In the last video, you saw how easy it was to upload your videos to Amazon S3 and use their cheap but quality service.

In today’s video, you will see how to play the Amazon S3 video on your website.

The web video we created is a flash video with the extension MP4 or FLV. These require a flash player to play the videos on your website.

One of the flash players which is compatible with Amazon S3 and is FREE, is JW FLV Player which can be downloaded at http://www.longtailvideo.com

In today’s video, you will learn how to configure JW Player so that it accesses your web videos on Amazon S3 and play it on your website or blog.

Here’s a video on how to set up and configure your Amazon S3 account.

Amazon S3 account is an excellent service for storing your web videos. Depending on how many people view your videos, the cost is very low.

It’s much better than storing the videos on your own server because Amazon S3 is fast and has huge storage space. A lot of internet marketing experts use this service for their videos.

After watching the video on how to set up and configure your Amazon S3 account, the next video will be how to play the videos from the Amazon S3 account on your website and blogs.

This is part 4 of the 7 part video training series, “How To Create and Host Your Web Videos”.

Today we’ll look at how you can edit your videos using free software to polish them up and submit to various video sharing websites.

The software is called “Windows Movie Maker” which comes as a free tool with your Windows Operating System. In the video, you will learn how to add effects to your videos and trim out the parts that you don’t want.

A lot of people don’t realize how powerful and useful this free tool is, that is sitting on their computer. It may not have all the effects of a professional editing software, but unless you’re a professional, you won’t need it for the time being.

In this video training, I talk about how you can record a live video for the web.

This is a very inexpensive way of recording videos. It you want good quality web videos, then this is not for you.

However, for videos you want to submit to video sharing sites such as YouTube, Viddler and Revver, then it’s good enough.

All the methods I show you in this video training series are inexpensive. All the software and tools mentioned are within the price range of most people.

To check out part 1 -2 of the video training series, click on the links below:

Part 1 – How to create and host web videos

Part 2 – Using CamStudio To Record Your Desktop

Here’s part 2 of the video series “How To Create And Host Your Own Web Videos”.

In this video, you’ll learn how to use CamStudio (which is free) to record the movements on your screen.

As I mentioned, you will need a USB microphone to get decent sound quality. If the video is average, the visitors may stick around. If the audio is poor, they’ll leave.

So get a USB microphone if you can.

A little disclaimer here. I’m not an expert on making videos. I just know how to do them. If I want to create professional looking ones, I’ll get it outsourced.

I just thought it would be useful to share the information of what I know for those of you who like to do everything by yourself. But with practice, I think it’s possible to create decent web videos and promote your websites.

Enjoy.

You need web videos for your sales page to capture your visitors’ attention, and making them take the action you want. Whether it’s to purchase a product or sign up to their newsletter.

I started to create web videos about a month ago for this blog. It took me bloody ages figuring out how to do it. One of the reasons is because there are is much information out there and everyone has different views.

Well if you like the videos I created for this blog and on my page at http://www.eliteghostwriters.com/report.html then check out the video series on how I did it.

This is the cheapest solution I’ve come across. I could have done it the easy way by hosting it on a Viddler business account for $99 a month or on Brightcove which charges considerably more including a set up fee. But that’s too expensive in the long run.

What I was looking for is a place to host a lot of my short videos, allowed me to play them on my website with no advertisement and enables visitors to watch them at a comfortable speed.

My solution is create video —> host on S3 Amazon —> display on website with free flash player —> Cloudfront

The actual set up is very easy after you’ve done it once. If you’re just starting out with no experience in creating web videos, it’s a bloody nightmare.

Watch this 7 part video tutorials where I explain everything in detail. It’ll save you weeks of research.

Today I found a copywriter with testimonials from more than happy customers, proof of high conversions and experience with writing for top internet marketers.

At them moment, he’s offering his copywriting services for a very cheap price. He normally charges $1,500 per sales letter which is still cheap for a top copywriter’s standards. But for the next 10 people, he is willing to write the exact high quality sales letter he writes normally, for only $200.

The offer is limited for the next 10 people only. He cannot afford to take on more clients because the task for writing a good sales letter is very labour intensive.

