Money Gym Gold Video Entry – Susanne Jorgensen

Susanne Jorgensen from The Singles Gym kicks off the Money Gym Gold competition entries with this great video – in spite of a sore throat. If you think Susanne should win “Gold For Christmas” vote for her now by clicking the “Bookmark” button below.  Nicola will choose the winner from the person with the most votes on Digg particularly.

If you want to enter, you can do so in writing via the comments box on this post here >>>

Or by video.  Just read the guidelines on what to cover here and then upload your video to YouTube and email nicola [at] themoneygym.com to let her know you have entered and the URL of your video.

Burglaries, Bootcamps & Brilliant Sunsets

Well, there is only eight hours to go to find out if I’ve won a trip to Florida to visit Rich Schefren’s office for a weekend and work with his team.

Week One I didn’t feel I’d achieved enough to enter (even though I HAD restarted my live wealth creation surgery / TV show on www.MoneyGym.tv),
Week Two I had techie challenges before giving up as it was all too stressful and the natural daylight gave out….but Week Three I thought ok, here we go.  Taking no chances I started work on Wednesday!

Three weeks in, three live internet TV shows under my belt, the latter two with live video skype interviews of Money Gym Gold clients, it’s got to be worth a shot.

Add that to the fact that an odd but great side effect is that I’m exercising nearly every day, going to the gym just to able to listen to the coaching again and better absorb it.

Add that to the fact that I’ve secured a joint venture partner who can get me in front of 85,000 people in the UK, 100,000 worldwide….surely that’s enough to get me in the running?

So I made my video, edited fiercely, added music front and back (yes! my cheesy theme tune!) and annotated throughout…then uploaded to Viddler.com and I’ve tried to remain unattached to the outcome ever since.

I realised of course that I was submitting it wrongly, direct by email, the first two times, so I have resubmitted by online form, so fingers crossed.
(Learning takeaway is to always read the instructions…….yeah, as a 7-9 on the Kolbe Quickstart Index that does NOT come naturally)

What else has been happening this week?

I’ve recorded a video introduction to the Money Gym which we will be split testing on a welcome page, for cold traffic, along with our other two welcome / squeeze pages – the old fashioned one which used to convert at 14% and the more modern one converting at 2.64%.

We are honing our “potential new customer journey” all the time and Steve is constantly working on refining the experience the new customer has with us.  There is a bit of a tug of war between the marketing dept (me) and the customer service dept (him) but he largely wins.

The Membership Site Bootcamp day went very well, with Mike Crowe filming, and he got some GREAT pics – I even liked how I looked when caught unawares, which is a miracle.  Wonder how many Mike had to ditch before coming up with the final 20 or so.  We are just waiting on permission from all concerned, before uploading them to Facebook & Flickr.  Mike really managed to capture the informal but focused style of our workshops, so I’m very pleased.

Now, once Mike has got the DVD’s to Steve for editing into a virtual version of the day, we can create a product out of that, the webinars, the blog and membership site installation videos that we are having created…and then it’s onto an info page.  Eeeeuuuuuwwwww, my least favourite bit.  We usually write one ourselves so we have a control/test, then go and talk to some copywriters…….!!

My goal for 2009 is 10 x high quality cutting edge / evergreen info products like that, then I will have a whole armoury of products to go out speaking with.

As Autumn progresses, we have had some BRILLIANT sunsets in Shoreham this last couple of weeks.  You always forget the sunsets are better in winter – why is that?  I have often had to stop work and take some video but the quality is not as good as a camera would be.  So just for this ezine, I’ve borrowed Steve’s camera and taken one as the sun sets…..look at that!  I love the view from my office.

And I’ve had a bit of a larf with the “36 Things You Never Knew About….” list on the blog today, which reminded me of the most awful dream I had last night…I got burgled while I was living in a flat in Brighton (say what?) and came home to find a whole burglarising family stripping my possessions out and loading them into a van up the hill, and I woke up as I was running up the road after them shouting…

“Take the lot, but please not my lappie……………”

Have fun, we usually are!

Cheers
Nicola

Cool New Video Manifesting Tool

Nicola says:  Frank Kern has become my new “must have” guru…..he knows some great people!  I’m a great believer in visualisation and manifesting but I struggle with meditation……this is a great new tool to help you take a few minutes out of your day to start to use the Law of Attraction….I’m off to make my own movies now with Sony Vegas but you could use Windows Movie Maker or the MAC equivalent….use the comments lin below to tell me if you liked this, and what you are going to put on your movie…..or even better, hit the little viddler video icon to send me a video comment direct from your computer!

Not Normally My Thing But…

Viddler Done Good!

