Advanced Video Marketing

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on Oct 14, 2023

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Introduction:

Welcome to the latest and very easy to apply “Advanced Video Marketing”
Training, designed to take you by the hand and walk you through the process of
getting the most out of Advanced Video Marketing on behalf of your business.
I’m very excited to have you here, and I know that this will be very helpful for
you.
This exclusive training will show you step-by-step, topic by topic, and tool by
tool, what you need to know to dominate advanced video marketing, in the
easiest way possible, using the most effective tools and in the shortest time
ever.
This training is comprised of 20 training chapters, ready to show you the latest
video marketing strategies.
Well, it’s time for you to start getting the most out of advanced video marketing,
on behalf of your business.
I know you’ll love this training.

What Is Video
Marketing All About?

What Is Video Marketing?

Videos on social networks are one of the best tools we can use to reach a large mass of users, since one of the things they like best is watching videos.
Video marketing is a marketing method where audiovisual support is used to publicize and market a service, a brand or a product.
Video marketing is also using this method to broaden participation in its social, digital channels, teach its consumers and customers, and approach its audience with a new medium.

Why Should You Use Video In Your Business?

One of the things that millions of users watch on social networks are videos, and for this reason, this is one of the best ways to publish a brand or a product.

According to studies, more than 50% of consumers want to watch brand videos, and prefer this method to watch other content.
The video not only serves to entertain, a video on a landing page can increase conversion rates by more than 80%, the simple reference of the word video in the subject line of the email increases the open rates by 19%.

Apart from all this information, 90% of customers also say that videos help them make decisions when making a purchase.
Video has not only changed the way companies sell and consumers buy, it has also modified the way sellers link to potential customers.
It has also made service teams support and captivate customers.
In conclusion, video is a wonderfully useful tool if we want to increase our brand awareness.

Types Of Marketing Videos

Before you start recording a video you must define what type of video you want to create. Here are the options:

Demo videos

These videos are going to show how your product works, whether it is to drive the public to explore its software and how it can be used or how a physical product can be developed and tested.

Branded videos

These branded videos are usually created as part of a larger advertising campaign, which announces the company’s mission, vision or high-level products and services.

Videos of an event

If your company is going to organize a conference, a fundraiser or some other type of event, create a reel that stands out or disseminates attractive interviews and presentations of the meeting.

Expert interviews

One of the best ways to build trust and authority with your target audience is to interview internal experts or opinion leaders in your industry.

Educational or instructional videos

You can use this type of video to expose your audience to something they don’t know about or develop the essential knowledge to better understand your business and its solutions.

Explanatory Videos

This type of video is used to help your audience understand more clearly so that your product or service is needed.

Animated Videos

These videos can be an excellent format for concepts that are complicated to understand and that need strong images to demonstrate an abstract service or product.

Case studies and videos of customer testimonials

Your customers want to assure that your product can solve their problems. And one of the best ways to verify this is through the creation of case study videos of customer testimonials that show their satisfied and faithful customers.

Live videos

It offers its viewers a special and behind-the-scenes vision of their company; it also captures more extensive broadcasts and higher participation rates.

360° and virtual reality videos

This type of video allows viewers to view the video content from all angles, as if they were actually physically standing within the content.

Augmented reality (AR) videos

In this type of video, a digital layer is incorporated into what you are seeing. For example, you can focus your camera on the kitchen and AR allows you to see what your kitchen would look like in the space.

Custom messages

This video could be one of the most creative ways to continue talking or responding to someone by email or text messaging. Use Loom so you can record yourself summarizing an important meeting or offering personalized suggestions.

You are already super prepared to share your ideas with your users, here you have several options to share your videos and your users can

start enjoying them.

YouTube

This is the largest video hosting platform in the world, it is the second largest platform after Google and the most popular website worldwide.

Vimeo

It is the second platform to host the world’s largest videos. It has 715 million
visits per month. Vimeo is significantly smaller than YouTube, but it has many
benefits that make it a favorite among creators and content viewers.

Vidyard

It is a platform to host videos created exclusively for companies. Not only does it
give you the option to save videos, it also allows you to transform into a totally
video-enabled business.

