Success is never easy. If success was easy, then all of us would not have to work hard for the things that matter. Success beyond our wildest dreams is even more rewarding because not only did you have to put hard work in it, but also because you had to be creative, smart, and channel all your energies into creating a successful business. Admittedly, while the road to financial success isn’t easy, you can make the welcome burden of it a bit lighter by getting advice from industry executives who have made it.

Sometimes, the best of kind of advice comes from those who have experienced it all. Successful businessmen like Lou Adler from Yahoo and Wells Fargo can give you a wealth of knowledge that only comes in a handful of situations, that is, if you can even get to him for advice. This is what the League of Extraordinary Minds is. It brings the best and successful businessmen right within grasp so you can pick their brains and see how you can push your enterprise further.

It’s Ivy League for the Business World

What makes this a good thing to consider is that it’s chock-full of advice and information from the top executives of the biggest firms in the world. From Yahoo to IBM, to Starbucks and Gucci, you’re getting the best advice from the best people because these companies only get the best. When you consider what you can gain from just listening to what they have to say, you can employ it all on your business and learn from their business strategies.

The League of Extraordinary Minds is exactly what it is. 54 people from the top corporations in the world will impart their advice and experience in 9 panel discussions. Topics range from making your customers come to you to maximizing your business with minimum effort. With these 9 discussions, you can get an insight on the way the corporate world operates and how they get their products to be successful. What you, as a businessman, should think about, is how to make your product or service more attractive to the consumer. What will make your product different from the other, and how to make your product invaluable so that people must have it.

There are loads of information and business practices that are not readily available to the masses. Why is this so? It’s the competitive advantage that has made these top corporations successful. In fact, there are only practices that you can learn about if you are in a particular industry. With the plethora of executives from different fields, you can get creative on how to make your company stand out to make it a financial success.

Competitive Advantage

There isn’t anything like this anywhere else on this planet. Where else can you have 54 top executives in one room, ready to impart their knowledge and business know-how to you? Consider the League of Extraordinary Minds as an investment to your future. As with every smart businessman, a good investment is an investment that will serve you well in the long run. Short term successes are good, but to bring them into fruition for the next 5 to 10 years is a real success.

In any industry, knowledge remains to be a competitive advantage you can exercise over your competitor. Considering the League of Extraordinary Minds as an investment is the smartest decision you can ever make for your business and as a wealth of knowledge for your personal growth as a businessman.

The League of Extraordinary Minds started last Thursday, October 29th. It was kicked off with this discussion topic:

Getting Customers To Choose YOU Over Everyone Else: Leveraging Credibility, Believability, and Trust in Everything You do

The next panel is scheduled to take place next Thursday, November 5th. The discussion topic will be on:

Engineer “Irrefutable Offers” Using Brain Based Marketing: So You Can Get People Who Don’t Buy to Buy Enthusiastically

Click on the image below to register for the program. You will be able to attend the next panel discussion and listen to the replay of the last week discussion.

How many times have we asked that question?

You know what I’m talking about. You buy into the latest and greatest marketing or business building course, even though it’s stretching your budget to the limit.

But that’s okay, because this one promises to be the ONE…the single element you’ve been missing that can take you over the top and make you the smashing success in your niche.

So you dive into the content, devouring all the CDs and DVDs and workbooks and cheat sheets and whatever else they threw in there…

And when you’re finally finished, you look up from this pile of promise and think to yourself:

“Is that all there is”?

Truth be told, most of these business-in-a-box type of programs do leave a lot to be desired.

Yes, they’ll help you build a business and market your products. But there’s always some pieces missing from the puzzle…pieces that are crucial to your business success.

Sound familiar?

I know it does for me. I’ve got thousands of dollars worth of marketing and business building products collecting dust in my closet.

And while they were all helpful, I was never able to put it all together and make it work for my business. There was always something missing.

Well, now there’s good news. Marketing and business masterminds Jay Abraham and Rich Schefren have felt our pain. And they’re doing something about it.

They’ve put together something called

The League of Extraordinary Minds

And it’s going to forever change the way we get business and marketing advice.

Inside the League of Extraordinary Minds are 54 of the world’s leading authorities on a variety of business aspects, from marketing to product development to business growth–and everything in between.

These aren’t your run-of-the-mill biz consultants here. These are the people who have pioneered the most successful business and marketing concepts in the world today….the experts that TEACH those who teach us.

We’re talking household names like Tony Robbins, Jay Conrad Levinson, Brian Tracy, Stephen Covey, Michael Gerber, Robert Cialdini, and dozens of others–all in one place and all waiting patiently to help your business.

