Here are some camtasia videos that I have uploaded to TubeMogul last week. By pressing one button, they were added to 5 video sites (which I could easily increase to 20+ if I spent an hour signing up to different sites), and also updated my status on Twitter and Facebook.

Go ahead and watch them if you want. However, here is the traffic lesson:

In step by step format. This may just scratch the surface, but I like to be realistic about expectations on myself and others.

1.

People visit one of my sites. Let’s say Go Andrea. They sign up for free website advice.

2.

Autoresponders are delivered to these new subscribers in intervals that I preselect

3.

Almost identical content that is sent in the autoresponders is turned into a camtasia and added as a video to multiple video sharing sites, Twitter, and Facebook

4.

Almost Identical content is turned into an article and submitted to article sites with links back to my site. Highly recommended to click here if you want your articles added to over 450 sites with the press of a few buttons. Or you could take a week to do the same thing . Up to you.

5.

Collect this information (the series of articles) and offer it elsewhere as a free report. Allow others (Joint Venture partners, affiliates) to give it away with an embedded affiliate link to get them to send you more traffic.

6.

This information is also the basis of a ‘bigger’ product that you will sell. So it not only brings traffic to your site, it also increases brand recognition, and expertise in your subject matter.

*Please note:

There is no concern of ‘duplicate content’ here. The article submission tool has a special feature which scrambles certain parts of the article so they are always original versions. Variations of the same themes of the content (and the best ones) should (could) be written into blog posts on your site.

Tell me your thoughts! I also want your feedback on this: (Now you have permission to click play!)

If that wasn’t enough education in this one post, see here are my two Camtasia’s (so far) in my series of how to monetize your website :

Tomorrow is Affilicon Israel.

I wrote this fancy blog post a few weeks ago about how cool it would be if YOU were there.

I mean if you live anywhere in the vicinity of Israel and you like to think about what it would be like to make money online, or that you do or can or whatever make a living online, there is no other place to be June 1-2nd than hanging out with me.

However, I was so busy actually making money (yawn), oh and preparing what is going to no doubt be the one of the best speeches and presentations at Affilicon Israel 2009, that I never did get to finish this extremely intelligent and very well thought out half finished blog post.

Here is what I can do for you though: If you show up tomorrow or Tuesday, I will relate to you exactly what you missed plus more. Lots lots lots more. You can count on that.

Yes?

Great. See ya there… Affilicon Israel 2009

Don’t let the title fool you or scare you.

As I know a LOT, we could be here for a long time.

But what if I just share one thing I know each time?

Thankfully I have been very very busy, and by neglecting this blog, I neglect you.

I am not making any commitments, or promises… just… well I will tell you later.

For now let’s get started:

You know,
I know,
everyone who knows me
already knows
that they don’t REALLY know
how I make money online.

Sometimes I think I am to blame:

Perhaps I don’t explain it well enough. As you may have seen from my last post, and especially SINCE then (I have already critiqued myself enough to need a new elevator pitch), I have it down to a few extremely clear sentences.

More often, you are to blame, since, like most people, you want your earning online hand delivered to you on a silver platter, and as online marketing is still a relatively new field, the ideas and language I use may sound foreign.

So here is something I know:

Earning money online is not always easy, but it is SIMPLE. If you want to hear how simple and fast it can be to build an online business and make lots and lots of money, I highly recommend you check this out: (click on the image)

Tell me if you agree? If you share your hurdles, I will tackle them in upcoming posts!

Well, but anyways, ever see the X-files? Whether you dug molder & scully or not – yes – the truth really is out there … the truth, the answers are within this very blog post. And it was right here in front of you all the while. Here are 20 links to my last 20 blog posts showing you 20 ways to make money online!

1. Website Flipping

   The art of buying, dressing up, and Selling Websites.

2. Affiliate Coupons.

   Promote Discounts via Affiliate links for products and just give people what they are looking for.

3. Create Information Products.

   Create your own Information Product and enjoy Passive Income. Like I do. Not linking to my original post, but a new project I am working on to help YOU create a product in 24 hours. Yes, 24 hours.

4. Ebay!

   Go see who I exploited to highlight ways to make money on Ebay, the largest Employer in the World.

