Have you seen the Will It Blend? series of videos on YouTube?

Here's the story behind those amazingly successful viral videos that have been seen by millions of people…

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Take a break from blogging time and enjoy BUSINESS TIME:

Shoemoney answers the question he hears several times a day: "Can you really get rich overnight?"

Here's a fun way to market to women:

Metacafe.com is a video sharing site, but unlike YouTube, it shares revenue with the people who provide the videos.

Here's how it works:

Metacafe's Producer Rewards™ program rewards you for creating and submitting great videos.

If your video has what it takes to entertain people, we want to license it and pay you for every view. Every time someone watches your video on Metacafe, you earn money.

How you make money

Metacafe will pay you $5 for every thousand views your video gets on our site. Payment starts after your video reaches 20,000 views and has a rating of 3.00 or higher - which tells us that the viewers like the video. On top of that, the license to Metacafe is a non-exclusive deal - you retain ownership of your video. Metacafe helps build your brand by marketing your content and making you money.

What's the potential?

With well over 1 million unique users per day watching over 400 million videos every month, Metacafe is perfectly placed to deliver the most receptive audience to the most entertaining content. Whether it's something spontaneous in your home or something you've scripted, if it entertains, it has a place on Metacafe.

What are the requirements?

For a video to qualify for Producer Rewards, you must own all the rights to the video and the video must meet certain content guidelines.

At the time of this post, the following video was Metacafe's top earner, bringing the originator over $26,500:

Matrix - For Real…Joe Eigo - Funny video clips are a click away

Ouch!

Creating a really popular video may not be easy… but once that part is done, Metacafe could turn it into an incredible (and automatic) earning machine for you. Kick in your own marketing campaign to get people to view your video, and the sky's the limit!

Go here for more information and a list of the Top 10 money-producing videos: Metacafe.com

This is an interesting and informative video by WebProNews that explains link baiting and other linking strategies.

Here's the description of the video:

Few can speak about link building and link baiting with the experience and authority that Eric Ward brings to the table. He’s been doing this sort of thing since 1994, before the vast majority had even heard of a hyperlink.

In this WebProNews: The Insider video, Managing Editor Mike McDonald connects with Ward via webcam to discuss the finer points of link building today, what constitutes good link bait, and creating a good balance of organic and paid links.

What is linkbait? Linkbait can be anything – anything that inspires somebody at another website or blog to link back to it. The only boundary is creativity.

What makes something linkable? We can only speak with examples and general guidance, but–whatever it is, it should be clever and useful to the end-user, either by “interestingness” or by its ability to solve a problem. Widgets, then, make sense as great linkbait. Good linkbait is pure, not coming off as slimy or cheesy. “In the long run,” says Ward, “the end user votes with the mouse.”

How do you develop a linking strategy? Strategies should mesh with the intent and market of the website being promoted. Any link is not necessarily a good link. Quality links matter. The right audience matters. Timing is important. If you want to promote something for next week, organic SEO isn’t going to work. You may need to buy some links or bid on some keywords. Use organic SEO for promotions far in the future (if for the Christmas season, begin in September). There is no optimal balance of paid and organic links. It depends on what the end goal is.

Get the content in front of the audience you care about.

The video's about 12 minutes long.

Enjoy!

This video was made by Ross Goldberg, one of the guys behind a product called Traffic Masters. I am not familiar with that product, and am not recommending it by posting this video.

I am posting this video because it gives you some great tips and resources for promoting your blog and ultimately getting more traffic.

A while back I found a funny video at YouTube of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert talking about blogging. I posted it on my blog. It's now gone.

That clip was from The Daily Show, which aired on Comedy Central, which is owned by Viacom. Ditto The Colbert Report. And many other shows from which video clips had been uploaded to YouTube. Viacom recently instructed YouTube to remove all video clips of its copyrighted programming.

So, if you had embedded any of those YouTube video clips on your site, they will now show "Video no longer available" when someone clicks on them. You might as well delete those posts, as I have done.

Fortunately you can still watch funny video clips of Stephen Colbert at The Colbert Report website, and Jon Stewart at The Daily Report website.

If you're interested in sharing videos online, here's a great resource…LifeGoggles.com has created a very handy tool: The Ultimate Guide to Video Sharing.

The Guide is the result of in-depth reviews all of the major video-sharing websites, and rates them based on ease of use and video quality. The video quality comparisons are particularly helpful if your priority is making sure your video looks its best to viewers.

From the site, you can check out the Video Comparison Page that currently compares the video quality of 26 of the most popular video-sharing sites, a Video Sharing Matrix that quickly allows you to see what features are offered by each of the video sites along with ratings for the various aspects of their service, and you can download a free Video Sharing Guide eBook.

The eBook Guide currently covers 28 video-sharing websites (and is updated regularly); everything from YouTube to Sumo.TV. It provides step-by-step instructions for uploading videos for each video-sharing site, plus it gives the pros and cons of each site.

Here's where to get this handy information about sharing videos online: The Ultimate Guide to Video Sharing.

I'm a fan of Guy Kawasaki, so when I found this video, I was eager to watch it.

It's nearly an hour long, but is entertaining and enlightening… so just pull up a chair and get comfortable.

Here's what Guy says about it:

At the CommunityNext conference I moderated this panel with the founders of six very successful web properties: Akash Garg of hi5; Sean Suhl of Suicide Girls; Max Levchin of Slide; James Hong of HotorNot; Markus Frind of PlentyofFish; Drew Curtis of Fark

This is the most amusing panel I’ve ever moderated, and the speakers defied many conventions of tech entrepreneurship—in particular the ones that venture capitalists believe are “proven.”

If you’d like to learn how these companies became successful without “proven teams, proven technology, and proven business models,” you’ll love this video.

Guy's right… it's good stuff. Enjoy!

This is great. It almost makes me wish I'd get more calls from telemarketers so I could follow Tom Mabe's hilarious example and really mess with them! I believe Tom tortures telemarketers better than anyone else. If you ever venture into cold calling, make sure you don't dial his number!

Sage Lewis of WebMarketingWatch.com has a good idea: create and post interesting and simple how-to videos about online marketing.

He also did a very smart thing by promoting his site via a press release. Although his release has a glaring omission–there's no link to the website he's promoting–it's getting good results. Just do a search for the phrase "How-To Video Blog About Search Marketing" and see how many hits you get!

His videos are not polished or professional, but in a strange way, that makes them even more appealing. He's demonstrating to his viewers that they can do the same thing without fancy equipment or a degree in broadcasting.

I would, however, recommending using a camera that provides a better quality picture than the cell phone camera he used in his "Steps to Video Blogging and Getting a Video Camera" video, which you can watch here:

Check out Sage's site and other videos here: WebMarketingWatch.com

This video is pretty funny. I actually watched it while I was at work (with no volume; I work in a cubicle after all, and I'm not an idiot).

Yes, I was working on this blog while I was at work. But unlike the guy in this video, I wasn't so… obvious… about it. I do want to keep my job (at least for now).

Enjoy!

Richard St. John of TED compacts seven years of research into a terrific 3-minute slideshow on the real secrets of success (Hint: Passion, persistence, and pushy mothers help).

This video is fascinating, thought-provoking, and a even little scary to me. It basically explains Web 2.0 in under 5 minutes. It's been viewed over a million times!

Check it out…