As you read this article, over 100 million videos are being viewed online. Over 100 million surfers watch online videos every day. The traffic generated by video marketing is huge and it’s not something your marketing can do without.
Video generates traffic. Video sells. Video has become a mainstream in any kind of online marketing. More and more surfers expect to see videos in any page they view on the internet, and when they don’t see video, they tend to vote with their mouse and navigate away from the page. We have to have marketing videos on our own websites.
The new internet, or Web 2.0 as it’s become known, is driven by multimedia. It’s this new multimedia environment that we find ourselves in as internet marketers.
Typically a new marketing campaign would fellow the well trodden PPC path. The cost of clicks in PPC however has risen to the point were campaigns with even double digit CTR’s are no longer profitable, even without taking into account how effective video marketing is at generating traffic.
Don’t misunderstand me, please. I believe in PPC and drive a substantial amount of traffic to my sites using this method. However, the web is changing and as internet marketers, we can either evolve or go the way of the dodo.
Making a marketing video isn’t an overly complex undertaking. The software applications required are mostly simple and reasonably priced, so much so, that a full suite of programs needn’t cost more than a few hundred dollars.
What can be complicated and leave us open to costly errors is the way we go about marketing our videos. One way is to produce a marketing video for our product or the affiliate product we promote and simply submit this to the various video hosting sites such as Revver, YouTube or Metaface to name just a few.
After we submit our videos to the hosting sites, we can then use the code the sites provide, to embed these videos in our own sites, without requiring any additional conversion. This is a simple process, but not one I would suggest the serious internet marketer uses.
The reason I say this is that the embed codes from the video sites, such as Revver for example, also include embedded videos from other users.
Video hosting sites group the videos submitted to them into categories. Taking an embed code from a video site could well result in additional videos being carried across from a competitor site for example. We would then be offering free traffic and advertising to this competitor, which is not really something we should be doing.
The safest and most efficient way to add our own videos to our own marketing websites, is to convert these to a flash format and add the resulting flash video to our site. To do this we need a reliable video converter.
Videos generally include large volumes of information and tend to be large files. YouTube has a 10 minute and 100 MB maximum for any video submitted to the site, so this gives a good indication of the kind of file sizes I’m talking about.
This video conversion takes time and for most of us, this our computer is fully occupied for this time, meaning we can’t do any of the other tasks our online marketing requires.
Time is a valuable commodity and not something we can afford to waste. Video is a valuable marketing tool and not something we can afford to ignore. Get the best combination of time and result and your online marketing efforts can be that much more profitable.
All too often I see people investing big money in the latest and greatest video production software, without thinking about the marketing of the videos they produce. Usually they end up with amazing videos that nobody ever sees. Why? Because they didn’t consider the conversion stage.
For the price difference between substandard converters at around $70 and real workhorses at less than $100, is it worth the frustration and lost time ? I think not.
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