Today is Wednesday, January 07th, 2009
Are you using Facebook or any other social networking site to help promote your business? If you are, how is it working out for you?
Well, if you’re like most people, you’re not getting the results you hoped for. You have your profile out there, you have a few friends or contacts…but not much else is [...]
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Earlier this week, I had the chance to talk with one of the “good people” on the Internet (and a web video pioneer), Cali Lewis of GeekBrief.TV.
About 2 years ago, Cali and her husband Neal decided to start a video podcast covering technology news. The problem was, they had zero experience with web video and [...]
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What’s this? A video tutorial on how to navigate a blog?!
Yep. The fact is that with all the technology these days, blogs (like a lot of web sites) have so much going on that people are confused about what to do…and they aren’t really sure how to navigate their way around them.
And confused [...]
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For those of you not familiar, ustreamt.tv is a free service that allows you broadcast video and interact with an audience, all live. To get started, all you need is a webcam (or a traditional video camera attached to your computer) and a broadband Internet connection.
Optionally, you can use webcam software to spice things [...]
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According to a report put out by Pew Internet and the Amercian Life Project, the number of homes in the United States with broadband Internet access has hit 55%.
To put that into perspective, 73% of American’s have Internet access at home. By my math, that means of all American’s with Internet access at home, [...]
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More and more these days, services are popping up on the web that offer to host your videos for you…for a price. These are called video hosting sites…and although they are similar to video sharing sites like YouTube…they are not the same thing.
With video hosting sites, you still upload your videos and get a [...]
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This is a story I’d normally never cover in this blog, however, it’s an excellent demonstration of what can be achieved through web video marketing.
The story goes like this. Neenah Pickett is a 42 year-old New Jersey woman who has never been married. By 2010, she wants to find a husband (or the man who [...]
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January 5th, 2009 | Dave | 2 comments | Continued
According to Viral Video Chart, which tracks and ranks web videos based on a formula that includes how many times a video is linked to, how many times it is commented on and how many times it is embedded (rather than just the number of views), here are the top 10 viral videos for 2008:
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January 2nd, 2009 | Dave | 0 comments | Continued
Anyone involved with marketing on a daily basis tends to become a student of psychology. And those of us buried in the deeper levels of direct response marketing tend to be serious students of psychology.
In my experience (and opinion) psychology gets broken down into two categories; clinical psychology and street psychology.
Clinical psychology is the [...]
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December 31st, 2008 | Dave | 0 comments | Continued
I’ve long warned people about the risks involved with relying…exclusively…on free services to host your web videos. By free services, I mean video sharing and syndication sites.
The reason there is so much risk is because these services rely on advertising to pay their bills. And to date, very few (if any) of these sites have [...]
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December 29th, 2008 | Dave | 1 comment | Continued
It’s not uncommon to run into a situation where you need to convert some type of file into a different format…the file might be a text document, audio file or even a video. For example, maybe you have a client who is requesting a file in a format you don’t typically support or maybe [...]
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December 26th, 2008 | Dave | 0 comments | Continued
It seems for the past week I’ve written around a common theme: unique ways can anyone can start or expand a business with web video.
And continuing with that, today’s topic is video resumes. It also happens to be a hot topic as in addition to the staggering number of job cuts that have already taken [...]
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December 24th, 2008 | Dave | 2 comments | Continued
Last week, I quietly began offering a new service at Web Video University I call Club WVU. With this service, I’m taking a limited number of people and giving them all the training, tools and mentoring needed to build and operate a profitable web video based business.
For example, let’s say you already have a web [...]
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December 22nd, 2008 | Dave | 1 comment | Continued
It seems every day I read an article about how video sharings sites are losing money…how major name entertainment companies are struggling to monetize their videos…and how web video, for all it’s proliferation, still remains a largely unprofitable endeavor.
And you know what? For most people it is. Why? Gold fever…or at least that’s what I [...]
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December 20th, 2008 | Dave | 0 comments | Continued
If you’d like to start building your library of stock video clips, a company called Footage Firm has just come out with an attractive Christmas-time offer.
They are giving away entire stock video clip collections on DVD…for free.
What’s the catch? Well, you have to pay shipping and handling ($8.41) and they only have 500 DVD’s [...]
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December 17th, 2008 | Dave | 0 comments | Continued
First, for those of you who are unfamiliar, Stickam.com is a live streaming video community. It’s a place where you can go to stream live video, join interactive group video chats and more. They were the first…and generally considered the largest…video streaming destination on the web.
Now here comes the interesting part.
Stickam recently announced [...]
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December 15th, 2008 | Dave | 0 comments | Continued
I've been comparing about 3 other courses that say they will teach people how to do web videos or infomercials ...
It's unbelievable what people come up with these days. Good thing she is 'meeting'them on video before actually going out. 
Hi,
I'm just getting started with my new blog. Would you want to exchange links on our blog-rolls?
BTW - I'm ...
Dave,
Just 1 more reason why I'm glad I took your Web Video class and host with Amazon S3 services. 
It has to due with your recording and rendering settings. I cover everything in my "Camtasia Secrets" course which ...
Useful video, thanks.
I always wonder what makes your screen capture videos so clear.
What's the secret?
oliveR Good points...however..."a few years" is like decades in the world of web video and the Internet.
Remember, YouTube didn't even come ...
i looked into this as a business a few years back and its a very tough business model. it sounds ... That site is a great find. Love the sound effects of Mantis film. 
Dave, Thanks for bringing us another great topic! Looking forward to his course.