Copyright 2006 Cathy Linderman

Its cheap, its easy and anyone can do it!

Video streaming, or video on your website, is a major trend for 2006. Website owners are using it all over the internet. It is increasing profit margins for owners by increasing traffic to their site, keeping those visitors on their site longer, and creating higher sales and usage of services on sites.

Its being used by businesses and organizations of all sizes. Video is being used to communicate, train, inform, educate, promote, advertise, sell and market products and services. The benefits are numerous and in one form or another mean increased profits for the owners of those sites!

What do you need to know to put video up on your website?

You can do it all with a camera (digital is best), a computer, a hookup from that computer to camera, and video capture software, or you can invest in professional, production type equipment

Your usage, quality and budget determine your needs

You can do it all with free video capture software provided by reliable well-known providers and get excellent results

You learn how yourself or outsource it if doing major amounts of video for corporate training or communications, or lengthy video streams

You should have a full understanding about video streaming on the internet even if outsourcing (anyone at any level can learn this)

You do not have to rely on expensive monthly providers if only doing a small amount of video on your website this can be done by yourself

It can be used in numerous ways - emails, websites, blogs, articles, directions, and in any type of internet product that uses video

and much more.

Finding a reliable source on the internet is a task in itself. Work with those who are already experts in the field of audio and video streaming (playing audio and video over the internet). There is a lot of excellent, free advice on the internet from reliable sources. Learn all you can from them.

The biggest misconception across the internet is that you have to be a highly technical person in order to add video to your website! NOT TRUE! Anyone can learn how to put video on their websites.

If its a quick short video, you can get some simple, free, downloadable video capture software to do it all for you in a few simple steps and you dont need to learn any of the behind the scenes technical issues. But even if doing short videos you can learn some of the behind the scenes information and do it all yourself and save fees from providers that charge a monthly fee for their service for storing and streaming video.