Using My Video Talk to Do a Live Broadcast

Even if you have never done a live broadcast and have no technical experience, My Video Talk has made it very simple and user friendly for people of all backgrounds. In this day and age, live broadcasting is an important tool especially for people doing business around the globe.

Follow these steps to begin making use of My Video Talk's Live Broadcast:

Step 1. Customize your broadcast to go with your brand. To do this you simply log in and just click "settings". Here you will be able to enter important information about your business including your business name, a description of your business, relevant keywords, and your Time-Zone. This section also allows you to select the background color for the header.

Once you enter the information, you will want to upload a company logo. Your logo dimensions should be 300x80 or 225x60. Then type the website address you want people to be taken to if they click on the logo.
You can then upload a banner. Your banner dimensions must be 468x80. Just as you did with the logo, type in the url you want people to be directed to if they click on the logo.

When you are pleased with the look click submit settings.

Step 2. This is an optional step that you should use only if you will be using slides or video in your live broadcast. Click "Content", create a new folder and upload your video.

Step 3. Click on "Broadcast" and then simply click "new broadcast". Select your broadcast schedule. Make sure you set the duration longer than the actual time of your planned broadcast. 2 hours is encouraged, this is valuable in the event you go over the time you initially had in mind. Click submit and then select the broadcast link.

Step 4. Log in, click broadcast, click invite more participants, click invite by email, enter the email addresses and click the plus sign to send your invitations. You can also just copy and paste the link and send by way of your own email account.

Step 5. Click on start broadcast and you should at that point see yourself on your web cam. If you cannot see yourself, merely right click over the video section and then click on settings to be sure the web cam you are using is set as default. You will see an icon of a lock to secure your audio. A green microphone on your video indicates that your microphone is on and viewers can hear you.

To share the content you uploaded in step two just select content.

Congratulations! You are now an Internet Superstar broadcasting live.

My Video Talk Live Broadcast includes additional features not covered here, such as the capability to share your desktop, bring on other people into your live broadcast, display whiteboards, file share, and surveys.

Tips to Make Captivating Videos

Two things to consider when making a video.

1. Content
Most people use the web cam on their laptop and just record them randomly blabbing about something for 10 minutes and it's just rediculus. If you can't have some hard hitting information for 1 to 2 minutes... then you probably shouldn't make a video. Think of your video as the heading for a news paper article. It's just there to grab attention and then your website text should continue the conversation. It's been proven that websites that have videos on them have people stay on those sites longer then websites with out. So that's good to know. But a pathetic video just like a pathetic website will have people clicking away just as fast as they came.

2. "The Look" (audio video)
Video Part 1: Hey, I don't want to be the guy who sounds so superficial but... not everyone should be on video. NO ONE should do video unscripted and unprepared. With that said, I've seen way to many videos of some guy talking about how he's going to help me make millions of dollars when it looks like he's a middle aged guy sitting on his 80 year old grandmas couch. I mean COME ON! who else is with me on this one. If you are going to be talking about how you are going to help people make all this money. You better have a background that is either a blank white wall, with no holes in it or you should get a back drop. A black sheet, or something that looks like you planned it.

Video part 2: Buy a camera, and you can pick up a lite version of some kind of video editing software or use windows movie maker. It's on most PC's. I personally use a mac and iMovie which is the mac equivalent of windows movie maker, but it's WAY better. Combine that with iLife... which is an upgrade plugin and NOW you can do green screen videos. WHICH are way cool. If you really want to make your videos look great get a mac, a green screen, a bunch of lights and go to it. Then you can make whatever background you want.

Audio: Does your video look great but sound like crap. that's no good either. When buying a video camera buy one with a good mic. Read the reviews and or buy an additional mic. Mic's can be expensive, mine is 200 dollars for the lapel mic and it's not exactly great. I should have just spent the 300 bucks and bought a professional grade one instead of the pro-sumer one. Don't get crazy, you don't need a 3000 dollar mic but a few hundred bucks and your golden. B&H is a great place to buy those kinds of items or eBay. Remember, that no amount of looking good will over come poor audio. It's also not a bad idea to lay down a little background music, but be careful there not to over power the audio from the person speaking.

I hope this helps someone just getting started in video marketing.