Blogging in a web 2.0 world is all about interactivity and building a community. What better way to do both than through video blogging?
Video blogging is just one of the new powerful ways to market your products and incorporate web 2.0 technologies into your WordPress blog. When you combine video and blogging you are able to reach new markets through the many video sites such as YouTube and Flickr. How, you ask? Host your videos on YouTube and embed them into your blog post. It looks like people are watching the video on your site but they are actually watching it on YouTube. You extend your reach without using your bandwidth!
My colleague and friend, Jeff Herring - The Article Guy - put a video up on YouTube and at the same time incorporated it into his blog. Within two days he was number one on YouTube for his keywords. How much traffic do you think that brought to his blog?
You don't need to be in the video yourself. You can do screen capture videos to explain something in your niche. Since people learn on different levels, combining video and text will get your message out to more people than text alone.
If you do use videos that include you, you will quickly build the 'know, like, and trust' factor. People will hear from you in your own words, see you, and feel like they know you. It's so difficult to build trust but with video blogging you are doing just that whenever people see you.
To get started with video blogging all you need is a little, inexpensive Flip Video camera. It's easy to use and has software built right in for uploading to your computer and then on up to your blog. Why is it called a 'Flip'? Because it connects to your computer through a USB connection built right into the camera. When you are ready to connect the camera to your computer, you 'flip' open the USB connection and you are ready to go.
You can see that there is really no excuse not to get started with video blogging now.
| The Bottom Line: Start bringing your blog into the world of Web 2.0. You have no excuse not to! I'd like to invite you to see everything that is available for you at http://www.TheWordPressWizard.com - where you will also find information about my free weekly teleseminars, The Wizard Weekly as well as information about upcoming classes. by Cathy Perkins, The WordPressWizard. |
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