Easy Video Player 2

I just found this AMAZING new tool called Easy Video Player 2, and it’s da BOMB!

You know, when you put up a video somewhere, you usually just grab an embed code from somewhere and paste it into the page.

The problem with that approach is, there aren’t a whole lot of options. You can spiff up the page, add some links and whatnot, but that’s about it.

Easy Video Player 2.0 is a really amazing piece of software.  Actually, it’s a script you host on your own server/domain (unlimited) that lets you create awesome pages with it that can be used for a multitude of purposes.

Here is a summary of the new features of Easy Video Player 2.0:

• The Easy Video Player 2 interface has been radically overhauled since EVP 1.0
• Multiple file uploading has been enabled, which is a huge time saver.
• Full iPhone and iPad Support. Your videos will now play on these devices.  (I’m not sure about other mobile platforms)
• Clickable events that work during video overlays. You can put them wherever you want in the video; eg., an opt-in box that’s attached to the video rather than the web page, meaning that when people embed your video on their site, your opt-in box follow!
• Elements can come up while viewers are watching the video
• More in-depth analytics: track referrals, when people stop watching, what they clicked on, and much more.
• You can now split test videos; give Easy Video Player two different videos and it will automatically split test them and track the stats for you.
• Affiliate Branding buttons. Your affiliates can rebrand your links and use the video with their links in it.
• Full Social Sharing. Track it, see where it is shared on a wide variety of different sites. eg Facebook, Digg, Twitter and more.
• Video Pages with comments and sharing so page can be shared, commented on etc. Making the ability to tap into the power of social media.

I’m trying to figure out how to leverage it to work well with RAP; I’m thinking it can be used as the sales page, but it’s not clear what all is needed yet.  I’ll post an update when I’ve figured out some cool ways to use it.

Easy Video Player 2.0 has a Commercial License option available!

One thing to note is that there’s an OTO where you can purchase a “commercial” license of Easy Video Player 2 that lets you hide the brand and watermark, and use it to build and host pages with videos for your clients. Without this, you’d have to purchase a license for every client.

This may not be terribly relevant for RAP sites, but it can be really beneficial for anybody working with offline clients.

Take a look at the promo for Easy Video Player 2.0 and grab a copy to play with. There’s a generous refund period, but they say their refund rates are under 2%, so it’s hard to see where you can go wrong.

Check out Easy Video Player 2 and post a comment with your thoughts.  Click the image below to learn more!

Easy Video Player rocks!

There’s been a ton of hoopla going on lately around the launch of this new sales platform called Kajabi.  I wanted to take a minute to discuss the biggest differences between Kajabi and something like Rapid Action Profits (RAP).

The owners of Kajabi have hyped it up to the max.  It remains to be seen if Hollywood-style 30-minute trailers will make much difference in the results they achieve, but I think they’d be better off sticking to 60-second trailers.

A lot of details are being swept aside.  But there’s one thing that can be observed pretty easily from the first video, and I thought I’d mention it because it’s going to be perhaps the single biggest stumbling block Kajabi has in terms of getting customers.

continue reading "RAP vs. Kajabi"

Now Anybody Can Earn Money And Split The Profits Among A Group!

Are you in a BAND? Or you’re part of a writer’s group or artist’s group and you want to publish a collective book?

Maybe you’d like to coordinate a group project somehow to create something for sale, but aren’t sure how to pay everybody?

People seem to come up with lots of great ideas for group projects that can earn them money, especially in times like these when money is so tight. The thing that has always stopped such efforts dead in the water is how the money is handled. Who do you trust? How do you account for income and expenses? What about taxes?

The trouble is, you usually need to have one person collect all of the income, then divvy it up proportionally to everybody else. Questions frequently arise in terms of the trust and integrity of this person’s actions. This is often not a task that many people want to do, so the group is often stuck with whomever they’ve got doing it, for better or worse.

Well, there’s now some software that can be used to automatically “split the profits” among any group of participants in whatever proportions are desired. Project participants are paid directly by the software, and payments are not subject to anybody dipping their fingers into the pot.

Furthermore, taxes are not an issue because project members are actually paid directly by customers. See, the IRS currently requires anybody being paid more than $600 a year (various limitations apply) to have that income reported to them via a 1099 for that tax year. If someone is collecting thousands of dollars of earnings and then disbursing monies to project members, it’s clear that whomever is playing the role of “banker” in that scenario probably needs to issue 1099′s at the end of the year to the various project members. This has a lot more implications than most people want to deal with.

That’s why this is such a great platform for running group projects! This software enables customers to pay group members directly. Assuming what you’re selling costs under $600, nothing needs to be reported (unless the tax laws change).

In this article, I’m going to explain how you can use this software to set up group projects for fun AND profit with minimal overhead and “trust issues”.

continue reading "Profiting from Group Projects"

I’ve just posted a nice little tutorial on how to Profit from Group Projects as a Squidoo Lens.

It talks about how to set up a sales site that allows multiple people get compensated for their work automatically.  You set up whatever percentage of income each person is to receive, then drive traffic to the site.  Each person will be paid directly to their PayPal accounts in rotation, and will be paid in proportion to their designated percentage.  It’s very cool.

Read about it here: http://www.squidoo.com/profiting-from-group-projects

Not everybody is skilled in all of the ways needed to pull off a powerful product development and launch, so many folks are interested in partnering with others who have complementary skills.

This approach allows everybody to effectively “split the profits” automatically without having to deal with trust issues or other potential problems.

Please post a comment and let me know what you think.

-David