I don't think you've seen this one yet (Live links in a recording)

[jddavin]

Hi!
RE: Live ads in a recorded presentation?

You asked for a new way to generate income with Google Adsense. I've not seen this anywhere else yet.
http://johndavin.com/coupondemo/


Basically, you record a presentation that includes visits to your web site (with Google Adsense Ads), upload the file to your server, then you promote the recording, and let it generate income for you 24 hours a day, 7 days per week.

The income can come from whatever you are personally promoting or from the clicks users make on your Google Adsense ads.

Why is this unique? The recording allows people to stop the recording and click on the ads in your web site you are reviewing. Or they can EVEN click on ads during your presentation if your presentations are boring! That's ok, it means you still get paid even if you are boring.

Bottom line is you should create valuable content to offer a reason to view the recording. With this technology the recording will be fun because it can include:

1. Pictures
2. Your Web pages
2. PowerPoint(TM) Slides
2. Your voice
4. Links to outside web sites to learn more.
5. Pause and learn mode.
6. Repeat mode.

Please let me know what you think!

PS: MOST IMPORTANTLY, what is the % of people who are vs who are not able to view the program without downloading windows media player? SO PLEASE DO REPLY IF YOU WERE OR WERE NOT ABLE TO VIEW THE MOVIE. In addition, your security settings may need to be set to medium to low in your Internet settings.

Thank you!

John Davin
http://johndavin.com/coupondemo/

[trealm]

Hi!

Please let me know what you think!

John Davin
http://johndavin.com/coupondemo/

Video was black, I could hear the presentation but not see it. Also, the frame width on the right side of the page is not large enough to accommodate the video, a good chunk of it is cut off, widening my browser out to 3800 pix wide didn't help since the main frame is the only dynamically-sized one. I don't think the frame width was what was causing the video portion not to display, though.

[jddavin]

Video was black, I could hear the presentation but not see it. Also, the frame width on the right side of the page is not large enough to accommodate the video, a good chunk of it is cut off, widening my browser out to 3800 pix wide didn't help since the main frame is the only dynamically-sized one. I don't think the frame width was what was causing the video portion not to display, though.

_______________________

Good day!

Thank you for the fast reply. :)

It sounds like you know what you're doing, but let's start at the beginning.

First of all, do you for sure have windows media player installed? The links for 9 or 10 should be in the right hand side frame. The web sites we visit should be on the left side frame. Full screen almost.

Look for:
Windows Media Player 9 (Windows 98/ME)
Windows Media Player 10 (Windows XP

Next, you can adjust the size of the windows by holding down the sides of the frame with your mouse and moving it either way. But I think you know that if you know about 3800 pix wide!

I hope we have a few other people review it.. we'll find out fast if I made a mistake in recording. OUCH. It worked great here.

Do you have anyone who would be willing to review for us? I will go review on my notebook in the other room. I've done dozens of recordings, I hope I didn't muck it up!!! I think you'll find it amazing.

Thanks!

JED

[jddavin]

Video was black, I could hear the presentation but not see it. Also, the frame width on the right side of the page is not large enough to accommodate the video, a good chunk of it is cut off, widening my browser out to 3800 pix wide didn't help since the main frame is the only dynamically-sized one. I don't think the frame width was what was causing the video portion not to display, though.

Hi.

Actually, I eee what you are saying, but you should see the web site we visited on the LEFT side, not the right. :) It loaded slow for me on my notebook, and it did look like there would be a movie in the top right side of the screen in a black box. But the black box goes away after presentation loads completely.

One idea, try to push refresh and it should load on the left side as it will be buffered. :)

THANKS!

[trealm]

WMP is on here okay...I am able to get the sound portion, just not the video. I could view the entire video if I move the frame bar but I suspect a lot of visitors would not know how to do that. Downloaded the mp3 file itself and tried to play it locally--it would not display video in either WMP or QuickTime, but the sound plays fine in both. Odd! :confused:

[jddavin]

Hi.

The presentation should play in your browser, and it should not load the windows media player itself. It is a standard mp3 recording which is nice but not effective for his application, right?

