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Online Videos Help Your Business Grow

Video email and other visually related online tools are the wave of the future for businesses across the globe. Having the ability to access and display video footage of your business on the web is an ideal way to get customers interested in your products and better yet, be impressed with your marketing abilities. Small businesses who are unsure of what they need to do or how they can use or profit from today`s new online video creation and distribution tools have two new places to turn for answers beginning this week.

Internet Consultant, Liz Micik, today announced the launch a new website, Use Video Online.com and that she will offer classes open to anyone interested in learning more about how to profit from online video use. Right now, anyone with a PC, an Internet connection and a webcam can switch from text to videoemail, easily post videos on websites and even create and broadcast their own live TV programs. But creating your own video that will help drive sales, or teach a customer how to do something, is a totally different story. You can`t just do it, you have to do it right.

Micik has gathered links to more than 20 examples of streaming videos created and used by businesses on the Use Video Online website. Only one was shot and edited by a professional videographer, though many are intended for use as company commercials. Another is a half hour long documentary that aired on cable TV. Micik`s favorite example, however, literally is a home movie. It comes from a realtor who refuses to pay for the professionally produced virtual home tours available through video specialists in her area. Instead, Ms. Charmaine Hornick of Las Vegas, NV, relies on a friend to hold the camera while she personally walks through a home tour. Hornick says her use of video alone has helped her sell more than 16 houses.