Google Video Ads – Make Your Own, Cheap

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Marc, the Web Video Dude

Using video for ads in Google is a great idea. Since Google purchased Youtube in 2006 making videos has taken on an ever growing importance. But, I know, making videos is hard right? Wrong. I’m going to tell you how to create your own video ads with software you can find online for free. And, I’m going to give you all of this information for free.

If you just want to jump to the video training on creating video salesletters for free, CLICK HERE.

Video salesletters are perfect for creating google video ads. With free software such as Audacity and FastStone capture you can make as many of these ads as you want. Once you get these two programs installed, you then set up an iGoogle account; again free. iGoogle is fantastic and I can’t sing higher praises for all of the nice things you can use. We will be using Google Docs to create a presentation. Presentations are Google’s version of PowerPoint and they work great for what we need it to do. Here are the steps you need to take after that:

1. Creat a slideshow in your Google Docs presentation.
2. Record you going through the slides with your screen capture software.
*Option1 – Record your audio with the screen capture software
or
*Option 2 – Record your audio with audacity.

That’s all there is to it. If you want a much better detailed description of all the tips, CLICK HERE FOR OUR FREE VIDEO SALES LETTER MAGIC TRAINING

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Youtube – The Social Marketing Tool Everybody Forgets

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Marc, the Web Video Dude

Did you know Youtube has more monthly searches than Google? It’s true. Youtube is now the second largest search engine right behind Google. But, as you know, Youtube is much, much more than just a search engine. AND it’s also much more than just a video sharing site. Youtube is trying very hard to be a social networking site too. Most people don’t think of Youtube as a social networking site and that is where they are missing out on a huge opportunity to market their products and services. So what exactly is Youtube doing to become more like Facebook? Let’s Take a look:

• Friends – You can get friends and be friends to other users on Youtube. A friend is somebody that wants to stay in contact with you and wants to be able to leave and read comments. Friends are different than subscribers. You can also post comments back to your friends. You can’t post a clickable link in a comment.
• Bulletins – Posting bulletins allows you to provide information on your channel. It’s a lot like posting a status on Facebook. This is also a good place to post clickable links.
• Like/Dislikes – You can click a thumbs up or thumbs down on any video you watch to indicate whether you liked it or not.
• Subscriptions – Subscriptions are a lot like being a fan of somebody’s Youtube channel. If you get subscribers (and you should), they will be notified of any new videos you upload. Subscribers might not necessarily be ‘friends’ and vice versa. You want subscribers. Also, any channels you are a subscriber to will show up in your channel as well. This is good to know. This is how your channel can grow quickly. The more subscribers you get, the more times your channel is mentioned on somebody else’s channel.
• Comments – You can comment on any video or in the comment section in anybody’s channel.

The only thing you can’t do in Youtube that you can do in Facebook is post pictures. I don’t see this happening any time soon but you never know. Make sure you use Youtube as much as you can. Basically, your Youtube channel is your very own TV station; but better. It’s better because unlike a TV station that has a set number of viewers, limited by location, Youtube provides unlimited numbers of viewers from all over the world. Start taking advantage of all of Youtube’s features because it’s going to be around for a long time.

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Launch Your Product With Video

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Marc, the Web Video Dude

Do you have a product and are now ready to launch it to the world? What steps are you going to take? Well, you could use Facebook and other social marketing sites to promote it; and you should. But what other way can you promote your product, and promote it for free? Video. Using video when launching a product is not only a good idea, it’s also cheap and easy. In your launch, you want to create excitement and get people talking. Video is perfect for this. Your video could simply consist of you talking to the camera. A basic talking head shot of you talking about your product can be all your customers need to see before they buy. Now we always hear the same question over and over:
“What do I say?”
Well, who knows your product better than you? All you have to do, is tell us about this fantastic product and how it’s going to help us. Here, I’ll make it even easier for you. I’ll tell you what you should say and in the order you should say it.

1. Introduce yourself – “Hi, I’m Marc from TopInternetConsulting.com”
2. Introduce your product and then tell the viewer how it can help them – “We have a brand new CD called ‘Create Product Launch Excitement With Facebook’. If you want to succeed in selling your own products, you need to know how to use Facebook to make a large profit”
3. Tell them where they can get more information – “If you want to get more information on how you can create a huge amount of excitement for your product using Facebook, go to TopInternetConsulting.com for more information.”
4. Outro – “I’m Marc, and I’ll see you there.”

That’s it. Just using that simple script, you can create a video that now can be seen on Youtube and all of the other video sharing sites, as well as your home page, facebook page, twitter page, and anywhere else that accepts video. Using videos is another great way to create buzz for your product.

Also, we do actually have a new CD out focusing on Creating Product Launch Excitement With Facebook. In it you get all the information you need, directly from our social media expert Colin, on how you can use Facebook to create a buzz about your product launch.

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Millionaire Marketer’s Club Teleseminar Today

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Marc, the Web Video Dude

Please click the link below for the call in details regarding the
Millionaire Marketers Club monthly teleseminar series. All calls
are complimentary for active members of NetAim.

http://www.netaim.info/members/forum/openthread.cfm?forum=1&ThreadID=52

Mastermind Session – all questions welcomed on any topic

March 29, 2011 9:00 pm EST 30 min +

This is your time to ask any questions for Colin and Marc. This
is an incredible resource offered in your membership with NetAim,
and also helps us keep a pulse on what is needed from members. We
look forward to your input and questions – all levels welcome!

