Okay, maybe that opening was a bit over the top, but after going through rehashed courses on making money online, sad, pathetic rewrites on how to generate massive amounts of traffic, and finally questing after that ever elusive road to wealth explained by yet another “guru”, I was surprised to find a brand new product that offers real value to anybody trying to make a buck online.
It’s called VideoGoRound, an offshoot of the popular PLR site, InfoGoRound. It gives a relative novice to marketing online access to creating videos about their products and services, all with little to no knowledge or software beyond the VideoGoRound website.
That’s right, technology has finally reached a level where a person with no knowledge of videography can write some copy, paste it into a box, pick an avatar (online character who represents you), push a button and spit out a finished, professional video that can be uploaded to any video site including popular places like YouTube and Viddler.
It gives a marketer the power to pump out a series of videos about a specific niche in record time, upload it to video sites and get listed in Google. This is also a real godsend for article writers who can make a seamless transition to video marketing without having to learn new software like Camtasia Studio or Sony Vegas or investing in the high priced software to get started.
Combining this videomaking service with one of the following mutliple upload video sites can make a marketer very powerful indeed. Sites liek these submit your video output to many video sites with the click of a button:
- Traffic Geyser
- TubeMogul
- Heyspread
- VideoWildFire
This method will work with any affiliate product or service, and using avatars allows otherwise camera shy people to avoid having to take the plunge and show up on video. The avatar speaks as well, so if you think you sound like a frog, you can avoid hearing yourself croaking out your copy.
If this interests you, more information is available. There is also an easy-to-watch, comprehensive video on how this product works at: www.GetVideoGoRound.com
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]]>Informative article from Copyblogger:
Right now, someone who refers to himself as an ?Internet marketer? is sitting in his bedroom, dressed in nothing but his undies, laughing at how hard bloggers work for how little money we make.
We drive ourselves to creative exhaustion by expecting ourselves to pump out a never-ending stream of remarkable content ? a stream that, even in the best of cases, only pulls in a couple hundred bucks a month in advertising revenue.
And the guy in his undies? He?s one of the thousands or even tens of thousands of people making six figures online every year. Sure, he worked hard in the beginning, but not anymore. Now he?s connected and focused on growing revenue, not creating an endless supply of free content.
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Seth Godin is an expert marketer who manages to stay well above the get-rich-quick marketing mantra. He’s kind of an artist and just recent wrote a post called “Maybe you can’t make money doing what you love.” His premise is that sometimes, when you try to monetize your passions, you lose them and your gift is cheapened.
In the realm of blogging, this is essentially true as well. Not every blog should be monetized. I operate a blog about web design, but I don’t offer any advertising since the ads wouldn’t fit with my design and would probably point potential clients to my competitors. I also operate a blog about my life as a Pastor. I monetize it only in that I recommend some books off of Amazon and have a few affiliate links, but I’m careful and selective.
One of the problems with Adsense, and other ad networks, is control. You’re often limited on sizing, design, and advertiser selection. Affiliate programs usually offer a bit more control, but you still have to be careful about how an ad distracts from your creative genius. What kinds of blogs shouldn’t be monetized?
1. Some personal blogs. If you blog for family, do you really want to hit them up with ads or affiliate banners? The ads will basically distract from the unique personality of the blog.
2. Religious blogs, with some exceptions, shouldn’t be monetized much. Why? Because your greater purpose should probably be to speak to skeptics, who will see your monetization as an offense.
3. Corporate blogs, again with some exceptions, probably aren’t the best place for advertisign because the blog itself is the ad for your business.
Donations sometimes serve as a decent alternative, but almost nobody really donates, so it may be an ineffective use of begging. If you have time, I’d suggest operating multiple blogs so that you can monetize one or two, but not all four or five.
One last factor to consider is that you should always be giving away content. I give away free WordPress themes. You might give away an ebook or free advice. Just remember always that it’s “more blessed to give than to receive.”
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