I made $3000 in 24 hours for 20 minutes work.

[Andyhenry]

Hi Warriors,

Don't worry this isn't a pre-sell for a WSO.

I know that a lot of new people join here all the time and sometimes the odd success story helps people keep motivated so I thought I'd share one today.

You've probably caught the wave of people telling you that you should use video to promote your business, or that if you're not using video you're missing out big time - well I'm not into that, only you know whether it's right for you or not, but here's one way I used it to make a few bucks:

I did some niche research in one of my specialist areas - blogging and found a few common questions that people had.

These included things like:

"how do I install wordpress"
"how do I install wp plugins"
"how can I use rss to feed content to my blog"
"how can I use social bookmarking with my blog"
"how can I automate content building and social bookmarking"

So, basically there were a lot of people new to blogging, new to plugins and new to socialbookmarking.

I made a short video (20 minutes) showing how to do the things they were looking for. I used Camtasia for this but there are other ways to do it.

I ran a WSO to get some testimonials.

I broke the video into short (1-2 mins) sections for each sub topic within it and created 6 smaller videos.

I uploaded the snippets to Youtube and that was it.

The WSO sold over 100 copies of the video and Youtube brought in constant traffic from day one.

I made $3000 in the first 24 hours and have made money continuously since that day.

This was a 20 minute - unedited video.

Nothing except my knowledge and camtasia was required for this, there was nothing for people to buy to follow my advice and there was no fluff or filler.


now..... I want to give you an insight into how you could use this strategy to massively help any niche you're working in.


Consider what I've just told you and then think about this:

If I was to want to build a LOT of links to a new website and I knew that ideally those links would be from lots of other (related) websites and would ideally keep increasing over time - how could I use this technique to do that?


...............


...............

If you were to do the same as I did, BUT aswell as the video you offered Wordpress templates themed for a particular niche (you can get these created for under $100) and package the information as a "How to create a themed recipe niche website that builds on auto-pilot and uses the power of social bookmarking to promote itself on auto-pilot"
Do you think you could sell any? Do you think you could give it away?

If you consider that your desired outcome is links - you can give this stuff away.

So your customer gets a template (or set of templates) and a video showing how to install it and set it up so that it builds and promotes itself on auto-pilot - FOR FREE!

If you haven't worked it out - you include a link to your site in the template, so that every page they create (on auto-pilot) has a link to your site.

This way you get lots of people auto-building continuously growing themed blogs on which every page provides a keyword rich link back to your site.

I've done this and had over 100,000 links back to my site within a month.

And there's nothing here that you couldn't do yourself.


And that's just ONE strategy for getting lots of links - and even get people to pay to for the pleasure.

I hope you find some inspiration in there.

Regards,

Andy

[Andrew Maule]

AWESOME post. Totally solid. Congrats!!

[George Wright]

Thanks Andy

So much information in one post. AWESOME.

There are so many ideas in this I have to read it again. Reasons to run a WSO besides a quick buck. How to find a hungry market. & Much more.

Thanks Much,

George Wright

[Andyhenry]

I didn't say it was all just about making money but you can make money in several ways using these techniques.

I know people will think I should tell you this stuff in the form of a WSO - but hey, I'm stupid, what can I tell you....

[Sami]

Excellent idea and description Andy. Thanks for sharing.

One question though ... if you provide cliam to your (free) customers/takers that "... niche website that builds on auto-pilot and uses the power of social bookmarking to promote itself on auto-pilot" ...

... that doesn't really work for them though does it! If they use the same idea, they'll be doing their own theme with their own links in there. And if they use your theme, they won't benefit from the viral effect.

Nevertheless, yours is an excellent linkbuilding idea coz soooo many people will use your niche theme reagrdless.

Thanks again
Sami

[Andyhenry]

Originally Posted by Sami

Excellent idea and description Andy. Thanks for sharing.

One question though ... if you provide cliam to your (free) customers/takers that "... niche website that builds on auto-pilot and uses the power of social bookmarking to promote itself on auto-pilot" ...

... that doesn't really work for them though does it! If they use the same idea, they'll be doing their own theme with their own links in there. And if they use your theme, they won't benefit from the viral effect.

Nevertheless, yours is an excellent linkbuilding idea coz soooo many people will use your niche theme reagrdless.

Thanks again
Sami

Hi Sami,

Not sure I get what you mean.

I'm saying that you give these to people in your niche and show them how to get it automated so that the content and bookmarking are automated. If they use your theme - which should be an easy decision then you get a link every time a new post gets entered (when you set these up right that can be 30 times a day or more).

