I discovered a really awesome tool that can take your affiliate marketing to a new level. There has been a lot of buzz going around lately in the IM community about how video is the future of marketing. While I’m not really sure this is true, there’s no doubt that a video presentation can be another effective way to reach people.
Of course, making videos can be a pain, and if you’re like me, it’s not something you really want to do. I don’t have software for it, nor do I want to spend $299 bucks on Camtasia or something like that just yet, especially when you don’t know if video marketing will work for your niche and site.
So, here’s a really cool free way to add some zing to your affiliate marketing. What you can do is find a video (or upload one yourself) on Youtube, one that is maybe a review of a product you want to sell, or an informative presentation, and add pop-up balloons over the video.
You can do this at BubblePly
With BubblePly, you can add clickable link balloons that can appear at anytime you want for however long you want inside a video. Here’s an example I made in like 5 minutes. I searched up “Affiliate Elite Review” in Youtube, and looked for a review without much on-screen text or website addresses. Then, I just put up a simple affiliate link of my own.
Of course, you could make it look a lot nicer, I just wanted to show you an example here. It’s a pretty awesome tool though, because you can use this technique in addition to your other link methods, and it looks much more interesting to the reader.
The only problem with the service is that my Firefox browser blocked the links, deeming them pop-up ads. If you try clicking on the ad in the video above and it doesn’t do anything, look at the bottom right corner of your browser and see if there is a blocked pop-up icon. It worked fine for me in IE6 though.
Give this a shot on your website, I’m sure you can not only provide some more interactivity and info to your readers, but you could potentially find a new high conversion affiliate marketing strategy! I’ll try and bring results to you from my own attempts in the coming months.
[Update:]Here are a couple of free video capture programs I have found, although haven’t tried:
http://camstudio.org/
http://www.jingproject.com/
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Quick Critique!
1) Your layout is very clean and easy to navigate, without any clutter. It’s probably one of the best layouts I’ve seen in awhile. One thing though- your Sphinn and Digg icons at the top of each post are uncentered and make things look awkward. I suggest moving both of them to the bottom, where you have your RSS and Email sub icons. shrink the text for “Subscribe in a…” or just get rid of them entirely at the bottom of each post, since the icons are self-explanatory. Then use that saved space for your sphinn and Digg. After all, why would people want to Digg something before they’ve even read it?
2) Placed underneath your Entrecard and BlogLog widgets (images and text), your Blogroll (text only) is relatively unnoticed. Combine it with your Entrecard space and it will have more exposure, especially if you put it on top. Or, you could give it a darker font color, since right now it’s a bit of a light blue.
I also wanted to say, I really like what you’ve done with the “In the GREEN” and “In the RED” sections.
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This is my first time seeing anything like this…imma have to see if I can’t learn more about it. Looks cool though.
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