Dan Waters
dwaters at usinternet.com
Tue Jun 19 21:10:41 CDT 2007
How about something like: . . . by Susan Harkins, co-author of numerous technical books like: a) b) c) d) and more! Leveraging off of existing authorship is a pretty widespread technique - it gives people confidence that their money won't be wasted. Susan - take a look at http://www.aisb.biz/ for ideas. I use Camtasia to record Help Videos rather than write a Help File. People say they like using them! Perhaps a 5 Minute Help Video for $5.00 (5 For 5!) But make it longer so people are happy! If you can get a review of your site by a major site like CNET (or even a news organization) that would go a long way. Recently one of the local TV news channels here has hired a guy who describes interesting web sites he's found and how to use them. Sounds like free TV coverage to me! Anyway - Good Luck! Dan -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 7:48 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] webcasting A bigger problem might be marketing. Assuming you can get your product up and available for a charge, how do you make this known to your prospective customers? IOW, how do you sell $1 worth of webcast for less than $1 of marketing expense? Rocky -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan Harkins Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 5:40 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: [dba-Tech] webcasting A major web publisher has contacted me twice about creating several webcasts for them on a variety of Office topics. We couldn't come to terms. I'm wondering if this is something I could do myself without a huge outlay of cash? I know someone who would could act as a server for storing the files, so that's not a problem. All I'd have to do is produce the files, upload, and come up with some kind of store front (the store front might not be necessary either). Problem is, I don't know enough about it to know whether to keep investigating. If I'm going to need expensive equipment and software, I'm not going to bother, at least not right now. Seems to me I should be able to produce a simple "movie media" type file and upload it -- but if it were that easy, everybody would be doing it wouldn't they? I'm not really talking about webcasting like uTube. Rather, I'd like to produce downloadable files that purchasers view in their time offline -- rather like an email book. Also, how many of you actually pay for webcasts or similar? Susan H. _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.9.0/853 - Release Date: 6/18/2007 3:02 PM _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com