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Tuesday, June 12th, 2007Product Name: Blogging Starter Pack
Product Description: The Blogging Starter Pack by Lynette Chandler explains what blogs are, how to set yours up, and more. Blogs are a great way to build relationships with your readers. Your readers will be able to get a feel for your personality. All of this creates trust and once your readers trust you, they will be more likely to buy products you recommend and endorse.
Here are some of the things included:
* Step by step guide
* 4 Recorded audio sessions
* Videos that give step by step instructions on how to set up your blog in Blogger or WordPress
* Video that shows you how to set up RSS feeds, which enable your readers to get notices when you have new blog posts
* Blogging Best Practices – this will guide you on getting publicity without getting blocked from search engines
* 7 Keys Of A Good Blog, Access to Lynette’s private blog posts and more
Thoughts & Criticisms: Lynette does a great job of explaining how the technical side of blogs. She provides step by step instructions; the videos are great. You can watch what she is doing, and then do it yourself. I was stuck on how to host my Blogger blog through my own host, but after I watched the Blogger video, I was able to do it.
There is also info for customizing your blog, and that is a big help. Lynette is technically gifted; there is no doubt about that. I am not (and I think I am in the majority!). Trying to figure all of this out by yourself can be a real headache. This product can do a lot to prevent that frustration!
System Requirements:
Internet connection in order to buy and download the product (high speed preferably, so you can watch the videos)
Speakers to listen to videos and audios
Money-back guarantee: If you are unable to download the book, they will refund your money.
Rating: 8
Click here to get Blogging Starter Pack
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Audio Acrobat Review
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007Product Name: Audio Acrobat
Reviewed By: Liz Tomey
Product Description: Audio Acrobat is a monthly audio service that allows you to create and publish audio recordings and videos. The service is available for about $20 per month.
Here are some of the things included:
* Record audio by telephone or through a computer microphone
* The service provides you with testimonial lines; your internet talk radio show or podcast will sound very professional when listeners call in to leave feedback!
* Ability to customize the player that you input onto your website or blog, allowing readers to hear your recordings; also has iTunes integration, so your listeners can automatically download your podcasts into their iTunes.
Thoughts & Criticisms: This is a great service at a very reasonable price. Having audio on your website is a fast growing trend; if you have been considering adding a source of audio to your site, this is a great service to use.
System Requirements:
Connection to the internet to record and manage audios; this can also be done via phone if you are away from the internet.
Money-back guarantee: Audio Acrobat gives you a free trial; if charges incur after the trial ends, no refunds will be issued.
Rating: 10
Click here to get Audio Acrobat today!
Edit: Audio Acrobat has also included podcasting features and recording and putting video on your site! This service just keeps getting better and better!
Butt Kissing Contest Rankings
Sunday, June 10th, 2007While looking through my stats today, I found something that made me just fall out of my chair laughing.
One of the pages in the LizTomey.com blog ranks #2 on Google for butt kissing contest. That’s out of 1.2 million results.
Talk about natural search results… 
However, the term butt kissing contest only brought a few visitors so I’m not real excited about it, but I just had to show you guys the great thing about ranking naturally…
Liz
How to Make More Money With Information Products Than Ever Before By Using Three Powerful NO COST Tools
Sunday, June 10th, 2007It’s all under your control.
If you sell information products and want to make more money with them, there’s good news:
It’s all under your control.
That’s right, you can make more money with your information products simply by doing something that you have the power to do.
It’s not dependent upon anyone else. It’s up to you.
Let me explain …
While there are a lot of different aspects of selling information products, there are really only two ways to make more money with them …
Sell More Refund Less
Really, it’s pretty much that simple.
In order to make more money with information products you need to either SELL MORE or REFUND LESS.
Or, better still, do BOTH.
Now, in the many years I’ve been selling information products, I’ve found there are three powerful tools that will help you do just that.
You can use these three tools to SELL MORE by using them on your classified ads, solo mailings, sales letters, autoresponder messages and virtually any sales tool.
You can also use these three tools to REFUND LESS by applying them to the information products you create.
Care to find out what they are?
Read on …
*** Three Powerful Tools *** What makes these tools so powerful is a combination of important benefits
* They don’t cost a penny to use. * They work over and over again. * They are under your control.
In fact, you already have them.
These three powerful tools are WAYS TO USE WORDS.
Tool #1. Education. When it comes to information products, nothing comes close to the power and profitability of educating your readers.
I’m talking the distance between the planet Pluto and the computer screen you’re now staring at.
Not even remotely close.
Content is king. Nobody else gets to wear the crown or sit on the throne. Content rules the land of information products.
So, first things first, you gotta give your readers information that educates them. You gotta teach them something.
Do this in your promotion tools (ezine articles, reports, sales letters, etc.) and you’ll have readers thinking “This person knows something … I better take a closer look.”
