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This weekend, I was flown in from Stockholm to Orlando by StomperNet to participate in the beginner fast track competition as a finalist!  I joined StomperNet in late October 2006 with the intention of gaining knowledge of SEO and other methods of gaining natural traffic. Since I am a non-technie kind of person, the creation of websites and blogs is quite an accomplishment in itself.

Although I live in Sweden, I was born and raised in a family from Louisiana that migrated to Los Angeles. I often feel I would like to move back home. My most immediate concern and goal with my business, of course, is to support my family, but I want to become hugely successful, too.   I sold my car and took out loans to go into business last fall, so I think that shows the degree of my commitment.

I am both emotional and passionate, and so I have poetically espressed the trials and tribulations of being the single mother of four children - one at university - with a large house note and of starting up a business from scratch.

A version of my presentation will be divided up in articles, where I may or may not expand concepts, on this blog, as well as the lyrics to the song that I wrote in connection to my application.  Hopefully, I will also successfully record the song and upload it. Earlier attempts weren't very promising. Not being a professional singer, I am self-conscious of uploading an inferior product.  I promised to give freebie info and products to my fellow Stompers and readers; and who better to do this than someone like me who has had to find all the free resources possible in order for my business to survive! I have collected this information over the past few years, and will soon re-organize my blog so that they are uploaded and more easily found and accessed.  More to come on this in the coming weeks.

Prior to the trip, my youngest son caught the flu and all of the others caught bad colds, so life was hectic before leaving. I was lucky to have escaped getting ill myself - just a sore throat.  After the 24 hours of travelling time, including layovers and missed planes, I finally arrived to the seminar, but only a few hours late.  I met a lot of fantastic people whom I admire; John Reese, who had a rare appearance as the Keynote Speaker, Andy Jenkins, Brad Fallon and Ben Mack, whose book I had just started reading, to name a few. It's surprising how gracious and generous these famous marketers are!  My camera was broken, but Sharon Odom Fling in the photos was so kind as to take a few with her camera.  Thanks Sharon!  Here are some of the photos from the seminar. 1st  photo: John Reese. 2nd photo: Andy Jenkins. 3rd photo: Brad Fallon. 4th photo: Ben Mack. Group photo with my new friend Sharon Odom Fling. I am Angela, the lady in red.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I didn't win the competition, Britt Taylor did, as well as the surprise gift of a BMW M5, presented by John Reese, but I had the chance to touch the hearts and minds of many others in my presentation and feel that, in a sense, I am also a winner in this competition and that my relationship to StomperNet is more than a mere passing fling.

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)

So cool! And what a relief! I hosted the premier Strategy Calls seminar today with Ben Mack. 

The replay is here: http://www.instantteleseminar.com/?eventid=3493947

Joe Sugarman came on the line, too. Ben Mack coached callers right on the line!

BenMack @EbizMom Angela, I'm grateful u had me on! What a treat JOE SUGARMAN… how did u make that happen?

:)))

I think it turned out pretty good.  Ben put me on the spot at the end of the call, though. Listen how I stumble through summarizing the call! LOL!

Here are some of the comments from the listeners on the call:

YvonneLyon @EbizMom Thanks for the great call with @BenMack - it was super-educational!

Franca @EbizMom Congrats on the very good call with @benmack. Pretty informative info discussed for the small business owner. Very clear concepts.

 

JimZaccaria @EbizMom Thanks for hosting the call Will you be putting that on CD to sell, or use as a Bonus? Simple to do about 16 hours ago from web in reply to EbizMom

  Franca @EbizMom Great surprise added bonus to the call - learn how @benmack makes the JV (Joint Venture) smooth moves on Joe Sugarman. Classic! Wow! 

 

Here are more Tweets on the subject:

SpiritCoach @BenMack-the way u handled that call today made me a believer - and that was after the Too Much Info over the weekend! : ) about 6 hours ago from web in reply to BenMack

SpiritCoach @BenMack-I'm on webcast. Call just started peeps-BenMack on Branding for Solopreneurs http://ping.fm/gmOan about 18 hours ago from Ping.fm in reply to BenMack

SpiritCoach @BenMack-u r a master of persuasion in how u r handling this call! : ) about 18 hours ago from web in reply to BenMack

BenMack @SpiritCoach Thank you for complimenting me! The call was a blast and a gift it was to have the Living Legend Joe Sugarman call from Hawaii about 17 hours ago from web in reply to SpiritCoach

BenMack @lksugarman Miss Sugarman, are you related to Living Legend Joe Sugarman? Is that Y he came on my call this morning b/c your his daughter? about 17 hours ago from web in reply to lksugarman

lksugarman @BenMack no, no relation. He came on yr call because you're unpredictable, profane, and brilliant. Wish I'd been on that call myself. about 17 hours ago from web in reply to BenMack

Thank you everybody!

