Dan Kaminski, of Web Video University fame has announced his “end of year” special and it’s a doozy; 3 of his most popular courses (Web Video ABC’s, Green Screen Secrets and Mobile Video Made Simple) for a mere $99.

Normally these courses retail for just over $300, but until Dec 31, you can get them for a third of the cost.

I haven’t done a full review of Dave’s Web Video University (I plan to in the New Year) but I can tell you this; I maintain a membership to it because it is a fantastic resource. If you’ve spent any time on this site you’ll know I have no hesitations about calling things as they are; I never candy-coat things. Dave’s course is simply superb. He’s put a ton of work into his products and it shows.

So if any these courses appeal to you, grab ‘em up now and save!

One of the biggest detriments to online success I have seen over the years is an unwillingness to invest in your business.

This is especially true for newbie marketers, many of whom want to see if the whole “online business” thing is going to pan out for them before they put any of their money on the line.

I can tell you from experience that this simply does not work.

When I started out online in the late nineties, I knew absolutely nothing about the Internet, and even less about marketing, advertising, or any of the net-specific skills required for earning a living online. I figured I could sort of “learn as I earned.”

Not so.

Without any practical background in fields that have “carry over” to the ‘net (like the aforementioned advertising, marketing, or business), I simply floundered around for a couple of years, wasted hundreds of hours of my time, and never made a penny.

Until I got my hands on Ken Evoy’s “Make Your Site Sell” in ’98 or ’99 (the book hasn’t been updated since 2002, but it’s still a great resource and it’s available for free here!).

When I read it, lights went on, bells rang and sirens wailed!

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WordPress Vs SBI! (Site Build It!): What’s The Deal?

How Can You Recommend SBI! (Site Build It!) When This Is A WordPress Site?

That’s a question I received the other day from an individual who obviously found an incongruity in the fact that I actively recommend SBI! here,  whilst this site is built upon the WordPress platform.

To quote a great line from Samuel L Jackson in the movie Pulp Fiction…

“Well, allow me to retort!”

Suggesting that it’s somehow unethical to recommend SBI! when I’m not using it myself on this site, is a bit like saying…

“Hey! How come you recommend we eat apples, when YOU are eating an orange?”

See, apples and oranges are different. You can’t compare one to the other. If someone asks you for a hammer, do you hand them a screwdriver, and expect them to accomplish the task?

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Yep, it’s that time of year again.

The time when SiteSell offers its buy-one, get one free door-crasher offer on SBI! (Site Build It!), the premier Internet business building solution on the ‘Net (heck, even respected universities and colleges like Penn State, The Citadel, and The University of Arizona are using SBI! to teach their students how to build a profitable e-business).

If you’ve been struggling to get your online business off the ground and generating income, here’s your opportunity to stop spinning your wheels and start making real progress.

Not familar with SBI!?

It’s a suite of online tools and applications that allow you to build a vibrant, profitable online business. I agree; there are plenty of services that claim the same thing (but none that offer near the amount of functionality and sheer number of top notch tools for such a ridiculously affordable price).

So what really makes SBI! stand apart from its competitors?

In three words?

The Action Guide.

The Action Guide takes you step by step through an A to Z business building process so you never have to guess at what it is you need to be doing next. The guide, in conjunction with the online suite of tools, makes building a successful online business as easy as following a series of steps. Sure, it’s hard work – just like building any business – but if you follow the Action Guide, you will succeed.

Who’s SBI! best suited for?

Anyone can use SBI!, no matter what their level of expertise (I login to my girlfriend’s site and use the Brainstormer (a keyword research application) and Monetize It! tools often), but it’s for those who are new to Internet Marketing that will benefit the most.

Incidentally, my girlfriend Marilyn’s Flowers-By-Marilyn web site is tracking about 300 unique vistors a day right now, and looks like it’s well on its way to covering her car payment this month! Excellent news!

Is 2012 the year you start making an income from the Internet?

It could be; use the 90-day risk free trial and see for yourself!

What’s the best Windows screencast software?

That’s a question you’re very likely asking yourself if you’re considering making the leap to delivering video / screencast based information online. There seems to be so many options… what solution are you going to choose?

Let’s take a look at some of the most popular options…

1) Camtasia: Although what constitutes the “best screencast software” will be somewhat dependent on your needs and skill set, TechSmith’s Camtasia is considered the industry standard.

This is what I use, and I can say that for the most part, I have been extremely pleased with the product. It’s fairly easy to use, there isn’t much of a learning curve, and everything is laid out pretty intuitively. There’s lots of help available too – plus loads and loads of instructional videos to get you up and running fast!

Technical support is fast and friendly, although they were not able to resolve the problem I occasionally experience on my 64 bit Windows 7 machine; instead of your screencast, you end up with a recording of a black screen. I never got too worked up about this, since rebooting the computer seems to fix this glitch. The major pain is that you lose whatever work you’ve completed in that last session.

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Once your video is completed you’ll want to market it effectively, by squeezing every last drop of promotional opportunity from it. This might, depending on your situation and the topic of your video, involve submitting it to video sharing sites other than YouTube. There are, after all, all sorts of these online.

YouTube is the king of video sharing sites. By a country mile. Nothing else even comes remotely close to delivering the number of potential eyeballs. But there are TONS of YouTube wannabe’s. Since so many video sharing sites exist, it’s important to keep this truth in the forefront of your mind…

The law of diminishing returns applies very quickly to the video submission process.

While it definitely makes sense to submit your video to the top 3, 4, or perhaps even 5 video sharing sites, after that, your time is probably better off directed to creating new videos (or new content of any sort) rather than wasting time submitting your video to web sites that may deliver a handful of viewers a month.

So what are the video sharing sites worth submitting to?

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