If you have been thinking that you want to start blogging, to promote your business, then I have some great resources for you.   Blogging for business is all about people getting to know, like and trust you and if you click on Mike’s links below you can find out how companies from tour operators to bug exterminators to carpet showrooms are all getting in on the act!!  You just have to check out all the case studies but the Carpet Depot one is an absolute classic - scroll down and click on the “who works here” video.  Makes me want to go to Atlanta, Georgia for all my carpet needs - they are all so sweet!

There are a number of inexpensive turnkey solutions to do streaming video online, the best of which is Armand Morin’s Generator suite of products including viralurl.com/moneygym/instantvideogenerator">InstantAudioGenerator and InstantVideoGenerator.   However, easy to use as this is, it will lock you into a small but recurring payment for the life of your website.  If you are not at all techie minded, this is probably the best solution for you however and Armand’s products have some nice little extras like being able to quickly record a video using the cam on your computer and send out your message as a video postcard - great click through rates on those, let me tell you. 

If you want to learn how to do it yourself, step by step, and get more skilled while still using easy-to-learn tools, then you need to get to know my audio and video mentor - Mike Stewart - you can check out his great - and very inexpensive - tutorials here (which I have and I swear by!)  

http://www.fromthedeskofmikestewart.com

Mike owned - and may still own for all I know - his own recording studio in Nashville and speaks at every internet marketing event as he’s passionate about using audio and video on the internet. He has some very inexpensive tutorials on DVD or to download, and walks you through all the equipment you need (and never more than you need!)

He has just released a great one-hour audio with Tracy Childers, of FLV Producer fame and here’s what Tracy had to say about it.

“This certainly is an exciting time to be on the cutting edge of video. The past 3 years have been absolutely amazing.  The great news is that more is yet to come. I just finished an interview with Mike Stewart “The Internet Video Guy”. We talked about using video on the internet and what the latest and most effective trends are. The interview is just over an hour long and we posted it for you online at:
http://www.tracyandmikevideo.com You can listen to the whole thing from the site or you can download the mp3 file. It’s in the top right corner of the page.  Look for the Yellow Play button or the mp3 download. You’ll definitely want to hear this call. Wait until you hear the results he shares that he and his clients are getting with, “Video Landing Pages”. If you don’t know what that is, don’t worry we explain it specifically in the interview. http://www.tracyandmikevideo.com Have a great weekend and keep making more videos! Best of Success, Tracy Childers FLV Producer

You can also view this video about how to go straight to video blogging with Wordpress, using a custom template, by InternetGenius, which I found on one of my new homes www.viddler.com/wealthcoach