If you’ve been marketing online for any amount of time you already know that the appearance and placement of your email marketing form can make all the difference from a complete bomb (read: no subscribers) all the way up to hundreds if not thousands a month! The problem is that setting up good looking forms isn’t really something that most people would describe as “fun” and in many cases it can be tedious at best… Luckily it seems that all of that is about to change with the new OptinSkin Plugin that I discovered today.

I had the task of updating my optin forms across several web pages and decided to see if there was a slightly more simple solution than hand coding each one and to my luck; not only was there a brand new optin plugin for WordPress but it also came from Glen Allsopp who is a very highly respected marketer online. When I saw this I knew I had to try it out and what follows is my OptinSkin review video that goes straight from buying the plugin all the way to actually installing it and setting up my first form in less than 15 minutes!

OptinSkin Review Video

After-note: It’s worth mentioning that these are my first impressions of the plugin however I have *a lot* of experience working with WordPress and custom optin forms so I’d definitely say my impressions count. I have already added the optin skin plugin to the three of my sites that needed updating and will definitely be rolling it out to more of my sites in the near future. Make sure you check it out!

OptinSkin Feature Summary:

• 18 Beautiful Designs
• Easily Customised
• Optional Fade-in Forms
• Reliable Tracking
• Professional Split Testing

Click Here to Check Out OptinSkin Now

Update: I contacted support with a question and feature suggestion and received a response in less than an hour direct from the founder. Great support guys!

Personally I manage quite a few pages for myself, my clients and several other brands I work with so it’s been an interesting process going through the changes from different perspectives. During the transition I’ve been trying out all sorts of tools including plugins, custom coded apps and web based systems to manage my fan pages so I can make a judgement for what’s best and what is best for my business. However whilst I’m still playing with a couple of them I figured I should let you know that one of the systems in my shortlist is having a huge sale today!

Five Minute Fan Pages is a web based system to create and design professional looking Facebook Fan Pages and app pages. It’s built on the Pagemodo system which has been featured everywhere from Tech Crunch though to Inc. magazine and takes a chunk of the work out of setting up your pages. It usually costs $97 up front and then $25 a month but when you order today you can get the entire system for just $1. After that you simply pay the $24.95 a month to maintain your pages which is a massive saving compared to the $1,000 a month I was recently quoted for a similar system!

You will also get a ton of extra training free from Brian Moran, creator of Get 10,000 Fans. As you can imagine from the name of his business and the fact his page now boasts 186,000+ fans you can definitely do a lot worse than adding his ideas to your fan pages. So if you want to get finally get started with Facebook landing pages on the new Facebook Timeline layout or even if you just want to bulk up your Facebook landing pages you can try the entire Five Minute Fan Page System for just $1 here.

Please Note: Discount is applied when you add to cart. I maintain an affiliate relationship the software provider mentioned in this post however I am also a fully paid customer of theirs and have not been approached by the company to write this article.

What do you think of the changes for Facebook pages?

The result… It’s a well rounded short report which, unlike the name suggests, isn’t so much of a hack but solid video marketing advice. The report starts out with a brief state of affairs which sets the scene but won’t hurt to skip over. However it quickly shifts pace with an introduction to the style your videos should be made in and the elements included various types of video.

Moving forward the report discusses various tools you can use to actually create compelling videos including services such as Prezi (One that I’ve really been meaning to get up to speed with!). Ryan also shares the site that he uses to get doodle videos (a lot more impressive than they sound…), it’s Sellamations.com if you’re wondering

And finally he jumps headfirst into the stuff I’d bought the report hoping to find. He shares a few on site optimization tricks for YouTube such as Video Title Stacking, something I’d always suspected but never confirmed and a really interesting use of Fiverr for getting your videos ranked in no time at all.

Whilst the YouTube Google Hacks report was in no way comprehensive at about 13 pages (not including cover etc) it does go over the basics of everything you need to start marketing with Google and packs a punch with a few tips and tricks that even advanced video marketers can start adding to their arsenal. If you market your business with video online then I can recommend this as a great, if not comprehensive, resource for raising the bar with YouTube marketing and setting up your videos and channels for real online business.