Archive for year: 2014

Videos, or visual animations, are not something we see in large movie arenas, but can be used to gain attention from consumers for your company’s own benefit. If the object of your company is to attract your customers to aid in the growth of your business overall, contemplating various marketing strategies is essential to understanding what works best for both your company and your customers. In May’s article, it was discussed the disadvantages of using Adobe Flash Player on your company’s website, in June’s article we will be addressing the positive advantages video and visual images has on your core audience. Marketing strategies both develop and create growth for your company, and by looking at each months article, and taking what is discussed into consideration, your company can profit greatly from these articles alone. It is commonly known that there are three different types of learners, visual, auditory, and kinaesthetic – while each prefers to learn in a different style, they have one mutual trait in common: they want to learn. Most consumers want to know what they are buying before they purchase an item or use a service, so it is the company’s main duty to inform them and teach them what it is you are offering and how it can benefit them. Different types of learners may view your website to attain information, but they all might not learn in the same way; some may prefer to learn through visual means, some by listening, and others prefer to do what they see and learn through using the tools they are given. By addressing all three different types of learners, your company is ensuring that not a single consumer will visit your website and quickly exit because they are overwhelmed by the content and it does not suit their style of interpreting information. By using videos within your website your company is directly speaking to both auditory and visual learners, 75% of the world’s population (from 40 to 65 percent of the population are visual learners, 30 to 40 percent are auditory learners). Now in terms of creating videos for your company’s social media realm, there are some important key points to keep in mind and remember. If your customers want to continue to watch the web videos you post on either your website or a video hosting site such as Youtube, you want to be consistent. If you want reoccurring viewers, you need reoccurring videos – set a date and a time that you will upload videos and make it public. It is in this way that you develop an audience who becomes both interested and devoted to what you are offering and it upholds a sense of accountability to your company and the videos that it creates. When deciding what sort of videos your company is going to create, it’s important to think about your audience and what they are interested in learning about. By doing this, not only are you putting their interests as first priority but your rate

of success will evidently increase as you are most concerned about their wants and needs, and as a result, you will hit the correct target audience. Hitting the right target audience – this may seem challenging and even daunting to some, it might even prevent a company from creating websites as they may be doubtful of whether or not they would be viewed or watched and it’s understandable to question how they are going to target the right viewers. The answer is simple, it’s something called Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – the process of improving the visibility of a website with key phrases or terms in a search engine. By thinking about what your customer would be searching and what words they would use to look for what you company offers, you will be able to greater target these viewers and have your videos be among the first to be listed when searched within the search engine. Your goal is to be a good keyword copywriter, you want to come up with words that will direct customers to your website and once there, they will be able to view your content and see what exactly you are offering. Another important fact that many often seem to disregard is the title and description of your videos; a title that has unnecessary words and is too long not only distracts the customer away from your web video but its complexity can even be overwhelming. You want a title that is both short and to the point, but is catchy enough to invite the customer into wanting to read what you are offering. Like the title, the description should be neither too long, nor too short, a sufficient amount of information to give them an overall impression of what your video is about and why they would want to watch it. Finally, to be linkable is extremely essential as it concludes the overall goal of your video – the customer finishes watching what you have offered, they want to know more about your services and where to go to learn more – this is the goal, this is the end product, and the importance of having more content and even contact information is necessary as you now have a customer who is interested and wanting to know more. By keeping these simple steps in mind when creating videos, you will find yourself with a higher audience and as a result a higher amount of customers – target the right people, consider their learning skills, and put your customers at the front of your mind, and your videos will be successful and well watched.

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