Does video marketing really work?

Absolutely they work. Its one of those things you have to try out for yourself.

When I make a video for a product I make sure to show a little demo of the product that way people can see me using it in action. People like to associate themselves with the video. They picture themselves using it and they begin to think what they would use it for. This helps in your conversions!

You can't be distracting in the video though and you have to really believe in the product or service that your showcasing. It's like having an actual sales man on your computer selling your product to everyone that clicks the play button.

I personally believe video marketing is possibly THE MOST EFFECTIVE method of marketing. Not just for the obviously reasons, but the SEO alone is great. I can put a video up on youtube optimsed and keyword filled for my particular niche, and within 48 hours that video shows up on GOOGLE in the search results for my chosen keywords - WITH a little preview picture next to it. It's so powerful and your listing sticks out in the SERPS.

I have to say that I BELIEVE it must work, and I like to see videos when I'm surfing/purchasing... but I can say that I've created more than one sales video that lowered my conversions too. So, testing and evaluating is still important.

- could have been my 'mug' or what I had to say, or how I said it, or who knows... but in several cases I ripped those videos off of there after about 10 days of significantly lower conversions and sure enough, sales went back up.

The Google-video (window of opportunity that Stu mentions) makes it worth it, even if the video is on a different sales page than the primary.

I think one of the guides here referred to one video marketing method in particular: Shooting a video of yourself buying the product and using it. While it's not the most economic way of doing marketing, I think it should really be effective. Most people are still very doubtful about shopping over the Internet and buying the product in the video can help greatly, the guide said. And it made great sense to me.

i believe it can work for you. same as the other ways of marketing your product, you have to tap the right places, and don't just stop with one. videos can be more convincing, if they are well made, and there would be some demo on how to use your product, and not just all talk.

Aside from the obvious benefits a properly optimized and distributed video is flat out one of the quickest rides available to the TOP of G's search result pages.

I've found the Gifting programs are quite compelling because the affiliates open up FEDEX or DHL envelopes filled with cash.....

It works. But the video needs to be good. It needs to deliver REAL value to the audience in some way, whether it's by giving them a real tip that they can actually use, by showing them insider information that they genuinely wanted to see and couldn't get in another way, or by the presenter being especially funny, likeable or quirky.

This last one was exemplified to me by one of Tony Shepherd's videos where he does nothing but show his newsletter opt-in form on his blog and explain that people can sign up to get updates through email. That's it. That's all the video was about... but the sheer humor, charisma and magnetism that the guy exudes as he talks got me to click through to the actual blog, and I have no doubt that it's the same for a lot of people.

So just look at your video with an honest eye. If you can honestly say that it's something that would genuinely get you to click through, then it's likely good, but if it's something that you're hoping will make other people interested while not interesting you at all, it's probably not going to do much beyond giving you the backlink.

(Edit - Just thought of Ed Dale as another one who leverages video marketing to a crazy degree thanks to the energy and charisma he gets to come through on every video he makes. They are both good examples to learn from If you're thinking if starting to go this route.)

yes.
people are not drawn to blogs or reviews that much anymore
videos are more powerful because they give uprfront proof from the buyer

Great thing with videos is that once you can get your video indexed
by Google for a certain keyword or keyphrase... you can expect to
see it there for a reaaaaally long time.

Asher

yes infact i think ths days vedio marking works more...

yes it could work ,as well as other ways of marketing.
i wonder, how long should a video be? and is there like a format, that certain elements should be present? or would it be just like a TV ad...
any video marketeers here?can you give us some of your successful videos?

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Guys,

understand you guys have been using video marketing. So i would like to get some help on this. To have our target keywords in video website [20+ sites] getting search from google and other search engines webby [MSN, yahoo] the tags will be the place that i must put so that it's can be search by google?

Would really appreciate someone can help me on this? Thanks

Also does anyone here use Video post robot? Is it good? Would really appreciate someone can advice me on this if i intend to purchase a program that automatic the uploading of the video.

Video marketing does work effectively. Try consider submitting different versions of the video for the product that you are going to promote at different time, this will to increase back link to your site and also increase the number of viewer to your video.

Whats all this talk about videos? Videos don't work. You can't get any traffic. You can't make any affiliate commissions its all a big scam!

NOT!

JK, Video rocks and there are a lot of people making a silent killing with videos!

Frank Bruno

Yes. Is the absolute answer but make sure you put some time into planning out the video and scripting it well. You will also want a nice project flow. Intro - Benefits - Product Demo - Irrisitable Offer - Bonuses - Pressure Stack - Take Away.

Good Luck

Guys,

abit OOT here but it's also related to video marketing.

Would like to check which program is good for changing/transferring text to audio format? As i am not really good in talking.. appreciate anyone help on this?

I thing whit the development of technology. people become more and more alert about what happening in online media. I thing video marketing start playing very important role. So Video marketing must be included in Online business strategies.

When I first started one of my blogs, video marketing was the best traffic generation I had. I can confidently say that you can use it as a weapon, but before you rush to create just "any video" be sure to make a good keyword research so you'll be able to dominate the first page of Google for those keywords.

Wish you the best,

Mike

P.S

If you need an example of one of my successful videos, feel free to drop me a PM.

Do infomercials work? There's your answer.

Tyrus

Of course!

I make videos for a global TV station. They WORK. Professional videos sell your product like HOT CAKES!

Video work very well, I have done hundreds. The title, description and tags are critical for keywords.

Video presentations are also much more powerful than a sales letter, especially when you put it on YouTube as the video host because you pick up YouTube traffic directly.