Video marketing is one of the many tools in the Internet marketer’s arsenal, but is definitely one of the most popular.
Recent studies indicate that more than half (57%) of people have watched at least one video online at some point in their lives, while nearly one-fifth of people (19%) say they watch videos online every day.
These numbers are rapidly growing as more people are using the Internet and social media every day.
As much as society loves the television, computers are gradually taking over the device. If you have a newer model television, all it takes is a USB cable to connect your TV to your computer.
With a variety of online services and streaming websites out there, you can watch anything you want online, whether it’s your favorite show, new movies, or your local news cast.
Recent studies also project that more than half of people who watch a video they consider “good” will end up sharing the video with their friends via social media or email.
This is an example of how online videos can go viral, which is something we’ll talk about later in this book.
As the Internet has advanced, audio and video files are replacing text and graphics. This extremely powerful medium is something many marketers can use to send their online businesses from the bottom to the top.
Video Marketing Benefits
Video marketing has numerous benefits to marketers trying to promote their online businesses.
Video marketing allows you to highlight your products and services in both an informative and entertaining way.
Video response rates are higher than articles and blogs. Visitors are more likely to sit through a two-minute long video than to read a long blog post.
Videos allow you to better illustrate the concepts you’re trying to get across. Some niches are more difficult to convey in print, and those will benefit the most from video, because you will be able to show, rather than tell someone something.
If you’re in the business of “how tos” and other instructional videos, this is especially true.
Video marketing allows you to avoid Google’s duplicate content penalty. While there is some debate on whether this penalty actually exists, video content is not subject to the same rules as articles and blog posts.
This means you can take all the articles you use in your article marketing campaign and turn them into videos without penalty.
Videos make it easier for you to create new and fresh content regularly. If you are constantly trying to come up with something new to say in articles, this can be frustrating. To keep your website ranking high, you need to keep the fresh content rolling in, and videos allow you to do this without much effort on your part.
Videos allow you to capture your audience’s attention in a different way. If the visitors are used to reading print and seeing static images, using an audio and video approach will excite them because it is new and different from what they are used to.
This alone may be the deciding factor in what causes someone to become a paying customer.
Videos rank high with search engines. Most keyword phrases you search now feature at least one or two YouTube TM videos on the first page of results.
As such, you should be creating a few videos to target each one of the keywords you’re going after in your niche.
Creating a video doesn’t have to be an expensive endeavor. While you can go all out and stage a major production, it’s not necessary. You can do them for free or cheap.
It’s pretty safe to say the majority of the people out there reading this report will not have the budget to stage their own major production, but I do have some information later in this book that will help you create awesome videos.
Video sharing websites such as YouTube allow users to share their favorite videos on their social media websites, such as Facebook and Twitter TM.
This is how your videos go “viral.” If someone posts a video of their kitten doing something cute, sends it to a couple of friends and later finds out the video has over a million views within a week or two, then their video is now considered viral.
Though it may sound like it’s just too good to be true, the reality is, it happens all the time with videos!
Basically, when you create videos, other people will do the marketing for you when they recommend the video to friends, loved ones, and co- workers.
As their recommendations reach out to others in their network who they think may enjoy the video, the marketing spreads.
Video marketing is on the rise. It’s not quite the same golden nugget it used to be, so competition is getting close to the same brutality you find with print format.
But, there are still plenty of marketers out there who don’t take advantage of this tactic for whatever reason, so there’s no reason to avoid jumping on the bandwagon.
Videos will allow you to gain a lot of traffic with a decent conversation rate, without a lot of elbow grease.
Video websites such as Youtube seem to have a more sizable “community.” You will see plenty of videos with more than a thousand comments, and hundreds of responses to those comments.
The people who post the videos are out there talking with one another and forming active relationships. You don’t typically see this on the article marketing outlets.
Studies indicate video marketing increases traffic, sales, and opt-ins.
The majority of marketers who put a real effort into video marketing are happy with their return on investment (ROI.)
Video marketing allows you to show another side of your business and yourself, that you will never be able to showcase with text on a screen.
The addition of music and graphics can make things more exciting, which means your visitors will be more likely to really enjoy your content. Visitors who really enjoy the content you are sharing are much more likely to purchase whatever it is you’re selling.
