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Advanced Affiliate Marketing – Vlogging on Your Affiliate Marketing Blogs
Vlogging, or video blogging, is relatively new online and almost unused by the majority of affiliate marketing businesses so far. This is a shame, because we live in a video-oriented society and because video can go a long way towards demonstrating your niche expertise and warming up your affiliate marketing leads before sending them off to the merchants’ salespages via your affiliate links.
No matter which type of video you’re using – live action video, screen capture video or text-composite video – editing has become as simple as any other click-and-drag process, and computers these days usually come with the faster processors and large hard drives required for video rendering. Video editing software usually comes with detailed help files, making it quick and easy to master those parts of the editing process necessary to create your affiliate marketing videos.
And embedding these videos on your blog is also a snap these days, using either the plugins available for vlogging purposes or through the vlogging widgets provided by the video hosting directories like YouTube, Viddler and Yahoo Video, to name just a few. While either method is effective, affiliate marketing pros tend to lean towards the latter, as your video blogging efforts can have multiplied results by also uploading your videos to the directories to take advantage of their huge audiences.
The finished resolution of your videos will depend in large part on the blogging theme you’re using, as they obviously must fit the posting area of your blog. For the most part, keep your video blogging to the common ratio used by normal TV and movies, 4:3 width to height. For example, if you’re vlogging in an area that’s 400 pixels wide, render your video 400 pixels wide by 300 pixels high. Avoid using the HD widescreen formatting ratio of 16:9, since the narrower vlogging area will mean your videos have little height; in the example given above your 300 pixel height would be reduced to 225 pixels in HD widescreen format, giving you 25% less area in your videos.
If you’re just using your videos for video blogging, choose either the.WMV or.FLV formats for your finished work, but if you’re also uploading these videos to the directories you’ll want to use either .WMV or .MP4 formats. Decide in advance which plugins you’ll use for your vlogging and which video directories you’ll be using and look for the common formats that work with them all. You can always re-render your videos for each usage, but why take up more of your time than necessary? Streamline the process by choosing a video format that’s common to your video blogging and video marketing plans, and stick with the winner!
Marketing mentor Doug Champigny is both a world-famous super-affiliate and an experienced glamour videographer, so it was only natural he’d author the Creating Your Own Videos guide and then follow it up with his podcasting and video blogging guide ‘It’s You… Live! Podcasting and Vlogging Your Way To Success Online!’ Doug teaches Internet marketers and affiliate marketers how to use audio and video marketing in both his coaching programs and his live speaking appearances – don’t miss an opportunity to see Doug Champigny live when he speaks at a marketing conference, seminar or convention near you!
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