Share I consider myself a writer. Because writing brings something particular out of me, something deep and vulnerable. But … writing is *hard* for me. If I feel blocked, if I want to create tons of content really fast, if I’m teaching something complicated – it’s easiest, a natural expression, fastest for me to speak. [...]
Tag Archives | Making Videos
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 [...]
How Did I Become a Video Expert?
Share I still can’t believe that I’m teaching people how to make videos. I mean, I haven’t worked for a TV station. I haven’t taken courses in editing. I don’t have a degree in filmmaking or a camera costing thousands of dollars or years of experience in professional broadcasting. I’m just a girl who makes [...]
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 [...]
I'm Elizabeth Potts Weinstein, a writer, teacher, and coach.