Squidoo: Animoto for fun and traffic

Have you got heaps of digital photos in your camera or
on your computer? Or are you storing boxes or albums
of photos from your trips, holidays or family events?

Well, Animoto now provides a way to have fun
and create traffic for your Squidoo lenses.

The video above was created from photos I took on
a rainforest walk in Brisbane. Animoto
is a superb, easy-to-use technology that can convert
your photos into animated musical videos (now with
text as well). The program uses the latest in
cinematology technology to create your personalized
video.

The program offers a free option or a paid option.
The paid option enables you to produce as many videos
as you choose with no limitation on length (free ones
are limited to 30 seconds). You can also access
the music library with the paid version which is
currently a one-time payment of $30 (or $25
if you join through one of the links on this post
or on my Animoto lens).

The technology is so simple, here’s the steps:

1. upload your photos to Animoto
2. add music with a push of a button
3. add text (where desired)
4. press the button and, bingo, a new video

If you don’t like the way the animated musical
video comes out, just press the create button again
for a different video.

Then with a press of a button you can upload
your Animoto video to YouTube. The secret is to link
your new video to an appropriate lens when
you upload it to the various video sites - and you
automatically tap into the current video traffic
explosion. This then becomes a source of viral traffic
as people start sharing your videos across the
social networks.

You can see more detail of how Animoto works
by visiting my Animoto lens where I have more
of my videos:
http://www.squidoo.com/animoto

New Animoto Widget for Squidoo

Squidoo has now joined forces with Animoto to create
a widget that enables you to embed your Animoto
videos in your lenses. Chef Keem, Giant Squid and
Squid Angel, shows you how to add your Animoto video
to your Squidoo lens:
http://www.squidoo.com/add-animoto-video

Animoto Affiliate Program

Animoto has a unique affiliate program. Members who
join through your link, receive a $5 discount on the
annual paid membership fee. As an affiliate, you receive
3 months paid membership free for each person you recruit
to Animoto who takes out a paid membership. For instance,
I paid once in April 2008 but now have a paid
membership to April 2010 because of my paid referrals.

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Ron Passfield is a Top 100 Squidoo Lensmaster
and provides free resources for Squidoo affiliate
marketing on his Squidoo lens:
http://www.squidoo.com/squidoomarketingstrategies

Subscribe to Ron’s free Squidoo Marketing e-course:
http://www.smsecourse.squidoomarketingstrategies.com/

Ron is the author of the ebook:
Squidoo Marketing Strategies

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One Week Marketing: affiliate marketing on Squidoo

Well I am having success with PotPieGirl’s campaign approach
to Squidoo affiliate marketing.

What I appreciate is the detailed marketing plan which can serve
as an initial guide but also as a reference document for later
review.

It’s good to have examples, a mind map to see how it all fits together
and a action guide that helps me keep track of what I have done.

The checklist is also very useful.

I think the transcript of the coaching of a newbie through the process
is great for people starting out with Squidoo or the
One Week Marketing Method.

I wish I had this type of assistance earlier in my online marketing
career. The explanations are so clear and there is encouragement all
the way.

This is a great investment because it is easy to recoup your outlay
and at the same time build a foundation for a potentially substantial
income.

Like anything online, it depends on your willingness to go the extra
mile, follow instructions and stay focused. The roadmap is there,
along with proof of the “pot of gold” at the end.

I strongly recommend this resource for newbies and advanced
internet marketers alike - I know I have learned a lot through
the One Week Marketing Action Plan and continue to use it
as a guide for campaign affiliate marketing on Squidoo.

Here’s the One Week Marketing link again:
http://www.marketingplansfordummies.com

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Ron Passfield is a Top 100 Squidoo Lensmaster
and provides free resources for Squidoo affiliate
marketing on his Squidoo lens:
http://www.squidoo.com/squidoomarketingstrategies

Subscribe to Ron’s free Squidoo Marketing e-course:
http://www.smsecourse.squidoomarketingstrategies.com/

Ron is the author of the ebook:
Squidoo Marketing Strategies

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Pay Per Click:: Top 10 Tips For A Quality Squidoo Landing Page

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Halloween: halloween costumes and affiliate program opportunity
CostumeKingdom.com provides a wide range of
halloween costumes. You can purchase a full
halloween costume or halloween masks and
halloween wigs.

You can view many costumes for halloween online
including kids halloween costumes, adult
halloween costumes and halloween accessories.

Halloween Costumes & Masks - Shop Now!

Costume Kingdom has a very extensive range of costumes
for all occasions including adult costumes, fancy dress
costume, carnival masks, spiderman costume and
70s costume.

