If making videos is your ‘thing’ then you can do no better than to put them on YouTube.  Because YouTube is a Google property and you get the benefit of it being constantly spidered for new content.

You don’t even have to use your own videos, there are literally thousands for you to pick from, to use for yourself.  It is quite permissible to do this, you are not stealing nor is it considered plagiarizing in any way, you simply embed the url into your own site.

There is such an upsurge in the use of social media sites that it is imperative for anyone wanting to make contacts to use these sites.  You can even put in a link for a video on say Twitter, Facebook etc.

Video is definitely the way to go, people just love videos, for fun, for business, whatever, they flock to sites showing videos.  Obviously this means that you have massive exposure if you have videos showing on any of these sites.  It would be sheer lunacy not to take advantage of this as part of your marketing strategy.

Of course, the secret to creating a ‘viewer friendly’ video is to vary the content.  Don’t just sit or stand and talk for the whole length of the video.  People soon get bored with that.  Vary your backgrounds if you can and perhaps put other material in, graphs, instructional sections where you are showing a screen on your computer etc.  Anything which will make a natural break is good.

The theme of the video naturally must be reflected to some extent in the background you choose, what slides you show, graphics etc, must be slanted towards the subject.  If this is not possible then you can set the mood differently with the use of appropriate music, upbeat, soothing etc.  There is no end of effects you can achieve with video.

There are a huge amount of free music, graphics, backgrounds etc.available.  The sky is the limit for you to experiment with, by trying to find the style which would suit your purpose the best.  You may only want to place videos on sites for fun which is alright, but if you want them as part of your marketing strategy you would have to find which styles worked the best for your promotion.

If you are an internet marketer you really should be using video,  that is if you are not already.  It is the way forward and is proving one of the easiest ways to reach your public.  As an internet marketer your main object is to build trust between yourself and your prospective customers.  What could be a better way than for you to be seen and heard?  People will identify more readily to your image than to your written word.

This method of marketing is taking over, so don’t be left behind, get on the video marketing bandwagon now.

The video below is for those of you who want to have access to hundreds and thousands of free images, sound clips and video clips. I have spent quite a few hours hunting down a lot of these free to access sites, where in a lot of cases you don´t even need to register your details to gain entry. Just download to your hearts content and start to make really great videos.

The next video I will be showing you how you can use Animoto to produce a really great video without the headache of learning how to use a video edting programme. As ever if there is anything your not sure of with your own video editing, please feel free to ask me a question and I will be happy to help you.

I made a slight error towards the end of the video. The last site I visisted I forgot to give you the url so here it is, Stonewashed

Well as Some of you know I have just returned from delivering a boat to the south of France, Nice to be exact. We left Mallorca on Tuesday morning and arrived in Ampuria Brava late the same day. The following morning we set off again to cross the Gulf of Lyon, as you will see in the video below we encountered some pretty heavy seas.

What the video does not convey terribly well is how big the sea was. Imagine if you can 35 tonnes of boat sliding sideways down the face of a wave, quite unnerving ! I´m very pleased to be back in one piece

There are two videos below. The first is a video diary of the trip and the second is the first of a series of tutorials that I have planned for video production. In the first tutorial I show you how I use Windows Movie Maker. If you want to ask me any questions please feel free !

The second video which will be posted tomorrow is telling you where you can find lots of free content for your own video such as music clips, photos and free video.

Anyway I´m raring to get going again so onwards and upwards..

the video below is the tutorial for windows movie maker, I need to apologise for the audio being a bit low in parts, I hope it doesn´t spoil the video to much for you, a new mike has been ordered.

I would love to get some feedback from you, and if there are any subjects you want me to cover please tell me.

HI all,

As a few of you know I´m away until Thursday night. Myself and a friend are delivering a boat to Nice (southern France)  We made land fall at midnight in a town called Ampuriabrava on the northern Spanish/French border after leaving Mallorca this morning at dawn. the passage could only be described as  interesting !

The Mediterranean sea in the middle of winter is a wild place, miles away  from the pictures you will find in the Summer holiday brochures. Tomorrow we leave at dawn again to cross the gulf of Lyon which even in the middle of Summer can be a bit daunting, so we will have to see what she throws at us tomorrow.

Hopefully by Friday afternoon I will be posting the first in a series of video tutorials that are going to be specifically biased towards those people who are struggling with video production. I have spent quite a number of hours hunting down some Free programmes and public domain music, photos for you to use without fear of coming into contact with copyright laws.

Sorry for the short post, but I´m hungry, wet and very tired and I feel as if  I´m typing with Frankfurter sausages..