Thursday, September 2 2010
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My Bonus for Rapid Video Blogging

Today, Gideon Shalwick is launching is highly acclaimed course, Rapid Video Blogging.  Last week, I wrote a review about it if you’d like more information (check out the post here).  With the shopping cart now being opened for a limited time only, it’s time for me to announce the bonus that I’m offering.

One of the cool things that I like to do when producing a video is to have a short, 10-15 second introduction which I use for all of my videos.  I’ve recently been working to find the “perfect” intro and have found the best place to find them is at VideoHive.  Here, under the category “Logos and Titles”, you can find a huge variety of short intros to suit pretty much any style.  All you need in order to personalize them is a copy of Adobe After Affects and enough experience to use it.

Having a “logo” like this is great for creating a unique look and brand for your videos and helps you to come across more professional.  Once you have one, it’s really easy to edit them into the beginning of every video that you produce in much the same way that you might add a URL at the end.

One of the services that I offer is to take one of these pre-designed offerings from VideoHive and to personalize it for clients, for which I usually charge $197 for up to 30 seconds of intro.  If you buy Rapid Video Blogging through my affiliate link, I’ll personalize one for you for free!  All you have to do is to decide which one you want, purchase it and send it through to me along with a copy of your logo, your website URL and any tag line that you want to use.  The only stipulation is that the file that you choose for personalization can’t require any additional plug-ins as I can’t guarantee to have what is needed.

Once I receive the files and have confirmed that you’ve bought through my link, I’ll turn around your new intro within 7 days so that you can start using it right away whilst you apply everything that Gideon’s teaching.  Please note that there’s no waiting for refund periods to expire or anything like that, however I do reserve the right to invoice anyone the $197 should they subsequently ask Gideon for a refund.

Remember, all you have to do is to buy Rapid Video Blogging through my affiliate link and I’ll produce your own, personalized into movie - a $197 value – within 7 days of you sending me the project.  To get started, just click the link below:

http://www.johnlandells.com/rapidvideoblogging

5 Tools to Simplify Your Life

Since this week is officially “Simplify Your Life” week, I thought I’d close out the week with 5 tools that you can start using today that will simplify your Internet Marketing business.  These are tools that I’m either using right now, or have used in the past so my recommendations are coming from personal experience.

Let’s get started…

1. Instant Article Factory – As Internet Marketers, we all know how powerful article marketing can be in terms of generating search engine rankings and traffic.  However, for many of us, sitting down and writing articles can be a huge time suck and something that we end up putting off until later.  With Instant Article Factory, much of the challenge of creating a good article is taken away from you through the use of comprehensive “fill-in-the-blanks” templates.  Check out the demonstration video at InstantArticleFactory.com.

2. Submit Your Article – I’ve written about Submit Your Article before (check out the full review here) and in my opinion, it remains the best tool on the market for submitting articles to multiple directories. Not only is it the only submission tool that I’m aware of that includes EzineArticles in its target sites, it also has the best solution for creating multiple, readable, unique versions of your articles.  Check it out at SubmitYourArticle.com.

3. Traffic Geyser – If you’re using video to promote your Internet Marketing business, your ability to post your videos to multiple sites in a controlled, efficient manner is crucial.  There are services available that are cheaper than Traffic Geyser, however I feel that in this case, using an alternative tool is false economy.  Traffic Geyser is one investment that I would not be without.  Check it out at TrafficGeyser.com.

4. Socrates Theme – As an IT professional, I used to pride myself on my ability to produce websites using nothing more powerful than Notepad!  However, once I started building my Internet Marketing business, I realised that this approach was burning way too much time – even using tools such as Dreamweaver.  I looked at building all my new affiliate sites on WordPress platforms, but it was still taking too long to tweak the themes.  Recently though, I discovered the Socrates theme which has been developed by Joel Comm and his team of top-notch IM-ers.  This theme makes it a complete breeze to get a new site up and running in no time at all and is now the basis for every new site that I build.  Check out the demo video at SocratesTheme.com.

