Sunday, May 29, 2011

Blogger Blog Tips

Posted: 29 May 2011 06:05 AM PDT

If you're a regular here at ProBlogger, you know that I often post videos on the blog.

I love doing video posts—it's fun, it's something a bit different, and it's a good way to really reach out to my readers. I think videos provide bloggers with a good opportunity to connect in a way that can be hard to do through written text.

I've also found video really useful for generating sales.

Not my videos, though. I've made a lot of video posts, but when it comes to promoting products, I know I need something that's a bit more powerful—I need videos that have an edge.

Just as writing informational blog posts is different from writing sales copy, preparing a standard video for my blog is very different from making a sales video.

Enter: Samurai Sales Videos.

I worked with Timothy Marc, the guy behind Samurai Sales Videos, and his team to make the sales video for Photo Nuts and Shots, an ebook I released earlier this year on dPS. We used the video on the launch post for the ebook.

Here's that original video.

Timothy and his team use a combination of great video and scripting, along with some little-known psychological selling techniques to create sales videos that have that "edge" I mentioned.

The results? This is our biggest-selling ebook yet.

We had a lot of great feedback from customers about the video, and it made a big contribution to making the ebook such a success.

Timothy's now offering ProBlogger readers a $50 discount on his Samurai Sales Video package, which includes: