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26. 7 Ways to Use Website Audio in Your Marketing Arsenal By Roger C. Parker
    Most visitors to your website are using computers with audio capabilities. Recently introduced techniques make it easy to take advantage of this capability.In the past, web audio was primarily decorative, consisting of musical fanfares or other clichéd sound effects. Now, you can use audio to multiply the impact of your message and create stronger bonds with your visitors.Audio’s power comes from its ability to engage more of your visitor’s senses. The more senses you engage, the easier it wil…



27. How to Use Your Computer as a Recording Studio By Hans Dekker
    A few years ago there was a revolution in recording technology. As computers became more powerful, they started to replace traditional tape recorders that were the heart of most recording studios. Today, computers designed for home use are powerful enough to emulate an entire recording studio, and can be used for everything from multitrack recording to audio editing and scoring music for videos.This “democratizing” of recording techniques has opened up the entire recording industry to anyone w…



28. What The Muscle Power of Audio Can Do for Your Site By Brian Holte
    How Audio can Influence SalesAudio can enhance your website by letting your visitor listen to your voice, which is the next closest form of marketing besides a face to face meeting.Who can use Audio?Anyone can use audio, it all depends how knowledgeable you are when it comes to designing your site. For those that need help there are plenty of tutorials on how to place audio on your site all over the internet.Audio and Affiliate Programs-Cause a ripple effect.One commonly used strategy is to h…



29. Alternatives to MP3 By Hans Dekker
    Although MP3 is the most popular format for encoding music, it is by no means the only one. There are two basic methods for compressing audio – lossless and lossy, and for each of these methods there are many formats.Lossless compression means that none of the audio data is removed during compression. Lossy compression means that audio data is permanently removed from the audio file. Lossy compression results in smaller files, but there is no way to rebuild the audio data to its original forma…



30. Audio Websites -- Web Developers: Make Money Now By Ned Jacobs
    Are you a website developer looking to establish a long-term relationship with a web content provider that could make money over the long-term for both of you? Have you considered becoming an expert in the providing of website audio content -- in webcasting and podcasting? Knowing how to present web audio and how to manage such a site can be your key to making money over the web.It is hard to pick up a periodical about the web these days without coming upon an article about the ever increasi…



31. Create Your Own Audio Studio for Under $100! By Quentin Brown
    Creating your own audio studio has never been easier. There are so many great products around today that will allow you to produce high quality audio for a fraction of the price it used to cost.HARDWAREThe first thing you will need is a compatible computer. Today every new computer is already set up with everything you will need. A basic sound card with a mic and line in jack. If you do not have a sound card they are very cheap and you can get a good one from any standard computer shop.Next yo…



32. Capturing Video And Audio Streams: How-To By John Deprice
    Streaming media is taking the Internet over - online radio, news, digital videos, podcasts, webcasts are just going to grow. Find out what tools you need to capture streaming audio and video so you can replay it later.CoCSoft Stream Down (CoCSoft)Like the proverbial hedgehog, CoCSoft Stream Down knows one thing well: in this case, how to capture streaming-media files and save them to disk. Just enter the URL of a streaming-media file and the program stores the content in the directory of your…



33. Don't Use Web Audio The Wrong Way By Nick James
    Have you ever wrestled with a set of instructions, but then got so frustrated with it all that you threw them aside in a fluster and tried to figure out how to do it… yourself?Resulting in…Making a great big mess of it all?Similarly, if you really want to use Web Audio the right way, the way that WORKS, then you need to know what DOESN'T work.Here's what many people do, pretty systematically… to hinder their marketing and audio responses:1. Speaking into the microphone without a care for what …



34. MP3 Audio File Format – A New Format for Storing Sounds By David Chandler
    MP3 is the latest and the most popular audio format that is used now. This acronym stands for MPEG Layer 3. It is a compressed audio format with a compression ratio of up to 12: 1. The sound quality of the audio in this format is very high. A normal audio file, which is 1200 KB in size, can be stored in just 100 KB if it is using the MP3 format. The size of the audio files is very small when compared to other formats of audio files. This makes it easily portable.Where to get MP3 audio fi…



35. Audio Books: The Pros And Cons Of The Different Methods By Paton Jackson
    When I was young I read all the books written by Douglas Adams. I liked it so much that I have managed to persuade my parents to buy the audio books of the titles I have read. I remember getting larges boxes with up to twenty audio cassettes for each book and listening to one cassette each night.Today one can get audio books in 3 different methods – audio books on cassettes, audio books on CDs and audio books on MP3 or other media files. In this article I will examine the pros and cons of each…



36. 7 Ways to Use AUDIO to Increase Your Web and E-mail Sales By Alexandria K. Brown
    Thought about adding audio to your Web site yet? You should. While great copy does a good job of selling your services and products, audio will amplify the effect of your words.Audio gives you a more personal connection with your Web visitors. Social psychologists tell us that humans are more likely to trust you if they can both see you and hear you. And prospects are more likely to buy from those whom they feel they know, like, and trust.So let's think about how you can build that instant rap…



