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Add a video Email component to your for a complete prospecting solution and take your messages to a whole new level. Video Email and Streaming video is already in use by top lead generation and auto response companies, this product makes an impression. Our powerful online business system gives you access to pre-set and customizable auto-responders, complete list management services, an integrated daily planner, and a sophisticated lead generation system! When you're ready to dramatically accelerate the growth of your business, and gain access to the most responsive leads available online today, look to StreamOffice for your solution.

See how one company creates their own Videoemail messages directly from their PC with just a basic webcam. This product delivers high quality streaming video created through a webcam or just about any video input device you can connect through your PC. Use it for client follow up, corporate communications, event promotions, newsletters, and mini-marketing campaigns. You can even post Video on Demand on your website. Product features include an advanced address book, viewer receipts, detailed usage reporting and much more.

See how one direct response company uses StreamCampaign to deliver their email promotions. This seamless “one click response” StreamCampaign capitalizes on instant gratification. Great for getting results, you can send large email marketing campaigns (over 500,000), event promotions, movie trailers, online coupons, political campaigns, motivational videos and much more. Our no fuss online ordering and easy wizard creation system, gives you the power to send your campaigns how you want, when you want. StreamCampaign can reduce your mailing costs, reach your targeted customers, and increase your response rates. This low-cost solution features our exclusive online first response tracking system. StreamCampaign can deliver your next video campaign.

Enhancing your website and online communications with video doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive.

With First Stream you can easily add video to your website, newsletter, email marketing campaign, or your auto-responder system! It’s all possible and extremely affordable with First Stream video solutions.

First Stream world class streaming video solutions offer a proven and mature video streaming technology developed over 6 years with more than $42 million invested in its core technology. This technology easily and seamlessly gives every business powerful video tools to increase their ROI that you can track with our exclusive viewer tracking tools. And it’s extremely cost-effective!

AUTO RESPONDER SYSTEM

Your personal video content is delivered via fast streaming video without the typical buffering delays or barriers to view, such as cumbersome media players, file attachments or downloads. For increased exposure, greater campaign effectiveness, and higher response rates look to First Stream to make your next impression.

Take advantage of higher click-thrus and 100% greater customer retention with this revolutionary Contact Manager and Videoemail Auto Responder system that employs a proven Videoemail system for responding to your company inquiries! This proven system offers a very powerful lead generation tool and a cost-effective and powerful way to follow up with your business marketing campaigns in a professional and efficient manner that will surely get your message noticed. It’s a fact that video outperforms text emails by as much as 30%. And now your business can employ this superior tool for staying in touch with your current and potential customers. Simply add your own Videoemail content and let your Contact Manager and Auto Responder system do the rest! There are no other systems like this in the world! The Stream Office Starter package comes complete with:

•  Your own Videoemail auto responder system

•  The ability to add your own Videoemail responses

•  From 500 to 2000 Viewing Minutes

•  2 to 4 minutes recording time

•  50 to 150 MB storage
  

Add a video component to your auto-responder for a complete prospecting solution and take your messages to a whole new level. Already in use by top lead generation and auto response companies, this product makes an impression. Our powerful online business system gives you access to pre-set and customizable auto-responders, complete list management services, an integrated daily planner, and a sophisticated lead generation system! When you're ready to dramatically accelerate the growth of your business, and gain access to the most responsive leads available online today, look to StreamOffice for your solution.

VIDEO EMAIL

Looking for better results from your online marketing campaigns?
It's a fact that video outperforms text emails by as much as 30%, as it generates higher click-thrus and 100% greater message retention. Get your business set up with a Videoemail account and start communicating with your prospects, colleagues and clients with dynamic streaming video! This easy-to-use product offers a cost-effective advertising alternative that's great to promote your business!

