How to Create a Demo Video

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The Speaker Lab

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4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

One of the most common topics people ask me about is how to create a demo video. To dive into this topic our co-host, Ms. Melanie Diezel, is returning for episode 203.

This is an important part of building your speaking business and your brand so we're dedicating an entire show to it.

Today, Melanie and I will walk you through the best practices to keep in mind for your demo video, how to actually create your demo video with or without footage, and our best technical tips and software suggestions even if you aren't technically-oriented.

There's a lot to get to so tune in to hear it all on episode 203 of The Speaker Lab!

THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:

Why your audience is key when you are creating your demo video.
How and why to use B roll and voiceover in moderation.
How can you layer in photos to show diverse experience?
What is one of the easiest ways to punch up your demo video?
What do you do if you need footage?
What are some ways to hold people's attention throughout your video?
Can you shoot your entire video using just an iPhone?
Why your title and description of your video are also important.
And so much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, friend, are you looking for ways to book more paid speaking gigs?
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0:41.1	We look forward to seeing you on the live training.
0:50.0	Hey, what's up, my friends?
0:51.1	Graham Baldwin here.
0:51.7	Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast.
0:53.4	We are glad you are here. Glad you are joining us here on episode 203. And today we have brought back, Ms. Melanie Diesel, who is our co-host, who joins us for several episodes from time to time. And she is back. Today we're going to be talking about all things demo videos. All right. We get a lot of questions about demo videos. Demo videos are very important for you as a speaker. So we're going to walk through some, we're going to walk through today best practices for demo video. We're going to walk through how to create your demo video. If you don't have any footage, that's a question we get all the time. We're also going to talk through our best technical tips and software for creating your video, even if you're not a
1:28.0	tech nerd. So a lot to get to here today. Now, before we get to all of that, we do have a free
1:33.6	guide if you have not checked out before. You definitely want to check out. It's a free guide with
1:37.5	seven proven steps to finding and booking paid speaking engagements. Again, seven proven steps
1:41.6	to finding and booking paid speaking engagements and
1:44.2	you can download that totally for free by going over to the speakerlab.com slash guide again that's
1:50.1	the speakerlab.com slash guide make sure that you check that out all right without any further ado
1:55.3	let's get right into it here's our conversation with melanie talking all about demo videos enjoy
2:05.3	hey what's up my friends grant baldon here welcome back to the speaker lab podcast today joined once again by my lovely
2:10.3	co-host miss Melanie diesel how are you today good good good I'm glad to be back
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