Are You Taking Advantage of the Gigantic Video Traffic?


It doesn’t matter if you are a product owner or an affiliate marketer promoting affiliate products, if you’re not taking advantage of the immense traffic from video sites, then you’re losing out real big!

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No kidding here. You and I know undoubtly that these video sites are attracting millions of visitors everyday and if you can get a measly 1% of traffic from video sites to your site, then you’re filthy rich. I know making your own video sounds technical to you and could be one of the greatest turn off why many marketers are not doing it. But the fact is, it’s not as difficult as you think.

In fact, it’s not necessary to have expensive webcams or software to create your videos. And if you’re worried that you’ll need an arm or a leg to get quality photos or graphics for your videos, you’re wrong again! You can get all these resources for pennies or even free if you like. Don’t forget that there are a lot of royalty free images that you can freely use.

Here’s a nice free report by Kevin Riley that explains how to make professional pre-selling video commercial to drive rabid buyers to your site. You know, not on-lookers but prospect that has been warm up using the time tested AIDA formula that get them ready to pull their wallet out – Creating A Stream Of Affiliate Commissions With Video Commercials.

Affiliate Commission With Videos

And yes, there’s no need for you to hire or pretend to be an actor, a studio, expensive lighting and even camera. If you don’t have Camtasia (which is a good screen capture software that cost about $299), don’t fret. Here are some alternatives that you can use to create equally high quality video commercials and grab a piece of the video traffic.

www.jingproject.com

Jing – There are free version and pro but the free version works just as great. However, you cannot use the free version to record from webcam and can only produce swf file format. Anyway, the pro version costs less than $0.05 per day. Works on both Windows and Mac; just make sure you download the correct file.

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Camstudio – This is an open source software and it’s totally free. It has all basic function and the file size is small. You can choose to record in AVI or SWF (Flash) format. It also comes with the ability to add watermark and annotation on the video you created. So far, works only on Windows PC.

www.screentoaster.com

ScreenToaster – This one is also free but it’s not a software that you’ll need to download and install on your PC. Rather, it’s a free service that allows you to record your computer screen just like having a screen capture software. Just register for an account and you can start using it for free.

Click here to watch the demo on how this works.

Don’t hesitate to make your own video commercials now and start getting extra traffic that you have been losing. Remember to install Google Analytics on your site to check the amount of extra traffic these videos are bringing in before you start distributing your videos.

Cheers!

Waken

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Free URL Shortener Service


If you’re using any of these services to shorten or hide your affiliate links, you would better check them often. You don’t want to lose any chance of getting people to the designated url because the free url shortener service that you’re using is not working right?

I had the experience of sending people to an affiliate site with a shorten url in my Adwords ads and soon realized that the service was down. Damn it! I still had to pay for each and every click that I got.

And recently, I discovered that there are a few popular url shortener services that are always down. If you are using any of these, you would better update them now.

Offto.net – This was a great service by Jon Leger. You can make short your long affiliate links here and even track the hits that it’s getting. Best of all, if the vendor site you’re promoting has an affiliate page that were trying to attract people to become an affiliate, you can even hide the link from showing on the vendor page. Isn’t that amazing? It’s the only service that I have ever came across with such powerful feature.

But Jon decided to sell this a month ago (End July 2009).

Offtonet

And the new guys seem to be messing up not only the service at Offto.net (the site is always down since the transfer of ownership to the new guy) but the mailing list as well. I don’t normally get emails from Jon unless with some great offers or tutorials but this new guy seem to be promoting everything that he come across without even contemplating on the quality of the stuff. I already unsubscribed myself. And I was about to send Jon a complaint for transferring my email address to the purchaser without my consent. You see, there’s always such a note during subscription that says “We respect your email address and will never rent, sell or share it with anybody” but I couldn’t locate it anywhere. So, nothing can be done. Just move on..

snipurl.com – Well, I’ve never use this service before but it’s a popular one that people have been raving about.

Note: Page rank 6/10 and Alexa ranking at 15,862

However, the service seem to be down for too long to assume that it was some technical glitch. If you’re using it, better update your links with a working one.

There are many url shortener services out there but 2 years ago not many offers tracking. They just shorten your long affiliate url but never provide tracking. But lately, we have a lot of services that provides tracking as well that shows the number of visit your particular shorten url has been clicked.

Listed below are some popular free url shortener services that offer tracking capability as well:

Note that they are not listed in any preference order but just a random listing.

http://budurl.com/
http://bit.ly/
http://tr.im/
http://a.gd/
http://cli.gs/
http://su.pr/

However, there’s no way to guarantee that they will always be up and good all the time. Make your own due diligence to check on the site often just to ensure that the site is still working.

