We have all heard the saying, “build a better mouse trap and they will come”. It’s a basic business principle that has guided people to success for generations in standard community based businesses. So why is it that on the Internet one person selling old outdated mouse traps can reap millions, while the guy with the new and improved mouse trap can walk away empty handed?

New Numbers to Contend With

It all has to do with search engine placement. You see, while there may be untold millions if not billions of potential customers online, the fact that many people fail to fully grasp is that they may also be facing untold thousand if not millions of competitors also.

An Awful Long Walk to Isle 1,000,000

To get a picture in your head of how search engine placement works, simply imagine a huge store. Now, instead of this store being 100 feet long from front to back, it is 100 hundred miles long. Do you think that customers are going  to walk 100 miles to get to your product showcase if you are 100 miles away in the back end of the store?

It’s Awful Lonely In the Back of the Search Engines

Of course not! So no matter how good your product or service is, it will simply gather dust as it sits unsold, while customers fill their baskets with lower quality products 100 miles away at the front of the store. That, my friend, is the best analogy of search engine placement that you can use.

Teach a Man to Fish and He Eats For Life

So if you are really serious about your online marketing and promotional campaign then you are going to have to become familiar with search engine placement improvement techniques so you can get your product or service relocated to the front of the online “store”.

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All experience marketers know the old adage that “the money is in the list “.Network marketers have developed contact lists in many different ways over the years. Generally a sign up form is offered with a free giveaway. Someone simply fills out the form with a name and e-mail address to “opt in” to the autoresponder and the free giveaway is provided to them. In return for that, they generally understand that they have granted permission for whoever made the offer to follow up with other e-mails with other offers.

Several years ago the singular e-mail opt-in was taken a step further when software was developed that asked the first recipient to forward the offer to 4-5 of there friends in order to qualify for the free giveaway, or perhaps even a very low priced offering. Hence, list building became viral, meaning that a single e-mail to a single individual could be multiplied in a near exponential manner as each level of opt-ins continued to forward the offer to even more people.

The Web 2.0 World

Of course the latest to trend in the network and internet marketing community is the Web 2.0 world of blogs, YouTube, Twitter and the like. The use of videos in various social networks in order to communicate and establish a following with the subscribers has become ubiquitous. The net result of all this is that seemingly the most effective way to communicate with potential subscribers, or even to acquire subscribers and customers these days is probably through the use of videos.

Videos have a number of advantages, including the ability to present yourself as a sincere and a knowledgeable person in a face-to-face way. A potential subscriber or customer is more likely to buy from someone they they feel like they know. So

consequently, it’s almost imperative these days that you use the video medium in order to communicate with potential prospects to turn them into eventual customers.

Interestingly, a new video software system to build a contact list and potential customer list virally has been introduced. Internet guru Joel Therien, CEO of Kiosk.ws, is in the process of launching very easy to use video building software called Easy Video Producer that has the potential to be a very effective way of generating contacts in a viral manner. This system is unique because the software itself is being offered as the free giveaway for this video “tell-a-friend” system. Essentially, the system will offer you free and extraordinarily easy to use video generating software that builds and posts your personally produced video and information capture form on a website or blog. A contact management system is included with the free offer as well.

The viral concept is that you would then attract traffic to introduce yourself to the prospect in a more personal way, offering them the opportunity to opt in and use the same free software that you used to prepare the video. The prospect and new contact would in turn use his free new system to attract even more potential contacts for his list and yours as well.

As in the earlier e-mail systems, the originator of the viral distribution of the free software would have access to every subscriber in the levels below him. So, what is offered is a system that provides a free and very simple (even a cave man could

do it) method of posting videos to the internet that have a specific purpose of giving away additional software in a viral manner to capture a fast growing network of contacts with whom you can continue to build a relationship.

The problems with this system are not dissimilar from those in other earlier systems of using free giveaways to build a list. . You first must be able to get your video in front of an audience and in order for them to subscribe, and they in turn must have an audience to subscribe in order for the system to work effectively. It can probably be most effectively used by someone who already has a subscriber list and wants to expand it rapidly.

Another potential negative is that the the new contacts you generate with this list, both directly and indirectly, are not yet buyers and it’s likely that many of them will have no interest in your particular marketing niche. Proper strategy of course is to build credibility over time through a series of value adding free offers that are designed to help categorize their interests. Only then should you move on to the stage of offering them the opportunity to buy your stuff.

This new easy video producer software system appears to offer a simple and easy, no cost way for the experienced, and particularly the relatively inexperienced non-technical networker to make effective use of videos for viral list building, and business promotion.

Written by Rich Keesling

You can visit the site at www.easyvideoproducer.com

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