Record Your Products - Reap the Rewards of Recording and Getting Your Product Done Faster and Easier

by Patsy Bellah

(who has been doing the Expert Interview transcriptions)

You may remember the days of typing on typewriters. You may even remember typing on "standard" or manual typewriters. If you aren't in the know, that's a typewriter without electricity.

Then electric typewriters arrived. That was something new to learn, but work could then be done faster, easier and with less mess.

Then came computers. Yes, there was yet more to learn and with this technology life was made even easier for secretaries, writers, or anyone having to convey information with the written word.

With each of these advances there were those who said they couldn't do it. You may have been among those folks. They didn't like it, they didn't like change. They could get along just fine, thank you very much, with a manual typewriter, or an electric one. They didn't need computers. There was too much to learn. It was too different.

You need not let that attitude keep you from learning the latest time saver for transferring words to paper and that is the digital recorder. As the manual typewriter gave way to more sophisticated electric typewriters, which gave way to the computer, so, too, has the digital recorder made it faster and easier to transfer the spoken word to the written word.

On average, a one-hour recording yields about 20-30 typewritten pages. That means a one hour "conversation," speaking your story or information into a recording device, then getting it transcribed, you can transfer your spoken word to a document in about 25% of the time to type it yourself.

It may take a bit of practice to learn to dictate into a recorder. Once you have, you will save yourself a ton of time. The longer it takes to complete a project, the less likely it is you will finish it. Embrace this new technology.

Here are some guidelines to consider when purchasing a digital recorder:

1. You must be able to download your recording to your computer. Some of the less expensive recorders are not "downloadable." You need to transfer your recording through the Internet to a transcription service or to transcribe it yourself on your computer.

2. Although most recorders come with internal microphones, it is best to be able to attach an external microphone. External microphones work better to record presentations or to record from a distance. Additionally, you can elect to use a lavaliere microphone for yourself and not be hampered by holding the recorder. Or, if you are recording more than one person because you are interviewing someone, you can get an attachment allowing you to hook up two microphones.

3. Get a recorder with at least four hours of available recording time when using the high quality recording setting. Be sure the recorder has enough time to record a full presentation before having to download the recording to the computer.

Recorder capabilities change all the time. Prices, like many things, are coming down drastically while recording time increase.

A good quality Olympus recorder can be bought on the Internet and at some local electronics stores for about $100.at the time this writing.

An Olympus, and a Marantz recorder which uses a flash card with as much as 4G-8G of storage space sell for just under $400. The Sony or the Edirol are also good recorders, and have similar capabilities and prices.

Buying a recorder is much like buying a blender or a computer. Although it's wise to buy as much as your pocketbook allows, you don't need to buy more than you will use.

A digital recorder is small and easy to use. You can record on it all of your information products, presentations, blogs, or articles.

Embrace this new technology. Using a digital recorder to record your information products, presentations, or teleseminars allows you to finish your product in less than 25% of the time it would take to type it yourself. If you outsource your audio file to a professional transcriptionist, all you have to do is edit it once you get it back. A good professional job will require minimal edits, in fact. You can have your product completed in less than a week.

Patsy Bellah is the owner of Great Transcriptions where the spoken word becomes the written word. Check us out at http://www.greattranscriptions.com For more information about recording your information products, read "How To Get Your Info-Product to Market With Lightning Speed!" for only $29.95. Claim your free report at http://www.lightningfastinfoproducts.com

© 2008, Patsy Bellah

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