Traffic Rush Project - Basic Lessons Complete!

Good to see you back in full mode operation…I love reading your posts.

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i like your posts too.. lot of indians are reading your posts…

I just laugh reading how you do all that sort of acting!
SOmetimes you talk about your anxiety, inability to work, broke up with partner, the interest income from your bank, etc.

Have you ever thought of making a career in acting? has someone suggested you that? If i was anywhere near you, i would suggest you just that….. Believe me, seriously you seem to be very good at engaging people and acting..
There is no age for starting your career in acting. try out starting.. i am sure there are not many people out there as talented in “acting” as you!

Good to see you are making progress! Can’t wait to read your final results!

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Caroline there is quite a few video hosting services around that will let you do this. (just do a google search)

If i was in your place i would rather just get an extra dedicated server from serverbeach for 100-150 dollars a month. Those servers come with enough bandwidth to easily handle your videos. (youtube use to be on serverbeach, until google bought them out)

For DLGuard, you can use the single product or membership option (using the email as username and receipt as password) to login. I personally use it, can’t be happier.

I never tested this setup before, but DLGuard has a free product option that will display sign up form (name & email). You can integrate this with GetResponse seamlessly. With Aweber, it can work but it currently is a workaround that Aweber frowns upon.

If you combine the single product and membership option, you can allow the members to view the page only if they have registered above. A randomly generated receipt will be the password to login to members area. (each member has unique username and password), so you can track downloads within DLGuard.

In DLGuard, you can set download time to x hours or y times. I use lighttpd with secure download modules to create dynamic URLs and only allow streaming. I believe you can adjust this easily to allow 1-time download but still use dynamic urls to the videos.

I use my own VPS so I can customize the server.

There are other possible options, but since you mentioned DLGuard…

If bandwidth is more of an issue, you can try Amazon S3. The rate is $.15 per GB transfer.

Feel free to email me if you need more information.

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@Jacky, it’s wonderful that you should think that I have been ‘acting’ about my personal life. That shows me how far I have come in the last few weeks. I only write the truth.

@Vlad, hmm that’s too expensive - the course is going to be quite cheap and I don’t think the sales are likely to justify that cost plus this is a one-off course, so I imagine that sales will only last for a short while so that won’t justify a fixed monthly fee.

@Hendry, thank you very much, that’s extremely helpful!

@caroline, i was not kidding when i said that you should try acting. You are seriously good at that..
Regarding your product - Consider using clickbank’s services for that and offer high commissions to affiliates using clickbank (atleast 75%) That why you can skyrocket the sales and affiliates like me may be willing to promote your product…… good luck..

Caroline,
I’ve been in love with your blog since the beginning and I’m amazed how far it’s grown. Truly inspiring.

I’ve recently tried Blip.tv to host my videos and I think it’s excellent. I signed up for a free acount and I’ve uploaded 20 videos so far. They allow uploads up to 1 GB each! They will convert your videos to high-quality .flv and provide a player for you that you can customize and post on your own site. They feature cross-posting your videos to other video and social sites if you want. They also keep a copy of your original, unconverted videos on their servers and provide a download link that you can post on your own sites. How nice of them.

If you want to password-protect your videos, you will need to pay for a pro-account that is $8 per month or a 1-year subscription of $96. They have accepted all of my videos so far as long as the videos uploaded are not too commercial in nature. You can read their FAQs at http://blip.tv/faq/
Hope this helps Caroline. Keep up your inspiring work.

Acting. Hmmm. Wow, if you are acting, then I am a terrible judge of character.

I am really anxious to get the first part of the SR course. Honestly, I am having trouble imagining how there can be that much content about SU — but then that is probably precisely the point. If I knew what I needed to know to understand that question, I would not need the course (which I obviously do). Does that make sense? LOL.

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Hi Caroline

This is great news, well done. re video, know someone using blip and I am also going to look at that and some others for my new .tv , yes loa. I am having a slow week after Vancouver, body decided to slow down! Will be talking with you soon

in abundance
Suzie

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@Tony, thanks very much for the info on blip.tv.

@Mark, to be honest I surprised myself at just how much I had to say on the subject!

@Suzie, hope you feel better soon! :-)

Caroline,

“I think the cheesy style of marketing rubs off.” Too true! I wrote a few posts on this a while back when yet another program I was considering went into slimy, infinite, annoying tease mode.

