A new email signature

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Once again I changed my email signature (here’s another post when I did it before)… here’s the old one:

I did indeed like this one, but I still felt it was too long.  Also, I had the “check out the second edition… ” which I think served it’s purpose, but it’s time to move on.  And I wanted to emphasize JUST two things – JibberJobber and the DVD… so here’s the new one (as of today):

I don’t think I’m getting any goodness out of saying I’m an author or speaker on my signature… you can eventually see that if you click on my LinkedIn blog… but really what I want you to know about is just the two things, so this is an effort to put the more important stuff in front and again clean out the noise.

I am changing this more than I ever thought I would… we’ll see how long this signature lasts 🙂  BTW, the links go to JibberJobber and my LinkedIn blog.

LinkedIn Webinar Sales Page Makeover

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I spent some time with Carl Chapman, website and SEO expert, and he made some suggestions to me about this page, which he said confused him (no in-your-face call to action, etc.):

Here’s the new one that I reworked:

Here’s what I did differently … notice the underlines are not included in the changes listed below, but they are different than the old page:

  1. Instead of the text title, this is an image… flashier… jumps out, even has … color (!).
  2. I made the price line more obvious, especially with this red strikethrough, and noting the S&H that the customer isn’t paying for now.
  3. This is broken out from the old statement, which I think is good…
  4. This is bold, green, and on it’s own line.
  5. Buy Now button, instead of a link… this is more clear (there’s your call to action Carl).
  6. Carl mentioned it said “LinkedIn Webinars” but there is currently only one webinar… SO… here’s this italicized statement that the rest are coming.

What do you think?  How else should this be improved?

BTW, if you are interested in the DVD, you can order here. OOPS! I mean, 🙂

Super Freaking Awesome (video update)

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I need to update you on the video thing… last post I asked for some input on a video from my new video editor…and since then we have changed some stuff and started to put out new videos (which are now live, and in production).

You can see all of the videos we’ve put out for JibberJobber user tutorials here, on Vimeo.  They are hi-def, which means crazy big files, but Vimeo handles it well, and the user doesn’t see slow download time (afaik). Also, if they make the video bigger the quality is good.  Cool.

I’ve also been working on the first series that I’ll sell – because it is HD we can’t do downloads as it’s GBs of info – just barely enough to fit on one DVD.  More on that soon!

Thanks to everyone who gave input on the video post from last time 🙂

Looking for feedback on user tutorial videos – thoughts?

I need some input/feedback on some changes I’m doing with my JibberJobber user tutorial videos. I’ve embedded our test video below, but you can see the wider version here.  Notice that the visible quality is horrible – we’ve uploaded it on vimeo.com also, but it is still rendering apparently… so ignoring the visual (and my narration), I’m wondering about the editing and final product.

Here are my initial thoughts/questions (I hope this doesn’t influence your feedback):

  • Is the intro music (just a few seconds) okay? I think it’s kind of cool but I wouldn’t have thought of it…
  • I’m not sure about the music throughout the entire video… is it… good? Distracting?  Okay, or horrible?
  • At the end the video editor put his voice in the conclusion – thoughts?  My initial thought is “don’t say www”… it is not necessary when typing it in.
  • What else – what am i missing?

Again, realize the quality of what you see (not the audio) will look much, much better on vimeo.

Funny Stuff & Overheard

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Tonight my five year old daughter confessed at the dinner table that she has a crush on Kung Fu Panda.  No kidding.  I almost fell of my chair laughing.

I kind of have a crush on the ol’ bear also 😉

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This morning my 7 year old son came down to my office in dramatic tears.  The ones that almost make you want to cry without knowing why.

me: what’s wrong?

him: The tooth fairy didn’t come… blubber sniff blubber… (yesterday the dentist removed two of his teeth)

me: oh man, I’m really sorry (feeling pretty guilty… bad daddy!)

him: and I LOST my teeth!  They weren’t under the pillow.

… a few minutes later he found his teeth.

me: where were they???

him: Under (my sister’s) pillow!

Good thing I don’t drink coffee – I would have spewed it all over my keyboard!

His sister, in the middle of the night, stole his teeth from under his pillow and put them under hers… hopeful little girl :p

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I overheard his in the airport a few days ago.  No kidding.  I couldn’t believe it.  It came from a guy who looked like he was about 25ish… maybe a little older.  Dressed in business casual, with a laptop bag… you know, a responsible guy with a job.

“… all I remember was that I was trying really hard to act sober.  But I know I was really drunk.”

OMG.  I better anyone who was around him KNEW that (a) he was really drunk, and (b) any acting sober wasn’t fooling anyone.

Can a really drunk guy effectively act sober enough to trick everyone around him that he’s not really drunk?

Tim Ferriss on losing money (and how to recoup)

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Tim Ferriss is one of my new favorite bloggers… he may not be new to blogging but his blog is new to me.  It’s really brilliant stuff.  Here’s a snippet I really liked from his “Things I’ve Learned and Loved in 2008” post:

You don’t have to recoup losses the same way you lose them. I own a home in San Jose but moved almost 12 months ago. It’s been empty since, and I’m paying a large mortgage each month. The best part? I don’t care. But this wasn’t always the case. For many months, I felt demoralized as others pressured me to rent it, emphasizing how I was just flushing money away otherwise. Then I realized: you don’t have to make $ back the same way you lose it. If you lose $1,000 at the blackjack table, should you try and recoup it there? Of course not. I don’t want to deal with renters, even with a property management company. The solution: leave the house alone, use it on occasion, and just create incoming revenue elsewhere that would cover the cost of the mortgage through consulting, publishing, etc.

Wow, I’ve never thought about that but how powerful. There’s other super-cool stuff in that post, one of which I really like (as an author/speaker) is: Related: You’re never as bad as they say you are.

Read the entire post here.

This testimonial is a heckuva way to end the year!

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A good friend of mine, Chip Hartman, who is the Editor-in-Chief at the ETP Network, recently watched the 2 hour webinar I did called Blog Marketing 201-501.  Here’s what he had to say:

Just finished your Blog Marketing 201-501 Webinar and was totally blown away!  This is truly phenomenal, in-depth coverage of blogging with all the critical linkages to SEO peppered throughout the presentation.

I have 9 pages of notes and a completely full bladder because I just didn’t want to pause the program even for a minute – and when a man delays peeing in order to stay tuned in to a webinar, … well, that’s high praise, sir.

Thank you, thank you, thank you and since it’s a Jason Alba production, I’m not the least bit surprised that it’s another blockbuster.

And now if you’ll excuse me, I have something I need to do …

I thought his “something to do” was implement the stuff from the webinar… alas, it was something else (I had to reread a few times) :)And with that, I’m ending the year with a big smile!