Thursday, January 30, 2014

Try Your Hand With Video Marketing After Reading These Tips

By Catherin Olmeda


Have you heard of using video marketing to help grow your business? There are many things you can do, and there are many things you need to know and not leave out as well. Don't think you know enough, as part of learning is to continue learning and growing with the current trends.

If you plan to make marketing videos, they need to be brief and concise. Many folks have small attention spans and need to grab relevant information rapidly. If you can't possibly keep your video brief, consider breaking it into several smaller videos that people can watch in segments.

Your videos will become popular if you share them efficiently. You should create an account on YouTube and on other similar sites your audience uses, feature your videos on your site or blog and share them on social networks. If possible, get other bloggers and people who are influential on social networks to share your videos.

Encourage your viewers to comment on your video and share it with friends. The more buzz your video generates, even if it is slanted negatively, can be very advantageous. Sharing the video helps spread your message to other people with no effort on your part, and people are more likely to view something sent from a friend.

One way to get content for a video is to find a team to work with. Your team doesn't have to consist of people you work with. You can solicit family and friends as well. Be sure that proper credit is given to the creative team involved, allowing them their 15 minutes of fame.

People love to share videos, so use them in place of any other correspondence you currently engage in. If you plan to announce something big, do it on video! Want to answer a customer query? If you can, make it public through a video. The more videos you make, the better.

Never, never, never try to sell your viewers something in your video. Instead, offer your visitors something worthwhile such as a demonstration of how to do something or how to use a product. By offering relevant information, your visitors are more apt to visit your website, which could in turn result in a sale.

One of the best pieces of advice about video marketing is to keep it real. Make a script, rehearse it, and then shoot your video. That's all there is to it. You will end up looking over produced and fake if you do more than that. Real is honest and reliable.

Grab the audience's attention early in your videos. The key to this is to "pull them in" within the first 10 seconds of a video. You need to do something within this time frame that will leave them in awe and wanting more. Once you have their attention, you must keep them engaged by having interesting and important information in the rest of the video.

As was previously talked about in the opening paragraph, video marketing is an absolutely fantastic way to increase both sales and profits. As a business owner, you are making a mistake if you neglect to utilize this proven to be effective marketing technique. By applying everything you've learned from this article you can make big-time money!




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