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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Promoting Your Online Business With Internet Radio

Posted on January 27, 2011 by

Internet radio is growing everyday in it’s scope and influence. I tried it for the first time about a year ago and have seen a huge growth over that time compared to the teleseminars I used to do. That’s because teleseminars deliver great information, but only to the people on your list or the people that know you already. Every show you do on a service such as BlogTalkRadio will come up high in search results if you have proper used your keywords in the titles and descriptions.

Shows are archived so that people can find and listen to your show at anytime, not just live. They can also download the MP3 recording and put it on their websites or blogs to get even more listeners. In fact, it’s good to encourage that kind of marketing. You can link to the shows from your Facebook pages and the show is even playable right in your profile automatically. That has raised my listenership greatly, so much so, that I am booked up with guests for months in the future. The guests continually bring their fans to the show to increase listenership even more.

You can have guests on your show that are promoting their books, but I promote mine as well… every week. Or you can be a guest on the hundreds of talk shows online to promote your book. Talking about your book for 30 minutes or more a week can increase your name recognition, search engine positioning and prospects to your website. I always follow up with guests to see how much of an increase in their web traffic resulted from them being on my show. If you want to really market a book on the Internet, you have to spread the news like wildfire! Internet radio is just one very powerful way to bring your important message to the masses for free.

Online video is the future of the Internet…. find out why!

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Easy Video Player Adds New Features

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Marc, the Web Video Dude

Easy Video Player just released a new version with more features. If you aren’t familiar with Easy Video Player, you should be. Easy Video Player uploads your videos to your Amazon S3 account (sold separately). It gives you many options such as choosing what the player will look like, view tracking, split testing, elements, lightboxes, and a whole lot more. More information on Easy Video Players features Here. With the new release comes 4 major advancements in what you can do with their player.

  • Attach a player to videos via URL - You can now paste any video’s URL into EVP’s player. The player will add whatever code settings you choose and then you can put that video anywhere you want.
  • Password Protection – You can choose if videos are password protected or not. You could use this for a video product. If you were concerned with people sharing the link to your videos, make it password protected. You also get to choose how long the password will last. For example, the person watching it would have to enter in the new password after 24 hours.
  • Sharing on Rollover – I’ll be honest, this feature isn’t as great as the others, but it’s still pretty cool. Now, when somebody rolls over your video, a share button will come up. You click on that and the video is shared wherever you choose.
  • Multiple Users – EVP now allows multiple users with different access privileges. You can now choose to give somebody admin rights, or to simply be able to view the videos stats, and 2 other options in between.

Easy Video Player is a great tool for managing all of your videos.

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Online Video Marketing Tips – Creating An Internet TV Show

Posted on January 21, 2011 by

Ever thought of making a television show exclusively for the web?You can shoot videos right in the privacy of your home or office and syndicate them to blogs and websites to help promote your products and services. Shoot weekly or bi-weekly episodes and give the code to various blogmasters that want to carry the show, and they can paste the code into their posts for their viewers to see.

Why would a blog owner want to post a syndicated show on their site? Because of the content. Blog owners and writers have to struggle daily for fresh content for their posts. Without fresh content, their blog will lose search engine positioning and bore their visitors. You can also have a link especially for the blog owner just below the video with their affiliate ID so they can make a commission on the sales of products you may be advertising on the show. This is very similar to syndicated airtime television.

Learn the video marketing secrets that will make your business shine! 

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Easy Video Production for Marketers – Easy Video Creation Webinar

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Marc, the Web Video Dude

If you are just starting out with marketing or you’ve been in the marketing game for a while now, if you are not using video then you are missing out on a golden opportunity. I believe a lot of people know they have to get into video but they are hesitant. Either they are concerned with the cost of the equipment, the learning curve, the amount of (supposed) work it takes to make a video, or any number of reasons. Believe it or not, you could start creating great looking videos for under $275. That would get you all of the equipment needed to start. And yes, I am including a camera in that price. How, you ask? Well, you can search long and hard all over the Internet to find what you’re looking for, and it’s out there somewhere,  or you could ask us yourselves at our live Easy Video Creation webinar. We will be training you on how to create quality videos cheaply. Not only that, we will also be providing step-by-step instruction on how to market your products and services with these videos. Click here for more information.

