Not Normally My Thing But…
Just in case you miss it in the comments, here’s a lovely personal email from Donna DeMarco @ Viddler. As a fledging video maker whose partners regularly take the mickey out of the shaky panning, questionable taste in music (I like it!) and painfully slow action, not to mention how rough I look sometimes, the words in bold (the bold added by me so you can’t miss it) made my day!
I am determined to press on with video as a marketing tool, so I am cheered. The wordpress plug in Donna refers to, means you can comment on my blog postings with your own video recorded on the fly with your in-lappie camcorder - HOW COOL IS THAT? C’mon, I dare you! Get the lippie on and go for it.
“Good Day, I’ve just finished a breakfast here in the states - humble pie. My sincere apologies for suspending your account. We’ve been inundated lately with “cash gifting” ponzi schemes and “buy this now” videos. Not the type of content that represents the viddler community. The community can flag videos for various offenses, including spam & copyright. We manually delete the content on our backend based on the flags, title, tags, usernames, etc. We got over zealous when we saw “become a millionaire” in the title of a flagged video and suspended your account. Your videos are informative, well produced and interesting - You even have our wordpress plugin! I could try to blame it on the ghosts at Hazlewood Castle, but it is our mistake. And as a result, we are reviewing our process and will look into sending an email when an account is suspended. We’ve also instituted a “trusted user” status - of which you are now one.Thanks for using viddler!
Donna
co-founder, viddler
If you have been thinking that you want to start blogging, to promote your business, then I have some great resources for you. Blogging for business is all about people getting to know, like and trust you and if you click on Mike’s links below you can find out how companies from tour operators to bug exterminators to carpet showrooms are all getting in on the act!! You just have to check out all the case studies but the Carpet Depot one is an absolute classic - scroll down and click on the “who works here” video. Makes me want to go to Atlanta, Georgia for all my carpet needs - they are all so sweet!
There are a number of inexpensive turnkey solutions to do streaming video online, the best of which is Armand Morin’s Generator suite of products including InstantAudioGenerator and InstantVideoGenerator. However, easy to use as this is, it will lock you into a small but recurring payment for the life of your website. If you are not at all techie minded, this is probably the best solution for you however and Armand’s products have some nice little extras like being able to quickly record a video using the cam on your computer and send out your message as a video postcard - great click through rates on those, let me tell you.
If you want to learn how to do it yourself, step by step, and get more skilled while still using easy-to-learn tools, then you need to get to know my audio and video mentor - Mike Stewart - you can check out his great - and very inexpensive - tutorials here (which I have and I swear by!)
http://www.fromthedeskofmikestewart.com
Mike owned - and may still own for all I know - his own recording studio in Nashville and speaks at every internet marketing event as he’s passionate about using audio and video on the internet. He has some very inexpensive tutorials on DVD or to download, and walks you through all the equipment you need (and never more than you need!)
He has just released a great one-hour audio with Tracy Childers, of FLV Producer fame and here’s what Tracy had to say about it.
“This certainly is an exciting time to be on the cutting edge of video. The past 3 years have been absolutely amazing. The great news is that more is yet to come. I just finished an interview with Mike Stewart “The Internet Video Guy”. We talked about using video on the internet and what the latest and most effective trends are. The interview is just over an hour long and we posted it for you online at:
http://www.tracyandmikevideo.com You can listen to the whole thing from the site or you can download the mp3 file. It’s in the top right corner of the page. Look for the Yellow Play button or the mp3 download. You’ll definitely want to hear this call. Wait until you hear the results he shares that he and his clients are getting with, “Video Landing Pages”. If you don’t know what that is, don’t worry we explain it specifically in the interview. http://www.tracyandmikevideo.com Have a great weekend and keep making more videos! Best of Success, Tracy Childers FLV Producer
You can also view this video about how to go straight to video blogging with Wordpress, using a custom template, by InternetGenius, which I found on one of my new homes www.viddler.com/wealthcoach
I know it’s April 1st but still…… my Viddler account is working fine now! No explanation, no emails, but thank god for that as I was only thinking this morning how much nicer it is to use than YouTube. Perhaps they were the victim of an April Fool’s Joke eh?
Well, this Hazlewood Castle story gets even more intriguing! Viddler appear to have suspended my account without warning of any kind! I cannot believe that anyone - particularly Hazlewood Castle - can have objected to my content, and the only other video I had up there apart from my usual kind, was the one with the interview with Mr X about Runescape and that was very inoffensive. I am very fed up as I have been happily embedding the Viddler videos in my blog and they are now showing as video not available. I’ve spent a lot of time on this and to do this without even an email letting me know why, is really bad in my opinion. I’m waiting to hear from Viddler now.
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
"The Money Gym"
book
includes a Foreword
|
|
|
|
"This book is a template for anyone who wants to create wealth... it will tell you the path to take and what to do...There is no better teacher and mentor than Nicola" |
 |
