Hi There! And Welcome to another video…

Inside this video, I’m gonna talk about my 7 top tips for growing your email list as a blogger.

Now, as you might know.. Growing your email list is the most important things you can do for growing your online business.  If you don’t have an email list, your leaving a lot of money on the table.

So inside this video I’m gonna talk about 7 top tips from me that you can use for growing your email list. Some ver very cool tips.

Now hang on until the end of this video because there’s something really interesting and I will share to you where you can find a lot more cool tips for helping you make your blog a lot more profitable too.

So let’s get into it without further ado.

The first step is to increase the value of the thing that you give away as part of the thing that people signed up for on your newsletter. So this is really important, the more valuable you can make this the more people you gonna got to sign up for your newsletter. It’s just as simple as that. So offer them as a free report, or a video, or a audio file that people can download. Whatever it is make it as valuable as possible.

Number 2 is to have a newsletter signup box on your blog. Very important.. Have it at the top somewhere so that people can see it and it’s obvious so that they can signup in your newsletter. Absolutely critical, I used Aweber to help me do this. I grabbed the code that Aweber provides me, and then I put that code in the sidebar, on the sidebar widget on my blog. And that’s how I do it.

Number 3 is to have a lightbox hover on your blog. Now, this is  one of those popup boxes that come up and asks you to enter your email address and name. Some people think it’s a little bit annoying, a little bit spammy but the truth is it can double your optin rate. Everytime that I’ve done this in any of my blogs that I’ve run, the optin rate is always doubled or atleast doubled. So I really recommend that you do it because it works. I don’t care about everyone else says.. wether it’s spammy or wether it looks ugly, it works! And if you can grow your email list twice as fast, you can become successful twice as fast. Cool!

Number 4 is to use something called the ultimate footer ad. This is a little script that you can install on your blog or website. Basically it allows or creates little footer popup on the  bottom of your blog that asks people the same thing for their first name and email address. It’s a little bit lessen choice than a popup window from tip number 3 the lightbox hover popup.. That’s an alternative if you don’t like the pop up thing. But it’s not gonna be as effective, but still it will help you get more optins.

The next one up is to get signups from blog commentators. This is kind of new one to me and I’ll be implementing it very soon. And I will tell you soon why I haven’t yet. You can do this by using a plugn called Action Comments. The plugin is called Action comments, what it does basically is everytime someone leaves a comment on your blog,  it sends them an email and you can decide what you wanna put inside this email. But basically you can ask people to signup for your newsletter. Very very cool.

So your heading the iron wall that’s hot basically. As people leave a comment you ask them to signup for your newsletter. How cool is that? So there already on your blog , and they still remember you and immediately  you ask them to signup. Very cool.

Number 6 is to get signups from RSS readers. Now for this you will use plugin called Feed Footer. What it does  basically is it allows you to add some text inside your RSS feed at the end of each post. And so inside there you can ask people to sign up for your newsletter. So you can just add text, add links.  Very cool, so people click on it, your RSS followers click on it and go to your optin page.

Finally is to get signups from Facebook. And for this you need Facebook fanpage, you need an Aweber autoresponder account, and you’ll need a little facebook application called Facebok Static FBML. And basically use these things together to help you create an optin page on your facebook fanpage.

So these are lot of things here those are the 7 things..

• Increase the value for what your giving away
• Have a newsletter signup box on your sidebar, very visible
• Use the lightbox hover
• Use the ultimate footer ad
• Get signups from blog commentators
• Signups from RSS readers
• Signups from Facebook

Those are my top 7 tips, but actually they are not really my top tips. I actually got them from this right report right here from Jhon Chow. These 7 tips are really just from one chapter from this report. I just got it from Jhon today, I just downloaded it. As you can see it’s pretty chunky, it’s about 60 pages inside this report and this is just from one of the chapters. So it’s chuck full of really really great information helping you to grow your blog to make it more profitable.

Now you can get the copy of this. It’s totally free, remmeber the first point to make the value of your giving away really valuable.  This is very very valuable, it can help you grow your blog and the money that you make from your blog just by implementing some of the strategies that Jhon talks about.

If you want to get access to this, look for the link below this video or inside the description area of this video either on the bottom or on the side and click on that.

It will take you to the page where you can download this for free. It’s 100% free and you can just go there and enter your name and email address to get access but it’s totally worth it.

