What are the reasons why you're not using Video Marketing?

Hey Vinnie, if you're not photogenic, I would try doing basic slideshow presentations with commentary. You'd be surprised how well these videos convert!

Cheers,

Don

For once I have to beg to disagree with Paul on this one. Video Marketing has been and still is a very solid way of earning consistent revenue online if approached the right way.

What is key is not to spread yourself too narrow by putting all your videos in one account which is of course high risk. However, if you spread yourself over a number of channels then the risk is pretty low and I from experience have found it to be more stable then SEO for example.

Another little tip is to put your link at the beginning of the description area and link to your own site/blog to capture the leads effectively, not to direct link them to a sales page.

It's very effective and with Google owning You Tube for example is also great for SEO and ranking purposes.

Joel

I think your question is why people are not implementing video marketing in their marketing mix. And no, I don't think it's because people think it's not effective, I think it's only that it's challenging, some people do not know how to do it the right way.

Some are not happy with their finished video, they may not like their voice, or if they are in the video, they may not like the way they look. Also fear of what people will say and think about their video etc.

It can be time consuming if you are a perfectionist, and I believe key is just to get going, implement and perfect later!

The other thing is simple lack of focus, I probably qualify in this category myself, because there are so many strategies out there as you may know.

but there are videos that don't need voice over right? You can include text on the video. Or you can pay someone to do the voice over for you.

But there are a lot of people done by people who speak English with an accent. That shouldn't matter, what matters is what you are delivering, as long as it's gonnah get people results, I don't care whether you have an accent or not.

Don't limit yourself!

I don't use it because I'm not photogenic at all. Which is too bad, I lecture to my students every other day so I'm used to being in front of people all the time.

I do however like the slideshow idea mentioned above. Create a slide show, use a little Photoshop (Gimp if you're looking for a free photo editior) some vocal narration, you could have yourself quite the entertaining presentation.

Very true. YouTube has buyers.

I plan to start video marketing very soon. I keep reading how it can help your business and I am going to try it out to see for myself.

But the problem using those programs that turns the articles to video automatically is not really good looking video.

Why not create a presentation base on your article then voice over it using same article.

In addition to YouTube, etc., you can add the video to your web site, which you do control.

Agree many have no time to create their own videos and other don't really know how to do it.

Wow that's lot of video, how's the result of those 200 videos? How much conversion you made from them? You really build a huge channel in your account with that amount of video.

It's on the to-do list for testing.

I haven't given it higher priority because I'm not really impressed with what passes for "video" many times.

Those "PowerPoint of the article text" videos are silly to me. If I'm going to read an article, I want to read it at my pace, not whatever timing the creator thinks I need. This is especially true for the ones that don't even bother with voice-over.

Don't even get me started on what many of those video creators consider an article. It's just another form of link spam for most of them.

Some clown that has bought one of those 'product in an hour' courses fumbling their way through a presentation doesn't exactly inspire confidence. If you're going to try and convince me your product or your knowledge works, don't waste ten minutes of my time trying to remember a link and then trying to type it into a browser. If I want to watch letters appear on a screen, then back-spaced and typed again (rinse and repeat), I'll watch my own typing, thank you very much.

If you don't care about your presentation enough to clean it up before showing it to me, how can I assume your product is good? You only get one shot at making a first impression.

I'll climb down from my soap box now...

Bottom line, if I can't do it well enough to not embarrass myself, I'll hold off until I can.

If you travel around the English-speaking world, you'll find that most native speakers speak English with an accent.

One of the funniest things I've ever witnessed was a fellow from Dallas, Texas debating a fellow from Manchester, England over whether soccer or American football should be called 'football'. Talk about two people separated by a common language...

onlineprintdesign, video marketing is a valuable addition to all types of marketing, (both online and offline.) Once you learn how to do it, it is not only a great supplement for some, but it is also a main avenue of revenue for others.

Andrew

You can outsource the creation of videos, or buy some PLR videos