Music Generating Software (or Online Apps) and “Easy Composing” Apps If YouTube’s own AudioSwap, or the free and royalty-free music available doesn’t meet your needs, you can always make your own. No, wait! You really can! Even if you don’t play an instrument and you can’t read music, you can make your own video soundtracks [...]
Read more »Legal music for your videos, Part 3 — Royalty free music vendors
If you don’t find everything you need in free music for your videos, it’s time to turn to commercial royalty-free music. There are many thousands of choices in royalty free music vendors. The list below is of the ones I think represent the best of the field. I’ve tried to find the ones that [...]
Read more »Free Music That is Royalty-Free But Not Public Domain
The biggest difficulty in getting music for your videos, if either you can’t make it yourself or haven’t the time to create your own, is that it is expensive. There may be a great deal of free music out there these days, but it’s not licensed for commercial use and for making alterations. And that’s [...]
Read more »Are your YouTube videos jailbait? Get legal music now!
This is part one of a series of articles I plan to publish about legally getting and using music for your videos, whether on YouTube or other video sites. In addition to the wide range of entertainment, self-improvement and motivational or inspirational presentations, videos on the web are used extensively for training and tutorials, webcasts, [...]
Read more »Three video series on video marketing for small business
I’ve been following several companies on Twitter. One — eTelligent Strategies — is a marketing consulting company that has been creating some very helpful videos for YouTube. Here is a series of three videos they’ve put together with tips on getting started with successful video marketing. If you like their series, you might want to [...]
Read more »Nature-themed videos, performance and productivity
Studies have shown that being in or observing nature — trees, flowers, lakes, gardens, parks, etc. — helps calm and quiet your mind and lift your spirits. It relieves your stress both physically and mentally. It doesn’t have to be real nature. It can be photos or sketches or paintings or videos. The mind and [...]
Read more »Use tiny videos to inspire, cheer and improve performance or productivity
I’ve written a lot about how emotions affect productivity and performance. I think most of us know intuitively that people who are upset or unhappy don’t perform as well as they do when feeling up to par. It follows that anything you can do to help them feel better will help them to behave better. [...]
Read more »Video – Double Your Reading Speed Now
Well, as you can clearly see, I’ve not been blogging for about 10 days. I’ve also not put any new content on the main section of superperformance.com. It’s not that I haven’t been working and developing content; it’s just been “behind the scenes.” One thing that took up about a week of my time was [...]
Read more »YouTube Marketing Tip Video Recommendation
Tom Antion, a well-known trainer of presenters and marketers, has made a helpful little video he calls “YouTube Marketing Tip.” It’s a wow of a tip. If you’ve been paying attention to recent marketing trends, you know that making and publishing videos on your site and on YouTube can help your site or blog rank [...]
Read more »Website recommendation and sample career video: Howdini.com
Are you familiar with Howdini (http://www.howdini.com/)? It’s a video website with some outstanding, professionally made how-to videos. They are short, but packed with helpful information and education. And the topics they cover are real-world relevant. For example, they have a “career” topic section with videos like: “How To Find A Recession-Proof Job” “How To Ace [...]
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