Angela Wickenberg

Hi Everybody,

Free IQ, described as "Clickbank meets YouTube", is going
to change the information
product marketing industry.

Some predict that it will be the next billion dollar buy out.

This new site is combining ecommerce with
the YouTube concept.

As a registered member, you can write reviews,
save your favorites, and even upload your own content.
Plus, you can create your own web site on Free IQ.
You can upload your photo, bio and all of your videos,
audios and ebooks. You can even create your own web
site navigation and categories and manage your own
web site on Free IQ.

Note: If you also want to sell some of your content through
Free IQ and their network of affiliates, you need to upgrade
your account to Paid Content Provider status. That’s free, too!
To complete your Free Registration login to Free IQ
and click on My Account Manager at the top of the page.

Imagine, if Amazon combined with YouTube
with a Google Search Engine…

The affiliate program allows you to embed video
on any site you want, just like YouTube.
But when that person goes to the site
and makes a purchase, you get paid.

That's right… You get paid for promoting
other peoples videos.

On top of that, there is a 1 year cookie.

But here is where it gets even more important
that you get started today.

This is Web 2.0 at it's best. The videos
have the latest technology to that will allow
ratings, relevancy,  and scoring.

So that means, videos with more views will
be more relevant that others.

So like the California gold rush of 1849, you
want to be the first to get going in your wagon.

As you set your videos, and the sites "Tips"
to one of the top 100 sites in the world, your
videos will have more views because of
first movers advantage as you load content
and place the relevant tags for it.
 
Go sign up now (no cost), then learn all you can about how
to start making money with it.

beta.freeiq.com/befree

Angela

This is just a quick note to wish one and all a very Happy Easter/Passover/Spring.  I imagine that your family celebrates Spring in one way or another and I wonder what the traditions and "rituals" are in your part of the world.

In my family in L.A., we celebrated on Easter Sunday.  Today, which is “Good Friday”, the religiously devout went to church, and we always ate fried fish - really "blackened fish" on this day.  Saturday, on the Eve of Easter, we boiled eggs (for far too long) and dyed them in lots of pastel colors.  They were then hidden in the yard for us children to go hunting for them the following day.  Easter Sunday was one of the few times that we went to church.  I have a vivid mental photo of the white dresses that we had on.  It was always beautiful weather and like one of the warmest days of summer but the air was clear in a blue, cloudless sky. We always received a basket with Easter chocolates in the form of Easter bunnies, See's Candy BonBons and chocolate eggs of various sorts. Also other types of candy eggs, too. And then there was the Easter egg hunt.

Lots of distant cousins and family would come to feast on the Easter goodies, which consisted of “filé gumbo“, ham, potato salad, "deviled" eggs, and probably about 10-20 other dishes, including homemade ice-cream and an array of desserts, depending on what some of my relatives brought with them. Many of the women in my family loved to cook and eat and it certainly showed!  This is a fond memory.

Here in Sweden, the traditions are different. Easter is celebrated from Thursday to Monday, and Easter itself is celebrated on the Eve of Easter.  This time of year, I am out in the yard, tending my garden, grooming and pruning bushes and trees, raking up the leaves that I didn’t have the energy or inclination to take care of the previous fall, and planting flowers that can take the frost, like Easter lilies (not the bulbs but potted plants) and pansies. A well-needed Spring cleaning and painting indoors are also normal chores of March and April.

On the Thursday before Easter, which is called “skärtorsdag” or “Maundy Thursday”, the children, really the girls, get dressed up like “witches” from “the Brocken”.  This is a German tradition that came to Sweden sometime in the 19th century. Like in most of Europe and in the U.S. there was a time when women who were learned in natural herb lore and were healers were pointed out as witches, hunted down and burned at the stake. Halloween has come to Sweden only in recent years; Skärtorsdag, or Maundy Thursday, was the day when the children got dressed up and went from door to door to beg for candy or other goodies.

On the subject of witch hunts, I recently received an email from a fellow marketer who wrote that America is on a witch hunt and Rhonda Byrne, the creator of The Secret, is being burnt on many stakes.  She is the woman behind the wildly popular film and best-selling book, “The Secret”.

The Secret has been debated on CNN, Oprah, Larry King, and in The New York Times.  And now, for the first, last time, and only time in 2007,  you can hear Rhonda's side - The (insiders) Story Behind The Secret

http://www.linkbrander.com/go/37072


Let your friends and family also register - this could make for an interesting dinner discussion!

Whatever your religion and traditions, have a wonderful weekend!  Celebrate Spring!

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