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7 Reasons Why You Need Video Marketing

Video marketing is something that businesses still often stay away from, putting them at a great disadvantage when compared to their competitors that do use this effective marketing strategy. With today’s technology, virtually anyone with any level of skill can create a professional and effective video for their company, products and services, something which is important in today’s marketplace.

1. People Like Videos

It’s been known for a long time now that people prefer video over reading tons of text. Why? Videos give you information in a quick, succinct package. Reading a ton of text on a computer screen is also quite a strain on the eyes and can be rather headache inducing, which will stop any potential customers from reading your sales copy. But apart from the simple fact that videos are easier to digest than a ton of text, they also offer businesses a number of fantastic opportunities, which we’ll discuss as we progress through this article.

2. Customers Can See The Product Or Service In Action

The one thing that is a real drawback to having your business on the internet is that people don’t get to feel that immediate connection with you. You’re just words on a page on their computer. Any product or service that you advertise is just words on a screen and a picture or two attempting to show customers just what it is that your company’s selling.

But having a video changes up everything.

A video allows for your potential customers to actually get a 3D look at the product or the service that you have for sale. They can see how it works. They can see how it looks from every angle. Watching it in action helps them visualize themselves using this product or getting this service. Internet research studies have shown that products and services that have a video have a much higher conversion rate than those products and services that don’t have a video. If you want to boost your sales, you need a video.

3. Videos Create Trust

This pretty much goes hand in hand with point #2. A customer being able to see a product, service, or even the face of the person or persons behind a company in a video creates an instant trust that text and images just can’t offer. It allows them to feel as if they have gotten to know you. People prefer to buy things from people that they know, and will often even pay more money to buy something from someone they trust rather than get a better deal from someone they don’t know.

4. Videos Will Boost Your SEO

Want to see an immediate improvement in your search engine rankings? Then get your company in on a video marketing campaign. Studies have shown that search engines are beginning to include video marketing SEO as a way to measure where websites should be in the rankings more and more. Search engines are placing more and more stock in video content as they begin to recognize just how much more important and valuable it is to people.

Having a video as well as an article or a blog that are about the same keyword will also give you a huge boost in the rankings for that specific keyword. You can also target a lot of longer keywords with a video which you can’t do as easily with text.

5. Videos Are Easy To Distribute

Getting your marketing videos on the internet could not be any easier than it is today. Right after your video has been edited and is ready to go live, you can post it to a number of sites, like YouTube, DailyMotion and Vimeo (or you can use tools like “TubeMogul” and “Hey!Spread” which will distribute your video immediately to a number of video sites).

Even more importantly, videos can easily be added to any of your social network accounts (and if you don’t have a Facebook page and a Twitter account for your company yet, you need to get one NOW). More and more people are flocking to social media and gathering their information from places like Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. Add your 2 minute marketing video to your social media site and you’re sure to get a lot of viewers. Better yet, if you make your video enticing enough, they may “share” your video or retweet it so a boatload of new viewers can potentially view it and learn about your company, product or business.

6. Smartphone Users Prefer Videos

Almost everyone has a smartphone these days. Smartphone users are a bit of a different breed from those who are sitting at home and browsing the internet with their PC or laptop. Smartphone users are on the go. They want information, and they want it FAST. As mentioned before, videos allow you to give people a quick message about a product, service, or your company, so smartphone users can easily gather the information that they need from your video.

Here’s another reason why you need to appeal to smartphone users: smartphone users are often using the internet on their phones to investigate a purchase. They can even be standing in your store and speaking to a sales representative about a product, but before they make a purchase, they will go onto the internet through their smartphone and do a further investigation on your product.

They’ll quickly look up your website, watch a video, and read reviews and testimonials, all within a span of 2-5 minutes, and then make a quick purchase – if they think that your company, product or service is worthy of their hard earned cash. There is no other better tool to convince a customer to buy into your product or service than a video.

