If you look at some of my earlier videos you’ll see they’re not that good, and they took me 10x longer to do than the ones I do today.

This is how I currently create the videos for my blog (and for my other websites).

I just sent my guy Sony Vegas (video editing software) and said “learn this” and then asked him to take 2 video feeds, and an audio feed, and put it all together into one video where the 2 videos and the audio all sync up.

He did it! (he’s good!)

Sure, it wasn’t the best thing ever (it was his first shot at it). But it only took him 1 day (overnight for me) and it was done.

I didn’t have to go to elance, look at what other people are posting, post a project, write up the details, send them the videos, pay them, realize: wait a minute, this stinks…but I’ve already paid them and now they don’t want to fix it…

To find out how you can hire guys in the Philippines and change your life like I have, go to ReplaceMyself.com.

Today I was on Andrew Locks “Help! My Business Sucks” internet tv show.

He has done a fabulous job with the show. It’s entertaining and super helpful.

A few weeks ago I went up to his house (in SLC) and saw his studio. Very impressive.

This morning I was chatting with Kirt Christensen on Skype and we both had our video cameras going.

Here’s a shot of what my video camera shows:

My wife needed to take a shower so she gave me our 10 month old to hold while she showered.

She knew I was working so she showered quickly and then came back quickly to take the baby away from me. So quickly in fact that she didn’t bother to put on any clothes.

What she didn’t know was that the flattening technology (read: my webcam) was running and Kirt was on the other end of it.

Beware of flattening technology, it might catch you unaware sometime too.

I love you Kim!

In the book he lists 10 “flatteners” that have caused globalization over the past 10-15 years. They include web browsers (anyone can view content), work flow software (managing processes), uploading (people sharing info online), oursourcing, offshoring (moving your plant overseas), informing (search engines), and other things.

One of the things that wasn’t listed (because it wasn’t nearly as big in 2005 as it is now) is the ease of putting video online.

I’m not talking about youtube or google video (which are obviously huge marketplaces). I’m talking about the ability to communicate via video and how easy it is getting and how it’s making globalization easier.

For example, as many of my readers know I have quite a few people who work for me full time in the Philippines. One of the big reasons I have been so successful with it is because of the ability to record a video of a process I do online using screen capture software like Camtasia Studio. I’m busy. If I had to type out processes I use to give instructions to people overseas, I simply wouldn’t do it and employees wouldn’t have my processes. Work wouldn’t get done.

Because of video, I can easily record my process and upload it and they have immediate instructions, in my voice, personalized to them and their situation.

For the past year or so I’ve been using Jing to create videos. The reason I use it instead of camtasia is because it makes it even easier to create and upload a video, reducing the overhead time of creating a video to virtually zero.

The ability to give instructions so quickly and easily makes it that much easier to move anything and everything overseas.

The flattening experience I had yesterday was when I got a Jing video from a customer of mine where she detailed feedback about using our website (how we could make it better, problems she’s having). She took a jing video of her using our site and detailed the problems she sees and why they’re problems. Feedback doesn’t get any more clear than that.

The flattening happens because now it’s super easy for me to forward that feedback onto my developers and have them make the changes, and nothing gets lost in the translation.

Feedback directly from the mouth and screen of a user going straight onto the screen of a developer overseas.

As more and more people realize the power and ease of creating videos and putting them online, the knowledge worker here in the U.S. had better become more knowledgeable or they’ll be replaced by people overseas (which obviously is already happening).

For those of you with jobs working for a company, if you’ve read the 4-hour work week, my guess is you can see how to use this to help outsource yourself!

When you and a few co-workers pitch in together to hire someone overseas, and you create videos to have them do your work for you, so you can go play golf, and you do it without your boss knowing, let me know. I love this stuff.

So, I’ve come up with new ways of doing keyword research.

One way I do it is with KeywordTopia. I built it so that I could get results from all the places that would give keyword results.

Another way I do it is with the free google keyword tool, in conjunction with google trends.

Here’s a video about how I do keyword research across multiple niches: