Wednesday, March 27, 2013

5 Powerful Storytelling Techniques to Boost Your Video Marketing Success


                

                           Top 5 Powerful Storytelling Tips for Creating a Captivating Video
 
      Powerful storytelling techniques are a proven method that can captivate your audience and win their attention. Nowadays with video marketing as one of the most effective online product promotion methods, you can benefit from the power of storytelling - like never before. This guide is going to help you discover helpful tips on sharpening your storytelling skills when creating and editing video.


1. Start by Building a Personal Touch

People first need to connect with you on a personal level, before they can trust and accept your message. Sometimes having the interviewee share a personal story about themselves can help the audience feel like they have a connection and are more likely to be interested in your piece.

2. Know Your Audience

Imagine you are going to tell a story to a group. Would it make a difference which type of stories you would choose, if your listeners were a bunch of kids, or an elderly group of adults? Of course it would. So the same goes when preparing your marketing story. First it is important to know your audience precisely, so you can target the language of your story to match their interest.

3. Plan Your Story

A step-by-step breakdown of your story is always good to have by planning your story structure in advance you will save yourself a whole lot of time in the "editing" stage of your project.

Talk over your shoot with other members of the production team and make sure you're clear on what shots you need to tell the story. If you're on your own, write up a list of shots you need. Write the story beforehand in your head, and list the elements you want to get video of to do that story. Think about what's going to look good visually, and how your shots are going to come together sequentially. 
4. Use a Good Microphone for Your Video

It is highly important that people hear your voice clearly to be able to understand the focus of your story. So if you are going to record your own voice over it would be a smart idea to invest in a quality microphone that gives your voice the clarity that your audience will need to trust your brand. --> Sennheiser mics work great http://en-us.sennheiser.com/mics

5. Provide a Solution in Your Story that Rescues Them

This is perhaps the most important and crucial part of your story. After you have attracted the attention of your audience in the video, they are eagerly waiting to see which solution you are about to offer to save them from their concerns. Openings and closings are very important, so make sure to begin and end the video with the strongest material since this is often what stays with the viewer.

Following the above 5 guidelines and suggestion, you can rest assured your next video will turn out more powerful and captivating.

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Marketing Your Company with Video Inexpensively



   Since more people today are using the Internet to search for information, the advent of online video has risen in search results as connection and reach between customers, fans and followers takes place. The rise of video power in marketing has been its attractiveness and popularity among web surfers.
In case you are not capitalizing on marketing your company with video, a very inexpensive technique of marketing, it is obvious you are missing out. You can start almost immediately with free social media such as Facebook & Twitter. 
Note: That prospective customers rarely know anything about your company and only want's to understand what your business is, who you are and what you have for them. Give them the answer in a very short time, perhaps in less than 120 seconds while marketing your company with video. 


Show what you have
   Since fancy advertisements are not really required, you can highlight the things you sell or services you offer with a well put simple video, embedded on the website of your company after being uploaded on YouTube. A web video is much better compared to the average TV commercials since they can be shared a lot and run for a long time without thinking about purchasing ad time. Here is a video we put together for a client that has a simple logo intro & outro, interviews, storyline, cuts and angles.



Coastside Hope, Stamp out Hunger! from www.11loudproductions.com

Remain within the marketing budget
    With a little creative talent and planning, plus recording equipment, perhaps a high definition camera, your company can produce an effective video almost immediately. However, in case you would like some help in coming up with a video, you can do your own research on company's that highlight what you do or simply type in keywords in YouTube or Vimeo. There you will find so many videos that are professionally produced that could provide professional video content and spark up some new ideas. 

Market via another video
    Whether you have made up your mind to market your company with videos or not, video marketing could transform your fortunes by doing ads on the video of a partner. At the same time, if you have a tight budget, you can definitely partner with another company, perhaps related to yours to produce great video content and then split the expenses.

Link back
    Any uploaded video must have a link that goes back to a landing page or home page providing customers with a lot of information on your services and products. There are cases where links can be added in the content of a video but on the bare minimum, the text description of the video should clearly display the target URL you would like the audience to follow. If you take a look at my video above it has the title and website also know as the link back that produced it.

SEO in video
    Do not forget that Search Engine Optimization is also important in videos. Website and YouTube videos are easily optimized for search engines through the best key phrases and keywords in descriptions and titles. In this video above we added keywords such as "video production", "11 loud productions", "video promotional", "my name", all these keywords when people start the Google search they will find your website, social media and your videos.

Sharing videos
    Sharing video is important by having it embedded your various social media sites such as LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook among others, where most of the targeted audiences are to be found often. Also keep in mind when you share a video on Facebook or Twitter it can be shared to their followers which could lead to thousand's!