If you’re going to be telling your story in attempts to raise brand awareness, would you rather do it in a single three minute long video, or a short video that’s kept under fifteen seconds or less? Most people would choose the longer video—it gives you more time for details, story development, and background information. They wouldn’t even think about adding on a short form video. For many businesses, however, increasing the use of short form video ads- alone or …
Category: YouTube
Does your small business have a YouTube channel? If you’re like most SMBs, the answer to that question is no. And a large percentage of the SMBs that do have a YouTube channel chronically neglect it. Well, who can blame them? Small businesses have to juggle multiple facets of the business that are more to the core, so to speak — something like business development, accounting and bookkeeping for small businesses, or operations among other things. While YouTube isn’t the …
Once you’ve created those excellent product videos and landing page videos, what next? Next, you need to figure out how you want to embed them on your site. I’ve actually finished up video creation projects with clients where the client thanks for me my work, pays the invoice, and then happily fades into the sunset with their completed project. Then I get an email thirty minutes later asking how they should actually get it on their site. Most businesses choose …
Launching your social media video campaign feels exhausting and time consuming, but it’s not the most difficult part of the process. Instead, being able to continue to create enough high-quality, interesting videos is the toughest challenge most businesses will face. Whether you’re using YouTube or distributing your videos natively across multiple platforms like Facebook and Twitter, there’s no doubt about it: you’ll need to continually create unique content to keep users engaged. One viral video is great, but without more …
Close your eyes for a second, and think about the last social media video that you remember seeing. If you’re like a large majority of daily social media users, it’s probably a video that you saw within the last few hours. What was the video? Was it a tutorial showing you how to make easy chicken parmesan, or a video from a business explaining why they work with certain nonprofits? Or maybe it was an interview with a CEO or …