Videos have proven themselves as being the most powerful form of communication. You see them everyday. Television ads are short “made for air” clips that inform, promote and heighten an interest in a business. Using that same platform, you can achieve similar results online using videos. Here are some reasons why you should be using video in your website

· Videos can present your message in such a way that written words can’t. Videos have the power to bring your message to life and add elements of emotion that are hard to evoke by words alone. Those emotions are the things that your potential customers connect with and you will find that you’ll have an easier time converting your potential customers into paying ones!

· Videos are easily transportable between sites. Once housed on a social video site like YouTube, other visitors can easily link to your video. They can also embed your video on their own site and as they spread their own message, they are essentially spreading yours!

· You don’t have to create a video to use videos on your site. There are so many clips being created by people who already have the equipment and infrastructure to create them. This means that you can enhance your message using someone else’s message! Did you know that almost all the Social Network Video Websites such as YouTube, Google Video, Revver and many others, provide embed code so that you can easily put the video that you want on YouTube IN YOUR OWN WEBSITE! WOW! So now you can make a website and use other people’s videos on your website legally! That is how it all works on Social Network Videos.

· You will need to be mindful of Social Network Video Websites though when it comes to proprietary intellectual property and not “Sales Copy” or “Advertisement” type Videos. As mentioned above, just like you can embed videos from other people’s uploaded video content, anything you upload, they can do the same. So you need additional to the Social Network Video Websites, a paid subscription service that will protect and host your Videos that you may for example, wish to sell to Clients as a Downloadable Product or you just do not want to provide other people the legal ability to use your Video Content and wish to use Video on your Website. (I hope that is not too confusing… but it is important to know and note the legal aspects of your intellectual property).Check out my Professional Website Software that includes Video Encoding & Hosting as well as protecting Digital Downloadable Files. http://aquawebsites.com/page/professional-website-software/default.asp

· If you decide that creating your own video is the route to go, you can still easily do this with simple equipment and good lighting. If you want to avoid the “home created” experience, you can also use digitised pictures (such as a Digital Photos and Microsoft PowerPoint) and turn that into a video with music using Windows Movie Maker which is on all XP and Vista Machines and Macs have iMovie. So these free programs on your computer can now be put to use. Most people do not realise they have Video Editing Software on their Windows and Mac computers. On a XP or Vista Windows machine, simply click on Start >All Programs > Windows Movie Maker. It even lets you record directly from your WebCam, Import Digital Photos and Music Files to use in your Video. With this software, you can Cut and Splice the Video files you have and make an incredible looking video in literally minutes! Most people astonish themselves actually as this program is far easier to use than PowerPoint or any Graphics program I know.

· Videos are more apt to be spread virally than any other form of media. It takes just minutes for an audience to see your message and respond to it. Since they can easy link to or embed your video on their site, you can wind up being promoted on websites quicker than you ever imagined.

· People like to be entertained. They like to see things visually rather than concoct an image in their mind. As a result, it’s easier for your audience to see your message and connect with it using humour or compassion than it is to be entertained by an informational written piece.

· Videos are going to increase in popularity even further. With the release of Apple’s iPhone and the iPod video, more people will have offline access to videos that they can share. Sharing means profitability for the business owner.

Still wondering if videos are the right way to go? They have become so easy to use within the context of your site and the best part is you don’t even have to produce them. This represents for you an increased opportunity to promote your business and connect with future audience members.

Ok, you can have some fun with Today’s task! Some people start playing with making videos on their own and pretty much well end up doing it all the time after that as it is an easy thing to do. You will certainly at the very least impress family members on your new found talent!

I once was at a Christmas Party and took about 50 photos on my Mobile Phone, which I then downloaded from my Mobile Phone to my Computer and started up Windows Movie Maker and created a Movie using just the Photos, no video footage at all and created a video fro photos!

You see Windows Movie Maker and Apple iMovie both provide the ability for you to have effects and transitions between your photos and make a Video look so professional. SO in this case, I made the Video in about 10 minutes and added a really cool song I had on my hard drive that I bought and downloaded from www.musicbakery.com and now have full legal rights to use the music again and again in many ways as I have purchased royalty-free music – basically meaning, I can use it commercially and completely legal with no copyright issues. Important to note this and not use commercially copyrighted material in your Website Videos.

And then I played the Video by burning it to DVD from my Computer and to the family and WOW, that video was played on loop for about 2 hours, even though the video went for just over 2 minutes! They loved it and the video became the number #1 favourite video of the family. It has even been played at several other family events afterwards. Can you imagine doing this for your family?

So, even if you only have Photos on your computer right now from a Digital Camera, then you can make a Movie and learn how to use Windows Movie Maker or iMovie.

Here is a website that has a great tutorial on using Windows Movie Maker.
http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/moviemaker2

Here is the Apple website which shows you how to use the iMovie software on a Mac.
http://www.apple.com/support/ilife/tutorials/imovie/

If instead of just photos, you want to do the REAL Deal and use Video from your Video Camera, Webcam or Mobile Phone, then you can easily do this and again, the links above have some excellent “Video Tutorials” (meaning you get to see a video of the screen as someone teaches you how to use the software).

