Video testimonials are like gold nuggets for your business. Every one adds credibility and authority to you – and we’ve mentioned many times that this is the currency you want to be dealing in online; you NEED it to make sales.
There is a definite strategy to making good customer testimonials that sell your business and that begins with knowing what to ask.
Try the eight questions below for size, first of all: Read More>>
Web video equipment needn’t cost you a fortune; but there are certain essentials you’ll want, to make decent-looking and sounding video that helps you get your message across.
Below we take you through the basic equipment that you’ll need; you can spend as little as about a thousand dollars on this…or the sky’s the limit at the upper end of the range! Read More>>
Being a perfectionist is great in some areas, but I find that when it comes to business video making, it can be used as a reason not to do anything at all!
The only thing worse for your business than bad web video is no web video, so it can often be a case of biting the bullet and just getting started.
Typical Reasons Not To Start
We hear many reasons why businesses have not yet started a web video strategy:
“We don’t have the right equipment”
“We haven’t found the right video production company to help us”
“We’re waiting for the end of the financial year”
“We just need to get “this” out of the way …then we’ll….”
“We want to read up a bit/go on a course/find some tutorials so that we get it right…”
It’s true that every Tom, Dick and Harry can have their own video channel these days; but very few businesses go about YouTube channel optimisation the right way to make theirs stand out in the crowd.
Remember that your channel is important for promoting videos that drive potential customers to your website so optimizing this process is an integral part of generating traffic.
Below we look at a few strategies you can use to make sure that you are on the map when it comes to online channels that make an impact. Read More>>
You’ve spent time planning, shooting and editing your video; it’s been uploaded to YouTube and is looking great on your channel! Now – it’s time to sit back and watch the viewers flock to view it, right?
Not quite so fast! Video optimization is a key component of video marketing as you need to give your creations the maximum chance of appearing in YouTube search results.
Remember that YouTube is a “vertical” search engine, meaning a search engine that delivers results for one type of medium only– online video.
Therefore many of the rules of optimizing video are similar to the rules of on-page SEO for your website – much of the emphasis is on using the right keywords in the right places.
Here are five of the main guidelines to get your video ranking: Read More>>
We have covered in another blog post about how to optimize YouTube video in a non-competitive business area – but sometimes there are some “buzz” areas that attract a lot of videos; this makes it harder for your videos to rank and therefore, unless you learn some “guerilla warfare” tactics, your video will be rustled out of town!
Optimizing for keywords in the title, description and tags is all well and good most of the time. Most people uploading to YouTube don’t even do that.
But for some areas – usually where the stakes are higher and the “big boys” are involved – it helps to know what YouTube is on the lookout for in its algorithm. Read More>>
Web video may be the “buzz” topic out there these days but it’s amazing how few businesses know how to structure online video properly.
Remember that virtually everything that internet marketers do outside of their website should be designed to get as many as possible flocking to the website; it’s almost all about generating qualified traffic to your site.
So, just as with your social media marketing and PPC campaigns, your video needs to be structured to send people back to your website.
How do we do that? We focus on a few areas below. Read More>>
One of the tools that any new web-based business needs to get to grips with early on in the game is online video marketing.
Web video is rapidly becoming just as important to your business as having a website and soon it will be so mainstream that you will look outdated if your website DOESN’T feature it.
Therefore it helps to have a basic action plan to work to. The below details should help. Read More>>
It’s no joke when it comes to producing viral content. It’s serious business. Not! This is the one area of your business where you can really let your hair down and, god forbid, have some fun.
We live in a society where most people know the tricks of the marketing trade. It’s pretty hard to fool anybody these days, so the old-school methods of advertising are seen as out-of-date and out-of-touch with today’s “YouTube” society. Transparency is key in the online marketing world and valuing your audience’s time is a very important step to producing viral content that engages, entertains and informs your target market.
The aim of the game is to create content that your target audience would want to watch regardless of whether or not it was branded by your business. Entertainment, these days, outweighs information. Just look at all the crap on Youtube with 20 million views a pop. The point is to create an entertaining video to convey your message. If it’s not entertaining, chances are, people will not watch it.
Producing viral content is the future of marketing. So go ahead, have some fun with it!
You do not have to be a pro to edit YouTube videos.
Some new video editing tools just released by the folks at YouTube make it even easier for video-making novices to get their videos looking sharper, snazzier and more professional.
These new browser-based tools won’t be getting professional video producers salivating; but they are aimed at the other 99 % of people out there who don’t have specific video editing software and are not yet in the groove of making professional-quality YouTube videos for their business.
We would hope that if you’ve been following this blog over the past few months you have built up enough knowledge to elevate you above the standard YouTube video-uploader; certainly if you have been through the Lights Camera Profits! DVD then you know more than most. Read More>>