Good Info On How Videos Can Increase Sales

You have a fantastic product and a great Web site to promote it, but something is missing. Internet video marketing is quickly becoming a strong tool companies are using to attract leads or new customers through their Web sites. Some of the reasons video is an excellent resource to enhance your Web site include: 1. Modern technology has created a demand for new ways to promote materials and services. Now potential clients are skimming the Web and popular sites like YouTube at the office, in restaurants, on the bus and anywhere else they might be, while using handheld computers, smart phones and other devices. Having quality video on your site allows potential clients to view your business, product or services quickly and easily. Plus, video helps to boost your Web site in the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) rankings. 2. Videos can educate and create awareness in just two to three minutes, allowing you to tell about your product or service without wasting a lot of Web space or boring your viewers with a large block of text. A picture is worth 1,000 words, so just imagine how valuable a moving and audible picture can be. 3. Studies are finding that Web sites containing videos have better-educated shoppers making purchases and keeping those purchases without many returns. That means a better bottom line for your business. 4. It's not just the teenagers and 20-somethings viewing marketing videos. These interactive programs allow you to connect with customers of all ages on a more personal basis, which makes your customers feel the content on your site is more accessible. Plus, a video can be used just like a paid salesperson - without the employee expenses. If you're ready to bump your Web site up to a new level with video marketing, companies like Fathom SEO can work with you to develop the perfect video to promote your products or services. Fathom SEO's Internet video production and marketing team uses SEO principles and trenchant keywords for audio search indexing to market and increase your video's popularity, and they also convert actual Web site pages into videos for easy viewing on-site. These video pages are then distributed through video portals. Take a look at your Web site. Is it in need of conversation, better explanation of your product or services or stronger SEO rankings? Consider adding an Internet marketing video to make your Web site work smarter for your company. Courtesy of ARAcontent

Local Political Commercials 101 - Your Good Image

What is the main reason for a local candidate to run TV commercial? Is it to express a certain issue? Is it to point out flaws in a competitor? Maybe, but the main reason to do local TV is about image. You are introducing yourself to people you don’t know and the best way to do that besides showing up at all the meet and greet events and shaking hands is a finely crafted TV commercial. I use the words finely crafted, because it takes a lot of skill from a TV commercial producer to make a good, effective commercial, where the candidate comes across as professional, caring, and knowledgeable about the position they’re running for. It’s easy to throw something together for a few hundred bucks, but if it doesn’t make the candidate look good, it’s a waste of money. It only takes one badly light scene to tarnish a good image.

Cost of Production

The cost a producing a good TV commercial has come down in price drastically over the past 10 years. I used to work on political spots in the 80’s and 90’s that cost upwards of $6,000 for a 30 second commercial. The same commercials today cost around $1,000, mostly because of the technology coming down in price. I shoot all of my spots in HD (High Definition) to give even more bang for the buck.

Beware of the free commercial giveaway! Some stations and cable outlets will offer you free commercial production if you spent over a certain amount on placement. I look at your commercial as a vehicle (It’s you and your messege, image, ideas, etc.) and the placement is the tires, the things that get your message out there and seen. So imagine going to a tire store and the salesman says, “If you buy 4 tires, we’ll throw in a car for free!”. Well tell me, just how good is that car going to be? It will most likely fail after a few miles on the road.

Cost of Placement

Placement is actually buying time to run the commercials on TV. There are only 2 outlets you can go to. Local network affiliates (WNEP, WBRE, FOX), and a cable insertion company, The latter can place the commercials in specific regions on cable networks like Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, etc.

Spots that air on the local news can cost around a $1,000 dollars, and can reach lots of people throughout the entire county, while the cable insertion rates are only 5-10 dollars a pop, so $1000 and get you about 150 airs in a specific region of the county.

One service that Video Innovations offers to all clients free of charge is that we upload the all of our clients commercials to our YouTube Channel so people can see the spots at their convenience, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We also give them an unloadable copy of the video so they can send it to their FaceBook, MySpace, and other social media accounts.

I wish all the local candidates well, and regardless of what common sense may tell us, image can be everything!

All the Neat Things you can do with a Marketing Video!

So you all know how important it is to have a video on your business website, right? A marketing video lets people who are surfing the internet for your products know what your business does, it lets them see and understand your products and services, and gives you instant credibility as an expert in your field far better than words and pictures.

So with that in mind, here are some not so obvious things you can do with a marketing video from Video Innovations:

1. Put it on your website to keep customers there. It gives them the “feeling” of your company better than words and pictures.

2. Upload it to any Facebook, MySpace, or other social medial accounts you have.

3. Play it on a TV in your office lobby to inform visitors about you.

4. Use it to grab attention at trade shows.

5. Give the video to your sales staff on DVD to use as a sales tool out in the field.

6. You can email the video to perspective clients and e-mailing lists.

7. The videos we produce are high definition and broadcast quality, so they can double as TV commercials.