Now as far as making a Great Video and having a good eye for making the right type of video shots, angles, lighting, sound and all those kool effects for making the next hollywood block buster, then head on over to YouTube’s Video Help area, which is not only extensive, but way cool and simple to understand, hey it is just click to play! What is so hard about that? http://au.youtube.com/t/yt_handbook_produce
You will be impressed with the Videos and help in this area of YouTube and it might be a real eye opener for you.

Ok so, you have now made a Video and it is ready to Upload into all these Social Network Video websites where 100,000’s of people are searching for Videos to watch. But to be able to go and do this many many times over will take time to upload the video file to each one of the many websites avaialble.

So I have a solution for you. It is called – www.TubeMogul.com and it is pretty simple really. Once you have signed up to each of the 21 Major Video websites that Tube Mogul connects to, you can then simply Upload your Video File ONCE to Tube Mogul and then behind the scenes (most importantly not using your internet connection), TubeMogul uploads your video file to all the 21 major video websites for you. Like how much time does that one website save! Like HEAPS! This will allow you to go to the beach for the afternoon instead of sitting in front of your computer… literally this website will save you so much time in year come and yet with very little effort on your behalf, provide you with traffic possiblities that will lead to sales and income being generated from your website.

So be sure to go to www.TubeMogul.com and read over what it is all about, the extra features of Tube Mogul just get better and better and one great and very important feature is the viewing statistics and how well your videos perform in all the different websites. Without stats it is like being blind and not knowing what is really happening. Since we can on the Internet in most cases get stats and access to log files, we can see information and patterns to help us in our marketing efforts.

So pretty fun Task today… Make a Movie and join a whole heap of Video websites.
Mmmmm better not tell anyone that homework today was learning how to become a Movie Director, they might not believe you! But once you have learn how to use Windows Movie Maker or iMovie and joined Tube Mogul and all the websites it connects to, you will soon see you are now set to become a real Movie Director! So what are you waiting for? Get started!

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Discovering the Best Selling Information Products

There are so many people profiting from internet e-commerce through the sale of information products. At the same time, there are even more that fail. The single, most popular question that arises in nearly everyone’s mind is “Can I make money online?” The answer of course is, “Yes you can!” What many people fail to do is realise that internet e-commerce is still a business and the proper research still needs to happen.

Here is the main website to help you find an information product/s to sell.

1. ClickBank (http://www.clickbank-now.com/)

This website is an affiliate site containing lots of information products (and other affiliate programs for you to sell). In the simplest form, Affiliate Marketing on the Internet is probably the fastest way to achieving sales fast on the Internet, so keep a close eye on today’s website and learn exactly what you are looking at.

ClickBank is one of the top info selling affiliate programs available. They offer a wide variety of e-books and reports that can easily be included in a wide variety of niche markets. ClickBank is free to join. On top of that, it’s easy to add any one of their products to your website or blog using a snippet of HTML code that they provide. Marketing materials are provided for you so there is very little effort on your part as far as set up goes. But that’s the idea. Your goal is to market; not stay in the set up stage.

ClickBank has made some people more money than most people earn in a life time. The why and how of the Affiliate Marketing world are often discussed and taught in various ways.

But the simplicity is this,
1. You Sign Up as an Affiliate.
2. You create links to different products which have a unique code on them.
3. You place these links in your Website, Blog, Emails, Newsletters… anywhere you want..
4. When people click on the link, the website registers you as the referrer and will pay you a commission should the person make a purchase.
5. You get paid monthly and it is all profits with very little costs except time if you do it right!

When you review the ClickBank website, here are some things you’ll want to look at.

· Make sure that the products or services you choose are in demand. This might seem obvious but for those who are new to affiliate marketing, it might be hard to tell which products are the best but more often than not if you look at the rating system that tells you the potential profitability of each product you will see what is better than others. The higher the rating the more in demand these products are. You can simply choose to search on Products by Popularity and this of course will help you a great deal.

· Review the commission structure of each product or service. The best case scenario is that you get paid the most for a one time sale. Sometimes these products will be once off sales and others monthly. Get paid at least monthly and more often if possible.This will ensure the longevity of your efforts.

· Promote multiple affiliate products. Look for complementing products and services. Can you include a book from an amazon.com site with your niche product or service? Create a list of Affiliate links for the Top 5 books for your niche and then also create a Worst 5. Then you have a page of 10 links that all will make money if the person purchases the items or not! Who knows, you might find people buy a book from your worst 5 list! More often than not, you will have people buy the Number 1 earning you maximum commissions!

· Review the types of promotional items each product has available. Marketing your product is essential and the type of advertisment or placement of the Affiliate Links you choose needs to fit nicely into your website’s design. Some Affiliate Programs offer banners, pre-typed emails that you can simply copy n paste and all sorts of helpful tools to get you started as quick as possible.

