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<br />Marc Lindnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11854676935135385759noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4801910405374197958.post-8307872807431800272012-06-30T15:15:00.000-07:002012-06-30T15:32:57.221-07:00Video Marketing Secrets – 3 Essential Elements of a Successful Explainer Video<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If you are thinking of having an explainer video produced, you want to make sure your investment does more than just play, it needs to do serious business.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So what separates the winners from the losers? After a long time of working on these projects I've seen that all truly successful explainer videos have a:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">1. Clear and Concise Script</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Notice there is no mention of "quality animation" anywhere in that list. It's not that the animation quality isn't important, because quite frankly, it is. Trouble is, animation is very much an artistic element and like all art, different styles appeal to different people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">An animation style that you love may seem mediocre to your clients.</span><br />
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<i style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto;">"As long as the animation looks professional, helps add </i><i style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">meaning </i></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Therefore, as long as the animation looks professional, helps add meaning to spoken elements and fits in with your branding, it is really only eye-candy. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bottom line is,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> i</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">f the underlying message is clear, concise and properly presented, even those who aren't wow-ed by the animation will find value in your video.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The first step in achieving this is to have a:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The script of an explainer video is hands-down, without doubt, socks off the most important element of the project. It is the beating heart of the project and the single most important factor to your video marketing success.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">With that in mind: Use a professional script writer to produce your script!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This doesn't mean you shouldn't be involved in the process</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, but it is much more likely that an outside perspective of your product / service / message will produce a script that strikes a chord with first time viewers of your video. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If a company offers a professional script writing service, use it. This way they can use their expertise to produce an effective product from the ground up.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Remember, the message is key, everything else is eye-candy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Of course, once you have a clear message and motivating call to action, the next piece of the puzzle is to make sure you use a:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Not all voices are created equal, and the truth is, most of us don't have the skills required to narrate a video effectively.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A professional voice artist can bring your message to life, inspire confidence in listeners and ensure the key details of your video are easily remembered. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Even better, there is an enormous variety of voice-talent to choose from which allows you to easily find a voice that matches your brand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You wouldn't accept un-professional animation in your video, therefore, isn't the voice which conveys your message of ever greater importance?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Professional voice talent is not a expensive, and a small investment here can make a huge difference to the final outcome of your video.</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">Prominent Position in Webpage Layout</span></u></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Once the script, voice-over and animation are complete, your video is bursting with marketing potential. But in order for it to have the effect you hope for, it is vital that visitors to your website, blog or social media channel are able to find it in the first place.</span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Therefore, don't make people work to find your video. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Make sure a visitor can see it when they land on your site without having to scroll down or navigate to another page. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Make the video big, make it prominent, give it a big idiot-proof play button! </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">"Don't make people work to find your video. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Make the video big, make it</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For even greater effect, place some sort of call to action button near the video. That way, once someone has watched it, you make it easy for them to take the next step.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Videos work so well because they are engaging and convenient. Don't fall at the final hurdle by making visitors work to find your video or making it difficult to obey the call to action.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Of course, these three elements are not the only things which dictate the success or failure of an explainer video, but I guarantee that if they are missing, things just won't go how you want!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Kenny Simpson is a Creative Producer at <a href="http://explanatoryvideos.com/">ExplanatoryVideos.com</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you have ever tried to get these two super-powers of marketing to work together, you may have come across a common problem: it can be a total nightmare.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br />That said, the gain is definitely worth the pain, as the following stats from the "Web Video Marketing Council" demonstrate:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">Frankly, there are a lot of different options for using video in email, but if</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> you're looking for the quick, easy and reliable option, trust me when I say the instructions below are for you:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 16px;">Step 3)</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> Open the "Paint" program in Windows. Once it's open, paste your screen image by pressing: "Ctrl + V". (see image 3.