5. Be an Expert.

   Get paid to offer expert advice in any field you know well.

6. Video Promotions.

   Increase sales by adding video to your sales / service process

7. Outsource.

   If you can figure out how to outsource successfully, you can either work less, but hopefully earn a lot more as others get more done for you!

8. Network.

   Be Seen. Meet other like minded people. This could earn you more money than ANYTHING else you do.

9. Educate yourself.

   Spend some time learning some of the basic skills that are holding you back from success. Understand how to use WordPress, FTP, Video Editing, and some Graphic skills, to name a few. You will save money on hiring out help, and achieve much faster.

10. Solve a Problem.

    Identify a Problem, Figure out a solution, Tease the target market with some of the solution, and then hold back the rest of the solution for money! Works like a charm.

11. Climbing the Search Engines.

    Naturally if you are able to make it to the first pages of the Search Engine, you are going to get a lot more visitors and make more money, yes? Yes.

12. Take a GOOD look at yourself.

    You can earn a lot more money if you can identify MISTAKES you are making, and how you are leaving MONEY on the table. Big Money.

13. Stay Focused!

    If you can learn to stay focused on the results you want to see, you will make a LOT more money.

14. Viral Marketing.

    Create a Viral campaign, and returns will be more $$$ and lots more.

15. Educate Others.

    Not a way to make a lot of money, but one I certainly enjoyed writing about. I offered money for great insights, ways to be productive, ways to make ME make more money by learning what YOU know. Offer is ALWAYS open.

16. Add Audio.

    Not ready for Video? Easily add some Audio to your website and increase sales. Explain what you are doing with your voice.

17. Increase Brand Awareness.

    Attach your product / service with an online personality, allowing them to self brand and promote for you! You both Earn.

18. Blog for Impact.

    Expand your reach. The possibilities are endless…and fruitful.

19. Increase your Page Rank.

    Get Backlinks to your site, increase your Google PR, move up in the search engines, and watch the magic happen.

20. The COPY is Key.

    If you ask any Internet Marketer what is the most important Element required in a product campaign.. they will all say THE COPY. You cant skimp on the copy. It will make you money.

I own some really crappy websites.

What makes them crappy? They don’t even deserve to be called WEB 1.0, they are so ugly. They have garish colors, layouts, bright banner ads, and probably some old style animated gifs. Like this big NO-NO image to the right..

They barely do anything I would recommend to YOU, and they earn a FRACTION of what they should and COULD be earning.

Yet, these websites are among my most valuable online assets. Their combined worth in the 5 figure range.

There is a ONE word explanation to this.

Backlinks.

Before there were all the distractions that the current SEO (Search Engine Optimization) experts suggest, before Article Directories, Before Social Media….

Someone’s full time job used to be:

“Hi. My name is Andrea, and I represent crapsite.com. I think our sites have a lot in common and wonder if you would consider a link exchange?”

This was when people read their emails, so the conversion rate was fairly high. It was not DONE with Page Rank in mind. This preceeded page rank! It was done in the hopes that someone would see the reciprocal link and come visit your site. But when Page Rank was born, these links gave you the competitive advantage. And still do.

Not only has NOTHING changed (except the reciprocal part), but for some it in the basis of their successful business model. Bloggers for example. As successful blogging is usually determined by how many other bloggers engage, link to you (technorati ranking), it is simply the more links to your blog, the higher your PR ranking, the more successful. That doesnt mean $$$, although it certainly could.

Dean Hunt, from deanhunt.com has made a professional career out of creating “buzz” for himself and for others, essentially building up websites and careers with Backlinks and Raising Googles PR.

You will be hearing about him in blog posts to come as we are going to start a little head to head. He may have used the word duet, but I think controversy is what will be called for, yes Dean?

Check out this spoof he made on Google’s Page Rank. Ok, so it’s only moderately amusing (am I allowed to say that?), but it features the amazing Josh Groban, and it does continue to exhibit how Dean manages to get places as he has now managed to secure a link from my site to his. Nice work.

If I asked you to do work for me, but only hinted at a possibility of financial reward…

say a year or two down the road….

what would be your response?

WAIT! Dont answer yet. There is more to the question.

