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- Jul 10th, 2008
- 35 Comments
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NOTE: This will make more sense after reading and watching… But can you call something ‘regret’ when you regret it before you actually DO IT? Thats how I felt about publishing this post.
I am such a dork!
Here is the GOOD:
A:
Even though they only allow editing to be from the start or finish of a clip, you can create a bunch of ‘mini clips’ from one main clip and shave off the parts you don’t want.
B:
If you don’t go crazy about quality or editing, then it REALLY is easy. For those who are concerned, I have a few more Flip vids half complete, but I think I will move on to something better to be taken seriously.
Here is the BAD:
A.
When you create a movie mix, it will create the movie in order of clips created. So if you would like a section from your first video shot to be AFTER a section from your second video, then you need to EDIT them in order that you want them saved. Once saved, if you select them to create a single movie file, it will just create the order based on the order in which it was edited.
B.
They fade out more than I expected. I shaved off sections I was editing, and expected one part of a sentence to pick up with another. You miss a few seconds of material, forcing me to go back and start all over as my video then made little sense. Starting all over meant starting ALL over – not just that section, due to what I mentioned in A) above. The last word of the video is cut off! blah.
C.
When I collected too many segments from videos to create one movie mix, the FLIP software was just incapable of delivering me a normal complete product. I sounded like an actual MAN in certain parts, since it put my voice in slow motion. There are sections here that I sound different, but I just got sick of editing it, and I wanted this to be a fair representation of my FLIP education.
I did, however, edit a few sections, and was forced to remove some witty lines I put in, since I am ok with not sounding great, but way too vain to sound like a MAN.D.
The Video quality is just not that great. My much cheaper digital cameras way outperforms. This is like the video quality from my elementary school home videos. How is this such a HOT product??
Lessons Learned (ME + YOU):
1.
Practice doesnt make perfect – with an imperfect product, but I will only get better because I am DOING IT. Make it happen people.
2.
I got totally whipped by a 20 year old (Esther in the video). What do you think?
3.
I have been collecting some Fantastic business building information from an OFFLINE marketing genius. I will try to unroll some of his insights as is relevant, but my very short 2nd video about negative publicity will be like a whole chapter in the book. It’s just that powerful.
Video #1
Video #2
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- Jul 8th, 2008
- 3,593 Comments
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A lot of people are doing it. But maybe it didn’t occur to you that you could to!
Let’s say you are willing to spend MONEY for traffic. Typically you will be told to head over to Google and set up an adwords account. There are amazing benefits, especially for the impulsive: It’s immediate. It’s free (to sign up). It respects your budget. But if you don’t know the science of proper keyword selection, ad groups, etc., the learning curve to do it right, can cost you a lot, and kill your ‘this is gonna happen’ spirit!
Google Adwords accomplishes one goal – eyeballs to your site. We are not discussing the more important part – how you get a visitor to do what you want them to do once they hit your site, but I think we can all agree we want to gain a LEAD. The ability to retain that visitor in a way that will allow you to repeatedly contact them for whatever reasons.
How about if you were to just take that money and buy LEADS? The costs will probably be the same, but your risk ratio decreases since when you buy a Lead, it usually means the customer has already at best purchased an item, or at worst handed over his personal information.
Here is another suggestion. Imagine you are offering a free report. Not too far a stretch. Would it be worth it to you to pay to get those reports into the right hands. Then perhaps you want to consider a CPA (cost per acquisition) campaign. Affiliates are always looking for ‘freebies’ to promote, so you will get loads of free impressions as they advertise for you. However, you ONLY pay for a lead that signs up, and you can specify from just a name and email address to complete address or credit card #.
In fact, we have witnessed this scenario done numerous times in our very own inbox.. anytime you receive a ‘is X dead’? (fill in X for any Internet Marketing term), the marketer who promotes that ‘free report’ is pocketing around .50 cents per Lead. Yes, that lead is YOU. In case you were wondering how you landed on so many lists. Isn’t it worth the .50 cents per person to get a totally targeted lead??
If this sounds daunting and out or your league, there are web companies, like Simply Ideas, that will assist with just these services. Simply Ideas is a lead generation and online marketing agency specializing in ad buying, search engine optimization, and monetization. If you are looking to broaden your reach, I suggest you give all these ‘paid for traffic’ suggestions some serious looking into.
Please share if you have any negative or positive experiences, or want to hear more about Google Adwords, Lead Generation, Media Buying, and CPA.
This has been a Sponsored Review..hope you enjoyed
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- Jul 7th, 2008
- 110 Comments
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I went to Tel Aviv to
pick up my goodies
I turned on one of my new toys – A Flip camcorder! (Thank you Jeff Walker) – and below is my first offer. Following recording, I plugged the Flip into the USB of my computer, selected share, clicked on youtube icon, put it my username / password.. and then upload. About 2 minutes later, the video was live on Youtube, and again, I am embedding it here for your viewing pleasure.
Total time from start to finish = 10 minutes
Total cost to shoot video
=
$107 (Flip + shipping to bro in L.A)
$200 (Dinner)My video work usually requires a lot of editing, (as it does here as well), which IS possible with the included FLIP software (the software that immediately starts up after plugging in the USB), but I wanted this first video to be an experiment in:
EFFICIENT
EASE OF USE
NO EXCUSES – ‘You too can make videos’video creation – what the FLIP purports to be all about.
UPDATE:
Wow.. just read instructions. You CANNOT edit a video in the middle. Only snip off the start and end. NOT COOL Flip! How many people don’t umm and ahh and say ridiculously off topic silly stuff (or perhaps pick their teeth) halfway through???
oh well. Looks like I got to work on getting better. Or Caring Less.
Thank you to my costars Jaron & Ashley.
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