Make sure YOUR message is seen and heard Why use Videoemail for your next email marketing campaign? > More Cost-Effective! > Offers Results You Can Track > Builds Stronger Company Brand > More Engaging > Gives Higher Click Thrus > Higher Retention Rates Make 1000's of sales presentations with one First Stream Videoemail! Get Results! Now any size business can get the benefits of television advertising by simply adding the power of video to their e-mail marketing campaigns. Send thousands of Videoemail from any camera enabled PC and easily target and track your video messages to anyone online with an e-mail address! Send personal company announcements, commercials, or promotional videos and cost effectively build your brand!
• Multisensory delivery improves   message retention • Increases response rates • Encourages consumer behavior • Increases brand awareness • Creates consumer bond	• Reinforces your marketing efforts with it's   built-in detailed usage tracking, including   instant viewer receipts! • Saves money over traditional forms of   advertising, including direct mail,   television, radio and print.
System Requirements Great Features and Functionality
• Intuitive video recording and   sending functions • Text box area for adding a   personal message • Add document attachments • Send audio only messages	• Advanced Address Book for importing   your email addresses • Access to hundreds of Greeting Card graphics   to reinforce your message • Customized Greeting Card graphics available • Certified message receipts upon view!
Brand Your Business!
Videoemail is sent with a Business Card! Load your own predesigned graphic, or let us customize one for your communication needs!

STREAM CAMPAIGN

Send a campaign video e-mail to promote your product, service or add video to your company newsletter for higher retention and greater results! It’s a fact that video outperforms text emails by as much as 30%, as it generates higher click-thrus and 100% greater message retention. And now your business can employ this superior tool for staying in touch with your current and potential customers with dynamic streaming video. Before you send your next Videoemail campaign, let us clean your list to remove bad email addresses and duplicates, and lessen your chances of Spam complaints. Once it’s scrubbed, we’ll deliver your list back to you so you can use it in your future communications with confidence.

Cost-effective sales, marketing, and branding tool Marketing your products and services online with video doesn’t have to be expensive or complicated. Let FirstStreamMedia Campaign deploy your next marketing blitz with FirstStreamMedia Campaign Campaign video email and watch your results grow. You can build your own with our online wizards or simply provide us with your: video content; e-mail list; graphical elements; and FirstStreamMedia Campaign does the rest, including content hosting! Unparalleled Feature Set: Easy-to-View First Stream Campaign video mail plays on demand in 96% of all email clients which means your message will reach as many viewers as possible. Pay Only for Impressions Viewed! cost-effective! alternative to expensive shotgun approach of direct mail, television, print, and radio advertising. FREE Viewer Tracking Why wait days, weeks before you can determine message impact? From the moment you deploy a FirstStreamMediaCampaign you can track number of views, forwards, click-thrus and much more so you can instantly gauge your message’s impact. Hosting Services There’s no need to increase your backend server infrastructure. FirstStreamMedia Campaign’s extensive server infrastructure will host and stream your next campaign! Plus a great deal more! Check out all of these wonderful Features & Benefits. Purchase a standard video email account and FirstStreamMedia Campaign will place your 'premiere' video into your own personal vault so you can send it again and again!

Features and Benefits First Stream Campaigns allow any size company to cost-effectively deploy simple-to-view video mail messages to millions of online users simultaneously. This high-powered sales, marketing and branding tool offers the ultimate alternative communications' method for delivering compelling video messages that create lasting impact, shorten sales cycles, and improve retention. FEATURES BENEFITS Send an unlimited number of video mails at once! Multi-sensory messages create impact Web Based (Java) client (no movie players required) Easy to view Easy to create Save time and resources Simple to deploy Takes your offer to market fast Video plays on demand No viewing barriers Instant results Valuable marketing information Extensive backend tracking and reporting Track your return on investment Narrowband to broadband delivery Provides greater reach Auto-Destruct Messages based on time or views Complete control over your message Streams through firewalls Powerful Send and receive from all major browsers Flexible Embed numerous links to action Offers immediate call to action Advanced forwarding functionality Great for viral marketing Use your company’s customized graphics Builds your brand image Only pay per view Cost effective marketing

Welcome to FirstStreamMedia

FirstStreamMediais the leader in Streaming Video, Video Email & Video Email direct targeted marketing industry. Our main focus is multi-channel marketing through Streaming Video, VideoEmail, VideoEmail targeted campaigns, lead generation, email, search engines, site placement and video pop-up advertisements. We work with marketers and publishers to identify and analyze their needs and provide strategic, results-oriented marketing solutions. Whether your objective is to acquire new customers, retain valued existing ones, build brand awareness or increase revenues, FirstStreamMediawill facilitate direct communications with any target audience.

