It’s interesting how things change so quickly with technology and Internet Marketing.

Just a year ago, long form sales letters were all the rage. Everyone needed an expensive copywriter.

Now, video sales letters are popping up all over the place and more and more products are being sold exclusively through video.

The problem is, if you’re an affiliate marketer and not selling a product of your own, you most likely will think that there is no need for video.

That couldn’t be further from the truth.

Video Marketing for Affiliates

Video marketing has been used by affiliates for a while, but many of them just don’t know how to take advantage of all of the benefits that are available to them.

Yes, sites like Youtube and Facebook are great for posting videos, but if you aren’t providing the right message in your videos then you are missing out.

What to Include in Your Videos

Whether you want to get on camera yourself, create a simple slideshow or something more fancy with complicated video editing software, you need to have the right message.

• Including an attention grabbing first 10 seconds. This can be an engaging question that get’s the viewer thinking, a comment or shocking statement or eye catching graphic.
• Build a better body…what I mean here is have some “meat” in your video. Add some content that answers the questions your viewer wants to know more. This could be a handful of statements on a topic, some bullet points, step by step instructions or even more leading questions.
• Call to Action – Many videos lack this key element. After your viewer has spent their time watching your video message, what do you want them to do. Tell them exactly what you expect of them. That includes “Go to this website for more information”, “For the second half of this video go to..”, “Call 1-800.#### for more information”, “Claim your free download at…”

Getting your Videos Noticed

In the next post, I’m going to cover a few easy and free methods for getting your videos noticed and index online without a lot of effort.

Getting Traffic is by far one of the most coveted skills any online marketer needs. There are tons of methods for getting traffic. Whether it’s paid from Google Adwords, Yahoo Ads, Facebook or even Pay Per View.

Most online marketers want loads of free traffic, but they just don’t know how to get it.  The secret is getting back to the basics. Getting links from sites. Tons of Links. But not just any old links. We want links from high quality sites with the best keyword anchors.

Think that’s impossible? You’re wrong. There’s a formula for getting your sites ranked and getting  tons of traffic.

Take a look at this screen shot from Yahoo Explorer. Yahoo Explorer shows how many outbound and inbound links a site has.

Take a look a this:

That screenshot is from a top internet marketer’s site, Jeff Johnson. Wouldn’t it be amazing to have 1,244 pages indexed in google and almost 28,000 inbound links?

Me too…and if you want the formula for how to do this, then you’ll want to check out this video and download the PDF’s that explain how to begin getting this to work for your online business.

There’s nothing to buy, just download the PDF’s and check out the video. This is good stuff.

Download the Free Traffic Videos and PDF’s Here

The PDF’s are awesome. They outline each step you need to take to boost your Search Engine Rankings and find traffic.

I’ve heard so much about Facebook advertising that I decided to take it for a spin myself. Before I get into the details, I want to put out an important disclaimer:

I am not a Pay Per Click (PPC) guru. This was only an experiment to see what type of results I’d get.

Now, with that said, I dug deep into my wallet and decided that I was only willing to spend a whopping $25 on advertising on Facebook and I decided I wanted to do that over the course of a few days. So this wasn’t a big stretch.

So what was it that I advertised? A Clickbank product. I picked something with a gravity of around 8-10 (yes quite low), but had a decent amount of search on Google. So I knew it was a popular topic.

Now, I also decided that I would put up a squeeze page and offer  a report that the Clickbank Vendor had provided as a give away already. Total time to put the squeeze page up…15 minutes. That includes getting all of my Aweber optin stuff setup.

Getting Started with Facebook Advertising

I then set to work on Facebook. I set up my ad campaign to run from Feb 10-15th. My ad budget, $5 a day.

I basically knew who my target audience was… people that had certain keywords in their profile.  As an example, let’s say I was advertising a gold product. I would then find people on Facebook that had the following keywords in their profile:

• Playing Golf
• Golf
• Enjoying Golf
• Going to the golfcourse
• play golf

The great thing about Facebook…as you begin typing your phrase, Facebook suggests the words that people have already put in their profile… this is a slam dunk for keyword generation.