Just in case you miss it in the comments, here’s a lovely personal email from Donna DeMarco @ Viddler.  As a fledging video maker whose partners regularly take the mickey out of the shaky panning, questionable taste in music (I like it!) and painfully slow action, not to mention how rough I look sometimes, the words in bold (the bold added by me so you can’t miss it) made my day! 

I am determined to press on with video as a marketing tool, so I am cheered.  The wordpress plug in Donna refers to, means you can comment on my blog postings with your own video recorded on the fly with your in-lappie camcorder – HOW COOL IS THAT?  C’mon, I dare you!  Get the lippie on and go for it.

“Good Day, I’ve just finished a breakfast here in the states – humble pie. My sincere apologies for suspending your account. We’ve been inundated lately with “cash gifting” ponzi schemes and “buy this now” videos. Not the type of content that represents the viddler community. The community can flag videos for various offenses, including spam & copyright. We manually delete the content on our backend based on the flags, title, tags, usernames, etc. We got over zealous when we saw “become a millionaire” in the title of a flagged video and suspended your account. Your videos are informative, well produced and interesting – You even have our wordpress plugin! I could try to blame it on the ghosts at Hazlewood Castle, but it is our mistake. And as a result, we are reviewing our process and will look into sending an email when an account is suspended. We’ve also instituted a “trusted user” status – of which you are now one.Thanks for using viddler!

Donna
co-founder, viddler

Video Blogging – Zero to Hero in 60

If you have been thinking that you want to start blogging, to promote your business, then I have some great resources for you.   Blogging for business is all about people getting to know, like and trust you and if you click on Mike’s links below you can find out how companies from tour operators to bug exterminators to carpet showrooms are all getting in on the act!!  You just have to check out all the case studies but the Carpet Depot one is an absolute classic – scroll down and click on the “who works here” video.  Makes me want to go to Atlanta, Georgia for all my carpet needs – they are all so sweet!

There are a number of inexpensive turnkey solutions to do streaming video online, the best of which is Armand Morin’s Generator suite of products including InstantAudioGenerator and InstantVideoGenerator.   However, easy to use as this is, it will lock you into a small but recurring payment for the life of your website.  If you are not at all techie minded, this is probably the best solution for you however and Armand’s products have some nice little extras like being able to quickly record a video using the cam on your computer and send out your message as a video postcard – great click through rates on those, let me tell you. 

If you want to learn how to do it yourself, step by step, and get more skilled while still using easy-to-learn tools, then you need to get to know my audio and video mentor - Mike Stewart - you can check out his great – and very inexpensive – tutorials here (which I have and I swear by!)  

http://www.fromthedeskofmikestewart.com

Mike owned – and may still own for all I know – his own recording studio in Nashville and speaks at every internet marketing event as he’s passionate about using audio and video on the internet. He has some very inexpensive tutorials on DVD or to download, and walks you through all the equipment you need (and never more than you need!)

He has just released a great one-hour audio with Tracy Childers, of FLV Producer fame and here’s what Tracy had to say about it.

“This certainly is an exciting time to be on the cutting edge of video. The past 3 years have been absolutely amazing.  The great news is that more is yet to come. I just finished an interview with Mike Stewart “The Internet Video Guy”. We talked about using video on the internet and what the latest and most effective trends are. The interview is just over an hour long and we posted it for you online at:
http://www.tracyandmikevideo.com You can listen to the whole thing from the site or you can download the mp3 file. It’s in the top right corner of the page.  Look for the Yellow Play button or the mp3 download. You’ll definitely want to hear this call. Wait until you hear the results he shares that he and his clients are getting with, “Video Landing Pages”. If you don’t know what that is, don’t worry we explain it specifically in the interview. http://www.tracyandmikevideo.com Have a great weekend and keep making more videos! Best of Success, Tracy Childers FLV Producer

You can also view this video about how to go straight to video blogging with Wordpress, using a custom template, by InternetGenius, which I found on one of my new homes www.viddler.com/wealthcoach

Viddler Account Back Up!

I know it’s April 1st but still…… my Viddler account is working fine now!  No explanation, no emails, but thank god for that as I was only thinking this morning how much nicer it is to use than YouTube.  Perhaps they were the victim of an April Fool’s Joke eh?

Viddler Suspends My Account!

Well, this Hazlewood Castle story gets even more intriguing!  Viddler appear to have suspended my account without warning of any kind!  I cannot believe that anyone – particularly Hazlewood Castle – can have objected to my content, and the only other video I had up there apart from my usual kind, was the one with the interview with Mr X about Runescape and that was very inoffensive.  I am very fed up as I have been happily embedding the Viddler videos in my blog and they are now showing as video not available.  I’ve spent a lot of time on this and to do this without even an email letting me know why, is really bad in my opinion.  I’m waiting to hear from Viddler now.