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How to Start a Business from Home: Creating a Video Tutorial
by Kevin Bidwell
Published on this site: April 18th, 2006 - See
more articles from this month
Creating a product is usually a labor-intensive task-here's
a quick way to get a product fast and have it ready to market
almost immediately. Create a video tutorial.
Video tutorials can be created in very little time-as little
as an hour-and can be on almost any topic. They're easy and
maybe even fun to make.
Here's how you can create one:
Define your Topic.
Let's say you wanted to create a video tutorial on how
to use Microsoft Excel. That's a pretty long tutorial.
So, before you create the tutorial as a whole, break it up
into just one small task at a time. If you are creating a
comprehensive product, your "lessons" can build
on one another until you have covered the whole topic.
For Excel I might start with a tutorial on "The Basic
Terminology of Excel." Then I might do a second one on
"How to Format a Cell", a third on "Adding
and Subtracting" and so on.
Outline in detail all the steps you are going to work through
in your tutorial.
The key to an effective tutorial is detail. You want to create
your tutorial with "every little step" in place.
Never assume your "student" knows anything.
Creating a clear, step-by-step outline keeps you on track
and helps you to avoid skipping steps which might be unclear.
Download a copy of Camtasia
http://www.techsmith.com/download/studiodefault.asp
At the time of this writing there is a free 30-day trial.
What Camtasia does is create a "film"-with audio
and video-of a section on your computer screen. You can then
use it to make that film into a Flash video, mpeg or streaming
video from your website.
Record your Tutorial.
Shut off the phone, get into a quiet room, tell everyone
you have to be left alone. Follow the instructions with Camtasia
to record and save your tutorial.
Write any supporting materials.
This final step is often overlooked, but it can make the
difference between a great product and a mediocre one.
This is just one of the many easy product creation methods
I have outlined here in my step-by-step, get into business
course.
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Kevin Bidwell owns http://www.All-In-One-Business.com/?a=274293
and has helped over 3,000 people start a business from home.
Visit now to pick up your own free How to Start a Business
from Home guide.
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