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Online Video Marketing is the hottest and the latest cutting edge technologies and Internet trends. The video sites like YouTube are exploding on the scene like crazy and offer some of the best opportunities to get tons of free traffic to your Capture page if you build your business on a budget.

Video Marketing is BIG and growing even BIGGER. Video search continues to grow at a rapid pace.
An estimated 73% of U.S. Internet users view online videos
You can stay ahead of the game and your competition
Videos stimulate the senses and can engage your audience on another level
Videos create more traffic; increase the length of visits, and overall converts a browser into a buyer

Well let’s get right into how to create effective videos for your business.

Step one: you will need a video camera if you want to create your own videos.

If you are on a budget, you can just get a video camera with in your budget. I highly suggest you to get a cheap and easy to use one with edit software.

Step two: create the content for your video. It is critical to the success of your video.

When you create your video content, there are three goals you have to consider.
1.    Who is your target audiences- your target buyer?
2.    Broadcast the right message to generate attraction. People will only join you or buy from you if you demonstrate that you have the great value they want.
3.    Create a clear purpose and call to action. Your video is only a messenger. It tells your prospects where to go, and what to do next. So in your video you should always tell your prospects to visit your capture page and fill in the form on the page for more information. Then you can convert them into a buyer or a new distributor by using your auto-responder, if they did not buy immediately.

Step three: publish your video. You really should publish your video into as many video advertising website as you can to get maximize traffic for your business.

Below please find a list of helpful video solutions and sharing sites, including “How to” video posting sites if you plan on creating a “How to” video for your customers. A few of these sites will even help you edit and market your video.
·    Girl Shop Spot  Resource for Modern Women
·    MetaCafe  Best Videos & Funny Movies
·    Viddler  Record, Upload, Share
·    Vimeo  Video Sharing for You
·    ZippyVideos  Free Video Uploading and Sharing
·    Eyespot  Personlize You Video…Mix, Host Share
·    TurnHere  Video Strategy Development & Production
·    Dailymotion  Share Your Videos
·    Jumpcut  Be Good to Your Video
·    TubeMogul  Free Video Distribution with Tracking
·    Fliqz  Instant Video, Custom Video Solutions
·    OurMedia  Channels of Creativity
·    vSocial  We Power the Most Successful Promotions
·    GoogleVideo  It is what It is…Google
·    Revver  Video Sharing Network
·    VideoEgg  Video Advertsing. Easy.
·    VideoJug  Life Explained. On Film.
·    Helpfulvideo  Share Your Knowledge & Skills
·    5min  How to, Instructional and DIY Videos
·    ExpertVillage.com  How to Videos & Free Video Clips
·    eHow.com  How to Videos
·    Howcast  Cool How to Videos and Guides
·    MindBites  How to Video Marketplace

Freebies are gold mines- They are free cash for you.

I knew when you see the title you think what a heck are you talking about? Can you really mine gold from this Freebie junk?

The answer is definitely YES, YOU CAN.

I put in this way you will understand better: Free PLR-Free PLR Products-Freebies-Gold Mines.

Lets have a look

How on the earth does the Freebies become gold mines? First, I would like you guys have a good search on the Internet. What do you search for? You search for any success network marketers or companies you know, to see if they offer any freebies to attract their customers. If it’s possible for you to get inside information, you may ask them how much money did they make from offering the freebies to their customers. I have no doubt they made millions and millions of dollars from their freebie offers.

This is your first and most common freebie gold mine, if your intention is to build your own network empire.

But, what if you do not want to build an empire. It’s too much for you. Maybe it’s enough to make a good living from it, crush that job and have the life you want to live. Are the freebies still gold mines then? Yes, Definitely. I will give you that answer for sure. How?

If you take good notice of the Internet marketing or business models or the high-flying informational ebooks and books, while you search for your perfect way to make money online, you will notice that most of them are repetitious in some way or shape. What’s that mean to any gold mine freebies? There’s no connection? NO, that has a lot to do with your freebie gold mines.

Do you wonder how? Let’s just take FREE Marketing ebooks for example. There are common ways to market your business on-line like PPC, Social network, Email marketing, Video marketing, Classified, Phone broadcast, Article marketing, Press Release and a few more. But it doesn’t matter here. What matters here are the number of the marketing ebooks. I have no idea how many similar marketing ebooks exist here, but I know it is not a small number. I personally collected hundreds of FREE marketing ebooks. They are just freebies not included as in the paid-for ones. Maybe you can get an idea about how many similar ebooks are out there.

For me the bigger the number the more advantage. Why? One thing we need to make clear; The purpose of offering Freebies to customer is to attract them to your list and exchange their name and email for your freebies. So your freebies have to be valuable enough for people to give you their name and email, so then you can email them to sell your products. Remember, even it is free it still has to be useful for people who want similar information. Then it will do the job of building your list.

Another important key is, as I mentioned to you above. There are tons of similar informational products free or priced. That means there is a lot of competition out there. The people who want to sell their new products have to offer new free information that their competitors haven’t offered before to be attractive.

So at the end of the day you’ve got all the information you need to market your business for FREE. A major Plus here is the money you make from using these free informational products. This is another gold mine for you if own a little business.

There are many more ways you can make a good profit from freebies. You can check my website at:http://www.MichaelandMei.com

Do not worry the information in my website are FREE + More Free PLR Products!

Enjoy it!

How about a change of pace today?

Instead of yapping about “how to” sell more, what if we rap about
“how NOT to sell” stuff?

