Learn What Periscope Is And How To Use It In 11 Bullet Points

Chances are you've probably heard about Twitter's new live streaming app called Periscope but you may not have downloaded it or tried it out yet. Here's a quick 10 points to tell you a little about the app and what it does...

1. Periscope allows you to stream anything live from anywhere right on your smartphone. It allows you and your phone to become a broadcaster.

2. Titles are uber important. Your title is basically the only thing you have to attract watchers to your broadcast and tell them what it's about.

3. You may notice while watching others broadcasting that if youu tap your screen there's some fluttering hearts which will float up the screen. This had me confused at first as to what the point of these are, however I've learned it's essentially like giving the broadcaster an applause and letting them know you enjoy their content.

4. These hearts mentioned in number 3 are used as a measure of popularity on Periscope. Think of these like a thumbs up on Youtube.

5. The chat box allows you as a watcher to communicate with the broadcaster and you as a broadcaster to also communicate with your viewers.

6. Acknowledge your audience. If someone asks you a question respond to it. If someone asks to look in your fridge don't ask why just open your fridge and show them. Don't ask why there's this wierd thing about looking in peoples fridges trend happening on Periscope.

7. Once you end a stream an analytics box will pop up. This box will show you your number of views, retention rate, duration of video, and the number of hearts you received. This is how to rank your channel by doing good in these scoring areas.

9. When you complete a stream you will also have an option to save it to your camera roll which will save it to be viewed later. People who follow you will be able to watch your past streams similar to how on Youtube your vieos will always be up to be viewed.

10. Privacy... before you start a broadcast you will see 3 little icons. One icon on the left is the location icon, one for privacy and one for Twitter. The location icon if clicked will show people your location. If your doing this from your house you may want to hide the location privacy as this will show people on a map literally right where you are. A a public event of on the streets of a big city you could probably leave it on without concern. The lock or privacy button allows you to ;ive stream only for certain people. If you want to stream an event and only share it with certain people you can do that. Lastly is Twitter, if this is turned on a notification will be Tweeted out on your Twitter profile saying your currently streaming. If you Periscope a lot maybe don't do this for every broadcast as you may overload your followers with notifications.

11. When watching a broadcast if you want to follow someone swipe to the right and their profile will show up. You can see their profile photo and follow them if you like.


Periscope is a fairly new app and there definately still working out some kinks, however I'm super impressed thus far and see this becomming huge. Get started now and be an early adopter as this is going to blow up and this will give you a legup on others. LIve streaming takes engagement to a whole new level for marketing.

Article Spinning Should You Do It? Spinning Articles Versus Unique Quality Content

 What is an article spinner?

What is article spinning? Article spinning is basically in my opinion another word for plagarism. Sure you tweak the text or "spin" someone else's article but essentially all your doing is changing a few words or re-writing someone else's work.

Should you spin articles?

So should you manually spin articles or use an article spinning software? That is completely up to you, however something to keep in mind is that spun articles typically are not articles that someone wants to read. Spun articles may play well in search engines and may get you some traffic but realize most readers will not continue comming back to read spun content, at least personally speaking I would not.

If you have a website or blog which is purely a money making venture on a topic you are not knowledgable about or passionate about sure spin articles as that's probably the only way you are going to come up with content. You may get some search engine ranking and even make some money but realize you will not have returning visitors. I also feel like if you have a blog with quality content which you actually write do not use spun articles. Because it's easy and people are lazy you will probably wind up having 10 spun articles for every legit article. Your readers will write off your blog entirely, even the quality articles because of all the spun content.

How to spin an article?

Manual Spinning Vs. Software?

So how does one spin an article. Some people will just copy and paste someone else's artilce and start replacing words, maybe occasionally re-writing a sentence here and there. Others will copy and paste an article in, but instead of using the article and replacing words will basically paraphrase and re-write the entire article. The last way of article spinning which is by far the quickest and easiest but also the worst in terms of quality would be actually using an article spinning software. I know some people rave about article spinners but personally I've never found one that actually put together readable articles or at the very least didn't make tons of mistakes, gramatical erros and just replace words that don't even fit the article or make sense.

In my opinion though article spinning software or websites may be quick, if you actually want quality content your going to spend almost as much time, if not more cleaning up the poor content and poor word choices to put together a readable and quality article which at that point why even use the spinner as your not saving time.

Overall here's my opinion on article spinners. If your writing about a topic  you don't care about and just trying to slap together a blog on a profitable keyword by all means go for it. Personally to me this is not a recipe to success but if you can make some money this way more power to you. As most people will tell you quality content is key. Whether you have to pay an article writer or take time out of your day to write articles, you should be writing quality content, it will get you much farther than spun articles will.

My Review Of Super Affiliate Machine (SAM) Automated Money Making Website Builder/Ranker

If you're into Affiliate Marketing I'm sure you've probably recently seen some type of advertisement or promotion for the (SAM) system which refers to Super Affiliate Machine.

Essentially this Super Affiliate Machine is marketed to be an all in one website builder, keyword finder, niche picker, and affiliate plugin all in one. The system advertises a 4 step system in which even a monkey can click a few buttons and build a website in 5 minutes or less. If you watch the video below you can see another users walk through of the system as well as review...

I was on the fence about purchasing Super Affiliate Machine but on the last day before the price hike decided to pull the trigger and spend the $67 for the unlimited version of SAM. You also have the option to buy a version for $47 in which you are limited to three websites.

I bought the program. I'll admit I missed the webinar and didn't do a ton of watching videos or educating myself but typically a plug and play system like this is something you can pick up on the fly just playing around.

My personal opinion was that this system was not as easy or user friendly as advertised. I'll be the first to admit I probably need to put some more time and patience into educating myself and learning how to use it but initial impressions are I'm not super impressed. The website builder isn't nearly as easy or user friendly as they make it out to be. The prewritten articles aren't very good and definately need to be at the very least spun if not completely re-written. They do have a one click button to add pics and videos but again, I didn't find them to be that contextually relevant and finding pics and vids is the easy part of putting together a website, it's the other stuff I would need help with.

I wasn't super impressed with their affiliates on board and was a bit confused how to even signup or plug their affiliate links into the website. This isn't a huge deal as I'd probably prefer to use Clickbank or Amazon or eBay partner network instead anyway.

My last beef with the Super Affiliate System is the biggest and this is when it comes to ranking on Google. Where as the system is advertised as being one 4 easy automated steps, the last step is not automated at all. The last step which is the most challenging and the one where automation would be most helpful is really nothing more than educational material on how to rank websites, how to leave banklinks, etc. This really was the one element that I was looking for when I bought the program and feel misled about this part.

Overall I can't knock Super Affiliate Machine too much as I havn't fully put the itme and effort into learning but my initial impression is not that impressed. I missed the online conference and walk through the other day but plan on watching the replay online today and will give it another try.

I'll report back on what I think of Super Affiliate Machine after I give it another try.