Will someone please tie it all together for me

First off congrats on getting as far as you have!

Now, posting results are not necessary, and I wouldn't do it anyway as "follow me" type threads are not allowed.

I'm not sure why you thought it necessary to open a bunch of accounts without knowing what you are doing with them.

It does sound like you need to define your sales funnel a bit.

Step outside of the picture of what you have, and think about this:

What path do you want your future customer to take?

Will they perhaps be reading a nice squidoo lens on your topic of expertise and then be directed to the sales page? Or do you want them to go to your main site - and do what???

You can link stuff how ever you want - but just forge a few paths and while you are doing it think about where you want your guest to go and what you want them to do next.

Then sit down with all your stuff and you'll have a clearer idea on how it should all tie together.

Start with just one site only. It doesn't go any good to have 10-20 sites if none of them are getting any traffic. Concentrate on getting traffic to one site, then move on. You can initially drive traffic using article and video marketing like you are going to do. I don't know if you plan on doing any SEO, but that would obviously be another option to get traffic. Pick your keywords carefully!

I would personally link the articles/videos to a squeeze page, however you can also link it to a page on your blog. Just make sure the blog page has a clear call to action to have them opt-in. Either thru a pop-up or thru a call to action in the article/video on the blog. Whether you send traffic to blog or squeeze, doesn't matter just pick one and roll with it. Test it out, see how it's working. You can always change it.

What kind of article submission software are you looking for? You should just post to the top article directories. Post to 5 or 10 of them. For bookmarking I use onlywire. For video submission just submit to YouTube for now.

My big piece of advice is to keep it simple, don't over analyze, just do something and see how it works, you can always adjust later.

Hi cvaughn,
Wow, you really are on fire. slow down the pace a bit and as mentioned in comments above, organize your marketing and one way to do this is to create a mindmap. There are free services like mindmeister and freemind and plotting your strategy using a ind map helps you to focus.

Also, the advice given about not having too many sites is good. You have to see what works first and then build on it.
Always provide value whatever form of content you produce and then spread the news.

All the best to you..

The meta tags are not important anymore except for the description tag as this shows up in the serps. Google has already made a public announcement that they are not using the keyword meta tag anymore. For video submissions you can check out tubemogul which we use as well from time to time. it will automate this for you. For the landing pages, you need to have a targeted landing page for each product that you sell. So if the article talks about xyz product then you would want to link to that page specifically on your site. I have run many online marketing tests since 1998 and being targeted and specific is a big key or you will lose the user. I hope this will help you...

So the fastest way to get traffic is through paid traffic? Makes sense. I am going to concentrate on one site with tiered offers. Now, can you all point me in the right direction for paid traffic?