Cut-and-paste marketing. SO insulting to the potential customer!

You are anything but annoying, you’re just keeping us up on the process, and thank goodness you are never shady.

I shall send you a nice Vermont cheddar if you ever get cheesy.

:)

Regards,

Kelly

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hmmm - just tried posting a comment twice and not going through?

am i doing some wrong in submitting??

Meg :-)

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@Megan, don’t think so :)

Hi Caroline

(trying this post again - apologies if a repeat. I think I had too many links in original, which is why it didn’t show up!!)

Great to hear the work is progressing, and I hear on the grapevine that even the free level of your course is going to have some great value! :-)

Sorry about the long ‘ramble’ here, but thought that you (and anyone else) might be interested in a few alternative ways of delivering ecourses? Just in case! Although I do like the sound of DLGuard!! Will look at that one too - thanks! (also like -ejunkies)

Anyway, I am not sure how much ‘control’ you want in terms of ‘delivering’ your products such as ‘ecourses’ - especially given that your approach to delivering this particular ecourse is already decided (except for some techie issues), but for future courses/training perhaps? …

In particular, there are several online ‘e-learning’ portals, which do everything for you. All you do, is be the ‘teacher’, provide the content, look after your students, etc.

One excellent one is the ‘Nuvvo’ e-learning portal where you can create your own online ’school’, ‘college’ or ‘university’ for free (now called ‘LearnHub’). It used to be primarily for courses/tutoring, but is now much more interactive and has become more of a social media, community, networking-type site, where you become the authority, teacher, student, and build communities, create portfolios and share, etc.

Your courses can also be monetized if you want (so can have both free and paid offerings of your courses). In addition to an ‘animated tour’ on the site, there are downloadable pdfs with all the features here - http://learnhub.com/about/info-for-press-and-bloggers

LearnHub supports multimedia, video for free - and, while it has become community-based, you can create private course environments for your enrolled students (password restricted access and personal workspaces), with for example, white-boards, document sharing, lesson editors, report generators to track student progress, video, audio and more (pre-recorded-written and/or live tutoring).

Of course, it depends on your content as to the resources you want to use and you don’t need to go to this level, but its a great option to have re: the private, interactive working areas for your students, free video support, and ease of use automatically created for you, at no cost.

I haven’t fully explored the ‘new’ look of this site, but it does look interesting, and I will certainly be joining as both host/teacher and student!

There are quite a few others out there, albeit more focused on just teaching and less on web2.0-style community sharing sites (eg Bastiet Learning University) - or multimedia courses on the Talkshoe podcasting site - such as the ‘Entrepreneurship and Business course’. However, I am not sure exactly how Talkshoe works as an ecourse hosting platform in terms of ‘private access’.

Again, I am not sure if these suit your needs/preferences for now, but for later perhaps ….

And just thought, while on the topic of delivering both free and monetized ecourses with multimedia and video/hosting issues, I would give you (and anyone else) info. on alternative options for delivering them to your students, especially with the convenience and ease of use.

But I also know (or think) you prefer the self-hosted options and greater control, rather than other hosting platforms (except for the video issue) :-)

Let me know if you want any more info. though?
(I also have a video showing you exactly how it all works, in setting up your own ‘virtual universities’, so if you are interested, let me know and will upload it for you
:-)

Looking forward to your course! :-)

Kind Regards
Meg

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@Megan, hi Meg thanks very much for that info. The current course is not quite that involved - a series of HTML pages and accompanying videos, there isn’t any kind of interactive element or coaching involved. However, I might look into some of those products for one of my other projects that I have lined up.

Want stumble traffic… produce a slightly better than average page… get a couple of friends to stumble for you to get the ball rolling and watch it fly.

A single concise blog post could cover what you need to know about SU.

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@Jez, I used to think that everything that could be said about StumbleUpon had already been said but once I started writing down my ideas I found that I had so much more to say than even a whole series of blog posts could cover, hence the course.

Caroline,

I am certainly glad that you are being true to yourself and not being “more shady”. I like your style, you have a way of building trust and I doubt very much that I would be so interested in StumbleRush if it felt like so many other internet marketing sleezathons.

Derek.

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