There’s no big box of business theory to plod through. No hoping that this is the “one”. And no more of that sense of unfulfilled expectations.

With the League of Extraordinary Minds, you’re hearing direct from the very finest experts in their field…the same people that Fortune 100 companies pay $250,000 PER DAY just to get their attention.

(Yeah, that’s how potent these consultants’ techniques, tactics, and strategies are when it comes to changing the fortunes of a company–be it startup or multi billion-dollar producer)

But here’s the best part…

You can get inside the League of Extraordinary Minds and suck up the wisdom and knowledge of these world-renowned experts for an entire 6 weeks…

And it won’t cost you a cent. Zilch. Nada!

I don’t know how Jay and Rich did it. They must have called in some MAJOR favors. But they got all 54 of these powerhouse game-changers to waive their monster fees and help your business for gratis.

So as you can see, it’s really a no-brainer to get inside the League. It’s simply the best (not to mention affordable) decision you’ll ever make for your business.

And I guarantee that you’ll NEVER come away with that “not quite full” feeling.

Click HERE to get signed up NOW. The first call kicks off in a few days!

More posts on this program later…in the meantime what are you waiting for – sign up now!

Hi my fellow marketers!

Here it it, as promised in my previous post, Are You Video Camera Shy? Use Video Marketing with Screen Capture, a new video from me with the step by step tutorial on how to use the  Jing software,  a free screen capture software, from TechSmith.  In this video, you’ll also get to see me creating a Squidoo account.

For those of you who want to get started right away attracting other marketers by teaching them how to use the internet to attract prospects, you can do the following:

1) Simply copy what I do in this video (i.e. screen capturing yourself creating your 1st Squidoo account using Jing) and send your video to your fellow marketers  OR

2) Send my video to them and tell them that you can teach them to do the same.

Based on my experience, whenever I learn new things, it is always easier for me to learn a new technique or application if I’m given an example how to use it in real life. And this is the same experience that I’m hoping to accomplish for you.  All right, I do hope that you enjoy the video.

After you watch the video, don’t be shy to leave your thoughts, comments or questions in the comments section below

How many times has someone tried to recruit you into his/her Network Marketing business and promise you that:

-  You’ll be financially independent in NO TIME…

- You don’t need to SELL! We’re not in the business of selling (my favorite!) ?!?

- You don’t need to talk to anyone…

- You can make money in your sleep…

- Anyone can do this…

Or, how many times have you seen classified ads about Network Marketing opportunities that looks like this:

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So, which one is the “appropriate” response? I’m sorry to tell you that neither response is wrong. Who loses in this case? It might be a shocker to you – but it’s actually the business owner who’s peddling these kind of claims to their prospects. You might say, NO…how can this be?!? My business is the greatest thing on earth…if prospects can’t see it, well… it’s their loss! After all, they’ll miss out on this awesome business!

Why do I think it’s you, the business owner, who loses in this case? For several reasons:

- If 9 out of 10 of your prospects’ response is “Yeah right…this must be the biggest scam of the year”

You lose, because this means you lose 9 prospects, right?!? And with thousands of business opportunity ads out there, if 1 out of 10 prospects responds to that type of classified ad, you should consider yourself lucky.

- If the opposite happens, if 9 out of 10 of your prospects’ response is “Awesome…I want to be in that business…I’ll call now!”

You will also lose (eventually). Why is that, you might ask?

Think about what kind of prospects you may get. Those that don’t want to put any work at all to the business! Those who think that they will get rich overnight just by enrolling! In other words, you’ll get prospects who are either lazy or not being realistic at all about building their own business. Which one would you rather have…? Exactly…:)

You will lose eventually, because these folks will not be any assets to your business as they will hardly bring anything to the table. Sadly, often times, these people will end up being liabilities to your business. Since they join under false or unrealistic pretense, more than likely, they would expect to not do any work at all (no selling, no talking to anyone, no cold calling etc.) and still be able make money in their sleep. O yeah…they would expect to be the next Warren Buffet soon too   If they end up not making any money, what would they do next? Admit that they’re being unrealistic to expect to not do any work OR blame and badmouth YOU and YOUR business for their failures? How do you think Network Marketers and the Network Marketing industry get its bad name? Read more here: 7 Great Lies of Network Marketing for more details.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not a naysayer…not at all! Is it possible to prospect and make money in your sleep? Yes.  But this can only happen after you have put some work into your business. How? By having a sound and systematic marketing and prospecting system on the Internet that will do the marketing and prospecting for you and your business 24/7 .

