Here’s part 1 of 3 part series for a class I recently taught in Denver. I will be teaching the same class in Fort Collins from 9/21/10-10/19/10 (Tuesday nights, 6-7pm) for the Fort Collins Recreator (Course # 44533-01). This preview video is a little over 30 minutes long, and in it I run through a ‘reverse engineering’ of the most recent non-fiction best sellers as well as some other authors who are monetizing their content successfully as ebooks. You will see the evidence behind why I believe tomorrow’s best sellers are today’s bloggers.
A question that often comes up for bloggers is how to get your videos up on your wordpress site. Here are some options I’ve used:
1. If the video is shorter than 10 minutes, the quickest & most effective way is to use YouTube. Then you embed the video from youtube using the embed code they provide and dropping that code into your html tab within your post.
2. If your video is longer than 10 minutes, check out some of the other video services like vimeo or blip.tv. There are a lot of new ones popping up everyday (please add any good ones you know of in the comment box below). Most of them have free accounts but do impose upload or streaming limitations.
The drawback to using most of the free services is that by accepting the terms and conditions, you are under most cases releasing your video into the public domain. If you choose to host the video on your own site (which is nice if you want to password protect your video), then I recommend you first convert your video to flash (.flv) and then use the flv embed plug in for wordpress.
If you need a tool to create the video, you might want to check out Instant Video Generator. And if you want to learn how the pros are doing it, be sure to read the great book Video Marketing Pioneers, featuring interviews with some of today’s most successful video marketers.
Hello everyone,
I wanted to announce the upcoming webinar on how to quickly & easily get your books and other content onto Amazon’s Kindle. While it’s easy to setup an account, it’s not so easy to properly format your content and effectively promote your book. I’ll be covering this in detail and providing attendees a template [...]
If you’ve worked hard on your blog, it would be nice to get paid by some subscribers, wouldn’t it? Well, the fine folks at Amazon offer a path to let you do it for anyone who has a Kindle device. The process is fairly quick and painless. Let’s get started!
I discovered a site that has some of the best wordpress themes I’ve ever found, and the prices are very reasonable. Check them out for yourself at ThemeForest.
I’ve setup a couple test sites for demonstration purposes. You can check them out at:
http://bloggingdeeper.wordpress.com/ and http://shadowshow.wordpress.com/
A common question that comes up ‘How do I make money with Google Adwords?’ First off, you need to understanding the difference between AdWords & AdSense:
AdWords is the Google service busiensses use to advertise their site’s on Google’s search engines, based on the keywords someone uses to search.
AdSense is the model that internet marketers and bloggers use [...]
