I wanted to share this article that I posted over at the Mommy Millionaire Ning Community Forum. It’s a great network of business minded Moms who love to network and learn!

OK, so today everyone knows that video is hot. Simple, short, video’s will no doubt be an instant hit on your blog and attract many more readers and possibly (hopefully) Internet business leads…

So now what… How do you get started?

Well, it can be as simple as sitting in front of your laptop and creating a simple Facebook video, go to your profile page, click on the wall tab, click on video. Then you will be able to upload a pre-recorded video or record a new video from your webcam or any camera that is attached to your system. Don’t worry, you don’t need a fancy video camera. I have a simple Cannon digital camera that takes great little video’s but I will talk more about that later. Keep in mind that Facebook will officially own the rights to anything you post there. Personally, I don’t mind this so much because I tend to only post business items on Facebook – I do not post any family photo’s there anymore.

Now, another option is to go to a video hosting service such as Viddler.com which is another great way to publish and watch video’s.

Then of course there is Youtube. I recommend posting all of your video’s to Youtube and creating a snazzy Youtube channel. This way, you will be able to embed the video right into your website, blog site, and right here in the Mommy Millionaire forum simply by grabbing the embed code. Plus, others will be able to promote your video and embed it anywhere they can (if you give permission when you are uploading it to Youtube).

Once you get going and start publishing video on a regular basis then you will want to use a service such as Tubemogal which will make the process of syndicating the video to multiple video syndication channels with only a few clicks! Cool!

So, lets talk about “Web Ready” digital video camera’s. Recently, I purchased the Sony Net Sharing camera. This is a nifty little camera. I can take 5 mega pixel still photo’s while shooting MP4 video’s that are all ready to upload to Youtube. There is nothing worse then having a video in a strange format and not being able to upload it to Youtube without spending time converting it to the right format – believe me! Also hot right now is the Flip which comes in high def now as well. I have my eye on the Sony Webbie which is not yet available in Canada – bummer!

There is also the option of getting video’s professionally done. I hear a lot of talk about this. Some say not to post low quality video’s on your site. Personally, I think if you can afford to then by all means do it. However, what happens when you have a spur of the moment video idea or just want to send a quick message to someone? I think with all the buzz surrounding web ready camera’s it becoming the norm to just do it yourself.

Already into video marketing? If so, please share…

All the best,
Frances