Audio streaming is a cool feature you can add to your web site. This can add value to your web pages and can give convenience to your visitors. Streaming audio can help you provide long information to your customers and explain in depth your services and product features. It is very helpful especially if you are into affiliate marketing and you want to introduce step by step the methods and benefits of your program. Here are 3 important first steps when utilizing audio streaming:

1. Find a program that can record and place streaming audio on your site using live audio from a microphone, telephone conversation or phone-ins, and recorded audio clips. There are programs that provide these functions. You can use phone-ins to collect testimonials which are a very good sales strategy.

2. It will also help your site if you can have an audio streaming program that records the audio file on a separate server. This will not strain your site from very high bandwidth use especially if many people are listening to your audio. It would be great if your streaming audio files can be hosted on a dedicated server and delivered to your site without using too much bandwidth.

3. Stay clear of audio programs that can not compress audio clips. You will have difficult time loading these audio clips and it will further strain your web site. A good audio streaming program makes use of compression technology in order to deliver good quality audio at a smaller file size.