Your iPhone + $100 = Professional videos for your business

Wistia shares their video production secrets and is giving away 20 accounts for life

If you want your business to be taken seriously nowadays, video is a must. You need video to tell your story, record customer testimonials, and provide shareable content.

So how do you go about making professional videos for your business?

You can:

• Hire an expensive video guy
• Spend hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars on video equipment
• Waste your time editing videos

Or you can save money and time and have our good friends at Wistia show you how to make professional quality videos with just an iPhone and $100 at Home Depot.

Here's 5 tips on how to use your iPhone to make videos:

And a behind the scenes look at exactly how they made the previous video with just an iPhone:

Here are the tools they used with their iPhone:

• FiLMiC Pro ($5)
• Glif Tripod Mount and Stand ($30)
• Joby GorillaPod Stand ($30)

After releasing these videos, people kept asking for a cheap way to set up a lighting kit. Well, exclusively for Sumo-lings, Chris went to Home Depot to show you how:

Home Depot Shopping List:

• Scoop Clamp Light ($18 for 2)
• Daylight Color Balanced Compact Fluorescent (CFL) bulb ($6)
• Spring Clamps ($2 for 2)
• Extension cords ($30 for 2)
• Clothespins ($3)

What to buy online:

• Diffusion paper ($8)
• Light stands that will extend to 6 feet ($23)

Total spent: $90 ($10 left for tacos!)

Don't have an iPhone? You can even make video on webcam look good with the following tips:

Chris used iGlasses ($20) to pretty up his face :-)

So now that you're ready to conquer the world of video for your business, how will you host your video?

Wistia (shameless plug) to the rescue!

Why?

• Awesome analytics and video heatmaps
• No ads!
• Control your video's look, feel, and function, in one easy step

Okay, now for the crazy part.

We convinced the guys at Wistia to run a contest for 20 LIFETIME Standard Plans ($99/month) exclusively for YOU, worth more than $30,000 each.

Click here to enter now.

Contest ends this Friday, December 7th at 12 AM EST.