Search Costumes by Theme at
CostumeKingdom.com - Shop Now!

Costume Kingdom Affiliate Program

Costume Kingdom is one of the top selling affiliate
programs on the Pepperjam affiliate marketing network
and pays 11% of sales.

Pepperjam Network is now Offering a $10
Affiliate Sign On Bonus. Join Today before
the bonus is withdrawn.

The Pepperjam Network provides a wide range of
creatives for affiliate including text links,
banner ads and the highly innovative
PepperjamAds.

PepperjamADS is an affiliate marketing widget that
you can use to serve customized contextual ads
from one or multiple Pepperjam Network advertisers
at the same time. The ad units come in various
shapes and sizes. You can mix and mash ads from
any of your merchant partners. For instance,
you can create a fashion widget by selecting
various ads from multiple fashion merchants.
Likewise, you can create a specific widget
with ads from any one merchant. A video is
provided to help you generate your own
PepperjamAds with your embeded affiliate links.

For more information and the latest news on the
Pepperjam Network, visit my Squidoo lens,
Pepperjam News:
http://www.squidoo.com/pepperjamnetworknews

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Halloween widget - countdown to Halloween

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PPC Classroom 2.0 : video interviews with PPC millionaire, Amit Mehta

Anik Singal, CEO of Affiliate Classroom has created three (3)
FREE videos of his interviews with Amit Mehta, super affiliate
and PPC master:
http://www.ppcclassroom.com/affiliate/go?a=3165

Amit went from $20,000 in debt to earning $2,400,000
as a PPC affiliate.

These videos reveal Amit Mehta’s PPC strategies step by step
- even the introductory video discloses some of his secrets
that are easy to implement by anyone.

Amit makes a surprising revelation about the value of
MSN and Yahoo pay per click programs - it is not
what you usually hear:
http://www.ppcclassroom.com/affiliate/go?a=3165

Amit Mehta started with $5 just three years ago.

Actually three years ago, he was making
$1,600 a month, in a job he hated and was
$20,000 in DEBT.

Fast forward to today (just 3 years later)…

–> He makes $2.4 MILLION a year…
That’s $7,000 a DAY (and is on track to earn more this year)

–> He went from spending $5 a day to nearly
$5,000 a day on PPC (you can learn how he did this!)

–> He works about 4 hours a day (or 6 if he’s busy).

–> He outsources MOST of his business!

It’s one of the best success stories over the past year.

The best part is that it’s a free 30 minute
video that really gives away a lot of secrets and they
have two more coming!

Watch it, you’ll be glad you did!
http://www.ppcclassroom.com/affiliate/go?a=3165

These videos introduce Anik Singal’s PPC Classroom 2.0
which is soon to be released.

Watch these videos and learn how you can integrate
PPC into your Squidoo marketing.

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Ron Passfield is a Top 100 Squidoo Lensmaster
and provides free resources for Squidoo affiliate
marketing on his Squidoo lens:
http://www.squidoo.com/squidoomarketingstrategies

Subscribe to Ron’s free Squidoo Marketing e-course:
http://www.smsecourse.squidoomarketingstrategies.com/

Ron is the author of the ebook:
Squidoo Marketing Strategies

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Squidoo: have you checked your profile lately?

About Me

My blog is:

www.affiliate-marketing-coac…

My Twitter page is:

www.twitter.com/ronpass

My Lensography is:

Lensography: lenses created by Ron Passfield (ronpass)

Squidoo has recently expanded the profile page to provide
very valuable information in terms of marketing yourself and
your Squidoo activities.

Some of the sections included are:

• about me
• my favorites
• my bio
• check out these lenses
• all of my lenses (auto-generated in lensrank order)
• personal lensmaster stats (lenses rated, favorited 0r created)

There is the opportunity to add a host of contact-type links
as well. You can also use a variable “about me” comment
to suit the focus of a particular lens (so there is flexibility built
in as well).

Every time you post a comment in the guestbook of another
lens, your Squidoo username is shown and is hyperlinked to
your profile.

Keeping your profile updated is a great way to maximise
visitor experience and enhance promotion of your Squidoo
lenses, blogs and social marketing activity.

I recently learnt this lesson the hard way. I visited
ezinearticles.com to update my profile page there
(they also have an enhanced profile facility). I discovered
that I still had my two line profile that I created when I joined
Ezinearticles in 2006. So none of my Squidoo activity
was reflected in my profile. In the meantime, 450 people
had visited my profile page…what a lost opportunity!

When you think of it, every lens you create is hyperlinked
to your username/profile, so there are heaps of opportunities
for visitors to click through to find out more about you.

Once you update your profile, you require minimum work
to maintain it.

