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In the next lesson we will look at Front and Back Music.

Best Of Success,

Quentin Brown
Chairman

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 Have you ever tried to communicate with another person using just actions and sign language? It gets pretty frustrating, doesn’t it? Especially when you know that if you could just SAY a few words, they’d get the picture, almost instantly.

Well, imagine if the website you’ve put up on show… could "speak". If it could sparkle with the spoken word. What do you think the effect could be?

You see, what the smart website marketers have realised, is that they need to move beyond just written words and striking graphics. They’re looking to giving their website… a ‘personality’.

BUT… in the cold hearted, faceless world of the internet, being able to reach the audience you want, with sincerity, warmth and with a ‘face’, doesn’t come easily to most.

That is unless you happen to have the skilful knack of knowing what to write, when to write it and are able to string words together to help paint a strong emotional picture in readers minds for your product, service or idea.

Getting all the help we can via other means is crucial in giving us that slight edge.

There’s possibly nothing more intimate, more convincing, more realistic for the reader, than to hear a ‘voice’ behind the website. What it adds, is satisfying helpings of…

LIFE and… CREDIBILITY!

Imagine being able to connect at regular intervals with your customers and clients! How do you think they’ll feel when you’re able to inform them that there’s an exciting offer about to happen and you make sure the message reaches both their eyes, and their ears!

What about using this simple technology to help create a stampede of sales, an abundance of new subscribers, a fleet of qualified prospects, a herd of new referrals!

What about being able to tell your customers that you messed up on the last bit of information you gave them and that you’re really sorry. Won’t you be able to convey this message better using real live words, than by using written text?

Won’t your sincerity, conviction and heartfelt emotion, reach them INSTANTLY, where it matters most… THEIR HEARTS!

Phone Recording – Telephone Recording Adapter

A great way to produce interesting streaming audio is to record interviews with experts in your field.

Web Audio is all about content just the same as writing but with voice.

Here are some helpful tiops on recording interviews using your phone and then you can strem the audio using mp3 Sound Stream.

Connect your telephone or headset to a recording device such as tape recorder or your PC to record telephone conversations. One of our clients uses an old modem with voice capabilities. There are heaps of them lying around.

Note: There is National and State legislation relating to the recording of, and listening to, communications in your country. Compliance with these standards should not be taken to mean that any subsequent use of this equipment complies with the relevant legislation. For further information on Privacy Guidelines refer to government website.

Tip: To record a phone interview use the same method as for a normal recording however make sure you have any call waiting or distraction completely removed so the call will not be interrupted. Unlike producing your personal audio file you usually only get one chance at a phone interview.

Here are a few pages on different recording hardware.

http://www.ahernstore.com/trx2035b.html

Of the two telephone recorders available from Radio Shack, I personally prefer 43-228 model over the 43-1237 model because the 43-228 is more likely to capture both sides of the recording at equal volume levels.

And if you really want to start getting professional and this is where I am heading for because you can attach a proper mic and get radio show quality productions and have full control over your interviews then here is the Rolls Royce.

Talk Show: Connect Innkeeper PBX between your console and your existing multi-line telephone. Your producer can screen callers from another phone while you take callers on the air by simply selecting available lines on your phone.

Interviews: Use Innkeeper PBX in your newsroom to record high quality interviews. Connect a mic and headphones to your PBX telephone while maintaining excellent separation between your voice and the caller.

Conference Room: Easily connect your PA system to the existing PBX telephone system. The echo canceller algorithm can prevent feedback and allow full duplex conversations.

http://www.jkaudio.com/innkeeper-pbx.htm

As well as the preparation suggested for interviews in general, you can prepare for and deal with telephone interviews by:

* Making notes of those things you want to get across, your strengths, relevant experience and qualifications, skills you have and your evidence for them, reasons why you are interested in this job, etc, and put them by the telephone so that you can refer to them.

* Having a copy of your CV and application form to hand so that you can refer to it if necessary.

* Jotting down the questions as they are asked so that you can look at them as you answer.

* Making sure you are using a telephone which is situated where you have some privacy.

* To avoid relaxing too much, stand up and smile whilst you are talking to the interviewer!

The good thing about telephone interviews is:

* You don’t have to dress up for them.

* You can refer to notes whilst you talk.

