One great way to advertise is marketing with video . This week I had a lot of fun with my daughter who  interviewed me about my online business and Alex Jeffreys.

I’ve never made or edited a video before. I haven’t even used a video camera, but after plunging in the deep end, I eventually worked out the basics and put together this 5 minute piece which includes me doing some pole-dancing! (Please don’t be too brutal with your critique - after all, I’m no spring chicken.)

However, after my video had been on YouTube for just over 12 hours it had already had 79 views, which is great advertising for my blog. Not bad for a novice. I’m very pleased.

So if you have a video camera, it’s well worth the effort and a lot of fun in the process and you can be as imaginative as you like. There are a number of other sites that you can send your video, such as Google Videos, Yahoo Video, Viddler and heaps of others. Do try marketing with video. I’m getting excellent results!

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Welcome to the new age of marketing . If you’ve been following along since the first post, you’ll now have the solid foundation… the undercoat… the primed canvas… the online real estate. Your challenge begins NOW to build your business - at your own pace.

There will be many things to learn along the way and many hurdles to jump, but a whole new world will start to unfold. If we all take a leaf from Alex Jeffreys’ book, we’ll have fun with it and enjoy the journey. Challenge yourself. Enjoy the research. Think outside the box. As Alex Jeffreys says, "start small… think big."

Make sure you have a plan, take action and tick the "DID" tasks off your list as you go. (Alex Jeffreys has a "Did" List.) To help with planning there is a great free software called FreeMind that you can have a bit of fun with.

A new age of marketing has begun and thanks to mentors like Alex Jeffreys and Rich Schefren, we are privileged to be amongst the first to ride this new wave. The timing has never been more perfect.

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Get your free email setup for your domain name by logging in to your cPanel (the dashboard of your hosting account). In your browser window type in www.yourdomainname.com/cpanel and enter the password given to you when you registered your domain name.

Look for the "Mail" section and click on "Email Accounts". You should add at least one email address to your blog, but you can have many.
For example: admin@yourdomainname.com, or other prefixes such as support@ or yourname@.

There are a number of helpful video tutorials about cPanel all over the internet but I found one on YouTube that covers the basics and will enable you to get your free email account set up straight away.

Your blog is now ready, although it will develop and grow as you move along, adding plugins and features as you need or discover them. The important thing now is to start posting content. But before you start getting concerned about what to write, read the next post.

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Creating a blog for online business can be a challenge for newbies. My advice to those who are technically challenged (like me!) is to get someone else to do it for you. I can line you up with an associate of mine, Garry Parkes, who will install your Wordpress blog for FREE!

If you haven’t read my previous post (yesterday) you will first need to reserve a domain name. ie the name you have chosen for your blog. You can get the best deal from www.namecheap.com (under $10 per year). Remember that it’s always best if you can get a .com name.

You will also require a hosting company (the place in cyberspace where your blog "lives") and the best price on the internet is $4 a month and is only available by referral, through Garry’s special discounted hosting package at Hostgator (one of the most reliable hosting companies around).

If you’d like to be put in touch with Garry, please email me at Gaielle@SharpMarketingMethod.com .

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