Tag: OpenHort

I just made a new YouTube account for “OpenHort.” This will allow you to link to “Shovel Ready” and any future videos without worrying about promoting another company.

Here’s the link you’ll need to use: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pci7OXdm5s

Of course, if you want to download the video and then send it out to the world as your own, you’re free to do that too. It’s easy, just right click this link and select “Save Target As…” or “Save Link As…” You can also learn how to customize it with your own information at this post.

So far, five companies have used the “Shovel Ready” video.  Check them out:

Somerset Nursery

Countryside Gardens

Virgin’s Nursery

Otten Bros

Roemer Nursery

Hey, we’ve made a new video that we’re sharing with the world. It’s called “Shovel Ready” and it’s intention is to get people excited about buying plants and hiring landscapers to beautify their yards. Check it out.

To find out how to customize the “Shovel Ready” video with your own company logo and messages, scroll down to the next post.

If you want to use the video as-is without customizing, then you can download the MP4 file here. Simply right-click on this link, then select “Save Link As…” or “Save Target As…” to save to your computer.

Here’s a video I made to share with the green industry. My hope is that lots of landscape firms and garden centers will be able to use this to promote their own companies and get their customer networks excited about Spring 2010. Here’s an example of a customized video:

How hard will this be to customize? Not hard at all. I will walk you through the process. First, you’ll want to download the video and audio files so that you can work with them on your computer. There are three versions of the video and three audio files.

To download a file, right-click on the link, then select “Save Link As…” or “Save Target As…” to save to your computer.

1. WMV: Download this if you’ll be using Windows Movie Maker
2. MP4: Download this if the editing program you’ll use can accept MP4 files.
3. MPEG: this is also called MP2, download if using iMovie or many other editing programs
4. Audio Full: download this audio file if you won’t be customizing the music
5. Audio SFX only: download this is you’ll want to add your own music
6. Audio Music only: download if you want this!

Left Click this link to go to a page for the Font: click to download the Bell Gothic font, the font used in the Shovel Ready video

Once you’ve downloaded the files to your computer, watch the tutorial video that will show you step-by-step how to customize in Windows Movie Maker!

Lancaster Farms’ video last week featured my daughter, Julia. She’s four years old and this week she steals Matt Nagle’s job to show you some perennials the LF  crews planted in front of our house. Check it out.

Next week, don’t miss a new video that you can use to promote your own business! It’s called “Shovel Ready.” Check it out!