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TheRichJerk is launching a new product tomorrow called XRay Domination.  It's an interesting product with a staged launch where the narrator, "Ryan", exposes the RichJerk's keywords in his Adwords campaigns.  There was a series of videos, building up suspense and I thought it was a fun launch.

Some people are offended by the Rich Jerk and his language and the way he talks about women.  I know that some people might find this in bad taste, but I am just amused when I read his emails and the copy on his website.  It's like watching a stand-up comedian, or even listening to hard rock music with insulting lyrics, or even the country western music with lyrics that somehow say hurtful things but have a bit of truth in them.  I usually laugh outloud when I read his stuff.  I just don't take it seriously. There's something releasing about it - the way I see it - laughing is always good, and his marketing info is amongst the best on the market.

Last week, Rich Jerk launched his new Rich Jerk Evolution website in very close proximity to the X-ray Domination launch, which is tomorrow.

In fact, I saw at least a couple of marketers who got their promotions mixed up about this. They actually confused the two launches. They thought they were promoting X-ray Domination, but the link was for Rich Jerk Evolution (or vice versa), which is a totally different thing.

Rich Jerk Evolution (aka Rich Jerk 2.0) is basically the new evolution of the original Rich Jerk ebook, formatted as a membership site with various types of content. It costs $29 a month if you pay for the entire year, $59 quarterly, and $99 on a monthly basis.  But being a member of Rich Jerk Evolution will give you the chance to purchase X-ray Domination a full hour before everyone else. And since they’re limiting it to 500 licenses, it could be a big factor. I have no idea how quickly it will sell out (I don’t even know the price yet), but I figured I’d at least let you know.  I hope I can afford it!

There are about 5 major launches going on right now and so there is a lot of noise on the marketplace and it feels hard to distinguish between all of the claims made for the various products.

The X-ray Domination product itself is launching tomorrow on March 20th at Noon eastern.

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I mentioned a while  back that I accepted the challenge to create my first video without having a camera or any special tools.  I created a video and submitted it to Rich Schefren's video contest.  It was accepted and I'm in the running.  We received 36 hours to create and upload a video.

First of all, I had a concept ready in my mind to use Roberta Flack's "Feel Like Making Love" and have asked my son to help me create a new version but there just wasn't enough time.  I also worked on a manuscript that  I planned on speaking over the actual video.  The results were a lot different than I had envisioned.  Since I still haven't learned how to put a video on my site I am including a link to it here: http://www.strategicprofits.com/66-seconds-compelling/angela-wickenberg/

I had just signed up for Traffic Geyser and used the tips given in the bonus book I mentioned in the blogpost on the $47 free book.  It took  about 6-7 hours just to look through some of the free photos available on the Net and about 4 hours looking for a way to publish the music that I had decided on.  Since I couldn't figure out how to use the music I actually first decided on, I took a few more hours looking for music included in Traffic Geyser.

I downloaded some software recommended in the ebook I mentioned above and just 6 hours before the deadline I was learning how to use this new software.  Just a few hours left until the deadline and I was finally getting somewhere.  When I completed the slideshow video (Yeahhhhh!) I had to learn how to upload.  I had to create accounts for what seemed like an endless amount of sites through Traffic Geyser, but the rules for the Attention Age contest was that the video be uploaded through YouTubeMogul.com, which only required six accounts - easy enough.  After a few more glitches and four more hours in the middle of the night here in Sweden, I was finally finished uploading and could go to bed at 5 AM.

So here's the video and my interpretation of the Attention Age Doctrine, part 2. http://www.strategicprofits.com/66-seconds-compelling/angela-wickenberg/

Angela Wickenberg

 

Taking a pause.  What would life be like if we never took one? 

Maddening I would say.

I had a deepened realization of this as I was Twittering this morning at twitter.com/ebizmom.  I had been feeling disoriented for the past few weeks, but especially after some minor day surgery a week ago.

"Feels like I lost footing and can't remember what I was doing",  and I wrote that  "Sometimes, it's important to just breathe deeply and relax when things are cloudy and even a little 'out of order'. Letting the dust settle", and  "The most important symbol in music is the PAUSE, and pausing when speaking is THE most powerful strategy to use. And so it is with life."

As I ate my mid-morning snack, I couldn't stop thinking about the Pause and it's importance in our lives, even for all life, and how we unconsciously use the pause every day.   We would go insane without taking a pause every now and then, so in this sense, the Pause is the most important word in the dictionary, and the most important thing, the one thing we all need to learn how to purposely use in our lives. Even in software development, a breakpoint is an intentional stopping or pausing place in a program, put in place for debugging purposes, according to Wikipedia.

