Wondered if you do any screen cast videos or mp3 recordings?

If you do and are like me, it can be really difficult to narrate and intelligently talk about a subject, product or service on the fly! Sometimes I spend a half an hour editing my audio files for videos…drives me absolutely crazy

If only I were 1/2 the orator of our new president….Mr. Obama. I’m not saying I like what he says, but man, is that guy slick or what? I don’t care if you hate his politics, you have to admit that his words flow smoother than silk!

What’s Barak Obama’s secret?

His Teleprompter!!! He reads the words from a screen placed in front of him. His effectiveness comes in the intonation and other reading reflections used in his presentations. Did you ever listen to him try try to speak without a teleprompter…. it’s really ugly, in fact he sounds worse than me.

Well for those of us internet marketers who do screen cast videos, audio recordings or any type of voice recordings my friend Quentin Brown has one of the most awesome solutions. He has a software application called MSIprompt which is a desktop telemprompter. It has all kinds of cool features allowing you to sound just as good as Barak Obama! Check out the video below:

There are so many different uses of audio that it’s important to create quality recordings if you expect people to look at you as a professional and someone they should take advice from. I can’t believe MsiPrompt is sold so cheaply because it has the power to add some serious cash to your paypal account. Heck, if you can’t think of any ways to use audio, use the teleprompter and load in some articles on a popular subject, read 4 or 5 articles, load up the mp3 to youtube, file sharing services, ipod, you could even run a warrior wso and sell the audio with resell rights….sky’s the limit

Here’s some of the features you’ll find in this desktop teleprompter:

Unlike many other teleprompters it allows you to record your audio right inside the program while viewing the scrolling text.

Yes you can get free recording software, and we will give you one of the best on the market, but have you ever tried to juggle word and a recorder. Believe me it is not that easy.

MSI Prompt allows you to simply copy and paste your chapters or articles and then scrolls the text at the rate you choose and you read. Even people who are not good readers normally can do this.

New Feature – Due to many customers requests we have also now made the scrolling accessible with hot keys. By using the arrows on your keyboard you can control the scrolling speed.

Just click on the scroller area and your ready to adjust up and down speeds with your keypad.

Because all the controls and the text are in the one screen you can adjust all the features in real time.

No need to compile and restart.

You can change the font size to suit your preferences instantly
You can change the colors of the text.
You can change the colors of the background
You can adjust the speed of scroll
You can pause, stop or restart at the click of a button.
It is a set size for PC only.
Updated Features Added for Professional Version

1. High Quality Mp3 Encoder Added ( LAME) with full Voice capturing feature.

2. Asks for File Overwrite Both for Mp3 and Text Editor

3. Hit Space to Pause Scrolling. Hit Space again to resume.

4. Hit Escape to hide tool bar. Hit Esc again to show.

Available for PC only.

Quentin and his family are doing some fantastic work in Thailand and your purchase will help them continue their work and help the folks in Thailand.

I also might add, join Quentin’s list. He’s been online for quite a while and is one of those internet marketers you can trust and learn from….tell him Scott says “Hi”!

So the next time you fire up Camtasia and start to create some screen capture videos, try using your own MsiPrompt desktop teleprompter….. I promise it will make a big difference!

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I ran across a great tool you can use to create manuals, html instructions, or pdf instruction manuals. It’s accomplished by a product called ScreenSteps. If you need to explain your products or procedures this is the perfect tool for you and there are two versions, the cheaper version is less than $20 and the full version is less than $50 and there is a free 30 day trial.

This really is perfect for anyone looking to teach and inform others. You can believe how fast you can put an instruction sheet together with screen shots and the text needed to explain. The screen shots can be edited….this really has a ton of features and just might be exactly what you’ve been looking for.

ScreenSteps helps you turn screen captures into documentation that your users will love to read. The tutorials and documentation you create will be easy to follow and easy to keep up to date. Easy for you. Easy for your users. And best of all, it is the fastest documentation tool available.

You can find ScreenSteps

Check out the video below:

Tags: tutorial guides, html tutorial, screensteps, pdf tutorial

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Did you ever wish you could add a resource box to a batch of articles, how about some random keywords or maybe an affiliate link to each article snippet? Well….you need an article snippet maker!

How about adding some keywords to your articles so you can maintain a proper keyword ratio?

Now, what if you wanted to make those keywords into anchor text hyperlinks?

How about creating article snippets of text from a batch of articles? Let’s say you have folder of articles and you want to randomly create keyword rich snippets of 3 to 6 sentences….or maybe you’d rather have 100 to 200 words….or maybe you’d rather have 1 paragraph article snippets…..and then how about adding a keyword title, and a keyword hyperlink at the end of the article snippet.

So….what if you could take 20 txt articles about 500 words each, create snippets of 3 to 6 sentences and add keywords to those article snippets and even make those keywords into in anchor hyperlinks?

What would you do with such an article snippet?

