Archive for March, 2009

5 Mistakes In Vlogging

I have been seeing a lot of people make the same mistakes via vlogging lately and I thought a post on the subject outlining the 5 most common ones I see was a good idea. Hope you enjoy it!

5. Bad Titles – The main one I see people making is the titles they are choosing for there videos. Sometimes they put there name on the title or even a un-related name. These videos are either banned or are never viewed once word gets around about the title being misleading.

4. Description Link – I see a lot of people putting there link in the description of there videos which is good but they are not putting the http:// so people can easily click the link. Never forget the http:// on your url in YouTube because it wont be a live link if you dont!

3. No Play lists – Why haven’t you created a couple play lists to help your subscribers find relevant videos? Play lists are powerful and worth creating, comment below if you dont know how and I will make a post on it for you!

2. No Custom Channel Design – You should customize your own Channel so its all yours and one of a kind! I did one for the PixelForLife YouTube Channel and it helped us!

1. Bad Use Of Tags On Each Video – The biggest mistake I see people making is there miss-use or non-use of the tags feature in YouTube and other major video sites. Be sure to use your tags just like you would technorati tags or the meta tags of a website (I know I’m going back a little 1998-ish on that one but trust me, this is how it works on YouTube).

If you follow those mistakes and avoid them you should be a way better video blogger then you were before!

Talk to your advertisers, it may be big for you!

In the past I have made posts on how to get advertisers for your blog, however today I want to take it a step further and show you how I very simply can get one advertiser on my blog to place there ads on more of my sites.

Its no hoax and its not that hard to do, once you see me do it you will be able to replicate the same thing pretty easily.

See its all about talking with them on there level, businesses interested in advertising on one of your sites are most likely interested in other sites around the web.

We just simply need to put more opportunities in front of them so they have more to choose from!

I don’t know of a better way to explain it other then showing you a basic email conversation with a current advertiser on IBB, I have removed my advertisers name to protect them but I sent this email to them!

My emails are in red and there’s are in grey!

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Hello Advertiser, Thank you for sponsoring my blog InfectedByBugs.com!

It is a honor to have you as a sponsor and I hope we deliever the results your after for months and years to come. I also own another website www.bzimage.org which is related to your business, its very active and could provide excellent results for you as well!

Please let me know if you want advertise on this site.

If so I can get you a deal for previously advertising on my blog as a thankyou!

Let me know!
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Then they said….

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Dear Shannon,

We did not know you owned BzImage.org! We have been interested in advertising on it for some time, please send me the details along with prices and current banner availability! We are looking forward to your reply!

Thanks, Advertiser Name!
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That’s all there is to it, at that point I then send them the details and nearly everyone who buys on IBB also buys on BzImage. You know what that means right? Extra income from one email I send out!

Email advertising is big and this is just one example of many ways to do it! What do you think, has this technique worked for you? Add a comment below and let us know!

T3Leads.com Under Review

The following is a paid review and is completely of my own opinion and is not influenced by being paid. If you’re interested in having me review your site or product, please view my advertising page.

When it comes to making money online the possibilities are almost endless, however I have been given the pleasure to check out T3Leads.com. Sure this looks like another standard pay per lead affiliate program but how does it really stack up against everyone else out there?

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Well after I register at www.t3leads.com I got the chance to checkout some of the features they have to offer to users and affiliates. Here are a few of them in no specific order…

Advantages of T3Leads

One of the big ones is the fact that T3leads Payday loans affiliate program does not resell generated leads. There affiliate program directly cooperates with a large network of banks and other financial institutions. They simply sell generated leads through a unique auction system that allows there affiliates to make maximum profits. They pay each customer sent to them when they respond to offers for qualified products and services.

Another great advantage to T3Leads is how they provide affiliates with an arsenal of promo tools that are constantly being refreshed and updated by a creative team for maximum performance. You can work with both public web sites, and private web sites. This is a big one because most companies never update there tools or even care about customer support (not T3Leads).

Because the tools are of such high quality, T3lead ensures high conversion rates in the affiliate network. T3leads guarantees the highest conversion rates in the industry – ranging from 1:6 to 1:9 which is pretty major!

Not only that but affiliates can order free ePassporte cards for greater convenience. Major partners can get a VIP ePassporte card free of charge, with the total maximum transaction limit of 10K per day (I can only dream of the day).

There friendly affiliate support is always available, and ready with answers to any questions we may have, they were very prompt in the support emails I sent them. The support team can also help with technical problems. You can find answers to commonly asked questions on our there forum at http://forum.t3leads.com.

T3Leads LookNFeel

Well the system itself works pretty good and with a couple minutes of playtime in the panel you should have no difficulty finding things, so that’s not what I want to talk about in LookNFeel. Today I want to give a few pointers to T3Leads about the presentation of there website.

See, if I loaded up T3Leads after seeing how many great tools they offer, functions etc like this review shows I would have a high standard I would be expecting T3Leads to be. However when it comes to most Affiliate Networks none of there sites look very good (awesome content, bad presentation) as most would say.

So to start off with the T3Leads site is just plain ugly, I mean this is the web2.0 age, how about at least some color on the site? Pure grey and white with a little red in the logo looks a tad old fashioned and outdated to me. It does not make me think this is a company that has it together as there features list shows.

Secondly for the design structure that they currently do have, they have some overlapping boxes /  content that not only looks messy but can confuse first time visitors.

I just think if T3Leads had an updated look with all the features they have it would be a shoe in to dominate the industry with ease, makes me want to start an affiliate network that looks great just so I can take the market over!

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