Hey all,

If you are interested in learning more about the skills of marketing online, then the Thirty Day Challenge is a great way to find out more at no cost.  Every August, Ed Dale holds the Challenge.  You can signup at;

–> http://www.thirtydaychallenge.com

To give you a taste, here is my cheatsheet of some of the videos in last years challenge.  These are chock full of great info about online business and internet marketing tactics.  This will give you a taste of what the Challenge is like.

If you like these, then go signup for this years Challenge.  As I’ve said, it’s completely free – no cost – nada – gratis.

P.S.  If you only have time for a couple, then watch Day 9 below.  Also, these are going to get updated in 2 weeks when the new challenge starts.  So some of the tools might look a little different now.  But this will give you the flavor…

–> http://www.thirtydaychallenge.com

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30DC Day1 – Finding Niche Ideas
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DoL9jRaG28

30DC Day2 – Market and Keyword Research
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BsobIksK90
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR05tDZLe88

30DC Day4 – Writing Copy, Affiliate Programs, Amazon Affiliate Links
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuMtssgdbkM
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztpzQMjdCho
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVLwRCfq7B4

30DC Day6 – Hosting, WordPressDirect, First Article & Sale Offer Ad
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVrRLgZ2F-Q
       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q69VXS8ocKw
       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEWsQIq2PyY

30DC Day7 – Adding analytics on WordPressDirect blogs
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec2cymTnmpA

30DC Day8 – Social bookmarking
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9UG_IO7yNE

30DC Day9 – Get backlinks and check for indexing
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foMYlQjomtY
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afGuRrcWxwk

30DC Day11 – Squidoo & creating lenses
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5mR7OrCo0I

30DC Day12 – Creating HubPages
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_95XuzF1DA

30DC Day13 – Question and Answer session
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4uD3Qz3DRE

However, those only work once you have captured the right details, and built up trust through, written communications. For most of us this is hard to accomplish. We wind up having to learn to communicate in a medium that is not comfortable to the majority of us, and hard to instill confidence in your customer or potential partner.

Easy Video Producer has broken that barrier for the average person. We simply hit record and leave a message for a friend. All those important facial expressions and tones are conveyed immediately to the visitor and does increase sign ups to your list.
Every person that depends on customer relations to earn an income should be using this medium to share and brand themselves as the person you want to build a relationship and/or do business with.

Imagine showcasing your products with a live pic right from you home office.

You can visit the site at http://www.easyvideoproducer.com/clickthru.php?id=22865

Written by Rich Keesling
You can visit the site at http://www.easyvideoproducer.com/clickthru.php?id=22865

Several years ago the singular e-mail opt-in was taken a step further when software was developed that asked the first recipient to forward the offer to 4-5 of there friends in order to qualify for the free giveaway, or perhaps even a very low priced offering. Hence, list building became viral, meaning that a single e-mail to a single individual could be multiplied in a near exponential manner as each level of opt-ins continued to forward the offer to even more people.

The Web 2.0 World

Of course the latest to trend in the network and internet marketing community is the Web 2.0 world of blogs, YouTube, Twitter and the like. The use of videos in various social networks in order to communicate and establish a following with the subscribers has become ubiquitous. The net result of all this is that seemingly the most effective way to communicate with potential subscribers, or even to acquire subscribers and customers these days is probably through the use of videos.

Videos have a number of advantages, including the ability to present yourself as a sincere and a knowledgeable person in a face-to-face way. A potential subscriber or customer is more likely to buy from someone they they feel like they know. So
consequently, it’s almost imperative these days that you use the video medium in order to communicate with potential prospects to turn them into eventual customers.

The New Viral Video World

Interestingly, a new video software system to build a contact list and potentialcustomer list virally has been introduced. Internet guru Joel Therien, CEO ofKiosk.ws, is in the process of launching very easy to use video building software called Easy Video Producer that has the potential to be a very effective way of generating contacts in a viral manner. This system is unique because the software itself is being offered as the free giveaway for this video “tell-a-friend” system. Essentially, the system will offer you free and extraordinarily easy to use video generating software that builds and posts your personally produced video and information capture form on a website or blog. A contact management system is included with the free offer as well.

The viral concept is that you would then attract traffic to introduce yourself to the prospect in a more personal way, offering them the opportunity to opt in and use the same free software that you used to prepare the video. The prospect and new contact would in turn use his free new system to attract even more potential contacts for his list and yours as well.

As in the earlier e-mail systems, the originator of the viral distribution of the free software would have access to every subscriber in the levels below him. So, what is offered is a system that provides a free and very simple (even a cave man could
do it) method of posting videos to the internet that have a specific purpose of giving away additional software in a viral manner to capture a fast growing network of contacts with whom you can continue to build a relationship.

The Issues I See

The problems with this system are not dissimilar from those in other earlier systems of using free giveaways to build a list. . You first must be able to get your video in front of an audience and in order for them to subscribe, and they in turn must have an audience to subscribe in order for the system to work effectively. It can probably be most effectively used by someone who already has a subscriber list and wants to expand it rapidly.
Another potential negative is that the the new contacts you generate with this list, both directly and indirectly, are not yet buyers and it’s likely that many of them will have no interest in your particular marketing niche. Proper strategy of course is to build credibility over time through a series of value adding free offers that are designed to help categorize their interests. Only then should you move on to the stage of offering them the opportunity to buy your stuff.

This new easy video producer software system appears to offer a simple and easy, no cost way for the experienced, and particularly the relatively inexperienced non-technical networker to make effective use of videos for viral list building, and business promotion.

Today, in order to be relevant in internet marketing your
website or blog has to do more than just be a static webpage,
now you have to have content and different methods to share
that content such as having your own blog, perhaps forums,
and now the biggie, video. With increasing access to broadband,
video is now possible for virtually everyone to use. Video has

become the new must have have, not only for internet marketers
but for everyone who has a website.

Local Biz Owners who have a website can especially benefit from

video. With video, there are new opportunities to get out your

message, advertise your business, make video postcards, send
video e-mails create how-to the ideas are endless.

We website owners however, are thinking gee we want to get in
on the video thing, but it is something else we have to learn
how to do, another learning curve, and for many of us the idea
just sort of fizzles.

I am excited because I don’t have to miss out this time, because
I lack the expertise to create and broadcast videos or perhaps
I just don’t have the time.

I found a unique new software I thought I would check out, to
see if I could use it. I was hoping it would be easy to use,
to create video and then put it on my website. I also wanted
the video to look good, something I wouldn’t mind people watching

and/or downloading to pass it around.

Well I couldn’t believe it. This software made it drop dead easy
to make videos and to put them on my website. I actually was able
to make a quality, professional looking video in less than 5 min.
This sounds crazy I know, but I did it.

If video is something you have been wanting to do but felt really

intimidated by it up to this point, you might want to try this software

for yourself, because the best part is you can use the software and

it doesn’t cost you anything. That was important to me because I

didn’t know if I would be able to use the software, and I didn’t want to

pay for something I wasn’t sure I could even use.