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Ron Passfield is a Top 100 Squidoo Lensmaster
and provides free resources for Squidoo affiliate
marketing on his Squidoo lens:
http://www.squidoo.com/squidoomarketingstrategies

Subscribe to Ron’s free Squidoo Marketing e-course:
http://www.smsecourse.squidoomarketingstrategies.com/

Ron is the author of the ebook:
Squidoo Marketing Strategies

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Free article writing resources

Photo credit: Barbara J H: Sunset paddling - Maroochy River

FREE ARTICLE MARKETING RESOURCES

Free Article Writing Software

Article Marketer, the auto-submission service, recently
released free article writing software.

The software does not write the article for you like some
computerized article writing programs. What it does do is
provide you with a fill-in-the-boxes, structured approach
that makes it easy to write for the beginner and the advanced
writer as well.

I have intuitively used the same structure in my article writing
but I found that by using the software I was able to knock off
two articles in quick succession:

Squidoo: Showcase Your Flickr Photos
Squidoo: Showcase a Photographer

The software comes as a zip file and the actual article
writing program is contained in the file, articlewriter.exe

Affiliates of Article Marketer can brand the software so
the zip file also includes images to assist marketing
and a branding tool.

CLICK the link below to download the free
article writing software:
Free Article Writer Software

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How to Write 8 Articles from a Top 7 Tips Article

Christopher Knight, Ezinearticles.com owner, has written a
great post that shows you how to leverage your writing.

He shows you a template for turning one article into
eight articles using the 7 tips approach:
Top 7 Tips Creates 8 Articles

The free article writing software mentioned above provides
an excellent tool for implementing this strategy.

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Affiliate Product of the Week: InstantPaySites

Well they don’t come any easier than this program.
InstantPaySites enables you to set up your very own
Paypal Store featuring digital information products.
You can literally set it up in minutes - it’s that quick
and easy. Your Paypal Store is hosted and updated for
you and you get 100% of your sales paid immediately
to your Paypal account. Check out my explanation
and review on this Squidoo lens:
http://www.squidoo.com/PaypalShop

You could even send your article readers directly to
your own Paypal Shop.

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Related articles on this blog:

Article Writing: Massive Action for Massive Results
Why write articles?: the benefits
Bum marketing and article writing
Article resource box
Leverage your writing and Google ranking
Affsphere: Article Directory that Pays

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Ron Passfield is a Top 100 Squidoo Lensmaster
and Giant Squid:
He provides free resources for Squidoo affiliate

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Interviewed by Kris Jones, CEO of Pepperjam Network
On 14 August 2008, Kris Jones, CEO of
Pepperjam Affiliate Marketing Network,
interviewed me about Squidoo and affiliate
marketing.

He was particularly interested in the benefits
that Squidoo provides over blogging.

I explained in the interview that the real marketing
benefits occur when Squidoo is treated as the
marketing hub and other approaches such as
blogging, article marketing, Facebook, Twitter,
etc are treated as the spokes.

To read the interview on the Pepperjam Network
blog, CLICK HERE or vist:
http://www.pepperjamnetwork.com/blog/index.php?tag=ron-passfield

PS - apologies for a lack of posts lately - I had a major
computer crash and have had to sort out bugs in my
new computer!
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Dental Marketing Tips: Hayden Dell
If you’re a dentist and want to promote your local business
on the internet, you can learn a lot from Hayden Dell’s
dental marketing tips and dental marketing articles.

It is rare that you can get quality information about
online marketing for a professional service, let alone
sound advice for marketing of a local professional service
within a specific industry.

Hayden Dell does this for the dentist. If you are interested
in marketing your local dental business, you don’t have
to take general marketing advice and apply it to your business.

Hayden does that for you. He brings a knowledge of the
dental industry and internet marketing methods together
in his dental marketing articles.

His dental marketing tips are provided in the language of
the layperson - not too technical and not full of jargon.

The dental marketing information is very well presented
and is clearly stated.

He even concludes his dental marketing tips with useful
“do’s” and “don’ts”.

Anyone marketing a local business could learn from his
local marketing hints - I know I did and I will put some
of his ideas into practice!

Here’s a sample of what Hayden Dell has to offer in terms
of dental marketing advice:

Links vs Citations for Small Business

Pay per Click Strategy

Think Like a Search Engine

Mobile Technology and Local Search

You would do well to add this site to your favorites
if you are interested in marketing any local busienss,
but specifically if you are a dentist and want to market
your dental business online.

Note: This is a sponsored post but I’ve added Hayden’s
site to my favorites to learn more about online local
marketing.

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Ron is a Top 100 Squidoo Lensmaster and Giant Squid.
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