Ordinary People

Went to the warrior gathering in London this weekend and had a really great time hanging around with like-minded people. The bonus was getting to meet some of the big players and discovering that they were really just normal everyday people not some super human machine.

Paths Crossing

What was nice for me was that I got to meet Michelle Stevens. Not a famous marketer but one of those people who I consistently bump into online in the strangest of places. It was nice to be able to say high in the flesh and also meet some of the guys from the inner circle.

Spontanious Creativity

Being around like minded people and especially those that have been marketing online for a while is very inspiring. Small remarks or little snippets of what they are talking about trigger bursts of creativity, I actually came away with a note pad full of ideas for blog posts, products and a number of other things.

Picture This

This was a blogging tactic dreamed up from a few comments about a product someone was creating. If you blog or are thinking of having a blog then all of your posts should be accompanied by an image and where possible a video as well.

Pin & Clip

The image provides another opportunity to add another tag and can also be pinned on Pinterest or clipped on Clip Board providing an extra link or two for very little work. You can invest in an auto pinner plug in but to be honest the toolbar pin it or clip it buttons work just as well.

Animoto

When you have accumulated five or so blog posts you can add your already tagged imaged to Animoto for free. This gives you links to each one of your posts in the form of a video where your images are set to music.

I Submit

Submission to youtube the second largest search engine on the net is sure going to help give your traffic a boost and that does not include using other video submission sites or Traffic Geysers and Tube Mogul. That’s a lot of links for not a lot of work and maybe a big increase in your traffic generation

Simple As

A very simple strategy that I thought I would share with you guys, all you have to do is take action. It should not be hard as you have done most of the work already. Animoto video creation takes just a few clicks and a video upload not much longer. A 30 second video could prove to be a potent source of traffic to your blog.

That’s all from me

Catch you next time

Clive

Video Star

I managed to create my first sales video after many attempts stumbles and splutters, had I realized that I could have cut them out while editing and producing the video it would have saved me a lot of time. I learned a lot to and playing around with camtasia studio has been a real learning curve in lots of different ways.

Squirming

I found myself making excuses and finding other things to do when I should have been focusing on making the sales video for Affiliate Master Blueprint. I decided on a video as it is by far the easier option, sales page creation and copy writing are best left to the experts and even as I squirm at the prospect of my creation being live on the internet I know it is the right choice. Even if I am way out of my comfort zone it is just something that has to be done for both personal and business growth.

Bad Media Player

I discovered yesterday that part of my perceived problem was that I was using windows media player to view my finished work. I had blurs and streaks, white power point tiles and elongated text in frustrated I tried playing the video in VLC media player. To my absolute relief it played perfectly with none of the listed problems. I wish I had known this while making 2o other videos for my product, I think I might just have to check through them once again now that I can quick edit and play on a quality player.
I have learned a lot and I am sure it will stand me in good stead for the future but I could really do with it all being done right now.

Optimized

I decided to invest in optimize press as it was recommended and seems like a very versatile platform. So I installed a WordPress blog and uploaded optimize press and shortly after my sales video. Putting it on a page was really satisfying but it would appear that my alignment of camtasia on the PowerPoint was out by a tiny fraction. I have a white screen with a black line down one side which is thoroughly demoralizing as it looks like I have to make it again. Take 327 coming up.

Lost Heart

Not having the heart for a re-shoot today I decided to start laying out my product on optimize press. There are lots of videos showing you how to do stuff and they are helpful but they are shown on the old model and the latest version does not look anything like it. They were showing things on the screen that where not on mine and no matter where I looked I could not find the option being shown.

Still Hopeful

I have asked for help and hope someone can tell me where I can find it so that I can use it in the future. I did manage to figure out a lot of other stuff and have decided to set things out in another way using a different optimize press application. I had a look at a page layout that was done with optimize press it looked so slick that I think there is hope for me yet.

Warriors

Looks like I am going to stepping further out of my comfort zone as things progress with this Inner Circle business. I am off to the warrior gathering in London as a VIP at the weekend, I am really looking forward to it, so the next post will probably be about that.

I would really appreciate any comments or feedback that you have.

That’s all from me, catch you next time.

Clive