The never freakin' ending sales video of doom!

LOL. My sentiments, exactly.

So, you were like, handcuffed to the computer? Why didn't you just shut down the page?

I know the guys that made the overview video for mint.com said you have 1 1/2 minutes max, but anyway...

Anyone know what the deal is with the can't pause, can't even tell how long videos out there.

Is that some kind of powerful technique? </sarcasm>

Yeah, there are times that I need to pause or stop a video and I can't (or don't know how, if there is some way other than pressing a pause button that does not exist) and it's exasperating when I can't do this. Unless it's a short video. But for one that's really long (or worse, you have NO IDEA how long it is) I won't hang around for long.

I do understand that there is a background or set-up that can strengthen or under-gird the main point of the video, but the pinto beans to caviar stories don't faze me any. I suppose they do to some, though. If the rich marketers were really that poor and are now really that rich, good on them. Glad they made it. Rarely do I take the marketer's desired action when either of those two points of yours in the quote above apply.

Ron

I bought a product from CB and there were 7 videos after i purchased, up-sells, down-sells, OTOs... & I had to watch them just to get to to the product, there wasnt even a no thanks link at the bottom of the page, it took me over 40 minutes just to get to the product!
The product, a video course was a good course when i finally got to it but just for all the other sales videos I had to watch I got a refund.
I know this kind of marketing with up-sell, down-sells, OTOs... works but you should be able to skip through if your not interested.

I watch some of them, because it sometimes makes me laugh how gullible they think most people are (or how gullible most people are if this method works). Sometimes I'm just curious. We here in the warrior forum are jaded and suspicious by nature due to most of us having been scammed repeatedly.

We all know there is no one click button that does it all for you, but many of us check these things out in the usually vain hope that it might save us some time we can use elsewhere. There are some of those darn videos that I just have to shut off immediately.

What really bothers me about these is that sometimes I'm checking them out before having to leave for an important appointment. When I don't know how long they are, I don't know if I have the time to watch the whole thing and I hate, HATE when I have to leave because of time constraints and have to start all over again.

HECK NO!

I'm just glad that ClickBank has been trying to clean up their reputation by making it harder for the scammers. (Note I said harder not impossible.)

I think the greatest disservice these types of videos do is to the marketer themselves, because I REALLY HATE when you have decided you are actually interested and you have to wait for the video to reach a certain point before you can even see the button to buy it.

That usually convinces me not to buy the item. Although, I always have the option to change my mind in the inevitable myriad of exit-pops and OTOs when I try to leave. LOL

Jim Waller

love them or hate them take a good look, marketers use them cause they work, and you are not everyone. You might be 1 of about 1000 people that see that page, and I guarentee you that most of them will watch it.

Look, I will show you the stats.

Our video sales letters conversions = 3% - 6% (give or take)

Our normal standard written text only sales page conversions = 1% - 2.85% (give or take)

Video sales letters work. If they didnt work, then BIG marketers would not use them right?

All I am saying is they work, if you like em' watch em, if you don't close down your browser and go get and icey cold beer from the fridge to cool off.

It's not so much the length of the video but the presentation. Even if I was dead broke I wouldn't go for a product that took 30 minutes to not get to the point. I didn't know a couple of the biggest marketers in the world live in my neighborhood. I've known them for years but didn't go for the marketing end until recently. Both do extremely well and are wealthy. However, their video presentations have that "come on" but they move right on into the meat and potatoes. Then they follow with what courses, videos etc.. You get it right there. They're held to a higher standard than your run of the mill IMer but they get massive results.

In my experience, the best-converting videos are the not the 10+ minute ones that lead right to the "buy now" link. They are the 1:30-3:00 warm-up type videos that lead to the written sales letter or are at the top of the sales letter page.

I find that the long videos are annoying but if I am interested in the product I will listen to the beginning, do other things like laundry, cook, do dishes LOL until the end and then check out the written sales page to see if I want to buy it. Gets me away from the computer so I get some things done.

I do not care about their new house, car or other things in between the real reason for the video, but I do appreciate the time so my house does not look like I have been robbed

I normally go to another window and let it play in the backround til its done.

until last week when I switched to another tab and it detected it was not on top and paused the video until I went back to that tab and it started right back up when i put that tab on top again.

reminds me I need to find that solution as that was sweet as a tactic, but not so nice as it made me leave the computer for a bit til it finished..

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