Week 7 has just been completed and this involved advanced blogging tactics and a webinar recording. It was very interesting to hear the various questions posed by fellow masterclass students along with John’s advice and guidance. I find it encouraging the way that the emphasis is on helping each other to succeed.

We have now set up the widlink widget on our blogs, which enables us to promote each others blogs and to post comments of advice and encouragement. Also, Dave Nicholson has made a very generous offer by allowing us access to his Total Web Traffic Membership programme in order to assist us with driving traffic to our blogs.

Today I’d like to share a great tool to help with getting started in video marketing with little or no expense. Animoto really is an amazing piece of kit and is great fun if you are just starting out. As I’m sure you know video marketing is used by all the most successful marketers today and there is no doubt that it is here to stay.

Basically there are two types of video marketing to master, screen recording and to camera recording. With both of these there is video equipment and camtasia software to purchase and new skills to learn. But Animoto will let you cut out the cost and dip your toe into video marketing.

Well things are moving along nicely at the moment. The new graphics are in place thanks to the excellent service from Steve at Planet-Divinity. He was really helpful and was quite happy to make any changes required in order to achieve the look I wanted for my blog. I will have no hesitation in going back for more graphics in future.

This week we are dealing with advanced blogging tactics, in particular  adsense and clickbank adverts. We are also learning how to add widgets to the blog and inserting advertising banners to our site.

I am sure we have all heard that… “the money’s in the list”, this is the one thing that most internet marketers say all the time. Certainly my mentor John Thornhill stresses just how important list building is to your internet business. In fact, without a responsive list, I know I won’t have a business!

With list building being so important, if you are serious about internet marketing, you are going to need an autoresponder. Now before I started online, I never even knew what one was! In fact… whenever I mention one to my friends who are not familiar with internet marketing. I get  funny looks and then have to explain what an autoresponder is!