Post On Video Part I

Video is the new pink, and has been my bain for the last few months. It all started in earnest after the ECom Expo when I discovered a firm who does the….(claimed to do) the virtual spokesperson video hosting and production. I never really fancied the animated avatar; a cartoon babe didn’t really sell the sizzle for me. I needed a real live spokes person. A video babe as I called it was going to propel destination billion into the stratosphere. Fortunately I didn’t order a brand new yacht before finalizing details with said firm because although I had my video babe picked out from their website they never did return my calls or emails. I found another firm peddling a similar service for over 3 times the price. They were very good at getting back to me however I didn’t really feel that a 30 second spot justified a $1000 purchase especially because the new skis that I had picked out also cost $1000 and would net significantly more than 30 seconds of pleasure. Further more the whole point of the thing was to have regular video updates.
I have been uploading YouTube Videos and posting them on my sites for quite some time now but never really saw them as the vehicle I wanted, however after seeing a smaller version of such on the affiliate summit website I was instantly sold. Watch for videos to spring up all over my sites. Seriously, he who has the most video wins.

Dugan Selkirk
President
Fife Group BDS
www.DestinationBillion.com

Post on Affiliate Summit Part I

I am writing this blog post in the air from Vancouver to Las Vegas for Affiliate Summit West. This is our second consecutive year in attendance and we are super stoked. We have punched through the cloud layer so there is no more view of the gorgeous coastal terrain that I love about me home, so I can freely write. This is probably the first time I have actually been that guy who feverishly types away while on the plane. Usually I am the guy wondering what the hell that guy could possibly be doing on a laptop without a high speed connection! So about the Summit, last year we were pretty green, I more than my partner for sure. I had just completed a suitable mock up of an affiliate site. I had some idea of the content I wanted to put on it but no idea at all about the vast resource that awaited me. We made a point of meeting someone at every booth at the summit. I tried to blow off a few of them because I didn’t think they looked too cool (probably really because I was overwhelmed), but my dear partner would say “Ah they are like the biggest network there is”. A year later I am in a bit better shape although still working on a newer version of the same site and currently reconstructing it from the ground up in my head at least. I had a new batch of business cards done the day before we left, bought a new suit and a new black berry and ya boy me gonna rock it dis year!! This is to say I will make it to at least one of the big parties, Webmaster Radio thank you in advance for the several single malt scotch whiskies!

Dugan Selkirk
President
Fife Group BDS
www.DestinationBillion.com

Post on Google Reader

If you haven’t heard of Google Reader it is high time you did. Google Reader is the self described inbox of the internet. More specifically it is an inbox for news feeds and blog posts. So this is how it works. Sign up for Reader through your Google account. Of course you already have a Google account set up to host your Google ads. Then comb through your favorites folder (how turn of the century) and go to your favorite news sites and blogs and add them to your reader list. Each time your news site or blogger posts an update the headline or subject appears in your reader view. You can click on it to read it and as most of your web 2.0 favorites allow, you can post a response, with a link back to your own blog in your signature. I love this because it works like a self fulfilling prophecy. Read the blogs and the blog readers will come! I have set the Google reader as my home page on my business machine. Whenever I see something that catches my eye I can blog about it. Easy blog post ideas can flow all day long. It is not too hard to make little changes, it is hard to make big changes. So set up your Google Reader and Alt+T O to make it your home page. It’s a small change that can have big results.

Dugan Selkirk
President
Fife Group BDS
http://www.destinationbillion.com/

Blogging is the new black

Blogging is the new black! Seriously, you can't just wear black , you have to be black, it is kind of a lifestyle choice. Remember back in the day! Haha, walking to work clad head to toe in black, drinking black coffee, smoking benson&hedges blacks, or worse, john player blacks! Ha, well one thing it was was consistent. It was an everyday thing. Blogging is the new black. Blog and ping, blog and ping that is the new everyday. Blogging is the last vestige of the little guy and who knows for how long. Get in early enough and you may not be the little guy anymore once that time comes. Remember all the things you wanted to start, and didn’t; now they are huge industries the founders of which are billionaires. Well what holds true in those cases is that them that are billionaires now, once were the little guys on the way up. Rockafeller Sr. didn’t invent the oil refining process, but he was in on the ground floor, started acquiring assets and leveraged his position up and up until standard oil was one of the largest firms in the world. It is the same type of deal for Billy G who we all know. He didn’t invent software per se but he was one of the first to inflict his property rights onto the genre and well the rest is not so distant history.

Blog into the future!

In the last 2 months i have had plenty of time to think about blogging and some time to reserach blogging =). So here are some topics that I want to blog about in the next several posts which i am going to post every day! I bet we have all heard that before eh?

Blogging as a business, what is the deal, its an open topic so i can bounce around here quite a bit. Emailing as a business and the ins and outs of that. Affiliate marketing as a business and its future, the future of internet marketing, is it really social media?? and if so how can I get paid.
Look, I love helping people and posting usefull information, but this is a blog about making money so if I am not making money doing this than what good am I??

This blog and my site have always been as much about the work from home lifestyle as of the work itself. OK, its work, its not that exciting. No one works just so they can work! We work to get paid so we can do the fun stuff that we want to do.

I will also be reading several top blogs and posting on them and reviewing other things that may help the home bizzer.

So there is the outline for the next posts. Enjoy, and please comment!

Dugan Selkirk
President
Fife Group BDS
www.DestinationBillion.com