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Video clinic. One2Flush product video: review, recommendations and suggestions

Today we are launching a series of the HandBookLive video clinics designed to help companies and individuals who are trying to create effective product and service videos. We start with a One2Flush product video, submitted to us by Kirk Bennett on behalf of One2Flush.com. The purpose of this evaluation is to assess how effective this [...]

Making a video to promote your product: Tips and tricks from Barbara Wurden, “Faux Fun, Inc”

HandBookLive continues our series of articles about making  videos to promote and explain your products and services. Today our guest is an artist and a DIY video producer Barbara Wurden, owner of Faux Fun, Inc.  http://wurden.com Barbara Wurden is a fine artist, decorative painter and an instructional video producer. She  received a bachelor’s degree in [...]

Stories and people behind product videos. Safe-T-Sleep Baby Sleepwrap.

Most of us watch product videos to learn about products, but sometimes stories behind those videos and products are so inspiring that it makes you want to  learn more about people who invented the product and brought it to life. We are talking today to Anton Karl Rutherford from Safe-T-Sleep, a company from New Zealand [...]

Making a video for your website. MushroomLand.net story

HandBookLive.com was originally conceived as a site for product videos, but it has quickly grown to become a site that helps people learn not only about products but about services, software, web applications and websites. When we write about creating your own product videos we usually focus on products like cameras, drills, or baby strollers. [...]

How to make product videos. CakeVase® Story

We continue talking to business owners who produced product videos themselves, or had videos produced for them. We ask questions and learn about their experiences, and  we invite you to post your questions   for our guests in the comments section below. Today we are talking to Kathleen Meisinger from www.cakevase.com. Laura Beken: “First of all [...]

How to make product videos. ToweLocs® story.

In these series of articles we are talking to business owners who produced product videos themselves, or had videos produced for them. We will ask them questions and learn about their experiences. You will have a chance to ask your own questions, so please post your questions in the comments section. Today we are talking [...]

Making your own video for your service or products

I want to focus today on making DIY videos for products or services. We usually talk a lot about HandBookLive style product videos but  we are also get questions from people who want general information about creating effective DIY style videos,  so I wanted to address it in this post. HandBookLive  focuses on product videos. [...]

How inventors and small businesses can incorporate video to promote and market their products

Last Thursday we gave a presentation at the San Diego Inventors Forum about how inventors can use online product videos and incorporate video into their marketing mix, and promote their products using the HandBookLive platform. I would like to briefly summarize that part of the talk and share some other information with you as well. [...]

Making your own product video. Steps and examples

As part of our presentation at the San Diego Inventors Forum we covered the basic steps of making your own online product video. So we wanted to go over these steps again and show examples of effective product videos, so you can use them as a template and refer to them when creating your own [...]

Importance of good sound in your video. Lavalier mic demo

Sound is as important as video, and if you go through all the work of creating a video for your product or service, make sure you have good sound. We always recommend doing a voice over instead of trying to talk on camera, but if you need to do it on camera try using a [...]