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 16px;">Step 4)</span><span style="line-height: 16px;"> Your captured screen image should appear in the program. click and hold the left mouse button to move the image around. Once you have the video in view, you want to click the "selection" tool and drag a box around your video image. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Step 6)</span> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: left;">Now click the "Resize" button. A window will pop up with some resize options. Select "Resize by Pixels" and make sure the "Maintain Aspect Ratio" checkbox is selected. For use in email footers give the image a horizontal size of 175 pixels, use a larger size if you are going to use the image in the email body. Click OK.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Step 7) </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Download the following "Play_Button" image by clicking the following link, left click on the image and select "Save Image as...":</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once downloaded, select "Paste from..." in Paint and select the "Play_Button" file. Drag the graphic into the center of your video image. <i>(Tip: If you put the graphic in the wrong place, just undo the move by pressing "Ctrl + Z")</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Step 8) </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Save the image. Give it a name and select "JPEG" from the "save as type".</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Step 9)</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Open your email client and compose a new email. Paste the image you created into the email. Select the image and add a hyperlink which links to the YouTube page your video is hosted on.<i> (Tip: Don't forget to add "alternate text" which will be displayed even if your image is blocked).</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Step 10) </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Send your email! You can also paste the image and hyperlink into your email footer meaning every email you send is promoting your video.</span><br />
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someone demoing the website, but I think a lot of this same methodology
can go into creating any sort of introductory video a company uses to
explain their site. The first step, as with any project, is to plan, and
the first questions you need to ask yourself before you even start to
storyboard include "What do we want to accomplish with this video?" and
"How detailed do we want to get?"<br />
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Once you figure out the content, length, tone, and medium of your
video, then move on to storyboarding. Storyboarding is an important step
in creative processes such as these because it is much easier to
visualize the end product before putting any real technical effort in.
Filmmakers don't just storyboard as a way to outline their plot, they
use it to do early edits to the film before wasting any time shooting
stuff that will never make it past the cutting room.<br />
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By getting a storyboard of your production down, you may realize it's
too long, too boring or not informative enough; you can determine these
flaws by showing the storyboard to anyone unfamiliar with your product
and then use their feedback to make alterations.<br />
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"The more detail in your storyboards, the easier the editing stage
will be," writes Stu Green, author of the post on Webdesigner Depot.
"Your storyboard will help you stay organized throughout the whole
process, and if you ever get lost while producing the video, the
storyboard will get you back on track."<br />
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If you plan on doing a straight screen-capture demo, don't just wing
it; make sure you script out what you're going to say as you demo the
site. Additionally, spend a few extra bucks on a nice microphone to
record your voice - quality audio goes a long way in video production. <br />
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There is a healthy list of options for software to record you screen-capture videos with, including <a href="http://www.synium.de/products/screenium/index.html">Screenium</a>, <a href="http://www.jingproject.com/">Jing</a>, <a href="http://camstudio.org/">CamStudio</a>, <a href="http://www.shinywhitebox.com/home/home.html">iShowU</a> and <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/captivate/">Captivate</a>.
One nice option that I find is overlooked these days is the screen
capture abilities included with the standard version of Quicktime on Mac
OS X Snow Leopard. For a low budget product, Quicktime can get the job
done, but if you wan't something a little more pro looking, one of the
aforementioned applications will help also.<br />
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Videos such as these can go a long way in helping to rope in new
visitors to your site. These can also be useful for an early stage
company looking for a quick and unique way to explain their concept to
potential investors. However, if your looking for something much more profesional have us work on your next explainer video at <a href="http://www.explanatoryvideos.com/">www.ExplanatoryVideos.com</a>Explanatory Videoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03720848765943065492noreply@blogger.com35tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4801910405374197958.post-23958101027209321822012-06-18T10:38:00.000-07:002012-06-18T12:34:36.560-07:00What are the Different Types of Explainer Videos?<h1>
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1. <strong>Start-up Videos</strong><br />
Every Start-up business needs an effective marketing strategy to get
their name in the public eye and start getting clients. A well produced
video is an effective tool to introduce your business to your target
market. Placed on your website, it increases conversion rates since
people are more inclined to watch a video that meddle through loads of
text.<br />
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2. <strong>Product or Service Demonstrations</strong><br />
Its not easy trying to explain a complex and technical service. It takes
a lot of skill to clearly communicate your idea so your customers can
understand. Companies pay consultants thousands and even millions help
them explain what they do. We are a new breed of storytellers that bring
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As kids we first learnt to communicate through gestures and visuals.
