Marketers and business report today that implementing web videos in their sales messages increased their sales by 100%, 200% and even 300%.
For this reason we have also another phenomenon. Corporate video production is now moving online as they discovered the potential of online marketing. They make business helping other companies getting their messages across to sell their products and services, to build their brand purpose, to service their customers.
So what you need to do for your business. You need to implement web marketing videos in your sales letter. If you already started a business and have created several sales letters for your products or services or for products you are an affiliate for then it is time to review your web pages and include videos.
The reason is: you will really dramatically increase your sales and the number of subscribers.
But what was not working with only text sales messages? Well, most of the people will not read your text. On the other hand if you had a video in your sales message a great percentage of the visitors on your web pages will watch your videos and many of them will take action!
Of course, if they don’t read then you cannot deliver them your sales message. But they will probably watch your video.
With video you do what we are doing in television for more than 60 years: send infomercial that people watch. Now it is our time to do the same on the Internet. We need to inspire on those infomercials on television and do the same on the Internet for our products and services. If you produce our videos in a good way we can provoke to people emotions and involve them in our sales messages.
We have to consider this very seriously as: People spend most of their time watching TV!
But, let’s see now how streaming video is possible today.
Internet at the beginning was only text and also was a slow technology that could not allow videos to be shown.
Until some years ago most of videos you were requested to download and watch on your PC desktop.
Today the technologies of the network are improved and broadcasting is possible. With broadcasting also streaming video is a reality and everybody can watch streaming videos and entertain on the Internet.
Let’s check soma data to understand how we can create our videos. Just you need to check the resolution Internet Users have right now (data from the UK) in their screens:
Resolution % of Internet Users
Higher than 1024×768 38%
1024×768 48%
800×600 8%
Lower than 800×600 < 1%
Unknown 6%
The evolution of broadband technologies has moved video communications directly onto the customers’ desktop, at home and in the office. In the same time the cost of video production has reduced as the tools and techniques that make production of high quality video on little more than standard computers possible.
The facts are that rich media works. There is a wide variety of information on these pages where you can read more about the facts, figures and opinion that illustrates how interactive web videos and associated techniques is defining online marketing.
Let’s see some other important data to figure out why we need to move in the direction to use streaming videos for our marketing.
In the UK, Broadband usage is as follows:
• 3.2 million Broadband connections
• 1.82 million DSL connections
• 1.36 million cable modem connections
• 12% of homes have broadband
• DSL is available to 85% of UK homes and businesses
Internet Usage and Population Statistics:
YEAR Users Population % Pop. Usage Source
2000 15,400,000 58,789,194 26.2 % ITU
2005 35,807,929 59,889,407 59.8 % Nielsen Net//Ratings
2007 38,512,837 60,363,602 63.8 % Nielsen//NR
Now, if people watch your streaming videos on your web pages they do not leave your web site! And there you can promote them over and over again.
For this reason I recommend that you update your video courses or membership site with videos so that the people come back and see your other offers.
Another way to get exposure for your business is by uploading videos in social community web services that offer free submission.
The most famous of these web sites is Youtube.
Youtube is the third most popular web site after Yahoo and Google. In most cases it gets more page views in a day than Google.
But how can you increase your conversion rate with your videos? Are videos enough? No, you need to convince the watchers to take action. You need to increase their imagination, emotions and interests. And in your movies you need to work in your narration and include images, effects, voices, sounds,…
When you use videos on your web pages you have to pay attention and reduce the text on them! The visitor has to concentrate to so many things (text and video) and he/she can get tired and leave your page.
Put your video at the top of your sales page!
Some marketers made a lot of money using only video in their sales message (John Reese – Traffic Secrets 2.0).
Now that we know what a marketing video is we will continue our discussion talking about:
- How to write a video sales letter. We will see how translate the writing rules into video messages including images and narrations.
- How to script your video from the opening scene to the closing call to action. We will see the step-by-step processes you need to follow to produce compelling sales and marketing messages.
- How, where and when to use video on your site. We will see the places where you need to upload your videos, providing the elements that will make you decide where and when.
- How to use Video Marketing to pull traffic to your web site. Your final scope is to get traffic to your web site and make sales. We will see how to use your videos as a marketing tool.