See you on the call!

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Seach Engine Rankings – Learn SEO The Easy Way

Posted on March 24, 2011 by

SEO, or search engine optimization, is how websites are discovered by the search engines. It consists of many different facets including keywords on the web pages, how many there are, where they are placed, are graphics are optimized, how many sites are linking to you and much more. If you want your website to get good positioning, then SEO is a must learn process. Many of the tactics can be learned and implemented by yourself with a bit of practice. It’s finding a good mentor that keeps up on the changes that is really important.

See, search engines need to constantly change the way they search for websites. That’s because if website owners can figure out how they do it, they could “game” the system and get top rankings easily. Gaming is not how it’s done. A complete and well thought out system needs to be established solely for your kind of site. Setting up long term strategies based on sound SEO principles will keep your site at the top of the searches.

Search engines may change the way the search for sites periodically, but the main sysytem doesn’t change. They just tweak it a little. And a good SEO mentor knows how to create different pages of your website that will come up high on certain weeks and some pages will come up high on other weeks when the search engines change their algorithms…. keeping your site in perfect balance week after week. Trying to chase the search engines around with tricks doesn’t work. In fact it can get your website banned. You need a well balanced and whole view of how you use SEO.

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How to Add a Lower Third Graphic in iMovie

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Marc, the Web Video Dude

Many people have asked me how to edit in iMovie. And usually once they get the hang of it, the next question I get is how to add a lower third graphic to their video. It’s actually very easy to do. I made a quick video on how to do this. Here it is:

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Online Publicity – Promoting Your Products In Advance

Posted on March 21, 2011 by

Anyone wanting to sell a product online would benefit from pre-promotions. You don’t want to wait until the product is already out and collecting dust before you start telling the world about it. Just like a big movie premier, you can create a stir and excitement about the product before it is even finished. The whole idea why you would want to do this is to create a mailing list.

A mailing list is a database of email addresses that you gather from an online opt-in form. You may have seen them around, they are plentiful on the web. A page will ask you for your email address before progressing you forward to an information page, a free ebook, or an MP3 download. When you give away information for free over the web, you can easily create a large database of potential customers when the product finally arrives. You can email the prospects special offers and bonuses to sweeten them into buying. This, for the most part, has a higher conversion of sales than just someone visiting a webpage alone.

Pre-promotion really works in every kind of business it’s tried in. From online buzz to ‘coming soon’ signs for retail stores to major countdown sales heading towards a big holiday, people love to be informed about a great deal ahead of time. Start to proactively market your products ahead of their release to maximize the largest sales you can.

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Live Teleclass Tonight

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Marc, the Web Video Dude

Tonight we will be having another live teleclass for our Millionaire Marketer’s Club members. This class will basically be left open to anybody that has a question for us. If you’d like to get instant access to our Internet marketing database as well as access to a live teleclass and a live mastermind session per month, join our Millionaire Marketer’s Club.

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Internet Marketing For Small Business – Creating A Good Opt-In Box

Posted on February 17, 2011 by

1. Lots of benefits near the point where the person has to make a decision to put in their email address. Opt ins haven’t been a novelty for over 10 years. People are afraid you will spam them to death so you must make it extremely enticing for people to risk putting in their email address.

2. A blank field or fields that send the psychological message to the person looking at it that they should put something in the empty field. It’s not a good practice to simply put a link to your opt in box or worse yet, have it as one of your regular navigation buttons. People will gloss over it there and many will never see it at all.

3. Not too many fields. The more fields you require someone to fill in, the less people that will sign up. You may intentionally want less people to sign up if you have to follow up with them by phone and you don’t have enough people to handle all your leads. Certainly the more info they are willing to fill out, the more qualified they are. When simply giving away a free digital newsletter or download you want as many people to sign up as you can, so less fields to fill out is a better idea.

4. High on page. Your opt in boxes should be positioned high on your page… certainly so it can be seen in the first screen without scrolling. That doesn’t mean you can’t have additional signup areas further down the page, but in most cases we want at least one signup area on the first screen someone sees.

5. Multiple locations. Each page can have multiple locations to sign people up and you should have at least one sign up area on every major page of your site. Remember people can enter your site on any page. They may never see your home page so it’s important to have signup areas all over the place.

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Youtube’s Watch It Later Feature

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Marc, the Web Video Dude

Youtube has a new feature for embedded videos: Watch It Later. If you have a Youtube account (you should) and your on a site that has an embedded Youtube video on it, the player has a plus symbol on the bottom right. Perhaps you’re in a situation where you would like to view the video and another time; perfect, click the “Watch Later” button and that video will be available to you the next time you go to Youtube. In order to find the videos you added to your “Watch Later” queue, click your account name in the upper right corner of Youtube’s page, got to “My Videos” and on the left, you should see an option for “Watch Later”. This new feature will only work with videos that have been embedded with the new iframe format Youtube is using.

Speaking of that, have you noticed the new iframe format Youtube is using for embedding videos. If not, take a look at this code:

<iframe title=”YouTube video player” width=”640″ height=”390″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/o0N7oHBnyTM” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>

That’s it, that’s the whole embed code now. Notice it begins with “iframe….”. Be mindful of iframes. Facebook is also going into using iframes instead of HTML. That means, all of you social networkers out there that are using FBML for their pages on facebook, better start learning about iframes soon.

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