Sunday, December 19, 2010

5 Tips for Successful Online Videos

Online professional videos are great for educational, informational and promotional purposes. The videos you publish must represent your business properly and enhance your brand and message. Don't risk your company's reputation. Make sure to keep these 5 essential tips in mind:

1. Prepare
- Project Description
- Background
- Communication Objective(s), Primary and Secondary
- Target Audience
- Audience Current Behavior
- Audience Desired Behavior
- Positioning
- Tonality
- Features and Benefis
- Timing
- Executional Guidelines
  What equipment, locations and talent are needed?
- Support, i.e. other marketing initiatives, follow-up, etc.

2. Plan
- Concept Development
- Formats
- Script Writing
- Directing
- On-Screen Talent
- Voice Over
- Graphics, Animation/Motion
- Music
- Editing

3. Publish
- Host the video on your website and/or blog for optimum SEO visibility.
- Upload to the online video sharing sites including YouTube, Blip.tv, Vimeo, eHow and others. TubeMogul is a great resource for submissions to multiple video sharing sites.
- Be consistent and publish new videos regularly to build and maintain your audience.

4. Promote
- Make your videos "share" friendly with the right video player.
- Email the video to others.
- Offer code so others can embed or link to your video from their website or blog.
- Optimize the content, i.e. description, tags, keywords, etc.
- Encourage audience participation. Mention your videos on social sharing sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr. Encourage people to comment on your videos.
- Comment on other blogs and social networking sites on topics or discussions that relate to your own video. Include a URL to the video on your website.
- Submit news releases. Online services such as PRWeb.com will embed your video in the release, which gets picked up in the search engines.

5. Performance Tracking
- Measure what's working.
- Check your website analytics.
- Check YouTube's Insights.
- Check Facebook's Insights.
- Measure audience engagement levels and feedback.
There are many companies that offer performance metrics, both fee and free. Contact us for a list.

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