Share One of the most frequent question I get is: What video camera should I use to create videos for my website or video blog? I used to always recommend using the Flip Mino HD … but that was until I got the Kodak Zi8 … In this video not only do I give you [...]
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7+ Reasons to Add Video to Your Website
Share I started doing videos for two main reasons – because I enjoyed making videos (love the entire creative process!), and because it was a direct way for me to access my authentic voice. Back in mid 2009 I had a horrible case of writer’s block. Well, not exactly writer’s block. The problem was more [...]
Make Your Videos More Awesomer: The Advanced Video Series Coming Soon
Share Wondering what’s next in the land of living your truth? Here is is baby –> The Advanced Video Series The Advanced Video Series is for those of you who have made a few (or a bunch!) of videos & are ready to take your online videos to the next level of awesometasticness. Here’s the [...]
How to Make a Video When You Have a Zit
Share These last two weeks I’ve been working too much, eating crappy food (or forgetting to eat), not sleeping enough … and it now has come down to this. A horrid red bump on the bottom left of my chin. (I thought I was too old for this stuff? Well, apparently not.) It happens to [...]
Don't Waste the Next 3 Years of Your Life. Damnit.
Share So here’s the thing that kept coming up for me as I was walking around the streets of San Francisco tonight after 2 glasses of wine and 3 cigarettes and listening to a few hours of Question the Rules audio on my iPhone while sending random texts to twitter and my BFFs. I’ve been [...]
People Don't Buy Stuff From Videos. They Buy You.
Share I cringe when I see the marketing for “how to make video” programs come through my twitter feed. We’re promised that we’ll learned how to make “videos that sell” or “videos that convert leads to paying customers” or “videos that will make you money” etc. And magical fairies will throw money at us from [...]
The Big Question: "Do I Have to Edit My Videos?"
Share Editing your videos is the most time consuming and technically-intimidating part of creating videos for your video blog, sales page, or on your main website. Yes, I know your pain. There’s the first step, of just getting all of the video into your computer. Compatibility problems with your software, the time it takes for [...]
The *Real* Reason Video is Hard.
Share Somehow the conversation (via @ replies on twitter, comments on a blog post, in real life at cocktail party, whatever) turns to my business. And blogging. And making online videos. And the “how to make a video” questions start … what camera do you use? do you film in HD? what software do you [...]
The #1 Most Important Thing re Video
Share I get asked questions about making videos all the time. What camera do I use, how do I set up the lighting, where should I shoot, where do I host the video, how do I to edit, what software should I use, etc. …. But that’s missing the point. There’s one thing, one huge [...]
How to Be Funny
Share So how do I make “funny” videos? (assuming you think they are funny … cause I don’t really *try* to make funny videos…) Why do people like funny so much? Why isn’t everyone making entertaining videos? Well, the straight answer is that funny is hard. And, funny is incredibly powerful. Here’s why.
I'm Elizabeth Potts Weinstein, a writer, teacher, and coach.