Welcome to OpenMyVideo. We think you’re here because you downloaded our iPhone and iPad app–if that’s the case, thank you.
We wanted to write you with the full list of what you get for the next 30 days–because it’s a lot more than just a mobile video app.
[BTW, we have videos that show you everything that is written below. If you're a “watcher,” stop reading here and just watch the videos below.]
Ah, you’re a “reader”? Here’s the deal. For 30 days you get…
iPhone application that allows you to send and share up to 3 minutes of video per send. Keep reading to learn some helpful tips and tricks.
Record videos directly from your computer’s web cam, or upload a video file from a PC, then send your video. Send video emails while you’re test-driving the service over the next 30 days. If you need more, call us!
• Access to the Video Library, where you can upload videos to store, send, and share.
• The Theme Creator, your tool for building a branded web page featuring your content. Use this customized space to share videos, images, links, social info, and attachments. This is your branded landing page, wrapped with your logo, backgrounds, and imagery.
• Address book–upload your contacts in a couple of clicks and easily send them video emails. Group your contacts for effective video email campaigns. (Just make sure to create the group first, then upload your contacts into the right group.)
• Two options for analytics: basic analytics built-in and Google Analytics integrated into our Theme Creator. Just add your Google Analytics ID to your theme. When you login to Google Analytics, you will see your OpenMyVideo traffic and visitors. Use analytics to track the effectiveness of your campaigns.
Still with me? Cool! So you’ve got a little bit of setup to make our system work for YOU. Get going! If you build a theme, record a decent video, blast it out to your people, you will see results. Our video email open rates are more than 25% higher than standard text-based email messages. Get the facts.
Our blog has all the FAQs, but if you need us, just email help@openmyvideo.com. Tell us what we’re doing right–and especially tell us what we’re doing WRONG. We are in the business of helping your business. If you have suggestions or issues about OpenMyVIdeo, email kendall@openmyvideo.com. Keen-eye Kendall is a stickler for details, so tell him the type of computer you use, the browser, the file type of your video, any details that will help us troubleshoot.
A Few Final Notes
Mobile video – first off, it’s complicated. We encode (fancy word for format) for iPad, iPhone, Blackberry, Android, and all types of browsers. Our iPhone app works best when you send videos that have been previously recorded to your video/photo gallery. We offer a record “on-the-fly” option, but many different factors can affect upload. We’d rather you film with the standard camera application that comes with the iPhone and use our application to send your video. Frankly, mobile and wi-fi networks can time-out, calls can get dropped–things can be beyond our control. But if you record with the standard camera app, you will save a video locally that you can send using OMV when you’re ready!
Creating a theme for your personal videos is the fastest way to promote yourself, a brand, company, product, or charity. Our theme creator allows you to surround your personal video with additional videos, images and web links to your most important marketing messages. If you want to drive traffic to your e-commerce site, place an image in one of the lower boxes of your product. Then add your products web page URL in the link box below the image. When a user clicks on the image it will take them to your product. Awesome, right?
If you have other videos, let’s say a professional commercial or TV interview, add the video below. It will play directly in our player and your customer will instantly have more information about what you do.
It’s easy to change the background, font, and logo of the theme. Just follow the instructions below and you’ll have a theme in less than 15 minutes. We know how powerful the themes are, if you don’t take advantage of the lower information boxes, we will auto-magically add OpenMyVideo.com content to them. SO, get busy and build your custom theme now!
Thank you for using OpenMyVideo, check out our BLOG/FAQ section for how-to videos about our site. We want to be your friend, LIKE US on FACEBOOK, and we’ll send you an OpenMyVideo t-shirt. You can also follow our madness on TWITTER. Actually, we even post videos on that other video site..
Looking to enhance your SEO efforts? According to this new piece at AmEx’s Open Forum, the key to earning Page 1 status on Google is adding search-engine-optimized video to your home page.
This isn’t surprising, but it does show just how important the smart use of video has become for business. If you’re making web video part of your marketing budget—and you should be—then achieving Page 1 on Google sure is a solid return on investment.
As you can tell we’re talking about video, again. But we’re not the only ones…
Great article by: By Matt Hamblen
With a smile and a few handshakes for reporters, Cisco CEO John Chambers launched into a 45 minute presentation at the CES show on Wednesday describing the future of video over networks.
“Who would have thought a decade ago that Cisco would be here talking about consumer products and video?” Chambers asked with a chuckle. “It is video that changes everything.”
For two years at least Chambers has been beating the video drum, talking about how annual growth in video traffic over networks will be 200% or more.
But in recent months he has become decidedly more personal in his appeals to the value of video, noting that consumers relate to video of family and friends because of the “experience, and not the technology.”
At the Wednesday presentation, Chambers described new video in-home telepresence technology that will be trialed in the U.S. this spring, with Verizon Communications as an early partner. Cisco will provide set-top boxes and cameras, but consumers will be able to use their existing HDTVs, he noted.
In his talk, Chambers focused heavily on the intimate nature of video technology, using examples from his own family. On a screen, he showed short video clips he took with a Flip camera of his family boat excursion near Hawaii, showing whales surfacing in the ocean his wife racing down a zip line in a jungle in Costa Rica.
OK, folks, a couple of things about sending a video and actually getting it to your intended viewers:
1. If you simply attach a super-large movie file to an email, most anti-virus programs will treat the message like it’s a virus. Now, I’m all for viral marketing…but your movie will NEVER be seen in quarantine.
2. Large files are often blocked by ISP’s. Again, your movie–the really great one you made about your company and all your company’s cool products–will never be viewed.
3. Ready to send your expensive new marketing video using your normal email program? Let’s put it this way: The Outlook is not good for your video ever getting seen. Why? Spam programs monitor the number of recipients you list in a single email and toss the message to the JUNK folder if you’ve got more than a handful of recipients. You don’t want a big chunk of your marketing budget junked.
