Explaindio Video Creator is a low cost software that will enable buyers to produce both animated and sketch videos and a lot more.
The software is being launched at 11 a.m. EST on 11th November 2014 and there will be an initial launch discount.
We have received a pre-release copy of the software to test it for ourselves prior to release as we already own Video Make FX software (animated video creator) and Easy Sketch Pro software (sketch videos) which compete in the same space.
Explaindio Video Creator combines some of the features of both and may therefore be a cost-effective and efficient substitute for both these pieces of software.
As video creation software is currently a hot seller in the internet marketing space, this launch is expected to be yet another best-selling launch on JVZoo.
The software has been created by 3 respected marketers in the internet marketing video space and the quality of the software interface reflects their experience.
It can be relatively expensive to outsource animated and sketch video creation, so this is for those people and businesses who want to create their own animated and sketch videos.
It will be interesting to see how the marketplace receives this new software on the 11th November, but we fully expect it to be another blockbuster based on our experience to date.
We have made our prediction in advance and will report back with the actual results!
Kevin Fahey is launching Solo Ad Escape today and we have received an advance copy to review it.
Solo Ad Escape recounts how Kevin Fahey transitioned out of his solo ad business into the product creation business model. He was earning about $5,000 per month from solo ads but he was watching his conversions decline as more and more solo ad vendors opened up for business.
Kevin was also worried about the impact hat solo ads were having on his reputation.
Ken is now earning around $20 to $30,000 per month through the product launch model. He is employing some quite advanced traffic strategies and these are all set out in Solo Ad Escape which is a low-priced PDF.
Here is a review of Solo ad Escape by my partner Chris Cole:
To purchase your copy of Kevin Fahey’s Solo Ad Escape – click this link.
WP Profit Builder is a new WordPress plugin that incorporates:
a drag and drop page editor with tonnes of features including live updates as you make changes to the page in the editor
around 55 pre-made page template designs that you can simply plug your own content into
This post is a review of the WP Profit Builder plugin.
This plugin is priced very competitively at the moment and is a serious competitor to both Optimize Press (that has a relatively clunky page editor) and Lead Pages that requires a hefty monthly subscription.
The plugin has been produced by Sean Donohue , a very experience internet marketer.
We will be using this plugin to build our next which is Honey Trap Funnels due for launch on 17th October 2014.
Productivity Made Simple was launched last Friday and whilst the sales letter and upsell offer converted very well, the product simply failed to attract a lot of traffic or attention in the market place.
The product was about the fact that knowledge doesn’t change results unless you take action on it. We show our customers how to put in place strategies for taking more action in order to get better results!
Whilst we have made a bunch of sales, the revenue returns are simply not enough to compensate for the amount of effort that we put into this product. We priced this product low and gave away most of the revenue to affiliates to entice them to promote for us.
Whilst Productivity Made Simple has some great content within it, most people buying info products are looking for a ‘quick fix’ rather than ‘climbing the steep hill’ of building a real business.
This is a big learning point.
I have had a tendency to try to over-deliver. Whilst this is a commendable trait it also has certain drawbacks:
it takes me longer to create and launch the product
the products become too big which makes them harder to consume
the product needs to match the price – I can’t sell content for $7 that others sell for $97 or $297 – this a fast way to go out of business. (It also, reflects on the perceived quality of the product.)
I also have a tendency to help others without asking for payment. Again a commendable trait but it slows me up with my own work. For example, I spent 2 hours on Saturday trying to help a friend to fix his sales funnel.
Creating ‘Productivity Made Simple’ got me thinking about my own productivity. To speed up I need to:
create one problem, one solution at one sitting type of products
that take about an hour to consume
with a very simple funnel
and a simplified delivery system (we have been using Optimize Press 2 – whilst it creates a lovely looking site it is very slow to work with!)
the whole process of product creation needs to be systemized and templatised.
maintain focused on my own work.
The other critical factor in product creation is support. The support desk can be a significant time-suck, particularly if there are technical problems. The more complex the product is, the more support tickets you can expect which is another argument in favour of simplicity.
We also need to be surveying the market to find out what the market wants. For example, video products are currently very popular as recently video type products have been on JVZoo’s best-seller list.
Shakespeare said:
[boxibt style=”gray”]“To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.” [/boxibt]
Only by taking action and failing many times do we ultimately learn our craft.
more careful planning is required – to scope the product, research the market place and to keep the product focused i.e. to avoid scope creep.
a system for product launches is required so that ultimately some of the work can be safely outsourced and to increase productivity
we actually completed and launched the product – the product is available as a bonus for other products etc.
