Archive for March, 2007

Jim Edwards here with a special invitation…

This Thursday I’m hosting a very special LIVE – Free – webinar event on "Audio and Video Blogging Secrets!"

http://www.BlogVideoWebinar.com <= Register Now

My good buddy and business partner, Mike Stewart, and I are going to reveal to you the in’s and out’s of using audio and video in your own free WordPress blog to Explode Your Subscribers, Grab More Traffic, and Skyrocket Sales!

We’ve got a TON of *new* information to share with you, including:

~ Real-World "Case Studies" from our own blogs and our
  students’ blogs (all of whom are using audio and video
  on their blogs to blast open their businesses!)…

~ 5 Specific Strategies you can use *right now* for getting
  MAXIMUM Results from every video and audio…

~ How to make a huge splash as a "Niche Celebrity" -
  no matter what niche you’re in!

~ Specifically what you NEED to do to get started the right
  way using audio and video on your blog…

Though the webinar is free, seating is very LIMITED!

In fact, we could only secure 500 phone lines for the event, and Mike and I take up 2 spots… so we only have 498 slots available.

Grab your spot now:

http://www.BlogVideoWebinar.com <= Register Now

See you on the webinar,

Jim

PS – I don’t know if we’ll make a recording of this event available or not, so the only way you can be 100% sure to get the information is to be on that webinar LIVE!

Register now while it’s fresh on your mind…

http://www.BlogVideoWebinar.com <= Register Now

Jim Edwards here from "I Gotta Tell You" with a video update with my good buddy, "The Conversion Doctor", Eric Graham.

Eric and I recorded a quick webinar the other day on a pretty cool (and viral) new way to drive new traffic and links to your sites called "Blog Memes".

=> http://www.myonlinevideohosting.com/blog-meme-video/

I'd never heard of these things before so I put Eric in the "hot seat" and made him give us a few really good tips for making memes work.

Have a look and a listen right now

=> http://www.myonlinevideohosting.com/blog-meme-video/

Talk soon,

Jim

PS – We not only talked about what "Blog Memes" are, we also came up with 4 critical keys for making YOUR memes successful.

Check it out

=> http://www.myonlinevideohosting.com/blog-meme-video/

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True Online Video Arrives This Year

      – by Jim Edwards

© Jim Edwards – All Rights reserved
    http://www.thenetreporter.com
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Two things happened this week that brought my focus back to
online video and where all this hoopla will eventually take
us.

First, I read an article about Joost.com, a peer-to-peer
online TV distribution system created by the same people who
made Skype (which sold to eBay for a gazillion dollars).

Second, my wife pointed out to me last night that our TiVo
box will soon offer the option to purchase and download
movies directly from Amazon through our high-speed Internet
connection.

These two factors herald the true arrival of online video
this year!

Most people's experience with online video goes something
like this: a friend emails a link to a video on YouTube.com
or passes you a video file through your email pipeline.

The video normally contains something to make you laugh,
cry, feel inspired, shake your head in amazement, or
something else I can't mention here in a family-friendly
column.

Of course exceptions exist to every rule, but for the most
part, the vast majority of online video rates short, pithy,
home-grown, or pirated content.

Now, with the creation and impending release of the
Joost.com system and the widespread use of digital video
recorders, like the TiVo box, we will finally see online
video distribution comparable to cable TV offerings.

Joost.com will use a combination of a peer-to-peer network
along with specialized content and advertising servers to
stream high-quality video across the web.

The peer-to-peer aspect (similar to the setup used by the
original Napster, Kazaa or Lime Wire) enables the processing
power of potentially millions of computers to help stream
video, creating a distribution system that automatically
scales as the network grows.

Joost.com will also pair the social networking aspects of
successful sites like MySpace to allow users to recommend
and rate content while fostering a sense of community.

Further adding credibility, Viacom (owners of MTV, BET, and
Paramount) announced they will provide free content for the
network.

Joost also promises a "secure, efficient, piracy-proof
Internet platform that enables premium interactive video
experiences while guaranteeing copyright protection for
content owners and creators."

The second part of the equation may get you wondering over
my excitement.

After all, most cable companies offer "on-demand" content
and have done so for quite some time.

The drawback of traditional "on-demand" cable centers on the
fact that you must watch the content right then, can't
easily pause or rewind it, and must purchase it from the
cable company exclusively.

Now, I can buy video from someone other than my cable
provider, store it on a box I control, watch it whenever I
want, and pause, rewind or stop it whenever suits me.

To top it all off, the content gets delivered through the
Internet, not through my cable TV provider's system (though
it may come through their wire if I operate with cable
Internet access).

True online video arrives this year because we'll finally
have access to a distribution system with the power to bring
full-screen streaming video to your computer screen
(Joost.com) and the ability to easily purchase content over
the Internet to play on regular TV sets (TiVo and other
digital recorders).

