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Are YouTube And Google Video The Only Games In Town?

YouTube and Google Video are what usually come to mind when we think of online video websites, however, they’re definitely not the only games in town!

Hundreds of companies are trying to become the online video version of Flickr;  and as the number of video sharing websites continue to grow, one is likely to appear in the near future.

Several video services have also begun offering new editing and remixing features, in an effort to carve out a piece of the ever expanding online video market.

Most of us, just want to post a video online, and share it with everyone, without having to jump through hoops to do it.

Doing a quick search for “online video websites” on Google, will give you a plethora of alternate video web sites to choose from.

Here are some hassle free alternatives to YouTube and Google Video, along with a little blurb on each, for your edification.

• ClipShack
• Eyespot
• Grouper
• Jumpcut
• Ourmedia
• Revver
• Sharkle
• Videoegg
• Vimeo
• Clipshack
  

Similar to YouTube, Clipshack is easy to use and navigate. You can upload and share your own videos, and also view a large collection of videos free of charge on their site.

• Eyespot                                                        
  

Eyespot offers easy to use video uploading and remixing, however, the mixing and editing features are not very impressive.

Uploading you videos is pretty straightforward, and the user interface is cheery and colorful. Eyespot as yet does not offer a lot of the community features that some of the others online video websites provide.

• Grouper                                                       
  

Grouper, is basically YouTube with a file sharing application built in.

In order to get all it’s interface functionality, you need to download a Windows Media Player type application, that converts other formats. Grouper has editing features for videos and photos, you can set “groovies” to music.

The Groovies are easy to create with the download application, and could become the rage over time.  The double opt in email registration system that Grouper uses is time consuming and basically a pain in the ….

• Jumpcut                                                    
  

Jumpcut offers a neat interface that is more like an application that a web page.

You can create videos, edit them, and remix them online.   Out of all the online video websites we visited, Jumpcut has the best.  You can splice footage, add music, photos, special effects, transitions, and reorder your shots online.

Jumpcut has loads of great features that none of the other video sites can touch.  You can even email or embed in a web page with little effort.

• Ourmedia                                                    
  

Calls itself “The Global Home for Grassroots Media” and is the place for you if you are a social activist.  The site is hard to upload video to, has no editing features, is slow, requires an Internet archive account, and is somewhat confusing.  There are better online video sites out there.

• Revver                                                          
  

Revver is a monetized YouTube site. When people view your video and the embedded advertisement, you receive 20% of what the advertiser pays Revver. You receive 50% if someone clicks on the Revver link at the end.

Google Video, is the only other video website that allows monetization of your content.

Revver has a screwed up uploading process, with no editing or sharing. You also need to download a client, in order to upload your content.

• Sharkle                                                               
  

Sharkle is also a free to use video website.  You need to register if you want to upload your own videos; or rate, and leave comments about other videos on their site.  You need not register to watch Sharkle’s videos.

• Videoegg                                                     
  

Video Egg allows you to painlessly upload videos to the Internet in any format, post it to other web sites, and share it with your friends.

You need to download an application that embeds into your browser, and gives a you drag and drop capability to upload your video content.

Videoegg works fine if you just want to post and share your videos with your friends.

• Vimeo                                                             
  

Vimeo is a well known online video website.  It has a nice clean interface and uses a flash wrapper to play native formats.  No download is reauired, and uploads are easy to accomplish.

Alhough Vimeo is free to use, it’s advisable to register to create, upload, and share your videos with Flickr, del.icio.us, MySpace or to create an RSS feed.  You can also embed videos in WordPress without any snags.

Now when asked, “Are YouTube and Google Video the only games in town?”, you can give them an intelligent rundown of alternative video websites.

Is The Product Or Mailing List More Important?

If you ask any savvy Internet marketer “Is the product or mailing list more important?”, they would answer without any hesitation; “The mailing list”.

Any business executive worth their salt, will tell you that a hungry public demand, is much more important than any product or service you can offer.

Good internet marketers will tell you that when searching for a market niche, your first mission is to search for a “need to fulfill”, and then you “satisfy the need” with a product or service.

In short; without a demand for a product, there is no product!

The size of your mailing list, directly or otherwise, comprises the actual demand for your business.

In other words, your mailing list represents shows just how much interest there is in your business.

Membership sites, are out of business without a mailing list.

Owners of membership sites, MUST HAVE mailing list owners in order to conduct their business, or they MUST START COMPILING their own mailing lists.

If you are a regular visitor to the Joint Venture forums; you will quickly discover that the product owners, need mailing list owners,in order to conduct their business.

The mailing list owners, in a joint venture scenario, already have the prospects that the other type partners are trying to sell to.

If you are a mailing list owner; you can sell advertising space, form a joint venture with service or product owners in return for a percentage of their sales, or start up your own membership site.

You don’t necessarily have to sell a product to make money.

If you wonder, is the product or mailing list more important to your business; consider that every successful web business on the Internet, establishes their list of subscribers first.

That should definitely tell you something!

Friendster.com is a perfect example of how to accumulate subscribers without selling any product.

Friendster connects “friends”, and other potential “friends” worldwide through a free membership access portal.

When you first join the site, you provide them with your email address, and a password.

When you start searching for “friends”, you provide their email address, or a “friend” name.

The website makes no money from the members who join the site.

Instead, their business model provides income from selling advertising space, and from partnering up with other large volume businesses, and merchants.

Every business should take note of their business model.

You should always establish the need or the demand first, and make money with the product later.

Is the product or mailing list more important?

Remember that the money is always in the list!

Persistence Is The Secret To Affiliate Marketing

An important lesson that many of us have learned,  is that persistence is the secret to affiliate marketing online.

Most of us learn things the hard way, and I’m certainly no exception to the rule.

When I began affiliate marketing, I lost more money trying out new ideas, and testing new marketing strategies, than I made.

Part of the reason affiliates don’t make money, is that they give up before the miracle happens!

In this age of instant gratification and immediate results, many potential success stories fall by the wayside because of the lack of persistence.

The Internet has changed quite a bit, and with the amount of affiliate marketing information that now available online, there is no reason to make the same affiliate marketing errors I made in the past.

Success requires hard work, a positive mindset, and diligence.

Almost everyone agrees that affiliate marketing is the quickest and easiest way to make money on the Internet, especially if you do not have your own website.

This does not mean that it is effortless.  There are no shortcuts for persistence and hard work!

Closing your FIRST SALE is the hardest.  After that, things get easier with time; and with experience, things get better.

The point is be persistent; DON’T GIVE UP BEFORE YOU CROSS THE FINISH LINE!

Thanks to the billions of bytes of information on the Internet, you can arm yourself with the knowledge and tools to succeed.

There are an abundance of free information websites, and training programs available, that can give you the knowledge to arm yourself with.

There are also thousands of tools available online, that reduce the time needed to market your affiliate products.

Article writing has come a long way.  There are now tools available that automatically create articles for the article directories.

There are also tools available to submit your articles to article directories in one sitting, as opposed to the old method of manually submitting each article.

PLR articles are a dime a dozen, and software is available to “spin” these articles to make them unique in their presentation.

There are now tools available, for identifying and snooping for the best keywords, and keyword phrases online, to produce the most profit from your PPC campaigns.

Regardless of the technique you use, there is information and tools available for your use, to become a successful affiliate marketer.

The only thing you need to provide is persistence and hard work.

Of the many affiliate marketing strategies; PPC and article marketing are the most widely used for income generation.

Both strategies require persistence.

If you hope to become a success, remember that persistence is the secret to affiliate marketing.