Next, I wrote my ad, nothing fancy. However, I did abide by Facebook’s rules for capitalization, punctuations, photos etc. Since they manually review all ads I had to be careful.

So… after approval a few hours later, I sat back and watched. No tweaking. Nothing.

My Facebook Advertising Results

My results… well check out my Facebook Ad Stats over 5 Days:

I spend under $25, got 95 Clicks out of 146253 Impressions.  Basically, my ad sucked… and Sucked bad. I spent about $.26 a click.

So.. I’m sure you’re wondering… what did I get for that $25.00?

Well, I built the start of a nice list in a decent niche… check out the new subscribers over 5 days.

I added 28 new Leads to my list. I spent under $1 a lead. Which in my opinion wasn’t bad. Nothing huge, but I wasn’t expecting anything.

Let’s do some quick math. 95 Clicks and 28 new leads.. That’s about a 29% conversion rate. Not bad at all.

So, what of those 28 leads… did I make any money from them. Well, check out the Clickbank Account for those 2 days.

I made 2 sales, totalling $67.04. Not a bad return on investment, right? BTW, the only way these sales could have happened is if the person opted into my giveaway. So 2 out of our 28 people purchased.   7% conversion rate.

So, we made $42.64 in just 5 days. No, not enough to get rich off of, or buy a fancy car.

However, if we tweaked our ad, landing page copy just a bit, upped our ad spend, we could easily begin seeing some real results.

Bottom line. Facebook advertising works and works well.

How to Get Started with Facebook Advertising

A week ago I literally knew nothing about Facebook  Advertising. Zilch. I was a Google Adwords guy.

However, I watched this video about Facebook advertising and how it was crushing Google adwords for performance and decided to grab the course. Aside from being pretty inexpensive, it went into detail about how to write an ad, what to say in it, how to target it.

Obviously, I didn’t follow the training verbatim. However, I will go back and watch it again and duplicate everything with much better results.

If you want to try out advertising on Facebook you should check out this video here.

Get Facebook Ad Power Here

It’s probably one of the best little sets of videos of seen and has some of the best behind the scenes info on getting started fast that I’ve seen.

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There seems to be no slowing down in the Social Media industry. Facebook and Twitter are still the rage. However, the problem is still Social Media overload. Some Internet Marketers believe that Facebook and Twitter are the place to spread affiliate links and never share any good, helpful information.

In my own opinion, it’s those people that may never get ahead, learn more and move beyond their current level.

Alright, that may sound a bit harsh. There are good methods of marketing on social media sites, and that is something I’ve taught and discussed in previous training videos, however, a vast majority of the culprits are pimping IM/Making Money products and not providing any value.

The true value of Social Media

When it comes to Social Media, the best use I can think of is connecting with like minded people. It’s sometimes difficult to do in venues like facebook and twitter because there is so much noise out there.

It’s always refreshing to share good ideas, content and information with others in the industry. It’s these connections that lead to Joint Ventures, Ad Swaps and long lasting partnerships.

At the beginning of December, I had the chance to hang out with Chuck Mullaney, the creator of JVMe.com . This is a social networking site that integrates with Twitter and Facebook and is much more Marketer Friendly. It’s a great resource for sharing information, finding great JV partners and learning more about Internet Marketing from experts.

The site is free to join and if you’re the least bit interesting in Internet Marketing it’s something I recommend.

You can check out the details here: http://www.jvme.com/signup.php?signup_referer=JeffCzyzewski

Everywhere you look, someone is talking about Social Media. It’s been around for while, but now it’s really becoming mainstream. In fact, the fastest growing demographic for Facebook is the over 35 crowd.

As an Internet Marketer  you have a tremendous opportunity in front of you. Especially if you know how to work the Social Media Networks the right way.