The good news is that ClickBank give you a report telling you how many people clicked through on your link to products you are promoting and even allow a tracking code that you can specify for advanced tracking. These reports show you clickthroughs and sales for easy results review. You can easily review these reports and re-tune your marketing strategy.  It is so essential to know what is working/selling and what is not! So you do not waste time and effort in the wrong direction.

ClickBank also offers an extensive range of Articles and Documents for training on using their system for performing affiliate marketing. This makes this website an absolute gold mine to get tons and tons of products to sell that you can make money off today. You do not even need a website, you could just send emails from your Gmail Account with links to these products, it really is that easy!

But you might not be interested in selling other people’s products, and that is OK, ClickBank is still a Gold Mine to you for Market Research reasons. You can see what other products are selling well, even buy them and read, view, listen to them for ideas and inspiration!

So if you are in the mindset that you still do not want to promote other people’s products’ then may I suggest you consider that could Double or Triple your Sales by using the Daisy Chain effect and linking on additional products to sell to people after they have purchased yours which may be complimentary. Complimentary meaning that the products work alongside of or enhance your product. This allows you to make more sales and with less effort in most cases!

Think about it, you make 1 sale, but what if on the “Thank You for Purchasing/Payment Page”, you placed a link to a product that is earning you commissions? What are the chances some people who have happily purchased your product, would not want to uptake the next offer made to them. (I know my wife is like that when she goes shopping – cannot resist a sale, goes to buy 1 thing but ends up with 10. Luckily she makes tonnes of cash on the Internet so she can afford it!!)

Do not consider that when people have finished shopping with you and that they want to stop! Do not consider that just becuase they spent $100 or $1000 with you that they will not do the same again if you put a link in front of them and recommend it for whatever reason. You can think of all sorts of reasons why people will not, but in truth, some people will and some people will not and you will be richer if you do, than if you do not!

The best selling information products are out there, but you first have to find your niche in order to find which product are the top sellers in your market. Start profiting today from selling top info products whether you created them or were created by others!

TASK – Create a List of Top 10 Selling Info Products

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Thank you for reading this Blog,
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Writing an effective Landing Page/s (page that your Visitors see first when they
come to your website which is usually your Home page or a page created just for a Pay-Per-Click campaign) is something that can really make the results change according to your ability to keep some pointers in mind. Below I have put together some important points for you to consider.

1. Reduce the amount of pages for your Offer to the Visitor. If it takes three pages for someone to complete the Introduction to your Offer and finally find your purchase or signup as a member link, see if you can cut it back to two pages or even one. Why? Achieving 100% clickthrough success from one page to the next is difficult to achieve. So the more pages it takes, the more people you will lose.

2. Achieve the desired outcome – everytime before going further. Each page should have a desired outcome and needs to be achieved and then the next page is to do the same. Write down the objective and purpose of each page in your offer, from the primary landing page onwards right to the After-Sale question/offer. Be clear about it yourself as you write, and make it clear to your readers.

3. One place to read and focus the eyes – down the page in one column. When you want specific action, you will increase your visitor to sale conversion rates by ensuring that the page is one column that goes down the page and allows the visitor to read a continuous page of text to give them all the information in a clear and to the point manner – ensure that each word and sentence has a purpose. By allowing the offer to be simply a scroll away, it saves the time for a click and having to wait for a download, therefore making it that much easier for your visitor to keep reading.

4. Write a bold and thought provoking headline. Asking the right question in a headline or by making a bold statement can lead a person to really want to find out more or say “That is what I want”. Think about your Headline and most importantly Test and Test and retest your Headlines. In other words, try one day, one week or one month with a particular headline and then try changing it and measuring your results. When you have about 50+ conversions then you can do a visit to sale/subscription % and see how it compares when you change the headline. Some Headlines may surprise you.

5. The last few steps to the Shopping Centre Checkouts is where they make their most money and the same with your website. Repeat the value of your offer and in bullet point form detail what they are receiving for as bonuses for taking action now. You need to move fence-sitters into action. It is here that you really need to work on the final closing words and with several chances for them to click and order or continue reading to find out more such as testimonials. Again putting some really clenching sales copy at the bottom of your page is as crucial as the Headline you are using. Test the closing sales copy just like your Headlines.

6. Always, always and always ask for their Email Address at the very least. Give your visitors a good reason or offer them something for free in exchange for their email address and the ability to send them an Email Newsletter or Report that will be sent to them over a period of time (This can be set up as an Auto-Responder). Missing the sale at their first visit is not a loss and you can now remind them by Email Newsletter or promote through your Auto Responder.

7. Use Video and neat formatting to create an effective response. Try to avoid too many graphics or images or even to try and make it look good or pretty. Instead put a video in that is simple and clearly outlines the Offer. It has been proven time and time again the look of a website is not what sells the website, but the content in the website that is displayed in an easy to digest manner that is clearly formatted and in bullet point format to show the distinct reasons why this offer is for them. Video is the best way to deliver content and is virtually the equivalent of having your own TV Advertising but for a very small fraction of the cost.

So I hope this has helped you get at least one if not a few ideas to help you with your Website to perform more for you.

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Thank you for reading this Internet Marketing Secret being revealed,
From Vanya Markiewicz

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