Screen Show Pro Coming Soon...

Screen Show Pro - Coming Soon....

If you've been following this blog, or following Free IQ, or for that matter, been anywhere south of Mars, you know that the future of the Internet is User Generated Content (UGC). It's all about content. And what is the King of Content? Video, of course!

The fastest-growing segment of this fastest-growing area is Screen Capture Video. We've all seen them, videos of PowerPoint presentations, "how-to" videos of software applications, product demonstrations, sales presentations, etc...

Well, until very recently, Camtasia ruled the roost. As well it should; it's a terrific program. Only problem is, it costs almost $300!

That's about to end! Next week will see the release of Screen Show Pro screen recording program. Screen Show Pro is a full-featured application that lets you make videos from your PC screen, while narrating the whole thing.

Oh, and it'll cost less than 50 bucks... Stay tuned!

FREE Video Screen Capture Program

If you're reading this blog, I probably don't have to sell you on the value of video, or of making screen-capture videos. In fact, I did two previous posts on the topic, one mentioning Camtasia, and another mentioning MuVee. Both good programs. Both NOT FREE.

So to remedy the situation, and again "move the free line", I am offering you a FREE alternative: CamStudio. This program does the bulk of what Camtasia does, that is it will record your screen as you browse, go through a presentation, or work with a program. And it allows you to narrate over it. Finally, it produces the final Flash video.

Unlike the other products, however, this one is FREE. And there's NO CATCH! Wait, it gets better: I'm going to give you MASTER RESALE RIGHTS with it - meaning you can give it away, or sell it! Really!

All you have to do is click on my Free IQ CamStudio link, which will take you to my page on Free IQ. Simply click, and download. Enjoy!

Video the "Old-Fashioned Way"

One of the fundamental functions of FreeIQ is content hosting - free content hosting to be precise - and using this hosted content as a marketing tool. We've already discussed the value of "Moving the free line" by making as much quality content available as possible.

Of course, selling content is another of the underlying concepts of FreeIQ. Regardless, the message is: content is king (yep, that's me; I coined that one...!) The "content" for our purposes is primarily video, audio, and PDF's. We spoke a little about PDFs, and we'll be re-visiting that topic often. Today however, I want to begin focusing more on video. In an earlier post I mentioned "screen-capture" videos using Camtasia. But what about regular, "old-fashioned" video?

Video is one of the most powerful of all mediums. It's TV. And it used to be a fairly involved proposition. Well we know we can now easily create videos by narrating screen activity. But lets not overlook the power of regular video.

If you don't already have video, it is a simple matter to create quality content. You can set up an inexpensive camcorder or digicam on a tripod and go. Some possibilities include videotaping a sales presentation, a training session, or a product demonstration.

Once you have the raw footage, it is now a simple matter to create quality content. One company, MuVee, makes a nifty product, AutoProducer, that takes care of making you look good. Along with the mechanics of cutting or editing,and converting between formats, AutoProducer comes with a zillion templates that give you a polished, professionally produced video with almost no effort. You simply select the template style, add titles, captions, and voice-over narration as desired, and upload it to FreeIQ. Now you have Quality Content!

AutoProducer is priced at$129, and there is even a "lite" version, suitable for most applications, for $49. Best of all, both versions have download-able free trials - now thats moving the free line!

My advice: you can't start building your content library soon enough!

FreeIQ - How to actually MAKE MONEY? Part I

An interesting thing happened to me tonight: I did a Google search on FreeIQ blogs. Well, of course I found FreeIQ Marketing. But, I also found quite a few others, and the majority of them all had the same thing: "FreeIQ - it's great, sign up!" But nobody is talking about how to MAKE MONEY with FreeIQ! Well, FreeIQ Marketing is about using FreeIQ to make money. Lets begin with...

Lesson #1 - CONTENT!

This one's easy: Marketing! Ok, well exactly how do I go about it? The main draw of FreeIQ is Content. If you want to use FreeIQ for marketing, you need content. But where does the content come from?

One of the tag lines for FreeIQ is: "Everybody knows something worthwhile". Perhaps the easiest way to use FreeIQ for marketing is to create some content, linked to your site, blog, product page, etc. and post it!

Ok, sounds good, but... I'll answer your question before you ask it: You can create content simply by walking through your stuff on screen, whether it's your web site, PowerPoint presentation, software application, and record the screen while narrating over it! This is your content! Upload it, link it, Wham! Web 2.0 marketing done right!

One of the really cool tools to come along lately is Camtasia (here is a link for a free trial). This nifty program will let you do stuff on your computer and talk through what you're doing while the whole thing is recorded as a Flash video - then simply upload it to FreeIQ (you can upload content here), and you're now miles ahead of the pack!