Imagine this…

Let’s say you have worked hard on your business website or your online content using one of the free social marketing sites (i.e. Squidoo, Hubpages etc).  You put a lot of valuable information about your business or your product/service/offer in your website. Your prospects then find your website, through Google, Yahoo, MSN and other search engines.  After perusing through your website, they are intrigued by who you are and what you have to offer. They find that the information that you’ve provided in your website is valuable for them. They keep coming back to your website for more information.

What do you think the next thing your prospects will do?

- Buy your product, service or offer? If they do,  for sure, you will make some money. But what if they don’t? What if they just…

- Keep coming back for more information? If they click on the advertisers links in your website or buy something from the links on your website, you will also make some money. See below for some illustrations.

But what if they don’t click on anything??? By the way, if you want to read this squidoo article, you can read it here.

If your prospects don’t click on any advertisers links on your website, if you provide enough value for your prospects through your content, chances are they will share your content with their friends voluntarily, making your content viral. Their friends will visit your website, enjoy your content as well  and they will do the all the above (buy your product/service/offer, click on the links or share your content). And this cycle continues…with or without you putting more work into your website!

Watch the video below for how your prospects can find you and your website online.

Do you want to learn how to market and prospect online so that you can truly make money in your sleep? Give the Renegade Professional a try.

Now, if you’re looking for a Network Marketing business to get into please do read on. Not ALL Network Marketers market their business like what I portrayed in the beginning of this article.

In most cases, the reason why those marketers who prospect you to join their Network Marketing businesses say all the things that I mentioned in the beginning of this article and make some far fetched claims about their businesses is because they are not aware that Network Marketing IS a business. And just like any other businesses, it needs all the essential business elements that have to work synchronously with each other for the business to succeed. Two of the important elements that I can think of are marketing and sales.

Marketing is needed to get your prospects to become familiar with your business and build rapport with them so that your prospects will eventually FEEL like they NEED to buy your products/services/offer.

Sales is needed to make the actual sale and follow up with your prospects if they don’t buy right away.

So, if you think that you are not in the business of selling stuff, but in the business of “SHARING”, how would you know that you need the marketing and sales skills to build and run a successful business?

So, is Network Marketing really easy? Can you actually make chok-full of money without putting any effort?

Here’s my straight answer: NO. Without putting any effort into whatever businesses you’re in, Network Marketing or not, that financial freedom that you have always dreamed of, will eternally remain a dream that will never become reality (unless you win a lottery!). No Pain, No Gain. Even Robert Kiyosaki and Oprah Winfrey had to experience some pains in their early lives before becoming successful entrepreneurs!

So, what kinds of efforts will you need to become successful in your Network Marketing? There are many things you will need to do. Allow me to list a few of them here.

1) Work on Your Personality

You will need to have an inspiring personality. Without an inspiring personality people will be less likely to want to join your business. It is true that personality development and Network Marketing work hand in hand.

Does this mean that if you’re a shy person, you won’t stand a chance doing Network Marketing? Not at all! In my opinion, you can be shy and inspiring at the same time. What inspires you to do the work necessary to be successful in your Network Marketing business? Your desire for financial freedom, your loved ones or to retire early? Share your inspirations passionately with your own personality to your prospects!

Try to develop a leader personality. Learn what your prospects want and give it to them.

2) Learn About Your Business and Your Products/Services

You have to be completely educated about your Network Marketing business and products/services . Without that, you will not be able to answer the questions that your prospects may have. You can’t always refer your prospects to talk to your upline, can you?!? Lacking of your business knowledge is a sure way to lose your credibility in front of your prospects.

If you truly don’t know about some aspects of your business, it’s better for you to tell your prospects that you don’t know, but you will find out for him/her rather than giving them the wrong answers.

Keep yourself up to date with the latest and greatest news in your industry. Be ready to share them with your prospects.

3) Learn About Your Competition

This is a rule of any business, not just the Network Marketing business. You have to learn about your competition. You have to see what they are up to. What do they do to market their products or services? What kind of products do they have and what are their benefits? How can your products  serve your prospects better? How can YOU serve your prospects better? What target market they’re after? Whay kind of sales do they generate annually?

4) Evolve…Evolve…Evolve…

In other words, DON’T STOP LEARNING. Look. Mistakes and failures are bound to happen in your journey towards a successful Network Marketing business. What’s more important is what you learn from your mistakes so that you don’t repeat the same mistakes in the future.

For me, this one is the most important aspects of building and running a succesful Network Marketing business.

The Network Marketing world has changed rapidly. Just in the last 15 years, Network Marketing has graduated itself from cold calling to Internet Marketing to Web 2.0. And this is only one aspect of the evolution. Now, you have to learn how to evolve to be able to respond rapidly to all the changes surrounding you.

