One of the things on every ecommerce seller’s “to-do” list is to create an ecommerce product video. Amazon and other online retail partners have given you a place to put product videos for ecommerce on your sales page. They strongly recommend video, even if the implementation is a little weak. There are lots of stats…
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How to Consistently Create Awesome Video Content for Your Business
For social media to work, you need to create regular content. With so many marketing messages, it is easy for people to forget about you, but being there every week in a valuable way keeps you top of mind and builds relationships over time. Creating a tweet or taking a photo for Instagram is easy…
9 Myths Companies Believe about Online Video Marketing
Social media changes so fast that, often, what you know about it is wrong the second after you learn it. Video is the most effective form of online content, but online video marketing is also the hardest of all the types of social media content to create. With so much content uploaded to social media…
How to Create a Social Media B2B Video Sales Funnel
Need an extremely effective sales funnel? Try using video. Learn how to create a video sales funnel that will convert lookers into buyers.
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How to Grow Your Personal Brand with Video
How to grow your personal brand isn’t just something you should think about when you need to find a new job. Personal branding is all about your reputation and staying at the top of people’s minds throughout your career. With social media, we can now market ourselves online in a way that was once only…
How to Succeed with Linkedin Video
If you call LinkedIn advertising the greatest gift to B2B businesses since direct mail, you wouldn’t be far off. The ability to advertise to people based on their job title is a great marketing and sales opportunity. The addition of a built-in video player in 2017 made LinkedIn even more powerful and it provides a…
How to Make a Successful Marketing Video for YouTube
I love to help brands be successful on YouTube. YouTube is the hardest of all the social media platforms to win at. Most brands are just throwing videos at YouTube hoping it will work. There are experts out there who say you just need content. None of them teach you how to make a successful…
What Your Brand Needs to Know About IGTV
It is hard to deny that Instagram is on a roll. They just hit 1 billion monthly users. The announcement of IGTV shouldn’t have come as a surprise to anyone. Facebook said a few years ago that all their properties were making the move to be video first it looks like IGTV is the next…
10 Ways to Grow Your YouTube Channel Today
10 Ways to Grow Your YouTube Channel Today Businesses need to decide how they want to use YouTube. Is it a video storage site or a social media site? Most companies treat it like it’s for video storage. It is ok if this is how you are going to use YouTube, but you can’t grow…
A Guide to Eleven Types of eCommerce Product Videos
I remember a conversation I had with Amazon in 2010 for a client and how important Amazon thought video was, even back then for product sales. Fast forward to today and product video is an even more important part of your conversation optimization strategy for every eCommerce site and with social media. As retailers, we…
How to Use Video on LinkedIn for Maximum Results
Maybe it is just the company I keep but there has been a lot of talk about using video in social media. While Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube may be dominating the conversation, video on LinkedIn is a great way to get your profile or posts to stand out. There are three places that you can…
The YouTube Ad Crisis: Will Big Brands Kill YouTube?
Advertisers are boycotting YouTube to make a statement. It’s not just a couple of them, either. It’s more than 250 brands. Brands like PepsiCo, Starbucks, Wal-Mart, and McDonald’s have pulled their advertising from YouTube. It has been estimated that it could be costing Google, who owns YouTube, $750 million. Others have said this controversy won’t…
What I Have Learned From Creating a YouTube Reality Show
The hardest part of creating a video is figuring out what to create. The next hardest part is bringing that idea back down to reality and making it something you can afford. I have recently launched a new YouTube reality show called “Shoot For Broke.” It is a behind the scenes look at what a…
Animation or Real People in Your Online Video: Which is More Effective?
Videos are useful for explaining a product, service or idea, and there are many different ways to create a video. One of the common questions companies ask about video is regarding using real people or some type of animation. Can I put my own executives on camera if they don’t have any “acting” experience? Are…
How to Make YouTube Videos That Stand Out from the Crowd
Since Google purchased YouTube, those willing to take a risk of creating a video have been rewarded in different ways. In the early days, after the purchase, you could place a video on YouTube and have it show up on the first page of the Google search results for the keyword of your choice within…
Who Is Your Target Audience For Your Corporate Videos?
Who is the target for your corporate videos? It takes an understanding of how people buy. We know that people buy emotionally, not rationally. I know this to be true when I look at my auto loans each month. We also know that people don’t like to be sold to but they love to buy. …
Six YouTube Tools and Tips For Social Media Success
It seems that YouTube gets overlooked as a social network despite the fact that it is the most popular of the video sharing sites. (Vimeo is second.) In fact, seventy-two hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute, but not enough of it is from marketers. It’s tie for marketers to leverage YouTube tools….