I have created some demo sites for my website design business. You can take a peek by clicking the image below. This will take you to a page where there are links to each site – there are 5 or 6 sites in total.
I have just put the finishing touches to Mark Salmon Photo Artist. This is a website that showcases my expertise with Photoshop and my passion for creating works of art from quite ordinary photographs.
This website is fully responsive so it looks equally as good on a smart phone as it does on a desktop computer!
The interesting thing about many of my personal photographs is that they are taken on a rather ancient Casio Exilim, about the size of a credit card. I slip this into my top pocket whenever I go out and snap what I encounter. I then return to my computer and endeavour to stylise these photographs by improving them in a number of ways.
I justify the time by the fact that websites are very visual by their very nature and skilful use of graphics is a definite advantage when creating marketing media.
I am looking for other ways in which I can monetise this skill because I would be delighted to be able to make a full-time income from this passion of mine.
I have always been interested in art and the many pictures on the walls of my home testify to this fact. At one time I was even importing oil paintings from China!
If you would like to acquire Photoshop skills then you can do no better than invest in my training product Easy Web Page Graphics.
Please let me know what you think about my images at Mark Salmon – Photo Artist!
WP Profit Builder is a new WordPress plugin that incorporates:
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.
Here is a review page I have created for this product using WP Profit Builder to build the page and here are the same videos that I embedded on that page:
WP Profit Builder Basics
WP Profit Builder Money System
If you wish to purchase WP Profit Builder click this link.
Here is a brief summary of the new products in the pipeline for the next month or so. These are new products that Chris Cole and I are creating.
After our success with The Hangout Cash, and our effort to provide tremendous value to our members through follow-up webinars, we have decided that we really need to refocus on launching new products.
Chris Cole & I have decided to launch one product a week. These products will be tightly focused and high quality – meant for consumption in around an hour or so. Ideal for the ‘one problem, one solution, at one sitting’ type of product.
With this in mind, here is our planned schedule for the next 4 products and the planned launch dates:
#1 Productivity Made Simple – in this product Chris and I have used Google Hangouts to create a series of training about improving productivity. This includes a review of some of the best productivity tools that we have used.This will be launch on 15th September 2014. Rather than a blockbuster product it was originally destined as ‘list-bait’ but we will launch it nevertheless and see how it fares in the marketplace.
#2 Honey Trap Funnels – this is a product that I have had in the pipeline for a while now as I wanted to offer a cloned sales funnel that could be quickly and easily deployed because you simply have to slot your own product offers into the pages. We will also be reviewing different types of funnel and we have a nice marketing-twist in mind for this! This product will also enable me to establish a joint, self-liquidating sales funnel for our partnership too which we can start driving paid traffic and grow our list exponentially. Launch date 22nd September.
#3 Launch a WSO in 3 Days – Chris & I are prolific product creators. In this product we will be demonstrating how it is possible to launch a WSO (Warrior Special Offer) in 3 days when you systemise the entire process. This will be an opportunity for us to review our product creation systems too. Launch date 29th September.
#4 Webinars For Local Businesses – the name of this product has yet to be established but the basic principle is that we will be exploring how Google Hangouts could be used by local businesses. This was something we covered in The Hangout Cash Code but we want to dive deeper into this aspect of video marketing for local businesses. We think this is a largely unexplored opportunity and we will get creative about how local busineses can use this technology to grow their business. Launch date 6th October.
These products may be replaced by others if we see an opportunity that needs pursuing urgently, but this is our plan for the next few weeks. I also want to create a product about email marketing, so expect that to be on the list in the near future!
In addition to these products, we have been helping Saul Maraney, one of our students, to launch his first product as a WSO – it’s called The Showcase App Profit Formula, which is due to go live on 9th September. This has a very good upsell – comprehensive training on Google+ which is exciting because I see a lot of untapped potential in Google+. In fact, even more so than Facebook for B2B marketing.
Also, quietly in the background, I am putting together a product called ‘Video Hooks’ which is a larger product about video marketing which will be excellent to add into our sales funnel. Part of the content for this will come from a bonus session that we have promised to buyers of the product we are viewing in the paragragh below.
Chris and I have also started a weekly broadcast at Marketers Radio.com. The second episode airs tonight with two guests and we will be reviewing a product called Incredible Green Screen, made by our friend and colleague Matthew Houghton. This product reached #1 on JVZoo and has made well over 1,000 sales so this is very exciting.
We also have a LIVE event in our diary at Heathrow Airport for the 1st and 2nd November – which will be an an opportunity for Chris and I to meet physically for the first time. We will also be meeting many of the coaching students that we have been growing with over the last 12 to 18 months.
This is how a business is created – by taking action and selling stuff rather than being a perpetual consumer in training mode!
