How To Bring Your Marketing Message Across With Videos
  
To be competitive in today’s, and to stay competitive in tomorrow’s market, your marketing strategy must contain video. It’s a powerful form of content, which is rapidly becoming the primary marketing tool of choice for many businesses. However, there’s more to using video than simply standing in front of a camera and sharing information. To be effective, you want your marketing message to come through in your video content. 
Here’s how to bring your marketing message across with videos:
#1  Revisit your company mission and vision. Analyze it to make sure it’s current and then embrace it when you create your videos. This is essential to attaining your business goals and achieving the success you desire. Your marketing strategy and tactics, whatever they are, must support your mission and vision.
#2  Determine your story. Each video message can have a story to tell. Even if it’s a how to video. This is important because your video will help support your company personality and it’s a wonderful way to connect with your prospects. Telling a story, helps pull your viewer into the video. It helps engage them.
#3  Use video to showcase your company personality. Customers are demanding authenticity and transparency online. They want to know who you are and what your company is about. Video is a wonderful way to communicate your personality.
#4  Use video testimonials – there’s nothing more powerful than actually hearing people share their success. It has more power than a print testimonial in many cases because they can hear the success story from the metaphorical ‘horse’s mouth.’
#5  Use video to demonstrate your authority. We buy from people or companies we consider to be experts. You can use an online video or audio seminar to demonstrate authority by voicing or demonstrating your knowledge, by providing ‘how to’ video content. 
According to a recent Marketing Sherpa report on Marketing with Video, released Jan 09, 57% of internet marketers who have used video for marketing purposes are happy with the results. They cite an increase in sales, lead generation, website use, and improved customer relations. In the world of online business, that’s what it’s all about. It’s what we strive for and when a tool like video comes around, it pays to take advantage of it to spread your marketing message.