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Amazon S3 gets even easier – Easy Video Player

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Marc, the Web Video Dude

Well, not really Amazon S3, but the way you upload files to S3 did just get cooler. Originally, we were using Mike Stewart’s S3 Media Player – which is great for getting your videos uploaded and putting a player on them – but now we are using Easy Video Player. With Easy Video Player, you get so many more options. Here’s just a few of the options you have with Easy Video Player:

  • Video Light Box – viewers can click on a button and your video will open in a light box, this means it will blacken out the surrounding screen, only showing your video
  • Split Testing – you can create two videos and test them out
  • Tracking – you can track how many views the video has, and how many sites it’s on. Easy Video Player will also tell you how many people watched the entire video
  • URL Jumping - customize your video to jump to a specific URL
  • Customizable HTML – choose what you want to pop up under the video. It could be a ‘buy now’ button, an opt in page, or anything you want
  • Much more – you can choose what your player will look like, what size, what share links you want, whether people can download your, file and a whole lot more!

Check out Easy Video Player

And if you need help with the software or anything else related to Internet Marketing, be sure to leave a comment or hire our services at Top Internet Consulting.

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Video Production and Video Marketing Webinar – January Session is Available

Posted on December 9, 2010 by

For those of you that missed our November Video Production and Video Marketing webinar, don’t fear. We are pleased to announce we will be offering another session starting Jan. 18, 2011. If you are looking for help in creating videos and marketing with them, this webinar series is for you. Be sure to check out the video sales letter we made or you can go to TopInternetConsulting.com for even more information.

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Video Production and Video Marketing Webinar Hours 3 & 4

Posted on November 24, 2010 by

We just wrapped up our second session of our Video Production and Video Marketing Webinar, which consisted of hours 3 & 4. If you missed it, here’s a little of what we covered.

  • Scripting
  • Design
  • Traffic Generation
  • Testimonials
  • Lighting for video
  • Compositing
  • Much more

For those of you that are signed up but missed the live webinar. Don’t worry, because we always have the recordings available to you as well. And the recordings will also have the URL’s to each video we talked about so you can work along at your own pace. Thanks to everyone that signed up and listened to us. We’ll see you at the third session in one week. Until then, it’s always a good idea to go to Netaim.info, check out the curricula we have offered, listen to the many audio training sessions we have, or to just poke around the discussion forum. We want you guys to really use the 6 months free membership to this database. It can tell you everything you need to know about how to make money online.

And if you haven’t signed up for the Video Webinar series, sign up now. You’ll get all the recordings, have access to the live ones, get 6 months free membership to Netaim.info; and a whole lot more.

Colin & Marc

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Video Production and Video Marketing Webinar – It’s not too late to sign up

Posted on November 23, 2010 by

That’s right, it’s not too late to sign up for our Video Production and Video Marketing Webinar. Our first 2 hour class was conducted last week and we are about to have our second 2 hour session. But don’t worry, if you wanted to sign up but now feel like you missed out, you haven’t. We recorded the first class (as we are going to be doing with all of the sessions) and they are always available to you whenever you need them. This is a great opportunity to learn everything you need when it comes to video production and marketing your video. Check out everything you get when your order this training series.

  • 8 Hours of Live Training from Colin and Marc
  • Tom Antion’s Click 2010 ebook ($97 value)
  • Video Fastrack Guide ($29.95 value)
  • 6 months access to Netaim, the world’s largest Internet marketing database ($180 value)
  • Colin Martin’s Social Media Video Training System. 23 Camtasia Training videos on Social networking (Twitter, Facebook, etc…), bookmarking, article marketing, video marketing and more! Follow step-by-step instructions on creating a massive presence on the web. Over 6 solid hours of training! ($197 value)

So there you have it, over $500 worth of freebies just for signing up to our Video Production and Video Marketing Webinar.

And here’s the best part:

You could get all of this for free, or even better, you can actually get paid yourself. If you become an affiliate for us and get only 2 people to sign up, your entrance into the program is paid for; after that, the more people you get, the more money you make.  for every signup we get from you, we give you 50% of what we make. So, for every 1 person that signs up, you get $98.50.

For more information, be sure to check out TopInternetConsulting.com

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