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List Building 101 Tip #83 — Try Including Video

Bill Davis — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 07:48:52 +0000

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Sometimes you might be able to get your message across more clearly if you include video rather than audio. You can buy an inexpensive camcorder to record yourself, use your WebCam, or create a screencapture video with free software. This type of personalized message also shows people who they are dealing with, which can definitely increase conversions!
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In fact, you can kind of “kill two birds with one stone” by uploading the video to YouTube as well. That way you will get views on YouTube, and it will help increase conversions on your own website as well.

List Building 101 Tip #69 — Submit Videos

Bill Davis — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:06:42 +0000

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Yet another great way to get traffic to your opt-in page and your website is to submit videos to sites like YouTube. There are many people who browse for videos on a variety of different topics. The description area of your video can contain a link back to your website. If your video is compelling enough, people will likely click over to visit.
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One thing that many people forget to do is put a call to action at the end of the video. This is a great way to increase responses to get people to visit your website. You can even make it clear that there is something available for free if they do visit.

Unique Backlinking and Traffic Getting Strategy

Bill Davis — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:30:22 +0000

Here's a unique way of getting some backlinks, traffic, and ranking at the search engines (works great with Google) -

Quick Video: From Powerpoint to YouTube in 3 Easy Steps

Bill Davis — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:56:19 +0000

A friend and I were talking about putting together a series of videos, suitable for YouTube, but neither of us has the kind of equipment necessary to do a Hollywood-quality movie.

So we improvised.

Here's how to create a simple video from software you may have laying around. Like Powerpoint and Adobe Premiere Elements (Elements is really inexpensive and you can use a Powerpoint substitute like the one in OpenOffice). Any presentation program will work as long as you can save or export each slide as an image (JPEG or PNG for two examples).

It's a 3 step process:

Make your slides and export them as .png (or .jpg)
Import them into Premiere Elements and make the movie. Create transitions, do voice over with a $10 microphone that you can plug into your PC, and save as an AVI file.
Upload to YouTube

If you want to get real fancy, you can import music too. Add titles, graphics, etc. Plus, you can embed links in the video such that when a user clicks on a link, he's taken to your website. This would entail Step #4:

Linked Tube

Once your video is "on the air," tell everybody through Facebook, Twitter, Ping.fm, etc. and hope it "goes viral."

If it does, you could very well see hundreds, if not thousands, of hits to your website.

You can use videos to drive people to your own site, an affiliate site, or to a squeeze page to capture their contact info. The possibilities are endless.