Hmmmm I need to think about this one for a minute.

[trealm]

Hi.

The presentation should play in your browser, and it should not load the windows media player itself. It is a standard mp3 recording which is nice but not effective for his application, right?

Hmmmm I need to think about this one for a minute.

It does play in my browser, I just downloaded it manually to see if there was any oddities I could discover, but didn't yet. Is this strictly mp3 encoded? The fact that the extension is mp3 as opposed to mpg makes me wonder if this is just a audio file rather than a video file? Sure would explain why the screen stays black :)

[jddavin]

It does play in my browser, I just downloaded it manually to see if there was any oddities I could discover, but didn't yet. Is this strictly mp3 encoded? The fact that the extension is mp3 as opposed to mpg makes me wonder if this is just a audio file rather than a video file? Sure would explain why the screen stays black :)

Hello everyone. I see 90 people have viewed this thread. I have a request for assistance.

At this point, it is MOST IMPORTANT for me to research the % of people who are vs who are not able to view the program without downloading windows media player! so please do reply and tell me if you were or were not able to view the movie. It does requre that Windows media player be installed, but a few people even then have had problems. But I have many others who say they watch it without any problems. I will be recording results and let you know.

Thank you so much for your valuable time and input.

Again, the movie is at http://johndavin.com/coupondemo/

John Davin

[psychopianoman]

All I see is the play bar. When the page first opens I see the player with a black screen but then it shrinks to only show the controll bar and then I only hear the audio.

My cpu is up to speed with all the players and IE so I have no idea what is wrong???

[cervantes]

Audio OK.. No video.. Black screen here.. Just so ya know.. Thanks.. :confused:

[blaire576]

Audio OK.. No video.. Black screen here.. Just so ya know.. Thanks.. :confused:

same here bud:confused:

[blaire576]

same here bud:confused: makes me wonder why..

[trealm]

same here bud:confused: makes me wonder why..

I think we need to go back to the item I mentioned above...the file that is encoded is an .mp3, not an .mpg or .mpeg (mp3 being the extension traditionally used for AUDIO files)

[jumpshot]

I can hear it, but not see anything. Have all the components in place and fast computer etc. ? ? ? Very cool idea;)

[marketinginstitute]

Can't see any videos, just audio from Windows Media Player.

[trealm]

Can't see any videos, just audio from Windows Media Player.

Alright, I'm willing to place bets that, as I've said above a few times, this is not a video file but an audio file only. That's why none of us can see anything..."there's nothing to see here" :)

[psychopianoman]

What happened to the dude. He made 5 post in this thread and then went bye bye.

[jddavin]

What happened to the dude. He made 5 post in this thread and then went bye bye.

Dude,
I am here! Had family in town for a week and a half for a family wedding. Whew, they are almost all gone. Bout the time they go back to Nebraska tho, I will want them back.

Ok, here is what I have learned.
If you do not see the web sites I visited during the presentation (they should show up in the left hand side of the screen in the left frame), you can try to:

1. Lower your security level.
2. Make sure you have java enabled.
3. Make sure you have windows media player installed.

If you do not do #1 and #2, you may only hear the mp3 file.

I have a friend making a quick file to explain all this.

I see many people see the entire movie, so that is good. For those who do not, did that fix the problem?

Thank you!

[psychopianoman]

I tried everything and still got nothing.

[jddavin]

Good day!
RE: Completed Book on Adsense/Joel Comm / Why this is so important:

The results are important to everyone because I have written a complete book around how to set up this technology to earn more money with Google adsense, and am trying to get the idea to Joel Comm to test so he could be a co-author with completed book I have written.

Hopefully I can have positive feedback and a group of people hungry to learn how to create these videos who would want the book. Yes, I'm trying to keep it under wraps to build interest and to prepare the way for anticipation and big sales on the day of release.

Obviously, the book is not online or accessible to anyone until I have sufficient feedback on the technology and then I want to present the completed e-book to Joel for review to see if he would like to co-author a completed book.

It's pretty good, even if I do say so myself! It has print screens of the technology to explain how to use the technology checklists for how to get started giving online seminars that can be recorded and distributed. Again, all seminars would then have live links in the presentations so visitors could earn you Google Adsense money while they watch the recorded seminars.