Anyway, I have my own checklist to evaluate their services prior to joining them. But please don’t treat this as 100% accurate. It’s just the way I make the judgment base on common sense (Totally personal and I disclaim any liability of following this).

So, that’s it. Choose the one that you feel reliable and convenient to you. There’s of course no way to ensure that these services will have zero downtime. You cannot even guaranteed zero downtime if you’re hosting a script on your own server too if that’s what you’ve been hearing gurus telling about and then “selling” you their script. As it will depends on your hosting provider uptime and downtime.

Anyway there are great opportunity for you if you were hosting a similar url shotener service instead of for your personal use. Just take Offto.net as an example. Imagine how much you could sell the business for once it has some PR and Alexa ranking. And if you were to make it compulsory for user to subscribe before using your service, your list almost grows on its own. Well, it’s really a viable business if you know how to market it. Here’s a nice script by John Delavera shall you want to involve in this business – Turbo URL Shrinker.

Well, Cheers!

Waken

P.S. Url shortening, url forwarding and cloaking is all different things. Learn more from my previous post here > Cloaking Affiliate Links

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Looking For a Mentor?


“I need a mentor desperately”

“I need a mentor to help me”

“Mentor wanted”

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These are common threads that I come across in forums where people desperately looking for a mentor to teach them to make money online. And it’s a common sight to see a lot of replies following the thread with some somewhat self promotional replies.

Now the questions that you’ll need to keep in mind when when looking for a mentor that suits you are:

(1) Are these so-called mentors’ credible people?

There are a lot humbugs out there and this is an undeniable fact. How many times have you come across claims like:

“I made $3000 in a week after following the ebook. Buy the book by clicking here and you’ll make money”

“I’ve bought all ebooks about internet marketing, took every course out there, spent thousand of dollars and now making millions. I’ve refined everything in my ebook, and all you need is my ebook. Get it now”

Come on, if making money online is that easy, why isn’t everybody making money online and quit their job? It would be great if it was that easy and buying a few ebooks or software is what it takes to build an online business. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. An ebook or software could be a small piece of the internet business puzzle but definitely not the whole picture.

As a matter of fact, all jobs requires 2 kinds of training – book training and “on the job training”. If you know nothing about cooking, do you think reading some cooking manuals is all you need to be able to cook?  Next..

2) What are their specializations and are their specialty what you want to learn?

No one person is a specialist in all fields and everything. Even with internet marketing or to make money online; there are a lot of ways. So, you’ll have to be very clear of your own liking on which route to follow. This is one of the important things when finding a mentor too.

And last but not least.. Don’t expect to find a mentor without investing some money and time. We are all business people and if you really want to find some credible guru to mentor you, expect to pay a “price”. There’s no free lunch to get quality mentorship. And expect to spend some time implementing what you’ve learnt. You can never make money online by just being a bystander, watching, reading but refuse in doing it.

Pardon me for the long fuss but above 2 things are really important when you are finding a mentor. Hope you’ll find a good mentor but in case you have no idea where to find a good mentor yet, then allow me to introduce you to John Thornhill or better known as “planetsms“.

Here is some background about John:

John was a factory worker prior to his venture into internet business. He began selling on ebay as early as 2002 and shortly quitted his dead boring job when his online earning exceeded what his day job was giving him. He soon became popular among the internet marketing community after his record sales of more than $50,000 selling one ebook on one single auction that he later made accessible to the general public at 90 Days Powerseller.

He was and still is a Powerseller on eBay despite the deadly eBay slap in March 2008 and going strong with more internet businesses than on eBay alone. Today, John become one of the most sought after guru when it comes to making money on eBay, MRR and PLR exploitation, viral marketing and affiliate marketing. So, in terms of credibility, you can’t go wrong with John. Check out his feedback score at eBay HERE and check if he still is a Powerseller. (Powersellers are recognitions given to eBay sellers that has fulfilled the requirements of sales volume and customer satisfaction on eBay. Details here).

John Thornhill’s specialties:

  • eBay marketing
  • MRR and PLR products marketing
  • Viral Marketing
  • Affiliate Marketing*
  • Email Marketing*

* These were by-products of his above specialties but I discovered that John had well mastered these 2 skills too and he’s currently in Coaching as well.

So, check his field of specialties above and if they fit into the categories that you are looking for. If yes, then he is the the mentor you’re looking for – Get his mentorship here. If you’re not sure if John fits your criteria, let’s proceed with the 5 Points Checklist below to see if John really qualified to be the mentor that you’re looking for.