Sound good to you?

OK then, below is a list of some ways to “unsell” your products and
services.  In other words, these are things that could take you
from the brink of making the sale (in any medium — online,
offline, whatever) to snatching defeat from the proverbial jaws of
victory.

It’s happened to yours truly many times.

And let me tell ya, it ain’t fun.

So if you find yourself doing any of these things in your sales and
marketing, you may want to reverse course — pronto:

1.  Too chatty (when selling in person, by phone, even in ads)

2.  Lecturing (instead of telling stories — for more on sales
storytelling, check out the free bonus that comes with
“Crackerjack Selling Secrets” – http://www.CrackerjackSelling.com -
described in the PS of the sales letter)

3.  Assuming too many things about your prospect

4.  Not doing enough research

5.  Following the crowd (this’ll get ya every time!)

6.  Slathering your pitch with hype

7.  Screaming at customers (either audibly or in print)

8.  Being too product centered (and not market centered)

So there you have it.

Eight freakishly easy ways to “unsell” your product.

And you what?

I bet if you ONLY avoided making these 8 mistakes, you’d find
your profits go way up… and your frustration levels going way
down.

Try it and see.

Ben Settle

Say it clear! As I mentioned last time this is the most important part of bringing your fortune closer. YOU are the key component in making your wealth become your reality.

However you have a very powerful force available to you that you can easily squander or even worse turn against yourself-Your inner voice.

Hey if you’re scoffing and rolling your eyes at this point go read the newspaper, cheap mag or whatever; bye.

But if you’re still here, great. Lets detail the points and steps:

-Look into your mind and see yourself as you truly WANT to be, I mean truly ok! Take your time and be honest.

-Write it all down then organise it in a list that is prioritised like, money, family, time, relationships, health, gifting/helping others.

-Look at that writing and rework it until you recognise it as logical and very comfortable for you.

-Now, read it OUTLOUD clearly.

If you say it a bit painfully or without conviction, then deliberately change that to be sure, confident and above all “the owner” of the writing.

Do this until it’s nearly not necessary to read each word deliberately. This part of the process is deep and will start the process towards being your behaviour and/or direction.

Now you must do this several times and even adjust it as the weird or uncomfortable stuff gets in the way. Your core motivators are revealed and you’re on your way.

OK enough. You get the message I hope.

No more details here as I aint getting into any psychological stuff. This is a sorter tool not a doctor’s thesis.

Revisit the list or writing often as it is YOURS and you should be loyal and true to yourself. This has to be the utmost priority to assist you to reach your goals.

Hey! we did it and do it and we are on a hell of an interesting, new and lucrative journey; http://myblog.michaelandmei.com/about/

More on that soon.

You need to decide what vehicle is going to assist your goals. Is it an expensive retail bricks and mortar business (good luck cos you’ll need it) or sharing a new idea with others and get them to market it for you (hmmm got a decade or two?), or an on-line business?

No matter what you choose, you need information, reviews and tools. These are mostly cheap or free to start with. As you get the stuff you need, remember to sift the crap out. http://myblog.michaelandmei.com/cut-the-crap-in-mlm-and-nm/

We do that and I’m absolutely intolerant of the nasty money grubbing liars that are sooo common these days. I’ll detail that next.

Need help? Next time I’ll help cut the crap on those decisions too.

See our articles on how to choose a business

http://myblog.michaelandmei.com/how-to-choose-the-right-home-business/

CraigsList.org. is the world’s largest website where you can place free ads in various cities and countries across the whole world and generate free traffic and leads for your products or opportunity.

Placing a free ad on Craigslist is simple and quick. Follow the steps below to advertise for free on Craigslist.

Step 1:

Go to the Craigslist Web site-www.CraigsList.org. Look on the right side of your screen select the city or country you would like to put your ads under from the location columns. Click on the appropriate link. After clicking on a link, you may have to select the closest city. Take the most active city in Craigslist.org  SF Bay Area for example.

Step2

Now you need to select the Category you would like to post your ads under. For online home business, I suggest that you start your advertising under “sm biz ads” section, which you can find under “Services”

Step3

Click on the “Post ” link in the upper right hand corner of the page.

Step4

Click on the category that best suits what you are selling. If you do not see a category that includes the item you wish to advertise, return to the last step by pressing the back button on your browser, and try a different category. Here I will say select our  “small biz ads”.

Step5

Type your posting title, which is the headline for your ads. Then the ‘Posting Description’ where you put the body of your ads in the dialog boxes that appears on the screen. Include the price, the location and your email address. Click on the continue button at the bottom of the page.

Step6

Wait for verification. Craigslist will now give you a verification word to make sure that you are a legitimate poster. Type the word shown in the rectangular box on the bottom left of the screen and click on the “Continue” button.

Step7

Read through the terms and agreements to make sure you agree with all of Craiglists’ policies. If you agree, click on the “Accept the Terms of Use” button on the bottom of the page.

Step8

Login to your email account and look for a message from Craigslist.org. Open the email, which will contain a link to post your ad. Click on the link. Note: You DO NOT need to set up an account to post your ads. But if you set up an account with Craigslist you can see your ads instantly with out login to your email to check it.

Step9

Review your ad to make sure it is complete and correct. Press the publish button if your ad looks good or press the edit button if you need to make changes.

Grab yourself a copy of “Craigslist Profit Unleashed” ,

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Enjoy your free posting!

Michael and Mei