You can evolve by continuosly learning the business, sales and marketing skills necessary to build and run a successful business. I can give you some examples of things that you should constantly be asking yourself for the longevity and success of your business:

- How can I market my product or service better and more effectively. This especially goes to those of you who get tired of doing the one on one traditional direct marketing in your Network Marketing business. Can Renegade Professional help me do just that?

- How can I motivate my donwlines to keep going and not get deterred easily if they don’t make any money the next day they join?

- How can I build trust with my prospects so that my prospects know that if they join my business, this is the kind of value that they can expect from me?

- How can I use the tax law to my business advantage?

5) Reach Out

You have to do a lot of work to turn your prospects into members of your Network Marketing business. This is essential. You have to reach out to people. You have to reach out to your prospects and target market numerous times before they feel they can trust you. You have to promote and advertise your business. Therefore, you have to reach out to other business owners (offline and online) webmasters, bloggers etc. Remember this saying by Rockefeller: “I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts?” A lot of times, this is said by Network Marketers in reference to having people joining their business already. But can you say the same thing when you promote and advertise your business? You sure can…How? The Renegade Professional will show you how.

Lastly, treat your business like a business. By joining a Network Marketing business, you become a business owner. There are NO business owners that don’t put any efforts at all if they want to be successful. If you have additional tips, I’m interested to hear from you.

It’s long time overdue guys and gals!

If you’ve read my previous post, Still On The Fence about Using the Online Video Sites to Promote Your Business? and Do You Want to See The Power of Online Video Marketing using Video Sites?, by now I hope you’d be anxious already to get started with your video marketing to market your business.

As promised, for those of you who are video camera shy, this video tutorial is for you! I hope you enjoy this! Stay tune for my next screen capture video samples – How To Create Instructional Videos using Jing and How to Create Promotional Videos using Animoto.

I would really appreciate it if you can share this video to anyone that you think might benefit for it. Also, let me know what you think!

Why Entrepreneurs In A Frantic Search for Quick Profits and Fast Results Are Confusing:

- Stress with Success

- Adrenaline with Purpose

- Effort with Effectiveness

- Potential with Profit

Wow! What a catchy headline right?!? By the way, that catchy and hard hitting headline is the title of Rich Schefren’s Entrepreneurial Emergency FREE Report.

For some of you that don’t know who Rich Schefren is, he is the GURU’S BUSINESS GURU. No kidding right?!? At first I thought this must be just something that this Rich Schefren guy calls himself to get people to buy his stuff. But after reading his bio and all the business building material in his website, StrategicProfits.com, and after listening to this FREE business constraint busting webinar, I must say he’s totally justified to call himself the GURU’S BUSINESS GURU. In the nutshell, Rich Schefren has given business coaching to a lot of internet marketers, some of them are famous Internet Marketers like Mike Filsaime, Frank Kern, Jeff Walker, Yaro Starak etc. His business coaching has helped these Internet Marketers to grow their businesses exponentially. If you want to know more about Rich Schefren, you can go to his website.

Let’s go back to the report. When I saw this headline, it was like I just got hit by a big truck! Why? Because I feel I am one of those Entrepreneurs who are confusing the 4 items mentioned in the headline of his FREE report! You know…when something you read feels like talking to you directly?!? Let’s go over these 4 items one by one.

CONFUSING STRESS WITH SUCCESS

I am currently a full time employee and a mom. Network Marketing with the Internet i.e. Internet Network Marketing is what I do on the side. It is currently a part time business. Consequently, having to juggle with all the different things pertaining to the different roles in my life has brought me a lot of stress. Fortunatley, I have somehow been able to manage my stress fairly well by having a family that’s supportive of me and my business, eating healthy, taking antioxidant supplements, reading motivational books and hanging around positive people, I still feel I have to do more to reduce my stress level. Strangely, in a twisted way, I feel like the stress is an indicator that I must have done many of the things that I can possibly do and must do for my business to thrive! Talk about being a narcist! The more things I do, the more stressed I am, the closer I must be to having a thriving and successful business, right?!?

