From the category archives:

Video Marketing

3 Ways Online Videos Can Ruin Your Personal Brand

by Leesa BarnesOctober 13, 2008

I recently got an email from Kim Castle of BrandU and the subject was Can Misusing Online Video Ruin Your Brand?
Yes, it can. Here’s how:

It can make you look cheap and unsuccessful. If you’re teaching people how to create a six figure income, your video better look like it. There’s a video of a guy [...]

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Boost Your Business Using Videos

by Leesa BarnesJuly 24, 2008

Last night, I hosted a 75 minute call on how you can boost your business using videos. Just under 200 people registered for this call and I had my friend, Tynisha Thompson, join me to ask me questions about using videos.
Part 2 is tonight, July 24th at 8pm EDT.  There are still seats left. Here’s [...]

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3 Things to Look for When Buying or Choosing Video Capturing Software

by Leesa BarnesJuly 15, 2008

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Here’s a quick 2 minute video explaining the 3 things to look for when buying or choosing video capturing software.  The 3 things video capturing software should do is:

Capture video from a variety of sources.
Provide various production options so you can bring your video to life.
Allow you to share your video in a variety of [...]

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How to Produce a Video Podcast on a Shoestring Budget, Part 2

by Leesa BarnesJune 24, 2008

In Part 1, I looked at the various ways you can record, edit and produce your video. Now, let’s take a look at how you can build your studio at home or the office and make your images look even better.
These tips are specifically for those of you who will be recording your video in [...]

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How to Produce a Video Podcast on a Shoestring Budget, Part 1

by Leesa BarnesJune 18, 2008

Most podcasting experts will tell you that don’t need Hollywood effects to produce a video podcast. I interviewed quite a number of video podcasters for my book and many shared with me that they started off with a few homemade items to create their studio.
Too often, people are looking for Hollywood effects when watching a [...]

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Podcasting Includes Videos, M’kay?

by Leesa BarnesMay 29, 2008

I stumbled upon a report by Edison stating that podcast listening is going up. Aside from the encouraging numbers, the Edison report did one thing right and one thing wrong.
What Edison did right in this report is that it called the people they surveyed for this report podcast consumers. This then incorporates both audio podcast [...]

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How to Use Visio to Create Process Maps for Your Business

by Leesa BarnesMay 8, 2008

After reading Michael Port’s new book called Beyond Booked Solid, I put together a bunch of process maps on paper. To share these maps with my team, I used Visio to make them look pretty.
In this video, I take you click by click on how you can create a process map fast using Visio.

If [...]

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How to Share Videos Online the Easy Way

by Leesa BarnesMay 1, 2008

As I see others using the Flip camera, I’m seeing a common problem emerge – often, the lips are moving slower than the words that I hear.  It’s rather obvious and very annoying.
The problem is that people are uploading the video file uncompressed in an AVI format, the format that the Flip camera records in. [...]

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