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Whilst I do not truly expect visitors to my blog after all of the changes to Google SERPS
since the Empower network launched 2 years ago, there is a chance in the months to come
after I've written a couple of hundred posts, that visitors will come, and that they decide
to look at my early posts.
I believe that it's important to follow the Empower teachings and blog everyday.
WHY DO BLOG POSTS EVERY DAY?
For me, it's more of a mindset thing, than a traffic generation project. I haven't worked
for anyone else for 9 years now and to tell the truth, during the past 2 years the only
time I leave the house is for medical appointments.
I'm much happier tucked up in my room, hidden from the real world, and just type messages
to the few friends that I have on Skype.
When you have a job you have to do tasks everyday and there are no excuses.
It's not a choice if you don't want the boss breathing down your neck.
When you work from home its always a decision to do the tasks, so it's super easy to just
waste your time doing things that you enjoy rather than tasks that you have to do in order
to pay the bills.
Now that I'm at least trying to write blog posts everyday, I might as well try to encourage
people to read them.
Who knows? They might even enjoy them!
I know that video marketing works much better than SEO marketing and the traffic on YouTube
is huge!
It has become one of the world's top search engines in its own right.
Given a choice, I would much prefer to watch a "How to" video than to read a blog post
or article.
I've never enjoyed reading much!
Mainly because I can't scan read so I read very slowly.
I have to get every detail straight in my mind so I will reread sections that I didn't
quite understand.
This includes fictional stories which are probably my favorite type of reading material.
Anyway, after my last blog post, I decided to promote my blog posts on YouTube.
How exactly do you turn blog posts into a video?
You may well ask! Although at first, that's exactly what I was wondering about as well.
I have fantastic Text to Speech software from Ivona. Their voices are the best that I have
ever heard but they are not very good at marketing themselves so I am certain that Ivona.com
will not be the first company you find when searching for TTS Software.
Now, I do not mind recording my own videos but they take me longer than writing blog
posts as I have to edit them afterwards, and take out all my "um", "ah" and long pauses.
Also I prefer to live in my underwear, so I'd at least have to get dressed once everyday
to record them.
I have got software that automatically creates videos by combining the audio with random
pictures but they are pretty boring to watch.
I knew from my previous marketing that puppet videos and whiteboard videos convert extremely
well.
So I decided to track down a piece of software that I first became aware of a few months
ago. It's called Crazy Talk.
Now the company that makes it also has a 2D and 3D cartoon software, so I downloaded the
trial versions of Crazy Talk and Crazy Talk Animator to see which I preferred.
The two videos within this blog post have a watermark because I haven't purchased either
of them yet.
Both are similar in price and Crazy Talk (which just animates the head) is much simpler and
easier to use for the purpose of simply pasting my blog posts into and generating a video
within 30 minutes.
Now that I have worked out how to use it the process is 15 minutes, but the rendering takes
about 70 minutes for a 700 word article.
I could also get away with the basic version which is much much cheaper and adequate for
my purpose, even though the expressions and facial movements are not as good.
If I was going to spend $190 on software then I would probably go for the Pro version of
Crazy Talk Animator which really is able to create a cartoon with moving body parts and
has much better scenery.
The free trials last 15 days so I'll play with the software a bit more and see which
I end up liking the best.
Although my lack of finances will surely dictate that I will get the cheapest.
Please post your comments below.