Streaming web audio can be used in so many different ways. In this example it is used to tell a story so enjoy as we listen to Steve Irwin.

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Crikeeeeee  Coaching for Success - Stupidity ?

Lots of smart people do stupid things and some stupid people do very smart things. This is the subject of today’s coaching.

This coaching session is inspired by Phil Baker who is a pastor and motivational speaker from Perth, Australia. I went to a breakfast where he was speaking on Ten Business Principles We Can Learn from John F Kennedy.

This coaching session is based on another one of Phil’s great messages called, ‘Stupidity ? - Six Lessons We Can Learn from Steve Irwin the Crocodile Hunter‘.

While this is a fun coaching session, using some technology to make it more interesting, the points raised are valid. I have learnt over the last few years of my Internet career that if you can harness your crocodiles you will find success.

Let’s listen to the first point from Phil.

So what is your crocodile? Are you being adventurous? With Internet marketing you need to develop these qualities as it is very similar to the wild. That’s why its called the wild, wild web.

Next point, It only Looks Stupid.

Without experience and putting time into preparation you are entering dangerous ground. This is probably why 95% of people fail with Internet business. They get chewed up by the crocodiles.

Next, Hedgehogs eat Crocs.

Jim Collins who we featured recently has taken this concept and applied it to business. What is your hedgehog? Be the best you can be and do what you are good at. Don’t try and follow the masses. Find your niche!

Next, Outnumber the Crocodiles.

Don’t be a loner. This is one of the purposes of MSIncome.com. To work with you and offer you a partner who you can fight your crocs with. If not us, then find coaches and people who you
can bounce ideas off and ask all those seemingly stupid questions.

How do I know you have questions? When I started I had heaps of seemingly stupid questions and someone was willing to listen to my questions and give me good answers, so I am here today.
Understand this, I did not even know what html was, let alone emails, etc.

The Crikeeeee factor.

Have you got the crikee, the wow factor in your life and your business? I have recently joined a Network Marketing business and though I don’t go to many of the meetings the few I have
attended have shown one of the reasons why people fail and why other succeed. Excitement!

The company tries it’s hardest to provide all the resources and great products, however many people blame them for not doing enough. It’s our part to take hold of what we have, whether on the Internet, in your everyday job, your life or your business and make it the most exciting thing you can.

Now - It’s all about the Wild Life!

What purpose do you have that is bigger than your self? As you may have noticed, we promote different causes, such as orphanages in Thailand and Mozambique.

I feel this is one of the most important points, for when things are not going quite as planned, then your purpose and vision will under gird you and encourage you to carry on.

Feeling some nervousness before giving a speech is natural and healthy. It shows you care about doing well. But, too much nervousness can be detrimental. Using tools like the MSI Personal Teleprompter is a great way to keep you on track and also make sure your presentation is professional. The beauty is you can also record it while you are giving the talk and post it later on the Internet for futher reference.

Here’s how you can control your nervousness and make effective, memorable presentations:

* Know the room. Be familiar with the place in which you will speak. Arrive early, walk around the speaking area and practice using the microphone and any visual aids.

* Know the audience. Greet some of the audience as they arrive. It’s easier to speak to a group of friends than to a group of strangers.

* Know your material. If you’re not familiar with your material or are uncomfortable with it, your nervousness will increase. Practice your speech and revise it if necessary.

* Relax. Ease tension by doing exercises.

* Visualize yourself giving your speech. Imagine yourself speaking, your voice loud, clear, and assured. When you visualize yourself as successful, you will be successful.

* Realize that people want you to succeed. Audiences want you to be interesting, stimulating, informative, and entertaining. They don’t want you to fail.

* Don’t apologize. If you mention your nervousness or apologize for any problems you think you have with your speech, you may be calling the audience’s attention to something they hadn’t noticed. Keep silent.

* Concentrate on the message — not the medium. Focus your attention away from your own anxieties, and outwardly toward your message and your audience. Your nervousness will dissipate.

* Turn nervousness into positive energy. Harness your nervous energy and transform it into vitality and enthusiasm

* Gain experience. Experience builds confidence, which is the key to effective speaking.

