Does Anyone Want To Blab A Little

byDaveSw

5.7K followers

Updated 9 years ago

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INTRODUCTION

I am always on the lookout for free tools that can help my online marketing business. I have been playing with a relatively new one called Blab. My impression to now is that this is what you get if you put Google Hangouts, Periscope, the AOL chat rooms culture of the 1990s and Twitter in a bag and shake it...

WHAT IT IS

It is yet another live video social network. I think that it is an alternative to Skype conference call, but in some ways a LOT better. It does have elements of some of the other tools I mention above, but it is distinct from them all, to include Skype, so it is destined to take its rightful place in the social networks.

After you get signed up, you can watch the live or recorded Blabs that interest you, if you want you can watch live Blabs as they happen, or you can initiate a Blab live chat yourself.You can make comments, ask questions, and go live with camera and audio too.

MY EXPERIENCE

It has some promising applications for our affiliate marketing business in my opinion. I am going to do a more thorough drill down review on my money site, but I wanted to mention it here as well, because most of you will not get over to my site, unless I ask for some comments. It is worthy of a look and who doesn't like to blab once in a while?

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GETTING STARTED

The concept of Blab is very simple, and it has followed this through with a great simple design that is simply effective. A lot of simples, I know. But such an appropriate word to use. Do a search and you will find the site URL, or go to https://blab.im/ and from there you can sign up, or altternatively, you can download the app on your mobile phone. You can also sign up at Blab.im and connect using your Twitter account.

Note that you can skip the linking to your Twitter account if you just want try it out to see some live video streams, and to start that is what I did, but if you truly want to do what makes Blab so useful and effective, I would go ahead and create your account. I went back and did this....

You can then have a look through an assortment of existing blabs, or if you want, you can create your own.I have started to participate after sitting in but not taking any action on a couple of blab calls. Last night I started to.

By actively participating I mean I started adding to the discussion in the chats by typing in my input into the provided chat area. There you can even highlight your text comments as a question, by starting your message with “q”. The question will appear to the left side of the screen in a separate box.

If you want to go to the next step, and are feeling a little more brave, you can join in on the chat on a more active level by grabbing one of 4 seats available for each blab (live screens of each person streaming live shots and audio) and show yourself to other participants. The video streaming and audio work well, I had no problems with the display, although there were some complaints from others....

Then, easy peasy, once you are live streaming, you just start talking. The people moved in and out from the live seats, and it provided chances for many people to participate on that level, and for all of us to watch. From what I have seen it is a very open community and the participants laid back, not formal at all.

MY LATEST EXPERIENCE

I spent 3 hours almost last night in a Blab called Internet Marketing Pub. There were many product developers and eBook authors in this particular Blab, and many subjects were broached over the time, which actually went over the scheduled 3 hour time because all were having a good time. Lots of really good information on product roll outs, designing of products, sales funnels, and etc.

This from busy and successful product developers and marketers who are having lots of success at affiliate marketing in addition to product development and launches. Just to get them in one place together used to be possible only at conventions and such. No more..Truly this was worth a lot - anything that keeps my attention that liong has to be good.

Truthfully for me listening in on a bunch of online marketing leaders like that, it was an eye-opener, and add in the informal ambience, and easy banter, it felt really almost like we were all sitting together at a stammtisch at a pub (Hence the title for the Blab?). Most participants were drinking a beer or wine too, and whiskey in one case. Myself? I had a San Miguel, but the range of beers was wide.

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HOW TO USE FOR AFFILIATE MARKETING

I will name 5 ways off the top of my head on how this can be useful. They include:

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Small informal meetings between affiliate marketers working together on a project or a subject of the trade.

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If you are a product developer, you can help affiliates prepare to promote your product. Vice versa, if you are an affiliate, you can learn more about the product direct from the developer.

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You can use it to promote any of the niches you may have a site for and increases your contributions to the niche. Get buzz going about you and your business.

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You can use Blab to provide some training on a subject that you cover on your web site post or article. This builds your credibility and authority if you offer some additional value.

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You can listen in, participate, and contribute to Blabs that may be happening or are scheduled as you see fit. If you add something to the conversation or have questions that participants can answer, all learn..

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CONCLUSION

I recommend that you head over to the blab site, sign up, have a look, and play around with this fairly new to the scene tool, I am pretty sure it will be as big or bigger than periscope or some of the other similar tools out there, so you do want to be informed and see how it might fit into YOUR affiliate marketing program...

Please let us know of any experiences you may have had with Blab, and also how you think it coould be useful for our affiliate marketing programs. Let's all learn from each other!

Cheers!

Dave : )