If they don't use your theme for some reason, then you just become their hero and make whatever money you charged.

Andy

[AndrewCavanagh]

Cool strategy and you could even use Camstudio IM or Jing to make the video so no real cost.

Thank you for sharing this.

Kindest regards,
Andrew Cavanagh

[Ben Clemons]

Awesome idea Andy! thanks for sharing!

[Sami]

Originally Posted by Andyhenry

Hi Sami,

Not sure I get what you mean.

I'm saying that you give these to people in your niche and show them how to get it automated so that the content and bookmarking are automated. If they use your theme - which should be an easy decision then you get a link every time a new post gets entered (when you set these up right that can be 30 times a day or more).

If they don't use your theme for some reason, then you just become their hero and make whatever money you charged.

Andy

OK, got it.

I wasn't sure if you were actually telling your customers that they too can get automatic backlinks ... but you're not doing that. You're only giving them the benefits of automated content and social boomarking.

Thanks
Sami

[Marcus Schroefel]

Wow! Wow!

that's really great information you are sharing. some other guys would have put some
ads around and sold for $27... (o.k. PDF conversion can be time consuming hard task - I forgot ) - $47

now comes the other one... "don't believe this guy, this is just impossible!! No WAY!!"

... GO TRY!!

P.S. already copied this to my swipe files... Cool!

Thanks for sharing

[Andyhenry]

Sami - exactly.

Marcus - You might be right, some people will still find reasons why they can't do it.

In reality I made much more than the $3000 but I didn't want to make people get put off by an 'unreal' number.

I also sold PLR to the video a few weeks later and made another few grand, but that's beside the point I'm trying to make with this thread

I just wanted to share one of my little strategies that anyone can use in multiple ways, whether for links or money and in any niche.

People are always saying how difficult it is or how hard you have to work, and while I'm completely an advocate of working hard for what you want - I just want to remind people that it can also be easy and quick too.

Andy

[Fairuz Talib]

This proves that 'how to' products are still very profitable.

Thanks Andy for sharing.

[DonDavis]

Henry- I think I missed something. Are you saying that the videos you sold in the WSO were hosted on YouTube?

I like your idea on the templates, but it kind of has the same vulnerability that article marketing has doesn't it? In the sense that we have no way of protecting our bio box when someone uses our articles, there is no way of protecting the link back to your site in the template.

How are you encouraging the users of your templates to leave your link intact? Are you somehow incentivizing that link or just figuring enough will leave it that it is worth your while?

[Andyhenry]

Originally Posted by DonDavis

Henry- I think I missed something. Are you saying that the videos you sold in the WSO were hosted on YouTube?

I like your idea on the templates, but it kind of has the same vulnerability that article marketing has doesn't it? In the sense that we have no way of protecting our bio box when someone uses our articles, there is no way of protecting the link back to your site in the template.

How are you encouraging the users of your templates to leave your link intact? Are you somehow incentivizing that link or just figuring enough will leave it that it is worth your while?

Hi Don,

No - the videos I sold were hosted on my server. The small snippets I used to promote the big (20 minute) video were on Youtube.

As for the templates and people not wanting to leave the link intact - I don't care.

If you're doing this to sell the templates - you make money on the front end anyway, but yes, if you're doing it solely for links you are relying on people leaving the link.

I have no interest in spending my time worry about whether people will try to rip me off and remove the links I ask them to keep in exchange for free templates.

This technique is so powerful when done well that it's not worth wasting time worrying about the people that won't do what you want.

The power in this technique is twofold:

1 - There is a lot of reciprocity involved if you're giving them this stuff for free, and most people are generally honest and won't go to the effort of removing your link.

If you really care about that stuff you can either encrypt it or have it need to call to your server to get the files.

I don't do either.

2 - When they DO use it, the power is massive and even just one person doing this make it worth the cost.

So many people come here looking for ways to make money and get traffic and links - but they're completely focused on getting things for themselves. When you flip the situation around and work in a way that you're empowering other people to make money and the side effect is that it helps you - it's not hard to get good results.

Andy

[TheRealDomainer]

Great creativity Henry!

[Andyhenry]

Thanks.

I'm interested to know why - when I sign off with my name Andy - people call me Henry? It's my family name (my sirname).

[DonDavis]

Thanks for clarifying that for me Andy. Clever strategy.

[AndrewCavanagh]

Good one Henry.

If you keep this up before long people will think your first name really is Andy!

[Chirag]

Great post as always Andy! You never fail to amaze me!

Cheers!