Using msiprompt to keep you on track can be a great tool. Just enter the points of your talk and then scroll through them to keep you on target.

Your audience will appreciate you keeping to the topic and it adds some credability when they see you using a tool.

MSI Prompt

So far as I understand your sales copy, the "main" selling point is that this is 5 to 10 times LESS than cost of comparable existing software. That is true, but I think you need to demonstrate or explain all of the various ways this program can be of great use.

For example, i have already discovered it is a great way to create an "outline" and keep it up in front of me during phone interviews, to make sure I stay on track and do not miss any key points I want to make. Also, you could use it to create scripts for clients, record them, and easily create info products for your clients — either for a set fee, or royalty basis. We got tremendous reaction from several clients who said they would love to do their own "info product" or course, if all they had to do was sit there and read a script, or speak from an outline.

Hakim Chishti

Now that we have brainstormed our product idea we need to go out and do some research to see if there is a market for them and what type of associate products we can sell. Doing this will enable us to almost definitely guarantee we make sales.

Doing the proper research is the best insurance there is to finding and forming a successful niche business online.

Without research it’s like “pin the tail on the donkey” blindfolded. Too many entrepreneurs make up their mind early and begin without research — a fatal flaw that causes a staggering death rate of new online businesses.

If the research does not back up your product then you will have to decide if you are willing to take the risk or maybe you just have to re work it a bit. When I did the teleprompter not many people wanted just a scrolling screen but when I added audio recording to it then the market changed.

My Photoshop membership site was a disaster however I turned it into a free site and added affiliate products and adsense to make it profitable. So nothing is a waste or mistake just sometimes it needs reworking. http://msiphotoshop.com

Specialize first then branch out.

Why Niche Marketing?

Niche marketing is one of the easiest ways to cut your teeth in the world of Internet Marketing. It’s very easy to dominate a small niche because by definition, there’s less competition. Having said this we don’t want to go to far off the beaten track to start with.

What is Niche Marketing?

Definition: The process of finding and serving small but potentially profitable market segments and designing custom-made products or services for them. In other words, Niche marketing is when you focus in on a smaller part of a bigger market.

Instead of marketing “golf”, for example, you may choose to market “golf balls” or “Top Flite golf balls”. The further you dig into a niche, the less competition there is and the easier it is to become the “expert”.

Of course don’t forget that when you dominate that niche you can expand out into the broader markets successfully.

The Advantages of Niche Marketing

* Make money faster
* Easy for a beginner
* Dominate a market quickly
* Less competition
* Easier to get free search traffic
* Easier to create a product
* Less expensive to market

The great thing about niche marketing is that there are new niches being created almost everyday and you don’t have to be an expert to find them! It’s all about supply and demand. During this course I’m going to show you exactly how to properly research this field so that you know exactly whereto find hungry markets that are in need of a product that nobody is giving them.

Imagine being the first person to deliver a product to people who are begging for it! What do you think is going to happen when you are one of the few people selling the product and you have very little competition? You will make good money!

So lets go do some research.

Step 1

The first thing we want to do is check whether it is getting any traffic. It is important here to be specific. For example Health is not a niche. Usually if people are entering a single word they are doing research. People who buy products will usually be more specific. Cure diabetes, or how to loose weight. They will use terms not one word.

You can get an online tool called Google Keywords at https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

If you want to get even more specific to your region etc try the Google Insights for Search, you can compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, and time frames.

http://www.google.com/insights/search/#

There are many other tools like Wordtracker etc however the Google tool is very comprehensive and the new additions to this tool make it invaluable for the researcher. Not only that but you can also tailor the searches to your own country and region. You don’t need an adword account to use this tool.

Also just for interest go to this blog and see what are the most popular terms and keywords. http://www.cwire.org/current-top-15-internet-searches

If you want to find out who is paying the most for advertising then go to this site http://www.cwire.org/highest-paying-search-terms/

Step 2

Next we want to go to Google, MSN and Yahoo and see what is happening on those pages. Are there any Google adwords for our niche, is anybody selling a similar product etc.

TIP: Just remember having competition is not a bad thing as it gives you some affiliate products to sell in a similar niche. Again set up a system and record the results like we did in brain storming. Then you can see the results side by side and make an informed decision.