How about automatically rotating your article snippets on each of your webpages? This would help with the duplicate content situation. If your keywords were affiliate links….you might even make some extra cash……you’d make a lot more than with google adsense!

Lucky you….here’s an application that can do everything I mentioned plus a whole lot more. It’s called Article Infuser and I say you’re lucky because I paid for it and you can get it free!

Grab a copy and think of how you might be able to use it to manipulate your articles and create content the is a little more unique than everyone elses. If you’ve been looking for a tool to create article snippets this is it…..you won’t believe how much it can do!

I forgot to mention if comes with 2 other applications….Keyword Infuser and Easy Web Spider.

Get your copy of Article Infuser before they take down the page!

Tags: easy web spider, article snippets, article infuser, keyword infuser

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Are You Someone Who Thinks Popups are Dead?

Ok, if you’ve been an internet marketing for any lenght of time, then you know….

Customers and website visitors are just completely burned out with Pop-Ups, Fly-Ins, and Pop-Unders!!!

So That Means, if you are using any of these techniques to capture your website visitors or entice them to buy something…..well, they’re probably running from your site like A Bad Smell!

Advertising Is Supposed To Attract More Sales – Not Scare Them Away, Right?!?

– Well, you need to know about the Ultimate, Non Intrusive, Cutting-Edge, Most Incredible Advertising Method Available Today…

You’ve seen them before on expensive sites…because they work and are called “Peel Away Ads”, you’ve just gotta see it to believe it.

Check this page out and look up in the top right corner, that pretty much explains it all without saying another word:

Give Peel Away Ads Version 3 a try….you’ll be amazed at what will happen to your selling and opt in statistics.

You can put that up on your site for next to nothing and increase your conversions like never before. This is a completely new version which allows you to rotate ads….allowing you to sell space on your site, or just promote 4 different products.

Judicial use of any type of intrusive product will always product results and Peel Away Ads Version 3 won’t disappoint you. It’s easy to use and you don’t have to be a programer to use it.

Your purchase is guaranteed, but I can bet you will make Peel Away Ads one of your most used tools!

Tags: peel away ads, peel away version 3, pop ups, unblockable popups

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How to search and replace for multiple webpages.

I made a forum post to help a fellow who was looking to do the following and thought it might help my readers looking to quickly make changes to existing webpages without having to do it manually…here’s the question.

Let’s say I want to add a new link to my menu on all my 10,000 pages of my site.

Anyone know of a software that automates this task? I did hear about one years ago… but forgot the name.

Karl…I use a simple program called search and replace, its freeware and you can find it at http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/utility/search/

If your menu is confined to a snippet of code you can use the software to located that snippet and replace it with the new menu snippet.

As someone else mentioned, I’d find the snippet for the menu and then replace the snippet with a php include. This would bring the code in from an external file. This would also allow you to make changes to one file and have those changes show up on every page automatically.

Word of caution. Once you change something with this software there is NO UNDO! So copy a folder and practice before you actually use it.

Also, the way it works…is that you locate the folder that your webpages are in and tell it to look for “something” to replace with “something” If you use your local folder, make the changes you can upload and overwrite the existing files….so you won’t have to download all 10,000 pages.

I would just stress that you want to make sure you understand how it works before making changes on 10,000 pages….please experiment by creating a folder and adding/copying a few of the pages you want to change. Try the program to see if you can make it do what you want it to do before doing all 10,000 pages

Good luck

Scott

Tags: free software, search and replace, adding webpage content

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How to Record Webinars and Capture Audio

I record webinars for my own use with Camtasia screen capture software. Webinars have become more and more popular, there are even some webinar applications that produce audio without having to dial into a phone line.

One of my subscribers wanted to know how to set up Techsmith Camtasia so that you record the screen and audio. One way is to record the screen the normal way and use your microphone by placing next to a speaker. This method works but the sound is less than perfect.

There is a better way to record the audio, by tweaking some of Camtasia’s features you can record directly from the sound card on most computers. Below I outline how I record both screen and audio from the computer.

To set up Camtasia…open up a page with video, maybe a youtube video. Use
Capture from the Camtasia Recorder Application

Choose Wizard at the very bottom.

Click on Region of the Screen (make sure record audio is ticked at the
bottom)the click on Next

Click on the Select Region Button and drag it over the area you want to
record.

Click Next

Since you’re using the Wizard to set the recording up you will get some
audio options. After you determined the recording area and then come to
Audio Settings.

For Audio Device:—-> click on the drop down arrow and check your audio or
sound card

For Audio input source —-> use the drop down and get Stereo Mix……..

The video on the page you’re recording must be playing. Check the input
level bar on the right. you should see a green bar moving up and down. If
not:

—try moving the slider up
—if still doesn’t work try changing the input source
—if the input bar has yellow and red move the slider down or the audio
will be distored.

Experiment with a few video sites until you get your settings right….then
write them down! Can’t tell you how many times I forgot and had to figure it
out all over again.

Hope that helps.

Tags: techsmith, screen recording, record audio, camtasia

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