I’ve always been drawn to the idea of doing some sort of video content for one of my sites. I’ve thought of doing a little news video blog type thing or just random blog posts or focused on a specific topic. But nothing really clicked with me enough that I thought I would be adding any value. Finally, I think I have an idea.
I’ve been doing web development since 1995. Everything from servers to code, graphics to marketing. I’m not an expert on everything, but I know my stuff and I love helping people and teaching others. So I think I’m going to be offering a combination of video types. Free webinars that teach people some of the things I know, and then how to videos. On the how to front, I’ll be specifically answering questions sent to me. I’ll be putting up a form and people can submit questions and I’ll answer them with video showing exactly how to do it. My goal is to create a product from the information I know and give lots of it away for free and charge for some of it in certain formats, like perhaps a printed book or dvd, etc.
I still have some other ideas for videos for some of my other sites too, but video can take a lot of time to process so I’ll be getting into video slowly. I’m in no rush, but I am excited about the possibilities.
Sounds good to me. I want to do video stuff, too. Argh… the battle vs. time.
Patrick, no kidding. That’s my main problem with video, both as a consumer of it and the idea of producing it. It takes more time than other types of content. Just have to figure out a nice formula and get good enough at it that it doesn’t take forever. That, and just starting slow with like a weekly video or something.
But yeah, the time thing is the real killer!
Yeah, exactly. Or as the professionals call it, “workflow.”
I bet you have some real jerks for friends who take up your time asking you to do stuff for their websites and that takes up time that stops you from realizing your video dreams!
I hate those people.
Patrick