Chirag

[grumpyjacksa]

your'e right....

you should have sold it.

but i'm grateful you didn't. Thanx a million for great info !

ps....love your sig

[ibringjoy]

Andy, this is such a good way to take one short bit of work, and leverage it to pieces, or snippets lol, to make all kinds of profit from it. Thanks for thinking it through like this and giving us the technique.

I just wanted to tell you, I've really been enjoying your posts lately. I hope this new attitude you've been talking about recently stays here with us for a long while. It's making you very generous (not that you weren't generous before), and I'm grateful for the abundance of good stuff you are sharing.

Kathryn

[sara1987]

That’ really cool

[Dana_W]

Wow, Andy, you are an internet marketing studzilla! That is really brilliant.

And as for people removing your link - I know it's not your biggest concern, but realistically, since you are targeting newbies in a non IM niche, many of them will not really be aware of the link or bother to remove it or even know HOW to remove it.

Originally Posted by Andyhenry

Hi Don,

No - the videos I sold were hosted on my server. The small snippets I used to promote the big (20 minute) video were on Youtube.

As for the templates and people not wanting to leave the link intact - I don't care.

If you're doing this to sell the templates - you make money on the front end anyway, but yes, if you're doing it solely for links you are relying on people leaving the link.

I have no interest in spending my time worry about whether people will try to rip me off and remove the links I ask them to keep in exchange for free templates.

This technique is so powerful when done well that it's not worth wasting time worrying about the people that won't do what you want.

The power in this technique is twofold:

1 - There is a lot of reciprocity involved if you're giving them this stuff for free, and most people are generally honest and won't go to the effort of removing your link.

If you really care about that stuff you can either encrypt it or have it need to call to your server to get the files.

I don't do either.

2 - When they DO use it, the power is massive and even just one person doing this make it worth the cost.

So many people come here looking for ways to make money and get traffic and links - but they're completely focused on getting things for themselves. When you flip the situation around and work in a way that you're empowering other people to make money and the side effect is that it helps you - it's not hard to get good results.

Andy

[rapidscc]

Andy!!!!!!!

AWESOME POST!!!!!

I'm sooo hands up on this one..So direct, so real.

Greatly appreciated man. Thank you very much..

~RapidScc

[Tuzic]

hi,

fantastic info here, glad u did so we can all try.

[Steven Wagenheim]

Andy, I first want to say that this is one of the best posts for ideas I've
read all year.

Secondly, and I'm not saying this to butter you up, whenever I see your name
on a post, I read it.

Why?

Because I've learned that you are one of the few people here who really
knows what he is talking about and shares some incredible information.

You are a true blessing to this community.

Thank you.

[JayXtreme]

Rock ON Andy... smooth as silk dude..

Peace

Jay

[TheNightOwl]

Heya Andy

I second Wagenheim's comments.

LOL @ AndrewCavanagh!

Here's a sentence that might be easily glossed over in your post that caught my eye (and imagination) and which I thought worth highlighting:

Originally Posted by Andyhenry

I ran a WSO to get some testimonials.

That really was a great post, Andy, thanks!

TheNightOwl

[John Taylor]

Andy,

You already know my thoughts on this strategy as we've
discussed and refined it during a few phone calls; and we
have used it a number of times on our joint projects.

I would point out one potentially misleading aspect of your
original post.. it's not a 20 minute job. Yes, you can generate
phenominal amounts of profit from a 20 minute interview, but
the market research will take time, the sales copy doesn't
write itself and setting up a sales delivery process takes time
too. So, I'd suggest setting aside maybe 3 to 4 hours.

John

[gjabiz]

Originally Posted by Andyhenry

And that's just ONE strategy for getting lots of links - and even get people to pay to for the pleasure.

I hope you find some inspiration in there.

Regards,

Andy

Thanks Andy,

Very good information. Sounds like a rinse and repeat strategy.

Do you have a video on Camtasia for Beginners?

gjabiz

[catcat]

Thanks for the great post. I am another that always reads your posts.
Cathy

[onlinemarketer]

hey thanks for this tip, now i know some new stuff again, and a good one too
great post!!!

[Jacqueline Watson]

Thanks for sharing, what a smart
way of creating a nice income
for yourself.

[Bruce NewMedia]

Great idea Andy --- you continue to be one of the most creative guys on this forum..I never miss your posts. Thanks.
_______
Bruce

[imvideos]

Excellent post Andy, thank you very much for sharing your money making ideas. Now off to do some research.

Cheers
Stevie

[John M Kane]

gjabiz and others;
Techsmith has gobs of training videos on their product for your learning pleasure

Tutorials for Getting Started with Camtasia Studio

also to repeat for those that don't/can't get Camtasia the "Jing" project allows you to do sweet screen captures too

Jing Project: Visual conversation starts here. Mac or Windows.

