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In a recent issue of the Avenues to Marketing Success Newsletter, I mentioned a service for adding audio to your website to boost your conversion rate.

By now, I've spent some time trying out AudioGenerator for my own purposes. You literally pick up the phone and dial in to record your website audio, and then the program generates a line of code for you to add to your website. That's pretty much all the work involved. No complaints on my end.

After much consideration, I've decided not to go with AudioGenerator for my own websites -- not because of the quality of the service, which is excellent, nor because it is easier than the alternatives (which it is).

Flying solo

Rather, I decided that since I have an entire web server at my disposal that can handle the extra bandwidth of audio downloads, there's no need for me to add on another service that charges a monthly fee when I could do it myself.

Although I am not a techie, after many years promoting consumer electronics, I am pretty comfortable with garden-variety devices such as voice recorders and the like, so I have decided to try to make my own audio files using one of 2 options: either my digital voice recorder's USB capability or a separate mic and easy-to-use software.

I'm not going to announce my findings until I've gotten everything wrapped up and running so that you can sample it, but wanted to let you know that if you've got a high-capacity web hosting account you're not utilizing fully and a little (not a lot) software know-how, I'm pretty sure there's a better way.

For now, I recommend AudioGenerator if you're low-tech (or no-tech) or don't have a hosting account large enough to accommodate audio files, and I'll get back to you on the less-expensive, but more technical solution very soon.

More on adding audio to your website soon!