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We believe every business has a story to tell. The benefits you offer
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We can help you tell your story in a practical and believable way.<br />
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5. <strong>Training Videos</strong><br />
A well-trained team is one of the most essential elements to the success
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To make a great presentation you need good communication skills. We all
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that?Explanatory Videoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03720848765943065492noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4801910405374197958.post-26122557048589799462012-06-18T10:34:00.000-07:002012-06-18T12:34:04.808-07:00Four simple steps to make your Explanatory Video<h2>
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1. <strong>Start-up Videos</strong><br />
Every Start-up business needs an effective marketing strategy to get
their name in the public eye and start getting clients. A well produced
video is an effective tool to introduce your business to your target
market. Placed on your website, it increases conversion rates since
people are more inclined to watch a video that meddle through loads of
text.<br />
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2. <strong>Product or Service Demonstrations</strong><br />
Its not easy trying to explain a complex and technical service. It takes
a lot of skill to clearly communicate your idea so your customers can
understand. Companies pay consultants thousands and even millions help
them explain what they do. We are a new breed of storytellers that bring
simplicity and effectiveness to your communication needs. What used to
cost tons of cash and take months achieve, can now be done at a fraction
of the cost in less time.<br />
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3. <strong>Educational Videos</strong><br />
As kids we first learnt to communicate through gestures and visuals.
Visual Communication is an effective medium in educating students,
employees, managers or people in general. We need education but it can
be boring at times. Our videos get people excited about learning again.<br />
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4. <strong>Story Telling Videos</strong><br />
We believe every business has a story to tell. The benefits you offer
and what makes you unique needs to be explained clearly to convince
people to buy from you. If you’re not clear about this aspect of your
business you’ll always underperform even if you’re the best at what you
do.<br />
We can help you tell your story in a practical and believable way.<br />
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5. <strong>Training Videos</strong><br />
A well-trained team is one of the most essential elements to the success
of any organisation. We can create training videos that are engaging
and effective in equipping your team with the information they need. If
your training video is boring, people wont pay attention and will easily
forget what’s being said. This can be a waste of valuable resources and
time, as you will have to constantly train or replace your team. You
can save time and money when you get an effective training video from
us.<br />
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6. <strong>Presentation Videos</strong><br />
To make a great presentation you need good communication skills. We all
know how nerve-racking it is to stand in front of people to present you
idea. We can take away the fear of making presentations by creating
videos that can do the job for you. When you use a video you don’t even
have to worry about making mistakes or fumbling your words. How cool is
that?<br />
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Contact us at <a href="http://www.explanatoryvideos.com/">www.ExplanatoryVideos.com</a> so we can get started on your video today!Explanatory Videoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03720848765943065492noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4801910405374197958.post-85298622585521909612012-05-08T04:34:00.001-07:002012-05-08T04:34:36.530-07:005 Reasons to use video on your website<div id="article-content">
Unless you have been living under a rock for the last year, you will have noticed the huge growth of video on websites and blogs. Online marketing videos are not the future, they are now! So let's take a look at why you should be creating cheap and simple online marketing videos to promote your business, services or products.<br />
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<b>To Get Your Message Viewed</b><br />
It seems that the average person on the web has the attention span of a goldfish. Write more than a paragraph or two and it looks like 'work' to read. Video on the other hand is quick and easy to watch and is seen as entertainment, not effort.<br />
As long as your video is compelling and tuned in to your viewers needs or problems, you have a potential customers full attention. But stray from this for just a moment and your viewer becomes bored and will click away.<br />
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<b>To Be Seen As A Leader</b><br />
When you create a video you are automatically seen as an expert in your field. This gives extra credibility to your business as you become the 'go to guy' with the answers to your industries problems.<br />