On average it takes at least 4 hours to do research for his client’s niche, 4 hours to write the sales letter and an additional 4 hours to fine tune the copy so that it easily converts visitors to buyers like a Transformer.

That’s 12 hours of hard work at least, to write a good sales letter. And that’s doing it quick.

The copywriter is well respected in his field and has experience writing in a lot of different niches. With his sales letter, he expects to at least double your existing conversion rate.

You don’t need to spend thousands of dollars hiring a copywriter for your information product anymore. This copywriter can help you achieve the same results at one tenth of the price.

But you have to act now, before all the places are filled up.

STOP!!!!!

If you have read this far, tell me what you think of this copywriter.

He is damn cheap and affordable for most people. But what do you think of the quality of his sales letter? Will it really be the same quality as other  top copywriters?

If you know the name of this copywriter running this special offer, would you think he is doing well with his business?

In your mind, do you suspect that this guy is not as good as he says he is, and is desperate for money?

If he is desperate for money, why doesn’t he lower his price only slightly instead of slashing it to $200?

10 orders of $200 works out to be $2,000 with at least 120 hours of hard work. That’s around 17 man days.

My point is, this is what happens when you offer a service too cheap.

Prospects will have many unanswered questions in their heads such as what your real purpose is with this cheap service and most importantly, they will suspect that your quality will poor. Otherwise you would not charge such a price.

The price of your products and services affect your overall image a lot. The price reflects quality.

That is why Mercedes, BMWs and Ferraris are so expensive.

Sure you would get buyers for your service, but these buyers will rarely purchase from you again if you raised your prices.

On the otherhand, people who are willing to pay for top products and services would not consider doing business with you. To them, your business is in the cheap section. A business that doesn’t offer quality.

Do you agree with this? If not ask yourself, would you buy a new premium Volkswagen that’s the same price as a BMW? It has all the BMW features apart from the name.

If someone sold you a new Mercedes for $20,000, would you suspect there’s something wrong?

One thing you have to remember is that not everyone thinks like this. Lowering prices doesn’t necessarily make people think that the quality is low as well.

HOWEVER…a huge majority of people do think like this. This is why some business owners sell more when they raise their prices.

Shouldn’t you target your business to a bigger audience rather than pleasing the minority?

If you’re selling a product or service, or if you’re discounting a service to get some extra cash, spend a good time thinking about how much to charge and what kind of customers you want to attract.

Rather than lowering your price, you could add on bonuses to your offer. If you present your business charging cheap prices, you will attract the type of people who are willing to pay for low prices only.

It will be very hard to convince the crowd who are willing to pay extra for premium products and services, to do business with you.

Having said all of that, make sure you deliver what you charge.

Giving crap when people pay high prices is no different than stealing.

Article marketing is like painting. Anyone can write an article but it takes practice and it’s an art that you develop. I receive a lot of article writing projects and I found that not every client has the same view on what is a good article.

Without reading further, ask yourself what do you expect if you paid for an article. What do you consider is a quality article?

Here is what some of my clients think.

1. A good article is one which has lots of information and is written with excellent English. No grammar or spelling mistakes and written like a novelist.

2. A good article describes the information with very good English and uses complex words which shows that the author is educated and knowledgeable.

3. The article has break-through information which has not been revealed anywhere.

No, no and no. These are not the most important things to have in your article. You must understand what your objective is for the articles first of all.

Here is my answer for what I think is a good article.

- attracts the reader’s attention from beginning to end

- makes them think they learned something useful from the article

- user will click on your link in the resource box

- gives the reader a good impression of you or your business

To achieve these 4 factors, the article must be:

- free of grammar and spelling mistakes otherwise you’ll leave a bad impression (basic requirements)

- article is written in an easy to understand language which your targeted readers understand and written in a conversational way so that it keeps the reader’s attention

- article has 3 or more tips which the reader can use and learn right away

- the content of the article will lead the reader to think that they need a certain product or service to solve their problem

- the solution to solve the reader’s problem is offered in the resource box

There are many other factors that make up a quality article such as using the right anchor text in the resource box and the right keyword density etc…

But if a ghostwriter gave you the above qualities with each of the articles they wrote, they’ve done their job.