So that’s it for me, those are the 7 tips. I hope you found them useful and I look forward to seeing you inside my next video

Hi there,

Gideon Shalwick here and welcome to my forest. This is the forest that I live in and I thought I’d do something different today. I’m recording inside the little rainforest and I’m going to tell you a few things about online marketing, video blogging and all that sort of stuff.

What I want to talk about today is something that I’ve discovered that is really valuable for creating amazing content. Whether it’s for your blog, a book you’re writing, a free report, or a product that you’re creating, this is something that I’ve stumbled upon that is really useful.

When you hear these two words you’ll think they are contradictory. It’s what I call structured creativity. When you think about these two words together they seem to contradict each other and it almost sounds like an oxymoron, but let me explain.

Structured creativity is a really good way of creating content for your blog, website, or your product (as I said before). What do I mean by this? What I mean is to create some kind of a structure and then within that structure you apply your creativity. That’s all it really is.

So the words seem to be clashing a bit because with structure people think there’s not much creativity and when you think about creativity that’s kind of divergent and you don’t want to have structure to that. When you apply structured creativity you can create some very, very good content very quickly.

Let me give you an example, that’s the easiest way to explain this. The way that I normally create a blog post is to first of all do a bit of research. I think about the topic that I want to talk or write about and then I get into brainstorming mode. The way I do brainstorming is I use a mind map. I create a mind map of the article, or the video, or the product that I want to create. I create this extensive mind map with all of the ideas that come to mind. Once I’ve done that I put it into some sort of a logical sequence, or a logical structure. There’s is no real content there. It is just the structure that I create. Then once I have that structure I rely on my creativity within each of those points to create content within that structure.

Now by the end of the process you end up with content that is both structured and creative. The structure part is really good for people absorbing your information and the creativity part is really good to keep people interested in what you are telling them. I use structured creativity all the time and it works really well.

That’s just a real quick tip from me for creating content really fast and really easily so that it is easily absorbed by your user and also comes across really cool.

If you want to see more videos like this or download my free report that shows you how to dominate your niche using video blogging, just go to gideonshalwick.com.

Thank you for watching and I’ll see you inside the next video.

Hi there, Gideon Shalwick here and welcome to my forest.

I live next to this little forest… birds in the background, you can’t see this little guy, but there’s a little dragon behind me. Maybe he’ll walk into the shot.

Anyway, I want to share something with you that I think will help you with your online business. Recently I had an interview with Ed Dale one of the worlds top internet marketers and also a very experienced social media user and technology expert. He flew over to the United States, was there for one day, got the Ipad and then flew back to Australia. That’s how crazy he is about it.

I had an interview with him and I asked him, “What are the next opportunities for us as internet marketers and bloggers for the Ipad?” He gave me some really good ideas and I’ve published the interview on my blog at www.GideonShalwick.com if you want to visit it.

During the interview he mentioned something that I thought was really interesting, especially for web design. He talked about one of the key things about the Ipad is that, “It gets out of the way of the user.”  When you are using the Ipad you don’t actually notice it. You just notice the application that you are using. For example, if you are using the word application, or pages, or keynotes, or itunes, you only see that. You only experience that and you don’t actually realize that the Ipad is there.

I thought, these guys know a thing or two about design, how can we use that for website design? It got me thinking about my own website, my own blog, and websites, and web interfaces in general. What is it that we can do to make these websites get out of the way of the user? I think that is what it’s really about. A website is about providing content and providing a user experience. Your job as the blogger or the website owner is to make sure that you get out of the way and that everything else gets out of the way so that the user can just experience what you have on your site.

I think that is really critical. I often see so many people spending so much time and money on the development and design of their graphics for their sites and when you get to their site that’s all you see. You see the graphics, you just see the logo, you just see the branding. Look at Google, look at the biggest search engines, look at YouTube, look at their design, it’s extremely simple. They get out of the way. You see their brand but it’s really small.

I think it’s a really good design principal that I’ll be applying in my future websites from now on as well and I’ll be applying it on this very blog, www.GideonShalwick.com because I think it works. The big guys are doing it and they must know something that no one else does. So, I’m going to copy that and hopefully it’s useful to you too and that you can apply it to any future pages or blogs or websites that you set up.

That’s it from me. Just a quick tip and thanks to Ed Dale for pointing that out.

If you want to see more free videos like this, or you want to download my free report about video blogging, just go to www.GideonShalwick.com and you’ll be able to sign up there for the free report.

Thanks for watching and I’ll see you inside the next video.