Yes, there is a right and wrong way to do it…and to be honest 99% of the so called Gurus out there are hyping the wrong way.

Mass Twitter Follower Software…bad idea.

Facebook Inbox Spamming…bad idea

Every other video on YouTube a product review for an affiliate product…bad idea.

It’s time to build some trust and give back..

In my last post I discussed building trust, giving something back to your readers, subscribers and customers and just trying to be more “social”. That is the right way to use the Social Networking. While it might seem to be common sense, noone is really teaching you how to do it effectively.

Yes, there are/were some great Internet Marketers doing this and their training and courses where thousands of dollars, but spending more money is always the right thing to do.

If you really want to understand how to leverage social media the right way you need to learn by example. Watch someone that is doing it the right way and succeeding. Copy their strategies, listen to what they have to say and replicate…and of course, make it your own.

This applies to any niche, it doesn’t just have to be the ever popular make money online niche.

Just an Example

Last week I was talking to a friend of mine, Jonny Andrews, and he was telling me about his recent Sky Diving experience. I knew he was a bit crazy, but this proved it…but what he told me afterwards was even more crazy.

He had posted pictures of his “inflight” experience on Facebook and shared it with his friends. I believe he has under a 1000 on facebook. Well, he said people started commenting on them and checking out some of his other pictures and stuff on there. He said just from posting some crazy pictures on facebook and adding a bit of a twist, he was able to generate a ton of traffic to his sites and make 10k extra.

He told me he’s been using this system for a while and it’s been working great and is going to be showing some people how to use it.

The System Downside

I saw Jonny’s system and it really is cool, I actually helped him setup the site where he’s going to be selling it… but I discovered a few things he was missing.

Jonny’s new Affiliate Assassin System is all about working social media the right way, but it assumes that you have some experience with Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Wordpress. I know that many people do, but some who really want to do this stuff have no idea where to start.

So I decided I’d put something together that will help you if you really wanted to take a look at Jonny’s System.

Social Media Quick Start Series (Get it for Free)

The Social Media Quick Start System is designed for you to get a thorough and complete understanding of how to use Twitter, Facebook and YouTube together in a very short amount of time. This video training series covers everything you need to get started:

• Social Media Quick Start – Fast Track – 4 Videos that Explain Exactly how you must use the top social media tools including many unknown methods for using them together effectively.
• Twitter Fast Track – Everything you need to get setup and running with Twitter including step by step setup and configuration instruction. 6 Tutorial videos on every aspect of getting setup Quickly.
• Facebook Fast Track - Fear Facebook no longer. These 9 Videos will show you everything you need to have Facebook fully setup and ready to go. Included in these videos are some of the best secret tips for finding targeting, niche friendly friends. These videos show you exactly how to find people interested in hearing from you.
• YouTube Fast Track – More than just watching videos, YouTube Fast Track will show you everything needed to have your account setup and configuring correctly. These 7 Videos will put you on the right course for Youtube. You’re going to see some of the best known secrets for using Youtube and a very special tactic that will have the search engines gobbling up your videos and spitting them out on the first page.
• Interconnection Magic – Once everything is setup, Interconnection Magic shows you how to connect everything together for the ultimate social media machine.

That’s 23 Videos worth over $197!!

Here’s How to Get This System

I decided that anyone that want’s to grab Jonny’s new Affiliate Assassin System can have my new Social Media Quick Start system for free. It’s a ton of videos, some very cool tricks I’ve never shared anywhere else and has something whether you are a newbie or someone more advanced.

All you need to do is grab the Affiliate Assassin System from the link at the bottom of the post. Make sure on the Checkout page you see [Affiliate=webposter] . If it does..you’re all set.

Right after you purchase, you’ll immediately get your information on how to claim your bonus thanks to my Bonus Delivery System. BUT… if you don’t want to wait, just grab your Clickbank receipt and head over to InstantBonusDelivery.com.

Get Your Social Media Quick Start System Now