget friendly Hubsan has a number of visual and functional improvements over its earlier version, the V1. The blue and white LED lights on each side of the motors offer great night-flying capabilities, which can be activated using the throttle trim.

The anti-flip mode is useful because this particular drone tends to loose altitude with flips. The drone needs more than half throttle to hover but more power to climb out, making its flight performance excellent. It also includes a protective ring for indoor flying. Maintenance of this drone can be challenging, but that’s to be expected given the price.

We also recommend picking up a lot of extra props for this model.

4. Sysm X5C 2.4G – Decent Camera (for the money)

The 6-axis gyro stabilization on this drone ensures maximum stability during flight, a wind resistant drone that can be flown both indoors and outdoors. The HD Camera and 2GB Micro SD card allow you to take photos and videos while flying, however battery life lasts only for 7 minutes. Despite this, users are usually very happy with this particular drone. It also includes a feature that allows you control flips with a press of a button.

The remote control X5C utilizes spread spectrum technology to ensure remote distance and anti-interference ability. Although it does take a lot of practice to learn how to fly this drone high, it’s still a great value for your money.

5. UDI U818A – Best Recreational Drone

For aspiring pilots, the UDI U818A is an excellent and affordable recreational drone with the pilot capable of full control. The UDI has fun and easy to use controls, a minimalistic design with a lightweight frame and is also fast and quick turning.

A small screw holds the rotors to the motor shaft in place, unlike other budget friendly quadcopters. It also includes several LED lights around the front and back of frame. The buttons on the shoulders turn the LED lights on and off and put the quadcopter into stunt mode. There are a few buttons on the front of the controller surrounding the LCD display, which take pictures, start and stop video, change the mode of flight and flip the quadcopter.

The LCD displays battery life, signal strength and how much thrust is currently being applied. The drone can fly up to 40 feet and although the controller is connected to a 2.4-GHz radio signal, there is no interference from Wi-Fi networks. The UDI can be operated with the controller only.

You can definitely not go wrong with a drone as a gift for your child. When you are choosing, keep in the mind the best drones for kids will be ready to fly, have a quality camera, stability and long battery life. They must be good at navigating and controlling the aerial camera while watching out for accidents.

This post was written by Isaac Atia, Founder of 10BestRanked.com, an authority blog where he reviews the top home, sports & outdoors products, and more.

#BetterCallPaul On Michigan Business Rap Talking Video Trends for 2017

Paul goes into depth about what trends to watch for when it comes to video for 2017.

#BetterCallPaul On Michigan Business Rap Talking Video for Small Business

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Our Creative Video Strategist, Paul J Schmidt talks about how to use video for your business, especially when on a budget. This episode of the Michigan Business Rap first appeared on January 11, 2017

UnoDeuce Multimedia 2018 Promo Reel

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Guest Post: 7 Ways To Create A Killer Marketing Video

Video content is marketing’s new sweetheart and for a good reason. Studies show that consumer demand for video content has increased dramatically, with 43% wanting to see more videos from marketers.

Videos and animated content have become highly significant in the conversion process, with 51.9% of marketers claiming that video has the best ROI as compared to other types of content. In fact, landing pages with videos lead to 800% more conversion.

Any digital marketer would be wise to adopt video marketing strategies in their campaigns to get the attention of their audience. YouTube alone has more than 1.5 billion logged in users watching more than an hour a day of videos. That’s one-third of the world’s internet users already.

Capitalize on the power that video content offers and create a killer marketing video today. Here’s how.

Source page: https://www.microcreatives.com/general/7-ways-create-killer-marketing-video/

Paula Arce

As she makes her way in the digital marketing world as a Content Specialist, she also makes sure that she’s updated with the latest memes and trends among other things. With her inner rapper, Paula pops those headphones in and listens to her R&B and Hip Hop playlist during her long rides to and from the South. She either gets herself a venti cup or two of her fave iced coffee or a cold bottle of beer on a random day. There’s nothing in between.

2nd Brain Collective Podcast – Ami Iceman of M3 Group

About Ami Iceman-Haueteris:

Ami Iceman-Haueteris the Brand Manager at M3 Group. Specializing in unifying and strengthening client brands, Ami has a technical, editorial and creative writing background and extensive experience in graphic design and event planning. She is the cover journalist for Capital Area Women’s Lifestyle Magazine and a feature journalist for Greater Lansing Business Monthly magazine. Ami graduated fromMichigan State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Advertising.

About M3 Group:

M3 Group is a full-service branding and publications agency that believes the sky is the limit when providing results for our clients. M3 Group prides itself on being the only local agency that offers the most comprehensive array of integrated marketing and advertising services in the mid-Michigan region. As one of the largest and most respected agencies in the area, as well as publisher of three of the area’s largest publications (Capital Area Women’s LifeStyle Magazine, Greater Lansing Business Monthly and ing Magazine) M3 Group has built solid relationships within the mid-Michigan region. M3 Group works to build strong brands through integrated strategy that keep the client and its bottom line in mind.

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Guest Post: How to Use Your Business Website’s Blog to Your Company’s Advantage

Most business owners are aware that maintaining blogs on their websites is one of the best ways to leverage the internet to draw in new potential customers. What many have a hard time with, though, is the actual use of a blog to its highest advantage. Here are four tips for using your site’s blog to bring new customers in and increase your reach.