I learned that there is smart and effective productivity and how easy it is to become a ‘busy fool’!
I am pleased about the quality of the Productivity Made Simple product that we created but it took us a month to create which was really far to long so I take this thought into creating our next product on sales funnels.
As Henry Ford said – ‘Failure is just an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.’ We didn’t exactly fail with Productivity Made Simple but it is now time to begin again more intelligently!
We have been awarded JVZoo Product of the Day for Hangout Cash Code which is a massive achievement for us.
It sort of marks a ‘coming of age’ for me in particular because it is recognition from my peers that we have created some value in our community. However, my belief in the product goes far beyond that. It is the business model that I want to really focus on within my business because it is so powerful.
Hangout Cash Code positions Chris and I as leaders in this technology and it is not a product that we are going to drop and then move onto to something else. Google Hangouts will be used by us almost every day in our business to really gain competitive advantage.
I genuinely believe that you should get a copy of our product so you can find out why. The front end product is a 90 page PDF that shows you how to get started with Hangouts and then numerous strategies for monetising them.
Being awarded JVZoo Product of the Day for Hangout Cash Code just endorses the fact that this is a great product and business model.
Membersonic Theme 2.0 is launching today – 7th May 2014 at 11 a.m. EST or 4 p.m. GMT. It is on a dimesale for an unbelievably low price.
I paid more for version 1.0 of the Membersonic Theme than the opening price for version 2.0 and version 2.0 has been rebuilt from the ground up based on customer feedback – including mine! Go figure.
Andrew Hunter of Plugin Results, who owns the theme, holds a monthly Q & A webinar and I attend this regularly. We give him feedback on his products and he diligently works to make the improvements with Alex, his software engineer.
These are some of the key features of the theme:
– Fully mobile responsive
– Built on the StudioPress Genesis Framework (included in members area)
– Fully customizable header/menus/sidebars
– Built in optin form (works with almost any autoresponder)
– Customized navigation bars for logged in vs. visitors
– Customized sidebar menus to control who sees what
– Built in graphics (add at the click of a button)
– Developers license included
I really like this theme because of its relative simplicity and flexibility – I can deploy it in minutes and it is great for membership sites.
Here are some of my websites and those of others that I have helped that are built on the Membersonic theme:
Hopefully these sites display the flexibility of the Theme.
However, the new theme also has some additional design capability that means that you can make it look like Optimise press 2.0 – as you can see from this demo page:
You can also create a menu above the header, within the header and in the sidebar of the theme. This is massive flexibility. There are 5 or 6 menu options in total which is very useful for membership sites.
My Bonus: If you buy through my link and subsequently need help to configure the theme, you can contact me – there are good tutorials that come with the theme but sometimes you can hit an unexpected barrier – I can help you. I know the theme inside out and love creating products with it.
You can purchase Membersonic Theme 2.0 here – I recommend it because I use it and in fact I have given a testimonial for it!
I took time out – a whole morning to be precise – to proof read William Golding’s first product – Catch Your Cheating Wife.
I was a little bit worried that my wife would see me reading it and wonder why I was doing so! I’ve never, ever doubted my wife and after nearly 32 years of marriage, I am not about to start.
William’s book was a real eye-opener. He is a police detective by training and some of the technology that he mentions in the book, I never knew existed.
One of the simplest strategies is to leave your mobile phone in your wife’s car with voice activation recording on! You can also locate her car using the GPS locator in the phone. There really was some sneaky stuff revealed in the book.
I received the following testimonial from William for my work:
[boxibt style=”success” bgcolor=”#A4B9CF”]”Thank you Mark Salmon for taking the time out to proof read my guide. Mark is a true warrior!”[/boxibt]
I also made William think about his eCover design by sending him the following:
If you really want to Catch Your Cheating Wife, then William Golding’s ebook is a great place to start – it’s based on his real life experience as a police detective.
My latest client website, Tiger Feet, was a super-quick WordPress website build.
My client rang me at lunch time, I started work on it at around 4 p.m. and later that evening I sent the first draft of the site to my client.
This client is a young lady named Emma Breeze. About 4 years ago she came to our Rotary Club to tell us about the dance business she was setting up. To help her, I volunteered to build her first website at http://embodydance.co.uk.
I showed her how to operate the site and from then on, apart from the occasional intervention by me, she has basically developed her website as her business grew.
Her personality and energy are such that she now has a team of 5 staff and has found a sub-niche in ‘dance for people with disabilities’. She has therefore decided to split out this part of her business as a separate brand called ‘Tiger Feet’.