We specialize in multi-channel communications by offering cutting edge streaming video cutting edge technology products and services including list rental, data enhancement, list management, campaign development and delivery, and online business opportunities all designed to serve marketers and publishers with end-to-end, results oriented marketing solutions.

FirstStreamMedia is the leader in VideoStreaming  & VideoEmail Industry. Our main focus is streaming media across the internet.  We work with marketers and publishers to identify and analyze their needs and provide strategic, results-oriented marketing solutions. Whether your objective is to acquire new customers, retain valued existing ones, build brand awareness or increase revenues, FirstStreamMedia will facilitate direct communications with any target audience.

We specialize in multi-channel video communications by offering products and services including stand alone VideoEmail, stand alone VideoEmail Auto-responders, Video streaming for websites, VideoEmail campaigns to a targeted audience,  list rental, data enhancement, list management, campaign development and delivery, and online business opportunities all designed to serve marketers and publishers with end-to-end, results oriented marketing solutions.

With FirstStreamMedia you can easily add video to your website, newsletter, email marketing campaign, or your auto-responder system!  It's all possible and extremely affordable with FirstStreamMedia video Solutions.

FirstStreamMediaemploys a talented team of experienced technologists and seasoned marketing professionals dedicated to providing you with powerful Marketing solutions. Our technology platform provides industry-leading Streaming Video, Video Email, Video Email campaigns and list rental delivery services, so that you can maximize your email marketing revenues. We have the infrastructure, scalability and talent to serve any of your email fulfillment needs. FirstStreamMedia also handles the entire spectrum of VideoEmail, mail list management services on your behalf, including building, tracking and reporting on your campaigns. Our integrated Marketing platform enables our clients to achieve superior marketing results.

FirstStreamMedia from its inception, the firm has positioned itself as a dynamic interactive marketing firm and is building its reputation as a premier provider of permission-based marketing solutions, automated business enhancement in customer follow-up, reducing customer attrition, customer acquisition, up-selling products, including a wide range of unsold follow-up & prospecting tools & solutions.

FirstStreamMedia has since strategically aligned it self expanding beyond its video email service with its proprietary website brands and search marketing products that drive targeted traffic for clients for lead generation and product sales. In addition, FirstStreamMedia is able to use the extensive demographic information in its database to further expand the firm's direct marketing services for clients. The diverse product and service lines enable the firm to develop customized solutions in accordance with the diverse needs of all consumers, partners and vendors in the marketplace.
 

Video From Everywhere to Everywhere

As a society, we can't seem to get enough Video. From the first silent movies viewed over a hundred years ago to today's HDTV and DVRs, Video captures our attention like nothing else. We now use video in hundreds of ways including communication, entertainment, education, training, documentation, and surveillance. The medium is as flexible as it is immersive . . . and we're just getting started. At FirstStreamMedia , we believe the next step in the progression of Video will be in the pervasiveness of Video Streaming.

Our FirstStreamMedia Technology solutions enable our clients to effortlessly encode, manage and distribute streaming video across multiple platform, players, and devices. Our unique open design encourages clients to customize and grow the system to meet their exact needs.

