subject: Awesome How To Video Tips To Leverage Video Blogging [print this page] Awesome "How To" Tips Using Rapid Video Blogging
Over the past few days Ive received a lot of feedback from members asking about how to create videos, where to market them and how to convert them into subscribers. So in this video, Im going to be sharing with you some how-to tips on how to create video, how to generate traffic from videos and also some places where you can get traffic to convert them back over into subscribers onto your database. I know theres going to be a lot in here but Im just going to give some really, really key points in this video so that you can take that away, implement and take some action.
Freebie: Rapid Video Report from Gideon Shalwick
One last thing as well just to mention is at the end of this video, remember to also stay tune to see the report that Im going to be showing you, a 90-page report that has been released by my good friend Gideon Shalwick. In that report, there are 90 pages of really step by step blueprint of how to create videos, generate traffic, and so forth. Everything that Ive learned is directly from Gideon. Youll be able to take all that information away and implement it. Its all for free as well so make sure at the end of this video, check that out.
First Tip: Setup Your Laptop, Trusty Microphone and Video Camera
The first thing is that the way I go about generating videos or how to create videos is actually very, very simple. You dont need anything thats too fancy. Currently, as Im talking to you right now, Im just using my Macbook Pro and my trusty little microphone here. I know you can see that this is an expensive microphone here, it looks expensive. Its just a Rod Podcaster, its a little bit over $200 to buy brand new but you dont need to go and spend that much money to get really high quality microphone. Just a simple microphone, like a Logitech small one thats probably about 40bucks or so, you can probably get away with that and be able to record some really, really simple and easy videos which you can just upload onto YouTube.
Its not about how the screen looks or anything like that; whats more important is the quality of your content. Im talking to you on this video and just presenting to you just who I am currently in my little study room in front of my Macbook Pro and Ive just got a microphone plugged straight into it. So its actually not that hard to create videos. Sometimes you do see me in front of a camera using my Flip Mino which is right over here. This little Flip Mino is only about couple hundred dollars and you probably have seen in my previous videos, Ive listed out the equipment that I use. But this stuff doesnt cost much at all. For around about no more than $400, and your trusty laptop, you can get yourself some really, really high quality definition videos online.
Use A Screen Capture Software To Create Tutorial Videos
To top that off, there are some free softwares which you can also use as well. And, one that Ive used in the past is called Screenr.com. Thats a free screen capture software that allows you to capture five minutes worth of screen capture. You can do it as well, its so easy to do and you can have a picture on, on the screen like Im doing right now and post it up as a video. A lot of people like that and the fact is that they can see exactly what youre doing on the tutorial.
Second Tip: YouTube Commenting To Generate Traffic From Videos
The second point I just want to share with you is once youve got your video posted onto YouTube, Ill show YouTube right now, you can actually comment on other peoples YouTube channels and what you want to do is if you want to do is if generate traffic from those channels, all you have to do is hop on their channels and leave a comment saying how good their video is, saying what you can contribute back to them and write something of value.
Hopefully, when people look through your comments and read that as some valuable comment and youre contributing back to the community, theyll come and visit your channel and also see what youre doing. So thats a very simple tip that you can do to be able to be able to create and generate traffic from other peoples blogs.
Third Tip: Capturing Leads
The third tip that I want to share with you is capturing those leads. Now, theres no point getting them come and watch your video and hopefully after watching your video, theyll know who you are. What you want to do is to start building relationships with these people because once youve created these videos, you want them to be able to see and come back and be part of your newsletter, subscribe to your channel or what not. What you want to do is capture them to go straight to your blog.
What youll notice right here, as you can see theres a URL of my blog. A lot of people fail to put this inside their description and what I usually do is at the beginning of every single description I put in, I put my blog address. So if people want to find out more about me, theyll click on that and itll be taken straight to my blog. And, what youll find is that people when they first see your blog, youll have a pop-up which asks them to subscribe to your channel or subscribe to your newsletter. Thats a really, really powerful way to be able to capture your list of subscribers.
Setup A Pop-Up Opt-in Box
I currently use Aweber to do this and I highly, highly recommend if youre building a blog and youre building up a video channel with what can you see there, build it up with Aweber. Aweber really, really helps you to be able to track up and keep track of whos on the database. So thats tip number three. Its to make sure that you encourage them to subscribe onto your channel and to subscribe also to your newsletter as well.
Final Tip: Consistency
The final tip that I want to share with you, this tip is very important. Its all about consistency and making sure that you consistently follow this through. Youll notice that I consistenly post atleast every second day a new video online. The more videos that you have online on your YouTube channel, the more chances of having more traffic coming back to your video channel. Its crucial by doing this because the more people will see it, obviously the more people will follow you. So consistently atleast a minimum once a week, post a new video onto your channel or post it onto YouTube. That way, youre continuing to generate traffic and ongoing traffic to your blog and to any of your videos and thats a very, very powerful tip that I can recommend to do.
Take Action Now!
All right, I hope youve enjoyed all these tips that Ive given you. These are very powerful tips and I highly, highly recommend that if you do get a chance to implement this, take action right now. Now, one thing before you do go as I said at the beginning, recently Gideon Shalwick has created a brand new report called Rapid Video Blogging and its really, really powerful strategy which Ive implemented already in my business. Ive already been doing this for many, many months and thats because Im really good friends and close friends with Gideon and he asked me to give at a go. So I said, All right, Ill give it a try. And Ive achieved astounding results. So Im proof that it does work.
