Online videos offer one of the best platforms for connecting with your customer and building a solid clientele.
It is becoming the newest and innovative marketing medium allowing business owners to communicate with their viewers on many different levels using music, visual imagery and visual text.
Online video allows you to reach out to the global audience with a minimal investment, thus increasing your ROI tremendously. You are no longer restricted to demographics.
You dont have to be Steven Spielberg, but of course knowing how to edit the video and add special effects by way of graphics, music, distribution channels, and specialized text would give you the edge over other businesses that use online videos for marketing.
Although there are no restrictions as to the kind of video you may produce for the purpose of marketing, remember the main aim of the video is to generate more business by keeping the customer engaged. With this in mind, it’s critical that the video should be riveting enough to hold the viewers attention and yet it should remain relevant to your area of business.
Creativity is the key to a successful video. Stay focused on creating a vehicle that delivers the right message. If the message is lost, you’ll have a successful video but it will be one that does not generate any business.
You could choose to make a video ad that features a demonstration of how the product works and all its benefits. The human face and voice are the elements that add immense value to a product description. Or you could simply do a very nice presentation using power point and other images from your web site.
However, making a video is not enough to generate increased website traffic. It’s in the marketing of the video that makes all the difference. The following ways can help you generate publicity for your web video:
- Write an interesting blog or respond to other blogs that are relevant to your business.
- Submitting your video to a multitude of video websites including video sharing sites and Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, Myspace) as well as those sites that use voting systems to promote content.
- Article marketing is another great way to create backlinks to your website, which helps Google see that your page is important and should be ranked higher, thus increasing its Search Engine ranking
The benefits to web 2.0 marketing are many, one of which is a longer held position in the Search Engines, if the Marketing campaign is maintained, new videos posted, your website could be seeing more traffic for the long-term of your business.
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2 responses so far ↓
1 DJ // Aug 3, 2010 at 9:48 am
Great post!
With YouTube now nearing or surpassing the number of searches on Google, having video is even more important than ever.
2 Craig de Borba // Aug 5, 2010 at 3:07 pm
Thats right..
and with Google owning Youtube you will do very well to establish a strong video channel
Thanks for the comment
Craig
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