IM NewsWatch has announced Covert Player Pro by Mark Dulisse before. It is proven technology that has been available for some time and is used on many websites. But it’s worth a new mention because version 4 has many slick new features: • It uses HTML 5 so videos play on any platform from smartphone to tablet to laptop to PC • It allows multiple videos on a page, each starting or stopping when the user scrolls to bring it into view or out of view • It presents an opt-in form if (and when) you choose. Viewer must opt-in to continue viewing. • It allows you to manage... [...]

Video is the greatest marketing tool ever invented. But for small businesses, without the funds to hire a professional video creator, using the power of video can be beyond reach. Now, Chris Dolan has created Slide 2 Video Pro, software that will turn your marketing slide deck (it includes a built-in slide maker; you don’t need PowerPoint) into a fascinating video that can be placed on YouTube, or other video sharing site, or on your own site. It’s called Slide 2 Video Pro. Now you will have three advantages when making video: • You don’t need to be on camera. • You... [...]

Facebook Video Jacker will allow you to automatically and legally extract sales and opt-in subscribers from any Facebook Group, Timeline or Page simply by sharing any YouTube or Vimeo Video. Choose a video that suits your need. Using Facebook Video Jacker, add your branding and call to action. Then post it to Facebook, a blog, or your website. The software handles the technical parts for you. Add coupons, opt-in boxes, QR codes, Store locators, Skype contacts or one of many other applications to the video. If you use a YouTube video, the description from YouTube is automatically included, as well. This... [...]

There are many video players available for WordPress. Matthew McDonald has created one that manages to highlight your videos and place them in a setting that will elicit a welcoming response from your visitor. If you bought Easy Video Flix 2.0 Unlimited, Hollywood or FLIP, McDonald offers a free upgrade. If not, you can get this premium player from McDonald for a very reasonable price. The advantages of this player include: • Plays YouTube videos or self-hosted videos • Attractive cinema frame, with curtains that open to reveal the video. This gives a pleasant “going to the movies”... [...]

Do you have a social media strategy? Social media are the key to high rankings for your website, and for high traffic, too0. Erica Stone has just released Titanium Backlinks, a step-by-step course that shows you how to harness the power of great content and social media to promote your site in the search engines. When social platforms notice your site and provide backlinks, the search engines are impressed. So these social links (Stone calls them titanium links) provide a double benefit: they directly pull in visitors to your site, and they influence the search engines to pull in additional visitors. In... [...]

Mark Dulisse just announced Covert Optin Player. It builds on his successful Covert Video Player, adding new features that marketers need. Marketers have stringent requirements beyond those of typical video users, and Covert Optin Player offers a solution: • You can ask for Optins when the player starts, pauses, at the end or at a particular time. • It works with Youtube videos (with HD option) and FlowPlayer Videos • It plays Self Hosted & Amazon s3 Videos with MP4, WebM, and OGV support • It generates Embed Codes For 3rd Party Sites, such as static HTML sites •... [...]

“Jerome 007” has just released a WordPress plugin that lets you embed a call to action in any YouTube video or video hosted on a WordPress blog. He calls the plugin Video Conversion Booster. You can chose the time the call to action shows up. So your video can give the viewer a good reason to act; that should improve the response rate when the call to action appears. It’s all drag and drop with a dashboard to make it easy; no tech skills are needed to set up your call to action. You get full developer rights to Video Conversion Booster. Your call to action can be anything you... [...]

Jimmy Mancini released a training product last year explaining how to get top rankings for your YouTube videos. Now, he has incorporated those principles into this new software tool, Youtube Ranking Software. This Windows software steps you thorough Mancini’s method for video ranking, a method he has used successfully for quite a while, now. (And his prior buyers have given their own testimony about their success, too.) And, you can also track your work using this software. In fact, it’s a project management system that will guide you during the entire process of ranking your videos.... [...]

Now you don’t have to leave your site, go to YouTube, do a search and copy arcane link codes to place a YouTube video on your WP site. Stay on your own site, use VideoBlast for WordPress to find the right video and add it to your post or page, all from the comfort of “home”. With VideoBlast for WordPress, you specify a keyword and you get a list of the YouTube videos that apply. You can limit your search, too, by date rating and how many views they have. Preview them and pick the most useful one. When you embed your chosen video, you can select the size you want the embedded... [...]

Now, through February 8, you can get Video Jacker for a 65% discount. This new software converts videos on YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook (in fact, any MP4 video) into a viral marketing tool for you. This software (hosted on the Video Jacker servers) lets you add “buy now” or any of the other 26 included calls to action to these videos. Things like opt-in with aWeber or GetResponse, follow my Tweet stream, check my location of Google Maps, and many more, are built in to Video Jacker – 7 Day Sale. For $6.99 per month (with a $14.95 one-time fee) you can create videos that let people... [...]