Video Blogging Basics
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Posted June 25th, 2008
Blogging has taken a new face and Videoblogging is the next generation of posting your content, ideas and products over the world wide web. Video blogging has become almost expected of bloggers and website owners to attract new readers and a loyal reader base.
Andrew Hansen, the creator behind the new Firepow blogging software has made sure Video was incorporated in his system. Firepow allows you to add Youtube and even Camtasia videos to your blog posts with ease - along with it’s many other features.
Video is heating up on the internet. Most people love to watch videos and prefer it over reading a text only blog post. Video blogs or Vlogs offer a better way of getting your message across. Video communication may require a lot more resources than simply writing, but the payoffs can be worth it.
Videoblogging is for people who want to express themselves on the internet in a different new fashion - part of this is the whole novelty of video that attracts a new crowd of readers and the other part of it is the sheer fact that video messages are effective. From a business perspective, Video blogging gives you a lot of benefits that you can’t get with text.
Video is a powerful tool in showing your prospective customers visually your line of products or services.
This can work well for you by having video on your sales page or pre-sell page or creating promo videos to submit to video sharing websites to attract new prospects. In this way it’s just like a TV commercial without the hefty cost for broadcasting.
People like to see what they are going to get before they buy it. Many want to see proof that is does what it is supposed to do before opening their wallets. We all know what type of powerful influence thirty second commercials have. Videoblogging can create a similar affect. You display and plug your product - building desire in your prospect.
People watch it and if they see reason to have it, they will buy it. If your video presentation is done well, it can out perform any written type sales message.
Videos might seem expensive and time consuming but there are methods to create videos for every budget. If you are just starting to grow your online business, it’s not hard to create a videoblog right from a room in your home.
The very basic equipment you need to make a video you can upload to your blog is a web camera, microphone, video editing software, and some decent lighting. In some insstances, you don’t even
need a web camera - you can use screen capture software such as Camtasia to create instructional or slideshow videos.
Invest in a good quality web camera and microphone. People are won’t watch a video that is hard to view or where the sound is poor quality.
Lights are very important in video production. Lighting makes all the difference between a lousy video and a great one. You need to illuminate the area you are going to film so the picture can be easily seen. The brighter you light up the area, the crisper the images will appear.
After you have filmed your video segments, you’ll need to edit it using some video editing software. There are many video editors around ranging from free ones to expensive ones up in the hundreds of dollars mark
Choose a program that you are comforatble with using. Most Windows PC’s come with Windows movie maker and this works just fine. During the editing process, you can chop out bad scenes, add sound effects, insert text or still images too.
Vlogs are great for marketers and readers but they also have a downside. Videos can take a long time to load - depending on the size of the video.
For people with a slow dial-up internet connection, or slow running computer, it will deter them from watching your video.
To overcome these problems, there is no reason why you can’t still post text and static images together with your video to accommodate for all types of blog readers.
These days, the more creative you are in marketing and presenting your website or product to the market, the more successful your blog is likely to be. Videoblogging offers a new and attractive way of getting your
brand and marketing message across to a wider range of people.
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