By now I’m fairly sure that you are comfortable with your social life online. A mix of social networking, blogging, and forum posting has brought you a long way from the beginning. This now brings us to starting a more visual appearance online. Many read what you have to say and see pictures of who you are, but what about a video of yourself? Scary? I hope not! Although you may consume a lot of video content on sites like YouTube, you may want to consider placing yourself on the video promotion side of things. Visual content plays a big role in creating your social life that can generate a large amount of traffic back to your blog.
In this article, I am going to go over the reasons why you should consider using video promotion to start your social life online. I will include the basics of creating videos as well as how using video can build your reputation and bring traffic to your website. If you have ever thought about creating video of yourself, NOW is the time to get started with video promotion!
Why Video?
Video has become one of the biggest means of learning and entertainment on the internet. It has even come to the point where YouTube has become one of the biggest search engines on the internet. This is because people are now seeking to find things via video much more than just a typical search engine. Not to even mention that the fusion of the Internet and TV will be HUGE for online video. So the reason you want to get involved with video production is simple, by producing video you are able to put your face and knowledge in front of many information seeking individuals via the computer and TV.
Video Production
You can start creating video for online consumption very quickly, easily, and cheap. It may be a good idea to see this blog post on “What Camera Should I Use to Video Blog?” It will show you that a starting point can be with a cheap web cam and can build up to a highly professional camera.
When you have your camera, start shooting. You can do a close-up face shot sitting in your computer chair, full body standing in front of a wall, or even round table style where you and perhaps someone else is sitting at a table. Either way, you want to do your best to teach and maybe even entertain with a little humor, as long as you are getting your point across.
Let’s say you are a bar tender! Maybe you can do a round table video blog on unheard of mixed drinks. Once a week, have a friend come over to help you make and taste test an unheard of mixed drink. You can even give it a rating, overview, and name it if possible. But the idea is that you are going to become well known for creating these unheard of mixed drinks that people are going to come to you to taste for themselves in real life. This is the way you have to look at any video production topic.
Getting Started
One thing I have to stress is that you just need to get started. Don’t worry about being high quality with special video tricks. As long as you are professional and can get your point across, you will be fine. So jump into producing your own videos and playing around with it. You will learn as you go and make tweaks as you see fit. I would also suggest keeping the videos between 3 and 5 minutes long. You don’t want it to be too short where the viewer doesn’t grasp much and you don’t want your viewer to get tired of watching a long video.
Once you start creating videos, you want to make sure you are producing them on a regular basis and responding to any comments people leave you on the video. Don’t worry about looking like a fool either because, trust me, there are millions of fools out there who you couldn’t compare to.
Conclusion
By producing video, you are building another channel to become more social and build your personal brand. Creating video is seen as one of the best ways to generate awareness of who you really are and get viewers back to your blog. Maybe you can become one of the next viral videos to hit every corner of the media. Now THAT would be a fun and social life online. I wish you luck, and I’ll “See” you online!
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