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5 Reasons to Have Your Video Blogs and Podcasts Transcribed

Carey — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 04:37:15 +0000

Podcasts and video blogs are great for allowing people to express their ideas, opinions and views in a more natural form with facial expressions and vocal tones. They prevent the loss of such visual and vocal cues like sarcasm or anger, which can be misconstrued in the written form. Despite this, there are still many reasons to have video blogs, or vlogs, and podcasts transcribed.

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Search Engine Indexing

One huge benefit to transcribing podcasts and video blogs is because in their audio form, content from podcasts and video blogs cannot be found by search engines. By transcribing these, the written form becomes searchable by search engines, thus increasing the podcast or vlog’s accessibility.

A Wider Market

Simply put, some people simply don’t like listening to podcasts or video blogs and instead prefer to read the information. The instant gratification of visual accessibility of written words may be preferential to certain people; though others may simply prefer the written format because they retain the information better when it is read rather than listened to. By accommodating these people, a podcast or video blog can create a larger following.

Creating Accessible Quotes

Some vlogs and podcasts benefit from being ‘quotable’ and this is even more true when those quoting can easily find the quote they are looking for without having to listen to the entire broadcast. Having quotes around the web on other websites can help drive more listeners and readers to the podcasts or vlogs.

Additional Product

By transcribing a vlog or podcast, the creator has the potential to turn these transcriptions into additional products. This could include eBooks, print books, blogs or other websites. This can lead to additional monetary income through advertising and additional page views as with online publication. Additional products translates into additional income and a larger following.

Personal Reference

Transcripts do not have to be published, but having them on hand can benefit the creator. After so many podcasts or vlogs have been produced, it can be difficult to remember exactly where or if something was said. Having transcripts can help the creator or followers search back to find quotes, references or specific guest speakers.

In short, transcribing a video blog or podcast has a number of benefits. Not only does it create a written record, it also can help promote the podcast or vlog through search engines and create a larger following. It can create additional income for the creator or it can simply be a reference point for future needs.

About the Author: Patty Kleen is a full-time writer with a passion for helping entrepreneurs find their way, no matter what business they’re in. She enjoys writing about personal finance, credit repair, and secure bad credit loans.

Transcription Service for Bloggers By A Blogger

Carey — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:50:29 +0000

Do you know Transcription For Bloggers (TFB) is a transcription service for bloggers by a blogger.

Yes, it is.

I’ve been blogging since 2006 and have built dozens of blogs.

I also make money from Adsense sites I developed and maintain.

It was around 2007 when I realize that my job as a transcriber and my hobby blogging could come together in the form of a transcription services for other bloggers, bloggers who produce audio and video podcasts regularly.

As a blogger myself I understand bloggers’ need for content and how to optimize and reuse the contents they already have.

A podcast transcription service help bloggers to:

Free up time for bloggers
Multiply their contents (from audio/video to text)
SEO (search engine optimize their contents and therefore, their blog or website)
Make money (insert affiliate links within the transcripts of audio/video)
Branding (insert logos within transcripts in PDF or Word format)
Create premium downloadable products (like ebook or reports)

Now, every transcription service out there may be able to do some or all of them. But when you have a blogger (who is also a transcriptionist) who do all that he does all these differently – with a blogger’s mindset. That’s where TFB is different from other transcription services out there.

Podcast Transcription Value-Added Services for You

Carey — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 20:18:37 +0000

Transcriptionist For Bloggers has recently added a few but useful value-added services to help bloggers and online content marketers.

These podcast transcription value-added services are added because a client recently asked for these services.

The podcast transcription value-added services are:

Conversion of transcript to downloadable PDF
Insertion of clickable links
Insertion of graphics (graphics to be provided by you)

These value services are important because these are ways bloggers and online content marketers build authority sites and make money online.

Downloadable PDF transcripts add a premium feel to your content. In fact, it’s only natural your provide downloadable PDF transcipts of podcasts in your paid membership sites. Your customers are happy.

Also these PDF transcripts allows you to brand, promote and market your blog or services via graphic banners or headers inserted within the PDF.

One direct way of making money off your transcripts is to add affiliate links to your transcripts. These clickable affiliate links on your PDF transcript allows you to earn passive money.

Happy podcasting!

Using ID3 Tags for Your Podcast

Carey — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:28:18 +0000

Hopefully, your podcast is going to be widely distributed. It can be distributed via your website, someone else’s website, sites such as iTunes, and more. Because of this, it is important to understand and edit the ID3 tag that gets distributed along with your podcast.

Podcasts are distributed as MP3 files. These types of files contain information about the content, such as the author, known as the artist, the album, the genre, and more. You may think that since you are not trying to become a rock star that this information really doesn’t matter. But it does.

