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Here is the post that inspired this post. Thanks to Laura Roeder.
On video there’s nothing to hide behind. It’s your verbal stumbles and nervous laughter and futzing with the neckline of your shirt. It’s your face, your wrinkles, the miscombed part in your hair. Your crooked smile and teeth and glasses. Your weird mannerisms. Your messy office.
You’re not doing videos, because video is you.
But let me tell you my secret.
Letting everyone see you naked, in all of your imperfections, is exactly what make video so delicious.
I’m naked in every video I’ve posted online. In all of my dorkyness, everything I would love to improve via diet and exercise and a few intensive sessions with a voice and acting coach. Every bra strap foible, the phone ringing in the background, the fire trucks sirens on the street outside my apartment, the way I keep forgetting my train of thought, the annoying way I play with my hair.
Read the entire article at:
http://www.lauraroeder.com/2010/05/let-them-see-you-naked-on-video/
We watched the new Food Network Star TV show on Sunday. They picked a bunch of people that might be good for TV, then make a TV show about giving them challenges, and eliminating them one by one, until they get down to the one person they will give their own TV show on the Food Network. Everyone wants to be a star.
It was great to see all these fresh faces, trying to do a promo to a camera. I mocked and laughed as they stumbled and got nervous in front of the camera. I love watching reality TV, just to judge people, and to feel better about myself, while they fail.
Then I decided that I could do way better in front of a camera than they did. I’d make my own video for this blog. Ha!
Videos can help bring more traffic to your site. The technology is easy. That hard part is getting in front of the camera.
Here’s my first video blog post. Wow. Way harder than it looks.
Mock away. (Please tell me if you have problems playing the video.)
You can watch it on YouTube here.
At the end, I ask you to leave a comment and tell me what the most valuable thing I ever did for you was. I told you to ask your customers what their needs, wants and desires are, so I figured I better ask you that same thing.
The tribe has spoken. Please leave a comment. Thanks.
I’m proud of you for taking a shot at a video!
Your wrinkles look pretty normal to me.
The video was slow to load (file too big?) and your face gets blurry when you move your head. (resolution too low in order to keep file from being bigger?)
I GREATLY appreciate The Care and Feeding of SEO. As I continue to work my way thru the tasks you have set me there, I gain confidence that using the internet to sell actually does have some elements under my control!
Nan Henke
Watercolor Artist
Most valuable thing you have helped me with:
Shoving me out the door and saying “You can do this!”
Thanks
Thanks for the feedback. I’m going to keep playing with the video settings, formats, and stuff.
It’s nice to know that I can help people feel like they have some control.
Yeah, you can do this!
Dude, you are my favorite. I always get inspired with the stuff you do. What hardware are you using: video cam, video editors. Any post-process? Hey write an article about it. Are you hosting? Or you placing them on youtube?
Ditto to what Nan said. Also, I tried to watch it first from a PC (at work) and I didn’t have the correct version of Quick Time – just an FYI. I didn’t have a problem on my Mac except for slowness. The shirt was sort of shouting, but, I give you very high marks for your video presence. Actually, I, Chrissy, your friend, thinks it’s AWESOME but that’s from your friend the other comments were from a generic reader perspective.
Also, question, there must be some market research out there about how, what , when where we like to watch our videos. Will you be sharing that market data? Hope so!
I love it Conrad! I’m so happy to hear that you were inspired by my blog. Maybe I’ll see ya around on the west side sometime.