Each profession in WoW is dependent on other professions. This makes choosing sometimes difficult. There are several professions which would be near impossible to level up if you did not choose the appropriate GATHERING profession to go along with it.

Below are the CRAFTING professions: Blacksmithing

Tailoring

Leatherworking

Engineering

Enchanting (To an extent)

Inscription

Alchemy Here are the list of GATHERING professions: Mining

Skinning

Herbalism

You'll notice that the GATHERING professions are fewer than the CRAFTING professions. Many crafting professions rely on one gethering profession. For example, Alchemy and Inscription rely on Herbalism. Blacksmithing and Engineering rely heavily on Mining. Tailoring, however doesn't rely on any particular gathering profession, as the cloth required for tailoring is typically dropped from NPC's around the world. Picking your professions is going to depend on what you want to do. Most people look to professions for a quick way to make Gold, but in many cases this becomes farther from the truth. Many people end up concentrating on leveling their characters to the cap, then focus on their professions afterwards, like myself. In this case, any of the gathering professions would be a good choice. While you're leveling, questing, running instances, etc. you will come across all kinds of different materials along the way. This way, as you're getting through your leveling, you'll be leveling your gathering professions at the same time! This is also a good way to financially support yourself, as mats always sell with the utmost importance in the Auction House. Herbalism and Skinning are probably the easiest, as you can find herbs everywhere, including fields and mountains. Skinning is even easier, as it's found in many of the wildlife / beasts in every area you'll run into.

Mining is always as easy, as the veins you'll require are typically only found on mountains and hillsides, sometimes in water, which make finding them in certain areas difficult. Stacks of 20 low level skinning mats, like light leather, can and does go for upwards of 20 Gold on the Auction House, making it a potential cash cow for those looking to build their savings. For those with more free time on their hands than the average casual player, a gathering and crafting profession can yield more returns at the higher levels. Rare and Epic BOE (Bind On Equip) crafted items can sell really well on the Auction House, but sometimes require multiple hours of gathering. For example, one of the most high demand items right now, at least on my server, is the Titansteel Destroyer 2H Mace. This involves making Titansteel bars, which can only be made in quantities of 1 every 24 hours. This translates to waiting over 100 hours to be able to make one, but the gold yield is great. If you do not spend any gold buying mats, or buying other blacksmiths' 1 titansteel smelt, you can yield a large profit over 1,000Gold, and be guaranteed to have the item sold before the weekend is over. So, if you can't or don't work during the day, you can see how this could yield more profits in a quicker timeframe. Enchanting is the exception to the rule. Enchanters have a unique advantage, in that the mats they need for their profession are obtained only by having the one profession, through the use of disenchanting. Uncommon, rare, and epic items can be disenchanted into the various dusts, essences, and shards that are required for this profession.

The only downside is that they require uncommon or higher items, which are sometimes hard to find. Myself, having a level 80 character and just starting Enchanting, I can run instances to get the items I need. I have already started profiting greatly from this unique advantage. Almost all players above level 30 are going to invest in enchanting their gear, especially those at the higher levels who know the gear they have will be their gear for a very long time. This extends profitability of enchanting, as you have two sources of income. You can then pick up another gathering profession if you wish, and sell those mats as well, yielding 3 different sources of income.

Leveling the gathering professions is easiest. In most cases each looted item will grant you a level up in your gathering skill. You'll want to move to areas of higher levels when the items you're currently farming become "green". When clicking over the item (Plant, Vein, Beast), it will state "Requires" and the profession it requires. This line will appear in Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, or Gray. Red means it is too difficult for you to do, and you will not be allowed to loot the item. Orange is your best bet, as it will guarantee a level-up. Yellow is slightly less likely to grant a level, generally one level per 2-3 items. Green however is on average one level every 5-10 loots, which will take forever to complete in this fashion. When the line appears gray, you will not level up the skill at all.

Since the crafting professions generally require more than one of each material, the crafting skills are harder to level. But again, if you have the time, and aren't going to be a casual player, these yield more profits later on.

