Blogging Video Tips
5 Ways to Succeed on The Web During a Recession [#18]
An article from the Wall Street Jounrnal talked about 5 Ways To Succeed on The Web in 2009. It was a great post. Here are the five trends, in brief:
- Consumers seek cheap thrills
- Trading real money for virtual goods
- Web 2.0 leaders pull further away from the pack
- Online ad prices continue to fall, alternatives help make up some of the ground
- Getting serious about monetizing non U.S. traffic
In this video, I give my commentary on each of these five points.
Enjoy Being Marketed To. Seriously. [#17]
Many people go out of their way to avoid being marketed to. They try to filter out all marketing messages. When they see a sales letter on the Internet, they back out.
Why?
Look, if you want to make money online, you need to observe how other people do it, right? In yesterday’s Flip Tip, I talked about saving sales letters into your “swipe file”. Well, the same goes for emails.
I am on the mailing lists of several internet marketers. Obviously, I’m interested in their market. And, from time to time, I might be interested in what they’re selling. But, at the same time, I’m interested in HOW they sell it. It is a great way to learn from the gurus – just watch what they do!
Watch the video to learn more.
Tactic For Building Your Swipe File [#16]
The art of writing sales copy is a skill that will literally have you writing your own checks. Copywriting is a very important skill when it comes to making money selling anything. Bloggers who can also write effective sales copy can do very well.
A swipe file is an archive of other people’s sales copy which you keep for future reference. When you want to see what works or get ideas for your own copywriting, you can reference the sales copy of others in the business.
In this Flip Tip video, I share a quick and easy tactic for building up your swipe file when you come across good sales letters on the Internet.
How To Watch Videos at Double Speed [#15]
A lot of training videos and information products come in the form of video. Often due to the good quality and smaller file size, people use MOV format for their videos. Using Apple’s Quicktime Player (version 7+), there is a quick and easy way to view your videos much faster and cut your view time in half.
I do this tactic all the time when viewing videos from information products I purchase. My head goes much quicker than the person speaks, so this is a good way to speed the person up. 
An Analogy in Site Design [#14]
Driving down the highway, I thought of an interesting analogy. We were all on this highway, driving the same direction.
On a website, however, people often arrive and then scatter every direction. Blogs are particularly bad for this because most blogs are fairly busy and have a lot of different design elements. Contrast this with your typical opt-in page or a long form sales letter, where there is nothing that can be done on the page other than do what the person wants you to do or back out and leave.
When you want to convert a reader into a subscriber or a sale, you need to give them the choice and them ask them to make it. If there are too many other distractions on the site, they are more likely not to make a choice but to take one of the escape hatches. You want to force a choice.
The trick is how to apply this to a blog. More on this, perhaps, a little later.
Looking to 2009 in Internet Business & Blogging [#13]
2009 is going to be a very busy year. I believe the field of Internet business, in all of it’s various forms, is going to get a lot busier. We’re going to have a lot more company. I think we’re going to see an influx of people looking to the Internet, both as entrepreneurs and consumers, for information, products and services.
This is why RIGHT NOW is the time to set some goals and get busy. If you find a niche online which serves a need of all these people who are looking and will be looking for answers, your 2009 could be one of the best years ever for you financially.
My biggest recommendation to you is this: Don’t pay attention to the news. The last thing you need to be doing is thinking as if the sky is falling, and that is ALL the news networks propagate like a cancer through our society. Instead, you need to ignore all that, focus on your success, and hustle like crazy.
I’m not worried about this recession because I’m confident in my own skills to maneuver my business to suit economic conditions. What about you? Are you ready to put the pedal to the metal in 2009? Because I think that’s what its going to take.
NOTE: This is my Christmas Eve episode of the Problogger Flip Tip. Note that I will not be recording a Flip Tip tomorrow (due to it being Christmas), but will return on Friday.
Powerful Affiliate Marketing For Your Blog [#12]
As a followup to yesterday’s post about the MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate plug-in, today I wanted to do a Flip Tip video talking about the plug-in.
Simply put, anybody who is serious about making money with their blog should use this plug-in. I’m really stoked to have found it and gotten it setup. It was just what I was looking for.
And I believe you will find it useful to in your quest for blogging income.
Importance of Mastermind Groups [#11]
I recorded this Flip Tip while in the car on my way to my bi-weekly mastermind meeting in Tampa.
Mastermind groups are very important to your success online. From my standpoint, this business can be pretty alienating. We spend a lot of time in front of the computer. Chances are your family doesn’t understand how you can make any money at what you’re doing. Being able to sit down with a group of entrepreneurs who speak the same language is just invaluable.
But, it goes way beyond the social value. We bring in different viewpoints and different approaches to online business. We all learn from each other and our businesses benefit from the outside viewpoints in the group.
If you are not already in a mastermind group, I encourage you to either join or create one. If you don’t know anybody in your area that is into internet business, then use a site like Meetup or even Craigslist to find them.
Quickest Way To Monetize Your Blog [#10]
In this ProBlogger Flip Tip, I answer a question submitted by Janet Johnson:
What, in your opinion, is the best monetization and quickest way to monetize your blog when starting out?
I go into a lot more detail on the video, but here are the big three, in short:
- Google Adsense. This is the quickest way to make money with a blog, but money will be very low unless you have a lot of traffic. So, essentially, this is the quickest (since you asked), but not the best.
- Affiliate products. Sign up for the major affiliate networks (I mentioned Clickbank), find products relevant to your blog audience, and market those products in your posts. This is a way that you can make decent money even with a lower traffic blog. It all depends on the strength of your offer and the relevancy to your audience.
- Sell Your Own Product. Bloggers write. A lot. So, it shouldn’t be a problem to author one or more PDF reports which you can offer to your audience as a paid product. The product helps them solve a problem, and you would price it accordingly for your market.
Best Way To Use Twitter To Promote Your Blog [#9]
In this ProBlogger Flip Tip, I answer a question submitted by Janet Johnson:
What is the best way to use Twitter to promote your blog?
There are two answers to this question:
- Use Twitterfeed to pipe your latest blog content into your Twitter account automatically.
- Be social.
When it comes to “being social”, I mean be yourself and interact with the Twitter community. You want to manually post things to Twitter which build relationships with your followers. Twitter is all about relationships. Be real, be personable, and you’ll do well on Twitter.
The value of sites like Twitter (aside from building relationships, of course) is to use it to draw people to your blog. You do that by letting them see your latest blog posts, and by being a person that they feel an affinity toward so as to get them to care what you have to say.
I'm David Risley. I've been making my living as a blogger for over a decade. Blogging is my business and how I support my family. With this blog, I'm just gettin' REAL and telling you how this business works. 
