Animoto mixes pictures and music together and creates a nice mash, in minutes. It’s free to use and you can embed the video on your website, blog, myspace, facebook page, and basically anywhere one can put an html tag.

So, I just made an Animoto video for the upcoming Canada Marketing Summit, in the post below, and I also just made a new video for the landing page on my www.WhoisJeffMills.com page as well.

One thing is… I cannot get this rad song outa my head that I put in the mix. It’s kind of a U2 Meets the Cult meets the Grapes of Wrath (Canadian Rock Band from the 90′s) song, that just makes me FEEL GOOD listening to it. It’s by a band called Pure Dream Ladder and the song is “One More Day.”

Animoto has a sizable music license so you can play all these really cool songs in your video, with no permission needed and no music purchases needed, so that’s a nice savings feature and it gets the bands names out there too, cause they get a song credit automatically embedded into the video at the end. The music license does not really include many main stream signed bands, but that’s ok, there is enough emotional driven music in their catalog where you can find a song to fit any theme or range you want to push through your picture/video composition.

It’s amazing how you can take a cold and clean website, and add images and a song to it and how much life it instantly creates.

How are you doing in this area? Are your websites cold? Boring? Lifeless?

When I had my Midwest Super Conference, Bob Dale from Dalestudios in Eden Prairie, MN shot some fun shots of me and Izzy, my daughter just “kooking out”. We posed, kissed, smiled, did Karate Ninja poses and just had a fun time, letting it all hang out and cutting loose.

Other pictures were from Eric Farewell, from Blue Shoe Photography, out of Laguna Beach, CA.

You’ll see some of these new photos crop up over my sites in the weeks and months, as it makes me more human, than the suited fuddy duddy I was wearing before.

People told me I looked too professional and old wearing the suit… YIKES!

So, I went striped down, fun, casual and will be modifying my sites over time with the new pictures.

So, I want to know what you think of the new Who Is Jeff Mills page design. Here is a picture of the site, you gotta go there and experience the video. No optin required to just watch and listen, then come back here and post your comments.

Those photos cost me about $250 to take, and I am so grateful that I spent the money, as I was able to leverage those photos into a brand. Have you ever seen this picture on any of my sites? It’s back when I had hair, which is strange cause this was only 3 years ago when I took these.. Man, losing your hair sucks, but oh well not big deal.

So anyways, have you ever seen those really cool sales letters, which have all the eye candy on them, cherry red graphics and buttons like:

Well, I am really becoming a fan of Mark Monciardini.

He has some great photoshop tools and videos which show people how to make marketing graphics like:

• Headers
• download buttons
• newsletter subscribe buttons
• Order Now buttons
• Matching ebook covers to header designs
• 100% satisfaction guarantee seals
• website backgrounds
• footer graphics which match header graphics
• logos
• remove backgrounds from people
• Actions Scripts – these are worth buying the product alone!
• BONUS VIDEOS – How to Make Animated Graphics

Now, what is so cool about Mark’s work is that he provides easy to follow step by step video tutorials to help you learn how to use the power of Photoshop to create great marketing graphics to match the feel and branding you want on your sites.

I recenly paid out over $1000 for some custom artwork design and if I had this product then, and with a little study time and elbow grease, I would have been able to create my own graphics. But thanks to Mark, now I can.

So, test it out for yourselves. Click on the button that Mark made, see if it will work for you!