They have free hosting(limited to 2GB) or you can store the file on your HDD and upload elsewhere.

"We are also including a complimentary Screencast.com account with 2 GB of storage and 2 GB of transfer bandwidth per month."

Works great,just not as full blown-whizbang-feature-packed as Camtasia

[write-stuff]

Great stuff, Andy. Maybe I missed it somewhere, but can you give us the link to the video? I'd love to see it.

[Dave Ovenden]

Hi Andy,

Thanks for the great idea and for sharing so freely.

It's great to see that something so simple can be so effective.

I found it a real inspiration!

Best regards,
Dave Ovenden

[Shannon Herod]

hey Andy,

Great post. Often times people underestimate their own knowledge. Some people think that just because they can do something everybody else knows how to do the same thing.

I struggle with that also. It took me a very long time to realize that the knowledge I had most other people did not. So, if you can put your knowledge into words or into a video you can easily have a product by the end of the day.

[Frank Bruno]

Originally Posted by Fairuz Talib

This proves that 'how to' products are still very profitable.

Thanks Andy for sharing.

"how to" products will always be profitable in some way or another...


Frank Bruno

[Tom Wigley]

When i see a title with an amount of money on it i generally think its a worthless pre-sell.

This is on the other hand is absolutely genius, I take my hat off to you. You are my new hero, and your from the UK aswell!

There are so many ways you could use this, get your mass video uploading and social bookmarking tools at the ready!

[Oland]

Originally Posted by Andyhenry

...
When you flip the situation around and work in a way that you're empowering other people to make money and the side effect is that it helps you - it's not hard to get good results.
Andy

Reminds me of that old Zig Ziglar quote: “You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want”.

Thank you much for a great motivational money making thread, Andy!

It's time to dig out the free Camtasia v.3 I got from TechSmith..

[ShayRockhold]

Andy -

This was a great post! Thank you so much for sharing it!!

[Clark]

"Nothing new there"

LOL - Sorry Andy, I couldn't resist!

Awesome post, dude!

P.S. you can also submit your WP template to wordpress.org for free for much more viral link fun.

[Jimnopks]

Great Post Andy, thanks so much for sharing.

Not to be nitpicky, but you said,

"I did some niche research in one of my specialist areas - blogging and found a few common questions that people had."

I assume you are not counting research time, correct?

The research you did,

1. Was that visiting forums and starting a new thread titled, "Tell me your most pressing questions"

2. Searching search engines for "most asked questions about wordpress"

3. Visiting blogs and asking the owner what questions he or she get asked the most?

4. All of the above?

5. None of the above?

I'm no Sherlock Homles so I would like some guidance for the best and quickest ways to find the questiosns.

Thanks,

Jim Stiner

[ladyjane]

Very awesome post and very inspiring! I'm constantly amazed at all the information you can find on this forum. You really don't need to go anywhere else to get all the information you need to run your own business. Excellent work!

[kf]

Originally Posted by Andyhenry

Thanks.

I'm interested to know why - when I sign off with my name Andy - people call me Henry? It's my family name (my sirname).

So it should be SIR Andy?

[Andyhenry]

Hi John,

Yeah, the title was a little tongue in cheek. I was doffing my cap to the funny thread titles we see here sometimes. In reality, yes there was research time but as I am always doing research I didn't actually dedicate special time to it, I just wanted to share the information by making a video. Since I actually earned more than I stated, I figured the 20 minutes could stay, otherwise I'd have to actually think about what factors were involved and their timings and effective roi - an as you know - I'm way too lazy for that

Andy
p.s yes you did miss telephone call from me recently. I keep moving around so I wasn't sure of what time it was where you are.

Originally Posted by John Taylor

Andy,

You already know my thoughts on this strategy as we've
discussed and refined it during a few phone calls; and we
have used it a number of times on our joint projects.

I would point out one potentially misleading aspect of your
original post.. it's not a 20 minute job. Yes, you can generate
phenominal amounts of profit from a 20 minute interview, but
the market research will take time, the sales copy doesn't
write itself and setting up a sales delivery process takes time
too. So, I'd suggest setting aside maybe 3 to 4 hours.

John

[Pete Egeler]

Great information, Andy. Just too bad I can't do, or view videos. Sounds like the information I could use right now.

Pete

[Internet Stores]

This truly sounds like an awesome idea to implement! It also doesn't sound to complicated either! Thanks for sharing it with us.