It’s video Friday! Here’s an article I wrote that Danny Frank made a kickin’ video about:
Do you have your squeeze page up and running?
No?
No problem!
Overcome Everything is having our second annual squeezathon RIGHT NOW! We’re taking questions from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. today (Monday, July 27) and tomorrow (Tuesday, July 28).
Come on down! Ask us your questions! We’re excited and all of us are ready to help you. If you’d like to be on with me, particularly, I’m on again at 2 p.m. tomorrow afternoon. But all of the OE staff is smart and edumacated and ready to help.
http://www.easyseotricks.com/squeezathon
Just got back into town after a whirlwind trip to New York City. Tellman took most of us up for the 2009 American Business Awards, affectionately known as the “Stevie Awards.”
It was pretty swanky. We stayed in the Marriot Marquis, which is right in the heart of Times Square. In fact, we could look out the window and see the whole corner… pretty nifty. (Click on the link to see our view.)
The sad part is that we didn’t win. <sniff> Oh, well… there’s always next year.
But the Internet was well represented. Among finalists such as AT&T and Delta Faucet were names like ConstantContact, SchoolDude.com, and even Matt Bacak was there, representing a totally different category from ours. Sorry to say that Matt’s company didn’t win either, but at least we got to hang out with him a little later that night, in Koreatown.
Not winning was important. We were nominated as one of the fastest growing companies with under 100 employees in the country! That’s pretty huge, right? But what I’m thinking is that if that was so for 2008… we have a big job ahead of us for 2009, and we’re toally up for the task.
The truth is, we’re a very dedicated bunch and we really do care. We all want folks to learn and earn that extra money they need from an online business, or to even start a new business of their own so they can stop buying all that gas commuting to a job they hate every day. Whatever people want to achieve, we want to make that happen for them. The money comes from that, sure, but the money really isn’t the goal. I’m just blessed to be part of such a great company.
And the OE gang is totally fun to hang with, too. We did a whole walk of the city yesterday morning from Times Square to Central Park to Madison Ave., and let me tell you… my feet hate my guts. It’s not smart to wear new shoes when you’ll be walking like 15 blocks after an awards dinner, and then start all over the next morning and walk for like an hour and a half without stopping. Argh! We’re talking major blisters, people!
But it was still great fun. Wish you’d been there.
I’m so excited to have a friend of mine take the time to make a great video for my blog. His name is Wayne Sharer, and he’s done a great job of explaining the basics of keyword research, and I know that if you’re just starting out and aren’t sure of the process… Wayne will clear things up for you, so pay attention! 
Learn something? Well… I hope you have and that you’ll visit Wayne at http://YourTrafficStarterBlog.com. He’s got some great traffic videos for you there, and I know they’ll be helpful, especially if you’re just starting out.
I’ll be back atcha with another post on Wednesday. I’m actually on my way to New York City today. You see, Overcome Everything is nominated as one of the fastest growing companies in the country for the American Business Awards. I’m really excited because I was lucky enough to get to write the entry that landed us the nomination.
So, Tellman is taking a bunch of us to the dinner and the ceremony. Pretty cool. Wish us luck! That would be one of the coolest things that’s ever happened and it wouldn’t be too bad for business, either. Ha!
We have a premium level of The ListBuilding Club called “ListBuilding 411,” where members can ask a question each day and one of the Overcome Everything team answers it on video within 24 hours. It’s an awesome service, and I wish it had been available when I was learning. It could have shaved years off my learning curve.
Anyway, today, one of our clients asked how he could get 4 spreadsheets with multiple pages online so that he could collaborate with others. I was amazed that he’d never heard of Google Docs! And then, I’m thinking… Wait. People know how to search with Google, but most folks don’t really get the power of Google!
Google Docs is a great way to store information online. It not only gives you the ability to get to it anytime you need to as long as you have an Internet connection, it gives you the ability to share with other folks and to keep it all private. Google Docs is great!
Of course, it’s not without limitations and irritations. Like sometimes, it won’t let you paste stuff in where you want it to go, or you can’t export or well… it’s just NOT as adaptable as MS Office applications, but it’s still worth the effort to get in there and try it. Why not? It’s free.
Google has given us a whole bunch of stuff that’s free and very helpful.
Google Calendar can help you plan your schedule.
Google Maps is more accurate than MapQuest, in my opinion, and with Google Earth, we can see our own street or what’s going on in London at 2 a..m. Why not?
Whatever would we do without GMail, and Picasa? Email and photos are all that some people do online, right?
Lest we forget, there’s Google Video and Shopping and blogs at Blogger. And now, they’re even putting books online for us! There’s Google Alerts, so we can see what people are saying about any topic, Google Translate, and Google for our mobile phones.
But did you know that you can also create 3-D images at Google Sketchup, create your own keyboard shortcuts, let you see You Tube videos or Picassa images right in your Gmail messages, and a whole lot more through Google Labs.
Google is getting to be a very powerful resource (as though it wasn’t powerful enough already). Try some of the “hidden” perks of Google, and you might find a whole new world of stuff to help you or waste your time and not have to pay a single dime. Amazing.
Thanks to Brian Edmondson, who makes all the videos for Overcome Everything’s ListBuilding Club, I found a new flash player for my EasyBlogTricks.com blog. I need to do an overhaul there because of the changes to WordPress 2.7, but haven’t had the time. Still, this new player will really make things easier for me. I’ve had lots of trouble keeping the videos (especially the video on the front door) working.
I think I have a solution!