Planning A Successful Video Marketing Strategy

To develop an excellent video marketing strategy, you need to take into account
the following steps:

Define your Goals

To know if you have actually achieved what you set out to achieve with your video
marketing strategy, you must set goals that are measurable.
Conductor is the content intelligence platform, which recommends that marketing objectives be detailed
for both revenue and your brand.
Revenue goals focus on things such as increasing inquiries from potential clients, and brand goals involve things like developing a higher quality email list or creating more blog traffic.

Create a Mission Statement

The founder of the Content Marketing Institute suggests that you start your content marketing strategy with a “Mission Statement”.

Your mission must be an ordinary one-line statement answering the following:

What kind of video do you plan to do?

Who do you make that content for?
And what should your audience get from your videos?

Define Your Target Audience

For your videos to be the success that you want, it is first important that you know who is really interested in seeing its content.
Defining an objective audience, learning what they need, what they like and knowing what their weaknesses are, will greatly help you create video content that makes a connection with the audience.

No matter what company you are in, just recognize that your goals will be different.

When it comes to your target audience, the more specific, the better.

Decide What Type of Videos You Will Create

Before you get in and start recording, you should investigate what kind of videos you will make.
Think about the type of story you want to tell, how you can do it best through video, and what styles and types of video are most appropriate for sharing your story.

Keep in mind that it is likely that your audience needs various types of videos and messages at different times of their journey.

When you start, choose some styles and types of video to determine what works and what doesn’t.

Set a Budget

Having your plan already established, it is important that you think about what kind of video budget you will have to work with.
These are some questions you should ask yourself so you have an idea of how much you need to invest.

What kind of videos do you want to create?

Your budget will depend on the type of project you describe in your video strategy. Your financial status will often determine the creative ways you can explore.

Will you make videos internally or outsource them to an external production company?

If you plan to produce videos internally, you should think about who will be responsible for creating them.

What video equipment or video marketing software will you need?

If you are going to produce a traditional professional video, consider the
following equipment:

Tripod
Video Camera
Stabilizer

Lighting Equipment
Editing Software
If instead you use your smartphone, consider the following:
Clip Light

Lighting Kit
Tripod
Stabilizer

Lens
Microphone
Editing app or software

Do you want to hire actors?

Remember that hiring professional actors will raise the cost of producing your
videos.

Establish Responsibilities

Regardless of how you operate the production of your videos, be sure to determine:

Who is the person responsible for the creative concepts and the storyboard?

Who writes the scripts?
Who is responsible for making the content?
Who organizes the logistics of the video session?

Who makes the recording and editing of the video?
Who is responsible for distributing the finished videos?

Define Where You Will Store Your Video

You must determine where your videos will live on the web and on your site.

Consider the following channels which include:

Various pages on your website
Inbound marketing campaigns

Email marketing campaigns
Social media channels
YouTube

Measure your Results

Just as you keep track of the key performance indicators for written content, you must produce, publish and then check the engagement data of your video. In this way you can justify your investment in the videos and thus, understand what is performing well.
Once you have established the logistics, you can determine how your video content is reaching your objectives.

Creating Your Marketing Video Step by Step

Hey there friends! It is no secret that businesses, and anyone who wants to make a buck online for that matter, now needs to have their own video marketing strategies.
Starting with this lesson, we are going to walk you through all the steps that you have to take to prepare an effective video marketing plan to grow your business for long-term success!

For that, we have to start with the basics, and in this lesson we are going to teach you how to create a marketing video the right way, step by step.

Creating A Marketing Video Checklist

While it is true that it only takes a capable cellphone to record a competent video these days, it is important that you “get it right” from the very start, as your brand’s relevance depends on the impression you make when you build an audience of potential customers.

So before you even think about shooting your first marketing video, we recommend that you make sure to have these things ready:

✓ Equipment: Securing equipment is the most stressful part of video marketing for some people, but this doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Here you have to focus on securing a camera, and a mic for recording voice over.
For a camera, we recommend that you use your own smartphone. Make sure that your smartphone’s camera is between 8 to 13 pixels, and that it is able to record at 24 to 30 Frames Per Second. Our additional advice is that you buy a tripod for your phone, which will help allow you to avoid shaky shots!

✓ Talent: Who will star in your marketing videos? You have to gather the people that will represent your brand in your videos. If possible, keep a single person that the viewer can relate to.

As for voice over talent, you can record yourself, or get someone on your team to do it, but if that’s not an option, you can always hire good, affordable voice over talent on places such as fiverr.com.