You’ll SELL MORE.
Educate customers in your information products and show them how to produce results in their own lives and you’ll make them happy, satisfied customers.
You’ll REFUND LESS.
Tool #2. Entertainment. To be completely honest, it’s not enough to solely provide content. Even if it’s good content, that won’t always get the job done.
Think of it this way: your high school civics teacher provided you with (too much) content in a single 55-minute class, but would you really buy anything from him?
Maybe a hall pass or a set of earplugs, but that’s about it. :o)
Nobody likes to read BORING content. We turn off boring television programs, we fall asleep reading boring books and we keep our credit cards tucked firmly inside our pockets when we read boring sales letters, ezine articles, solo mailings or special reports.
Make it fun. Make it entertaining. And you can do that by using …
* Illustrations * Funny stories * Analogies * Outrageous statements
I once wrote an article entitled “I’ll Swallow A Live Grasshopper If This Doesn’t Boost Your Website Traffic”.
Do you think anyone read it?
Ask yourself this: would YOU like to read it?
We love to have a good time, and there’s no reason why you shouldn’t apply that reasoning to your writing.
Keep readers interested as they consume your promotion materials by entertaining them.
You’ll SELL MORE.
Help customers enjoy reading page after page of your product by entertaining them.
You’ll REFUND LESS.
When you add entertainment to education, you’ll make more money with information products …
… faster than you can say “ “LIVE GRASSHOPPER.” :o)
Tool #3. Emotion. Whether it’s outrage over an injustice, excitement over a success or piqued interest over a possibility, our emotions drive us.
Few decisions are based on intelligent analysis, but rather on emotional response. Few actions are based on accurate data, but rather on impulsive feelings.
We are emotional people. And there is no stronger proof of that than to watch what we do and to listen to what we say.
Your job is to get us emotional. Fill us with hope. Empower us. Give us courage. Motivate us. Issue a challenge. Inspire. Get us to do something.
That’s what we really want. More than education, more than entertainment – we want someone to compel us to do something to make our lives better.
And the power and profits go to the ones who can do that.
Fill readers with hope and expectation with your marketing materials.
You’ll SELL MORE.
Give your customers confidence and enthusiasm as they read chapter after chapter of your information product.
You’ll REFUND LESS.
*** Conclusion ***
If you want to make more money with information products, then you CAN do it. You’re in charge. It’s under your control.
Education. Entertainment. Emotion.
Three powerful tools that lead to incredible profits.
But, only if you use them.
Some will read this article and discard it like they have done with countless others.
And some will get busy.
I think you’ll be one of the few who will make more money.
Prove me right.
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Loading My Marketing Videos To My iPod
Friday, June 8th, 2007I finally figured it out…
I have gigs and gigs of marketing videos I’ve downloaded. Infomercials from websites, hot to stuff, you name it. Well I never have time while I’m at home to watch them. My husband got me a video iPod for Christmas and I’ve downloaded from favorite shows from iTunes (like Greys Anatomy and Desperate Housewives) and a few movies for the kids, but I really wanted to get my marketing stuff on it, so when I was traveling I could watch them on my iPod.
I also got this cool little player that looks like a portable DVD player, but I can slip my iPod into it, and it shows on a 6inch screen instead of on my little bitty iPod screen. I got it off eBay for like $90. They sell in stores for around $200… Just an FYI…
Okay, so I was wanting to get these marketing videos on to my iPod, and had absolutely no clue what to do. So I assigned the job of finding out how to do it to of course my husband. Those of you who know him know that I make him do all my dirty work. He’s a good sport though…
After a few hours searching and playing with this and that, he found what I needed and I actually got it to work. Now I have taken these videos that were in .swf and .flv format and have them in a format that plays on my iPod. Whoo hoo… So, how’d we do it?
Okay, I guess I’ll tell you guys. That was the point of this post, right?
First, you’ll need a software to do it. The one I found was allformp3.com/guides-dvd-to-ipod.html
Basically all you have to do is follow the instructions there and you can convert just about anything to mp4 format which is the format that iPod’s play.
Something else I have been wanting to do is take my movies from DVD’s and put them on my iPod. Found out how to do it at that same site. Check out allformp3.com/dvd-to-ipod.html
And here’s something else… Yeah, I’m on a role here…
There are tons of cool marketing videos on YouTube.com here’s a free software that will allow you to take YouTube videos and play them on your iPod allformp3.com/guides-youtube-to-ipod.html
Same site… I love allformp3.com!
Okay, that’s about as techy as I can handle today! Hopefully this info helps. If you guys eat, sleep, and breath marketing info like I do, and have an iPod now you can take your marketing videos where ever you go!
Edit: Something I forgot to mention… If you have .swf files and you want to convert them to your iPod, you will need this allformp3.com/flash-swf-to-ipod.html
Okay, I swear I’m done with the whole video to iPod thing.
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