So I finally got my 6 part mini series up and running at www.greenguitarguy.com. I’m glad I finally got it finished as it was quite an uphill struggle being that I’m not used to editing and rendering video.
I finally got the files small enough but with good enough quality by using Camtasia to save them as .flv files. However, afer i had done 3 of them, Camtasia refused to render anymore – some kind of bug in Camtasia meant that the video was rendered as a black rectangle and so was useless.
I resorted to the iMovie software on my mac to save as mp4 files which seems to have worked.
Then I uploaded them to my Amazon S3 account and got a wordpress .flv plugin to easily add a player to my blog pages. Remember to change the permissions on you files at Amazon so that they are readable! That one had me puzzled for a few hours.
It’s all over now although I will be doing more videos for the site.
This week I’m going to finish of writing reviews of products that I recommend people check out then I’m wading into the exciting (and possibly costly) world of PPC to get some more traffic.
Currently I’m getting about 10 visits a day which according to some stats I’ve read would result in 1 sale every 3 months. That’s no good!
I’m also looking to get 20 sign ups a day to my mailing list until I have about 1000 subscribers.