However, this does mean that you have to put some useful information in your videos, not just a 'Buy My Stuff' message.<br />
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<b>To Educate Your Viewers</b><br />
By its very nature, video is a visual medium. So it is much easier for your customers to watch a short tutorial video than it is to read through a heavy technical manual just to understand a simple point or technique. This method alone can slash your customer support costs.<br />
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<b>To Create Trust</b><br />
Customers are untrusting, cynical creatures! They can smell a sales pitch from a hundred yards and click away at the merest whiff of hype. But by putting your message on video you have the opportunity to let your customers see your face rather than your company.<br />
People do not do business with companies; they only spend their hard earned cash with people they trust. And the best way to build trust is to answer their concerns honestly, without hype or spin, and instead of trying to sell them, make it easy for them to buy.<br />
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<b>Easy Access To Your Audience</b><br />
To make the largest profits from the least expense in any business, you need to find a hungry crowd and set up your stall in front of it. By listing your online videos on sites such as Youtube or Google Video and with smart use of relevant keyword tags you have access to a huge audience.<br />
It has never been easier or cheaper to create effective online marketing videos to promote your business, church or non-profit organisation. With just a little thought and effort, you could be reaping the benefits of online video marketing without spending a fortune.</div>
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Much larger animation studios charge anywhere from $9K to $15K only to produce a one minute animation.
Why the large price difference? <br />
It’s simple, the larger studios
have much more over-head expenses.
Because we are small studio we can pass those savings on to our
customers. Also it’s a big advantage to our clients. First, we give all
our attention to your animation. Second, after we understand what
product or service you want to explain we feel like it’s OUR product or
service also. So we are going to our best to get the idea and word out
about your business. And third, we don’t want to become a huge business,
pumping out 200 videos a month, we’re perfectly happy with giving 110%
to each and every video we work on.
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Go ahead check out the competitor’s. When you decide A) You
don’t want to spend ten thousand dollars, or B) You don’t want to spend
five hundred dollars for a video that is just cheap clip art with audio,
you’ll come back to us. Don’t worry we won’t hold it against you. :)<br />
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without the expense of large media buys, we expect that soon these
overview videos will be as ubiquitous as corporate Twitter accounts.<br />
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What is this thing we’re calling the “overview” or "<a href="http://www.explanatoryvideos.com/" target="_blank">Explanatory Video</a>", anyway? We think
of it as a kind of elevator pitch, elaborated. Not only does it
describe your product, but it also encapsulates the bigger idea of what
your company is trying to achieve. This type of video focuses
primarily on explaining the whats, whys, and hows of your product in a
concise and engaging form, tailored to your target audience. It’s a
fantastic mechanism for spreading your word across multiple audiences –
tech bloggers, customers, financial stakeholders – anyone who needs
to “get it” immediately.<br />
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What is it about these videos that makes them so compelling?<br />
1. <strong>Better conversion rates</strong>. At <a href="http://explanatoryvideos.com/">ExplanatoryVideos.com</a> many of our customers have a much higher ROI. <br />
2. <strong>Allows users to vicariously taste your product, without having to sign up first</strong>. Demos allow the user to be the passenger while you test drive your product for them.<br />
3. <strong>Increased likelihood that your product will be covered by the media.</strong> <br />
4. <strong>Increased likelihood that the media will cover your product in your own words</strong>.<br />
5. <strong>Opens up the pool of potential users</strong>. About 70%
of the population say that they learn better with a multi-sensory
approach – one that uses a combination of text, motion, and sound in
introducing new concepts. There is also a significant subset of the
population that won’t bother reading text beyond headers and simple
paragraphs. By including a video on your site, you are tapping into
these users who would be hard to reach otherwise.<br />
6. <strong>Your best elevator pitch told consistently, ad infinitum</strong>. Having an overview video is like getting your A team in the same elevator every time.<br />
7. <strong>Increased audience engagement</strong>. Just the
process of clicking the “Play” button alone implies a certain amount of
deliberate attention, that your brain is engaged, and ready to
directly take in the information that will follow.<br />
8. <strong>Better search results.</strong> Creating a video,
particularly if it is added to Youtube, is about discovery.