✓ Setting: It is key that you prepare the setting of your marketing videos.
Things you have to consider when securing a place to record your videos are adequate lightning, and ample space for shooting from different angles.

Also, you have to secure a surface that you can use as a green screen, as well as stands that you can use to position your cameras, your key light, and your back light.

Software: Finally, you have to prepare the software that you will use to edit and create your final video. There is an ample variety of software available for this end, both free and paid. Our recommendations include Lightworks, Apple’s iMovie, and Adobe Premiere Pro.

Creating Your Marketing Video

Plan Your Video

You have to have a clear idea of what your video will be all about before you set up recording. This includes understanding how to explain the brand, product, or service that you will promote, determining your target audience, defining the goal of your video, such as making sales or increasing exposure, defining the budget, the production requirements, and the timeline from production to release.

Script Your Video

Once you define all aspects of your video and campaign, you have to create a script. This process is similar to preparing a blog post, the key difference being the script actually has a voice and setting!

Create an outline of key points in the marketing video and their logical order, then start drafting them as a script in a separate document.

It is important that you draft the first part of the video as a separate entity. This will allow you to compose a “hook” for the first 5 to 6 seconds of videos. In general, the first two lines of the script have to catch the attention of the viewer. Otherwise, your viewers will lose interest.

Lastly, it is important that you keep an eye on the language that you use in your
video. Keep it conversational and relaxed.

Prepare And Rehearse

Get everybody involved ready for the set and setting of your video. Even if it’s only you, it is important that you rehearse your video before recording it.

Shoot And Edit

Once you are ready to start recording, do it! If you did everything right in the previous steps, recording your video will be quick. Then, prepare all your footage, find some cool, copyright-free music to add to your videos, and edit your video.

How To Make An Awesome Marketing Video

Pick The Right Format

You can’t just shoot a video and call it a day. Every audience likes a different format of marketing video, and this means that you have to pick the right one.
The formats that get the most attention include demo videos, where you show how your product works, brand videos, where you give a detailed overview of your company, interviews, how-to videos, explainer videos where you don’t show viewers how to use your product or service but the reasons WHY they need it, animated videos, in photographics , animations, and case studies.

Showcase Your Personality

Personalized content gets a lot more attention because most niches are already too saturated. So being different and showcasing your personality will help your marketing videos to stand out.
So while your company is offering the same type of product or service others are offering, you compensate by promoting it using a different voice.

Provide Entertaining and Educational Value

Online brands mostly build their audiences and reach through the value they can offer to potential customers.
This means that you have to create marketing videos that entertain and educate the viewer. For example, if you are selling online marketing training, you can create marketing videos that teach viewers how to achieve smaller goals in an entertaining way.

Composing A Killer Video Title

You have to learn to create effective video titles that help you promote your video on different channels.
First, it is important to add the right video keyword at the beginning of the title. Video keywords are keywords and search terms that generate lots of traffic and engagement on YouTube and other video sharing platforms.
Now, these keywords are specific to each marketing video format that you produce, and they include:
✓✓ How To
✓✓ Interview
✓✓ Review
✓✓ Health related keywords
✓✓ Fitness keywords

The other secret of a great video title is to add the right niche keywords. This means that you have to add the keywords and search terms that potential customers in your niche are using to find the products or services that they want to research and purchase.
And this is how you can create effective and results-oriented marketing videos. Stay tuned, because in our upcoming lessons we’ll be showing you how to upload, optimize, and promote these videos!

Uploading Your Video To the Right Places

Hey there friends! Now that you’ve created your awesome marketing video, it is time to upload it where people can watch it. After all, your marketing videos are for exposure!
Now, we’d like to highlight that you have to upload your video to the right places. If you upload it to a single channel, you will severely limit the reach of your campaigns, and if you upload it everywhere, you risk losing time and reaching the wrong audience.
That is why in this lesson we are going to show you how to upload your video to the channels that really matter, and we’ll discuss the benefits of video marketing on each channel.

Uploading Your Video To YouTube

Let’s start with the obvious choice.
YouTube is, by far, the largest video sharing platform on the internet. It is the second most visited website on the planet, and it doubles as a search engine too, because videos uploaded there are indexed by Google too!
To upload a marketing video to YouTube, all you have to do is to visit the site while logged in to your Google account and channel, and then to click on the “create a video or post” icon. Next, click on the “upload video” tab.

