Online Publishing and Marketing

Creating a welcome video for the home page of my carolbremner.com site has been on my to-do list for a long time. Last night, I decided I was going to do it, no matter what. A couple of hours later I had a number of videos done but none that I was really happy with, so I’ll try again today. If you see one when you go to that page, you’ll know I was successful.

In case you were thinking of doing a talking head video yourself as well, these are the steps and I’ll mention where I had trouble:

Over a year ago when I attended the NAMS marketers workshop in Atlanta that I like so much, one of the presenters was Maritza Parra. She uses online tv and video a lot and showed us a quick, non-techie way to record a video presentation that looked totally natural and not like you were reading a script. Using her laptop, Maritza went to cueprompter.com and copied what she wanted to say into their free teleprompter. Then Continue reading →

I’m one of those people that like to write everything down, preferably on paper. I like to have goals I’m working toward and a daily task list to help me get there.

I thought I’d share with you some of my goals for 2012 and would love to hear yours as well. So this is my list:

More book publishing, whether that be ebooks, audio books on dvd, or print books. After working on the production of a physical book for a client, which you can see at the left, it made me want to do more of my own as well. I’ve started working on a collection of 30 great ideas for promoting yourself and your business on the Internet and am trying to work on it a little bit every day. I’ll let you know when I’ve finished.

More training sessions. I’m doing a social media session at the Cambridge Chamber Continue reading →

Once a week I facilitate a mastermind group. We’ve tried a wide variety of programs, from telephone based to using the Internet only, and sometimes a mix of both. Here are some of our experiences so far:

At first we always used freeconferencecalling.com since it was an easy way to use the telephone and record our calls, but it wasn’t long before we wanted to be able to share our screens as well.

Then we used Skype and had that ability quite easily. But we found that on the free version, you can’t have the video showing the participants if you have more than two people. So it was perfect for a one-on-one, not as good for a group. Plus, we found that with more people, some of us kept getting booted off the call. And we still needed a way to record the session for later use. Continue reading →