Jeff Harrison shows how HeyGen's Avatar 5 lets local business owners create polished videos without cameras, locations, or on-camera anxiety. Record once, generate multiple videos. After 16 years producing thousands of videos for local businesses, he argues this tool removes the cost and complexity that stops most small businesses from using video.
Hey, welcome. My name is Jeff Harrison, and I'm excited to share with something with you today that I think you're going to find interesting, and maybe you can use it in your business, whether you're doing it personally or professionally. And if you're a local business, which I tend to work with, uh, this is going to make a lot of sense for you. Today's topic is all about engagement and using video. Most of the time when we think about video, it becomes expensive, it's challenging, uh, I'm not an actor, I'm nervous on camera, all those things. Do I have the right equipment? And so today I want to kind of dispel some of those things. And the easiest way to do it is, and I'm going to show you the tool that I like using a lot nowadays. It's not just the tool, it's a tool that I use. We've tried others in the past. This is actually the best. I'm just going to kick this on and you can watch this because this kind of explains it all in a nutshell.
Where you record doesn't matter. What you're wearing doesn't matter. Welcome to Avatar 5. Record once and create yourself anywhere, like presenting the biggest pitch of your career, hosting your podcast from the top of a mountain, teaching a 1-hour masterclass from Paris. Every video, any version of you. Now let's create yours.
So this is called Avatar 5, or Avatar V. I'm not sure exactly what they, what they call it, but I'm going to call it Avatar 5. It just seems to make sense when there's a V there. Roman numeral number 5. As I said, I've been creating videos for local businesses for quite some time. This is our— we're going into our 16th year of creating content for businesses, and we've done thousands and thousands of videos over those years. And it's true, some of the things are— it can be expensive, you know, depending on how you're going to shoot this. It's also sometimes very challenging for business owners who You know, let's face it, you know, you're an HVAC owner, a company owner, and I'm asking you to get in front of the camera and read some lines and do these particular things. Those can be challenging. Well, this product from HeyGen, creating what we call avatars, changes all that. And in a nutshell, what it basically means is it means that you can, just like it, like we showed there
