The great thing about this process is that your content can start off as any one of the different forms. If you have an audio, have it transcribed into an article. If you have an article read it out loud while recording and you’ve got an audio. Add a power point presentation to that and you’ve got a video.

Don’t like to write? No worries, you don’t always have to. Grab a pack of PLR articles on your topic. While you can’t submit these to places like Ezine Articles you can use the written form on your blog, submit the videos to video sharing sites, and submit the audios to podcast sites or offer them as a bonus to your readers.

Okay. I promised you an example. So, here we go… I started with an article titled Budget Meal Planning Made Easier Than Ever.

The first thing I did was submit it to EzineArticles.com, and you can see it live there if you’d like http://ezinearticles.com/?Budget-Meal-Planning-Made-Easier-Than-Ever&id=4046881 Then I submitted it to a few other niche article directories as well.

The next thing I did was create a slide presentation. You can do this with Power Point or Open Office Impress, which is free open source software. Once I had my slides ready it was time to create my video.

I used Camstudio for screen capture video, which is also a free software and comparable to Camtasia. It has slightly less features than Camtasia, but at the price of free I’m certainly not going to complain and it gets the job done.

I had my slide presentation ready on the screen, fired up Camstudio, hit the record button and began narrating the article. Here’s the resulting video of the same article that was used above:

You can also use Microsoft Movie Maker to create your presentation, which comes standard on most PCs these days, by just dropping in screen shots of text and images. The disadvantage there is you have to record the audio separately and overlay it.

Then for just audio I used a converter that pulls the audio out of a video and just hit a few buttons and was done. Now I have three content formats all created from one piece of original content and it was super easy to do.

Once you start creating and submitting your content in various places it will spread like wildfire. You’ll have more backlinks, more sales, more traffic, more repeat customers, more, more, and more. See, I told you there would be more.

I hope this example helps you to at least get some ideas for repurposing your own content into different formats. If you need any help with technical details or you get stuck on something just let me know. You can email me directly or leave a comment on this post and I’ll get you through it.

Kind Regards,

I decided to start my software review process with Easy Push Button Traffic for a few reasons.

First, the software is from Willie Crawford whom I met in person at NAMS 2 last August and at that workshop he gave us some great information about using articles and videos in your marketing efforts. I think that Willie does a lot of great things in the internet marketing circle and I admire his work ethic tremendously.

Second, I read a few glowing reviews of the software online. Although a lot of those reviews were older I figured it was worth giving it a try.

Third, price. I won’t lie to you, my budget is very small and Easy Push Button Traffic was affordable. In addition to the monthly price being reasonable ($27) and budget friendly there was an offer for a $1 one week trial. Perfect.

Above is what you see when you login to Easy Push Button Traffic. You can use it to submit to a handful of articles directories, video sites, press release sites, and podcast/audio websites. A little bit of everything all in one place. Awesome!

During my one week trial I submitted articles, videos, and press releases. I didn’t get a chance to play with the podcast submission.

Let’s start with articles and press releases, because that’s probably the most commonly used feature of the software. There’s a decent handful of nice article directories in the list, including EzineArticles.com, which if you do article submissions already you probably already have your account set up at. Unfortunately, none of the articles I submitted uploaded to EZA successfully. I think that may be because EzineArticles changed their submission process and the software isn’t communicating with it correctly, but I can’t be sure.

A few other article sites failed to receive my submission as well. This is where the first con comes onto the pros/cons list. You get a stat listing that shows whether or not your article, video, press release, or podcast was uploaded successfully. Basically it will say successful, or failed, and you have no way of knowing why it failed if it failed. This happened more often with my video submissions (which I admit I only did two video submissions during my trial period), which leads us right into videos.

Uploading the videos seemed to be almost too easy at first. Like I already mentioned, I had quite a few failed submissions and you have no way of knowing why those failed. You can either go manually add the videos to the sites yourself or just shrug it off and move on to the next thing you want to submit. The nice thing about video sites is they don’t have the same long awaited approval process that article sites have, in most cases your video is up within minutes or at least in an hour or two.

In general you receive links from the video description and/or your profile on the video site. I noticed in checking to see if my videos were added that a few of the sites being submitted to were no longer making those live urls, they were just plain text, not clickable, and not linking back to my websites. I’ll know to avoid those in the future.

The other problem I noticed with video submission was that on occasion it would say it was successful, even though it was not. This was most disappointing to me. For example, the videos said they were uploaded to YouTube successfully, but were no where to be found in my account. I checked periodically over a 24 hour time span to see if they showed up and they did not.

