May
30
Tutorial Video Posted
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Hello folks! I just posted a tutorial video over to youtube. The video, is a brief tutorial showing you how to add video and other files to your wordpress.com hosted blog. It’s about 4 minutes long and has some decent, if not somewhat basic content on it. I used Camtasia Studio to create the video, and I have to say, the new version is a lot better than the last one that I had.
The last version of Camtasia that I owned, was version 3, the current version 5 is leaps and bounds better. I love the zoom and pan feature, I just need to get better at using it properly.
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In terms of quality of the output, Camtasia 5 is way, way better than Camstudio.
However, I feel that Camstudio can get the job done in a pinch. The best thing that Camstudio has going for it, is the price ($0). Camtasia cannot match Camstudio’s price.
I know it’s a cliche, but I have to say it, you get what you pay for. If you don’t mind having a lower quality video presentation, albeit one that works and can be burned to CD or saved in a format that can be deployed online, Camstudio will get the job done. However if, and I do mean IF, you want to have a high quality product, that you can edit and render multiple times over, then Camtasia 5 is the way to go. No ifs ands or buts about it. Here’s the video that I posted, for your viewing pleasure. 
May
29
Offline advertising idea
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You know, there’s good advertising, there’s bad advertising and then there’s this. This lady auctioned off an ad location ON HER FOREHEAD on eBay. An online outfit that you may have heard of, paid her $10,000 to tattoo their company name on her forehead. I imagine that the lady really likes attention and may not necessarily be looking for any kind of professional employment, but I could be wrong about that. I have friends that have tattoos in some weird places, but no one I know has a tattoo on their forehead.
I’m all about free advertising and getting your word out to as many people as possible, but this seriously takes the cake. I wonder how long it will be until we see other copy cat auctions on eBay.
May
27
Link bait exposed
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Did you see my story a few days ago about the kids with the dad’s credit cards and the hookers? Turns out, just as I suspected, that it was a fake story. It was a piece of link bait.
What is link bait you ask?
It’s a story, post or article that is created for the sole purposed of creating a link back to the originating site. But, not just any link, a keyword laden link. You see, Google uses how many incoming links a site has as one of its measures for a site’s popularity. The more links pointing to a site, the more popular, therefore the higher authority it has and the the higher it will turn up in search results.
That article, was some good link bait. I’m not saying that link bait is bad, but what I am saying is that when people figure out that they’ve been had, all of the links will disappear and you would’ve lost whatever credibility you had with the humans that link back to your now untrustworthy site.
The thing is, you want to create good quality articles that will create good quality links back to your site, but you want to do that with real, legitimate articles. Not useless articles that have been created for the sole purpose of generating incoming links to your site. Actually, come to think of it, it sort of sounds like what some of those automated article creation software packages do. They create a bunch of articles that are of low value to anyone. Maybe not.
May
27
Make mo money redux
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This is from Stephen Pierce’s podcast. Every week he puts out a podcast where he talks about new tools that he finds online that could help you with your business. All of the tools are usually free and some of them are more relevant than others, but here’s a redux from the podcast:
1) hotwords.com > what is the workd searching for? On this page, you can find information about what people are typing into the search engines and looking up.
2) tokoni.com > Life is full of stories, tell yours. This site has stories that people are telling about whatever is going on with them. Could be great for content generation, make sure you get the writer’s permission before you use their story in a product.
3) beta.twitscoop.com > tells you what’s hot on twitter. This is currently in beta, but the list of words tells you who is typing what on twitter and how many times the word comes up across the twitter network. This is currently in beta, so the results may be a bit unreliable, but it’s a good place to keep your finger on the pulse of what’s happening.
4) hotpluto.com > all video advertising marketplace. Upload videos and pics. look at how other people are using advertising. Good place to get ideas and is another place to put videos out on the web.
5) seonik.com > seo link generator, creates search engine friendly links to your site or to whatever site you’re promoting.
6) yieldbuild.com > tests different adsense layouts. Useful for getting better yield from the adsense ads that you are publishing across your sites.
7) sellitspeedy.com > fastest way to sell anything. They are trying to position themselves as an alternative to eBay and are claiming that they can sell whatever it is that you’re selling faster than eBay can.
That’s it for now. Please let me know if any of these sites help you out in anyway.
Cheers,
Rafael
May
25
Camtasia Studio
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I downloaded Camtasia Studio on Friday.
What prompted me to download it was that I put together a video using Camstudio IM and was not happy with the quality after I uploaded it to youtube. In case you don’t know, Camstudio IM is free screen recording software. Basically, it’s a poor man’s version of Camtasia.
I downloaded Camtasia and have been playing with it now for a couple of days and so far, I like it well enough. I don’t know that I’ll buy it when the trial period expires, but we’ll see. The video that I put together was about adding video to your wordpress.com blog. Something simple and straight forward.
I’ll post a link on here when I re-shoot it.
