Video has a lot of my mind-share right now, it is increasingly becoming a powerful tool for businesses of all sizes to provide insight and value to their customers. In fact depending on your objectives, video can be an enabling tool for just about any business goal.
A few powerful uses:
1. Interviewing customers – if you have great customers, why not interview them and ask them what they think about what you have done for them. Most customers are more than happy to share their positive experiences with others.
2. Interviewing thought leaders – are there people in your industry that are seen as thought leaders, innovators that everyone is interested in hearing their opinion? Would your customers be interested in hearing what they have to say?
3. Telling stories/documenting case studies
Why video? It is a medium we are all very familiar with, it allows us to really get a sense of the full spectrum of human communication in a setting we are used to.
We can see and hear a person communicate almost as thought they are sitting right in-front of us.
David Boyll, the Director of Digital Media Technology for Oracle Corporation, recently shared some other facts about the value of this medium:
“Conversion: Internet Retailer reports that Ice.com found that viewers who chose to view video converted at a 400% increase over those who did not.
“According to Forrester, video stands about a 50 times better chance of appearing on the first page of results than any given text page.”
Thanks to Brightcove Blogs for surfacing this data.
If you are interested to hear what some of silicon valley’s best practitioners, agencies and consultants have to say on the topic, we have a great SVAMA program coming up in Sunnyvale on February 10th.
See here two personal invite’s from speakers at the event:
Our Key Note Jeff Severtson kindly put together this short video:
