A few months ago, my friend and client Anthony Sandberg at OCSC Sailing let me use his beatiful club room in the Berkeley Marina overlooking San Francisco Bay to give a two-hour seminar on "Galvanizing Your Business with Buzz." Max Fancher, the owner of Maximize Video Productions, shot and edited the below clip using two high definition cameras. If you're looking for somebody to shoot your corporate video, I highly recommend Max for his creativity, professionalism, and reasonable pricing. You can check out his work here.
If you have a high-speed connection to the Internent, you'll note that the image quality of the below is much better than what you've typically seen on YouTube. Although it has not been widely announced, YouTube now allows the uploading of high quality video. If you're interested in seeing the difference between standard and high quality video as well as how to watch or upload high quality video on YouTube's website, check out this excellent post on Jimmy Ruska's blog.
Small companies, which can't afford television advertising, now have a tremendous opportunity to create buzz for their businesses posting high quality videos to YouTube. Blendtec, a small commercial blender company based in Utah received more millions of views of its YouTube videos (all in low definition) and increased sales 43% in less than a year (see this article in The Wall Street Journal for details). I'm sure that the advent of high quality video on YouTube means that there will be a lot more success stories like Blendtec since YouTube's already huge audience is bound to increase now that watching online videos doesn't mean putting up with grainy images.
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