Introduction

Streaming video is a new and rapidly changing technology that enables users to view live digital broadcasts through the Internet. Streaming video is a very effective tool that is used by businesses for activities such as videoconferencing. A simple definition of streaming video according to whatis.com reads, "Streaming video is a sequence of "moving images" that are sent in compressed form over the internet and displayed by the viewer as they arrive" (http://whatis.com/streamve.htm). Businesses not only appear to be more prestigious when using streaming video for activities such as videoconferencing, but they also enhance their communication abilities. Video technology can reduce miscommunication by allowing users to communicate directly with each other over long distances as if in the same room so that business transactions are completed more quickly and efficiently. Streaming video can be profitable for a business when businesses choose the right products from streaming media producing companies such as Microsoft and RealNetworks.

Business Travel

Many people are required to travel for business purposes, and much time is wasted along the way during these trips that make videoconferencing a possible solution to this problem. According to Whatis.com Inc., "A videoconference is a group or person to person discussion in which participants are at different locations but can see and hear each other as though they were in the same place" (http://whatis.com). Employees can stay at home if they use videoconferencing. Traffic problems are well known in large cities as people commute to their jobs. Video technology allows people to work from their homes. In the words of the writer Martin Nemzow, "With the addition of video capability not only can you and your colleague both see the documents on which you are working, but you can also see each other" [8]. Working from home has advantages such as avoiding rush hour traffic and avoiding the risk of auto accidents. Face to face communication is very effective. Much of the communication within businesses involves many intermediate steps that video technology can eliminate so that face to face communication is more prevalent. Martin Nemzow claims, "If you want to remain competitive, video and videoconferencing become the next best thing to actually being there" [9]. Streaming video makes communication more effective over long distances, and it has evolved for many years.

Video Distinctions

Streaming video and digital video technology have come a long way since the development of analog video, and there are some distinctions between digital video and streaming video. When comparing analog formats with digital video the analog Beta video format has similar quality. In the words of Mark Terret, "Digital Video has significantly better luminance bandwidth (5.75 MHz vs. Beta 4.1 MHz) as well as marginally better signal-to-noise ratio (54 dB vs. Beta 51 dB)" (http://www.hypertech.co.uk/vidsite/digvid.html ). This means that digital video is very much like Beta video, the difference is that digital video is compressed, and Beta is not. Streaming video is a different form of digital video technology. In the words of Martin Nemzow, "Most Web videos are just files that can be downloaded once and then played or played while they are being downloaded" [447]. Streaming video differs as Nemzow explains, "The client side distinction turns the normal download of a file into a cached stream that is displayed while it is received from the Web site or FTP server" [447]. In other words, streaming video is not efficient when needing to play a video back for others to see whereas digital video is usually saved on the local disk when downloaded from the Internet. There are problems that can arise when using video on the World Wide Web.

Streaming Video Complications

Video technology is not always simple when used on the Web. The writer Bruce L. Egan explains, "Video - for that matter, all high-resolution graphics and images - are difficult for the mass market consumer to obtain in a timely fashion on the Internet, both because of the lack of speed and because video has many sources" [45]. Many Internet users lack sufficient connection speed to view streaming video. Egan claims, "Subscribers’ Internet connections or modems (not to mention subscriber terminal devices or in home wiring) often are slow, making it very annoying to download video and graphics" [45]. This makes it challenging for businesses to get the right software and Internet connections that are compatible for using streaming video as part of their communications system. Many companies such as Microsoft are competing for a share in the streaming video market, and they are working to make it available to many more potential users.

Developers

Microsoft is one of the many competing software developers of streaming video technology. Mark Terret claims, "Windows Media seems to be Microsoft’s attempt to cover all the angles, including streaming technology" (http://www.hypertech.co.uk/vidsite/mainframe.html ). Microsoft has the advantage of dominating the software market and can invest in the research and design of streaming video technology. Streaming Media World reports, "Hewlett-Packard Company selected Microsoft Windows Media streaming technology as a cornerstone for it’s Enterprise and Commercial organization’s global marketing communications activities" (http://www.streamingmediaworld.com/west99.html ). Windows Media is definitely gaining recognition as many companies are using it. Some companies, however, do compete with Microsoft in the field of streaming video.

