This weekend I spent some time getting caught up with FreeIQ. I've been meaning to really dive in and see how it will help with marketing, but I've been a bit busy with so many other projects, plus taking care of our son who is just about 10 1/2 months old now.

I should have gotten to it sooner.

When you first look at it, FreeIQ seems like just another video hosting service like YouTube, AOL video etc. But when you start to look at it closely, you can see that it is much more. The underlying premise of this site is to provide useful information, unlike sites such as YouTube which seem to be geared towards teenagers with bad acne, video game fetishes and poor taste in music. Its redeeming quality, at least to me, was that you could host and stream video without taking up the bandwidth or disk space on your own server.

FreeIQ is geared towards an audience that actually wants to learn something. Whether it's how to paint a house, carve a boat, build a treehouse… whatever a person wants to learn - that's scope of this project. People who have this information and skill - the "providers" - will put this content on the site in video, audio or ebook format. Most of the information will be free, but typically the providers will also offer premium content that you can pay for.

Using the treehouse example, the provider might give away the information on how to build a small tree house, but the additional expertise it takes to build a really big tree house might be a $9.97 ebook or video. This would be available right next to the free content and ready for purchase and download.

Now, since the site is still in beta the amount of content is not as large as it eventually will be. A lot of it is [tag-tec]internet marketing training[/tag-tec] (and really good training at that). But remember YouTube and eBay? What did they start out with?

YouTube started out with a test video. Then it grew.

eBay started out with a few friends selling stuff to each other. I think it was something like dryer lint.

[tag-tec]FreeIQ[/tag-tec] has some of the smartest and most visionary people behind it, who are also some the best internet marketers on the planet. This is going to be huge and now is a great time to get started with it. Click here to go to FreeIQ.com right now and sign up for a free account. Take a closer look and find a way to get your business on this site.

If you need help, just drop me a line or leave a comment and I will help get you started!