7. Video Marketing Can Be As Cheap Or Expensive As You Want It To Be

There has never been a more flexible time than now when it comes to how to make marketing videos. You can go as basic as using a home camera to showcase a product or your company, or you can pay thousands upon thousands of dollars for a professionally done video. And the funny thing is, the more expensive and professional videos are not necessarily better or more effective than a video you make with your webcam, so before you lay down a ton of cash, really think about what you’re trying to convey with your video and which method would work best for you and your business.

A Beginner’s Guide To Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing allows people to sell a variety of products online through their blogs or website. If you are looking for an easy way to monetize your website, you can easily implement affiliate marketing into your site.

The basic concept is signing up for an affiliate marketing network and finding products that are within your niche. Once you find the product that is within your niche, you click on the hoplink to add your affiliate ID to the product link. When a reader clicks on your hoplink and buys the item, you get a commission for the sale. Although this sounds simple, there are a few things that you need to know before you get started.

Here is a simple guide for affiliate marketing beginners.

Choosing Your Affiliate Network

The affiliate network that you choose will have a lot to do with the type of products that you are selling. Different affiliate networks will focus on different items. Some affiliate networks like Commission Junction mainly focus on selling website subscriptions and services while ClickBank will focus on digital products like ebooks and software packages.

Determine what affiliate network is going to fit best into your niche. For instance, if you’re running a website that offers advice on insurance, you can use a lead based affiliate network to promote insurance quotes. Some affiliate networks are known for late payments and other bad business practices so do your research before hand.

Choosing Products

When you’re first starting out you’re going to be inundated with different products for marketing. There first thing that you need to do is research on the products that you’re going to promote. Unlike your niche where you are focusing on a small market, you can expand your product base and offer a wide variety of products or lead generating links when you’re marketing to readers.

Don’t go overboard, but have a couple of items that are relevant to your niche. Whether these are ebooks or software packages, your readers have broad based needs within your niche so you should appeal to every aspect of their need. Click on the “Gravity” or “Network Earnings” options on the affiliate network for stats on what products are selling the best.

Buy The Product

How are you going to give real information about a product if you have never used it? When somebody comes to your website they are looking for information on the product. If you don’t give them detailed information then they are going to leave the site and probably never come back.

Buy the item so you know the ins and outs of what you’re trying to sell. Never give broad information about a product or you’re going to come off as scammy. You will be glad that you bought the product instead of just trying to fake your way through a review to do online marketingfor it.

Be Honest

Affiliate marketing is all about being honest with a product. If there are things that you don’t like about the product, tell your reader. This will differentiate you from the other marketers trying to sell them a product based on the features.

When you explain what you don’t like about the item you show that you actually know what it does and what it doesn’t do. You can easily build rapport with your readers and establish online trust. This will bring them back to your website when they need a new product or are wondering about different websites that you’ve tried out.

Cloaking

Almost everybody knows what a hoplink looks like. When you put hoplinks on your website, a reader is going to know that you’re trying to sell them something. These links are not only telltale signs of a sale; they are not aesthetically appealing to your websites. Cloaking your links is the best way to keep the website looking professional while not coming off as a hard sell.

You can use cloaking tools or you can use an anchor text link. This allows you to embed a link within a certain phrase. For instance, if you’re trying to sell an ebook on acne you can add your hoplink to “Acne Ebook” so that when the phrase is clicked the reader is taken to the product page.

Viral Media

Viral media is an easy way to drum up traffic to your site or blog. If you are going with a hosting plan then you will be able to easily host videos on your site. If you don’t have a hosting plan, head over to HostGator and buy one.

This is very cheap and will give you the freedom to upload and house your videos per your website or blog. Record yourself going over the product or take screenshots of the product to show the different features. Also talk about what you don’t like about the item to keep your readers informed. Video marketing is a great way to generate traffic.

How To Get Advertisers For Your Blog

One of the best ways to make money online with your blog is to bring on advertisers that pay you to use the space on your blog. You’ll get a commission from the advertisers by putting their banners or ads on your blog and advertising their products to your readers. Some questions you might ask are:

• How do you find advertisers?
• Should you go with individuals or ad networks?
• What’s the best way to get started?