I typically like my niches to have between 10,000 to 40,000 searches per month. This is not a rule of thumb, just my personal preference. You can still make money in niches smaller and larger than these numbers, so it’s entirely up to you.

If you do go for smaller niches try and do it with higher ticketed items.

Step 3

Now go to http://www.spyfu.com/ and check what people are spending on advertising and gather some great information on your niche

Step 4

If you go to Google trends you can now see how those terms you have chosen are performing. I did this one for this blogging program http://www.google.com/trends As you can see it peaked back in 2005 however we can see the tail starting to head up again in 2007. Either way it has remained quite consistent.

Step 5

I also like to keep my eyes open and look in the library, book shops and magazine outlets to see if there is any offline activity. Generally I like to take possession of what I am doing and have a genuine interest. The reason I created Blogging Empires is I really enjoy it and love all the new innovations and possibilities. Never go in to a product or niche just for the money. You might become very successful and if its something you don’t like it can become a burden.

You can also visit sites like Amazon, magazines.com and similar sites.

Step 6

See if there are any interest groups around like forums, chat groups etc. These can be a great source of prospects and also watch for questions they ask. This can be a way of getting the peoples attention buy researching and answering those questions.

Step 7

Look and see if there are any specialists in your field both online and off. A blog requires a constant stream of content and being able to interview some experts in your niche or associated niches can really spike your traffic.

Step 8

Have a look through eBay and similar sites to see if there is anything in there about your niche. With millions of viewers it is a good place to find related products and if you join their affiliate program you can add these products to your blog. More on that later. Believe it or not there were products on blogging on eBay. This is really useful data because it actually shows you what products have been sold, and for how much!

Step 9

Clickbank is one of the world’s largest sites for digital products. They have thousands of books, videos, audios and software on many topics. Couple this with their huge affiliate network that you can join and it is a great place to look through.

Why so many digital products?

Selling digital products is hands down the highest profiting business on the Internet. There’s no printing or paper expenses and the whole process can be easily automated. (Set it and forget it!) Here’s how to get some good ideas from Clickbank’s database of products:

1. Go to www.clickbank.com
2. Click on the “marketplace” link on the top right hand side of the screen
3. You should see a menu that looks like this:

From this menu you can choose your category from the drop down menu or enter a specific keyword to find a product…

4. Select the option that shows 50 results per page
5. Sort by popularity and also by gravity
6. Look for related sites that you might be interested in.

If you want to use their affiliate program to sell other peoples products then go here to join as an affiliate for free.

You can also join to sell your products through them and use the huge affiliate base to sell your products. We will talk about this later though you can use that same link to set up your account.

Your Own Interests

Step 10

If you are brand new to niche marketing, it’s always a good idea to research markets based on your own personal interests.

Start with your hobbies first.

Chances are if you like bowling, there are probably a lot more people out there with exactly the same interest. Make a list of all your interests and dig deeper into the niche to see if there might be a sub-niche that is not being catered for?

In other words, something that you can make money from that other people aren’t doing. Remember, don’t give up because you think the niche is too small. There are a lot of “micro-niches” that make lots of money, so make sure that you do all of your research before you dismiss it as trash!

Your Existing Business

Step 11

Ask yourself this question: “Can I take my existing business online?” This doesn’t have to be your personal business, it could be a company that you work for. The point is, you know the business because you do it everyday! And many people have used their own business field to create their own profitable niche website.

My sister is a good example of this. She is an accountant and thought she was stuck in a 9 to 5 job. She really liked it but wanted to try something different. She used some accounting software that when we did the research turned out that thousands used it.

We did some more research on some forums and chat sites and found lots of people had certain problems so she made some Camtasia videos showing how to fix these problems and a blog sharing different insights and best practices.

Finally be proactive

These methods will help you greatly when searching for that goldmine of a niche! Remember, research is the key to your site’s sustainability, and therefore its profitability - so don’t take any short cuts and jump into a market without doing the groundwork first. You’ll regret it.

Trust me!

Take what you found in the brainstorming session and then apply the above research tools to it and find your place in the Internet marketing society.

