Video for Search: One Page At A Time

Video optimization has a tremendous capability to increase your search ranking and search results. However, getting your video properly indexed by the search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo and the others) can be frustrating and time consuming. Video … [Read more...]

Spokesperson: Making it Natural

“His hands aren’t moving enough. They have to move or he’s not believable!” That’s almost a direct quote from the emphatic client. His video spokesperson -- a very talented actor -- did a wonderful job, but didn’t move his hands much. … [Read more...]

Spokesperson Style…Why Style Matters

One of the words thrown around the Internet a lot these days is “authenticity.” Defined as “conforming to an original or made the same way as the original.” In other words, real; not false. It has a lot to do with social media. Our real … [Read more...]

Video Spokesperson: Plain Speaking

The great author, Truman Capote, once said, “I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.” Of course he was speaking of editing. Great writing largely is the work of great editing. This also applies to a thirty- or sixty-second script … [Read more...]

Relevance is the Key to Engagement

Recently a client in the international health and beauty category sent us a script for an introductory video. The purpose of the video was to entice users to sign up for a series of videos detailing the benefits of their latest product. The script … [Read more...]

The First Law of Conversions

Any conversion requires an exchange between buyer and seller. Usually a product is exchanged for a something of value. It could be as simple as a white paper given in exchange for an email address. The exchange is made; the conversion is … [Read more...]

Owner Versus Professional Video Spokesperson

This is always a sticky situation. The company is a thriving start-up. At the helm is the entrepreneur who wears many hats and is the driving force behind the company’s success. Now its time to ramp up the marketing and add video to the website. … [Read more...]

Your Corporate Video as Online Commercial

Shooting a high quality commercial can be expensive. It doesn’t have to be Ford-commercial expensive; $1 million dollars a minute, but shooting a full-blown commercial for broadcast or cable television can easily run $10,000 or more. That’s … [Read more...]

Using YouTube the Right Way

YouTube is the largest video search engine on the planet. Fortunately, the YouTube system provides a variety of tools to help your video get discovered online. Generally a needle and haystack proposition. What’s interesting is how few business … [Read more...]

VSEO: The First Step to Getting Discovered

It’s amazing how little is written, and even less is understood, about the science of Video Search Engine Optimization (VSEO). Video can provide a powerful tool to level the search marketing field...if used properly. And there’s the rub. Rarely … [Read more...]