In my humble opinion, the Pause can be used to attain fantastic goals, like Peace of Mind, Love, Friendship, and Financial Freedom.

We take pauses every day.  But a lot of the pauses that we take are unconscious; they have become automatic.

We need to learn to take conscious pauses when we breathe, eat, play and work.

A great speaker takes pauses in strategic places to emphasize a point, and so do the greatest of salespersons.

The music that moves us the most uses pauses very effectively. 

It's called Fermata.  This word is very similar to ferment: to stir up or seethe with excitment.

We become more exciting and build expectation when we take a pause, even though the taking of the pause itself is relaxing.

We need to rest. Give ourselves a chance to release the past and heal. To become whole.

In poetry it's called Prosody; the study of poetic metre and the art of versification.

Without the Pause, there is no Beauty. There is no Music. There is no poetry.

Prosody is also the patterns of stress and intonation in a language.

To take a pause means to take a short break; a temporary stop.

Taking a pause lets the dust settle, but it also helps build momentum and excitement.

Taking a few deep breathes clears my muddled thoughts and helps me focus better. 

In this sense, the Pause is meditation.

To stop.  To reflect. To consider. To remember what's important.

To breathe.

It only takes a few moments. Just a few breathes, and we can change our lives.

Go in a new direction. Or decide to continue on a chosen path with new-found direction and purpose.

So, take a conscious Pause, and breathe.

Angela Wickenberg

 

Creating, discovering, searching, sharing, storing etc for videos

1. BigContact : social podcasting/videocasting (#,a-b)
2. blinkx : tv / video / podcast search (#,a-b)
3. blip.tv : video/podcasting sharing service (#,a-b)
4. Bolt : video/photo/music sharing service (#,a-b)
5. Boltfolio : video sharing service (#,a-b)
6. BroadbandSports.com : sports video portal (#,a-b)
7. BroadSnatch : podcasts/v-logs (#,a-b)
8. Castpost : social video hosting / sharing (c-d)
9. Clipshack : social video sharing (c-d)
10. Dailymotion : video sharing (c-d)
11. DiviCast : social podcasting/videocasting (c-d)
12. Dropshots : social video sharing (c-d)
13. EveryBit : search multimedia web content (e-f)
14. EyeSpot : simple video mixing and sharing (e-f)
15. FireAnt.tv : social video sharing (e-f)
16. Flukiest : music/photo/video sharing (e-f)
17. Freevlog : video logging tutorial (e-f)
18. GetDemocracy : internet television (g-h)
19. GlideDigital : social photo/music/video/file/etc sharing (g-h)
20. Grinvi : social video sharing (spanish) (g-h)
21. Grouper : social video sharing (g-h)
22. Kolablog : multimedia blogging service; free (k-l)
23. LifeBlogger : free blogging service (k-l)
24. Loomia : podcast/video search engine (k-l)
25. Magnoto : free modular blogging service (m-n)
26. MediaMax : online media / file storage ; free (25 gb) and paid accounts (m-n)
27. MediaTurner : rich media player service (m-n)
28. mefeedia : social video sharing (m-n)
29. MetaCafe : social video sharing (m-n)
30. MyVideoKaraoke : social karaoke video sharing (m-n)
31. Openvlog : video recording and sharing (o-p)
32. Orb : secure access to media (music/photo/video) (o-p)
33. Ourmedia : online storage (o-p)
34. Phanfare : social photo / video sharing (o-p)
35. PicPix : photo/video sharing/tag/organization application (o-p)
36. PiXPO : video sharing service (o-p)
37. poddater : video personals with tags (o-p)
38. Podesk : video podcast/blog software (o-p)
39. Pooxi : video search engine (french) (o-p)
40. Popcast : social video braodcasting (o-p)
41. Revver : social video sharing (q-r)
42. SelfCastTV : social video sharing (s-t)
43. SevenLoad : social video sharing (s-t)
44. Sharkle : social video sharing (s-t)
45. ShoZu : social photo / video / text mobile sharing (s-t)
46. Stickam : social media sharing (s-t)
47. Stridr / swapzies : social media storage (s-t)
48. Strmz : videos from TV channels (s-t)
49. Trueveo : video search engine (s-t)
50. TurnHere : film of the day (s-t)
51. VideoBomb : social video hosting / sharing (u-v)
52. VideoEgg : video publishing (u-v)
53. VideoSift : social video sharing (u-v)
54. VidiLife : social video sharing (u-v)
55. Vimeo : social video sharing (u-v)
56. vlogmap : video blogs on google maps (u-v)
57. vMix : social video sharing (u-v)
58. Vongo : high-quality full screen video plugin software (u-v)
59. vSocial : social video sharing (u-v)
60. woomu : social video sharing with user tags and votes (w-x)
61. YouTube : social video sharing (y-z)
62. Zippyvideos : social video sharing (y-z)

