Why do a video personal commercial?

• Doing a video personal commercial helps you learn your personal commercial inside and out.
• Beyond learning your personal commercial doing a video personal commercial provides you an opportunity to see how you're presenting yourself and will help perfect not only the verbal message but also the body language that accompanies your presentation.
• Having a video personal commercial provides you another networking avenue. Someone who doesn't know you may feel more comfortable helping to expand your network by referring you to someone after seeing and hearing you deliver your personal commercial.
• Your video personal commercial is also another mechanism for receiving feedback from mentors about how you can improve your message and/or presentation.

How will others see my video?

• The easiest way to make your video viewable is to upload it to YouTube.
• Being happy with the recording of your personal commercial is going to be a process just like creating and practicing your personal commercial was. Be ready to do several "takes" to get it the way you want it. Because of this it's easiest if you record to your camera or computer but you can record straight from a web cam into YouTube if you wish.
• If you don't want your video publicly viewable you can choose to make it "Unlisted". An unlisted video on YouTube is not searchable. It can only be viewed by those that have the link to it.
• After your unlisted video has been posted to YouTube you can share it by:
  • Emailing the link to others.
  • Embedding the video in your personal portfolio or web site.
  • Embedding the video on your LinkedIn profile.

How to upload a video to YouTube and make it unlisted

How to capture from webcam to YouTube