Mix Information and Promotion

One of the first things you need to understand about a business blog is that it isn’t an advertising platform in the traditional sense. To lure and keep readers, you’ll need to provide real, useful information, rather than just promoting your products. Of course, product recommendations accompanying that information are perfectly acceptable. Just make sure that you’re giving the reader a reason to visit and stay on your site in the form of good information.

Focus on SEO

The greatest power of a business blog is its ability to draw visitors organically from search engines to your website. To make this happen, though, you’ll need to perform search engine optimization, or SEO. SEO is the process of making a post likely to rank highly in results for certain search terms. To perform basic SEO, you’ll need to identify a keyword you want your post to rank for, use that keyword in your post several times, include it in paragraph headers and place it in the post title. Though there are much more advanced methods, these are the raw basics of content SEO.

Post Frequently

If you’re going to have a business blog at all, it’s important that you write new posts frequently. Frequent posting will help your search engine rankings, give your audience new content to consume and help you build your brand more quickly. Evans Tire & Service Center’s blog is great example of posting frequency as it is updated with a new post roughly once per month. It’s very important to post on a regular basis. Don’t just post once and then three months later post three times in one month to catch up. Go for once a month at least. If you can, go for every week!

Use Infographics

A great way to set yourself apart from the crowd is to use infographics in your blog posts. Infographics can boil down the most important information in your post to a simple, easily understood visual. This can then be complemented with more detailed explanations in the text.

These are just four of the ways you can use your blog to help build your business’ online presence and reach more customers. By implementing these basic principles, you can make more sales and gain a larger audience of potential customers.

Hannah Whittenly is a freelance writer and mother of two from Sacramento, CA. She enjoys kayaking and reading books by the lake.

#BetterCallPaul – State of UnoDeuce 2018

Our creative video strategist talks about what went well and not so well in 2017 and what to look forward to in this coming year.

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2nd Brain Collective Podcast with Taylor Kelsaw of Showbiz Weekly

Taylor Kelsaw is a man of many skills. At 16 he landed his first television commercial as an actor. In the 80’s, he wrote copy for radio in the San Francisco Bay Area. In the 90’s he moved to Los Angeles and worked as an actor, voice over artist, radio and TV commercials, television producer and copywriter of various shows including Jeopardy! Wheel of Fortune, The Price Is Right, Live with Regis, and Kathie Lee, Kelly, and even Michael, the Oprah Winfrey Show, Ellen, Access Hollywood, and many, many more.. He is a graduate of San Francisco State University and entered grad studies at UC Berkeley and was accepted into the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Hollywood.

Currently, Taylor hosts the radio chat format pod cast show “Show Biz Weekly with Taylor Kelsaw and co-host Michael McCallum Online. Kelsaw is also a bi-annual columnist for the Capital Area Women’s Lifestyle Magazine (CAWLM) “Entertainment Alley” column based in Lansing. He is also the owner of TKEM, LLC, a entertainment marketing company with over 350 films and television credits, and TKEP, a Model and Actor Management Company that specializes in the Development of actors and models, where he is the Actor Coach, and trains and manages models and actors who are based in major cities from LA to Europe. In his spare time he is a painter of mix media, and one of his paintings “Man Looks to the Sky” will be the book cover art of a new novel “Tristiana,” by Marcantoni Rosa, and published by Floricanto Press! Arriving later in 2016!

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2nd Brain Collective Podcast – Kate Snyder of Piper and Gold Public Relations

Kate has spent her career focusing on telling stories to help companies and organizations reach their strategic goals.

Now principal strategist and owner of Piper & Gold Public Relations, Kate works with clients ranging from Michigan State University to entrepreneurial start-ups helping them tell their stories. She specializes in incorporating digital media into traditional public relations practices. In addition to teaching advertising, digital media, public relations and consumer behavior at Michigan State University, Lansing Community College and Sienna Heights University, she has spoken at conferences around the country on the importance of strategy in social media, building community relations programs and approaching media relations with a customer service attitude. Her background in leadership and coalition building have honed her collaborative approach to problem solving and her background in strategy work helps her to understand clients’ needs as she represents them in the community.

For nearly eight years, Kate served as chief communications officer at Capital Area Michigan Works!, a $20+ million government workforce development agency, where she received local and regional recognition in crisis communications for the 2005 collapse of Capital Area Michigan Works!’ Lansing Service Center. While there, she built an award-winning communications program ranging from local public relations to national legislative advocacy. During her tenure as CCO, she worked with U.S. News and World Report, USA Today, National Public Radio, CNN, the New York Times and international media outlets from France, Japan and Denmark.

In 2005, Kate was the youngest professional in the nation to receive the prestigious Accreditation in Public Relations from the Universal Accreditation Board. In 2010, she was named by Greater Lansing Woman as one of the 10 most influential women on Twitter. In 2012, she was recognized by the Lansing Regional Chamber and Grand River Connection as one of its, “10 Over the Next Ten: The Next Generation of Business Leaders.”

Kate currently serves as a national assembly delegate of the Central Michigan Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America and is a past president. She also sits on the boards of Capital Region Community Foundation and Impression 5 Science Center. She is the chair of the NextGen@Wharton Steering Committee for the Wharton Center for Performing Arts, where she also sits on the center’s Advisory Council. In 2009, she helped to incorporate the education-focused nonprofit Keep Learning… Our Future Depends On It, with which she is still engaged.

Kate holds a Master of Science in integrated marketing communications from Eastern Michigan University. She obtained a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary humanities from Michigan State University, where she also teaches Writing for PR.

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