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Video Email is
Changing
The Way We Do Business
Video
email is revolutionizing the way we communicate over the Internet.
Why
not harness the power of video in conveying emotion, tone, and energy
while leveraging the flexibility of an email-like system...where each
party can send and view messages at their convenience.
Sending
video messages is as easy as sending email. Most companies offering
this service do so with no special software to download or install.
Just
login to your account, record or upload your video, and send. The
recipient receives the email with a video icon attached, or a link to
click to go to the website where it is loaded.
Sending
video e-mail is a fairly straightforward process involving two main
steps: Creating
a video file and attaching
the video file to
an email.
If you are new to this sort of thing it
might seem intimidating at first, but once you have the basic setup in
place you will find that creating and sending video emails is very
quick and easy.
Common Video
E-mail Considerations
- VMDirect
- one of the pioneering companies of video e mail.
- Helloworld
- more than a simple computer program. One of the leaders in
offering video e-mail services.
- Video
over IP - sending video over over your
Internet connection.
- Video
Chat - be able to see
face-to-face who you are chatting with.
There are
many reasons for wanting to send video by email, from sending video
postcards to providing material for corporate clients.
Record
direct from your web cam or import video from your digital camera and
send to anyone world-wide.
Your email video plays
without downloading the video file.
Place beautiful and clear video in
anybody's email.
The recipient does not need any special
software to view your video.
Video e mail service
providers will allow you to set your webcam's volume, record a message,
then review it and send it along.
As previously
stated the recipient doesn’t get a video embedded in their email,
instead they get a link to view the clip over on a remote web server.
Many
new start-up companies are trying to get in on this emerging
technology.
Some are trying to bring multimedia to email by
adding videos from YouTube and Metacafe, MySpace layouts, glitter text,
Photobucket photos and other popular content to your emails.
Business
Use of Video Email
- Use video e mail to bring content directly
to your visitor's inbox.
- You can easily create campaigns that
provide your clients and customers with multi-video messages.
- Increase
your viewership and strengthen communication with your clients all with
only a few clicks of your mouse.
- You have full control over
the content of your campaigns. Write your own text and select the
videos you want your recipients to view.
- Once sent, you'll be
able to track the viewing statistics of your video e-mail from some
sort
of control center.
- Address a campaign to as many or as few of
your contacts as you wish.
- Easily import addresses from
pre-existing contact lists, and organize clients into groups that
correspond to relevant e-mail campaigns.
For
additional video e-mail
concepts, please check out the related
sections; video
e-mail marketing, VMDirect,
video
email software, video
blogging, Hello
world, video over
IP, broadcast
live video, video
podcast and video chat.
If you are looking for a little more
hands-on
type information, take a peek at the streaming media player,
media
streaming, video
webcasting, how
to stream video,
how to
stream audio and
video
streaming information areas.
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