Are you Feeling rushed by your screen capture software? Are you at the end of your educational video before you can cover all of the points to your topic? Do you feel like you’ve entered a contest on who can cover the most ground in the shortest amount of time? If your answer is “yes”…I believe I have found the remedy but first I’d like to emphasize the importance of using a non-restrictive screen capture program in your business.

If you are building a home based business, you need an arsenal of solid tools to help build your clientele. Some entrepreneurs prefer to solely market their product. That sounds like an incomplete sentence doesn’t it? Of course it does because business relationships are just that…relationships and the sentence in question, only covered one aspect of that relationship. Let’s analyze this. The entrepreneur who expects to attract customers by waving their product in the air has little chance of getting the business when stationed next to an entrepreneur who advertises a free product (and no I’m not talking about the free product your opportunity provides). The product I’m referring to is “information”.

I am proposing it is essential to your business to have the ability to transfer information to your customers for free. It is also important to provide this information with a high level of quality. In the end, the customer is going to prefer to do business with an entrepreneur who teaches them something in lieu of the entrepreneur with their hand out.

So for those entrepreneur’s who strive to provide their customers with high quality content via tutorials and would like to do so without feeling rushed, I would like to introduce you to CamStudio, an open source Screen Capture Software Application. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Open Source Software, that’s just a fancy term for “free”. : )

CamStudio has an array of features including auto-panning, text annotations, video annotations, unlimited recording time, different output formats and the list goes on.

You can download the software at www.camstudio.org. You will need to download the executable file as well as the codec file. If you need step by step instructions, I have created a video especially for you. Watch it when you have plenty of time. I used the software to record the video and thus was not subjected to time restraints. The video is a whopping 20 minutes in duration but I introduce you to some additional goodies that aren’t mentioned here. Enjoy and as always, if you find the tutorial helpful, tweet it or share it with a friend.

When I first began my quest down the Network Marketing Internet Business path, I encountered some problems with masking my affiliate links. I was told by my domain company that I couldn’t forward my subdomain to a marketing page because my domain wasn’t hosted by them. I then contacted my hosting company and was told that they couldn’t control the URLs of my landing pages because they weren’t hosted by them! So I transferred my hosting back to my domain provider just so that I could forward and mask my landing pages. However, the switch between hosting companies was disasterous and I ended up switching back within the first two days. I’d given up all hope on masking my affiliate links until I found this plug-in.

Blair William’s *Pretty Link* Plug-in is an Entreprenuer’s best friend. Especially if the entrepreneur has a network marketing internet business. The plug-in allows you to shrink, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website. You literally have the ability to create links to any website you desire without having to use link shrinking services like tinyurl, budurl, and bit.ly. This plugin allows you to create shortlinks coming from your own domain! Pretty Link tracks each hit on your URL and provides a full, detailed report of where the hit came from, the browser, os and host. *Pretty Link* is a killer plug-in for those who are in the Network Marketing Industry and want to mask their affiliate links, track clicks from emails and increase the reach of their website by spreading these links via Twitter, forums or comments on other blogs.

Hold on to your hat while I test drive this plug-in for you…