If you are an online entrepreneur or affiliate marketer, your primary goal should be presenting your (or someone else’s) product to potential buyers online or offline. I recently discovered a very useful online tool for compiling your images, video clips and music into a pretty sweet production that looks very much like a music video.
So let me tell you a bit about it and how it could help your business evolve.
Improving much?
How much have you improved (business-wise) in the last few months – or have you been following pretty much the same routing for ages? If the answer is YES, you should definitely be looking for new ways to reach your customers. In this blog post I am going to explain to you how a simple yet powerful online tool can boost your business quality.
So what is it?!
It’s called Animoto! and it is an online tool used to compile images, video clips and sound into a video presentation that will really catch your audiences eye.
What is so special about Animoto?
Instead of just making a plain unattractive slide show presentation, Animoto gives you the power to create videos with impressive and unique transitions between elements accompanied by your own music (or something from their growing sound library).
“Animoto makes a perfect product perfecter.” – TechCrunch
“I was honestly blown away at the quality.”– LA Times
“Promises to usher in a whole new age of video-making.” – Enterpreneur
“A superior slideshow.” – National Geographic
In stead of explaining all the features, I’m going to embed a nice little example I made about 2 months ago with Animoto. Just a short presentation for my Knowledge Reactor website:
Anyone can do this! If you know how to make and arrange folders in Windows, it’s as easy as that! Now let’s get to the important part.
Who should use Animoto?
There are 4 special sections of the Animoto website:
- Animoto for business
Here you can check out some examples of product presentations, service presentations and even videos about entire buildings such as wellness centers and hotels.
- Animoto for photography
A great way you can use Animoto is if you own a photo studio or if you just take pictures for a living. Make attractive presentations and compilations of wedding, conventions, parties and other events. Instead of spending hours trying to learn how to do it with different kinds of software or hiring someone to do them for you, do it yourself! You have full control.
- Animoto for real estate
One of my favourite uses for Animoto! If you are into the real estate business, it’s as easy as taking a couple of dozen photos and a few short video clips of the property. Wish I knew about this a year ago, when I was working on a local real estate website.
- Animoto for a cause
Fight for a cause with Animoto! They actually support non-profit and humanitarian organizations by giving them free pro accounts. How great is that!
After you make your video, you can …
share it on other social networking websites or export it directly to YouTube. There is also an embeding option (like shown above). The best thing ever is that you can download your video in high resolution MP4 DVD-burnable ISO format.
Some of the features like the high-res download and the Animoto watermark removal are only available in the pro account but if you own a business 200-something dollars a year should be a problem, considering the benefits of the tool.
Animoto affiliate program
A great way to make money with Animoto is to refer people to their website with your unique referral links. Not just that someone clicking your referral link benefits you, but it also gives the person who clicked a $5 discount on their all-access pass purchase!
I’d like to share this referral code ENLDZYQW if you are interested in getting that discount, just write it down in the referral box during registration. Another option is to click the “Animoto save $5″ banner above. You can also choose not to use it and try the service for free.
Share your videos!
I hope this post has helped you reach new levels in presenting your business, product or service. Feel free to share your Animoto video links in the comments and write your thoughts.
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@Ileane
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Gordon,
Now that was hot!! I love the video you created, the music was dynamic and the screenshots flowed right along with the beat. I am certainly going to try this tool for my next video. It’s great to be part of a social network (websitebabble forum) where I end up meeting “knowlegable” people like you. Love your site!
@McKnightikus
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That video was just a quick test … it’s pretty much the worst it can look, lol. I’m sure you can do a lot more with it if you took the time and a full length video isn’t that expensive. Last time I checked it was $30 per year for unlimited full length videos or $3 per video.
Removing the animoto watermark is a little bit more expensive but I got no problem advertising them on my videos because they are such a useful service.
I’m happy you stopped by and be sure to share your video link in the comments. Can’t wait to see how you put it all together!
Great! This is My First Visit to your Blog! And I liked This Post!
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@sequencehosting
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Nice find Gordon! Keep up the good posts
This looks good, but I am not the type to let his presentations get too spicey. Animations can be cool but they can also be annoying.
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@McKnightikus
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You have a good point. If you are running a burial service, you might no use Animoto. But I think that even if you do and have a little bit of creativity, you can use Animoto with ANY business no matter how sad, serious or anything else it might be.
It might look very easy but it actually takes some creativity to make it stand out from the crowd.
What business are you in Casey? Are you speaking from personal experience?