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Shopp

What It Does: Allows you to sell both shipped and digital products or services from your WordPress website. It offers a variety of different payment gateways to suit many nationalities and requirements. All major gateways such as PayPal are supported.

Who Needs It: Anyone that wants a serious e-commerce business.

Link: http://shopplugin.net

Author: Jon Davis

After much searching and in some cases praying,

Shopp e-commerce plugin wins the WordPress e-commerce wars! (In our humble but well informed opinion)

In the browser wars just after the rise of the internet, Microsoft managed to intimidate their way to the lead briefly. But the damage was done and they went on to become market leaders (obviously).

Fortunately on the internet their will always be healthy competition, and we have innovators such as Mozilla and most prominently Apple.

So here we have a Mac user creating software for WordPress. Yay!

Here are some of the main features:

• Smoothly integrates into the WordPress 2.7 interface.
• Very efficient code means a swift buying experience for your visitors.
• Flexible setup and product display options.
• Sell digital and shipped products together.
• Good support and upgrading options.

He defines it as:

The art of telling a story to a consumer that they want to hear, that lets them persuade themselves to buy something. Inherent to that story:

1. You have to have something they want. You must not force it on them.
2. You have to be authentic. Tell the truth.
3. Your story has to be so remarkable that people want to tell your story to others.

Remember, we have so much choice today that permission marketing is just the beginning of your strategy.

The nature of the web has ubiquitized products and services. What you provide must serve a real need in your audience but also have that special quality that shows a deep regard for elegant solutions.

Take the new Apple MacBook for example.

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If you’re selling something or promoting yourself online and you’re not using video, you’re crazy. The number of visitors to video sharing sites is growing at an incredible rate with some focusing only on training and learning. e.g. www.Sclipo.com only allows web training and learning videos.

In addition, if you only upload videos to YouTube you may be missing a lot of potential traffic as well. To read some valuable video research go the video research page on TubeMogul. (new window)

TubeMogul allows you to upload one video, with a title, description and tags, and then publish it to many video sharing sites with one click.

As well as allowing one click publishing TubeMogul can track all your movies across all the sites and show your statistics as well.So here are the steps you need to take in order to start drawing more targeted traffic to your website and your product or service:

1. Create a video! – This is probably the biggest step but for the purpose of this article we are going to assume you have already done that. Just briefly here are some suggestions: Make it succinct, professional, edited or planned, insert you web address at the beginning or at the end of the movie (or both) and make it provide some clear benefit or entertainment at the very least.

2. Sign up with all the main Video sharing sites including TubeMogul - Use your domain email address i.e. greathotpants@gmail.com and create accounts with all these sites.

HOT TIP: use the same email address, username and password and let Firefox save them in your browser.

HOT TIP 2: If you already have accounts with YouTube or other video sharing sites you are still better off creating new accounts because it makes for a more focused channel when people visit your profile page. e.g. We create video training for WordPress and other web technology.

If you don’t create accounts with all these sites, TubeMogul can upload to the ones you have missed later anyway.

Here is the list of the sites and sign up links (open in new windows):

• TubeMogul.com – Main account for this video marketing campaign.
• YouTube.com – The number one video sharing site. Open season.
• Yahoo.com – Another big one. No limits on content.
• MySpace.com – Also a huge social networking site.
• MetaCafe.com – Another video sharing site.
• GoogleVideo.com – The big guys have this one too!
• Revver.com – Good high quality video sharing site.
• AOL.com – Aren’t microsoft involved? Oh well…
• DailyMotion.com – Good quailty encoding site.
• Blip.TV – Cool widescreeen format and player choices.
• Veoh.com – TV and Video sharing.
• Vimeo.com – Yet another…
• Viddler.com – What is this. Fiddler with a V?

The following video sites are for special content such as web courses and training etc. You will need to check them out individually and see if they suite your content. Also TubeMogul requires a quick appplication to be able to publish to these sites as well.

• Sclipo.com – Broadcast your skills. DIY and How To videos.
• HowCast.com – A How TO video site.
• 5min.com – Instructional and DIY videos.
• Crackle.com – Indie TV Shows.
• StupidVideos – This one explains itself…

There is one site that deserves an honorable mention because it is so socially relevant. This site doesn’t show up on TubeMogul. Its a site initiated by Al Gore to allow the public to create and share topical documentaries with the world. I have found it to be a wonderful form of communication and learning. Visit the site at www.Current.tv

3. Upload your video to TubeMogul – Here you select the file and while it is uploading you can enter the Title, Description,Tags and select a category. Here it is useful if you have done some keyword research that potently describes your video and what it is about.

HOT TIP: Make the title and the description compelling and succinct and rememeber to put your website link in here too, including the full url like so; http://effectiveclassywebsites.com/ Once your video has uploaded you will need to click UPLOAD then choose a thumbnail to proceed.

4. Enter your username and passwords for all the accounts we have created – Remember to get TubeMogul to save all your details for the next video upload. Press LAUNCH!

Now we have absolutely maximized the exposure and effect if your video marketing. The only other thing we need to do is visit the actual websites of our video accounts and complete our profile information so that there is something that invites them to take action!

Some tips on Video settings.

When you export your movie ready for uploading here are some settings to get the best quality possible.

• Keep video length under 10 min. 2-3 min videos are the most viewed.
• Put your web address at the end and at the beginning if you feel it works.
• 640 x 480 pixels
• 30fps
• MP4 Quicktime file using H.264 or (DivX, Xvid) format.

How To Make YouTube Videos Look Great – from Squidoo.com

Good luck and have fun getting your videos out there!

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