Traffic Matters

If you want to make money online by getting someone to advertise on your site, the first thing they’re going to want to see are your traffic numbers. If you get only 10 visitors per day, you’re probably not going to get many advertisers. They want to see that you have a considerable amount of traffic (visitors) to make it worth their while. If you have that, you can start soliciting advertisers. If not, focus on building traffic first. We like at least 10,000 page views per month, but if you want to get into ad network, you will need even more (20,000 for basic ads and at least 100,000 for traditional advertisers).

It also helps if your blog is focused on a particular niche. This makes it easier for advertisers to reach their desired audience.

In many ways it’s like a popularity game. People will respect you more, or in this case willing to advertise on your site if they see that you have a huge following. Politicians and corporations do it all day long when they seek to influence others through opinion leaders. Learn from them and be the central hub, then leverage your expertise into money.

Make It Easy For Advertisers To Contact You

Going back to answering the original question of how to find advertiser, one of the simplest things to do is make “advertise with us” a tab on your website. Advertisers will actually compose a percentage of your website’s visitors. Why not make it easy for them to contact you?

You can also publish a blog post letting your readers know that you are looking for advertisers and the spots and location available. If you have an email list (which you should), you can email your subscribers and mention you are looking for advertisers.

Go to the popular blogs in your niche (there are usually 4 to 5 major players in any industry), find out what companies advertise with them as well as which ad networks they use and contact them. Come up with a proposal of what they’re going to get and why. Basically you want to find and sell to receptive potential customers.

Also based on our experience the more you grow your audience the more likely advertisers will come to you, which is a lot easier and more awesome!

Join An Ad Network

Google AdWords is by far the biggest and most popular ad network for advertisers. On the flip side, the Google AdSense program is designed for publishers like you. It’s fairly easy to sign up. You’ll need a legitimate telephone and mailing address. Google will confirm on both.

Once approved for AdSense, you will then determine the size of your ad units which comes in different shapes. You can even add tags that will allow advertisers to target a particular ad – for example, a Leaderboard (728 x 90 pixels) in top center of your home page.

You’d most likely get paid by each click (CPC) instead of impressions (CPM) or the result of a sale (CPA). This is fine at the beginning. But eventually you want to reach the point where you will get paid simply by showing your ad to your customers. The advertisers would determine that based on the perceived desirability of your blog.

How You’re Going To Get Paid

Let’s review really quickly the three payment models in online advertising. Cost Per Click or CPC is payment by each click. The price can range from a few pennies to tens of dollars. With proper planning and research by logging on and using the AdWords Keyword tool, you could start a blog whose niche overlap with a high paying keyword. The downside is that high paying keywords often have low traffic, so again proper research to balance two is highly recommended.

CPM is the cost per 1000 ad units. In other words it’s how much the advertiser would pay you every 1000 times the ad is displayed on your website. For example anywhere between $0.50 CPM and $8 CPM. If you have a high traffic website, this is an excellent earning model for you as the publisher because it doesn’t require action from your visitor for you to earn money!

CPA also known as Cost Per Action pays a lot more for each instance than CPC & CPM, but is also harder for you to get paid because it requires your visitors to take a particular action such as buying a particular product.

There are plenty of other networks out there, but nobody beats Google AdSense for simplicity and ease of use. Plus there’s no minimum traffic requirement – many ad networks require that 100,000 page view minimum. It’s probably the best way to get started especially if you don’t have much of an audience yet.

Should You Go With An Individual Advertiser?

Ad networks are easy – individuals affiliate programs are a LOT more profitable. This is a middle person fee, and you will only get a percentage what the advertiser is willing to pay – especially if you combine advertising with an affiliate arrangement. 

You can have both passive advertising and active promotions so that you get the best of both worlds. It’s a win-win for both you and the advertisers. You’re building a true long term partnership that will grow and become ever more lucrative. Essentially you move from an unknown affiliate to their preferred superstar. They might even design custom commissions for you that pay much more than their standard.

In conclusion remember to focus on growing your site and providing great content. Don’t focus on monetizing from day one because you’ll be disappointed with the results. Once you’ve demonstrated authenticity, and build a sizable following, advertisers will find you! They’re PART OF your audience already – be awesome and they’ll want their brand behind you.

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