On July 20th, I set sail from Seattle to Alaska on Holland’s Westerdam. It was my first cruise and I was totally impressed with the ship and it’s crew.
I ate New York Steak almost every night and it was so tender, it almost melted in my mouth. There is food service 24/7, two swimming pools and tons of stuff to do for Adults.
Was I thrilled with Alaska? Not so much. Why? Because I live in Washington State and I’ve seen this scenery of mountains and trees my whole life. Although for anyone not used to this type of scenery, it might make you want to live there.
Especially loved Juneau because it must be the diamond capitol of the world. And, I do love Diamonds!!! Bought myself a blue diamond ring in Ketchican so I would always remember my trip (yeah right, I bought it because I couldn’t resist how great the ring looked on my finger and I bargained it down to a great price!)
I must say one of the Glaciers was awesome as you can see below:
Juneau
Coming into Sitka
Ketchican
Me on Deck with my coat — it was cold!
If you get the chance, you really should consider taking a cruise!
The beauty of having a business on the Internet, you can take off anytime you want.
If you want to put Video on your site, you’ll never find an EZ-ier way than with Easy Web Video.
When looking around my site, you’ll see flash videos I was able to put up in a New York minute. This software will take your videos and EZ-ily convert them to a flash file to put on your web site.
The reason you want a flash file is because most ISP providers (your hosting company) can’t stream Videos and it’s what’s made You Tube so popular. Now you don’t have to rely on another site being up or down.
Another benefit, this software has different colored players and one of them should match your site’s design.
Look at this video which shows you just how easy it is to use V2F – I have included the redirect link to open a new window. If you have a browser that blocks this, you won’t see how neat this works.
I am so impressed with this software, I simply wanted you to see it too!
Judith
Making the Complicated Simple
P.S. Yes it opens to Easy Web Video and yes it’s an affliliate link. I’m not stupid (LOL).
One of my products is how to make ebooks EZ-ily so I designed 177 ebook templates that would save writers time. This time can be used to do more fun things with your family or write even more ebooks to sell on the Internet.
To show you how EZ it is to use the templates I created, I made the following video:
This was also a test to see if I could put a flash player in this blog and have it work without resorting to using You Tube.Judith
Making the Complicated Simple!
P.S. The Video Flash Player I use is called Easy Web Video and you can click on the box at the right to visit their page to see if you can use it on your site. It took me a New York minute to make my Videos into Flash so they could stream on my site. I used to use YouTube for streaming but no more! I love I have a choice of players and the owner of the software is always adding additional players. Plus, if I had wanted to, the video could have taken you to a different URL.
Constantly making ebook products, marketing and doing what’s necessary to keep your business running smoothly is fine and good but sometimes you’ve just got to play.
And I found a wonderful new art program to play with. It’s $25 for the download version and I do believe ArtRage is one of the best art programs on the market today.
I have at least 4 or 5 on my computer because art is my second muse. So yesterday, I decided to see what I could paint in an less than an hour. What this did was release I block I had about painting my beloved Pepper. She passed 2 years ago and I’ve been wanting to paint her for my Mother. She and Pepper were extremely close and she even referred to Pepper as her Grandchild (smile).
So do yourself a favor and do something creative when you’re feeling a tad bit burned out with your day to day life. I did and now I can enjoy getting back to business!Who knows you might even paint a picture for an ebook cover of yours.Judith
Making the Complicated Simple!
P.P.S. The program will even rescale your painting to whatever size you want. My original is 11 X 14 set to 300 dpi. But for the web, I rescaled and compressed to 72 dpi. That’s why the paint strokes look a little different from my original. Oh well, it gives you an idea of what this marvelous program can do.
There is another post where I talk about becoming a Charter Member (this means no monthly fees ever!) for Promocode software. There are only 92 charter memberships left and I would be remiss if I didn’t give you reasons why this is the best marketing tool for your online business.
Promocode software is not like coupon codes where you offer simply a discount for one of your products. Yes, it can be used that way but you wouldn’t be using it’s full potential.
Some more ways you can use Promocode software:
You can create Special Offers for your customers only. If you have different email lists in your autoresponder who signed up for different things you offered free, you can put one promocode box on your front page and send each list a different code. Each code would send them to a different special offer on your site. You can also give the special offer a sense of urgency by having it expire in X number of days.
Now you might be wondering what this has to do with making ebooks. Well, nothing actually.
I was fooling around with a new software program I was testing out called Etima’s SWF & FLV Toolbox 3.5. Well I didn’t buy it even though it’s excellent because I realized I already had a program that would do the same thing — make my SWF Tutorials into an .avi file which I could then pull into Serif’s Movie Plus 5 to convert into a .mov file.
Yes I know YouTube will accept .avi files but it was not a good choice when I watched the playback. I do like to play and find out different ways to market. Well Video is a good way to market so I plan to take small samples of my ebook tutorials and convert them to play on a number of video sites.