The Mentor Compatibility Checklist – 5 Points Checklist

(1). Experience – 7 years in internet marketing, a defending Powerseller for years, a recognized guru when it comes to digital products. So, in terms of experience, there are absolutely no doubts. Experience is the best teacher and here’s how to turn his 7 years experience to yours. He has succeeded what you want to do and well versed on what works and what doesn’t. An incredible short cut that you can gain no other way - PASS.

(2) Knowledge – We learn through experience and what we have learnt is knowledge. If you’re looking for making money through PPC, then John may not be the mentor that you should go for. But when it’s about the specialties I’ve listed above (eBay, affiliate marketing, PLR marketing etc.), he knows these inside and out. Just like when you’re sick, would you go the pharmacy and get the medicine that you think fits you or go to a specialist to get the correct prescription of medicine for you? You can’t be shooting wedding photos for your best friend if you’re not a professional photographer right? Refer above for John’s specialties and if they are among the area that you needed guidance.. – PASS

(3) Accessibility – When you have questions, doubts and uncertainties, how many times you wish there’s somebody knowledgeable that you can turn to immediately? John definitely over delivers when it comes to contact. He is a friendly guy and an easily accessible one. No worries that your email will be unanswered for days or that your mentor is missing in action. His credibility in this is indisputable. Here are a few ways that you can reach him easily:

(Sorry, I couldn’t publish his email here or people will be spamming him but you can go to his Help Desk and ask whatever that you wanted to ask)

Planetsmshelpdesk

There are special links within the mentorship that allows you to reach for John’s personal reply fast and easy.

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Or if you prefer sending him a physical mail or a greeting card:

14 Lothian Close
Broadway
Sunderland
SR4 8RW

Again, John got a “PASS” for this.

(4) Guaranteed Success – This may sound a bold claim but trust me that John is really an amazing mentor. How many mentors out there would dare enough to give you such a bold guarantee? I can say from experience that none of them would and most likely to give you an income disclaimer instead stating that it all depends on your own effort and time you put in. While this is true but John is really here to help. John offers to promote your product to his own list with some criteria that you can easily meet.. – PASS


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(5) Affordability – This is really insane but John told me that getting success stories from his fellow students is one of the greatest satisfaction ever. I am not sure because I’ve not mentor anyone personally but John said that the feeling is beyond words to explain. Therefore he is willing to offer his mentorship for a low price of just $10 a month. If you are unwilling to invest just 10 bucks for such a great mentorship, then sorry. Otherwise, connect to your mentor Now – PASS

If you’re still uncertain whether you should have a mentor, just ponder upon these:

(1) Partnership – This is going beyond the mentor and student relationship and more likely be a lifelong partnership with a successful internet marketer like John. Remember that you’re not alone and we all know that we are more likely to fail if doing things all by ourselves. Instead, you become part of a team and getting help or encouragement when you’re stuck or just unmotivated is just an email away. Want faster response than an email? John replies to instant messenger.

(2) Guidance - Imagine threading through a mine field alone compared to having someone with you that had passed through the field many times. It really matters and makes the difference on how soon you can cross over the mine field. Choosing the “trial and error” way to make money online is an arduous task. Rather having a mentor to assist to avoid most of the errors and be where you wanted to be faster.

(3) Feedback – You just completed a sales letter or a presseling page for an affiliate product, is it better for you to ask your spouse or your mentor that had done that many times before? Or simply posting it to online forums looking for feedback? Note that in internet marketing, it usually takes 10 wrong answers to get a correct one. So, the chances of getting it wrong are high without a mentor.

(4) Time and Speed – How much do your time worth? Is it better to spend 2 to 3 years learning through trial and error till you finally make enough to quit your job or to spend the next 2 to 3 years building an internet business that will take care of your family and you for a lifetime?

And the Number ONE Reason to Have a Mentor in case you’re still unsure..

(5) Money - Believe it or not, if you are not sure what you’re doing in Internet Marketing, you’re likely to lose a lot of money on craps and rubbish than to invest on a mentor to guide your way. Most people wasted years and still getting nowhere. The fast learner might take one or two years with trial and errors but having a mentor definitely give you the edge to make enough to quit your job within a few months.

Looking for a mentor? Look no further! Hires John now and be where you wanted to be without tripping and stumbling along the way with his personal help and support. It’s going to be fun while reaching your goal much faster. I highly endorse John Thornhill!

Enjoy your new mentorship with success!

Cheers!
Waken

P.S. Let’s get a peep into his mentorship ..

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P.P.S. You’ll get a few of his best sellers free just by being his protégé..

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P.P.P.S. Get John’s Mentorship for a Guaranteed Success Now!

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