Now click on the “select file” button, locate your marketing video, and double-click on it to start uploading it.

You can start customizing your video while it uploads. First, enter the video title, and then the video description. Now select or upload a thumbnail. Now select whether the video “is made for kids” or “it’s not made for kids”.
Now click on “more options” and enter your niche keywords into the “tags” field. Additional settings you can configure include language, subtitles, recording date and location, license distribution, category, and comments and ratings. You can click on “next” after configuring these settings.
In the next screen you can add video elements such as end screens or cards to promote other content.
Click on next to configure visibility. First, click on the “publish now” tab and select “public”. If you want to publish your video on a later date, simply click on the “schedule” tab and select the date using the calendar functions. Now that you are done uploading and configuring your video, click on “publish” to finish.

Uploading Your Video To Vimeo

Vimeo is the second most popular
dedicated video streaming site. With over 170 million active users, it will help you expose your brand to a more focused audience that is favored by content professionals and creative types. It also offers its users and ad-free experience, which is a plus!

Uploading your video to Vimeo is easy enough. Start by visiting Vimeo’s site and login in to your account. Next, click on the “upload” button. On the following page, click on the “choose files” button, locate your video, and double-click on it to upload it.

Now it is time to customize your video. Start by entering the title into the “title” field. Now enter the video description into the “description” field. Now click on the “privacy” menu button, and make sure that “anyone can see this video” is selected.

Now click on the “language” menu button and select the language of your video. Next, enter your niche keywords into the “tags” field. Now select “all audiences” under “content rating”. Lastly, click on the “save” button. And that’s it!

Uploading Your Video To Facebook

Facebook is still the king of social media sites, and one of the most active websites on the planet. The
Facebook algorithm boosts video posts that are native to the platform, so your best choice is to upload them instead of sharing them from other sources.

To do it, go to your Facebook account, and click on the “photo/video” button located in the “create post” section. Next, locate your marketing video and double-click on it to upload it.

Now add a caption to describe the video into the “say something about this video” field, and then click on the “post” button. And that’s it!

Uploading Your Video To Twitter

Twitter is one of the most engaging social media sites that exists. If your goal is to boost exposure to your brand and go viral, you can’t go wrong with Twitter.
To upload your marketing video to Twitter, simply go to your account, and click on the “compose tweet” icon. Next, click on the gallery icon. Now locate your video, and double click on it to upload it.

After this, add your video title and description into the text field. Make sure that your title and description don’t exceed 280 characters. Finally, click on “tweet” to post your video!

Uploading Your Video To Instagram

Instagram is the internet’s favorite visual discovery website, and the choice of video marketers from around the world because Instagram users go there for the images and videos.

To upload a video to Instagram, go to the app while logged in to your account, and tap on the “plus” icon. Next, locate and select your marketing video from your gallery, then tap on “next”.

Now customize your video using Instagram’s editing options, and tap on “next” to continue. On the following screen, enter your caption into the text field, and then tap on “share”. And that’s it!

Uploading Your Video To TikTok

TikTok is the newest video discovery app, and is now all the rage among social media users from all around the world.

It is a great platform for marketers just like you too, because it allows you to expose your brand to a
crazy big audience.

To upload your marketing video to TikTok, open the app while logged in to your account. Next, tap on
the “plus” icon. Now tap on the “gallery” icon, locate your marketing video, and tap on it to select it. Now click on the “next” button when prompted on the following screen.

Now enter the title and caption of your video into the “describe your video” field. Make sure to add a hash symbol before each keyword, and then tap on “post” to upload it!

And this is it my friends! Now that you know how to upload your marketing videos to every top platform, it is time for you to learn how to promote it the right way. Stay tuned!

Advertising Your Videos The Free Way

Hey there friends! You’ve just learned to create and upload compelling marketing videos that are guaranteed to deliver, but that’s just step one. Next, you have to learn how to advertise your videos to get results.
There are two ways to advertise your videos: the free way and the paid way. Promoting your videos for free is a great way to boost the organic reach of your campaigns.
Promoting your videos the paid way is an effective way to generate lots of traffic and to achieve the results you want, faster.
In this lesson, we are going to show you how to apply proven strategies to advertise your videos the free way. Are you ready to get started? Yes? Then let’s do this!

