Who Said Bloggers Can’t Dance? haha
Posted on May 21st, 2007 by Jon - SmartWealthyRich / 21 Comments »
Hey folks, here are some pictures I took at the conference, I thought you’d like some “visual gratification” instead of having to read, and pictures can give you a pretty good idea of the “vibe” of the conference, so here it is! :)
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I’d like to share 2 videos i watched recently that i really really enjoyed. Those two videos are proof that marketing is not boring at all, and it is possible to have fun! In the first video you’ll see that Seth Godin definitely has a good sense of humour and is a great speaker. ;)
This video is about 20 minutes long (i watched it on Matthew Sherbornes‘ blog), and the second one around 4 minutes.
The second video demonstrate something really interesting and useful: when your are talking to your customers, or writing new ads or working on other aspects of your marketing campaigns, you have to make sure you get your message across and it is understandable.
Some say you need money to make money, well honestly i cannot agree with that. It takes ideas, a little bit of creativity, and the right people to help make it work, and voila! Of course if you have money, you can invest in your business and kickstart it, but you definitely don’t need a lot of it! At least not online. Or even starting a network marketing business is kinda cheap (usually under $1000.00).
You have heard of Digg.com, right? If you haven’t, i urge you to check it out! It’s a social media site and overall success (and i’m weighing my words)! Many online entrepreneurs, bloggers, site owners will (try to) use Digg to attract visitors to their site(s). If you can get to the homepage of Digg, you can get loads and loads of traffic, and i mean, massive traffic!!
I’ve wrote about tubetorial before, about how much i loved this site and how helpful it was and everything. Recently tubetorial (and the awesome cutline theme) was acquired by splashpress media (they also own performancing and blogherald and many others), which i think is an ok business move. When there’s money involved, you know…
Tubetorial is great, and you can find really useful information (free) on there, and they branded the site really really well! But since it was acquired by splashpress, i’m not sure why, but i feel a little sad…
Don’t get me wrong here, i think some motivational speakers are doing an excellent job! But on the other hand some sounds like they’re in some kind of sect trying to get you to join ‘em!
I really enjoy watching and listening to Randy Gage (MLM genius!), T. Harv Eker, Keith Banfield and others which have years and years of experience and are recognized world-wide. But some motivational speakers (which i won’t name here) seems like they’re relying on vulnerable and not-so-well-grounded people to buy stuff from them, which i find is a bad way to do business.
Have you ever been to a conference, seminar or watched videos of motivational speakers? What do you think?
I was thinking about something, me and my best buddy (and partner) were talking about how to market a product (something my friend will launch eventually), of course we talked about sales pages, blogs, advertisement and all. But one interesting thing we talked about was podcasting and mediums like that (podcasts, videocasts).
I have to say, the product will be in the form of videos/dvd (probably downloadable files, and a monthly membership including updates… or a one time fee with updated content for a said period of time), and also ebook to go with it. So my friend told me about the idea of producing that thing, and then launch it and use many ways to market it. Podcasting/Videocasting being one of the many ways.
I would like to have your input on that! Podcasting is, i think, a sure way to promote a product or website, say your product is something like an hour and a half long, it’s easy enough to edit some clips, say 4 videos ranging from 2 to 4 minutes and syndicate that on the Itunes network for example. Which would give a great exposure for the product. This could also be applied to other things, like marketing courses or others, i’ve seen many many marketers and motivational speakers put up their own podcasting thing. So i guess it is probably a good idea!
I’m a big fan of the Itunes music store, and i download podcasts quite often (it’s free most of the time, if not all the time). So i think that would help launch the product my friend wants to put out. Of course, we’d use other ways… like i said, blogs, sales pages, advertising, ppc, banner spots, and probably sell it and promote it on sites like amazon, ebay and others.
But what do you think? How would the podcasts (free) would help the revenues generated by selling this product, is the exposure one can get from podcasts worth the efforts? Do you think it would be better to not syndicate that content, or to go ahead with the idea, and give away some, and entice people to join? It would be really useful if someone who has done that kind of thing before could share some experiences with us. Or simply participate in the discussion and expose your views. :)
That is a really nice video i found on Digg! haha what a funny/interresting way to give out business cards! (just gotta practice the moves first) :)
Click the links there to check out the video!
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I watched this video on youtube today! Amazingly well-done, and informative, while still funny, explaining how the web has evolved during the past years, how we got from hand-written text on paper to web 2.0 digiital text, online communities, RSS, syndication and content management, and “Teaching The Machine”!
