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The Video Tool I Use Every Day

In today’s video, I want to share with you a video tool that I have been loving and using every single day in my business.

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Loom

So, what is this incredible video tool? It’s called Loom. It is a really quick and easy way to record your screen and immediately send over a video response.

For me, personally, this video tool has been brilliant for sharing tasks with team members. Instead of trying to explain something over an email, instead, I’m actually recording my screen and explaining exactly what I need done, which makes the entire process of outsourcing about a million times faster. Having the capability of sharing your screen and recording your voice over it at the same time means that you can tell them exactly where they need to click and exactly what they need to do.

This video tool has also really come in handy for offering support for my students inside my online course, Website That Wows. There’s a Facebook group that comes with that program, where people can ask me questions. Instead of just responding via text, I can film a quick video letting them know all of the steps involved in what they’re trying to do, and exactly where they need to click. As you can see, that’s probably my favorite part about it – telling you where to click.

Those are the two ways I’m primarily using this video tool in my business, but I can imagine there would be tons of applications for you as well – whether that’s outsourcing, filming internal training videos, or replacing emails with video response instead. I really do think it’s such an effective way of communicating - you can really get your message across a lot faster and more efficiently.

Get Loom for Free

Let’s dive into a quick screenshare and let me show you how this video tool works. The first thing that you’re going to do is go to Loom.com and then you’re going to click Get Loom for Free and sign up for an account. You can use Google, your Slack account, or just use your email. Then, for the version that I’m going to show you, you’re actually going to click See More Options and Install for Chrome. You can fill in your company information and then it’s going to lead you to the Chrome Store here where you can download this. It’s very important that you are using the Internet browser Google Chrome. In order to add the Loom Extension, you’re just going to click Add to Chrome and it will then add it to your browser. It is going to live up here, top right, in your browser, accessible easily at any time.

Create a Video or Screen Recording

Let’s say I want to create a video or screen recording. (I’m going to just use this as our demo screen.) When I’m ready to record, I’m going to click on the Loom icon up here. Then, what you can do, is you can change the Camera Source – I’m going to change this to my webcam that I’m using right now. Then you are going to appear bottom left of your screen. Then you can select your Microphone Source. You have the option of recording your screen with the camera of you, bottom left; or you can do just your screen and a photo of you right here, bottom left; or you can do the camera only. It’s up to you which one you want to do. I rotate between the Screen & Cam and the Screen Only. If you wanted to do just the screen only and you didn’t want that photo, you can just turn that off right here.

When you are ready to record, all you need to do is click Start Recording. Then click Your Entire Screen if you want to record your entire screen, or you can select Application Window just to show a specific window, so a specific application. I’m just going to do my entire screen. Then I’m going to click Share. It’s going to give us a little countdown, and now we are recording. Now it’s recording my screen and I can go ahead, move around, and demo anything that I need. (You can also hide this message at the bottom here – I generally like to hide that before I get started.) I go around, I film – I can even type here, and they will see that.

Share Your Video

Then, when you are finished with your recording, you’re just going to click on the little Loom icon again, and your video is now complete. Then, what I do is rename the video and then double-check it - so I’m going to hit Play now. As you can see, the video is fantastic and ready to be shared. Now, whenever I need to share it with someone, I can just click Copy Link, and this is what they are going to see when you share the video with them. They can easily hit Play, watch it right here within the browser, and comment below. This is a huge time-saver and I love it.

You, as the organizer, can download your video if you would like and you can also organize your videos into files. You can click on Settings to adjust some of those, and you can trim your video as well in this little Editor. I find that, generally, I don’t need to use that feature at all. This is really a fantastic tool for the speed that it is providing you, so that is the most important part. I’m just filming quick videos throughout the day, copying the link and sharing that, and it is done.

Let me show you what my account looks like. As you can see, I am using this all the time. You can have 100 videos on the Free plan, but there is a Pro plan if you want to house more than that. You can also get a few more advanced features once you upgrade to the Pro version. In this video, I just think it’s important that you know how to use this, and you can begin using it more and more in your business.

Now that you know how to use it, hopefully you are just as excited about this tool as I am - and you’re going to go and download it and start using it in your business and therefore be more organized and efficient. I’d love to hear from you. Let me know in the comments what you think of this tool and how you’re going to use it. If you liked this video, please let me know by giving it a thumbs up, and hit Subscribe if you haven’t already. I’ll see you real soon with another video.