The site is LongTail Video at: http://www.longtailvideo.com/
There are complete installation instructions, and you can download the player free, as long as you’re not using it for commercial gain. Since EasyBlogTricks.com is just an information site, I can use it with the non-commercial license. But if it works as well as I think it will, I’ll definitely buy a commercial license for only 39 Euros, which translates to about $50. You may think that’s a lot for a video player, but this one is very customizable. It rocks!
There are plugins for things like:
There are different skins you can choose from, as well, from simple to insane.
The add-ons are quite interesting, too. Here’s one made just for my specific purpose:
“The Simple Flash Video Plugin builds on the plugins that already allow easy posting of .flv or .mp4 files on the popular Wordpress platform. It also enables advanced stats tracking of your viewership via Simple Stats.”
Sweet! Tracking stats and a cool player, too!
If you’re into video, and you should be, this is a site you should definitely check out. I’m learning more about video and all the cool things you can do with it every day, and it’s becoming the medium of choice online. Think of these things:
So, it’s time you jumped into video. If you’re already there, trust me… you need to check out LongTail and their very cool product.
We’ve done it again. Well, Tellman has done it again actually, and I’m pretty excited by this new coaching program we have going — ListBuilding 411.
How’s it work?
Members are able to ask one question per day, either in writing or on video, and a member of the Overcome Everything staff responds to each question with a video answer. It’s actually an upgrade to The ListBuilding Club, so that’s also included in the price, which is really sweet.
So far, we’ve been getting rave reviews for 411. It’s really cool to be able to help all these people, too. I’m managing the program, so I see all the questions that come in and am able to assign answering to the people that make the most sense. With 14 of us with varying levels of expertise on every topic from copywriting to tech, there’s nothing we can’t handle.
I’ve found a couple of drawbacks from a customer standpoint. Some aren’t able to get their question posed clearly enough to be understood on video or we don’t get what they’re trying to say. So, we have to go back to them and get additional information, which delays their answer, or we try to answer the question, but it’s not the answer they wanted. But everyone in the program is very nice and we love working with them. Everyone gets their issues aired and fixed in a very short time.
If you’re working in a vacuum and don’t have anyone to talk to about this Internet marketing stuff (which only we IMers understand, right?), it has to be cool to know that there are people ready and able to help. Wish I’d had that support when I was first starting out. If you’re like me, you struggle to find the right stuff to concentrate on and you spin your wheels a lot. Getting someone who knows what to do and how to help you get things going in the right direction fast has to be relieving.
Anyway, if you’re one of those folks, I’m not selling here, just writing about a cool service. Nobody else is doing this! You can check it out at http://ListBuildingClub.com/411
I just wish I’d had the LBC 5 years ago when I started this incredible journey.
People are always asking me about my books, and since I have to come up with a video for the Overcome Everything channel each week, I decided to show folks my prior life. I did a lot of bleeding from the soul for these. You’d think that an accomplished author would be wealthy and famous…
Not
So, I came online to help sell these books, and now, look at me. Raving SEO, Internet marketing afficionado, and making more money than I ever have in my life. If I can come from an academic background (more or less, I was a banker for 20 years before writing) and be successful at this Internet marketing biz, you can, too.
‘Course, I wouldn’t have done it without Tellman. He was my mentor, which made all the difference. The cool thing is that you can have Tellman as your mentor, too. Just go over and Join The ListBuilding Club. It will set you straight down the path to IM success… I kid you not.
Anyway, check out this video and let me know what you think…
One question that I’m often asked by my customers is, “How do I find stuff to post to my blog?”
Seems really tough to some folks. I get that. I really do.
I have always had a love/hate relationship with writing. I’m a professional writer, so the words just flow out of my fingers, more or less, but even for me, it’s sometimes hard coming up with what to write on my own. In fact, I rarely use my own brain to come up with topics, in case you haven’t noticed.
At the end of my work day for Overcome Everything, it’s time for blogging, which I try to do Monday through Friday. Sometimes, that doesn’t happen. This week, I spent most of my life on the telephone between the re-launch of The ListBuilding Club and the “Listathon” which we did Wednesday and Thursday. Ahhhh!!! It’s so much fun, but at the end of a day like those, you’re just exhausted.
So, I don’t rely on my own brain, which is very tired by the end of one of THOSE days.
First, I go into my email. I get newsletters from Site Pro News, Media Post and several other sites about search and Internet marketing, plus Jack Humphrey’s Friday Traffic Report. I can usually find something interesting in one of those that will give me an idea for blogging. I read articles on the SEO sites and such, too, so it’s easy to bounce off one piece or another.
Or, I can go to You Tube and find a video to post, or I post a video of my own.
I can go into my member calls from Blogging4Boomers and select a bit of audio to publish.
It’s totally easy for me to find stuff to blog, and it can be easy for you, too. Learn something you didn’t know before. Catch up on the news in your niche. Make a video or find one on one of the video sites, or interview someone — an expert — and post that interview to your blog.
There are so many ways to blog, it really boggles the mind.
So, have you gotten IT yet?
We have been selling this program for $3,995… I kid you not.
And now, Tellman has lost it.
Totally gone bonkers.
But, he’s a pretty nice guy and decided that he wanted to do something cool for people. So, he’s just giving this whole Perpetual Marketing Machine program…
AWAY!
I still can’t believe it.
It’s not going to last much longer, though, so if you want THE definitive guide on how to make money and build a humongous list for nada, it’s time to visit http://easyseotricks.com/13th
I did this earlier this year, and it’s increased the size of my list dramatically, plus I’ve tripled my income.
What’s to lose? Get over there and grab it before it’s too late.
