Here's Looking at You, Kid! Your Video Toolbox!

"The biggest challenge was that we had to shoot so quickly and with such a limited budget." Debbie Allen

Have to give a shout to Penny Haynes who did a great job of giving us excellent advice and tips on how to create an online video to promote your business. Penny Haynes is an expert in creating video for her clients. She is the owner of 1st Podcast Publishing which provides training, resources and services for all of your podcasting needs. Learn how affordable and effective it is to brand yourself and your business with podcasting at the 1st Business Podcasters Blog/Podcast.

Go to http://www.YourVoicePodcast.com to listen to the shows and subscribe to the feed.

Here are the tips and sites Penny recommends:

1. Make sure you syndicate your website with rss.

2. You video needs to be as long as it needs to be to convey your message - people will listen to a 15-20 minute video if it has entertainment value, or answers the viewers questions, or addresses her concerns.

3. Video helps you build the relationship before you even meet your clients.

4. If you host your own videos, you need bandwidth paid for on your hosting site.

5. Host Can - http://www.hostican.com/ is a great site for hosting your websites, video, etc.

6. And online video can help your viewers answer questions without surfing all your pages.

7. BYO Audio is the most feature rich audio, video and podcasting solution on the Internet - With BYO AUDIO you just select the audio you want posted to your website from the list of audios you've recorded, and customize the play button the way you want it. We generate the HTML source code for you that can be copied and pasted into your web page. It's just choose, cut, paste... that's it. Check it out at http://www.byoaudio.com/

8. To record your own video get a digital camera with a build in hard drive - there are video demos at Circuit City or CNet.

9. To edit the video get Premier Elements (it about $99) - Adobe product - at http://www.adobe.com/products/premiereel/.

10. Save your video in Windows Movie Maker / iMovie for web publication

10. Places to share your video on the WEB (in addition to your own site) - YouTube®, Google Video, Blip TV®, OurMedia®, VSocial®, Yahoo! Video. (Visit Master New Media for a Complete list of Video Sharing Sites as well as reading an overview of each).

Check out Penny's Video Training Program at 1st Podcast Publishing (click on Training for a list of courses Penny offers).


In addition to all the great tips Penny shared, here's some articles and videos to add to your Video Toolbox:


Online Video Marketing: Ten Ways You Can Use YouTube To Promote Your Online Content

Video Marketing Online: How To Effectively Market With Video On The Web

Broadcast Yourself Live On The Web: Best Tools To Create Your Own Live Web TV - A Mini-Guide

How To Upload Your Video Clips To Multiple Video Sharing Sites: Hey!Spread

Digital Video Production Cookbook: 100 Professional Techniques for Independent and Amateur Filmmakers

Looking forward to "looking at you" and seeing you among the online video superstars! If you would like us to check out your online video, please send me an email at heidi (at) wecai.org so I can let our readers know about it!

Wishing you a great day... and more!

Warmest regards,

Heidi

Heidi Richards, Founder & CEO - The WECAI Network™
Be sure and check out the WECAI Network Video Penny helped produce at: http://www.wecai.org/welcome_video.html

Listen to Nancy Michaels - Establishing Yourself as an Expert

"If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens." Fay Weldon

On Wednesday, May 23rd I had the pleasure of interviewing Nancy Michaels of Impression Impact during one of our latest eWednesday Chat™ webinar sponsored by the WECAI Network™ and Verbal Networking. Nancy is the author of five books on marketing for small businesses, including Perfecting Your Pitch, Off The Wall Marketing Ideas, , How To Be A Big Fish In Any Pond, Media Madness, and A to Z to Visibility, Nancy is a top notch speaker with a long list of credentials.

Among her many accolades and accomplishments, in addition to being an author, Nancy is a spokesperson and trainer for Office Depot and the first person to win the Tom Peters WOW! Project Personified Award (2002) that hails individuals who take on WOW! projects. The WOW! Project was a cover story for Fast Company magazine.

During her interview Nancy shared quite a few gems of wisdom with our audience including how achieve expert status without a college degree or without writing a book, how to promote our expertise and gave us 5 additional tips she uses to marketing her business.

Here's what Nancy had to say after the interview:

"Heidi, Thanks so much for inviting me on to today's tele-class. It was a lot of fun and I'm happy to provide the link to my e-zine subscribers, if that's ok with you. Let's talk about my coming down to Miramar-Pembroke Chamber and your organization as well." Thanks again, Nancy

You can listen to her interview at: http://www.speakingwithspirit.com/eWedNancyMichaels.mp3.