Engineering is a cloudy profession for me. It's benefits are typically for the player, in that they can make certain things like goggles which increase ranged attack, or other buffs of that nature. They can also craft bombs which can "Blow open" locked doors (Perfect for those of us who can't get into certain instances because we don't have keys). Many of the items that are crafted cannot be used by players who are not engineers. The profession requires the use of rods made of copper, silver, etc. This means that there's a heavy dependency on mining, and blacksmithing alike. Miners can mine the ores that are needed to make these rods, and then smelt them into bars, but cannot actually made the rods. This must be done by a blacksmith, which helps the blacksmith with an income source.

These items can be sold in stacks on the AH for profit, albeit a low one. Copper rods generally won't go for a very large amount, and they're pretty common items on the AH. Engineers also generally become close friends with someone trained in Mining / Blacksmithing and pay small tips to them to gather and craft the rods on their own free will. Most engineers are of the Gnome race, as they will get bonuses to skill in this profession. Gnomes, after all, are known as the inventors in World of Warcraft, riding around on Mechanical chickens and crafting airplanes for flight in Northrend instead of the usual griffons.

Hopefully, this information will help a casual player, dedicated player, or overall WoW addict decide what professions are good for their particular timeframe and needs.

Any good Aion Templar leveling guide will tell you that the Templar class is a pillar of strength and a wall of aggression and possibly the coolest class choice in Aion.

Templars are for those people who love being the leader and the tank.

Every party needs a class like that, which will make leveling up a Templar a lot easier to do than if you were to try it with any other class. You’ll be in high demand, so you get to pick what groups you want to join up with.

Templars have various moves and abilities to be able to gain enmity with their foes.

There are passive powers like ‘Aggravation,’ which make your attacks more valuable, as well as more aggressive abilities like ‘Provoking Severe Blow’ which is a direct attack upon an enemy. Most Aion Templar leveling guides tell you that the secondry way Templars build enmity is through the expert use of a shield, they have many abilities which involve using the shield such as ‘Provoking Shield Counter’ dealing damage and building enmity all at once, there are also passive abilities for the shield which boosts defence and block, these two stats being the most important to a templar.

You might find it more laborious to level a Templar than some classes that just deal out more damage,.

But they’re better at surviving. You can play the game solo with just a weapon and a shield, but there are 2 handed weapons that can also come in handy for dealing more damage if you need it, but you don’t have to do this.

Professions in Aion are really very good and definitely worth investing the time to level.

Focus your talents on just two if you want to become masters of them. I chose armorsmith and weaponsmith so that i am able to make my own plate armor, shields and weapons which makes life a lot easier i found plate armour a pretty rare drop and not many quests give armor as rewards.

There are two big ways in which to level a profession; first you can get work orders from NPCs in crafting rooms, which can get you experience from without all that irritating grinding – keep in mind however, that this will be very expensive, so if you want to level without having to spend a lot of money, skip this.

Grinding is the typical way to level up, searching far and wide for the materials you require to do so, but it can take a lot of time out of your day and just be tedious to go through; however, a lot of experience and kinah can be gained from this method.

With Templars, you can usually get more moves instead of passive abilities:

‘Great Resuscitation’ and ‘Solid Shield’ are two examples of this – the former gives you health and mana back, and the latter blocks a certain number of attacks; you can also get the maximum health boosting ‘Armor of Protection,’ which can also help out your party members.

Knowing Exactly Which Areas To Quest in, Which Quests To Take, and Which You Should Avoid.

Hopefully, the information and tips I’ve shared here were helpful enough to help you understand a little bit about the class and how to level. However, if you really want to power level, know where the best areas are to quest in, which exact quests to take,(and which to avoid) and how to get your wings and armor sets as fast and cheaply as possible you’ll need a more detailed step by step Aion leveling guide.

