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Video tutorial website Woopid is a great place to boost your Microsoft Office mojo, get started with Apple iLife, or uncover the hidden features ofyour Playstation 3.

Can’t find a tutorial on the topic you’re looking for? For a few bucks, they’ll make one for you!

Brandon Kane created most of the site’s several thousand screencasts with Camtasia Studio…and is now hiring freelancers to add tutorials on just about any topic imaginable, using Camtasia Studio or Camtasia for Mac.

“We have many thousands of short, user-friendly, and extremely easy-to-follow instructional videos about technology—ranging from very simple topics to expert-level inquiries—with more being added all the time,” said Brandon.

How short is short? Most videos clock in at around 30 seconds, with the longer ones barely reaching 2 minutes.

Brandon is such a believer in the power of a good screencast, he’s even posted a series of Woopid screencasts showing how to use Woopid!

With all the fun and interesting screencasts on the site, which is the most popular?

Changing Line Spacing (Microsoft Word 2007), with well over 1 million views.

Which just shows that there’s no end to the demand for screencasts on even basic (dare I say mundane) topics.

Brandon is working hard on “Woopid 2.0″ but Techsmith recently caught up with him for an interview.

Read on to get a glimpse behind the scenes at Woopid.com, find out how it all started, and where it’s headed next…

Featured Videos for your business

Gmail Videos

Google Docs

Excel 2007

This is just a brief outline of the many resources we provide you as a business when you use our webmarketing services.

If your website is not performing and you need help getting your business seen online then contact us.

Sydney Call Trevor 0413 731 479 – Brisbane Call Quentin 0415 435 387

We are not just a web design company but we aim to help your business in many different areas of marketing and productivity.

So we have looked at security, ecommerce and many other tools you can use in your business to increase productivity and provide better service for your customers.

Here is another one you can use for better collaboration and its called Google docs.

The real beauty of Google docs is your ability to share them with other people and also collaborate on them. You can also make surveys and embed in your web pages.

Create basic documents from scratch or start from a template.
You can easily do all the basics, including making bulleted lists, sorting by columns, adding tables, images, comments, formulas, changing fonts and more. And it’s free.

Upload your existing files.
Google Docs accepts most popular file formats, including DOC, XLS, ODT, ODS, RTF, CSV, PPT, etc. So go ahead and upload your existing files.

Familiar desktop feel makes editing a breeze.
Just click the toolbar buttons to bold, underline, indent, change font or number format, change cell background color and so on.

Choose who can access your documents.
Just enter the email addresses of the people with whom you want to share a given document and send them an invitation.

Share instantly.
Anyone you’ve invited to either edit or view your document, spreadsheet or presentation can access it as soon as they sign in.

Edit and present with others in real time.
Multiple people can view and make changes at the same time. There’s an on-screen chat window for spreadsheets, and document revisions show you exactly who changed what, and when. Viewing a presentation together is a breeze, as anyone joined in a presentation can automatically follow along with the presenter.

Edit and access from anywhere.
There’s nothing to download; you access your documents, spreadsheets and presentations from any computer with an Internet connection and a standard browser. And it’s free.

Safely store your work.
Online storage and auto-save mean you needn’t fear local hard drive failures or power outages.

Easily save and export copies.
You can save your documents and spreadsheets to your own computer in DOC, XLS, CSV, ODS, ODT, PDF, RTF and HTML formats.

Organize your documents
Easily find your documents by organizing them into folders. Drag and drop your documents into as many folders as you want.

To use google docs all you need is a google account.

Now that you’ve decided to move your business online, one of the first things you’ll need is a shopping cart program to process your orders. There are several available options that can make your life as an e-business owner much easier.

Shopping cart applications fall in to two basic categories:

“local” carts that you install on your own Web servers

“third-party carts” that run on a provider’s site.

Both varieties are normally very easy to customize and use.

If you decide to install your own cart, you will have many different software packages from which to choose. Three of the most popular are Miva Merchant, OSCommerce, and Agoracart.

Miva Merchant is a shopping cart that many Web hosting companies include with their hosting packages. If your host doesn’t offer it, you’ll need to pay a licensing fee before you install the cart. Miva offers a variety of different options for small businesses, and their application is very user-friendly.

OSCommerce is a free, open source shopping cart program that boasts many features and a strong development community. It’s easy to install and customize, and, because it’s open source, support and improvements abound.

Agoracart is a simple, free, bare-bones cart technology. If you don’t need a lot of features, this is a great package to install on your site.

If you’d rather not install your own shopping cart, there are many third-party options available. When you set up a third-party shopping cart, all you need to do is place a link on your site for your visitors to enter your store. This link then takes them to your offsite shopping cart.

Microsoft’s Office Live Small Business has one of the most popular third-party shopping carts. For about $25 a month, you can build an online store with up to 10,000 products. Yahoo! offers a similarly robust third-party shopping cart program for about $40 per month.

Storefront.net and 1shoppingcart.com both offer services that include shopping carts as well as advanced tools like email list management, affiliate program integration, and much more.

Can’t decide which cart is best for your business? Try installing the free carts mentioned above, or take advantage of free trial offers from third-party providers. Give each one a test drive until you find the one that works the best for your company and your customers.

While you make your decision, keep in mind that third-party services usually charge a monthly fee, so you could be spending much more than you would if you installed your own cart on your site. With so many competing shopping carts available, your options are virtually endless.

Another alternative: Many times these shopping carts require you to forgo many of the normal functions of a great website and so we have found one called Mals Shopping cart which provides the best of both worlds.

We have used this cart for a mug printing business.

For a sample of what it can do and some advice contact us here.

Seth Godin writes the most popular marketing blog in the world, is the author of the bestselling marketing books of the last decadeand speaks to large groups on marketing, new media and what’s next. In his latest book tribes he shows us how to become a greater influence.

As a business owner you are a leader and in this video I hope you get some great ideas on how to make your business much more than just selling products and services.

After watching this video you my like to contact us to start implementing some different strategies for your business using the Internet and other marketing techniques.

At Web Marketing for Profit we not only help businesses utilize the Internet for better profits but spend quite a lot of time researching the latest theories, marketing practices, business ideas and pass them onto you so that you can stand out from the crowd.

Be sure to contact us for more helpful information on how we can help your business utilize the Internet and connect to your tribes.

Here at Web Marketing for Profit we are not just about increasing the value of your website and online marketing.

We are interested in you and your business and to this end we also want to provide interesting and challenging information, to help you rise above average and become an outstanding person and run an incredible business.

To achieve this we are constantly on the lookout for interesting and empowering information that will help you stand out from the crowd.

To facilitate this I want you to watch this video from the author Malcolm Gladwell.  All three of his books (The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers) are among my absolute favorites, though I don’t always agree on his conclusions, he is entertaining as well at informative and he inspires people to think outside the box.

The concept of the Identity Matrix was worth at least $600,000,000 for one spaghetti sauce company…I want you to pay very close attention to the details of how this all works…starting at 6:20 in this video. Hit the full screen icon in the top right hand corner for a better experience

It’ll change the way your business runs & profits…may make you a millionaire this year…
and certainly will change the way you think about spaghetti sauce for the rest of your life.