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Content Marketing & How To Videos

January 8, 2013 //  by Alyson Harrold//  Leave a Comment

Updated March 1, 2025

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Adding Dynamic Content via Screen-casting

If you’ve been working on content marketing for a while, adding unique and engaging blog posts to your website can become a dreaded chore. How many different ways can you say what your business offers? God forbid you post duplicate content, as big brother Google is watching. So what are other ways to add fresh, new content to your website? How about some How To Videos using screen-casting.

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Screen-casting is different than video blogging, as it captures your computer screen. It’s common to see screen-casting in tutorials and product demonstrations. Rather than talking into a camera, you can narrate content while demonstrating it. For example, you can take an excerpt of a PowerPoint presentation you’ve given. Choose a critical concept and parse it down to a 1-2 minute video. That’s a great way to leverage content marketing efforts and present your expertise using a educational focus.

Creating a How-To Video doesn’t need to be an onerous production. All you need is a good microphone and the right software. Here are some free as well as paid products:

Free Screencasting Products

  • Jing – offered through TechSmith, the makers of Snagit and Morae.  This product allows you to capture images on your computer screen and record up to 5 minutes of onscreen video.
  • Screenr – is a web-based screen recorder. Since you don’t install the software on your computer, you can access it from anywhere and any computer (Mac or PC).
  • Screencast-o-matic — a hybrid, this poduct provides an install and web version.

Paid Products

  • Camtasia – this is Jing’s older sibling. At $300, it’s a more robust version that lets you create professional quality videos. It’s geared for PCs, and allows you to cut, splice and combine video clips.
  • ScreenFlow – caters specifically to the Mac user and recently released it 3.0 version.

In his pre-Spectrum Group Online life, Massimo created Advanced Web Analytics training using Camtasia. This example shows you how technical information can be presented in logical bite-sized chunks.

Know of any other screen-casting software products that makes content marketing easier (free or paid)?

Category: Content// Author: Alyson Harrold

About Alyson Harrold

Alyson is Co-CEO and Chief Storyteller. Prior to forming the agency, her career spanned media (NBC-TV affiliates and city magazine, international ad agency) and positions like C-Suite financial services marketer and digital marketing consultant. Alyson learned how the right medium with the right message can attract the right audience. With her team, Alyson helps brands have meaningful customer interactions. Now she teaches those lessons—among others—as a UC Berkeley Extension instructor in her SEO and Digital Marketing courses since 2014. Alyson shares her knowledge as a speaker at preeminent digital marketing conferences around the country like Digital Growth Unleashed and more.

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  1. ron

    December 26, 2016 at 11:37 pm

    I have to say that Jing has too many limitations. Instead, try My Screen Recorder. My Screen Recorder is one of the best screen recording software. It records your screen and audio from the speakers or your voice from the microphone – or both simultaneously. The recordings are clear and look great when played back on your website, uploaded to YouTube or used in your presentation. One thing often overlooked – It will record directly to standard compressed format that works with any video editor or any tool, no conversion required. And, the file sizes are small, making them easy to upload or distribute.
    https://www.deskshare.com/screen-recorder.aspx

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    • Alyson Harrold

      February 21, 2017 at 9:05 am

      Thanks for the recommendation. I’ll check out My Screen Recorder!

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