37+ Niche Market Research Sites You Must Know About

Below is a list of must have niche market research sites that will give you a slew of ideas on niches you might want to enter or find out who you competition or future partners may be. They should all open in a new window.

http://www.omgili.com (new)

About

http://azlist.about.com/num.htm

http://azlist.about.com

You’ll discover hundreds of regularly updated guides written by experts with a real passion for their subject.

Alexa

http://www.alexa.com/browse

Browse thousands of sub-categories and discover markets you might never have even considered. Micro-niching has never been easier.

Amazon New Releases

http://amazon.com/gp/new-releases

Want to know about up coming products. This site lists the big new product launches before they happen. It will save you hours of research finding out what the latest consumer trends are going to be.

AOL Hot Searches
http://hotsearches.aol.com

As they say themselves: “Check out what’s hot on AOL Search. Find the hottest searches on celebrity news, breaking news and more.”

Associates Directory

http://www.associateprograms.com/directory

I’m a big fan of conducting my market research by finding products first, instead of conducting keyword research. If there are products for sale in a specific niche, that’s a good indicator that money is being spent and therefore the niche might be worth exploring.

Bella Online

http://www.bellaonline.com/misc/sitemap.asp

A women’s site that will give you a good insight into the female niche mindset. Let’s face it, guys and gals are different and have different desires, wants and needs.

Best Online Research Apps/Sites You’ve Never Heard Of
http://oedb.org/library/features/best-online-research-sites

Excellent list of resources for the serious researcher.

Big Boards
http://rankings.big-boards.com/?p=all

Lists the top discussion forums by rank

CB Engine

http://www.cbengine.com

A veritable treasure trove of information for scouting out hidden gems in the Clickbank Marketplace. If you want to sell CB products, this is an essential resource. Grab a PRO membership, it’s worth the measly price tab!

CNet Buzz

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-12578_7-6527356-1.html

Reviews and comments on the latest tech products.

Del.icio.us

http://del.icio.us/popular

See in real time just what folk are digging about. One of the most popular social bookmarking sites around.

Depth Reporting

http://depthreporting.googlepages.com/websites.htm

Classed as “the most useful web sites for reporters”. Nuff said dudes and dudettes.

DMOZ

http://dmoz.org

People seem to forget about the humble human-edited open directory project. But in it be fields of diamonds my lovelies that might just push you into actually getting off your butt and doing something with your online business.

Dummies Guides
http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesTitleAll/index.html
The famous Dummies guides as listed by titles.

Ebay Categories

http://listings.ebay.com

http://hub.ebay.com/buy

http://pulse.ebay.com

http://www.mpire.com/ebayPop.ivk

You will die and think you’ve gone to heaven after taking a peak at just what is being sold over at Ebay. Don’t anyone ever tell me that they can’t find a niche to get stuck in.

Ehow

http://www.ehow.com

As the site says “how to do just about everything”.

Ezine Articles

http://www.ezinearticles.com/

Articles on thousands of niches. Hint: Take a look at the bottom of each article to discover a plethora of product ideas.

Furl

http://www.furl.net/furledPopular.jsp

When it comes to niche market research I like riding the coat-tails of others. After all why reinvent the wheel when thousands of other kind folk have gone before you.

Gizmodo

http://www.gizmodo.com

This is a blog dedicated to gadgets, gadgets and more gadgets. You’ll be first in line to know about those “must-have, I’m gonna kill you to get it” sale scrums.

Google Products

http://www.google.com/products

Yup believe it or not some folk are actually making money selling stuff online. And not just downloadable information products! Hard goods sell real well. Heck I should know, I just sold $13,000 worth of one electronic product in less than 72 hours. Remember Rob’s maxim: Find a product, then the market.

Google Hot Trends

http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends

Daily trend watching to see what people are searching for on this little know about engine.

Google Video
http://video.google.com/videoranking

The Top 100 most viewed videos on Google.

Hobbies List
http://www.hobbieslist.com

A site listing a ton of hobbies. Well what else did you think the name suggested!

How To Do Things

http://www.howtodothings.com/browse-all-categories

People always want to learn how to do stuff. This site will make you head explode with ideas. Is there a way you could create a paid for product using what’s here?