I used to like to receive a lot of marketing offers by email.  It gave me a chance to see how it works - marketing by email - how to write sales letters, emails, how to follow-up, etc, but lately, I have been removing my name and main email account from a lot of "lists".  I was receiving the same offers, over and over again.  The same rehashed information.  And some of the senders, the "gurus" were sending me offers at least twice a day.  Although these are great marketing tools, the popularity of teleseminars, webinars and viral videos, ebooks and reports of late has precipitated my name getting on lists threefold, fourfold and even eightfold because I would be required to fill in my name an email for every single one of them, even though I was already on  their lists. Of course, this is probably how their  income have exploded - by marketing through this media but using email marketing to make contact with people who are ready to buy.

I have also noticed lately that I am receiving offers from senders whom I have never opted in with.  One day, when one of the guys was marketing someone, a whole bunch of marketers lined up to send out offers for this person's products - a complete newbie on the scene. I decided then and there to remove myself from all but a few lists.  I must have been on every single list that this person's product was peddled on.

But I continue to receive mail from certain people - from marketers who are not pimping their lists and who are not trying to shove every new (or re-invented old)  product and/or opportunity down my throat.

One of them is John Reese. Here is a free interview conducted by John Reese where you don't have to give your email address or be bombarded with several emails just to listen to the darn interview.

It's about a new advertising program and offers the opportunity to make upwards of $150 and even more from a single click.  This sounds fantastic so I signed up at once and will give it a try.

Aparently, the guy to created the system has found a way to use some powerful technology to optimize the ads and the ebay 'network' offers higher payouts than you could ever get on your own.  It even "geotargets" ads based on a visitor's location so you can earn massive payouts from people going to all the eBay country-specific sites.

eBay is already paying over $20.00 per new user that gets referred to their site, and while this program can
easily make you those referral commissions, it goes wayyyyy beyond that.

You get a % of the eBay fees any new referred user spends (in a certain period of time) AND this new service knows when to send visitors, for example,
to like eBay Germany (for German users) where the referral payouts are even higher than eBay USA users.

John Reese recently interviewed the creator of this new program for nearly TWO HOURS where they talked about all kinds of tips and tricks for making more money from any web site — tons of stuff that had nothing to do with this new program.

He says that this interview has more value than most paid ebooks! 

Here's the interview on Income.com:  http://www.income.com/newinterview.html

Here's the link to try out this service: http://www.auctionads.com/refer_de6181f4181fc1d84a66


Angela Wickenberg

Hey you guys! (that includes the female species, too)

I've been putting it off for the longest time… ignoring it.  It's such a big change, but I'm bent on doing it.  My website will be revamped and the change is scaring me!  But it's been one of my goals for a very long time - to fix everything that is broken; to fill in the blanks and make a mark.

I have written down several goals for this Summer - which is a working Summer for me this year. The kids are away on vacation and I am free to get anything and everything on my list done and completed.  Here are the top 5: 

1) Increase my Income (wow - not very original but my highest priority, nonetheless!)  I have several strategies for this.
2) A new car (for me - just want to qualify this - it doesn't have to be a brand new car - not as much pressure on me then )
3) Get organized in business and private life.
4) Attend important Internet Marketing seminars
5) Record new songs (gotta have SOME fun) and make videos (not music videos - videos for my business!)

I'll write something on how I intend to accomplish each of these in the coming days and weeks, "come hell or high water…".

Speaking of lists of 5 things, Carlos Garcia gives away the five top Ad-Networks, the 5 top CPA Networks and the 5 top Co-Reg Networks in a .pdf as a thank-you for filling out the survey after viewing the video. 

What are your top five goals for this summer or this year, and how do you intend to accomplish them?

Angela Wickenberg

Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus

There are now so many companies vying to be the next YouTube, it's easy to lose track of them all. So let's take a look at the entire online video industry and categorize the major players. Our thanks to Ali Dagli of Savvian, for providing us a lot of the useful data listed here. 

In this post we've summarized the latest video industry innovations under the following categories:

• Video Sharing
• Intermediaries
• Video Search
• Video eCommerce
• Video Editing & Creation
• Rich Media Advertising
• P2P (Peer To Peer)
• Video Streaming
• Vlogosphere