We were recently asked how to send video by email. As many of you know this site is operated from our online marketing consultancy firm where we have been using video as our main method for communication, product and consultancy for several years now and it rocks.
The main reasons for this are that clearly separates us from our competitors as its engaging, it’s memorable, it’s quick to do and it’s also simple.
When we initially worked out how to send video by email we had little doubt that it would make a huge impact to our bottom line. By sending a video email you instantly create a bond with the recipient and can guarantee that there will be zero misinterpretation of your message.
At the beginning there were of course several hurdles we had to over come. Size, format, speed of creation. It’s simple to figure out how to attach a video – that’s easy, but after testing it we realized that not everybody was watching them. We needed a better solution, we wanted to actually embed video in the email itself. When we tried to figure out how to do this we realized we had to learn how compress video for email and after a few attempts realized that this would take too far long to use a daily tool, its not sustainable and depending on the recipients operating system would depend on the best format to compress for any way, and seeing this was an unknown quantity we were on to a false start.
We then found several sites offering to do this service for us – Voxlite, oovoo and EyeJot – The latter being by far the best one. If you are looking to send videos through email then EyeJot is by far the best solution we have found out on the market at the moment. It offered every thing we wanted to do to the T. Simply create an account for free, hit record, enter in your recipient’s email address and hit send.
We almost skipped them as the site does look a little patchy and rough around the edges however we chose them over the other better looking more expensive options down to one specifi feature – you can specifically embed video in email. All of the other sites sent a screen grab of the opening vido where as EyeJot embedded the video right in to the body of the email message.
So if your looking for the best video email there is no doubt that we recommend (At this stage of course) EyeJot