CONFUSING ADRENALINE WITH PURPOSE

In my experience, I would get some sort of adrenaline rush from doing too many thingsall at once! I feel like I have to keep going to succeed! Or else…

CONFUSING EFFORT WITH EFFECTIVESS

In this busy busy world where multitasking is a desired skill, I’m proud to say that this is a skill that I have the least concern about. I write articles, I do research on my article next topic, I customize my wordpress blog, I read emails so that I can stay on top of the latest and the greatest products or internet marketing news – ALL at relatively the same time. When I say relatively about the same time, I mean I would have 4 windows open (I use PC) – my writing editor, the google page for my research, my wordpress blog back end office, and of course my – and I toggle myself from one window to the next. I do this because I think that if I can accomplish more, the better off I’ll be. The results? Everything gets done twice (or sometimes, three times) as long as it would be if each task was to be performed individually with focus. Or sometimes, I end up getting distracted by doing the activity that I love the most – content research (i.e. web surfing )

CONFUSING POTENTIAL WITH PROFITS

When I read this, I’m like…HUH?..What is this? At first I don’t really understand what this means until I read further into the free report. In it, Rich Schefren wrote:

Only the POTENTIAL of your business is determined by your talents, knowledge and commitment and the amount of time and effort you spend trying to grow it

What does this mean?

Every year, entrepreneurs spend billions of dollars on books, courses and seminars that promise to leverage their strengths, increase their knowledge, intensify their commitment through motivation…all because we think if only we know this and that, and become more motivated…

Every morning, millions of entrepreneurs – including me – go to work and put in back-breaking hours and expend every ounce of energy they have into their businesses.

They think they’re doing what is required to be successful. In truth, all they’re doing is what’s required to create the potential for success.

All of a sudden I have my “AHA” moment! I get it!

Confusing potential with profits pretty much means doing something…ANYTHING…with having the potential outcome in mind and think that, that POTENTIAL outcome will eventually bring profits.

According to Rich Schefren, it is a misleading way of thinking about what types of activities that you have to do or learn to bring you closer to your business success i.e. profits (if your in business for profits!).

Let’s take a look at this example to make it easier for you to understand.

Supposedly you think that by being able to bring more traffic to your website or blog, you would be able to generate sales and/or leads. So, what do you do? You’d go out there and buy as many courses as you can find on traffic generation. You spend your resources, your money and your time, to learn how to generate traffic to your website. You’ll then find out that there are literally tons of ways to generate traffic to your website (seriously!). You’ll get confused. But you’re still determined that you have to be able to generate a lot of traffic to your website to generate sales and/or leads. So you start learning one by one traffic generation method in more details. After spending a lot of time into learning, you then start applying your newly found skills confidently. You begin generating traffic to your website, but you are yet to see any sales or leads being generated.

What’s the problem here? After scouring the internet for information, you then find out that you need good quality content to convert that traffic into customers/prospects (i.e. sales/leads). You then would go out there again and buy as many courses as you can find on content generation. And the cycle continues! The wheel keeps spinning!

I can actually go on…but I’d stop here as I think you’d get my point by now. I have to admit though, that I fall prey to this notion too.

The knowledge that you just learned, the traffic generation and the content generation knowledge, ONLY DETERMINE YOUR POTENTIAL FOR SUCCESS!

YOUR ACTUAL SUCCESS IS ACTUALLY DETERMINED BY YOUR CONSTRAINTS!

This is truly an awakening moment for me! And I hope it’s the same for you too!

So once those constraints are removed, there’s no more stopping for you to reach your business success potentials!

The problem here is, how do we know what types of constraints that we have to remove to succeed in our business? And then, after we learn our constraints, what should we do about them? What are the different types of constraints out there? What are the 7 most common constraints that most business owners have in their business?

If you’re serious about building your business (without suffocating yourself IN it), Rich Schefren’s FREE Entrepreneurial Emergency Report is really a MUST read! Click on the graphic below to download:

• Access to the entire 60 minute “Constraint Busting Beach Video”where Rich reveals how to dig past your symptoms and get to the real root causes that are holding you back from an ideal business and an ideal life.

• Rich’s Groundbreaking report, “The Uncertainty Syndrome” which will uncover the simple way to overcome your obstacles… so you can stop working yourself to death… and start getting the results you want online.

• Real world case studies from entrepreneurs just like you who experienced their “A-HA” breakthrough and remarkable business growth once they identified the root cause that was holding them back from success:

What do you think? I would love to hear from you after you read the report!

Click on the image for the bigger image!

What you see above is a screen shot image of the Article Submitter software interface. Article Submitter is a software that can submit your articles to around 400 article directories with Google Page Rank ranging from 0 – 6 all at once with a press of a button. You don’t have to spend a lot of time submitting articles to one by one Article Directories. More about Article Submitter and how it can benefit your traffic generation effort through Article Marketing in my later posts.