37. The World Is Waiting To Hear From You, Create Your Own Streaming Internet Radio Station And Enjoy! By Lopa Bhattacharya
    Whether you just want to provide your friends with a personalized stream of music or you want to share with the world a genre of music you love and have expertise in, it is easy and somewhat inexpensive to start up your own Internet Radio station that sounds as good as the "big boys".Today, with flexible personal broadcasting using your own computer, along with independent web-based streams, you can enjoy distinct privileges those were once limited to a small percentage of people. Thanks to th…



38. Why I Hate Flash Audio and What I Did About It By Sallie Goetsch
    I love spoken-word audio. I've been listening to seminars, lectures, and books on tape for years.I love downloadable audio. Missed that teleseminar you signed up for? Just download the MP3 (or Real Media, or Windows Media, or QuickTime) file and it's almost as good as being there--maybe better.But I really dislike streaming audio of the kind you can't download, and I find the new trend to use Macromedia Flash to provide audio clips online particularly irritating.Why? Because I don't want to ha…



39. Adding Sound To Your Web Site - The Good, The Bad And The Ugly By Alan Steward
    Many webmasters like the idea of adding background music to their web sites but most shy away from doing it worrying about slow loading pages and large file sizes. There are many different ways to add background music to your site and some of them don't require large files to achieve professional results. Let's examine all the different ways to add background music to your site and rate them to find the best solution for you.1) MIDI FilesMIDI files are very small because they actually use your…



40. Here's Exactly What Makes Web Audio So Powerful By Nick James
    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 a…



41. CD/DVD Master Preparation Tips By Adam Platzer
    “CD/DVD Master” is the disc you provide to your CD/DVD vendor for replication or duplication of that media. Here are some helpful tips for creating a high quality master:- Always use high quality media. All media is not the same. Do your research and choose a brand that will produce a high quality disc consistently.- Avoid burning from a network source. If your source files are on a network drive, copy the files to your local hard drive before burning a disc. If you cannot move the files …



42. Creating Web Content Using Audio Recordings of Expert Interviews By Andrea J. Lee
    Creating Web Content Using Audio Recordings of Expert Interviews The easiest way to create content for your websites is also one of the best ways to create value for your clients. It's a wonderful technique that when used well can make a big difference to how professionally your work is perceived in the marketplace. One of the Biggest Mistakes You Can Make Doing Business Online is Trying to Be the Expert on Everything Many online business owners think that if they don't create their own con…



43. Five Tips to Become a Soundbite Genius By Susan Harrow
    1. Speak in soundbites to everyone.Getting key phrases for concepts and ideas across clearly is central to all communication. As a fun practice try to shave off any extraneous details during conversation in your everyday life. In Errol Morris' film *Fog of War* former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara said, *Never answer the question that is asked. Answer the question you wish were asked.* Begin to train yourself to speak only what you want others to hear. In this way you'll be shaping othe…



44. MP3 vs. WMA By Bradley James
    There are just a few audio compression formats out there, just like there are only a few image compression formats (you may have heard of them: JPG, GIF, BMP). Two of the most popular audio formats are WMA, or Windows Media Audio, and MP3 (Short for MPEG, Moving Pictures Experts Group, Audio Layer 3). WMA is the older audio format, produced by Microsoft, to work with Microsoft's Windows media player. The WMA compression format was designed specifically for this format, and thus can not be conv…



45. Audio Book Myths or the 'Audio Book Phobic' People By Paton Jackson
    Audio books are becoming more and more popular. Yet, there are a lot of individual people that are afraid of trying audio books – they are the “audio book phobic” people.I have interviewed some of them recently and collected the so called reasons that separate them from the audio book world. I have proven to each one of them that those reasons are only myths and even succeeded in persuading some of them to try those threatening audio books. Here are the main myths I have encountered:1. I belie…



46. Streaming Real Audio from Your Website By John Pierce
    Streaming Real Audio files from your website is easier than you might think.The first thing you'll need, of course, is a Real Audio file.Real Audio files are created with a program called "Real Producer" which is available on the RealNetwoks Website at http://www.realnetworks.com/.With Real Producer, you will produce audio files which end with a .rm extension. For example - myfirstaudio.rm. Once you have a .rm audio file, upload it to your website. Many people prefer to create a unique folder …



47. Who Else Wants to Explode Their Sales with Streaming Audio? By Linda Joseph
    Audio is not new to the Internet. Several marketers have been using it for years and have successfully proven that audio does increase sales. I have read that audio can increase your sales by as much as 300% and some report up to 426% increase in sales.The reason why most of us haven’t utilized this advantage is because of the cost and complexity involved with creating the software. However, as with all new technologies, the price has dropped to the place where you and I can easily afford t…






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