Advertise Your Videos On High-Traffic Forums

Advertising your videos on high-traffic forums and help sites is a top video marketing strategy that works every time. All you have to do is to find the places where your audience goes for help and post your video there.

We recommend two top sites: reddit and Quora. Let’s start on reddit. First, visit
reddit’s homepage at reddit.com. Make sure that you are logged in to your
account before you continue with the next steps!

What you are going to do now is to look for a subreddit in your niche. First, enter
your niche keyword or search term into the “search” bar.
Ok, now take a look at the top results. Pick a subreddit that matches the
keyword or search term that you just entered. Now click on the name of the
subreddit to check the posts inside.
What you’ll do now is to find posts where users ask a question or discuss a topic
that is related to your marketing video. That way you can submit a reply on that
post with a link to your video as part of your response. This will help you drive
free, relevant traffic to your video!
Let’s now go to Quora.com. Make sure you’re logged in before you continue.
Now enter your niche keyword into the “search Quora” field. Now check the
results, and click on the “topic” for your keyword.
Once on the results page, click on the “answer” tab. Now find a question that is
related to your marketing video, and click on “answer”. Ok, so the secret to
getting traffic and engagement from Quora is to provide a helpful and relevant
answer to the question in your topic of choice.
Preferably, reply with a short-form answer that is up to 200 words, and upload
your video at the end of the answer. Doing this can even help you feature your
answer on Quora Digest, which is a Quora Newsletter!

Optimizing your videos for social media channels is a sure way to generate lots of buzz for free. This is easy enough, and all you have to do is to upload the video to your social channels, to optimize the description of the video to highlight what’s in it for the social media user watching, and to include high-traffic hashtags to increase your reach.
These optimizations are valid for all social channels, and you can apply them on your most active accounts. For this example, we will optimize the video that we uploaded to our Facebook channel.
What we’ll do first is to locate the video and click on the “edit post” button.
Now compose a description that highlights the content of the marketing video and offer in a few words. We recommend that you use any keywords in your description as hashtags by adding a hash symbol to that word.
Now add other high traffic hashtags at the end of the description. Now click on “save” to finish. And that’s it!

Send Your Marketing Video To Email Subscribers

Email is a great channel for marketing videos, and you can easily advertise your own for free by sending it to your email subscribers.

The easiest way to do this is by creating an email campaign on your email marketing tool of choice. For this example, we are going to use MailChimp.
If you’re using MailChimp, go to your account and click on the “create campaign” button. Next, click on the “email” option. Now enter the name of your video marketing campaign into the “campaign name” field, and then click on “begin”.
Now it is time to configure this campaign. First, click on the “add recipient” button, and then click on the “audience” menu button to select the list of subscribers to whom you’ll send the video. Now check the “personalize the “to” field” option, select “first name” on the “merge tag” menu, and click on “save”.
Next, click on the “add subject” button and enter your “subject line” and “preview text” for your email. Make sure to include a keyword that lets the recipient know that they’ll watch a video. Click on “save and close” to continue.
Now click on the “design email” button. On the following page, select a layout or theme that allows you to easily insert your video, like this one we’re picking here. Once in the editor, start by replacing the “logo” placeholder with your own logo. Then, edit the headline and text in the “content” block below to add your own copy.
Now click on “save”, and then drag a “video” block to the editor, and put it right under the “content” block. Now enter the URL of your video on YouTube into the “video URL”. As you can see, the video will load right into the body of the email. Awesome! Now enter a caption for the video in the text field below, click on “save and close”, and then on “continue”.
Now that you are all set, simply click on the “send” button. And that’s it! Now your subscribers can watch your marketing video, right from their inboxes!

Comment On Other Niche Channels On YouTube

Leaving comments on other channels in your niche is a great opportunity to expose your brand to the traffic that those channels are generating. For Free!
To determine the popularity of a channel in your niche, simply see their number of subscribers and watch one of their best videos. Take a look at the comments on each video. If the comments are directl discussing the topic in the video, then that channel is generating relevant interactions and traffic.
When you leave your message, make sure that it is helpful and that it adds to the conversation. Make it conversational, but let viewers know that you are an authority.

Advertising Your Videos The Paid Way

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