I would require that you give me your best quality labor! Which means not physical work, but to share with me your MIND, perhaps a nice chunk of HEART & SOUL.

And Time.. oh yes, it would require lots and lots of time.

Tell me. Tell me. Tell me.

The truth!!!! Not only would you think I am insane, you would probably think me rude, and an assortment of other unmentionables.

and… now you know why sooo many blogs go silent.

There is a HUGE distinction between Blogging for Dollars and Blogging for Impact. In fact, I may start a little controversy here,… and even though I had planned future posts on blogging for ‘money’, I think it is the rare blog that is able to support even ONE individual in a comfortable fashion.

However, let me jump to the Punch Line.

“Good things come to those who wait”

Not too funny, but I will be laughing all the way to the bank.

By Blogging for IMPACT, or SUCCESS, with passion, with YOU in mind, NOT my wallet, many opportunities have come my way.

Israel is hosting it’s first International Affiliate Convention. It is well known to me, not from locals, but from being told the world over, that Israel boasts some of the top Affiliate earners across the board. In fact, I had the great honor of working extremely close with one of them (May he rest in peace).

I will be speaking about ‘Making more money from your traffic’, focusing specifically on List Building and Membership Sites. Come witness live a sexy powerpoint. This 2 day convention is thorough and filled with powerful speakers on an incredibly wide range of topics. I look forward to meeting others. Maybe you?

If you CANT just somehow make it over to the Holy Land, I may figure out a way to get a video clip, images, and well, I can at least share with you some highlights from the event.

Interested in attending? Visit the Affilicon – Affiliate Marketing Conference Now!

To summarize, don’t neglect looking at the BIG PICTURE. Often times We spend so much of our time in our daily microscopic lives, we fail to see the potential in well… in just potential.

I urge you to SEE the potential in the potential.

Have you ever experienced a “Big Picture moment?

The Story:

I had been receiving lots of calls for meet ups and consultations, and while it was taking me away from my regular ‘work load’, seeing possibilities where others usually do not.. well its just soul food for me.

Another day, another call, another meeting at the Coffee Bean.

However, what happened next took me by surprise!

A local marketer invites me to meet with him, and I assumed the regular position. I am ready to be pitched an idea, a problem, a thought, anything, and am fully prepared to smooth it out, make it real, add my 2 cents, solve his problems, and most certainly, MOST CERTAINLY, not hear something new.

This may sound like an overreaction, but the room started closing in on me, my heart started racing. It was due to BOTH the power of the idea (in some ways so darn OBVIOUS and UBIQUITOUS) and the fact that it was not (until then) something I would have suggested myself. How dare he!!

How many times do you see Celebrities walking around in Nike Apparel? Endorsing any number of events or products in commercials?

heck, I get major Oakley and Nike hook ups due to my brothers’ relationships.

Now:

Imagine taking YOUR Product.
(Yes, YOU who sells physical goods, or as a consultant you can offer this to your client/s)

Approaching An Online Marketer who knows how to Promote

Offering them to SELF BRAND the Product, enabling the marketer to even suggest a product and attach their name/brand to something physical. What an Ego Trip! (yes, it worked for me being the marketer who was approached – Ego was back in check.)

Look around at all the online hotshots. 1000′s of followers, subscribers. Buzz. Exposure. In their respective fields, they have become household names.

Think Mutually Beneficial Relationship.

You offer to provide them with whatever shwag you are producing (cups, t-shirts, stationary, office supplies, etc etc). You continue as you always have with offering the fulfillment of the items. Would this work for a service as well? Why the heck not??

Here are the benefits:

• 1) you make money, they make money
  (figure out a %age deal that works for you)
• 2) you get more exposure, they seem more important
  to be 'sponsored' privately
• 3) one good deal leads to another. this will be true for
  both parties.

Thank you Ezra Butler for teaching me, enlightening me, approaching me, and finding me a marketer worth the value of her own brand!

(*I reserve the right to change the number of video requests at my own will)

I have stated it in the past and will state it in the future (very near). Here it is:

Do YOU think Video helps to sell a product?

If someone can exhibit visually in addition to written HOW a product works, and the benefits you can expect to receive, sales will increase.

