StomperNet SMARTS Update 2
Perhaps this is mid-course blues but after overloading us with time consuming activities in the early weeks, democratically agreeing to have a one week break (I voted for two weeks), I am not getting all the benefits I had hoped.
The week on video largely passed me buy although I can certainly understand why Traffic Geyser is highly recommended.
I like the idea of video and StomperNet used it to great effect with the SMARTS launch and the Go Natural 2.0 series of videos which should be starting again soon, but I don’t really see it succeeding that well in the business advice market.
Rich Schefren did some pretty neat feeds from the New Beginnings conference which he put on his blog.
Jeff Walker seems to be doing better with the first video for his Product Launch Formula 2.0 but there seems little about business videos which are viral. I guess that they are just not entertaining or original enough.
John Cleese did a great series of training videos with Video Arts which used humour to show management fallibilities in the seventies and eighties. These were excellent although very expensive but we do need to find a way to make these business videos entertaining at a number of different levels.
One problem with the SMARTs course is the old chestnut of having to catering for people at different levels of knowledge so some training has been slow, even for someone as inexperienced in the social media as me. I do accept though that much of the social media success is built on layers so if the foundations are weak, everything you build on top will be weaker than it should be.
Don’t get me wrong. There are some very good sections in the SMARTS course and some of the content of week six had me leaping into action.
I like the way StomperNet seek customer opinion and the program is changing but my feelings are that this is too intensive for the short duration of the course.
At the moment, the benefits are mixed.
Traffic on my main Business Coaching blog has been down in February where I had hoped it would increase. This is partly caused by the time allocation issue as my time has been spent watching the videos and building my Squidoo lens rather than delivering extra content on the blog.
Several of the Squidoo pages are very successful, consistently getting 5 to 15 hits per day and on the Product Launch Formula, my page achieved over 50 hits one day when it was number 1 in Google.
Hopefully my interest in producing videos will increase when I have finished Andy Jenkins (co-founder of StomperNet) bonus guide to producing videos. He has many years of experience in producing videos and the Going Natural 2.0 videos were superb.
You can see for yourself here.
Going Natural 2.0 - Video # 1 - Double Traffic
Week 7 is about blogging so that should be interesting.
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