- Hey everyone, my name's Larry Snow.
In today's video, we're gonna be taking a look
at a Chrome extension that will improve your communications
between your team and your clients.
It's called ViewedIt, so let's get started.
(screen scratching)
So ViewedIt was created by a company called Vidyard
and it is free
and it's super easy to install,
just like the regular Chrome extension.
The reason why I'm suggesting it as a communication tool
to improve your communication
is because it is video.
It records your screen or captures your camera or both
and you send off a link right in your email,
so there's no longer this guess work about,
you know, their interpretation of things
or it's easier to communicate by sight
than it is to read it in an email.
And if you're like me
and you have clients and customers that are
wanting to change X, Y and Z
and then the email thread
just gets longer and longer and longer
going back and forth, back and forth,
reiterations and all that stuff.
It's easy just to communicate with a simple video.
So, that's why I'm recommending ViewedIt,
so let's get started to show you how exactly it works.
So to start off with
as all Chrome extensions we go over to the Chrome web store.
You search for ViewedIt and you install it,
just click the blue button, says Add to Chrome
and it will show up on your Chrome browser
over in the extensions bar
and it'll be a little bug guy, a little green bug guy,
kind of like that, can't miss it
and to record something, let's just do a little demo.
Let's go to my website,
I should go to Services for instance.
And let's do a simple recording.
So you open up your little bug guy
and it will give you some options here.
It'll give you the option to just do the Tab,
which will negate the menu bar on the top
which is kind of nice.
The Full Screen or Cam Only.
And when you go to Screen, you can do Mic and Cam,
so that's nice.
I'm gonna switch to the Facetime Camera
because I'm currently recording on the C922,
so I'll switch over to that.
And then we'll go to click Record.
And it's gonna say show the Entire Screen,
and we'll say Yes.
And it'll have a nice little countdown
that you're probably familiar with.
And here I am, down in the bottom right hand corner.
Sorry, bottom left hand corner here I am.
And I can talk about what we're gonna be doing,
what we're gonna be changing,
this needs to be added
or you know, you could highlight something
'cause all of this is being recorded.
So you could say to your client,
we're gonna change this to this color
or to customers, we're gonna be adding this to your website
that type of thing.
And then when you're done,
you click the little bug guy again to turn it off
and it's done.
And a new browser window will show up,
it will show your video
and right here, you can add it right to Gmail
or you can Copy the link
or you can share it to Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter.
And how easy is that, right?
So you can review it here,
you can change the title if you want,
change it to whatever you want it to be.
And when you go over to your email,
so down here at the very bottom of your email
is the little bug guy.
And you click that link
and it'll pop-in the latest recorded video.
How easy is that?
Now, this is just an image, but here's the link,
check out this video
and it will autoplay.
And then you just send that off
and then that person will get the email and click the link
and it will open up in the browser.
So that's why I love ViewedIt.
Now, that was super simple, right?
So it records the screen, it records the camera,
everything's great.
The other thing that I discovered is,
you can get stats.
So if I mouse over the little bug guy,
I can see when the customer or client has viewed it, right?
So that's the Feed and then it has the Videos section,
so it shows all of my recorded videos,
which is really cool.
But then, I discovered
if I were to log in to Vidyard,
I can see stats, more inclusive stats
and so I just happen to click on log in
and it recognized my Gmail email
and said reset your password.
I said, okay, I'll reset the password,
so I got a new password, logged in with my email address
and boom, here I am, right into my account.
Oh, if I click around and I see player insights,
I can see click through rate,
I can see how many views, unique views, minutes watched,
the region,
if I go into contacts,
so that's the person who actually played the video,
I can see where in the United States they played it.
And then if I go over to reports,
I can export, I can export individual viewers,
I can go into all reports
and then I can go back to content, I go to players
and then I see where we started,
so here's the latest video we just created.
We can create a Splash Screen,
so I can upload a new thumbnail,
that's what they call a Splash Screen,
so that's the first thing that I see
is not what they decided it is,
sort of what you can do with Youtube,
you can upload a thumbnail,
so you can do the same thing here.
So lots of good stuff that you get for free
through the Vidyard website,
so I highly recommend checking out ViewedIt
on Vidyard.com,
install it from the Chrome store
and as an extension all free, how fantastic is that?
Thanks so much for watching,
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For more information about me, go to LarrySnow.me
and I'll see you in the next video.