After a week away, staying in a posh hotel with an even posher restaurant (Siggi’s at the Stamford Plaza, Brisbane,
Australia) and buying so many business books and magazines in Borders that I had to pay excess baggage charges on the
flight home, I feel recharged and…well, buzzing.
But there’s such a thing as too much buzzing, and lying in bed wide awake at 3am, because your head is packed with
ideas about what you can do with some new software you’ve bought, isn’t the greatest way to spend a night.
So instead of lying in bed I’ve got up to write to you.
The software is Affiliate Video Brander
and, no doubt, you’ve had a bunch of emails about it already, but no one has shown you exactly what it does, so I’ve put up
some demos for you.
As the name suggests, Affiliate Video Brander lets you ‘brand’ online videos with your affiliate link.
You might think this is nothing new, but it is.
It’s long been possible to automatically redirect your own videos created with Camtasia, or the marketers version of
Camstudio (which comes free as a bonus with Affiliate Video Brander) but, as far as I know, it’s never been possible to
automatically redirect other peoples videos using your affiliate link.
Personally I think this one low-cost tool (which is on a launch special of just $67) can be responsible for really ramping up
your affiliate commissions to a whole new level. It’s going to make a lot of people a lot of sales this year, and you need to
be one of them.
As soon as I saw it I understood the significance, skipped through the sales letter, and bought it without a second
thought.
Basically, what it does, is let you take any online video (created by you or someone else) and put your affiliate link
redirect into it. When the video finishes (or at any point in the video you decide on) it will send people to whatever
it is you’re promoting.
And it even works with videos from YouTube and Google Video.
I downloaded the software before I went to bed, but didn’t look at it, so I’ve just opened it up and unzipped the files.
There are two different products. One for using with the streaming videos from places like YouTube, and one for using
with the videos you see marketers running on their websites (usually embedded in their sales letters).
I’m going to try the Video Page Streamer tool first, which works with videos on sites like YouTube.
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NOTE: I haven’t checked all the YouTube or Google terms and conditions. They might not like you doing this, but seeing
you’re allowed to embed most YouTube videos into your sites I can’t see why you can’t use this tool to do it. The only
difference is it then redirects to your aff link.
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Ok, here’s my first experimental attempt.
1. I open Video Page Streamer and it looks straightforward. There’s a short PDF manual, but I hate reading them, so I just jump in.
It’s only a matter of filling in a few fields in a form.
* you just have to give the video a name
* choose a folder on your hard drive to save it to
* paste in the embedded streaming code which YouTube and other sites give you
* put in your affiliate link.
* enter the length in minutes and seconds of the video.
Simple and straightforward.
2. Ok, so I go YouTube and select a video from someone I know won’t mind his video being used in this way – Joe Vitale.
I grab the code for embedding the video into my web page.
3. Next I go to Amazon and see if the product Joe is pushing is on sale there. It is, so I go into the Amazon affiliate area
and make an affiliate link.
Fill in the form, and seconds later it’s ready to upload to my site. A quick FTP session and a minute later the video,
embedded with my affiliate link, is up and running on my site.
Here it is:
Youtube Video http://www.philwiley.com/videos/joevitale/
Then I did it again with the same video from video.google
Google Video http://www.philwiley.com/videos/joe-vitale/
The redirect worked both times. I’d anticipated trouble which didn’t arrive.
The possibilities for affiliate sales are almost endless with this tool.
It’s both fast and easy to use. You could pay someone to sit at a computer and churn out affiliate pages for you, or simply
spend an hour or two matching videos to suitable affiliate programs.
For instance, you could redirect music videos (put up by bands and their promoters) to CD and DVD affiliate programs.
Example video:
The fast selling Smashing Pumpkins new album
Or grab a video of Yanik Silver from video.google com (there’s even one of him doing stand up) and use it with your affiliate
link to one of his products.
Dozens of internet marketers have promotional videos up on these sites. You’ll be making sales for them, so I can’t
imagine them objecting to you using the videos. That’s what they’re there for.
You could even put up an entire video web site filled with affiliate branded videos. Sort of a mini YouTube. And
because most the videos would be hosted elsewhere you’d hardly use any hosting space or bandwidth.
I can’t believe it’s going for just $67 (until the 4th July)
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Now for the second included tool, which lets you use videos normally embedded in sales pages or other parts of a marketers site.
Experiment 2.
Rob Benwell has just released a brand new version of Blogging To The Bank, so I decided to experiment with that.
The book is very good. You should buy it.
But first the experiment.
1. I open the Affiliate Video Brander (which is really the main tool supplied…the other one is just a bonus)
Again it’s just as simple, and all you do is fill in a short form.
But what this one does is grab a video directly off a sales page and suck it down onto your own computer. You don’t even
have to mess around trying to find the exact location of the video file – it looks through the code and finds it for you.Then you simply rebrand it by entering your affiliate link, and upload it to your own site.
2.I knew that Rob had a preview video running before the sales page went live. It’s now been removed, but luckily I knew the URL, so I filled in the form as before with
* a name for the video.
* the place I wanted to save it to on my hard drive.
* I entered the url of Rob’s video.
* put in my affiliate link.
* But this time, in the form field where you enter the length of the video I set it to one minute because I know it’s quite a long video and you don’t need to watch it all (what you need to do is get over to Rob’s site and get hold of his book before all the bonuses are gone.
Again, easy and straightforward.
Here’s the link to the video
http://www.philwiley.com/videos/Bloggingtothebank/
It took me under 5 minutes to create and upload the branded video.
If I’d taken longer I could have added written content or changed the look of the page.
But like I said, this was only a quick test to show you how the software works, how fast and simple it is to use,
and why you really need to get it right now and start using it.
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Right, I’m really tired now, so just a bit on Blogging To The Bank 2.0 which launched yesterday.
I know Rob personally, and when I was over in England at Christmas I went to visit him at his impressive new 600K
house in Yorkshire. For a guy of 22 he’s a huge success (well for a person of any age) but very, very, nice with
not the slightest touch of the arrogance or ego that many marketers seem to display.
He’s also a hard worker, and BTTB2 is a complete rewrite of last years book. These days Rob is doing many things differently
to the stuff he explained in the last book, and finding even more blogging success.
In the book he explains why he no longer uses automated tools. And shows site-by-side results of earnings from automated
blogs to hand written blogs. Guess which ones win 
He shows you the exact easy-to-follow steps he takes to create a profitable blog, from subject idea, to research,
to creating the blog, and filling it with content. The best part though (in my opinion) is the big section where
he covers promoting the sites and getting traffic.
In a testimonial on the site I’ve written:
“Blogging to the Bank 2.0 covers all the basics of pro blogging and much more. It’s full of the best blog search engine optimization
tips and cutting edge promotional ideas out there.”
It’s especially useful for people just starting out with blogging and/or internet marketing, though it covers a lot of more advanced promo stuff too.
Well worth getting hold of.
Right, that’s it for today. Now I’m going to go for a long lie down
Phil
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