Have you ever felt that sometimes you needed a new home business idea to promote your work at home business? With such keen competition around you, do you often feel that everyone else seems to be using the same approach you are adopting to reach out to potential customers for your legitimate home internet business product or online business opportunity? I’ve come to realize it’s not so important in how unique your product or your best home business idea is but rather the way you’ve packaged it and promoted it to the hungry crowd. Introducing [tag-tec]promotional videos[/tag-tec] by Animoto.
Animoto is a web application that automatically generates videos using the New York based Animoto Productions company’s Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology that “analyzes and combines user-selected images and music with the same sophisticated post-production skills & techniques that are used in television and film”. It may well be a whole new experience both for you as a small home business owner and your customer or client depending on what type of work at home business you are associated with. The good thing about promoting these videos is that it’s inexpensive. But is it difficult to produce one for your home business site?
This application takes images that you have on your computer, adds a soundtrack (either yours or theirs) and renders or finalizes it together in a funky video format. You really don’t need moving images as it will create the movement from static images for you. And as most small business owners love, it is a free application (for videos of up to 30 seconds).
You may already know that Google bought the much loved giant video-sharing [tag-tec]YouTube[/tag-tec] at a tune of $1.65 billion in October 2006 so personally I think it does send a very strong message about the popularity and importance of videos to all of us. Many legitimate home internet businesses are using YouTube and [tag-tec]social networking[/tag-tec] to jump on the band wagon in getting more traffic to their work a home businesses. Animoto has partnered with Google and so any [tag-tec]Animoto video[/tag-tec] can be exported directly to YouTube. In essence, this means that with this integration anyone with photos can contribute professional-looking video content to the YouTube world. You don’t need a video camera or editing software to be part of this action.
To give you a better perspective as to how easy it is to produce a 30-second Animoto video, let me just share this with you. I used 15 photos of My SFI Home Business I had stashed away in my computer hard disk. Once I have registered at Animoto which takes me just a minute, I am prompted to select these photos from my computer. Next I am shown a selection of the accompanying music for my video. Lastly it then creates the video for me or “renders” it. It took me just 7 minutes to finish my first promotional video for my top rated home business. While I won’t lie that I could have produced a better quality video if I had given myself more time to create one, it just goes to prove how easy it is to produce one not to mention having much fun doing it too. Here is the result of my very first attempt. It probably won’t land me in Cannes, but it’s good enough for promoting my work at home business.
Here it is.
My very first Animoto video for you to enjoy.
What’s your opinion?
So what do you think. Did you find producing your very first Animoto video was easy? Perhaps it now deserves to be seen by more than just your friends and family. Why not export it to YouTube? With 2.5 billion video streams and over 66 million unique viewers a month, you ought to have a pretty decent shot at getting seen by a few more people, don’t you agree?
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May 18, 2008 at 3:57 am
Nice post ! Home based internet business are now growing and easy way to earn money from online. This blog explains the home business ideas Good work Keep it.
May 18, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Peter,
Nice post! I like your video and can’t wait to see the finished product. Keep doing what you’re doing by giving us great information and guidance.
Thanks!
May 19, 2008 at 8:12 am
For a first attempt it’s excellent Peter. I loved it and am now thinking of making one for my article directory. Thanks for the heads up and great article. More comments at CYN
May 21, 2008 at 11:39 am
Hi Peter,
The video looks great, I may use this one day
Thanks
Tanny
May 21, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Great job, Peter! You always come up with new ideas to improve your business. This mentality that keeps you put ahead of the pack.
August 14, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Thanks for the informative post.. and thanks for adding our comment to the blog. I am subscribing to your feed so I don’t miss the next post!
February 28, 2009 at 9:38 am
I’m with you on this one. Animoto is a great tool and videos that use this method are quite common. However, this only seems to work truly well with video topics that have something to do with beautiful people. Probably difficult to tap into at certain professional markets.
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April 9, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Hot Dang You Are The Man! I am going to make my very first video this weekend so I can post it to the web and start getting traffic froma source I wasn't able to before. I thank you for the info on the comapny and I think for a 7 minute rush job your video is great. I will post a link to mine once I produce it. One quick question can I use power point slides instead of photos?
June 1, 2009 at 7:52 pm
thanks for this one, sometimes i go promotional videos than reading articles about a certain business. I totally agree about this, thanks.
June 26, 2009 at 4:45 am
This mentality that keeps you put ahead of the pack.
June 26, 2009 at 4:56 am
Adding our comment to the blog. I am subscribing to your feed so I don't miss the next post!
July 23, 2009 at 1:25 am
I wasn't able to before. I thank you for the info on the comapny and I think for a 7 minute rush job your video is great. I will post a link to mine once I produce it.
July 23, 2009 at 4:41 am
@ internetmarketingreviews: Thank You
August 4, 2009 at 4:40 am
it is a great idea for Create Promotional Videos For Your Home Business Using Photos …
August 11, 2009 at 2:18 am
This is the best tips for video creator. Every article I read, I always found useful steps there. Appreciated for you. Good job Peter.
September 27, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Ya Nice post, This is a good idea for promote our business.Thanks for your opinion.
October 13, 2009 at 9:58 am
this is an interesting twist and method.
April 2, 2010 at 2:12 am
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April 27, 2010 at 6:21 pm
Good strategy. Now I have a new technique for my site to improved.. thank you
April 30, 2010 at 8:00 am
Love the video Peter! I was always wondering how to make such a cool video like this. I have been looking into video marketing, but never knew what to do. Thanks.
May 21, 2010 at 3:43 am
NIce share.. good techniques. I will use it..
June 13, 2010 at 11:21 pm
I really don’t know why people have such a problem with promotional videos. If they’re still in line with your non promotional stuff, i.e. the kind of video you’d make anyway. I don’t see the harm.
June 14, 2010 at 7:56 am
@Creative Web Design: Thanks for your comment. Appreciate it.
June 14, 2010 at 12:56 pm
@Creative Web Design: Thanks for your comment. Appreciate it.
November 11, 2010 at 4:13 am
I am trying to use video using this tool. valuable post, thanks
November 12, 2010 at 3:38 pm
@safety blog: That's one of my oldest posts…glad you liked it.
February 25, 2011 at 1:24 pm
Great post! I like your video ides for promoting your business. I will using this tips for my friends blog. Thanks for sharing this new information.
April 6, 2011 at 10:20 am
This video really looking great, Thanks for this splendid advice. I will definitely use for my sites.
April 28, 2011 at 11:31 am
I can see that you are an expert in this area. I am launching a website soon, and your information will be very useful for me.. Thanks for all your help and wishing you all the success in your business.
May 25, 2011 at 1:35 pm
Very good techniques. Thank you for sharing this useful information.