Tuesday, July 20, 2010

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online marketing videos and marketing by video



The trend in popular reality shows on TV has blossomed into the universe of the Internet. People watch as many things online as they do on TV. Your small business can take advantage of this trend by using online marketing videos. You'd be amazed at how many hours people spend watching videos online, and there's no reason your small business can't capitalize on this. In March, 2010, Americans alone watched over thirty-one billion online videos.


Thinking about that from the perspective of marketing, you can reach 180 million American users alone with online marketing videos. The way to accomplish this is not to create fictitious YouTube names and spam people with your video messages. You will only end up with suspended accounts and no YouTube access that you can use.


As you spend more time on online marketing videos, your company will become more valuable than it was when you used standard Google results. The difference is known as Time On Site. When people search for a keyword or other term, your company only has three seconds to grab their interest. And that is only possible if you're on page one of the results.


Focusing on YouTube users gives you more time to grab the attention of potential customers. As they are browsing the site, you have more time to help your online marketing videos appeal to them. Your videos will need to appear professional, though, even if you make them yourself. Just throwing video content on YouTube or similar sites will not get interested traffic to your website. Making good marketing videos is an art, so don't be afraid to spend the time needed to learn to make them correctly.

When you take information that will bring customers to your business and put that in video form, you have taken the first step in marketing by video. After you make your video, or have it made professionally, you will submit it to social sites like YouTube, in order to gain traffic. This is done in much the same way as submitting articles to article submission sites.


The goal in marketing by video is to grab the attention of potential customers, while they are online, possibly browsing other videos. Creating videos that look professional takes practice, but you can use articles you have written – or have had written for you – to inspire your videos. This will make it easier to focus on the ideas you want to bring across in your videos.


The main advantage you will have in using marketing videos is that they allow you to get right to the point, without wasting time. Rather than having web users go through pages of text, to find the message, it will be right up-front when you use marketing by video techniques. Marketing videos are useful when you decide to promote your company's products and services in a more assertive way. You can use videos to reach your prospects more easily, since more people turn to the Internet for fast information and for solutions to problems they may have.


 
Sean Allen  
Director of Social Media and Sales
Cell: 619 301 4533


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