My one dollar trial period has ended and I have actually decided to cancel the subscription and not buy into the first month (which would be 27 dollars, very reasonable) … I’m going to check out some other software solutions first and then possibly come back to this. I like how simple and easy EPT is to use, I like that it chooses only the best sites to submit to, I’m just not ready to buy into the first product I checked out, I need to compare

PROS of Easy Push Button Traffic

• super easy to use
• video tutorials are included
• articles, press releases, videos, and podcasts all in one place
• very affordable solution

CONS of Easy Push Button Traffic

• no report on failed submissions
• some sites not linking to your website any longer
• some uploads listed as successful when they really aren’t

To that I would like to add that having a limited number of sites for each form of media is both a pro and a con. It could be a con because it might make you feel limited. It’s a pro because it keeps you focused and submits to quality directories.

I hope this review helped you if you are considering Easy Push Button Traffic. I’m going to be looking into some other article and video marketing tools over the next few months as well and I will definitely be sharing those with you. If you have one in particular that you would like to learn more about please let me know in the comment section and I’ll check it out for both of us.

Kind Regards,

Disclaimer: Easy Push Button Traffic is a software program that will help you speed up the submission of files to file sharing sites. Proper use of file sharing sites has been shown to increase traffic to websites. Easy Push Button Traffic is a tool. Using it does not guarantee that your traffic, sales or rankings will increase.

If you were an original member there you probably know that new articles haven’t been getting through for the past six months or so. I was so stuck and frustrated after the backend of the site was torn to shreds by hackers, after moving the site twice, after a lot of ups and downs. I almost threw in the towel on this one all together. I was ready to give up. Then Spring sprung and I thought to myself, “Just spring clean it. Wipe the databases clean and start fresh and new!”

That is exactly what I did on the first of this month. I wiped out the databases, deleted the old files, and reopened the site using WordPress as the CMS and starting with zero articles. That’s right, empty and new. To help build things back up again I posted a special offer for anyone that is interested in getting 50 articles added to the directory in no time at all.

Take a minute to pop over to http://www.greatarticlesformoms.com and check out the great articles that were added so far or submit a few articles of your own. It’s a PR3 site, spidered frequently, and moderated by humans, so I know you won’t be disappointed.

Thank you for your support,

Assume low traffic and no income currently since site was recently relaunched after changing platforms from Article Dashboard to WordPress, so lost PR and had to be reindexed. Picking up again slowly on its own, but hasn’t really been promoted yet because I shifted focus to other things (which is why I’m looking to sell this great domain and article site)

Over 8,500 quality articles already in the site. Site is mostly self maintaining, has a plugin that is pulling articles from a providing service. I’ll fill you in on all the details upon purchase. Registered users can also submit articles and they will go into the que unpublished until approved by you or an appointed manager.

Price drastically reduced! Get it now for just $35!

What you get:
Domain name: AllFreeReprintArticles.com
Complete site as you see it now, including custom created header
30 days free hosting with us, and of course our hosting and support is available afterward as well if you’d like to stay with us – We recommend the Small Site Package for $6.50 a month for this particular site since it grows very quickly.

This is a great opportunity for anyone seeking an article directory that’s already been built and installed. If you need help moving the website, please let us know and we’ll work out the details with you. Let me know if you have any questions that I haven’t answered already here.

I’ve managed quite a few article directories and they all have their ups and downs. I’m actually looking at converting one of my other small directories into this format as well. It’s clean and provides better SEO for the articles than the average free article directory script.

You can add adsense and other monitization methods easily,as well as customize the loko of the site with a large amount of flexibility. If you’re a WordPress user you know how many free themes are floating around out there, you can use any of those or even custom build your own design like I did here.

I started off with a magazine style theme, you might recognize it since it’s actually the same theme base that we have right here on Easy Wahm Websites. Amazing how a few tweaks and changes can take a theme and turn it into something completely new and different.

After the design was done I added a few plugins. Mighty Adsense is definitely recommended here to make it easy to put ads where you want them to go. I put a tag cloud on the side, added some terms of service, a few affiliate links to programs that I highly recommend and ta-da an article directory was born.

Okay, maybe it wasn’t as easy as it sounds, but it was fairly easy. To allow submissions you just change the settings to allow new authors to register, then they simply “write post” and publish …. what’s nice is as contributors their published material doesn’t go live until it’s been approved by an admin, that’s you or your virtual assistant, so you don’t have to worry about spam slipping through the cracks.

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