Internet Movie Database
http://www.imdb.com

If you’re mad about films (movies) and want to sell to this addicted niche, this is one place you must visit.

Intute

http://www.intute.ac.uk

Provides some of the best resources for education and research. All the sites are listed and reviewed by qualified researchers. Serious stuff here.

Magazines

http://www.magazines.com

It costs tens of thousands of pounds/dollars/euros to start a magazine, so you can pretty much deduce that if there’s one in print and it’s popular that there’s a market or sub-niche somewhere hidden in it. You can’t go too far wrong scouting out what’s available on this site.

Metacafe

http://www.metacafe.com/most_popular

Videos hot, and it’s only going to get hotter as broadband proliferates around the world and speeds just keep on increasing. Which is why it’s important you stay abreast of what’s getting attention in the videosphere.

Movie Box Office Charts
http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/boxoffice

Films are big money earners, and with each release comes a plethora of associated products that people suck up. Will you be ready?

Nextmark
http://lists.nextmark.com

You can search more than 60,000 mailing lists, email lists, and telephone lists from hundreds of vendors — virtually every list available!

Popurls

http://www.furl.net/furledPopular.jsp

“Popular URLs to the latest buzz”.

Pricerunner

http://www.pricerunner.com

I won’t say it again… Find the product then the market! Millions of products can be found on this quaint little old site.

Technorati

http://www.technorati.com

Yet another must visit social bookmarking site. Now let’s be clear here, just because someone bookmarks a subject doesn’t necessarily mean there’s money in it. There might or there might not be, which is why I bang on about finding products that sell first, then explore the market.

ThisNext
http://www.thisnext.com/activity/map/

This one is way cool and seriously addictive. You can actually watch what people are looking for on the ThisNext shopping portal. Plus you get to see where they are in the world. Kinda like Google Earth with Market Research data!

Top TV Shows

http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/nielsens-charts.htm

What are all those couch potatoes staring at for hours!

Yahoo Buzz

http://buzz.yahoo.com

Top movers and leaders as searched on Yahoo.

Yahoo Groups

http://groups.yahoo.com

If folk are interested in a hobby, subject or passion you’re going to find a group that hang out here. And if there isn’t one, maybe there aient much of a market. Why be a trailblazer when you can be a coat tail trailer.

Yahoo Shopping

http://shopping.yahoo.com

Another great shopping portal to explore.

Viral Video Chart

http://www.viralvideochart.com

Lists the top viral videos by multiple categories.

WikiHow

http://www.wikihow.com/Categories

Looking for how-to articles and information. This site is similar to Wikipedia but is just for how-to. Content created by the public.

Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_topics

Well if you don’t know of this site you must have been sitting in a cave. A huge resource. Tip: Use the external links at the bottom of each article to dig deeper into a subject.

YouTube

http://youtube.com/browse?s=mp

Here you’ll find the most viewed videos so you can see what folk are interested in. Ideas anyone?

Mary is an attractive professional in her early 40’s and a single mother.
After meeting a handsome, charming gentleman we’ll call Bill, a white collar professional, who helped her with her “ex” problems, she thought she had met Mr. Right. At his urging she used the equity in her house to purchase a property that would be “theirs”, and they started a new life together.

Over th comming months I am going to take you through a journey as I create an online business. I already have some blogs and websites however I am basicallyt starting from scratch.

Step1.

The first thing I am doing is documenting the process so you can watch and see how I do it.

This was an old wordpress site I used to use to advertise my business so I have transformed it into my journal and upgraded the wordpress blog on it to the new 2.7 which seems a lot more efficient.

To get more info on the wordpress 2.7 go here

Step 2.

In the next step I am adding some new plugins to make my work even quicker and more effective. We will look at each one of these in datail in further posts.

Lastly I have set up a plan of attack which is to upgrade my current sites and you can watch it all happen here.

If you would like toknow specifics be sure to comment below.

Enjoy Quentin

Looking at how powerful Photoshop can be in terms of photo editing, it’s probably not important if you suck at taking photographs or being labeled an amateur photographer. As long as you pick up a couple of Photoshop photo editing skills, it will still impress those who see it.