You see sites such as iTunes, and even software such as Windows Media Player, display this information on the user’s end. They even use the information to organize the MP3 files on the user’s machine. This is your opportunity to share vital information with your listeners, to help them keep your podcasts organized on their machines, and more.

Regardless of how your listener obtained your podcast, you want them to know where it came from. So, obviously, you want to include your website address in the ID3 tag. You also want them to know who the author of the podcast is, so it should include your name, and possibly even your company’s name. This is one way to get them to visit your site to listen to more of your podcasts. There is additional information that can be added, but at the very least, the ID3 tag should contain your name and you’re URL!

You can change the ID3 tags before you upload it. Just right click on the file, and choose properties. The ID3 information should be under a tab called ‘additional information.’

If for any reason you can’t edit it in that way, edit it with your media player or iTunes player. Highlight the file, right click, and select Get Info. You can fill in the information here.

Also, don’t forget to include the title of your podcast, the date, and possibly some related keywords. This will not only help with SEO, but it will make it much easier for listeners to organize your podcasts.

Why Have Youtube Videos and Podcasts on Your Blog?

Carey — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 05:44:51 +0000

Many bloggers have started doing Youtube videos and podcasts on their blog – apart from writing regularly on their blog.

Isn’t that too much of an effort?

How does it even matter? If you are writing regularly on your blog isn’t that the most you could do to grow your blog or your brand online?

Turns out posting Youtube videos and producing podcasts on your blog is the smartest move a blogger can make – to build and grow a blog and a brand.

In his post Are Youtube Videos and Podcasting Worth the Effort Pat Flynn gives reasons why his Youtube videos and podcasting are growing his blog and brand….of his income as well.

Youtube is a huge search engine itself and referrals from Youtube to his blog grows significantly from his videos on Youtube
Some came to know about Pat’s blog through his podcast fee on iTunes!
Tapping into iTunes and Youtube brought more subscribers to his blog
Some people prefer listening to reading.
Your brand will shine through with videos and podcasts.

Being a Podcast Transcriptionist and Lovin’ it

Carey — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 06:22:22 +0000

Podcast transcription is my main interest.

Podcasts can be audios or videos of bloggers talking to their audiences or interviews and product reviews. However the bulk of the podcast transcription that I do consists of interview podcasts.

That means that I get to listen to interviews of very cool people before others do.

Also the fact that I’m very much interested in the subjects of discussion really helps. Usually the subjects are niche marketing, building online communities, blogging and site flipping.

Those are subjects that I’m exploring and learning every single day. I read them on blogs and listen to podcasts.

Instead of paying for premium podcasts I get to listen to them and get paid too. How cool is that!

It’s true that people talk much faster and therefore more words to type for a podcast transcriptionist in a recording like podcast because it’s not a dictation.

Podcast audios are meant for listeners, dictations are meant for transcriptionists. So podcast transcription has more words per minute. A 30-min audio podcast could contain as many as 5,000 plus words!

However, in podcasts it’s the people who speak and the content of the podcasts that makes it so interesting and lively and insightful at times.

I hope to apply some of the insights I gain from these podcasts into my transcription business.

So, what are the podcasts you listen to? Do share!

6 Reasons For Podcasting or Video Blogging

Carey — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 16:09:48 +0000

There are actually many reasons why one might want to podcast or to produce a video blog. The reasons are as varied as the people who do it. Some people just want to be heard. Some people want to increase business. Some people just want to draw attention to issues that they care passionately about.

Before you start podcasting or video blogging, it is important to have a good sense as to why you want or need to do it. This reason will have a great influence on the format of your podcast or video blog, as well as on the content that you cover in each type of media.

Here are 6 powerful reasons for podcasting or video blogging:

1. You have a voice – and podcasting and video blogging gives you a platform. There was a time that only media personalities had a voice. The Internet changed this, and although we all had a voice, we weren’t able to use it, because developing a platform was too hard and too technical. That is no longer the case.

2. Podcasting and Video blogging makes you human to others. It is so easy to forget that the person on the other side of the computer screen is in fact a human being. But with the sound of your voice, and/or moving images of you, nobody can doubt that you are flesh and blood.

3. To earn money. If your podcast is good enough, and becomes popular enough, you can earn money either through subscriptions to your podcast, or by selling ad space in your podcast. Money can also be earned by recommending products. Not only that, utilizing podcast transcription service you could repurpose your podcasts into ebook and premium contents like paid email newsletters and paid membership site contents or ecourses.

4. To raise awareness. We all have topics and issues that are important to us. You can use podcasting and video blogging to bring your message to more people, in a more effective way.