Those are the new products in the pipeline, so we have some very exciting times ahead!
I have created a logo reveal with Adobe After Effects. You can see the results of my first project below.
I have never used Adobe After Effects prior to creating this logo reveal so I am pretty pleased with the results (particularly because the training video was created by someone with a foreign accent who spoke quietly!)
I don’t think this is an area of expertise I really want to develop because it is cheap and easy to outsource this kind of stuff by buying a template from say Videohive and then getting someone on Fiverr.com to do the editing on Adobe After Effects for you.
I’m increasingly of the opinion that I should not be spending too much time learning these skills for myself but outsourcing the work to experts while I concentrate on product creation and marketing.
However, to know that I can do this for myself, if I need to, is useful and opens up more opportunities for creating stunning video products.
I recently bought a bundle of products off Envato that included this logo reveal template and I decided to give this a go. It is more complicated than I anticipated – the software takes a little getting used to but, like anything else, if you give enough time and effort to it should be easy to learn – particularly if you start with editable templates like me!
Tell me what you think of my first logo reveal using Adobe After Effects – I am sure this is basic stuff for some people but for non-technical bods like me, this is as ‘state of the art’ as it gets!
In this video I outline a source of free graphics that you may have overlooked.
In fact it is a completely authentic and engaging source of graphics that will be great for your personal branding. It is easy to build up a nice library of graphics that you can use in future projects and they will be free of copyright or royalty restrictions – indeed, you own the copyright!
Are you ready for me to reveal this source? Then watch this video:
Now that you have your free graphics, you can take them to one of the graphical editors and make variations of your images. For example:
You can create photo distortions on PicHacks.com or your iPad:
You can create sketches, like this one of my grandson. I will cover how to do this in another video (- subscribe if you want to find out how!):
You can combine pictures:
Here’s another great tip for getting free images from video (-this one has my new video intro and outro):
Here’s an image clipped from this video with Snagit:
The possibilities are almost endless.As I said, this may be a source of free graphics that you had previously overlooked… but not anymore!
Leave a comment and let me know what you think about these tips!
For me, green screen video is the new frontier.
I’ve been watching my online friends, Chris Cole and Matthew Houghton, creating incredible videos and have been wondering how they did it.
(If you want to join in the magic then this is the Facebook Group that you need to join: https://www.facebook.com/groups/580398582047648/ and I recommend that you subscribe to Chris Cole’s YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/imchriscole and you will be impressed by the great information he is just giving away about video marketing and YouTube)
I therefore invested in a studio background cloth and stand. This was a partial fail for two reasons:
I therefore bought a couple of studio lights off eBay. I discovered why they were so cheap – just one bulb in each! However, as I am filming in my small office, I think I will get away with this. However, my friends have much more powerful lighting – 4 bulbs in each which enables them to use a bigger space for filming.
Despite the new lighting, the white background was still not working, so I invested in a green background cloth.
This time, I had success – here is my first test. This is not perfect by any means but it does represent a break-through for me. Hopefully, I will now be able to go on and raise my game.
I have also created a new video outro that I will start to use on my videos – the creative options are enormous with video – feeling excited:
Green screen video may not be a new frontier for you, but it is for me!
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:
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.
This is my Digital Millionaires Bootcamp Review & Bonus video presentation – I presented jointly with fellow student, Chris Cole.
We offered a massive new bonus package at the end of the video, if you purchase this important training through my link –
So what are the bonuses we are offering to you?
1 – Bonus Webinar Coaching – Product Creation Webinar Series
Chris Cole & Mark Salmon are offering a bonus coaching course that will span over 4 weeks. You will have the chance to ask your questions and have Mark & Chris answer these as well as offering some great additional training content.
2 – Fast Profits Formula – another of Marc Millburn’s brilliant courses
Yes you can also get access to Marc Millburn’s Fast Profits Formula as an exclusive bonus for Chris and Mark’s customers. We have twisted Marc’s arm to give you access to this standalone product that teaches you how to be a product creation monster within days.
3 – Mark Salmon’s Product Creation Renegade
In this complete course Mark Salmon teaches you how to successfully create your very own digital products. This is all contained within it’s own members area and you can drop in at any time to learn and enjoy even more bonus training.
4 – Chris Cole’s Unlock WordPress
Yes there are over 60 videos in the course from Chris Cole teaching you how to master WordPress. This course will turn you into a WordPress master within hours. Chris covers everything you need to get started right away with WordPress.
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Please claim your bonus by sending me your paypal transaction ID through my Contact Form and put the subject as ‘DMB Bonus‘
If You want to take advantage of Digital Millionaires Bootcamp and our Bonus, you need to hurry because it will not be available for long – Marc could decide to take it down at any time.