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Create HD slideshows with ProShow. Finally! Online video as lead generation Video has been available on the Web for years and with YouTube it is simple for anyone to create and post a video online. However, a legitimate criticism of video (especially from B2B marketers) has been that it is tough to do lead generation. Sure you can have a URL mention at the end of a video or you can embed a video within a landing page with some lead offers, but that's not fully integrated. My friends at VisibleGains have developed a video application that solves this problem. Here is an example program we created from the four videos I shot at GM a few weeks ago. The VisibleGains application makes it easy to include links and offers as part of the video experience. Did you notice the link near the end that points you to see the complete footage of the interview I had with Fritz Henderson, CEO of GM? Of course, these links could easily have gone to offers for lead generation purposes (such as to sign up for a Webinar). Brand Journalism becomes lead generation What do you think?

Logo Animation | YouTube Search | Youtube Background Templates How To Compress Videos To Send Them By Email Let’s break a few email etiquettes along the way. I wouldn’t advocate sending videos through plain old email because it clogs up bandwidth and holds up the queue of emails downloading behind it. Heaven forbid if someone is on a dial-up connection or a slow WiFi. There are other ways to send videos across ““ YouSendIt is one which even has an Outlook plug-in. Then, you can throw a stone and hit any of the file sharing services (also check out this roundup of a few more desktop file sharing clients). If you are back from all those pages I sent you to, then it means that you are hell bent on learning how to compress videos to send them by email. Here’s the bad news”¦video files are among the largest single chunks of digital content out there. But compression is really a complex subject. With that light touch on the background, let’s return to the action steps we need to take to compress a video for email. Compressing Videos with VirtualDub Experiment with the settings for video compression.

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U. Tube « Predicate, LLC | Editorial + Content Strategy Reserve another laurel for Edward O. Wilson, the Pellegrino University Professor emeritus at Harvard, serial Pulitzer winner, and prominent intellectual: online celebrity. Forget Charlie Rose—Wilson has Google for a soapbox. Amid the amateur-hour piffle of YouTube “talent” and skateboarding dogs, the famed biologist stands in bold relief, with more than 500 Google video search results to his credit: Interviews ranging far afield of TV shows to a spate of appearances on several Web-only video platforms such as Meaningoflife.tv, Bigthink.com, Fora.tv, and the online home of the Technology Entertainment Design (TED) conference. It was through a TED presentation that Wilson chose to unveil his proposal for the Encyclopedia of Life, a Wikipedia of biodiversity, and a few short months later he secured the funding necessary to launch it. An entire back catalog of cerebral Web video is steadily accumulating online. The Oprah: TED The reason TED videos work? The Public Broadcaster: Fora.tv Close

Viewbix - Empower your video. Add apps to any video: YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook. Add a call-to-action. 5 Unique Video Marketing Trends That Will Give Your Business The Edge One of the latest internet marketing trends, video marketing is crucial for any internet marketer who wants to compete in today's online business industry and also to take their business from its infant stages to the growing stage. This article highlights 5 unique video marketing trends that can bring your business to the next level. Video marketing trends started emerging early in the 21st century during the start of the 2.0 era. Previously, videos were just used to promote a certain product using visuals and sound effects. 1) Viral Marketing Videos A Viral marketing video is essentially a video that has a unique angle which makes people want to tell others about it. 2) Educational Marketing Videos Educational marketing videos have taken the internet marketing world by storm. 3) Sales Copy Videos Instead of having a 20 page long sales copy, why not use a 30 minute video? 4) On-site Videos You can now see real live people walking on screens of certain websites. 5) Video Streaming Sites

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Online video: how to work it for your brand The explosive popularity and recent growth of video on the web has been well documented. In a 2007 study conducted by Advertising.com, 62 percent of consumers said they regularly view streaming video content online, and according to the Online Publishers Association (OPA), 44 percent of consumers have taken some action as a result of viewing an online video ad. The advantages of video are clear; it's a way to differentiate your website from competitors, it allows companies to leverage existing marketing investments such as television commercials or taped speeches and it addresses the large percentage of consumers who are visually oriented and will almost always choose to watch a video rather than read. But, like anything new, few precedents have been set in terms of how to best utilize video to your company's advantage. Welcome video from the president, CEO, general manager or other spokesperson. Online video options (hint: anything but YouTube!) Next page >>

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