02 March 2014

Benefit From Your Creativity Through Video Marketing

By Anitra McHargue


Businesses looking need to use this method nowadays. Customers love to watch videos, and they are a fast and easy way to communicate with your audience. If you are ready to get started in video marketing, the advice in the following article is a must.

Remember to be genuine in your videos. If you make yourself easy to relate to, people will enjoy watching your videos. Be honest and real about who you are and what it is exactly that you are marketing. People will most likely not want to deal with you if you seem like you are hiding something.

Use events such as expos and trade shows to interview experts. You can then post the interviews on your site as a resource for your viewers. Ask the types of questions that your audience would ask and try to keep the interview as interesting as you can to hold your viewer's attention.

When your customers ask the same thing over and over again, create a video to answer them. This will allow them to quickly solve their problems without having to email or call your company. This saves you money in customer support and builds rapport with both current and potential customers.

If you are new to video marketing, don't worry too much about the equipment you are using. You do not need a professional television or movie camera to do video marketing. A simple camera will work just fine, as long as it can deliver good quality digital videos. A webcam is never a good idea for video marketing. Be natural! The more fake or contrived you appear; the less likely viewers are to watch your whole video. If you can't read a script without sounding like a dork, then don't. Stick to who you are and represent yourself and your company and the video will turn out great.

Interact with your viewers on YouTube by enabling comments. You should go through your comments regularly and answer to questions or simply thank users for their feedback. Do not hesitate to delete negative comments so users feel comfortable about sharing their opinion. You should also pay attention to any video posted as a response to yours and perhaps feature it if it is relevant to your topic.

Create some how-to videos that are relevant to your business. This will help you out because there are many people out there who use the internet to figure out how to do a certain task. By creating how-to videos, you will assist someone with a certain task and in return they will now know about your company.

Establish some criteria to determine if your videos are successful or not. Sure, you can make some good guesses about how you're doing. Hard data, however, is a much better way to figure out if you are hitting the mark. View counts and view times are necessary pieces of data for measuring.

Since you are more informed about video marketing, you're ready to start making videos. These tips aren't the be all and end all of video marketing, however. There is always more to learn about video marketing. The more you know the better off you will be in business.




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