If you would like to join us for future events, visit the eWednesday Chat™ pages and sign up.

Here's next week's schedule: Wednesday, May 30, 2007

12 Noon Eastern Daylight Time - The Time Diva's Guide to Time Management for Business Women... with Ann Rusnak, The Time Diva.

1:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time - How to Market Yourself in 15 Seconds or less Interview with Laura Allen, Co-Founder, 15SecondPitch.com.

Feel free to leave a comment.

We look forward to welcoming you to future events.

Warmest regards,

Heidi Richards, Founder & CEO - The WECAI Network™
"Helping Women Do Business On and Off The WEB."

eWednesday Chats - New Conference Room Mac and PC friendly!

"During your life, everything you do and everyone you meet rubs off in some way. Some bit of everything you experience stays with everyone you've ever known, and nothing is lost. That's what is eternal, these little specks of experience in a great, enormous river that has no end." Harriet Doeer



Join us for our upcoming eWednesday Chats which take place every Wednesday! Here’s the upcoming schedule.

* Double header Wednesday!

Wednesday, May 23, 2007 - 10 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Interview with Nancy Michaels, Author of Off the Wall Marketing Ideas, will share her strategies to Establish Yourself as an Expert.

Nancy Michaels is an author, speaker and entrepreneur in her own right who addresses small-business owners nationwide. She is a featured presenter for Office Depot, imparting her unique brand of marketing advice to customers at the retailer’s locations throughout the country. Nancy also reaches out electronically to small-business owners via OfficeDepot.com web casts. She is a local draw at events sponsored by Chambers of Commerce, the Small Business Administration and a variety of small business organizations across industries.

You can read more about Nancy at http://www.impressionimpact.com/


Wednesday, May 23, 2007 – 12 Noon Eastern Daylight Time

Interview with Felicia Slattery, Transformative Journeys – "Discover How to Increase Business by Communicating Your Credibility"

The purpose of Transformative Journeys is to enable people to become happy in their relationships and careers. The process includes helping people like you to determine and follow their life's various paths through coaching, support, and suggesting resources.

You can read more about Felicia at http://www.transformativejourneys.com/


To join us, RSVP to Heidi (at) wecai.org with "eWednesday Chats" in the subject line. You will be sent instructions to download our new conference room which is pc and mac friendly!

Song Writing Contest to Celebrate Women

"If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about." Aretha Franklin

To Celebrate Virtual Woman's Day™ on Thursday, March 15th - the WECAI Network™ is inviting women to participate in our first-annual song-writing contest.

Women can submit an original song and have the opportunity to "showcase" their talent during our song-writing contest and win some valuable prizes (void where prohibited).

All you have to do is submit your entry before 6pm Eastern time on Tuesday March 13th. Grand prize Winner will be announced throughout the day on Thursday, March 15 during our Virtual Woman's Day™ Online Conference. Winner will also receive national/international recognition via our promotional efforts.

Here's the scoop:

Entry must be submitted on the Virtual Woman's Day™ Song application. The song theme is Virtual Woman so you can use words in your song to convey the theme (such as woman, women, networking, connecting, internet, celebrate, friendship, partnering, business, professional, etc). Submissions can include lyrics, lyrics and music, an audio file or CD or any combination. The song must be an original song of no more than 4 minutes in length.

Entries will be judged by a panel of women in the music industry. Decisions of judges is final. Submission in the contest does not guarantee a winning entry. If there is not sufficient interest in the contest or the judges determine that submissions do not qualify as winners, contest will be postponed until a later time.

Prizes include the following:

Grand prize winner will receive a Global Lifetime Membership in the WECAI Network™

Second place will receive a one-year Charter Elite Membership in the WECAI Network™

Third place will receive a one-year Charter Membership in in the WECAI Network™

By submitting an entry, contestants certify that the work submitted is original and that they hold the rights. Contestants retain all copyrights to the song, however by subitting an entry to the Virtual Woman's Day™ Song Contest, contestant is granting the "use" of the song on the Virtual Woman's Day™ blog, in our promotional efforts as well as during our Virtual Woman's Day™ Online Conference.

All entries will be mentioned on the blog with a link back to their website/blog as well as in an upcoming issue of WE magazine for women.

Contest is open to women around the globe. Here's the link again the the contest application form - http://www.wecai.org/virtualwomansdaysong.doc

If you have any questions about the contest, send your message to heidi (at) Wecai.org.

Good Luck!

Heidi and Suzannah