There are various methods you can use to promote our paid courses which will in turn earn you a commission. The following method is the most effective because it provides you with great content and helps build trust to increase the chance of a sale. This works as follows:
- Our free course - called The Basics - is on YouTube and the lessons been compiled into YouTube playlists
- You embed one or more playlists on your site
- Each lesson includes a blurb at the end that encourages viewers to click a button on your site to learn more about our advanced courses
- You create a button that links to us with your affiliate code
- You make money when the viewer buys
In this post we discuss how to do this using the JW Player plugin by JoomlaRulez which works in conjunction with a rather nice looking video player by LongTail Video. We're assuming that you already have these installed and working.
There are two steps:
- Create an article and insert the appropriate plugin code (see below). We recommend including both the Joomla 1.6/1.7 tutorials and the Joomla 1.5 tutorials.
- Create a button or banner that encourages viewers to click through to our site. Insert this beneath the video player and link to us using your affiliate code.
Joomla 1.6/1.7
[code]{ jwplayer}&playlistfile=http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/71895742412B52BE&height=645&playlist.position=bottom{ /jwplayer}[/code]
Joomla 1.5
[code]{ jwplayer}&playlistfile=http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/579C93FE2F7A3797&height=645&playlist.position=bottom{ /jwplayer}[/code]
{jb_warning}IMPORTANT: in order to display this code without the plugin triggering on this page, we had to place a space at the beginning and end of the lines. You must remove the space that appears just before jwplayer and /jwplayer{/jb_warning}
The result
{jwplayer}&playlistfile=http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/71895742412B52BE&height=645&playlist.position=bottom{/jwplayer}
