Problem is, adding videos of any sophistication beyond a headshot is often more than a small business can handle. Learning video production can take a while and with everything else you need to concentrate on, outsourcing video production might be a good idea.

My favorite was the rap version of “Stay at Home Dad,” a video I thought I’d hate judging by its description and thumbnail. But ya know, I gotta do my research so you know where the best video sites are…so I sacrificed and watched. I laughed my ass off. It was very clever and quite a homage to fatherhood.

All that experience taught me that flashiness is what most impresses people when the video is short. In fact, I was often disappointed to realize how flashiness seemed to work irrespective of any other attributes the video had. Personally, I always favored high quality, in-depth content. Well… I had to learn that most people don’t, which is why American Idol has more viewers than a PBS documentary on fish eggs.

Video production for the Internet CAN be easy…depending on what you want to do. It’s also true that video can also seem horribly complicated to someone unfamiliar with the process and I think it is unfair for people selling “How-to Make Video” courses to promise it’s all a piece of cake. Then, when people run into trouble, it’s too easy to get discouraged and feel stupid. It’s not you! Video production can definitely be confusing.

Web Video University has an incredible course you can take online that will teach you everything you need to know about how to make marketing videos for the web. Web Video University has hours and hours of high quality, easy-to-understand video tutorials that you can watch anytime you want over the net.

Co-Video is a web service that lets groups meet in real time using web video. It could enable a family reunion in spite of tremendous distance between sisters and brothers.

If you read my articles, you know I am a techno-groupie who drools at the thought of a lightning-speed video transfer delivery system.

So naturally I was really impressed with covideo and can hardly wait to use it more.