Online Training: Online Marketing- Media, SEO, Social Media, Podcasting

Written by Siotha on November 15, 2007 – 8:27 am -

Do you want to learn more about:

  • Online Marketing?

  • Pay Per Click Advertising?

  • Social Media Advertising & Marketing?

  • Podcasting?

  • Search Engine Optimization (Not just website metatags)?

  • Online PR?

Then I have the solution for you! Online courses designed specifically for you to learn any of the above topics. Our courses, all facilitated by industry experts, social media guru’s, online marketing engineers are the best “secrets” of the industry! And -I have to say, that I’m proud to boast that as Director of Training @ www.xTrain.com, you’re reading my blog which I learned everything I know about blogs from Giovanni Gallucci and Justine Ezerak – our gurus!

What xTrain’s Online Marketing courses about?

SEO aka Search Engine Optimization

course by Tony Wright

For web designers, Search Engine Optimization is a required tool of the trade. Problem is, most of the time, a designer is thinking only about meta tags in the code. This course is designed to educate marketing professionals and designers on the importance of creating web sites that major search engines will crawl. Google, Ask.com, yahoo.com all have very specific needs and rules regarding how pages can be indexed – Tony covers all the insider tips. To prove it, watch a free class on SEO.

Social Media course

by social media consultant Giovanni Gallucci

Do you know what social media is? Have you harnessed the power of using the internet as a new marketing and advertising tool – viral advertising? Do you twitter? This course is designed to uncover the mystry of the buzzing online life now known to be Social Media. As a marketing expert, you will learn what are the top websites for Social Media, viral marketing, texting, blogging, video marketing, online community marketing, etc.

Secrets of Podcasting course

by social media consultant Giovanni Gallucci

Have you developed your audience yet? Why not? Get on the fast track to Podcasting expertise with this very thorough course on audio & video podcasting. Wanna learn how to develop easy processes for podcast production? This is the course for you.


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Dr. Brown’s Photoshop Laboratory: Reviews are in! Online Training is enjoyable

Written by Siotha on November 6, 2007 – 8:25 pm -

Ok Guys! What do you think? Dr. Brown’s Photoshop Laboratory, a Free Online Photoshop Class with xTrain class has really started to stir up some great feedback! What do you think? Take a peek at the shows, then rate and review the classes!

Ratings & Comments on xTrain.com are easy!

Rate any of our classes on a 5 star rating scale. So far, our classes all have very good ratings! We’re proud that our community has spoken and said, bring on more Photoshop Training! Bring on More InDesign Training! Bring on More Online Marketing training!

Comments can be left for any of our Faculty, Learners and Guru Reviewers. This is a great way to give feedback and let us know how you think we are doing! This is not the place for technical support issues, if you have questions or problems that relate to our site our customer service department is here to answer your questions.

Photoshop Training Classes Reviews:

I thought I would share some of the cool comments our professional learning community has said about the Laboratory…

3-D Animation Experiment:

*Note: No sea creatures were harmed in the making of this production.
We tried – they’re just too fast… and slippery.

Posted by petercui on Nov 05, 2007
A very entertaining show…

Posted by Rancher5 on Oct 16, 2007
Show worked great and the lesson as Dr Brown norm was very thorough and easy to follow…

Posted by x_ray4 on Oct 16, 2007
VERY entertaining show. All the fun stuff may seem
unecessary 4 some people but it just makes it THAT
much more enjoyable, despite the length. Crazyness
rules :P . I’ll definately continue watchin’ this :D .

Posted by Pixelcrazee on Sep 25, 2007
Nutty as a fruitcake…..love it!

Posted by douglasco on Sep 23, 2007
Dr Brown is crazy but brilliant

Animation Experiments:

*Caution: Please obtain the proper license for your municipality before investigating the Photoshop unknown.

Posted by jessicaj77 on Sep 27, 2007
Great lesson! When is the next show? Dr Brown u r far from being cool!

Posted by nkhat on Sep 27, 2007
dr brown you are wooow :)
thank you so much
we waiting next show

Posted by nicos on Sep 26, 2007
Thanks a lot! i was experimenting video capabilities of CS3, but your inside knowledge is so helpful! waiting for the final bridge between After Effects and Photoshop ! bring the best of the two worlds together without the hassle! thanks again

Posted by marizmendi on Sep 13, 2007
Hey, great..! I love Dr brown’s style, please don’t stop doing this.


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xTrain.com Learner’s Submissions

Written by Siotha on October 12, 2007 – 6:48 pm -

Today we want to showcase some really cool works by our learners at xTrain.com.

Just so you know – Anyone (with an account at xTrain) is able to submit an exercise (a hands on activity with our classes) or their portfolio pieces for review and commenting by peers and gurus!

Here are some of my fav’s today:

HDR Exercise by William Palank
Exercise File by William Palank for the Enhancement class of HDR Mastery by Ben Willmore

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Exercise File by Laurie - Identity System
Exercise File by Laurie Gardner for the Identity Systems class by Chuck Groth

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portfolio submission © by Scott Slattery

Portfolio submission by: Scott Slattery @2007 Scott


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Online PR… The good, the bad… and Did I miss the point?

Written by Siotha on September 22, 2007 – 5:00 pm -

Let’s talk PR.

I’m very thankful for the PR’s and the buzz about our company and our spokeswoman, but I went to an article today about iJustine and found that the article was not about the headline. I felt disappointed and yet confused.

I read the headline here, wich says “Personal safety a problem in ‘lifecasting’ – iJustine interview” – TGdaily.com Then I thought – oh my there must be something I hadn’t heard about. Is Justine ok? Has she had any problems? Oh my – I want details – she’s spilling it to a reporter and I’m so nosey I want to know now.

I read the article. And felt like one qoute and an article about being a lifecaster for 3 months was not the “scoop” the headline promised.

So here is my Online Marketing Rant, Rave and PR/Journalism spill…

Make your headlines interesting and realistic! I can think of about four more headlines that would have been just as eye catching, while allowing the reader to walk away… feeling…. informed.. satisfied after reading about 2 paragraphs of the actual article.

This is online publishing: put the real info in the first paragraph not some fluff. Or you will lose your reader in 2.2 seconds. As we only have 4 seconds for an online user to actually absorb a page in this online world.


Posted in Blogroll, Journalism, News writing, Online Marketing, advertorial writing, copy editing, creative training, creative writing professionals, headline writing, iJustine, lifecasting, online PR, self publishing articls, xPert, xTrain Spokeswoman, xtrain | No Comments »