Anyone going to argue with that?

Good.

So here is my question.

Tell me how you feel about Audio?

If you hit a squeeze page, sales pages, any page, and there is audio that plays automatically, as simple as a welcome and as thorough as a reading of the content on the page… are you MORE inclined to sign up? Does it draw you into the content?

Naturally with all mediums, it depends on the content, same with videos. For arguments sake, lets say the voice is not whiny, annoying, too monotonous, too strong accented, etc..

The voice is pleasant
The audio explains what you can expect to receive
The audio is personal

Here is an example (new window will open) of how I use this feature to allow you to listen to my introduction to a call I recorded (just under 2 hours FABULOUS MEGA PACKED call just btw ) –

I personally think IN this case you want to know what comes next. Unfortunately I didn’t record the intro to the call with this purpose in mind – I was only talking to the people listening. I have learned that lesson and from now on, I speak to BOTH crowds. YOU + THEM.

Has that audio, my voice, etc., encouraged you to sign up – or the opposite?

How easy was that to create you ask? So easy. A very simple step by step process. If video is something that only ‘she and he is doing’, then this is certainly a very nice baby step in that direction.

I was so hasty in removing all opportunities for ME to earn from this blog, that I removed some real valuable tools. Especially those I felt were being sold by every online marketer… but, it is a really good product! This extremely easy to use, step by step audio creation tool is being sold for a heavily reduced price for my blog readers, and something I have used MANY ways.

Here are some features:

1. It’s Attractive (lots of color and style selections)
1. There is NO Time limit to the playback (I have put up 3 hour calls!)
1. It can be programmed to play Automatically (or not..)
1. It’s NOT downloadable (for some this is a real advantage)

AND…AND….AND…

1. The listener can be directed to ANOTHER page when the audio is complete. Therefore you can include some audio + images of why a product is awesome, and then direct your visitors, via your affiliate link, to the product sales page!

If you feel this product can help you, check it out, but PLEASE just answer the question for MY benefit. Does Audio do it for you?

I spend money. I am really really good at spending money.

Therefore I decided I could use this superb, and certainly unique quality, to assist YOU in making some extra cash today.

Not long ago I was chatting with an online superstar and he asked me ‘what are my 7 focused results?’. I could dedicate an entire blog post (or a product) to this discussion, but the outcome of that discussion, despite having names hurled at me (a focused result is a much harder concept than just the sum of those 2 words!), was something that should change the landscape of how I do business.

I felt compelled to just deposit some money in his paypal account.

I would like to do the same for YOU.

Can you share with me an:

• idea
• concept
• somehow to be more productive
• something your grandparents, mentor, etc. told you,
• something you read on a blog
• or heard in a speech
• etc., etc.

Please DO NOT think I am asking for your next million dollar idea. I have more than I can handle of amazing ‘money making’ ideas. I am seeking philosophies, thoughts, stories. I am seeking ways to add to my quality of working life, and see more fruits from my labors. I want a little piece of what makes YOU successful in my corner.

If you can comment here, I will be happy to be the judge of what it’s worth, and send it along to your paypal address.

Feel like sharing, or just getting off your chest, with no money added in the mix? ‘Freebies’ strongly encouraged as well.. just dont disappoint and leave without saying ANYTHING. Certainly you have something to share?

People are blogging about it, twitting about it, and more. It’s HOT. It’s also just a sample of what is being offered daily.

Some more examples:

The list could go on to include the video I just received hoping to inspire me to pray harder on Rosh Hashannah (it didnt work), Frank Kern’s new masterpiece, Sarah Silverman’s plea to Jewish grandchildren to tell your grandparents in Florida to vote for Obama, as we know Florida has swayed the vote before, etc etc..

So you want to make some money? Sell more products? Convert more visitors to sales? Get more eyeballs on YOU or YOUR services?

Great!

So go run along and do something viral.

(oh but PLEASE dont send me those old fashioned forwards. I possess the same amount of superstition as the next person, so when I end up reading your forward, since I inevitably DO, I dont want to hear, or read, or even contemplate that if I don’t forward this on in the next 10 minutes to 100 friends something horrible will happen. It is safer for all of humanity to delete me from your inbox. Thank you. )