The company RealNetworks is a major player in the streaming video industry. A project posted on the World Wide Web that compares digital video streaming formats reveals, "The Company [RealNetworks] holds 85 percent of the streaming media market share which consist of about 600,000 Web pages containing streaming media"

(http://www.video-software.com/proj01.htm). They produce the RealPlayer media player. RealNetwork’s latest release, the RealPlayer 7, is great for streaming media. Streaming Media World reports, "RealServers offer a range of cryptic URL based commands that an author can call" (http://www.streamingmediaworld.com/smil/review/real7/index2.html). According to the writer John W Ellis IV, "RealNetworks combined their Real Audio and RealVideo standards to make RealPlayer G2, a player that handles streaming audio, video, and MP3 files" [46]. Another streaming Media Company, Play Streaming Media Group, contributes to the industry. Streaming Media World reports, "The company, Play Streaming Media Group, expects the results of it’s Affiliate Program to enable thousands of new broadband content producers and networks by reducing the barriers for any organization wishing to communicate with streaming media" (http://www.streamingmediaworld.com/west99part2.html). There are now many companies in the industry that offer streaming media services. Streaming technology is rapidly changing as video-software.com reports, "Universal standards have not been established so each product currently available on the market is proprietary and not universally compatible"(http://www.video-software.com/proj01.htm). It appears that RealNetworks and Microsoft will be the first to establish universal standards for streaming technology. There are many technical issues that are involved with streaming video technology.

Technical Information

Technical issues such as compression, connection speeds, and formats all play a part in streaming video technology. Streaming video can be distributed different ways. Whatis.com Inc. claims, "In a live broadcast, the video signal is converted into a compressed digital signal and transmitted from a special Web server that is able to do multicasting, sending the same file to multiple users at the same time" (http://whatis.com/streamvd.htm). Bandwidth plays a major part in connection speed. Whatis .com Inc. gives an example of bandwidth speeds reporting, "Higher bandwidths are conveniently expressed in megabits per second (Mbps, or millions of bits per second) and in gigabits per second (Gbps, or billions of bits per second)" (http://whatis.com/kbps.htm). Users of streaming video need high bandwidth to use streaming video effectively.

Streaming Video Benefits for Business

The benefits that a business gets from using streaming video can really have an impact on operations. The writer Brian Riggs reports, "In a survey of 50 businesses conducted by Perey Research & Consulting Inc., faster communications ranked first among the top-five benefits of deploying video on enterprise networks" [69]. Many managers realize the benefits to communication with their organization as a result of using streaming video technology. Brian Riggs claims that Hewlett-Packard has benefited from streaming video, "Beringer [the E-marketing manager of HP's enterprise computing division] says he has been able to cut $1.2 million out of HP's marketing budget because of his ability to stream events straight to customers' desktops" [74]. Many companies are unsure of the benefits they will receive from using streaming media. Brian Riggs reports, "Approximately 9% of U.S. businesses use streaming media on their Web sites or across their intranets, according to Dataquest, but the research firm expects this number to grow to nearly 30% within a year" [71].

Conclusion

Streaming video technology is a relatively new technology that is improving communication within organizations. Businesses reduce employee-travel costs through the use of videoconferencing, which enables employees to stay at home and communicate over long distances from their home offices as if in the same room. Products such as RealNetwork's RealSystem G2 and Microsoft's Windows Media Technologies enable businesses to use streaming video technology effectively. Businesses have to consider, however, their hardware and software platforms and connections so that streaming media software will be compatible with their system. Streaming video technology will be used more and more as part of the content in business Web sites as standards are set for this technology and companies upgrade their products so that it is available and affordable for more users to take advantage of this technology.
 

  You can select different compression ratio for video recording. WCSA400 also enables you enter a number for compression ratio, for example 300 or 600 bps.

 

Note: Lower data rate makes the file size smaller, but lowers the video/audio quality. Higher data rate produce high quality video/audio but increases the file size.

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