Once again it’s been a long time since my last post and so much has happened I could never cover it all in one post.

Here are some highlights:

1. I submitted one of my videos to multiple sites and moved a client up to page one on Google overnight.

If you search Google for "country rock violin", you will see our client, Johnny Potash, on page one several times.

We have had similar results for many music and business clients.

2. Our web site, www.akmusicvideo.com, is now page one Google for "download music videos" and many similar terms. We have over 90,000 unique visitors each month. (Now I could use some help in getting advertising and cash flow.)

3. I purchased a Wedding Chapel on the Las Vegas Strip. www.lasvegasweddingpalace.com. Using the video techniques I share with you, I video each wedding, convert it to flash and upload it to a special page we create for each couple. The newlyweds share that link with friends and family, which makes them happy and creates lots of additional traffic for our site. This new site is up 1,000% on Alexa in the last 30 days.

Stay in touch and let me know how your projects are coming along.

Sorry to be away from this blog for so long. We’ve been super busy:

Re-launching www.akmusicvideo.com -  a video, audio, and image sharing site for music artists. Wow! Already up to 20,000+ visitors each month and growing.

Launching www.akmusictalk.com - a social networking site for music artists and professionals in the music industry.

Launching www.akmusicshow.com -  a part of the FMG Internet Television network, which is a really cool network created by Jodi Colvard and Declan Dunn. We will be on the same network as Quincy Jone, Hillary Duff and many others. We will be featuring video and phone interviews with "movers and shakers" in our industry.

Launching www.akvegasjam.com - a live performance venue in Las Vegas for unsigned artists to get up and show their stuff.

All of the above sites have videos that I’ve put together with my eight year old Panasonic camcorder. They’re not HD, the sound is just what the built-in mic can grab, but the point is - THEY’RE UP. You can see them.

You see, if we wait for perfection, we may never get started.

So I urge each of you to just DO IT. Shoot a video. Play around with some editing software. Don’t be intimidated by all those people who know more than you do about making videos.

I hope to revise my ebook and offer it again soon, but for right now, if you’ve got questions, this is a good place to ask them. I’ll do my best to get you a timely response.

All the best,

Sean

Book is done. If you are interested it’s available here: www.makemoneymakingvideos.com

The cool thing about the book is you can take it step-by-step and have your own flash videos on your website without spending any more money. And, the book’s only $19.95.

I’ll be changing the title soon to something more descriptive and adding a few things I’ve recently learned.

This internet video process is a fun adventure. Certainly more interesting than my other business.

Two weeks ago we drove over to a local supply shop and purchase professional lights for video AND a green screen. We bought the economy version green screen, which is basically green muslin hanging on a horizontal bar. The lights are great though, I love them.

Now, in case you’re not too familiar with green screen, it’s the same technique the TV station uses to show the weatherman in front of a map, or videos of weather. You can use either green or blue for your screen color, although green is most common. It works because there is no green in skin tone. You need to be careful not to wear any green clothing when you shoot.

Anyway, you then use the ChromaKey setting in ULead or Sony or whatever editor you’re using. It deletes the green background and puts your subject in front of any background you choose, even in front of another video.

I’m not happy with the results (You can see them here: www.yourvideobusinesscards.com ), however, the process we’ve discovered works like a charm. We really can get a website to the top pages of Google just like we say on the video.

It’s a strange feeling, like we’ve stumbled upon the keys to the vault.

I’m trying to figure out why this technique works so well, and I still come up with "I don’t know".

One writer said the search engines love video because it takes more to produce a video than it does to produce a page of words.

Could be.

Maybe we’ll understand it one day, but for now we are quietly helping clients and our own sites get great rankings. Not even advertising it except on the link above.

I created a 1.5 minute video with some footage of Las Vegas at night, some background music and titles.

Just for fun I have upload 3 different sizes to give you an idea of how they might look on your website.

Book is almost done, by the way. Took much longer than I expected but I kept thinking of one more thing you need to know to Unleash Your Inner Movie Maker.

