Hello and welcome to Rim Digest, the ezine for

 

"Responsible Internet Marketers".

 

Striving to be the BEST resource for Small Biz Owners...

 

June 18, 2009 volume 9-issue 23

 

Your editor: Jan Tallent, rimdigest@usa.net

Rim Digest ezine: http://www.rimdigest.com/

 

 

 

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Today's Issue Contains:

 

Publisher's Spot

Featured Article: Getting Started with VideoBlogging

Positive Quote

VIRUS WARNING

Freebie for my subs

Feedback

Recommended eZines

Publisher's Goodbye and Legal Stuff

 

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Well, three weeks to the day I am still without my car.

My dealer's service department is helping me fight the

warranty company who wants to deny my claim. I still

have almost 25,000 miles of my extended warranty left,

or until September BUT since they have found it started

with a radiator hose busting and all the rest of the

damage supposedly followed that, the warranty adjuster

is claiming that with a hose NOT being covered, nothing

subsequent to that event is either. I am NOT a mechanic,

NO gauges ever went off, heat or check engine and I had

no way TO know something was wrong until the car got

sluggish and died right on the road. Luckily, I was

at a spot where I could safely get the car over to

the shoulder AS it was dying.

 

It hit 99 degrees here yesterday and is so muggy

we are all already melting. It is just now MID-June,

I hate to see what summer will be like, eek!

 

 

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Featured Article

 

 

Getting Started with VideoBlogging

 

Videoblogging is the next generation of posting ideas

and products over the internet. Everybody knows about

textblogging. Now they use videos for a better way of

expression. This form of communication may entail a lot

of resources, but it is all worth it. If pictures say

a thousand words, videoblogging exceeds that by far.

 

A videoblog requires larger disk spaces on websites,

a faster server, and a whole new set of programs to

support it. Videoblogs can be fed through RSS.

This is technology of syndicating your website

to other RSS aggregators.

 

Videoblogging works with people on the internet expressing

themselves. Now, if you put this on a business prospective,

you are up to a lot of benefits.

 

Think of it as a powerful tool in showing your prospective

customers your line of products or your services. It’s just

like showing a commercial, but for free. And if you videoblog

through RSS, you are most probably getting your target market.

 

People like to see what they are going to buy. Some would like

to see proof and be sure that they are getting their money’s

worth before shelving their dimes on it. All of us know the

influence of a thirty second commercial. The effect of

videoblogging is similar to that. You show your product,

people watch it. If they like it, they buy it. If you

present it well enough, they’ll buy the product even

if they don’t need it.

 

Now, on the web, things are pretty much static, unlike in

television in which all are moving. If you post something

that is mobile, it would most likely catch attention. Now

imagine your product parading in all its royalty through

a videoblog. You’ll get phone call orders in no time.

 

If your business is just starting up, you can create

a videoblog right at your own home. All you need is

your web camera, microphone, video software, and lights.

As long as you know how to use your camera, you can

create a videoblog.

 

Invest in a good web camera. The higher its resolution,

the better the output. You will want to present your goods

in the optimum way, so get the best one possible. Make

a short story, or just capture your goods in one go.

Just make sure you are getting the best profile for each.

Get those creativity juices flowing.

 

Lights are important in a production. Make sure to illuminate

the entire area you are going to use to create your videoblog.

The brighter the area, the crispier the images will be.

You can also use lighting effects for added appeal to

the presentation.

 

Should you require sounds for your videoblog, you need

a microphone. Record you voice as a voice-over for

promoting the product and its benefit to consumers.

Sounds are as important as videos on a videoblog.

It is advisable to make your sound effects as enticing

as the video.

 

Your video editing software can be any program.

You need this to finalize your work. You can add sounds,

delete some bad angles, or insert some still pictures

in there too. Some programs are user-friendly and can be

used even with zero knowledge on video editing. Even simple

video editing programs should do the trick. Select your

background carefully, too. The light affects the

presentation, so make sure that the background

and the light complement each other.

 

Videoblogging is a great tool but it also has its downside.

It may slow down your computer so others may steer clear of it.

Download time may also be a factor if the customer is still

on a dial-up connection.

 

But don’t let this stop you. Let videoblogging be

an alternative for you, though it is best to still

keep the text and pictures present in your presentation

to accommodate all possible viewers of your site.

 

Nowadays, the more creative you are in presenting

your product to the market, the more you are likely

to succeed. Videoblogging offers an interactive way

of selling. You involve the customers. You instill

in them the advantage of your goods.

 

And at times, those are enough to make a sale.

 

 

Jan Tallent is the editor of Rim Digest ezine,

an Internet Marketing Mom & Grandma, and

a Virtual Assistant looking for editing jobs

http://www.tallentagency.com/

 

 

 

 

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