Holy Crap- Online Video is Growing Rapidly

I was just reading an article at CNET about how much Online Video is starting to take over.

Internet users in the U.S. watched 12.7 billion online videos in November, an increase of 34 percent versus a year ago.

Thanks to YouTube, Google Sites retained the crown as the top U.S. video property with nearly 5.1 billion videos viewed–or about 40 percent of all videos viewed online–with the video-sharing site accounting for more than 98 percent of Google’s traffic. Fox Interactive Media was a distant second with 439 million videos watched (or 3.5 percent), followed by Viacom Digital with 325 million videos watched (2.6 percent).

The data also showed that 77 percent of all U.S. Internet users had viewed online videos in 2008, and that the average online video viewer watched 273 minutes of video.

That’s all good news for sites like YouTube and Hulu that are trying to build an online ad market around video. One analyst firm expects the market for video ads to grow 45 percent to $850 million this year.

An eMarketer study released in December forecast more growth in years to come: $1.25 billion in 2010; $1.85 billion in 2011; $3 billion in 2012; and $4.6 billion in 2013.

SO. This got me thinking quite a bit about this.

If there is that many people watching online videos and you are a marketer and AREN’T using online video left, ARE YOU CRAZY?!?!

It just seems like it would be stupid not to be taking advantage of this huge market and to prosper from this huge boom in online videos. It’s so simple. You get a video camera, they are pretty cheap nowadays, you can make a short little video talking about something that you enjoy, maybe a new product or something and in the description, you can put a link to learn more about the product or to make a purchase of the product.

I’ve recently done this a few times with small powerpoints of useful information and then directly linking these videos to an affiliate page. How long did it take me to put up? Total time to research/make powerpoint/add audio to powerpoint: 45 minutes

to date, it’s made me $38.06 in sales. I know that since I’ve already done this work, I can continue to get paid from that 45 minutes of work. So far this means I’ve made almost a dollar per minute of work I’ve done. Sure doesn’t seem like hard work to me.

I plan on doing this over and over again with many other affiliate programs and if you’d like to learn my Simple Success Secrets to Affiliate Commissions Using Online Video, feel free to get ahold of me for a special deal on my video step-by-step e-book.

It’s mainly for the beginner to intermediate marketer who just wants to make an extra $100-$500 a month using simple videos/powerpoints.

Anyway… I feel that you NEED to get excited about online video. It’s something that isn’t going to go away, it probably will only get bigger. So, the choice is yours. I have chosen to ride the wave and make the money of that wave. It’s fun/simple and exciting. Kind of like playing Checkers

Just bought the Iron Gym Upper-Body Pull up bar.

I was looking for something portable to take and use in my dorm room…. Something that if I was too lazy to walk to the gym, I could have a good workout in my dorm room.

So, I started looking up information on those doorway pull-up bars.

I have used a few of those pull up bars that attach to a doorway. I even used to have one in my closet when I was a little kid.

And I figure  that getting in shape again should be a good idea if I’m to compete competitively in soccer again.

What that meant was that I did some research on a few different pull-up bars and decided to go with the Iron Gym version,

but it was a tough choice in that or the Everlast Multi Function Chinning Bar

but there was also the Perfect Pull-Up by the same company that made the Perfect Pushup, which I have and love using. If you haven’t seen them, check them out, they work great. The reason I didn’t want the Perfect Pull-up was because it would have to be screwed into the doorway and I didn’t want to need to do that.

But back to what I was saying. The Iron Gym pull up bar. It’s very handy.I can do 3 different types of pull-ups, as well as dips and pushups on it. Not that I need it for pushups…

Check it out, it was only like $30 which is cheaper than Gym Membership and works great!

Watching The Matrix. How do you interpret “real”?

so, I’m sitting here at 2:33am on a saturday night/sunday morning…

and on the 50 inch Panasonic HDTV I hear Morpheus say to Neo

“How do you interpret “real”"?

and it really got me thinking, how do we interpret what’s real?

Especially with manifesting your dreams. You do know that your brain can’t define what it sees in the mind and what it sees in reality.

Don’t believe me?Watch “The Secret” or “What the bleep do we know” and “What the bleep down the rabbit hole”

Consciousness is simply a fallout of the complex processes in the brain and has no separate existence of its own. According to D.M. Armstrong, consciousness is a sort of inner perception. He compared it with ‘proprioception’. A case of proprio-ception occurs when with our eyes shut and without touch, we are immediately aware of the angle at which our elbow is bent. However the immediate awareness of a brain state and a process like proprioception are governed by different neural mechanisms.

Consciousness gives us no physical signals or clues about its location in the body. It is not a thing in space and time and therefore not measurable. Here lies the problem of its study by science. Then, if we ask what it means to assert that something exists for which we have no ‘evidence’, we encounter a deep ambiguity between being and being known.

Anyway, just think. What “real” is, is just up to your perception of whats real.