5. Replace Myself – Outsourcing is all the rage at the moment and I think this is down to the recent launch of John Reese’s Outsource Force (now closed).  It’s all the rage for good reason – the single, easiest way to simplify your Internet Marketing business is to outsource those tasks which lend themselves to outsourcing, leaving you free to focus on building your business.  This isn’t a new concept but it’s an area where it’s easy to make costly mistakes!  In my opinion, the best way to avoid these mistakes is to check out ReplaceMyself.com.

Bonus Tool - Rapid Video Blogging – This product is only just in the process of being launched and I don’t know how long it’s going to be around, which is why I decided not to included it in the main five!  However, if you’re interested in blogging and REALLY want to make life easy for yourself, then you owe it to yourself to check out Rapid Video Blogging.  If you want a more comprehensive review, then check out this post.  If you just want some awesome freebies and some great background videos, check out RapidVideoBlogging.com!

I hope you find these recommendations useful.  I’d love to hear from you in the comments below.  Share with us which tools YOU find useful as well as your experiences with the tools I’ve already described.


http://www.johnlandells.com/TrafficGeyser

Turbo-Charged Video Marketing

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you’ll have noticed that I’m a real proponent of Video Marketing.  Video can be hugely powerful at engaging an audience and doesn’t need to be difficult to produce (check out this post – Video Made Simple).

I’m finding that a single video can be more powerful than half a dozen articles in terms of the number of visitors that they drive to my site and it’s my belief that this is simply down to the fact that you can engage your audience far better in video than in simple text.  Interestingly, I’m finding that this is even more true for non-IM niches.

With this in mind, I’m really excited to share with you a fantastic new product which a friend of mine, Gideon Shalwick, is launching over the next week or so – Rapid Video Blogging. This course takes you by the hand right from the beginning of finding a niche, through to building a video domination hub and making a solid, regular income from your video blogging.

Gideon is already widely respected from his work on BecomeABlogger.com with Yaro Starak, and his calm, confident delivery makes him a real pleasure to learn from.

What I’ve seen of his training material so far suggests that this is going to go into more depth than any other similar course on Video Marketing.  The only course that I’ve come across recently that is of a similar quality was Andy Jenkin’s Video Boss program, which focuses just on the production of videos – not on how to market with them.

Right now, Gideon’s giving away a free PDF which to my mind, gives away far more detail than he really needs to so represents a fantastic way to get a taste of how he’ll over-deliver in the course proper.  You can download this free report at www.RapidVideoBlogging.com.

Apparently, he’s already had way over 4300 downloads and there are literally hundreds of comments on his first launch video, where he takes you through the concepts behind Rapid Video Blogging.

If you’re at all serious about making a significant income on the Internet and are open-minded enough to consider new, proven techniques, then you absolutely must check out Rapid Video Blogging.  I guarantee that I’ll be taking the course too!

SEO Guest Blogging Contest

Today, I had my post approved for the Search Engine Marketing Group’s SEO Guest Blogging Contest.  Guest blogging is a fantastic way to increase your readership, to get additional traffic and to enhance you writing skills and I’d encourage you to give it a try.

Since it can often be intimidating to go and ask someone if you can write a guest blog post or them, this type of contest can be extremely valuable in getting you started.

My post – 3 Tips for Effective ‘Link Luv’ – is now live and officially entered in the contest.  I’d be extremely grateful if you’d go there now and leave a comment, re-tweet, Digg, etc this post to help me achieve a prize.  If you do this for me, enter the contest yourself and leave a comment below, I’ll be sure to return the complement and would encourage everyone reading this to also check out any posts referenced in the comments below.

You can find out more about the contest here: http://sem-group.net/search-engine-optimization-blog/the-bad-ass-seo-guest-blogging-contest-2/

The sponsors of this contest are:

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Special thanks to the contest media partner: My Blog Guest. MyBlogGuest.com is the free guest post exchange community where users meet to exchange guest posts and network.

Hostgator Discount Coupon

Since I’ve started providing Namecheap coupons on a regular basis, the one thing that I wasn’t happy about was that I didn’t have a coupon for my preferred hosting supplier – HostGator.  Well, all that has changed today!

I’ve managed to arrange a discount of $9.94 off any hosting package from HostGator if you use the coupon code IMwithJohn.

To use this, simply visit http://www.HostGator.com and enter the coupon during the checkout process.

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