For now, I just want to show you  some of the article directories that have  Google Page Rank of 5 and higher. So, if you’re already familiar with how Article Marketing works, you can start submitting your articles to these high ranking Article Directories to start generating traffic to your website or blog. Submitting articles to these directories are free. For those of you that don’t know anything about Article Marketing, stay tuned. More tips are coming your way.

The Google Page Rank that are shown in the Article Submitter interface was not really updated. Here’s the updated click able list of Articles Directories with high Google Page Rank with PR 5 and higher:

1) Article City (PR5)

2) Weeno (PR5)

3) Article Dashboard Directory (PR5)

4) Bharatbhasha (PR5)

5) Searchwarp (PR5)

And last but not least — Ezine Articles (PR6)

These days it seems that you can’t escape stories about Twitter.  With all the hype and celebrity endorsements, lots of people are asking “how do I use Twitter?”.

There are plenty of sites out there that will tell you how to use Twitter, but not so many to warn you of the pitfalls. If you take a moment to learn from this list of useful Twitter tips then you’ll be Twittering away with the best of them.

DO remember to hold your tongue. Unless your updates are protected, anyone can see what you are Twittering about.  Bear in mind the story of the girl who Tweeted her way out of a job because a hiring manager read her thoughts on the position she interviewed for.

DON’T use Twitter as a chat client. No one wants to see their screen full of irrelevant Tweets from a conversation they’re forced to eavesdrop on.

DO remember to retweet. This can be a very good way to build up a following of like minded Twitterers.

DON’T endlessly self promote. Okay, we get it – you have stuff to sell. Twitter is by no means one way traffic – tweet back!

DO follow back, but….

DON’T be offended if people don’t always follow you back. Users with a high volume of followers are unlikely to see your Tweet through the noise anyway.

DO be funny, informative and creative.

DON’T automatically DM new followers. This is the Twitter equivalent of spam and a faceless “hi – thanks for following” is impersonal and can be off-putting.

DO use it to get help from others.  Once you have a reasonable following you’ll find it easy to find answers to your questions quickly.

DON’T twit anything if your message is going to exceed 140 characters. Spreading messages over multiple tweets is just going to confuse and annoy the users following you.

These handy hints should be enough to get you started.  If you are likely to spend a significant proportion of your online time on Twitter then there are plenty of guides on the net telling you how to use Twitter effectively.

Want to learn how to generate swarms of qualified targeted Twitter traffic? Check out the video below:

Click here to start generating swarms of qualified targeted Twitter traffic to your website/blog.

Next step:  Follow me on twitter.

Exit question: How long have you been tweeting and what have you gotten out of it? Do share…

As I had promised you in my last post, Still on The Fence about Using Online Video Sites to Promote Your Business,  I will show you some of my own examples of the power of using video for your online marketing using online video sites.

For some of you in the Internet Network Marketing world, you know that the Renegade Professional by Ann Sieg and Mike Klinger, was launched couple weeks ago. The launch was a smashing success! Total kudos to Ann Sieg, Mike Klinger and The Renegade Professional team for this. I was one of the affiliate that promoted the program and a proud member as well. I believe that it’s given tons of valuable how-to internet marketing information to so many Network Marketers who want to start learning about marketing their businesses online. It also teaches what kind of mindset that every Network Marketer who wants to start marketing online needs to have – the mindset of giving. Setting aside the reasons why I helped promoting the program, I would like to show you how I did it with video marketing.

Step by Step of Online Video Marketing (my style ).

Note: If you want to see the larger images,  you can just click on any of the image of your interest.

1) I created and edited the video (duh…!) using the Camtasia sofware. You can get the software here. The software cost about $300. Want to get the free ones? Go here.

2) I did a very basic keyword research to see if the keywords that I want is in demand and there aren’t tons of search results to compete with. The keywords that I had in mind was “Network Marketing prospecting”. I used the google keyword tool, traffic estimator to do this research. You can just go to the Google Keyword Traffic Estimator Tool to do this. The result is below.

As you can see, the progress bar indicates that there are some searches on this keyword. However, google keyword tool doesn’t tell you how many searches there are. If you want to be more specific, you have to get some Keyword Research software. I used the Keyword Elite tool do this. See below.

To understand how to interpret the results, I have put some definition of the results shown in each column, the ones that I called out.

• Keyword: My target keyword, “Network Marketing Prospecting”.
• Results: The number of competing websites in Google. If you do a Google search for the search term, you’ll see this number located on the top right hand side of Google’s results. The Google search results for my keyword is 331,000.

However, for more targeted keyword research, I did this search based on Title Page, i.e. how many web pages that have my keyword as their page title.