Supplementing your text with video helps you improve organic Google
search results.<br />
9. <strong>Invites sharing by your users</strong>. Making an
overview isn’t about creating the next “viral” phenomenon – it’s about
helping users understand what your product is about, and why it is
important to them. And because the current web environment makes it so
easy to share videos via social networks and other media, a video is a
great tool for your hardcore fans to evangelize your product and do
your marketing for you. A video can easily shown to customers,
employees, tech bloggers, financial stakeholders – anyone who needs to
“get it” immediately – and has a useful life well beyond your home
page (though these side benefits can be harder to quantify).<br />
10. <strong>Relative affordability</strong>. The cost of creating
and distributing an overview video is much lower than an ad campaign
with media buys, often by several orders of magnitude, and can be
created professionally in a range of several hundreds to several
thousands of dollars. And though that may sound like a lot for a
startup, a video can quickly pay for itself it by making it that much
easier to pitch your company to potential investors and customers.<br />
With that in mind, suppose you want to create an overview video for
your next product launch or round of funding. Here are five things we
stress when working with our clients, learned from producing
literally thousands of videos for tech companies of all shapes and
sizes.<br />
<strong>1. Prioritize your messages.</strong><br />
The biggest mistake companies make is trying to say too much with
their videos. They want to describe several possible use cases, do a
full walkthrough of the product, list the benefits of their solution,
and build it all into a “viral” storyline. Most videos that try to do
everything end up accomplishing much less than a laser-focused video.<br />
The most important reason to prioritize the messages and keep
things concise is that it’s common to see a precipitous dropoff in
viewership around the 90 second mark. One common recommendation we
make is to avoid a full walkthrough of the user interface, and instead
choose to show enough highlights for the user to get started. Your
interface will most likely change, and besides, if your product is
well-designed, why describe every feature if users can figure it out on
their own? Just give them enough to get it and get started.<br />
<strong>2. Pick your audience and stick with it.</strong><br />
The most common request we get is to create something that is “funny
and engaging, like (insert x company here)’s” video. The problem is
that the video needs to be appropriate to your target audience. For
example, if your company is trying to enter an enterprise or financial
space, your tone may need to convey the idea that you can handle
sensitive information seriously.<br />
Though this may seem obvious, most people come to us after they have
an idea for a video, without consideration of the audience at hand.
Making an overview isn’t about creating the next “viral” phenomenon –
it’s about helping users understand what your product is about, and
why its important to them.<br />
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<strong>3. Tell viewers what to do.</strong><br />
Most web companies will want their users to sign-up, download, or
start using your product immediately after watching their videos.
We’ve found that explicitly telling a user what to do with a
call-to-action at the end of the video is more effective than letting
them figure out how to proceed – even if the next step seems fairly
obvious. If you want the user to download your product, tell them
where they can download it, and make sure there is a nice “Download” button nearby.<br />
<strong>4. Feature the video prominently.</strong><br />
The video isn’t very useful if people can’t find it. Don’t hide it behind a text link – feature it on a home banner, with a nice thumbnail still of the video behind an inviting “Play” button.
