Magix PhotoStory MX Review

We had Magix PhotoStory MX in for review over this past week and included is my video review of this product.

How do you create an online store to make money

Well, in today's online world we all want to try and grab a bit of that pie. We all like to buy and sell online and making cash online has been a limited privileged or secret art form costing money to have you page created. That is until recent times. Now you don't even have to have stock to make money from sales online.

What am I talking about? Well companies such as Amazon now allow you to create a virtual store linking into them from which you earn a percentage for each and every sale that is done through your store. This offering from Amazon is called an aStore and is very easy to do. You go onto their page, join their affiliate program and create you aStore choosing what items you want (or categories of items) to sell. Once you've done that it gives you the code you put on your page (or a link if you choose) and that's it. Add that to your page and you have an online store.

More affiliate and associate schemes are becoming available now for every day users although you still have to spend time to drive sales through them. That is the bottom line in that you don't need products, you don't need to code, you just need to get people to go and buy.

If you want an example of what one of these stores can look like goto http://www.bracknellcomputerrepairs.co.uk and select the Store option. There you will see a aStore I setup. O, and if looking to buy please feel free - after all your buying from Amazon and helping me out too

QR Codes, am I late to the party or still in with the flow

So, above you can see a QR code (or Quick Response code) which basically is our new website encoded into the image.So, not sure if I need to explain in detail about QR codes but to be honest if have any questions its better to go to the wiki here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code as that has the details.

So we can see they have been around for a while and are now being more widely used; pepsi have had them on their cans for a while for example. But do we really need one? I mean, people are still going to see you text, webpage, etc without but to be honest they look kewl AND the inquisitive like myself will scan everyone they come across which may get more of your content viewed -although doesn't mean that your going to sell any service(s) or goods.

But to my title a little; am I late (are you late). Simple answer is no; this is I believe in the early flow as more and more people take up QR Codes. However,  do you need one? Well yes is a short answer as it doesn't hurt generating one (and on the web takes just a few seconds). However, your lively hood is not going to take a hit without one..

If wanting to generate just go type QR Code generate in that google search bar...  Enjoy

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Do you want a Raspberry Pi

So, its the official release and so many people are after their $35 computer that the sites for suppliers have gone down. I've been there and now they are static sites just allowing you to register interest.

I've registered mine as I want to get hold of one of these small systems. OK only running 700Mhz and like 256Mb ram with linux. So what can they be used for? Well, personally I am going to set mine up (when actually get one) as a media system for my TV upstairs. Currently we can't get signal on internal aerials so this will allow me to view media across the net via my wireless network (well with my usb dongle fitted).

So, what about you guys? Anyone else looking to get one and if so leave a comment of what you will be using it for.. One other thought, maybe use inside a cabinet with mame running and lots of roms on a usb stick???

All about the PR.. so it seems

The title really says it all. Its all about the PR. PR is such a big aspect in our lives and we don't half the time realize it. For a blog or a YouTube channel like mine (Netroman28 , TheGeekFiles) then advertising is the difference between being noticed or not. Companies use PR all the time to get their products noticed, and the ones that don't - well, we hardly hear about those ones.

But I did say PR is such a big aspect of our lives. We are surrounded by it every day; billboards, news papers, TV, food packaging. All these items are informing us, tempting us and guiding us into our next purchase. It could be to try a new loaf of bread, or buy that new console or even a new car; but good PR will tempt us and usually succeeds.

Bad PR, well is there such a thing. I mean, its not the PR that is bad; more the product or company. But PR can change a bad situation or product into a good one. Infact if your product or company has a bad rep then its of the most importance to get on with PR.

With todays society PR is everywhere. Who here remembers the million dollar webpage.. Advertising on a per-pixel level (though normally had to buy a 100 pixel slot). I even had my own version of that site though at that time there were so many that never went anywhere hehe.

For those of you that were reading this looking for how to do PR then I am afraid I don't have that answer other than PR for everything is different.  Maybe you could go and point your facebook friends at video or product or something? But I will tell you this much; get it right and it works.

We can prove it. Share this post with all your friends and say read and follow the share post also. Then we can see how many views this one post can get... This could be idea of PR in action. And also go check out channels for lots more...

Just as an added quick note, go check out Technologist PR as our attempt at a easy solution to PR.

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How to get review items for YouTube

This is my personal account of this and maybe different for everyone but I thought I would at least share my experience...

So, I had a YouTube channel Netroman28 (http://www.youtube.com/user/netroman28) for a long time; probably for about 5 yours or so now; which I created so can do the proof of 18 and watch videos. Never really had interest in producing them to begin with..

Anyhow; one day about a year and half ago maybe I thought "I think I'd like to review things"... But.. Having only few subscribers I had no audience base. So I spent some time building up some subscribers till I had around100 or so. That gave me a good start base.

So; what I did was go through Mac App Store and less expensive download software that was produced and emailed a number of these companies. Some may ask how did you do that? Well, once I had identified a piece of software I wanted to review then I spent some time on the company website, got an idea of the software, found any contact pages with emails. I then spent some time constructing an email explaining I would like to review your software on my channel; gave them a little about myself; experience; what I wanted to do and why I wanted to review their software.

I came across some very generous companies through that time, many give me give away copies too to try and build up more subscribers. This was hit and miss though as a lot of people never tried entering the competition which meant 2 or 3 subscribers won a number of these items..

But so it progressed; find a company; construct an email; if get software do the review and put on channel. Its a cycle. Then I was lucky to come across 1 advertising company. They started providing me with software without my need to request which was great. No give aways though. Thing is; I love doing the give aways but if people did not enter it was kind of wasted effort.. Would love to do more in the future..

Progress to today.. I now have a couple of advertising companies having sent me items. Its about maintaining the connection; providing good solid feedback that they require at times. But also as you do more review, hopefully gather more subscribers; you can go for bigger software. As an example I am currently cutting together a review of Reason 6 and I have another big music software name just come in with a potential other big Other software company contacting me.

I'm always grateful for the companies that put their trust in me so I always also thank them for this in both an email and by producing good video.

If you produce good video; prove you can provide content; write polite and informative emails; then companies will trust you. Just as a side note I get about 60-70% reviews out of my emails. 30-40% of companies tend to not take the option for a review so don't be dis-heartened if you get some turned down.

One other important thing to consider. Although my Netroman28 channel gets reviews and lots of views its not the easiest channel name. I created a new channel TheGeekFiles (http://www.youtube.com/user/thegeekfiles). This is a more technology based channel name and is one I am now trying to build and get as my tech and review channel. I have some luck in that I can duplicate reviews on both channels for now with the larger channel getting me the software. But it is important to choose a good name.

Please do stop by to channels and subscribe. If nothing else you can see the style I use and its a style that gets me positive feedback from companies, people and provides a good example for companies to check out.

One last thing. Don't be put off by people with negative comments. Trolls on youtube, blogs, etc exist and will always leave you a negative comment. The more success you have the more you get. I'm not sure if its their way of trying to get a name or just jealous.. but as long as you enjoy ignore. I get all sorts (had a "why don't you go and die" comment the once and I just sent a reply of hehehehe dickh#@d hehe)..

Enjoy guys and hope this helps a little