This is is the initial draft of the front page of the website. I have no doubt that this will be tweaked and improved over time:
I don’t build that many websites for clients because I prefer to build them for myself. It is much easier because beauty is very much in the eye of the beholder.
I have found from experience that, when someone else is doing the work, everyone likes to become a web designer by suggesting enumerable changes without realising what the changes really entail in time and skill. And it is difficult to get them to pay for the additional time involved – in other words, they are happy to suggest a thousand changes as long as it is all on your time!
In the case of this website, I did a lot of work on Photoshop to resize the images, lighten them up, optimize them etc
Of course, I want my customer to be happy but it does make me reluctant to create websites for other people unless there is a reasonable margin in the job to cover revisions. In this case there simply wasn’t, as I offered a super-keen price.
One of the business improvements I have suggested is to create a membership area which could serve the following purposes:
to create a dance tuition product
to create a product showing others how to establish a dance school
to use as a staff training area
to create individualised training programmes and schedules for dance students
With this in mind as a future enhancement to her business, I used a theme with a lot of navigation flexibility (the Membersonic Theme) so the membership area can be built on the back of this new site without the need for another website installation.
There are also a number of premium plugins installed on this site including an auto-backup plugin, a security plugin, and a visual editor.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed looking at this super-quick WordPress build.
This article is a product creation update as it seems appropriate to review where I am at present given that this is being written right at the beginning of a new year – 2014.
MarkSalmon.Info
Today I released Mark Salmon .Info onto the market. This is a collection of video training packages to which I have resell rights.
They can either be bought individually for $27 a piece or as a package where 1 training is dripped out every week for a monthly subscription of $27 i.e. you get access to 4 trainings for the price of one every month.
Each training comprises between 7 and 12 videos and some include audios, powerpoint slides and transcriptions.
They cover a wide range of topics about internet marketing to give anyone who purchases a well-rounded education in internet marketing.
35 trainings have currently been added to this product and this will rise to at least 52 shortly so that I have at least one years content available.
This product also gives me the ability to plug any of my customers or students into an appropriate training on a wide variety of topics.
For example, if you want to add a product to an affiliate site like Clickbank or Digiresults then there are trainings on exactly how to do that. Alternatively, you may want to create some graphics using the available free tools online – there is a training on that too! Or perhaps you want a business model or strategy to pursue like flipping websites – yes, you can get a training on this too.
There are far too many topics to cover here but you can click on the image below to get more information on all the good training that I am releasing on MarkSalmon.info:
Easy Graphics 101
I have one module about Photoshop Actions to complete on this product and this will then be complete apart from the sales letter. Hopefully this should be completed and released by the end of January. This is how the site looks currently but is has not yet been released for sale. It includes 4 modules:
Solo Ads Assassin
Solo Ads Assassin has been completed in partnership with Daniel Madeira who operates a solo ads business. I did the technical site set-up and put some of my other products into the sales funnel to create a very nice offer.
Unfortunately, Daniel has had to deal with some personal problems first before he could contemplate launching this product.
Again, all the content is on the site and it is ready to rock and roll. Here is how this site looks and hopefully it will be up for sale by the end of January:
Email-ATM
This product has been mapped out on a mind-map and all the bonuses have been added to the site – there are 4 or 5 high-value bonuses related to email marketing.
I just need to create the core content and I am pencilling in a completion dater for this site of the end of February 2014.
Wake Up To Health
I am currently helping my sister, Saira, to build a health membership site which will include a number of health related products.
Her first product will be on weight-loss. Again, I am handling the technical set-up for a fee but I have included a number of premium plugins to give her an incredible marketing platform including:
a premium WordPress theme
a premium membership plugin
a premium plugin for creating ‘courses’ out of her tutorials i.e. a questionnaire at the end of each module to ensure tat students understand the content and much more
a premium squeeze and sales page plugin which includes split-testing functionality
a podcast and video player plugin to handle audio and video files
In addition to the above, I am considering purchasing a developers license to offer the ability to integrate her site with Google Hangouts so she can offer live and automated webinars. Also, whether to upgrade her video to the premium video player that I use on my sites that normally costs $297.
In total, this site offers her the ability to create multiple membership products and to market these effectively using blogging, social media, podcasts, video marketing and webinars.
My sister has been struggling with the technical aspects of this project for over 11 months and it has taken me less than 3 days so far to get her ready to get this project into over-drive in 2014.
She was quoted between $2,000 and $10,000 for this work, but I am only charging her a small fraction of that price for 3 days work.