I strongly recommend the Aion leveling guide that I’ve been working with. It has a great questing and grinding path designed to really speed up the process, I’m an ex Aion Beta player and it even helped me tremendously.

Rogues have that special skill that no other class in the World of Warcraft possesses. They are the only ones who can lockpick. It is the ability to open locks. If you played a Rogue during the Burning Crusade then you could have leveled it up to 375. Since wrath of the Lich King was released, the skill cap is now increased to 400. You might be wondering, where does a Rogue learn lockpicking in WOW with the Lich King expansion? Well this is a WOW Rogue guide on how to level lockpicking and improve that skill in Lich King.

WoW Rogue Lockpicking Leveling Guide

Rogues should use their pickpocket skill more often. Pickpocketing is still the best and fastest way to level Rogue lockpicking skill. Not only that, Wrath of the Lich King made lock-picking a profitable skill. Along with the expansion comes Reinforced Junkbox that could be pickpocketed from various humanoids in the Northend. This junkbox type can contain epic and rare items that could be sold for gold in the Auction House.

If your rogue is already at level 80 then you could head to the Avalanche area of ​​the Sholazar Basin. There you can find dozens of undead mobs that you can pickpocket. You can start from the East and go to the West. By the time you've arrived at the other end, the mobs at the start would have replenished their pockets, ready to be picked again.

Opening the Reinforced Junkbox can help the Rogue level up his lockpicking in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion. It is recommended to level up to 80 first before improving your lockpicking. That way, the humanoids at the Avalanche would not be aggressive anymore. It would make your life easier.

Opening Junkboxes is just one way on how to level lockpicking in WoW. You can also try opening Footlockers and Doors with your Rogue. But footlockers are random spawns that you have to look out for. On the other hand, junkboxes could be pickpocketed from many humanoids.

Everyone playing Age of Conan knows that the game has brought an outstanding innovation to the fighting system in the world of MMOs. On top of that, the battles pretty realistic and no matter if you are a Barbarian wielding huge two-handers or a Tempest of Set with the power of lightning, once in this fantasy universe, you must be prepared to shed some blood, break a few teeth or tear some limbs apart. One heck of an enemy, though, is the number of 80 levels that a player needs to burn in order to get to the peak of the game. To be effective with my leveling, I used an Age of Conan Leveling Guide.

This Age of Conan Leveling Guide not only that showed me the easiest and fastest way to get to the level cap, it also helped me understand all the aspects of my character and I was able to get the maximum potential out of it. I will reveal here, a few tips and tricks I've learned from the guide I used.

Age of Conan Leveling Guide – Tips and Tricks for Faster Leveling

• Before starting a leveling session, empty your bags of the unnecessary loot. You need as many inventory cells for the quest items and the loot that you're about to get. Going to a settlement just to sell the loot in the middle of a leveling session is a waste of time.
• Use all the foods, drinks and buffs available. This will increase the efficiency of the character, allowing to go through the mobs and quests faster. Also, get healing potions for health, stamina or mana to reduce the number of the wipes and to keep your character on the move all the time.
• The best way to level up in AoC is questing (especially if you don't have a group), so pick up every quests available for your class. Also, skip the quests that requires group as much as possible, because even if there is a group to complete them, groups tend to waste time.
• Every time your toon receives a new combo or ability, practice a little bit to learn it completely. It's very important to know everything that your class can do to be able to play it at maximum.
• Get new equipment at least every 10 levels. If your class is a melee one, like a Barbarian or a Rogue, the weapons are the first items to be replaced. Fatality chance is a bonus for the armor pretty nice, because every time a fatality on a target procs, you gain a nice regen rate for your health, stamina or mana.
• If the character has AoE abilities, use them at maximum. It's always better to kill 4-5 mobs at a time than just one.

