It’s the end of August, which means that London’s big summer event is in full swing: the Notting Hill Carnival. Will the weather hold? Or will the heavens rain on the enthusiasm of a million aficionados determined to have fun?
I won’t go to Carnival this year. I am not a fan of huge crowds. Still, I decided to brave the tourist hordes and visit Big Ben after having made the acquaintance of Little Ben in the most surprising of places. Have a look:
I had tons of fun making this video. Well, except for the day I set off to video Big Ben and arrived exactly 1 minute after 12noon because the Tube was held up. D’OH!!
I basically used a lot of the free tools I gave you in an earlier blog post. If you don’t have them yet, head over to my video survey, fill in the very brief questionnaire and receive the Free Resources report with my compliments. You’ll also find my How-To-Create-Videos ebook there if you want it. It’s free, too.
For this video, I used a couple of tools that I have not yet added to the two reports. I downloaded the soundtrack (free) from iStockphoto.com. Creating an account with iStockphoto is free. Every month they give away free media – I make a habit of visiting the site regularly and downloading what I like. I also buy media there, but this time I didn’t need to.
Another free tool I used to edit my MP4 video clips of Big Ben and Little Ben is “VideoPad Video Editor Software.” After I had edited them, I saved the clips as WMV files, and then compiled the final version in Windows Movie Maker 2.6. Incidentally, you can use Videopad also just for file conversion.
If you have any questions or comments, I’d love to hear from you. And should you encounter Little Ben in other far flung places, PLEASE, let me know.
Do you ever wonder how different geographical locations see your search terms?
In fact, do you know what the search engine results of your targeted Internet marketing campaigns look like for others who are geographically not based where you are?
The answer to this question can be complicated or easy. I used to do it the hard way using proxy servers, waiting, crashing, what have you. Then I discovered a dead easy method. Here it is:
Because search engines treat different locations differently, you need a tool that helps you keep a check on the success of your efforts.
This video shows you how to use a free, easy to install tool that provides you the answer literally with just a couple of mouse clicks:
Did you watch my last video, “The 4 Keys To Success”? If you didn’t, you definitely missed a handful of tricks.
Before I show you the tricks you missed, here is, in a nutshell, what I did:
I recorded “The 4 Keys To Success” in five parts, primarily to avoid having to re-record the entire video when (not if) I made a mistake. With five videos on my hands, I decided rather than uploading the complete version to Youtube, to upload it in five instalments.
Next, I published my blog post with the complete video on the 11th of July. After that, I started posting the five instalments via Tubemogul one per day. I did not do any promotion of the instalments. I simply did all the posting stuff correctly.
Did you get all the tricks? I’ll spell them out in a moment, but first, here is what happened:
Yes, within one week of launching and without any promotion, my video is in position no. 3 on page 1 of Google for the exact search term (competition: 144,000 web pages), already at the top of page 2 (competition: 3.17 million web pages) for the broad search term, and all five videos are on page 1 of Youtube for the broad search term.
A lot has happened since I posted my update on my stats. Webinars, seminars, workshops, the Internet Millionaire Summit, mentoring, coaching, and there is still so much more to come in the very near future.
The result: I am hardly able to come up for air. I am almost drowning in information overload. I can see opportunities, possibilities, tempting departures in so many directions. It is a true firework of ideas, impressions and information.
This is a real danger, though, not just a figment of a feverish imagination.
Why?
Because if I don’t do something very, very soon and radical at that about it, I could well end up like fireworks: a dazzling light, then a big bang, my head disperses in all directions and the ideas extinguish before the embers even hit the ground.
It is time for My Day In The Boardroom:
As you just saw, when I hit this level of saturation, I close my computer, take pen and paper, and after thorough preparation I disappear for a day or even just an hour or two to my boardroom, far from telephone, email and all the tantalising online distractions.
I am sure you can’t wait not only to learn that my day in the boardroom has been very productive, but also what it produced: [click to continue…]
How much traffic arrived at this site during the seven weeks since I started it? What did I do to generate this traffic, and what kind of results did this produce?
The Start
First things first: I count April 19, 2010, as the day this blog was born. It was the date of Alex Jeffreys’ first training webinar. You can see from the graph that even a few days into the course visitor numbers were still beautifully aligned at zero.
Visitors at maxalter.com – Google Analytics for 19 April to 7 June 2010
Traffic Generation
In the seven weeks to June 7, 2010, I published 16 blog posts that received 102 comments. I admit, 2.3 posts per week weren’t all that onerous.