The bottom line is I have talked to people who view the entire movie and the majority love it, but I don't have a large enough base of people who are replying saying they did see it and what they thought of it. Again, I see 20 people viewed it yesterday, most viewing all of the web sites in the presentation. Where are you with your comments? :)

So, does anyone want to step up to the plate and make a statement, good or bad? It would truly help!

http://johndavin.com/coupondemo/

Thank you.
John Davin

[trealm]

Where are you with your comments? :)

So, does anyone want to step up to the plate and make a statement, good or bad? It would truly help!


I'm at the same place with my comments as I was at the beginning.

It is not a security issue,
It is not a java issue, and
It is not a windows media issue.

I have physically downloaded the "movie" and attempted to play it in three players manually on my desktop and all I get is sound. There is NO video. Playing the file locally in a player and still not seeing any picture negates the first two suggestions. The only possibility might be a CODEC issue. Are you using any non-standard encoding for the video? If that were the case, WMP would at least give me a CODEC error (it is not) but it's the only thing I can think of at the moment.

If you need people to lower their security just to view your site, or to download some special CODEC, then I think the concept is flawed because in this day and age, there is a tightening of security rather than a loosening and unless you've really got something, people aren't going to go installing extra software just to look at your pages.

I see the website in the left frame, but the "movie" (in the right frame) does NOT show video, ONLY AUDIO. I would also suggest that you make the right frame large enough to fit the whole player so that those out there lucky enough to see pictures can see the whole picture, not have the right part cut off. I know you can slide frames around, but people viewing the page shouldn't have to adjust that themselves.

[jddavin]

First, thank you for your continued efforts. Truly.

Next, I think I understand the problem now... there is no true video to play on the left frame... only the recorded series of the web sites I visit, that show up on the left hand side... you should see many different web sites load as you listen to my presentation..

So I see now that video is really the wrong terminology for me to use... I did not understand until now that I did not do a good job of explaining that. This would have been a good use of Camtasia, to show what you should be seeing. I may go do that.

The Good news is if you see the different web sites loaded on the left side, it is working! OH MAN, SORRY. Again, the web site should change as I visit different sites. Does it do that for you?

Most people should not have to change security settings... most importanlty, if you have WMP installed, you should not have to download special software or CODEC, etc.

This is an alternative to true video.. it is a way to visit a web site (or PowerPoint TM) presentation online) and record a monologue about your visit, as well push the different clicks on the different web sites you visit to your audience. The benefit is that viewers can click on ads or links in the web site while listening to the presentation, or they can pause the presentation and click on the items they want to explore more.

Does that clear it up?

Thanks!


I'm at the same place with my comments as I was at the beginning.

It is not a security issue,
It is not a java issue, and
It is not a windows media issue.

I have physically downloaded the "movie" and attempted to play it in three players manually on my desktop and all I get is sound. There is NO video. Playing the file locally in a player and still not seeing any picture negates the first two suggestions. The only possibility might be a CODEC issue. Are you using any non-standard encoding for the video? If that were the case, WMP would at least give me a CODEC error (it is not) but it's the only thing I can think of at the moment.

If you need people to lower their security just to view your site, or to download some special CODEC, then I think the concept is flawed because in this day and age, there is a tightening of security rather than a loosening and unless you've really got something, people aren't going to go installing extra software just to look at your pages.

I see the website in the left frame, but the "movie" (in the right frame) does NOT show video, ONLY AUDIO. I would also suggest that you make the right frame large enough to fit the whole player so that those out there lucky enough to see pictures can see the whole picture, not have the right part cut off. I know you can slide frames around, but people viewing the page shouldn't have to adjust that themselves.

[jddavin]

I forgot, yes, you can adjust the size of the two frames, in case you cannot see the entire web site on the left. Just click on the vertical frame on the right side and move it further to the right.

John

[lloydh]

I can see it fine using firefox and ie6 just got ie7 not tried it on that yet.
How do you get it to bring up the live web site?

that is cool.

http://www.tradebypc.com