Age of Conan Leveling Guide – Questing Strategy

As I said, questing is the best method for fast leveling in Age of Conan. The Age of Conan Leveling Guide I've been using is centered on solving quests. As it has the best quest path, it really is the best solution I could choose to get ahead of my guildies with my leveling. All of the quests are explained in a step-by-step manner so it wasn't possible for me to get stuck on any step of any quest. Basically, the guide shows you exactly where to go, what to do and how. The quests are all connected so that anyone, playing any class, can finish at leas 3-4 at one time, cutting a big chunk out of the traveling or grinding. To make the information for the quests more accurate, this Age of Conan Leveling Guide is enhanced with modified maps which show you the safest roads to follow, between your objectives.

Do you want to know how to reach level 50 in SWTOR as soon as possible? Well, even if this post isn’t exactly a step-by-step SWTOR leveling guide, you will surely find here a few bits of valuable information that will help you level a lot more faster. By the time you have finished reading this article, you’ll know what you have to do.

Probably just like yourself, no matter what MMO I play, my number one goal is to hit the level cap as quickly as possible, and have my character ready for end-game PvP and raiding. Needless to say, I have the same goal for Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Leveling in SWTOR isn’t too difficult, but just as in almost any other MMO, it’s the same long and tedious process. Although Bioware has given a very neat storyline to each class, which also gives the game a very catchy atmosphere, if you get caught by it, it will take you a lot of time to reach level 50.

Ok, so let’s see…

What’s the Fastest Way to Level Up in SWTOR?

Not surprisingly, it’s questing (or completing missions, to put it in SWTOR terms). And SWTOR quests don’t have a high level of difficulty, in general, featuring quite a distinctive central leveling path. But there are always hidden objectives that can take a lot of time to discover, and shortcuts that can make your leveling process much easier and bring you a high XP rating. That’s when a SWTOR leveling guide comes in.

Plus, if you know how to alternate your questing sessions with warzones and flashpoints sessions, you will also be able to keep a peaked XP rating. This aspect is also covered excellently by a SWTOR leveling guide I’ve been using.

SWTOR Fast Leveling Tips

Knowing questing shortcuts or the exact location of certain quest bosses or objectives isn’t enough though, to have a quick progression in Star Wars: The Old Republic. There are also a few rules that I’ve learned by using a SWTOR leveling guide, that I’m going to share here.

1. If you want fast leveling, skip all the NPC talking in each quest. Pressing “space” allows you to do that. Sadly, I wasn’t able to find out about the “skip-talking” command only on my second day of SWTOR. Every time I asked about it in the game chat, the trolls that were everywhere, gave me only erroneous advice, like: “Press ALT + F4, that’ll do!”

2. Enable area loot. Looting a large pack of corpses one by one will considerably slow you down.

3. Choose an AoE specialization for leveling.

4. Although most classes have at least one basic healing ability, it’s always a good idea to have medpacks with you. Dying after you have cleared a cave full of mobs, right before you complete your objective really sucks, and doing it over and over again will surely slow you down.

Now, to level fast in SWTOR isn’t that difficult. But in order to do that, it’s best to know exactly where to go and what to do, when to join a warzone or a flashpoint, and what quests to complete, especially in flashpoints.

If you are familiar with World of Warcraft and play you already know why Alchemy is needed and why it’s a good profession to get. You can make flasks, potions, and other helpful items that you can sell for gold on the Auction House, give to your guild, or use for yourself. There are lots of different items you can make and there’s something you can make that is helpful for every race and class.

With Cataclysm all professions have had their maximum skill levels increased to 525, this means that once again you must level up. I’ll be honest with you, compared to some of the professions Alchemy is a bit more complex to level up. It’s not that the items to make contain difficult materials to find or even that you’ll need to spend a lot of gold leveling up, but rather it requires you to level up using many different recipes.

In fact, I suggest that you make 13 different recipes just to level from 450-525, there are even some options in there that give you even more possible recipes to create. The good news, as I said before is that the mats aren’t rare and the recipes are simple and from the trainer. You will however, need to farm for the materials with Herbalism or buy them off the Auction House, which at this point in the expansion will cost you a lot of gold. So at this point your best bet is to get out there and farm for your herbs.