• Searches: The number of Overture searches performed on the keyword for the previous month. As a good rule of thumb, the number of Google searches is roughly 8-10 times this number. The number of Google  searches for my keyword is approximately 538 x 10  = 5,380 in the previous month.
• R/S Ratio: The result of dividing the results column by the searches column.This allows you to see “supply vs demand” for each keyword. The higher the number you find here, typically the better the keyword may be for producing income. The R/S Ratio for “Network Marketing Prospecting” is 4.21, obtained from dividing the Google Search Results number, 2,270, by the number of Searches, 538 (the number of Overture search).
• Adwords CPC: Price range for the Cost Per Click (CPC) for my target keyword. It would cost between $6.92 and $8.65 per click for my target keyword.

For me, 4.21 for an R/S ratio is a pretty darn good number. If the number of searches is multiplied by 10 to find the approximate searches from Google, this would make the searches  quantity to be 5,380 and the R/S to be 0.42. This even makes this keyword to be more attractive to use to generate traffic to your website. Why? Because it indicates that the number of Results is 0.42 times the number of Searches. To simply put it, the number of Searches for the “Network Marketing Prospecting” keyword is twice the number of Results! If you look at it from the Supply and Demand perspective, the Demand (the number of Searches) is twice as much as the Supply (the number of Results)! There…a brief lesson on keyword research!

3) I posted my video to three video sites, Viddler.com, Metacafe.com and Youtube.com.

Couple days later…here’s THE RESULTS.

To this day…my Network Marketing Prospecting video still shows up on the 1st page of Google Search Results Page.

The best thing about this is…ITS FREE! Other marketers/advertisers have to pay somewhere between $6.92 – $8.65 Cost Per Click to have their ads show up on the 1st page of the Google Search Engine Page. I DON’T.

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What do you think?

Interested to get started but you’re shy about talking infront of  the video camera? No worries…you can make a video without having to show your face! Coming up next….

Stop and make up your mind! I’d say – just jump over! Why? Because you’re missing out if you don’t Just check out the Comscore data online video sites in table below.

See the highlighted area:

U.S. Internet users viewed 14.8 billion online videos during the month, representing an increase of 4 percent versus December 2008.YouTube led the growth charge, accounting for 91 percent of the incremental gain in the number of videos viewed versus December, as it surpassed 100 million viewers for the first time

In January, Google Sites once again ranked as the top U.S. video property with 6.4 billion videos viewed (43 percent online video market share), with YouTube.com accounting for more than99 percent of all videos viewed at the property.

For more details on this, you can read it here.

More and more website owners these days are trying to capitalize on the popularity of the internet. That may involve creating a website that sell as particular product or creating a website that relies on online advertisements to make money. Whichever type of website you own, your website will need to have traffic. Without that traffic, no matter how good your product is, or how reliable the online advertisements that you put on your website, you will not be able to generate any income from your website. For many, getting internet traffic is easier said than done. Boy..how I know how that feels!

Before I continue, I would like to reiterate one thing. If you’ve read my previous post, Internet Network Marketing Step by Step Guide, and you are serious about marketing your business online, you would already have an online real estate that you can call your own site by now. Your online real estate can consist of a squidoo page, a hub page, a facebook page, a myspace page, a gather page, a youtube channel, or even a combination of some or all of these pages. During the course of this article, whenever the word “website” is mentioned, I’m also referencing to these pages. I’m also referencing to blogs. Having these pages to start marketing your business online is a good start. However, for “branding” purpose, in your later online marketing stage, I would definitely suggest that you have a website or blog of your own. It doesn’t need to be fancy, but your website should communicate to your prospects about who you are, what you have to offer and why they should want to deal with you. In other words, you have to successfully “sell” yourself first, before trying to sell your stuff to your prospects. Why? Because a sale transaction will not likely to happen if your prospects do not buy you – i.e. trust that you’re legit, you’re able to help them fulfill their need and you will provide good support after they buy from you.

When you create a website, it is likely that you will have some content on your website. That content is usually written content, articles. Search engines use that content to rank your website. Being the owner of a high ranking website will often result in more online visitors (internet traffic). Depending on the type of website you have, more website visitors could mean more profits. When it comes to traffic generation. many website owners mostly rely on the search engines to do all of the work for them. Unfortunately, with an unlimited number of online websites, not everyone can have a high ranking website. This means that, in addition to search engines, you should promote your website in other ways.

One thing that you can do to promote your website, to increase the number of page views it sees, is to take advantage of online video websites. They are  rapidly increasing in popularity and should you choose to use these sites in your online marketing, that popularity can help you and your business in making your website and business popular as well.

Actually, what is online video sites?

