Marketing With Rob

Hi,

Whew! I got my Video all finished. It turned out since I am finishing my first e-book. I decided to talk about it and how people could get it for free. Videos are fun to make, but they are challenging. You kind of got to get in your zone. So the most important thing is don’t let yourself get distracted. Like turn off your cell phone. Ask anyone else who is home not to make noises like use the Washing Machine.

Also important is to just relax. Do some stretching first. Quiet your mind with some quiet time. Anything that you know will get you in your zone and you’ll do just fine. So let me know what you think.

Enjoy,

Rob

Hi, Today I have tip #2 for you when starting out making videos.

Don’t forget you can start out making videos just with slides.  Then you can record your voice. It’s a great way to start and still will be effective.

But sooner than later you are going to have to get in front of the camera and talk.  May I suggest to make it easy by writing out a script.  Of course the trick is as you make your video you want to speak and look very natural so no one watching knows you are reading a script.

Aha! the solution is a Teleprompter. When I realized this is what I needed, I went to good old e-bay to get a bargain.  To my horror surprise I found they run over $700.   After dealing with massive depression and gulping a few glasses of water, I e-mailed a friend to ask her for a suggestion of just what to buy.

She said why don’t you just use a Free Teleprompter. After using it several times I can tell you it works awesome.  You just type in your schpeal and make changes as you would in a word processor.  And when you are ready you can set the teleprompter for size and speed.

So now you will look relaxed and natural because you will be.  You can get your free teleprompter at http://www.cueprompter.com/

One last important point.  Try to get your video camera situated in a place where you can read the teleprompter and still look straight into the camera.  If you put your camera above your computer screen. Your eyes will be shifting between looking at the camera and reading your script.  No one trusts a person with shifty eyes.  Since I use the pocket camcorder called The Flip.  I put the tiny Flip camera and tripod in the middle of my laptop screen.  I find I can read the words and look straight into the camera without a hitch.

This link is an example of myself using a teleprompter in a video that has made me about $500 in the past few months.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R71k8_5qpQc&feature=channel_page

Comments of course are always welcomed.

Rob

I’m in Video Learning Heaven. Wow! and this was billed as just a bonus module. This alone was worth the price of admission to me for the most incredible internet coaching training ever. Thanks again Alex Jeffreys and Thanks to the Video Queen Maria Andros.

OK, so I am gonna to give you a series of tips that I am going to use to compete in Alex’s $3,000 video contest. If you use them you will increase traffic and improve content too.

Tip#1- Pay very careful attention to your key words and long tail keyword phrases. Now remember since the contest is on you tube. You can do a good part of your keyword research on you tube too. Of course do research on Google also. Google is in love with you tube and will very often give you first page listings for your key words as organic traffic.

Now when your video is ready to upload to you tube, send it out at least 3 times with different keywords. You may need to make a slight variation in the video each time you send it out for youtube to accept it. Like change the running time by a few seconds. I just send mine out in different formats. This lets you get views from many more keywords than you would be able to do with just one video.

For Instance- I have the same video out on you tube promoting a clickbank product that teaches Tennis by a series of videos. Now the 2 titles that best describe the content of the videos have only about 15% each of views that my third title has. So most people are searching for the keywords in my third title than the 2 titles that just happen to more accurately describe the event I have in the video. You can never be sure of such a lopsided view count until the same video is out there with different key words. Here are the titles and the current views. The videos were put up 4 months ago. I have made multiple sales from them.

Title #1- “US Tennis Open Julie Coin qualifies to play Ana Ivanovic” Views-280

Title #2- “Julie Coin 1st Round before Ana Ivanovic at US Tennis Open” Views- 384

Title #3- “Learn How to Play Tennis for Beginners. Rare Video at US Open” Views- 2172

I hope I have made my point.

If you would like to view this video, Here is the Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeLRYcVSikY.

Now this works great if you are selling something like I do from ClickBank. Right now a matter for discussion may be since one of the two contests is for most views for a youtube video. If my suggestion will help or hurt you. What do you think? Since I just heard about the contest myself I need to ponder this. But either way you decide for the contest, use this method when promoting your blog or products in the future.

If I can be of any further help or you have any comments on this tip please leave a reply.

More tips coming very, very soon so check in often or subscribe to my RSS Feed on the top right.

Good Luck to those entering the contest. We’re all winners anyway because we’re gonna learn much. Rob