{"id":1439,"date":"2008-05-02T11:09:17","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T11:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/index.php\/video-tour-of-your-website-will-impress-journalists-others\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T14:07:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T14:07:42","slug":"video-tour-of-your-website-will-impress-journalists-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/public-relations\/video-tour-of-your-website-will-impress-journalists-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Video tour of your website will impress journalists, others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/camtasia-stuido-50.jpg\" title=\"camtasia-stuido-50.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/camtasia-stuido-50.jpg\" title=\"camtasia-stuido-50.jpg\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" width=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/redcarpet.jpg\" hspace=\"7\" alt=\"Red carpet tour\" height=\"150\" \/>One of the best ways to use video\u00a0for publicity is to give visitors to your website the red-carpet treatment by taking them on a video tour of your site.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m creating a video right now for that very purpose, using <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000HCW6YE\/002-5488015-2629600?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thepubhou-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=B000HCW6YE\" rel=\"noopener\">Camtasia Studio 5.0.<\/a>\u00a0It&#8217;s a software program that captures whatever is on your monitor screen. The screencasts can be saved in a range of formats, including Flash, WMV, AVI and QuickTime.<\/p>\n<p>The latest version, by the way, is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.idg.com.au\/review\/techsmith\/camtasia_studio_5_0\/221020\/\" rel=\"noopener\">far superior <\/a>to Camtasia 2.1. One of the coolest features is the writing tool, so you can actually &#8220;write&#8221; on the screen with a red marker. Or change the color if you wish.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m experimenting by starting my video with a &#8220;talking head&#8221; clip of me in front of my computer screen, created with my Flip Video camera, then segueing to the Camtasia video tour. Come to think of it, a video tour would be equally helpful at a blog.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Welcome to my website&#8221; video idea is one of several ideas for using video that I&#8217;ve explained in my new article <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Amateur video can propel your publicity campaign, search rankings.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What does placing video at your website have to do with getting publicity? Several things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>If journalists visit your site and see a helpful video that leads them by the hand and takes them through your website, they will be more inclined to stay.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Ditto for visitors who aren&#8217;t journalists.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>The more journalists are impressed with your website, the more inclined they will be to cover you.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Any tour of a website should certainly include a short explanation of your press room. This is the place where journalists can find what they&#8217;re looking for quickly. And if you&#8217;re smart, your press room will explain all the ways you can help journalists, like mine does at the bottom of the page.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stay tuned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best ways to use video\u00a0for publicity is to give visitors to your website the red-carpet treatment by taking them on a video tour of your site.\u00a0 I&#8217;m creating a video right now for that very purpose, using Camtasia Studio 5.0.\u00a0It&#8217;s a software program that captures whatever is on your monitor screen. The\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/public-relations\/video-tour-of-your-website-will-impress-journalists-others\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":3,"wds_primary_category":606,"footnotes":""},"categories":[606],"tags":[281,59],"class_list":{"0":"post-1439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-public-relations","7":"tag-press-kits","8":"tag-video","9":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41563,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions\/41563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}