They are websites that host a huge collection of different videos. Most of these videos are considered homemade because they are made by regular people just like you and me. At the end of this article, I list all the different online video sites that you can go to.

How can online video sites help you in your online marketing?

Search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN (especially Google, in this case) seems to like video better than written content. What does this mean for you and your business? It means the likelihood of your business website to appear on the 1st page of the Google SERP (Search Engine Results Page) is huge! If you have a video that you upload in one of the biggest online video sites (see the table at the bottom of this article for more details), your video can appear on the 1st page of the Google SERP within only hours (sometimes minutes!) from the time that you uploaded that video. Though, there are other factors that determine the likelihood of your video to show up on the 1st page of Google SERP other than a fact that IT IS a video. One would be the keywords that you’re using for the title of the video. If the keywords are too competitive, i.e. there are lot of online marketers that use the same keywords, chances are your video will not appear on the 1st page of the Google SERP within hours. It may take days or months. But, it is still possible for your video to appear on the 1st page of Google SERP.

What does appearing on the 1st page of the Google SERP mean for you and your business?

It means that the likelihood of you and your business to get found by your prospects online is really high. And it is done with no cost. If you are on shoestring budget in doing your online marketing, this really means GOLD for you. In my next post, I will illustrate my point. So stay tune! In the meantime, read on.

When it comes to promoting you website using the online video websites, there is one thing that you’d want to keep in mind. Most internet users do not enjoy watching videos that appear as spam. This means that you will want to promote your online business without appearing too pushy or too sales pitchy.

How can you promote your online business without appearing too pushy or too sales pitchy?

If you are the owner of an online website that sells a particular product or service, you may want to consider promoting or showcasing that product or service. You can easily do this by showing samples of your work. It may also be a good idea to explain how long you have been making the products or offering the services that you currently offer. Although you will want to promote your online website and the products you are selling, you will also want to keep your video as general as it can be. This will help to keep it from looking like increasing your sales the only goal of your video. If you choose to do so, you will want to offer information on your business at the end of your video.

Although website owners who use their websites to sell products or services can benefit the most from the use of online video websites, everyone else can as well. If you are using your website to make money through online advertisements, such as Google Adsense or affiliate marketing, it is likely that your website has a lot of content with a lot of good quality articles that are often focused on a particular topic. It may be a good idea to create an informational video covering whatever topic that your website covers. Your topic can be internet marketing, owning a pet, parenting, living healthy etc. At the end of your video, include the address of your online website. This will help you to increase the number of visitors to your website.

Here are several examples of informational videos:

1) Informational video on how a certain product performs its functions. Example below: The guy’s promoting a very powerful blender called Blendtec Blender.

2) Informational video on how to do something [whatever it is that's related to the service or product you're promoting].

In the example below, the guy’s promoting a weight loss product. A link to the product website he’s promoting can be found under his information, on the top right handside of his video page.

When it comes to using online video websites to promote your website, you will have a number of different options. There are a number of online video websites that will allow you to upload and share your videos with the whole world. Most of them offer the service for FREE. To make the most out of the time spent making your video, I would sugges that you find online video websites that are popular and have high ranking, such as Google Video or YouTube. Keep in mind that you can upload and share your videos in more than just one online video site. The more people that see your video, the better the chances are of them making their way to your website. If you want to get started using video to market your business, you can start visiting the video sites below and start uploading your informational video there.

List of Online Video Sites with their Page Ranks part 1. You would want to focus on those with high PRs.

1) Youtube, PR: 9/10

2) Metacafe, PR 7/10

3) Revver, PR 6/10

4) Google Video, I wasn’t able to find the PR for this site but I assume since this is one Google video site (other than Youtube), I think this would have the same PR as Google

5) Putfile, PR 5/10

6) Yahoo Video, PR 7/10

7) Livevideo, PR 6/10

Spike, PR 7/10

9) Veoh, PR 7/10

10) Crackle, PR 6/10

11) Blip.tv, PR 7/10

12) Sharkle, PR 5/10

13) Jumpcut, PR 7/10

14) Daily Motion, PR 6/10

15) Photobucket, PR 8/10

This is a partial list. As you can see, ALL of these online video sites have PRs higher than 5!

What’s a better way to create a back link to your website than posting your video with a link to your website (or whatever it is you’re promoting) in any one of these video sites or ALL of these video sites?

Next post – Some samples on how posting your video in the online video sites will increase your likelihood to get found online. Are you too shy to be in your own video? Don’t worry…there are ways to create a video even without  you being in it .  In the meantime, what do you think about posting videos in the online video sites?