Topic - Online Video & retail
Copy This: Copy Matters, Especially in Product Videos!
No matter what technology comes (and goes) text will always be in fashion. Words drive almost every industry, particularly from a marketing perspective. Our words dictate how we present, communicate, display and ultimately sell. While a picture may be worth a thousand words, one great word or phrase can be worth thousands of dollars (if not, hopefully more).
Website Redesign, SEO, & Video – Keys to E-Commerce Future
eMarketer recently reported on some results from an study conducted by Internet Retailer that show us where eCommerce retailers plan to focus their energy in the future. Namely, site redesigns for SEO, video or streaming media, and better customer experience.
Harnessing Off-Site Videos to Increase E-Commerce Visibility
Videos’ impact on search rankings has been discussed here rather extensively in the past. A few months ago we interviewed Search Engine Marketing and Optimization veteran Bruce Clay who helps clarify the importance of on-site videos for search rankings:
Videos Sell Products – Even if Users Don’t Actually Watch them
While adding video to your online store isn’t exactly new, it is still a medium in its infancy. Only within the last year or so have retailers begun to wake up to the power of video as a marketing tool that builds customer confidence and increases conversion rates. The amazing thing about video is that it works to this effect whether it’s watched or not. In other words, just by adding product videos to your site, whether they’re watched or not, will help move products.
Maximize eCommerce ROI with “Smart” Product Video Banners
Featuring videos on product pages is becoming an important and popular tool to enhance shoppers’ experience and increase sales. There’s a new breed of “smart” video banners that take this technique to the next level by ensuring that e-commerce retailers showcase the top-performing product videos.
7 Tips for Adding Website Videos that Sell Products
The widespread availability of broadband and the purchase of YouTube by Google in October 2006 have made online video one of the fastest growing trends on the web in the past three years. Not surprisingly – it’s fun, entertaining and accessible – from both a viewer’s and a producer’s perspective. Anyone can roll out web worthy video and, since video is proving to be a huge purchasing motivator, increasing numbers of businesses are giving video production a try.
3 Principles for Creating E-Commerce Video that Sells
With the holiday shopping season in high gear, I’d like to spend some time this week focused on web video for e-commerce. I’ll start things off with an interview I did at the Streaming Media West show with my friend Justin Foster, Co-Founder of Liveclicker and founder of the Video Commerce Consortium. In this interview, Justin talks about what he considers to be an ideal framework for e-commerce merchants to follow when looking at producing video content that sells.
Video Demos Increase Sales Conversions at Zappos.com
At the recent Streaming Media West 2009 show, Rico Nasol, Content Team Senior Manager at Zappos.com spoke on the video commerce session about what they’re doing with video and how effective it is. It’s so interesting that we had to talk about it as well. Since they had $1.2 Billion in sales last year, they seem to know a thing or two.
On the Importance of AB Testing to Measure Landing Page Video ROI
You’re already spending part of your budget on Search Engine Marketing. You’ve done your research into the most effective keywords for your product and you spend some time every day looking at incoming traffic numbers and the traffic sources. We know that traffic is important in helping you achieve the goals you have set for your site, but what else should you be concentrating on?
Original Web Video Series = Success for Retail Shopping
The economic uncertainty combined with a shift to digital marketing has lead to more companies jumping on the interactive alternative of online video as part of their brand strategy. The core reasons for digital media’s success may be explained in unique areas that cannot be covered by traditional marketing methods such as instant lead to a product, an interaction with the audience, cheaper cost, and it’s unrestricted availability 24/7 at the consumer’s convenience.
Creating Videos for Business on a Shoestring Budget
Think it’s too expensive to start marketing your business using online video? Think it’s too complicated to start marketing your business using online video? Nope and nope. Use the powerful one-two punch of the Flip camcorder and Animoto to make stunning video on a shoestring budget.
Online Video and Brand Guidelines – Challenges and Tips
In this podcast episode, I discuss my experiences with companies’ brand standards policies, and how video marketers can understand and follow them (as well as protect themselves) when producing, publishing and promoting video online for business.