* They can’t see you grimacing, blushing, twitching, etc, so no need to worry about body language.

http://learning.staffs.ac.uk/careers/careersweb/jhunting/ivtelephone1.html

When your ready to step up with professional recording equipment Mike Stewart the Internet Audio Guy is the man to see. Visit his site and if he does not have what you want just ask and tell him I sent you. http://www.internetaudioguy.com

Well I hope this really gives you some food for thought. I have been doing this for a number of years now and it has always proven a better source of traffic than any other form of promotion. Once you have made an your audio for your interview save the project as two different files and then work on one. I usually name them after the name of the person I interview and call them 1 and 2. I work on the 2 file which I can then pull to bits. You can do all your editing in Audacity and remove any bad or non needed bits easily.

Once you have it in a form your happy with get someone to go through and type it out and you will have a another product you can offer with the audio as a pdf. This is a great way of adding content to your site for the search engines. There are plenty of services that will do this for you however I have found it much cheaper to use college students, single mums etc and it gives them a little extra cash.

Finally you can then add in some music, adds etc and make it almost like a mini radio show. If you are not confident to make your adds then just find some one with a good voice and write out your adds and get them to speak them. Add some background music and insert into your interview. You can also get one of the many professional voice overs to create a few professional adds for you. Hopefully you will be doing more interviews over time so you will be able to use the same adds etc over and over again.

Expect Success

“Faith-based organizations are moving online in rapid succession,” said Quentin Brown, CEO at MSIncome. “The type of media they deliver only requires very simple technology to get sermons and music online.”

Mp3 Sound Stream ensures that your church’s sermons are always on the web, adjacent to your congregation, no matter where they are located globally,” Mr Brown says.

Although large churches and religious TV and radio ministries have embraced podcasting and streaming video, smaller churches tend to be late adopters of technology. Among churches with membership of 100 or less, the percentage with web sites drops to 48 percent.

“Many small churches seem to believe that new tools for ministry are outside of their budget range or may not be significant for a church of their size,” said George Barna of The Barna Group. “It may be, though, that such thinking contributes to the continued small size of some of those churches.”

The truth is that any church with a few spare dollars can have an attractive site using new technologies like Wordpress that are easy to manage and add content to and combined with MP3 Sound Stream can match what a lot of the larger churches and organizations provide.

Free music? Of course! But free and legal music?

Yes, it’s possible. Everybody who has ever surfed the Net knows that music can be downloaded freely. Although there are many questionable sites that offer free music, you do not have to do anything illegal to find good music on the Web.

So, where can you download free and legal MP3? Below are some great sites where you can download good music without having to break the law.

Download Free and Legal MP3s at Amazon.com

Amazon.com may be best known for its books, but the site also features a Free Music Downloads section where you can download free and legal MP3s. The site offers music from different genres, including Alternative, Indie, Punk, Blues, Broadway, Children’s Music, Christian, Classical, Country, Dance, Folk, International, Jazz, Latin, New Age, Opera, Pop, Rap, Hip Hop, Rock, R&B, Soundtracks, and more. If you’re a musician or an artist, you can also upload your own MP3s here for free and let music lovers discover and experience your own brand of music.

Download Free and Legal MP3s at eMusic.com

Perhaps one of the best places to look for and purchase MP3s online is eMusic.com. This is because the site offers files that are not copy-protected, thus letting you download an unlimited number of songs to satisfy your music needs. The music may not come for free but for every new sign up, the site offers up to 50 files completely without charge.

Download Free and Legal MP3s at GarageBand.com

GarageBand is where you can find the best Independent music from the most talented Indie artists. The site has recently partnered itself with MSN music to realize the Internet’s true potential in providing a means for both artists and music fans to connect and transform the music business.

Download Free and Legal MP3s at IUMA.com

IUMA is where you can find and download free and legal MP3s from famous, not-so-famous, and unsigned artists all over the world. If you’re into Indie music then this is the place for you. IUMA is mainly dedicated to bringing you music from undiscovered artists whom you should know about.

Download Free and Legal MP3s at Download.com

CNET’s Download.com is one of the premier places where you can download free and legal MP3s. The site has one of the largest music archives on the Web so you can have your choice of music to suit your taste. At this site, you do not only hear the artist’s music, but you can also take a closer look on how their music came to be by reading artist’s bios and stories.

Download Free and Legal MP3s at AmpCast.com

Ampcast is another music site where you can download free and legal MP3s. Search through their entire archive for Independent artists or music from popular rock/pop groups. And if you don’t like to download anything, you also have the choice to feeds from the Ampcast Surreal Radio. The site also offers great music videos which you can watch through video streaming and community features such as forums and chatroom where you can talk with other music lovers or Ampcast artists about your favorite topic – music.

As you can see, there are plenty of sources of free and legal MP3 music on the Internet, you just have to know where to look.