Once you have mastered some techniques then you can make an action to replicate it at any time.

Photoshop actions are the best — they save time and make you more productive during post-processing. They can be used to speed up repetitive tasks, make quick work of time consuming edits, and give you a little creative inspiration.

So let’s get to it — open up Photoshop and follow along!

1. FIND YOUR ACTIONS PALETTE

Before you can do anything, you need to have the right tools in front of you. Make sure that your actions palette is activated and visible. It typically shows up as a tab on the history palette, but this may vary depending on your workspace.

If your actions palette is nowhere to be found, you can activate it under the “Window” menu. Once you do this, you should see a palette similar to the one in this photo. If you don’t have any actions defined yet, you’ll probably just see the “Default Actions” set.

Sets are a way to group actions as you see fit. To create a new set, pull down the palette menu and click “New Set…”. Give your new set a descriptive name. Also note that when you import and export actions, it’s the whole set rather than a single action.

2. CREATE A NEW ACTION

OK, you’ve got some sequence of events you want to record and you’re ready to start the action. As an example, I’ll walk through my “Flickr Horizontal” action that I mentioned in the teaser post.

Before we can begin recording the action, we’ll need to create the action. Pull down the action menu and click on “New Action…”. Give it a name and a keyboard shortcut if you want. Now we have a new empty action that we can record to.

3. BEGIN RECORDING THE ACTION

To begin recording the action, simply select your action in the palette and click on the “Record” icon in the lower action menu or select “Start Recording” from the pull-down menu. Once you click this button, every event you perform will be recorded. This includes menu items, adjustments, layer selections, and any of the Photoshop tools.

There’s no need to hurry through your sequence of events, because the action is not time based. If you’re not doing something to the image, it won’t be recorded. So take your time and get it right.

4. DO YOUR STUFF

Now do whatever it is that you wanted to do. Perform all the tasks, clicks, option settings, and image adjustments that you want included in your action.

If you mess something up or if you accidentally skip a step — don’t worry. After recording the action you can go back and edit the steps, add steps, and re-record steps.

5. COMPLETE THE ACTION

So once you’re done with the sequence, its time to stop the action. Just press the “Stop” button at the bottom of the action palette and Photoshop will stop recording.

For some actions, this is the end of the road. But many of my actions are set to require input from the user at specific points along the way.

6. TEST AND REFINE

I usually don’t get my actions right the first time around unless they’re extremely simple. I find that if I run a few different Photoshop files through the action, I usually uncover some mistakes or find the need to insert additional steps to ensure the action runs smoothly. If you find a mistake with one of your steps, just select that step and “Record Again” (via the pull-down menu). Or if you want to re-order some steps, just drag them up or down the list until they land where you want them.

I’ve also noted a few quirks about running actions, such as error messages that can occur if something is not possible to complete. Or the fact that working with multiple files, renaming layers, and selecting layers are cumbersome tasks with actions because Photoshop is looking for specific file names or layer names each time the action is run.

For complex actions, what you’ll end up with are a few extra steps that ensure a robust action that can handle many different files. But hey, it’s an action — who cares?

IDEAS FOR ACTIONS

So… I think that covers the basics of how to create an action in Photoshop. If I missed something or if I didn’t explain something well enough, let me know and we can follow-up in the comments.

These action things are great, but what can you do with them? It can be hard to think of those repetitive tasks when you’re not performing them, so I’ll share a few of my action needs. I would say that my actions are grouped into three main categories: administrative tasks, specific tasks, and creative boosts. Here are a few of the actions in my arsenal.

ADMINISTRATIVE TASKS

These are things that will drive you nuts because they’re no fun at all. Like every time you want to save a JPEG or TIFF file. Or every time you want to downsize for Flickr or email. I use actions to speed up the process and prevent me from making mistakes.

* Resizing and saving for specific destinations
* Basic adjustment layer setups
* Converting color space and bit depth

SPECIFIC TASKS

Actions are good for little items that consist of a few steps. By using an action, it not only bypasses the need to click on menus or type keyboard shortcuts, but it also allows you to set default values that you commonly use.

