Insider Marketing Tips

When creating your web video there are some key points that you will want to keep in mind. These key points will address areas that you need to make sure are included in your web video. Your web video is another marketing tool for you to acquire new customers/clients and if your video fails to hit its mark, then you could lose out. So take the time to implement these key points into your web video.

Presenting your product or service is one area that you need to focus on when creating a web video. You need to make sure that your video shows the viewer what the product you are selling is or the service you are offering.

We have all seen those high dollar commercials on television that are presenting a product or service and the commercial in no way related to the product or service. This is not a good idea when creating a video, after all if your viewers cannot remember your product or service then you will lack sales from the video. So avoid the mistakes that are being made by even high dollar companies and make sure that your product or service is presented in a way that your viewers will remember.

Demonstrate the product or service so that the viewer can see how the product or service will help them. You see it all the time in television commercials how a made up scenario is created to demonstrate how the service helps those in the said situation. You can do this also even if you have no one else to play actor/actress in your video. Just use still pictures or bold text that scrolls into the center of the video as you do a voice over narration.

Announcing any specials, grand opening or other special events that your store or business is offering can also is utilized with web videos and drive potential customers/clients to your business. Just make sure that the video captures the fact that this is a special event and time is limited!

If your business is trying to recruit new people to work for them, then you can use your web video to invite new people to check out your business and give them an over view of what your business is and what the opening there is.

A key point to remember when creating a video such as this is to introduce yourself. People like business that are personal and by introducing yourself and telling them a little about you will make them more likely to check your business out. Make sure that you are also not to evasive in what your business does. No one likes to watch a video that is inviting them to sign up and work for that business if they are not gaining any insight into what they will be expected to do.

When it comes to the overall run time of your video you need to keep it to no longer than five minutes. This will ensure that the viewer actually watches all of your video. Most of the people on the web do not have the time to spend watching a video that is longer than five minutes. The ones that do have the time will probably move on if your video is any longer than that. So keep it under five minutes while still implementing everything you need to in your video.

Your video should be unique. As I keep mentioning on the unique aspect when discussing several areas that have to do with web videos. Unique means that to the viewer it will be fresh and new, this will make the viewer want to watch and pay attention to your video. If your video is stale and seems to be regurgitated information that they have heard or seen before then the viewer is going to move on. This is key factor in the success of your video to generate you new customers/clients.

When your video is complete, check to make sure that there is a call to action in your video. You need to basically in a tactful way ask the viewer to do something. This can be suggesting for more information that they visit your website, they call you to get started or for a commercial. Take Mt. Dews commercials, they all have a call to action, for this company that call to action is their slogan” Do the Dew”. Make sure that you have a call to action that your viewers can understand and respond to though when placing your call to action in your video.

When it comes to producing a web video, you need invest not only money but time into the production of the web video. But how much time should be invested into each section of the web video. By breaking down your time into percentages, you can see just where the majority of you time needs to be invested.

With a percentage base of 100 percent you break your time down to 50-15-20-15. 50 percent of your time will be devoted to the content and production of you web video. 15 percent of your time will be devoted to Metadata of your web video. 20 percent of your time will be devoted to the thumbnail and the last 15 percent will go to the promotion of your web video.

Your content and production time should be spent on creating the storyline of your video, setting the right lighting and props and of course the actual production. As production does not always go right the first time this is why so much of your time is going to go here.

The metadata of your web video consist of the title, keywords, categories and even the web video description. Your web video will need an appropriate title that will help viewers remember your company’s name. Keywords should be used that describe your web video so that the search engines will recognize your web video. This is especially true if you are placing your web video on video sharing social sites. Your video when placed on these social sites should have an accurate description.

The thumbnail is basically the way you place your video within a web page. This is the dressing of your web video that will make people want to watch your video and see what you have to share with them. This is an important part that is why you will spend 20 percent of your time on this aspect of your web video.

The remaining percent of your time will go on the promotion of your web video. After all what good is your video if not very many people are seeing it. So you need to utilize every available tool at your disposal to promote your web video.