Web Marketing Strategy Update

Considering your first crowdsourcing venture? Already seasoned crowdsourcing veteran? Either way, there are now literally hundreds of opportunities at your disposal. Here’s our pick of five not-to-be-missed crowdsourcing sites that you should pay a visit.

crowdsourcing.org

This is a one-stop shop for all things crowdsourcing. crowdsourcing.org is one of the most comprehensive crowdsourcing resources with a home page that provides a running, up-to-date log of literally hundreds of crowdsourcing stories, articles and case studies. You’ll have access to live chats, research results, industry event announcements and more. Best of all, here you will find the web’s largest and most comprehensive directory of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding web sites—totaling 1,801 and counting. Within that list you can drill down to find exactly what you are searching for including Cloud Labor, Crowd Creativity, Crowdfunding, and more (with subcategories within each.)
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A few weeks ago I bought the $7 Secrets ebook by Jonathan Leger. It was a good read.

The basic idea of selling low cost reports is nothing new of course, but the killer is in the simple twists and scripts that Jon added to create armies of sneezing affiliates passing your virus on.

The $7 Secrets ebook has become so successful that Jon has set up a website, $7 Offers to showcase the growing collection of $7 products available using the scripts supplied free with his $7 Secrets ebook.

The popularity of the whole thing prompted me to create my own $7 product to list on the $7 Offers site for a slice of the traffic it’s getting.
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If you’re interested in writing ebooks and the like to sell online, here’s a good and fairly comprehensive article on the subject posted by Aaron a few weeks back.

He gives a ton of advice together with his personal experience from his SEOBook that will be of value to almost anyone considering marketing ebooks, etc.

He talks about:

1. Surveying the Market
2. Competitive Analysis
3. Your Goals
4. Writing the Book
5. Using Paypal
6. Business Models
7. One Updated Book or Many?
8. Marketing Your eBook
9. Bundling
10. Joint Ventures
11. Tracking Content Theft
12. Product Naming
13. Sales Letter Writing
14. Leveraging Affiliates
15. What Aaron Could Have Done Better
16. Sales vs the Knowledge Curve

A couple of days ago I posted [Create New Products on Skype?->] On a related theme, in his post, The Hardware Costs For A Newbie Podcaster, Richard Giles explains how a newbie can start podcasting on a very small budget, and even for free.

Says Richard:

The total cost of the hardware for me to start was zero dollars. That’s right, nada. I cheated; a mate of mine gave me a USB microphone (a $50 Logitech headset if you need to buy one). That’s all I needed to record a show. These days basic recording software comes with the operating system, so that isn’t even a factor.
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