Today is Saturday, July 04th, 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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I’ve often said that one of the most wide-open markets…one of the golden opportunities on the web…is making videos for other web site owners. I’ve even profiled students of mine who are doing just that (and making nice livings of it).
But still, to some it may come off as nothing but marketing blather; after all, [...]
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July 3rd, 2009 | Dave | 3 comments | Continued
The list of major players in the web video market has been reduced by one. Today it was announced that Joost will be leaving the free web video business.
Or as outgoing Joost CEO Mike Volpi said “it’s been increasingly challenging to operate as an independent, ad-supported online video platform”.
If you’re not familiar with Joost, they [...]
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July 1st, 2009 | Dave | 0 comments | Continued
There are an endless supply of Internet marketing guides available online, covering secret techniques, theories and how-to’s.
Coming from the direct response world, I’ve been naturally conditioned to tune out the hype and focus squarely on the results. You don’t guess at what works, or go with your hunch or emotions, instead you compare methods A, [...]
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June 29th, 2009 | Dave | 2 comments | Continued
One week ago today, Apple released the newest incarnation of their iPhone, the iPhone 3GS, which records video. In the first 3 days it was available, Apple reported selling over 1 million of these new iPhones.
And in the 7 days since it’s release, uploads from mobile phones to YouTube have increased 400%…padding the 1,700% increase [...]
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June 26th, 2009 | Dave | 1 comment | Continued
Anyone who produces web video will sooner or later hear a common complaint from viewers…”your videos keep buffering” or “the audio doesn’t match the video”.
Naturally, to the viewer, they believe the problem is with the video itself. But that’s rarely the case. More often than not, the issue is with the speed of the viewer’s [...]
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June 24th, 2009 | Dave | 0 comments | Continued
About 6 months ago, I did a post about a great new web site called ScreenToaster that allowed anyone to easily record whatever they saw on their screen…for free…and with absolutely no software to install.
A few months later, I did another post about ScreenToaster and the new tools they had added, based largely on user [...]
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June 22nd, 2009 | Dave | 0 comments | Continued
About a year ago, I did a post about the Center For Social Media (at American University) and how they were making copyright and fair use laws understandable for bloggers, podcasters and Internet user’s in general.
Well, they’ve recently put together a video that covers these topics in a little more detail. You can see the [...]
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June 19th, 2009 | Dave | 0 comments | Continued
One area of web video baffles people more than any other; how to prepare a video for the web and then get that video on their web site.
First you need software that will encode your video in a web-ready format (Flash, QuickTime or WMV), then you need a player for your video and cryptic embed [...]
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June 17th, 2009 | Dave | 2 comments | Continued
This morning OoVoo announced the release of OoVoo 2.1, the latest incarnation of their popular, high-quality video chat software. I have previously posted about OoVoo here.
What’s notable about this release is that Mac user’s finally get the full treatment. The Mac version of OoVoo had been in beta for quite a while, but now it’s [...]
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June 15th, 2009 | Dave | 0 comments | Continued
There are two new contests running online that you may be interested in…both involving video.
First up is Amazon. They are running a contest for user-generated video ads…promoting Amazon.com. The winner(s) can receive gift cards from Amazon, up to $20,000. Here’s a break down of the rules from Amazon’s site:
Film your own short video advertising Amazon, [...]
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June 12th, 2009 | Dave | 0 comments | Continued
A friend sent me the link. I enjoyed it. I am interested to increase the money I make online and ...
Hey thanks Dave. That is a good piece. Further proof that this business model works well.
Kevin 
@Paul - Not sure if I could come up with 10, as there's a lot of junk out there.
But one ...
Dave - I love the quality and the content of all your stuff. Any other books and events you would ...
Yes, we lost the countries greatest "pitchman", Billy Mays. I am fortunate enough to have called him a friend for ...
Great Piece Dave. Very interested in learning video production. Would like to add to my business in the near future. ...
Hi,
I mainly work on the MAC for media these days but really like Vegas pro and had a lot of ...
Broken-hearted that he died so young!
He did scream a lot - but he was the one person who spoke to ...
Wow this is too sad. I love watching Billy work his magic on the screen. Guess Pitchmen is ...
Bill may has just passed away :(
http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/28/news/companies/bily_mays_dead/?postversion=2009062813