I just wonder how may other coaches and consultants are in the same position – blocked by technology and the steep learning curve required to get their information and coaching out to their market.
One project that I am pencilling in is to create a site clone, with all the key plugins included, and offer this out for a modest set-up fee and monthly payment to keep it affordable. This to include hosting and maintenance.
Here is how my sisters site looks currently and there is about one days work left to complete and it will then be ready for her to start adding content:
Business Creation Mastery
Business Creation Mastery is my most important product that I want to get launched in January as well! I have been planning this out over the Xmas period and I have been building towards this for a long time.
My vision has been to help other people to set-up and grow a business online. I am going to narrow my niche down to coaches and consultants in a variety of niches who all have similar needs i.e. to get their training and content online and who are frustrated by the technology barrier and what it takes.
After almost 5 years online and prior to that, 8 years of consulting and 25 years of banking experience, I feel that I must have confidence in my ability to add value to the lives of other aspiring online or offline entrepreneurs. I am now going to engage with them more closely, find out what they want, and then support them using a mixture of one-on-one help, group coaching and access to my automated products.
My mission will be to help them to deliver their own unique value into their own niche or marketplace in a variety of formats.
This site has been in the planning stages for some months now and it’s ready to be launched now – I have been listening to podcasts by Sean Mize during the last couple of weeks and that has convinced me to launch now. After all, I have already done it offline and with 5 years experience online I know I have a tonne to offer.
Conclusion
That is the current state-of-play of my products currently under development. I am going to try to create 1 hour of content each day – mainly audios but also written and video. However, one of the key areas I need to concentrate on is driving traffic to my sales funnels to convert my products into more sales.
You can see from this product creation update that I am ready to hit the New Year running as my target this year is to make at least a 6-figure income and I will do whatever it takes to achieve that.
I was alerted to the profit potential of self-publishing books when I met Christine Clayfield at the KISS 2 seminar on 19th October 2013.
I already knew about Christine – I had bought her eBook ‘From Newbie to Millionaire’ off the Warrior Forum some time ago. This book is around 500 pages and is all about internet marketing. For several years it has ranked in the top 3 for the keyword ‘Make Money Online’ on Amazon – and that’s a very, very competitive keyword!!
However, Christine has been concentrating on self-publishing books over the last 3 or 4 years and is now making 7 figures.
I had no idea that there was so much money to be made from self-publishing books. She now has around 70 books published with many more in the pipeline.
Each book averages around £2,261.50 per month or £27,138 per annum, some less, some more.
With just 10 books, you can make £271, 380 per year and with 20 books £542,760 per year with Christines system. Her self-publishing system is different in that she creates multiple formats and publishes worldwide.
Christine outsources the writing of each of her books for around $500 and pays up to $500 for the sales letter. Apart from this, the costs of distribution are around $54 including purchase of the ISBN number and uploading the book and cover.
The skill is in coming up with an idea and doing the keyword research to ensure that there is demand and that you can compete for top spots in Amazon and elsewhere.
The big difference between her course and the other book publishing courses you can buy, is that she literally gets worldwide distribution in most major outlets where you can buy books both online and offline!
Christine has created a comprehensive video course (over 23 hours of content) showing her exact step-by-step system. Once completed, she does nothing more and the income from her books just come rolling in.
In fact so successful has she been, she is now translating her books into many languages for even more income potential.
A Great Passive Income Opportunity
I have to tell you that before I met Christine, I had no intention whatsoever of going into self-publishing because I didn’t think there was enough money in it compared to my information marketing model.
She has convinced me otherwise and the fact that it is a real passive-income opportunity makes it very appealing i.e. you do the work once and continue to get income rolling in for years to come without lifting another finger.
Whilst I cannot get moving on self-publishing my own books in the short-term, because of other work commitments, I nevertheless bought her course (along with many of the other attendees on the KISS 2 seminar) so that I can dig into this opportunity when I have more time.
If you would like more information about this, then here’s the link to her sales page:
P.S. On a personal note, I really liked Christine – I had the opportunity to speak to her personally at length in the bar.
She had a very difficult life up until around the age of 30 (when her first husband beat her into a coma.) This difficult start to the first half of her life has made her a person who is very driven to succeed. This is why her course is so comprehensive – she wants to give us the best product and service she is able to to valid her own success and self-worth. It is rare for someone to show you their complete system on how to make money online from self-publishing books, so I highly recommend that you tuck this one away!
Explaindio Video Creator is a low cost software that will enable buyers to produce both animated and sketch videos and a lot more.