If your video has a person in it, you may want to consider making
that your poster image – we have some evidence that poster images of
people are more likely to be clicked on than other images.<br />
<strong>5. The quality of the production matters.</strong><br />
Viewers need to be able to follow what you’re doing, especially
when screenshots can be hard to read in web resolutions. You need
crisp editing, with close-ups where appropriate, and good quality
audio. Most importantly, the words need to be written specifically for
video – marketing blurbs often lead to sentences that are awkward
when read aloud.<br />
A sub-par production that lacks clarity and attention to detail can
reflect poorly on your company or product. <br />
So when in doubt, hire out. That’s why companies like ours exist.<br />
Once you have a video, the first measures of success is to show it
so someone in your target market who has never heard of your company or
product before, and ask them to summarize what you do after they see
the video. If they get it, the video will probably treat you well.<br /><br />So contact us today at <a href="http://explanatoryvideos.com/">ExplanatoryVideos.com</a> and we will get started on your video today!<br />
</div>Explanatory Videoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03720848765943065492noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4801910405374197958.post-52192533807462707782012-04-07T18:34:00.000-07:002012-04-07T18:35:40.522-07:00Animated Video for your WebsiteVideo on the web is a hot trend on the Internet today.<br />
Not just pure video for entertainment such us cute kitty videos or fart videos, but promotional videos as well.<br />
In fact, almost every website in this world can benefit from a short concise explanatory video.<br />
A lot of people create their own demo videos but the problem is that most of the time these videos are either too long or too boring.<br />
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Recording your voice and computer screen for 5 minutes going over your website features may seem like a cost effective way of having a video, but unless you really know what you are doing, you will most likely end up with a glorified power point presentation that nobody will want to watch.<br />
A demo video can only really help if it is well done, has a very clear message, is short, and entertaining at the same time.<br />
There are three main benefits that a good explanatory video can provide.<br />
A good demo video will help you:<br />
<strong><br />Increase Sales:</strong> your site's landing page is your first and only chance to give your visitors a good impression about your product.<br />
9 out of 10 times your visitors will rather sit though a short 1-1.5 mins fun explanatory video than reading through all the text on your page. The reason is very simple, people don't have the time or patience to decipher your value proposition.<br />
Both text and images are passive elements that need to be interpreted before making a purchasing decision.<br />
If an image is worth a thousand words, a good video is worth a thousand images.<br />
The chances of your visitors converting into customers will dramatically increase if you can get their attention with a video.<br />
It just makes sense, a video provides more information with less work required from your visitors and we all know everyone likes to take the path of least resistance.<br />
<strong><br />Create Product Awareness:</strong> the advantage of video on the Internet is that video is inherently very social network friendly. Links to websites are like fliers and junkmail. To understand the product your prospect client has to click on the link, be redirected to your site and then learn about your product.<br />
Video can be watched right within most social networks. In both Facebook and Twitter, the moment you paste a link to a YouTube or Vimeo video anyone can immediatelly play it back within the same window.<br />
This is very convenient and again, convenient is what you want to make your products feel like.<br />
Because videos are so easy to share and experience both on the web and on mobile devices creating an audience is a lot easier than with plain websites. Also, a great video can become viral and suddenly reach millions of people within a few weeks.<br />
When was the last time you heard of a viral website?<br />
<strong><br />Create an experience instead of another task:</strong> a good video will provide a entertaining experience with a strong call to action at the end.<br />
Text and images by themselves are not as fun to experience as a cute video with an engaging story behind.<br />
People love stories, a video should tell a story, a good one, a realistic one, in a fun way.<br />
Creating an effective yet fun animated video is an art in itself. If you have the time and skill to tell a great story in video you should go ahead an produce your own videos. But if you don't have the time or patience to do it yourself then it is time to look for help.<br />
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<br /><br />Hello and welcome to the new Explanatory Videos Blog Post. We are the creators of explainer videos, overview videos, animated videos for your home page, and any other name there is. But we prefer to call these videos what they are. They are Explanatory videos. Or animated videos that explain (explainer) your business or service. <br />Find out more at <a href="http://www.explanatoryvideos.com/">www.ExplanatoryVideos.com</a><br />
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