This may just make a believer out of me that Web 2.0
represents more than just a hyped-up phrase intended to
separate another batch of online investors from their hard-
earned dollars.

–
Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the
co-creator of an amazing course that will teach you step-by-
step and click-by-click how to get your own money-making
videos posted online…

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 Jim Edwards here with 2 pieces of valuable information for you…

First, I've published a replay of a power-packed webinar I did last week on "EXE Ebook Secrets" with my buddy, Armand Morin. On the webinar replay you'll SEE & HEAR:

~  The 3 HOTTEST Trends for EXE Ebooks in the next 12
   months… and how YOU can use them to beat the rest of the
   pack to the punch just by knowing this information…

~  The secrets to using ebooks to build a profitable list
   on complete auto-pilot…
 
~ The single biggest mistake people make with "ebooks" that
  costs them thousands of dollars…

And much more!

I honestly don't know how long we'll leave it up because of
the time-sensitive nature, so get over there now and grab
the goods while you still can.

FREE => http://www.WebinarKing.com/EXE-Ebook-Replay.html

Second, I've just posted an article BELOW for my newspaper column
that addresses 4 primary traffic scams you must avoid at
all costs (and if you're new online, you are most at risk
for being taken advantage of by a traffic scammer).

You can read the article right now…

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4 Free Website Traffic Myths & Scams

      – by Jim Edwards

© Jim Edwards – All Rights reserved
    http://www.thenetreporter.com
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The question rates almost as old as the Internet itself: "How do I get free traffic to my website?"

In fact, entire online industries spawn and die trying to fulfill this wish by website owners desperate to get eyeballs to their sites without any time, money, energy or effort whatsoever.

Much like the "medicine wagons" of the old Wild West sold potions and snake oil to "cure what ails you," any unsuspecting website owner can spend thousands of dollars on software, schemes, services and scams that promise to deliver tens-of-thousands of visitors for "free."

In fact, one of the biggest scams online that I know of personally involved the promise of riches through "free ads."

Unfortunately, most people don't learn the truth about these myths and scams until after they get separated from their hard-earned cash.

Myth #1 -Traffic Exchanges

Traffic exchanges promise piles of cash by delivering thousands of visitors who get shuffled around between members' sites through ads.

Originally set up mostly as "exit traffic exchanges," this scheme lost popularity once pop-up blockers started coming as standard issue with most browser toolbars and Internet Explorer 6.0+.

The main problem with this scheme centers on the fact that they shuffle NON-targeted traffic to your site.

If someone is looking for bicycle information, the chances of them clicking on a link or loitering on your "home beer kit" site are slim to none.

Myth #2 – FFA Pages

FFA (Free For All) Links Pages surfaced when people realized that search engines included "back links" in their calculations of a site's relevance to various keyword phrases.

If you got 100 links to your site with "purple gargoyle" in the text, various search engines would list you prominently for most purple gargoyle searches.

Once the search engines got wise to these "link farms" as worthless link lists, they quickly started penalizing anyone who listed their site on them.

Moral of the story: unless you want your search engine rankings to plunge, avoid FFA pages or "link farms" like the plague.

Myth #3 – Safe Lists

How's this for an idiotic traffic idea. Let's all join a list and mail each other our offers, regardless of our actual tastes, preferences, businesses, or any other coherent factor.

Then, let's promise that we can all get rich as a result of mailing each other.

Safe lists must rate as the most pathetic scam when it comes to website traffic, yet people still sell them and people still join them.

In fact, I know someone (several people actually) who got sued because emails sent to a safe list.

What makes the situation even more horrendous is that they didn't send the emails, their affiliates did!

The only people who make money with safe lists are the people who set them up and persuade others to join.

Myth #4 – Surf-for-Traffic

If you visit my website, I'll visit yours, then we'll each get a visitor to our sites.

"Surf-for-traffic" schemes basically promise to deliver visitors in proportion to the number of sites you visit while displaying their browser toolbar.

Two main problems arise from this type of scheme. First, a real human being can only visit so many sites before they all look alike (rendering any marketing power of the sites useless due to viewer fatigue).

Second, some idiot will always figure out how to get hits using a software robot that simulates surfing (you can get them free online) to rack up credits.

Bottom line: there are only three legitimate ways to deliver targeted traffic to your website.

You "buy" traffic through pay-per-click ads, banner ads, niche site ads and similar methods.

You "borrow" traffic through your affiliate program or other pay-per-action method by paying people who promote your site only when a sale is made.

You "create" traffic by publishing and posting content to your website, blog, article announcement sites, and other proven places, along with other legitimate methods that drive organic search engine traffic.

–
Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the
co-author of an amazing new ebook that will teach you how
to use fr^e articles to quickly drive thousands of targeted
visitors to your website, affiliate links, or blogs…

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