Learn, Grow & Prosper

Well, here we are at the final week of Barry’s Video Challenge 

In this challenge, I’ve been showing a series of videos on ‘Tips Promoting Products as an Affiliate’ and if you haven’t already, you can following the links below to watch

Part I
Part II and
Part III

The tools I’ve been using over this past month to create these wonderful videos are:

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 – writing the presentation.  Okay, I had a coupon and with this I got Microsoft 2010.  If you haven’t already got Microsoft Office, there is no need to go out and buy it, you can use OpenOffice.org, which is Free to download, or Google Docs to do your presentations.
CamStudio - for recording – Free
Windows Live Movie Maker – putting it all together into a movie like presentation, again Free download

Along with playing around with these programs myself, trying to figure out how to use them (sometimes manuals can be quite confusing), I’ve picked up some great tips from Barry’s PowerPoint and Ian’s Movie Making tutorials.   These two will cost you.  But don’t worry, you won’t need your credit-card, only your time to leave a nice comment

Okay, press play for Part IV

Hope you enjoyed that and even perhaps found something helpful you could use.  Do let me know your thoughts by leaving a comment below.

Thanks for stopping by.

Until next time, bye for now
Julie 

Hello and thanks for stopping by. Here we are at the third week of Barry Wells Internet Marketing Video Challenge, and what a challenge it’s been.  I’ve not yet got around to all the participants but what I have seen so far, has been terrific.  Barry has a post here where he’s put up each challengers link and if you haven’t already, I highly recommend you take a look.

So, in this series I’ve been looking at ‘Tips Promoting Products as an Affiliate’ and here below is part three.  Time to press play …

I hope you enjoyed my presentation, again, thanks for watching and do let me know your thoughts by leaving your comments.

Until next week – Keep Smiling
Julie

Hello and here we are at video number 2 of Barry Wells’ An Internet Marketing Video Challenge and Everyone is Invited.  Before we start with part 2, I’d like to direct your attention for a moment to the topic we opened about ‘Landing Pages’ in part 1.

During the past week I came across a couple of posts which will emphasize the point I made and the importance of having ‘Landing Pages’.  One being a perfect example of a product review write-up on a blog post by Mr Wells himself and the results received from that post, you can read what Barry has to say here. 

And, Pauline Bennett has written a great article which details to you the whys and hows of using Squeeze Pages as your Landing Page.  (And she has a great little give-away there for you as well).

Anyway, I just wanted to let you know and prove a point, I don’t always waffle on for no purpose.

Okay, here’s the links I mentioned:  Adrienne Smith’s post, with some interesting statistics on video viewing and Steve King’s post showing a perfect example of a product video tour.

That’s it folks for this week, until then, do share this content using the social buttons below and let us know what you have to say by leaving your comment.

Bye for Now
Julie

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Well, here it is, the first video of a series of four for Barry Wells’ Leap Year Challenge he’s hosting – An Internet Marketing Video Challenge and Everyone is Invited.

I decided on the topic ‘Tips Promoting Products as an Affiliate’ as this ties in with a little site project I’m working on and it’s the things I’ve learnt along the way.

I did put some cute little graphs in, as it does take the plainness away and makes it a bit more interesting but for some reason my system then had problems saving the audio.  So, took them out.

I’ve put on video a power-point presentation I put together, the quality of the sound is good, only the volume is up and down.  The first and last slide is rather laud but you will need high volume for the ones in between – they’re a little quieter.  Oh, one of these days I’ll get it right.

Thanks again for watching, do leave your comments and I hope to see you again next week.

Take Care Now

Julie 

Well, I must say Barry Wells certainly has kept me busy over the past few days.  (He doesn’t know it – yet anyway. ) 

I’ve picked up some good ebooks and I’ve got some that well, you know how some people can talk alot and not really say anything, abit like that.  They’ve gone to the trouble of writing a 40 page book which could have been rapped up in five and then in those five pages there’s just no back-up for the information given.  Or you can download those ones where you need a dictionary and thesaurus at hand to actually understand what it’s all about.

When you buy some electonic gadget or a new book-shelf, you read the manual and follow through with the instructions because if you don’t, that shelf is not going to put itself together and you’ll never know how to get the best usage out of that new gadget.  If you’re looking for a book just to read then pop over to Amazon and buy a novel.  The purpose of Internet Marketing books are to explain things in clear text and show you, how to, where to, what to and and and, so that you can follow through on the information, making it easier for you to get your business rocking and rolling.  These books should be like working manuals, you don’t just read them, you use them. 

Now, when you get your hands on a good one, it’s like gold, I’m hanging onto this – it’s mine !   Then I thought, nah, everyone deserves a break, I’ve had them and it does give one a great feeling to pass on something. If you’re a newbie to Internet Marketing and looking for some direction to get you on your way, “Internet Marketing for Newbies” is for you.

So, before I take up on the resale rights offer, I’m going to give away Barry’s Book (I’m allowed) for, well, from now until then.  All you need to do is fill out the form here and claim your copy.

Like I said, now until then and then could be anytime. If you need it, get it now while it’s free because who knows, I don’t at this moment, when then will arrive and this free offer will be gone.

Enjoy and to Your Success.
Julie

So, what is working now?  It’s like the never ending story really, not only with Marketing but with Industry.  There is always something new going on and we all do have to do a little bit of work on a regular basis to keep up with it.

From What’s Working Now – Part I and Part II – A brief sum up:

Know Your Audience;  One of the basic marketing principles is to give your target market exactly what it is they’re looking for.

Recognize your customers’ need to communicate with you;  Very important and can be easily implemented through your Blog, Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz and many others.

Do Your Research;  And keep one step ahead of your competitors.  Doing research which will keep you up-to-date in Your Industry, then passing this news on to your subscribers and through your blog posts,  people will return to you.  For example, if you sell computer software and there’s an updated version coming to the market, get it, test it and pass your findings onto your readers.

Read; for the same reasons as to do your research, reading helps you hear what’s going on.  Don’t be shy to ask questions, many bloggers encourage feedback.  This not only helps you getting your answer, the blog owner then gets an idea of what their readers are looking for.

Sign up to Google Alerts, RSS feeds, a weekly or monthly newsletter, both for your target industry and the latest on marketing/SEO news.

And of course, there is the network you’re building up through blogging, Twitter, Facebook or/and forums. There will always be someone who’ll pass on information or where to go for it, if there is a need to know.

Take Action;  Nothing will happen if you don’t do anything.

Just a little foot note:  My Parents sold their Corner Shop a few years afterwards and moved on.  But whether it was for business reasons, friendship or both, they kept contact with most of their customers from that shop for many many years.

Do not under estimate the powers of having good Customer and Network relations.  No matter what your business ventures are now, the people you connect with today could be of help to you, you to them, in life for many years to come.

So tell me, what’s your favourite marketing methods?  I’ve come to really enjoy blogging, both my own and hopping to others. Twitter can also be fun, to have a conversation in 140 characters at a time can be quiet entertaining, something I don’t do enough of actually.

Take Care
Julie