In this article you will discover the best ways to level up your Cooking skills in Cataclysm. This article will focus on the high end levels (450-525) so if you are curious about the best way to level before then I suggest that you level Fishing and Cooking at the same time as it’s a lot easier than just farming meat and trying to cook it.

Leveling from 450-525

The easiest and fastest way to level your Cooking for these levels is to fish for your materials. Of course if you have a lot of gold you can afford to spend you can just buy a lot of meat on the Auction House and not spend any time collecting your materials. For most people, however, fishing will be the best bet for getting your materials as it is a lot faster than grinding for meat.

It’s important to note that you cannot level from 450-525 with any recipes besides the ones that are bought from a vendor with Chef’s Awards. This means that you will need to complete Cooking Dailies in either Stormwind or Orgrimmar, depending on whether or not you are Horde or Alliance. These dailies are very easy to complete but you only get 1-2 Chef’s Awards per daily so it will take you several days to get all the recipes you need since you’ll need to buy at least three recipes to level up to 525 (this is true whether you level with meats or fish).

The recipes that you purchase to level up with are really up to you, since you can decide where you want to fish. You will need to buy one recipe at 450, another recipe at 475, and finally your last recipe required for leveling at 500. So all you need to do really is to be mindful and purchase a new recipe at each of those levels. It’s simple.

When you choose your professions in World of Warcraft, one of the most helpful is Blacksmithing as you’re able to make some very powerful high-level weapons and armor for your characters. Trying to level up your Blacksmithing profession unassisted can mean you spend large amounts of time and in-game gold getting nowhere. In order to save you from wasting your gold and materials, you should use a WoW blacksmith guide to help you on your way.

There are inexperienced players in WoW who spend large amounts of time and in-game gold buying items in an effort to level up their Blacksmithing profession, only to find out that they’ve either bought the wrong materials or spent too much time mining for ores that won’t help their blacksmithing needs. Using a WoW blacksmith guide will help you find the exact materials you need without wasting any of your gold on buyingthe wrong materials on the Auction House.

When you first learn your Blacksmithing profession, a WoW blacksmith guide will tell you that you’ll need to find plenty of Rough Stone and Coarse Stone for the first few things you learn to make. These stones can be mined easily on your own if you also learn the Mining profession at the same time. Each time you mine rocks and veins of copper or silver as a new miner, you’ll end up finding plenty of stone. While most other miners will throw these away or sell them, you can use them to level your Blacksmithing profession very quickly up to around level 75.

At this level, you should visit a trainer to upgrade your Apprentice Blacksmith status up to Journeyman. You should also have collected a lot of copper during your initial mining efforts. If you read ahead in your WoW blacksmith guide, you’d already know you’ll need quite a lot of copper bars once you reach level 90, so be sure you don’t sell the copper ore you smelt. Keep the bars at the bank until you need them.

You’ll find that your mining skill will increase quickly so that you’ll be mining silver and tin very quickly. Keep these and smelt them into bars. If you can smelt tin and copper to create bronze bars, then begin doing this as your WoW blacksmith guide will show you the blacksmithing patterns that will require silver and bronze bars to make several patterns too.

Your WoW blacksmith guide will outline exactly what materials you’ll need to get through each level, but aside from the raw stones and ore you’ll need, you may also need to buy other associated materials to mix with these to make the patterns.

At the lower levels, many of the items you’ll make can be helpful to your character. For example, a WoW blacksmith guide can show you how to make bronze leggings or bronze shoulder pad and bracers that can increase your armor. While these aren’t high level armor pieces, they will save you gold from having to buy them on the Auction House.

When your character reaches level 150, visit a trainer and upgrade your Journeyman status to Expert Blacksmithing. You’ll learn more difficult patterns that will make you some even higher-quality gear. At this level, finding and mining enough ore can be quite difficult, so you may need to buy any ore you need from the Auction House. This is where your WoW blacksmith guide can help you figure out exactly what you need and how many you should buy.