So all you Photoshop gurus out there, pipe up and give us more examples of what can be done with these things. What are some of your most useful actions that you couldn’t live without?

Why is it that the people you want to learn from aren’t accessible?

Many times the argument is that they’re too busy making money to teach/share what they are doing.

That’s certainly fair but it doesn’t make it any easier for the people who need some advice.

If you can relate to this, then you’ll appreciate a monthly service I just found:

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Even though this person runs a $15 million dollar business, doesn’t have any private clients and hardly ever coaches people one-on-one…

He has decided to offer something a lot more affordable than his group coaching program which costs $500/month.

It’s called Marketing Tutorials and you can ask questions and get video responses.

Pretty cool eh?

In fact, you can see and hear a full explanation of these videos here:

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Anyway, if you’re looking for some guidance but don’t have the budget for some high priced coaching, then this is for you:

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Enjoy!

Quentin

P.S  Click on the link below if you’d like a free sample of one of his videos:

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The history of streaming media is largely rooted in the advancement of much older technology.  There would be nothing to stream if the media didn’t exist in the first place.  The first form of media would be the captured media; the ability to take a photograph was developed in the late 1820’s by using light and transferring that radiation from the light into a sensitive material.  With this innovation, the next step in the evolution of picture media was the moving picture first introduced by Thomas Edison in the 1890’s.  The motion picture is created by presenting multiple photos in sequence with slight changes creating the illusion of movement.  Edison’s film projection device successfully did this through the projection of light through a moving film strip flashing once each time a single frame from the film crosses the lens.  

 

Due to unreliability to synch up to the film and the occasional needle skip, voice overlay was rarely attempted but this set the groundwork to create new devices that will be able to improve the ability to synch up sound correctly to a film.  Some of the ways they have done this is by embedding the sound signal into the film itself and with the improvement of digital technology, they have also been able to have multi-channel high definition surround sound on a separate optical disk synched up to the film by some sort of embedded time code.  The creation of media was great, thousands gathered into packed rooms and special theaters to watch these films and very few people had an audio playback device because they were so expensive.  These technologies were restrictive in how many people it can reach, they can only be played through one device at a time.  What was needed was a way for many people to be entertained, informed, or contacted in any other way transmitted to many places from a single source.   

The existence of the radio wave existed in the late 1880’s but was never used to transmit full messages until the next decade where the message was used to transmit telegraph signals over the airwaves.  This was used to create transmission and communication over vast waters like the English Channel and some ships had started carrying these devices to communicate to each other.  Voice was soon introduced into the airwaves and the first official radio broadcast station to transmit voice which was established 1917 in Wisconsin.  In 1928, the first televisions were sold as well as the first television broadcast permits were distributed by the government.  Not all of the televisions were run by cathode ray tubes (which are still used today), but using a scanning disk and lamp system which created a blurry orange color picture and created an image that was roughly the size of half a business card.  These devices quickly became a huge part of American culture, entire buildings would gather into a single room to marvel at these devices and companies knew this.  Now, almost every household in the world have a television set in their homes. 

The relevance of all this previous technology to telecommunications and streaming do not occur until the early 90’s when the World Wide Web was first made commercially available to the public.  Through the web, many people were able to connect and share information with hundreds of thousands of other computers around the world.  But the bandwidth for consumers was so small that bits of text were the only things that could feasibly be transmitted and downloaded.  Audio and video media has also been digitized at this time but a one minute sample of audio would take up roughly 10MB of space which if transmitted through the consumer’s modem lines would take most of the day to download, not worth the download at all.  At this same time, companies are working on implementing even higher definition audio and video which would further reduce the potential of streaming over the internet.  Another branch of digital media development was developed apart from the hi-definition developers, their purpose was to create a way to get more media into the net.  Many protocols of file compression were created around this time and many failed. 

What gave the consumer the greatest interest in what the internet can do for media is the use of MPEG-1 layer 3, or MP3 for short.  The MP3 is an audio compression format that had the ability to take that minute long 10MB file and reduce the file size to one sixth of that original size and reproduce the sound with virtually unnoticeable degradation.  The use MP3 is also the sole reason for the creation of the monstrously popular distribution software known as file sharing t