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(Sweden winning the world cup is the only thing far-fetched about this. Mind you, I’d have disregarded it entirely if they’d shown England winning it :-))

“Internet Video Marketing – Your Complete Guide to Success” – A one-day seminar in November 2010 in Manchester, UK.

This is going to be an amazing day of learning for anyone struggling to get to grips with the whole video thing.

We’ve been using video online since 2005 – we were way ahead of the curve back then, and we’ve got thousands of videos in production today – it’s that important to our marketing mix.

But – I know there’s a “mental technical hurdle” with video marketing, as there is with much of SEO and online marketing – that’s why we’re doing a seminar on the subject – to help you get over this hurdle, take some action and make more profits, by doing video RIGHT.

We’ll be covering all this stuff:

- how to design and write a script for maximum SEO and CRO value
- when to hire in professionals and when to DIY
- how to upload video content to sites such as YouTube and Vimeo for maximum SEO value
- how to automatically syndicate your videos across hundreds of video content sites for maximum traffic
- how to frame and direct a video for maximum retention
- what length should your videos be?
- how to use video to automate and personalize parts of your sales process
- how to record simple videos using powerpoint presentations and your laptop
- how to source music and sound effects and use them for maximum effect
- how to edit your videos
- how to use visual graphics
- how to use video to emotionally connect with your audience
- how to test video effectiveness on conversion rates

And what’s even better – it won’t just be me doing the talking!

We’ve got the guys from iVideoProduction coming down – Alex Roberts and Mark Gill. Not only are they mega-talented (Mark directed a film starring Martin Freeman and Tom Hollander last year), great business colleagues and friends, they also run a video production company and have taught the subject of videography at Salford University for many years.

(They also both hammer me at tennis, but that’s another story).

Alex and Mark will demystify all of the technical aspects of video making, answer all of your technical questions and help me produce a live marketing video for one lucky seminar attendee that we will then edit and send on it’s merry way.

So, you are guaranteed top quality content that will help reset your video marketing button to maximum profits!

Interested in coming?

Just email IVMSeminar@markattwood.com along with:

- your full contact details
- preferred dates in November
- Any video marketing questions you want answering

Before 15th September and we’ll put you on the list and email you full details for booking your seat(s).

We’re looking to buy your internet business.

If you have a website(s) that is already up and running, and making some money or generating leads, but you want to offload it – we could be interested in buying it from you!

Send us an email and we’ll get back to you pronto.

Here’s one of the testimonials for my recent Keyword Hospital Seminar from Mike Philbin (thanks Mike!)…

To see the rest, go and take a look at the Keyword Hospital website.

I recently had the honour of being interviewed in order to provide content for a University digital marketing degree course. We did lots of videos – most of which are being made available to members of my Internet Marketing Training Inner Circle – and here’s a taster video about…video in marketing!

If you are serious about marketing online at all, you should check out my web video marketing friends (click the link – it’s a test page that may not be there forever, and it’s got me on screen with ex-Dr Who Sylvester McCoy. Not for the first time either. We’ve been in Dr Who books together, I’ve interviewed him in magazine articles, we got drunk and pushed each other over in a Edinburgh bar…but that’s all an entirely different story!)

I’ve just seen a guy called Alex Bellos on BBC Breakfast talking about his new book: “Alex’s Adventures in Numberland“.

And what a marvelous book it looks. It’s all about the beauty of maths and numbers and I’m chomping at the bit to read it after Alex talked with such passion about numbers, the Golden Ratio (it’s 1.61803399 – google it; it’s mind blowing), the fibonacci sequence, numerate Japanese monkeys..his demonstration of a multiplication sum using a diagram to get the answer was fantastic – I just have to learn this and teach it to my kids.

What really resonated with me was his point about the way in which Maths is taught in schools is uninspiring and puts a huge amount of us off the subject. I know first hand because of the work I had to put in following being relegated to CSE class when I was 13 by a moronic teacher who had written me off mathematically. I went on to GCE success at O and AS Level success and found a lot of inspiring mathematics in my Economics degree.

Maths is really the stuff of life. It holds the key, in my opinion, to the structure of the universe, the Earth and ultimately us. Anything, like Alex’s book, that brings it to life like this should be applauded. I’m off to buy my copy now :-)