At level 220 you’ll need more training to upgrade from Expert up to Artisan Blacksmithing and you’ll probably need to consult your WoW blacksmith guide to find your nearest trainer for this. While the plans and patterns you’ll learn at this level are much more difficult to find the materials for, you should still benefit from making some great high-level armor. You can also consider specializing your Blacksmithing into weapon specialties when you reach level 300 and upgrade your training once again to Master Blacksmithing.

In this article we are looking at the Scavenging gathering skill and how you can level this up as well as make some credits from the Galactic Trade Network. Again, as with all of the gathering crew skills in SWTOR there are two ways that you can level them up.

The first is to level up the skill while you are heading from planet to planet doing your missions. If you are completing missions anyway this is the best way of leveling the skills simply because it will not cost you any credits.

However if you are already at a certain level and halfway through the game and you have just picked up a skill then you may not want to have to head back to the starting planets. If this is the case you can send out your companion and other crew members on Scavenging missions and they will deliver the rewards to you.

The only downside of this is that it will cost a lot of credits but you will get materials back that you can sell on the Galactic Trade Network for profits.

Here is a quick run through of how you can level the Scavenging skill using the crew skill missions:

Scavenging Levels 1-100

You can get to level 100 fairly easily through the crew skills missions and all you need to do is send out your crew members for each quest. You will get in return mostly Grade 1 materials at this point.

These materials include:

Silica

Desh

Laminiod

Aluminium

These materials you can then sell on the GTN (Galactic Trade Network) and you will find that Silica and Desh sell very well but at this stage you will not make a fortune!

To complete the missions and get to level 100 in Scavenging you will need about 15,000 credits.

Scavenging Levels 100-200

Same plan for levels 100-200 simply send out your crew members on missions. You will notice that the mission costs go up and you will need about 25,000 credits to get this skill up to 200. The good news is that the materials you get will be Grade 2 and these will sell for more credits.

The materials that you will be rewarded at this stage will be:

Plastoid

Bronzium

Chanlon

Plasteel

You may also be lucky enough to get some grade 3 scavenging items at this point which are:

Lacqerous

Phobium 

Scavenging Levels 200-300

When you are sending out your crew members for missions now you will see that the time it takes to complete each mission is a lot longer than previous levels. You will also need about 50,000 credits if you are going to level all the way to 300 using the crew skill missions.

Again the materials that you get back will be better quality and this time you can expect to collect:

Bondite

Fibermesh

Resinite

Diatium

The items above are Grade 4 Scavenging materials and at this stage you may also get some Grade 5 materials which are:

Electrum

Polyplast

Amorphous Carbonite

Neutronium 

Scavenging Levels 300-400

You are nearly there! All you need now is 75,000 credits if you want to level to 400 at this point. You will also notice that the time it takes to level up this crew skill is about 30 mins a mission so it really does take a long time.

Remember though that the time will run even when you are logged out of the game so you can send your companion away on a mission and log out then you will be able to collect the materials next time you log in.

You will get mostly Grade 5 items as the list shows above but you will also get top level grade 6 Scavenging items at this point which are:

Zal Alloy

Durasteel

These materials are Grade 6 and for best results you can pop over to the GTN and sell these for big profits. Just make sure that the marketplace is not too crowded when you list your items.

So there you have it!

You will now be level 400 in Scavenging!

Leveling Scavenging From The Planets

If you don’t want to have to spend all of these credits and want to level Scavenging through actually going to the planets and gathering the items I will give you a run through of where you should be for each level:

Scavenging By Gathering – Levels 1-75

You should head over to Dromund Kaas if you are Empire or Coruscant if you are Republic to level this skill up to 75. All you need to do is make sure you have the resource tab clicked on the map and you will see plenty of nodes here!

You can actually get to level 100 if you want to from these two planets.

Scavenging By Gathering – Levels 75 -175

Now you should head over to Taris to get up to 125. The only reason you are doing this is because the nodes seem to be that little bit higher in level and you will find it easier to level than staying on the starting planets.

