I Hate Internet Marketing Videos
I Hate Video
Most gurus are in internet marketing for the quickest buck possible. Hence their latest love affair with video. When they realized search engines were indexing video easily they all jumped on the band wagon. And they discovered if they had some knowledge about some topic, they could sit in front of a webcam and babble all day. Point at a few screen shots and you have a product on your hands.
Video Ramblings
Gone are the days of write and rewrite. Gone are the days of editing. If you can gab you can be an internet marketing guru. And you can waste my time in addition to my money. One was bad enough. Two is just unacceptable. And if there are worthwhile gurus you have been following, you simply have to grin and bear it.
Look Over Their Shoulder
At first glance, this seems like a good idea. Until you try to put the product into action. You will wind up not only transcribing most of the audio, you will also have to describe what is seen in your notes. Basically the user winds up writing the ebook themselves. If you don’t you will about lose your marbles trying to find the spot on the video with the information you need. I have wasted more time trying to go back to find one fact from a video than I want to think about. Give me text and screen shots. I can cope from there.
Newbies Fight Back
Stop buying videos. They are not going to help you build an internet marketing empire. They are going to drive you crazy long before you make your first dollar. If we stop rewarding this drivel with money they will stop producing it. Any guru who is producing a valuable product will be happy to include a text version of their work. If they don’t produce text, you can be pretty sure they created the whole thing in less than a few hours and have given it about as much thought.