Take a look at these:

Not quite true, I guess, since I’ve been writing day and night to finish my book.

Listening in on a teleseminar last week I heard the guest say you need to work on something you’re passionate about.

I realized I started my book because I was interested in web video. But guess what, now I’m passionate.

The more I study the market the more I see solutions that are good, but you’ll end up spending hundreds of dollars for software that may or may not give you the results you want. Every component in my book is free, or at least free to use for 30 days. That way you’ll know if it’s right for you or not.

And, my book is only $19.00

It could sell for more. Maybe $47, or $97, or $197. Those are the favorite price points on the web. Why we don’t say $50, or $100, or $200 has to do with mental persuasion. Look at me. I should just say 20 bucks and be done with it. But those price points have been tested and retested and $19 always wins out over $20. $47 always beats $50 and so on.

The reason I’m sticking to the lowest price point is that I have more to offer later and want to build a relationship with you or whoever uses my book. I want you to know I’m giving value anytime we do business together.

In my book I cover every step, A to Z, about web video, but it’s not a jumble of suggestions and alternatives. I’m showing you exactly how I create, edit, and upload videos to our websites. But, not only do you get a book with screen shots, you also get videos that cover everything in the book. It’s like having a companion to show you exactly how to do what the book is telling you to do.

I cover shooting the video with your camcorder, importing the raw footage into your computer, editing your video, which includes titles, audio, music, intros and exits. I also show you my favorite free way to convert to Flash, specific instructions on how to upload to your website and how to quickly upload to many video sharing sites to increase your search engine rankings. 

You can get an idea of my teaching style from some of my previous entries. Very informal. I’m having fun. I want you to have fun too and not be stressed about video and not spend a bunch of money.

Let me know if you’d like an early copy. I’ll send out a few free ones so I can get feedback before we go public.

Have a beautiful day!

I know it won’t be the fastest gun in the west because you can upload directly from a cell phone almost in real time.

However, in this case I wanted include the process of converting the raw footage into MPEG4 so the quality will be better and I also added a few titles.

You can look over my shoulder and watch it happen.

I almost forgot to tell you. It took 37 minutes from start to finish.

My approach is different.

I only want to show you one fast and easy way to put video on your website. I also want to do it as cheap as possible.

There, I said it. CHEAP. Cheap used to be a bad word. Now Cheap Is In. Did you see the new line of clothing from Sarah Jessica Parker? Nothing over $10.

Wow!

This from a woman who helped explode Sex and the City into that tantalizing bowl of emotional soup that everyone wanted to watch. Well, at least every woman. OK, OK, just kidding. I liked it too.

Enough talk. Here’s the video about manipulating audio in your video.

Enjoy!

Since we are getting good at creating, editing, and uploading videos I realized how much I really enjoy the Internet video process. It is relatively easy, compared to traditional SEO (Search Engine Optimization), and so powerful. We have actually created videos with still pictures, a few titles, a little background music and had them jump to page one Google for keywords our clients wanted to be found for.

To see what I mean, search Google for "holistic health doctor Sacramento" or the same phrase without quotation marks. You will see a video listing of our client, Dr. Dennis Crawford at www.CrawfordNaturalHealthCenter.com.

My partner, Ann Bivins, (from DomainNameLady.com) and I had been talking for a while about getting a blog started about the Internet video process and about how it was a shame that we had to go to so many different sources to eventually learn how to get a simple video on a website.

Obviously there are many ways to create, edit and upload videos. We have just found a simple one that works for us. If you go to www.domainnamelady.com you will see Ann’s one minute welcome video. I filmed it in about 20 minutes, added a few titles, converted it to Flash, and uploaded it to her site. The whole thing took less than an hour.

We are now in the process of putting together an Ebook that also includes video instruction that shows exactly how to do what we did. It should be available in a few more days. Meanwhile, I invite anyone with dialogue or questions about Internet video to comment me here at Fast Web Videos.