You will normally find that you run out of nodes on Taris or they get too low a level to be of any use and when this happens you should head over to Nar Shaddaa. You will then be able to get to level 175 with ease and all you need to do is run laps around the Red Light District where you do your first few missions and that should level you up fast.

Scavenging By Gathering – Levels 175 -250

Next up you need to head over to Tattooine – now again you can turn on the Resource tab on your map but one thing you will notice about this planet is the size of it! In short if you want to gather nodes here for Scavenging then you need to make sure you have a speeder.

If you don’t then I recommend that you try and level up to 250 using your mission skills as in the guide above.

Scavenging By Gathering – Levels 250-300

Now to get to 300 you need to head over to Balmorra and things are not too tricky here just more of the same. You should aim to level up to 300 here and then you can complete the last 100 levels. If you have a speeder then it will not take you very long to level up to 300 on Balmorra.

Scavenging By Gathering – Levels 300-400

You are nearly there!

Depending on the side you are playing you will need to head over to Corellia or Ilum. Now these are level 50 planets and because of that the mobs that you find here will be fairly tough. Another annoying aspect is that they always seem to be around the nodes that you are trying to get too!

Nonetheless you should quickly dispatch them at this point and gather the resources. You can also do a little bit of gathering and some missions where you send your crew members out to speed this up.

Once you have got to 400 you have done it!

Congratulations you have now maxed out the scavenging crew skill!

Republican politician Newt Gingrich is known to tell a story about a lion and a field mouse; a lion can use his hunting skills to easily capture a field mouse with ease any time he desires, but at the end of the day, no matter how many mice he's gotten, he will still be starving.

What Newt's story means: sometimes despite the risk and the work needed, it's worth our time to go for the antelope.

Are you still chasing your mice, playing it safe and finding convenient reasons to wait to chase your antelope? Are you starving to make the impact you are born to make?

What wall of your comfort zone will you need to bust through in order to leap to the next higher level of your life?

It could be that you need to reach beyond your current circle of influence by connecting with those that play one or two levels up from where you are right now. Or, it might be that you need to step up your visibility and create a more public image to draw a larger following of your own. Most likely you need both. We all do.

While nothing is more powerful than a face-to-face meeting with those whom you want to influence or collaborate with, it is sometimes impossible to find the time, or the access in the case of a high-ranking personality, to arrange an in -person meeting.

The solution is video and visual media.

Putting yourself and your service, product or company in a pitch video can be the door opener to sponsors or investors and sharing your knowledge by informative videos in the form of tips, FAQs, and how-to's in your field of expertise. Even stepping out as a guest expert on TV, will get you recognized as an expert and a leader in your field.

If placing yourself out there as the star of your video presentation has you feeling uneasy and anxious, you may be looking at your biggest hurdle to getting your antelope!

Here are three things to help you take action now:

Video trumps written word . Reality is, people click on a video three times more than an article link on Facebook or in email. You want your message to reach your tribe. Delivery in a format we prefer seems to be a no-brainer.

The time is now, or you may not have a "later." If this next prediction scares you, good. Last month a New York-based media research firm estimated that if you do not utilize video on your website with in the next 17 months, your video-friendly competition will pull so far ahead it might be impossible to catch up. Seem harsh? Remember how quickly we adjusted from VHS quality to DVD? Don't be the one with the outdated delivery system.

Help is out there. For many people, putting themselves out there as the star of their pitch video, interview circuit, or even website greeting is outside of their comfort zone. Experts can feel like a fish out of water when it comes to talking to, or in front of, a video or TV camera, and that's understandable. After all, the people we see as most at ease on TV have been trained for years to appear that way. Well, the pressure is on, and the good news is that training is available for you, Find someone to work with you who not only knows the basic skills of on-camera training but who can understand your brand and help you to shine with all of your strengths and uniqueness like no one else can.

Your antelope is in sight. Go for it.