When you sell a digital product that includes audio or video, sometimes you will find some customers complain they cannot access the huge files or the download won’t complete. It could be anything. From their computer to their Internet connections to some funky setting on your server. When you have a long interview or a big video to shoot, try splitting it up into smaller chunks instead of one huge thing. Here’s why:
- Smaller files are easier to download for those who don’t have high speed Internet connection
- You won’t eat up your bandwidth as quickly. Each time someone clicks on a 100MB file, you’ll dock 100MB but if you have ten 10MB files and the user only downloads one or two to get started, then you only use up 20MB for that session.
- It’s faster for you to upload
- People’s attention spans are increasingly fragmented. Especially for videos, it is very difficult to hold people’s attention for long unless it’s an entertaining video.
For audios, try a file splitter like Cool MP3 Splitter & Joiner or Slice. For videos, the smoothest way is just to record in small chunks.
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