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Article to Video and Audio Services

Are you using video articles and audio articles yet? Are you missing out on using your article content to full advantage?

Video Articles: We write an article for you, just as in normal article marketing, and you send us images or screenshots you want used with the video.

Then we produce a short video that summarizes the article, shows some images and screenshots, with special transitions and effects where needed.

And of course your website URL is placed throughout the video to drive traffic to your website. You receive both the video and written version of your article.

You can use it in your website and embed the video to play automatically or when the user clicks the play button. In addition to that, you can submit them YouTube.com to promote your website.

By submitting the written version to article directories and the video version to YouTube, you more than triple the effectiveness of one article.

And there is a link to the video version of the article from the article itself so users will be more tempted to visit your website and watch the video instead of reading the article.

Additional Note on video article distribution: For an additional $40 per article, we will do 100 social bookmarks to the article location to increase its’ exposure. An additional $20 gets you 100 social bookmarks to the video as well.

Video Articles start at $149 each. If you provide an article that we previously wrote for you, we can reduce the cost by $30. All questions or ideas on how you would like to develop more uses for this service are welcome.

Audio Articles: We create an MP3 Audio version of your article. It is not intended to be word for word, but more of an abridged version or summary touching on all the points you want to make to your readers.

People can’t read your article while surfing the web or working, but they can listen to it. Cost: $60. Average Completion Time: 10 days.

Call us at 786-317-8774 for more information.

Will Video Articles Ever Catch On?

You’d think that with the popularity of sites like YouTube and DailyMotion there’d be a bigger demand for video articles. I’m curious if you think that this might actually catch on.

Article marketing has enjoyed a rich past. Even before the Internet, savvy marketers were able to attract new customers by writing for trade journals and such. This idea took off online in the early 1990s when those marketers started using articles to promote themselves online. They’d publish their articles on other websites and soon that idea took off with the advent of article directories. By 2003 there were thousands of article directories online.

In 2005, YouTube sprung to popularity and video content became the new article marketing. YouTube, DailyMotion, and other sites like these became very popular destinations and once again savvy marketers used what was popular to deliver their marketing messages. YouTube today is one of the best places to present value-added content.

My idea of video article marketing is to take an article already written and simply have it read, or “acted”, by a pleasant and attractive personality in a video format. The person on screen simply reads the article so that it doesn’t appear they are reading. He or she is talking the article, giving a presentation. Why couldn’t this kind of content as an onsite supplement for website content? I’m thinking specifically about information-rich sites like Wikipedia and other sites where people go to for information. Do you ever see a time when that kind of content is supplemented with videos as a means to draw in readers who don’t want to read?

And Now For A Little Political Humor

John McCain makes everyone – including Barack Obama – laugh:

And now from Barack Steve Obama:

Too bad they were reading from speeches.

But I do, I really do, I like speech writers. They have a lot in common with article writers. Except that our punch lines are limited to 700 words.

Will Video Articles Fly?

I see people more and more creating videos and posting them online. And they’re not all on YouTube. Can you do article marketing with video?

Well, it’s a difficult question because technically every video of someone talking about a topic could be considered a video article. But that’s not likely what most people think about when you mention video articles. My idea of a video article is where you take an article you’ve written and turn it into a video. That is, you can read from the article directly in front of a video camera or you read through an article with paraphrases as you speak – in other words, not a verbatim speech.

OK, so you can talk in front of a camera. What can you do with these video articles? Well, you can post them to YouTube, but you can also post them on other video sites as well: Google Video, Yahoo Video, MetaCafe. You can also post them on your own site. I’ve seen videos that were uploaded to someone’s website and that were not embedded from YouTube or Google. You have to have a particular type of plugin or embed device to do that, but it’s possible. And it is additional content for your website.

One strategy that I like to consider is taking your article and reading that article in front of a video recorder then uploading the article and the video of you speaking to your website. This gives your readers a chance to read your article while allowing others to watch you reading or just listen to you read while doing something else.

Video articles haven’t really taken off yet. But they will.