Thursday, March 10, 2011

3 Video Marketing Suggestions that Provide Great Payoffs

Video marketing has been in existence for quite a while. There are many Internet marketers who are taking advantage of videos to promote their products/services. In this article, we will be talking about ways to improve your video marketing results.

One of the biggest pros of video marketing is that videos are ranked higher by the search engines. It's hard to believe but the search engines rate text lower than videos. As a successful video internet marketer, you must benefit from this fact and give the search engines a lot of fresh videos that will put you in the top rankings. You can do this by including your keywords where ever you can. Beginning with the title of video, you must put your main keyword in the title because search engines give a lot of strength to the title for ranking purposes.

Remember your goals when you are creating your video marketing campaigns. The real plan is to drive traffic to your site. You are only creating videos in order to improve your advertising plans. This is why adding a wonderful call to action in your videos is extremely vital. Don't make the assumption that viewers will totally grasp what you are saying and go to your site. No they aren't mind readers; you have to provide instructions in your call to action. For example, if you really want your viewers to sign up for your newsletter, then use your call to action to send them to your website. Add your call to action in a numerous places of your video, but don't forget to put it on the very end so that it will have a lasting effect on your viewers. A smart way to accomplish this is to create a longer video , so that your viewers won't be rushed and can get your info and visit your website. Also, there are marketing tools that can be used to embed your link or subscription form right into your video. Yes, if you use these types of tools, you can push your video's conversion rate over the top. So, if you can purchase these tools, you should make a great investment and use them to your benefit. But,if you opt to do it the old fashioned way, just make sure that you put your call to action into your video. Don't forget to sample plenty of call to action messages because you don't really know which ones will have the better conversion ratings.

The main reason videos don't make a good impression when they are used to market things is that they either go off on some tangent or they are pure fluff. You want a video that gets to the point quickly, not a video that rambles on. People like to consume information in small doses when they are on the internet--no matter if it is through video or text. If you want the best results from your video, focus on the positive selling points. Don't waste a lot of time on the introduction, just get to the point. It's important for your video to have a unique selling point or a USP, which is why you should try and work on giving away this USP in the first 10 seconds of the video. Everybody has moments when they have to fight the urge to keep talking and creating content. Don't give in to this, the overall goal of the video is to send traffic to the website. You want to leave the viewer wanting more.

Producing the video is only for starters; you must then make corrections in order for it to be perfect. Utilize this time to embed links, create a call to action or edit the video time. Your second or third draft after editing it will make the video look and sound more professional. A simple idea that you can apply is to create your video and sleep on it. Within the next few hours or days return to your video; you will be able to see things that should be added or revised. This is just an important step to maintain the quality and to make sure the call to action is in the right place. The final aspect of creating your video will greatly add to your video's success so don't forget the make video corrections.

In addition to the title, what else usually grabs the attention of most users when they are browsing through videos?It's the thumbnail! Yes, that is right; the thumbnail could determine if your video is a success or an failure. This occurs because many people will open a video that has an thumbnail image that they like. But this doesn't mean that you should go ahead and mislead them by adding a thumbnail that passes on a different message. Your aim here is to give them the exact message and at the same time get them curious about the video.

These may seem like easy things to do, but if done correctly, you could get many views in the future. So keep your focus on quality, rather than quantity.



To Your Success
Kamal Todary
http://www.lessons2success.ws


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