5. To teach others. Once, learning was only available in a classroom setting. Education by mail came along and gave us more options. The Internet was invented, and courses were available via email or website, which pretty much gave us unlimited choices. Now, courses are available via podcast and video blog, which still gives us even more choices. Those who had trouble learning just from what they read can now hear and see the course material as well.

6. A podcast or video blog can be a great complement to other forms of media that you are using for your promotions. It is another promotional outlet, regardless of what you are trying to promote.

There are other reasons for podcasting, but even if you can’t think of a reason that suits you, let’s look at the reasons why people actually listen to podcasts and watch video blogs:

• They are busy. They can download podcasts onto their mp3 players and make constructive use of their time when walking, working out at the gym, and waiting in line, driving, etc.

• They like advanced selection. Instead of just listening to a radio station that caters to their particular taste, and being subjected to whatever programming that station throws at them, they can make their own programming choices.

• Some people don’t like to read. Some have a hard time understanding what they read. They want to see and they want to listen, and podcasting and video blogs are an answer to those desires.

• There is a wider selection of entertainment when it comes to podcasts and video blogs. Right now, in terms of watching television and movies, we are limited by what the powers that be in Hollywood or the networks think that we want to see. With podcasts and video blogs, because there is so much diversity in the world, and because anyone is able to blog or podcast, those limitations are removed.

• Like television, people come to enjoy listening to certain podcasts or viewing certain video blogs. They ‘tune in’ week after week for the new content, and they are part of a community that is being built. Those who don’t like your broadcast simply unsubscribe.

• You can listen to podcasts even without an MP3 player, or ipod. They are also accessible via the World Wide Web. Alternately, video blogging can be done in a style that makes it accessible via a video enabled MP3 player, but then it isn’t called a video blog, it is called a vodcast. The point is that the technology is available through a couple of different media devices, instead of just one.

As you can see, there are really numerous reasons as to why one would want to podcast or video blog, as well as reasons why people want to listen to podcasts or watch video blogs.

The bigger question may be ‘why would you not want to podcast or video blog in today’s technologically advanced world?’

3 Reasons to Create Transcripts of Your Video/Audio Contents

Carey — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 02:14:33 +0000

Gigaom recently lists three reasons (well, BTW, I have 11 here!) why you need to create transcripts of your videos or audios online.

Increase the chances of your content being found online
Make your content accessible to more people
Make repurposing your content easier

The article written by Terri Griffith further lists how to get transcripts -

Professional transcriptionists
crowdsourcing
automatic captioning

I think the author is spot-on on all the points.

Podcast Transcription: Transforming Your Message into Money

Carey — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:23:41 +0000

Everybody has a message for everyone.

We all have something valuable to teach others. A message that will help others – to better their lives – financially, physically or spiritually.

And, we all should be able to do just that – help others.

But, more often than not, we’re unable to do that because free advice is ….free. You don’t get paid for giving free advice.

Therefore, it’s good, for both parties, to learn to transform our message into passive income generation tools. It’s your obligation even, to keep making money from your expertise so you can carry on spreading your message.

Information products like ebooks are a hit online because the expert gets paid for his valuable insights and knowledge. While consumers get better products in their hands.

As an expert, you should be able to transform your expertise into passive income sources that brings in the money around the clock. And, as has been proven again and again, information products are doing just that online.

We all know that having free contents on your blog and trying to make some money off Google Adsense doesn’t actually help anyone – either you or your audience. You don’t have the financial security to devote all your time to creating highly quality advice nor does your fans perceive value in your free contents.

Transcription services providers, like TFB, help content producers transform their messages into money. We transcribe your free podcasts for a reasonable price which can then be re-purposed into ebooks, articles and other information products that mints you money passively.

Having your message in different format allows you to reach more and varied audiences and consumers.

Podcast transcription helps you transform your message into money. Money you earn passively with minimal effort.

So, if you love what you do and want to do as long as you can, be smart about it and start utilizing podcast transcription services to transform your message into income.

Just Two Invaluable Resources for Podcast Bloggers

Carey — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 13:27:13 +0000

If you are a podcast blogger whether audio or video and struggling to get the right sound or right video for your blog I’ve just found two truly invaluable blogs.

I have written about how to get a good sound quality for your podcasts but here is a blog on that very topic with very sound advices!

OnlineSoundAdvice.com is a sound advice blog by Christy, who also has a free ebook on sound recording called You Don’t Have to be a Pro to Get Quality Sound. At the very least download her free ebook to improve your sound quality for your podcasts.
OpenSkyVideo.com is a blog by two Emmy Award winner Karen Yaeger. She also has a free ebook, How to Create & Share Quality Video without Spending a Fortune.

Just invest some of your time on these two blogs to improve your audio or video recordings for your blogs to turn your mediocre podcasts into awesomeness!