5 Simple Tips That’ll Get Your Web Videos More Views

Creating web videos? A lot of folks seem to think “if you build it, they will come” but that’s far from true – in fact, making the thing is just the beginning. Now you need to promote it (or them) and here are 5 tips to get you started…

1. Post your videos to your blog and (this is the important part) include a bullet pointed outline in text for folks watching your videos – this will help your search rankings on Google and give folks who can’t watch your video reasons to save your video for later!
2. No blog? Email your vendors, for example, and ask them to use your video as a “guest post” on their blog or share it in their company email!
3. Create a slideshow version of your video – include a link to the video in the slideshow.
4. Submit your videos to YouTube, Vimeo and other social and bookmarking sites – using relevant keywords in your title, description and tags is extremely important!
5. Come up with a marketing plan for your video – You may not feel like you have time for brainstorming and planning, but mapping out even a loose video strategy around each video will save you a lot of time & headache down the road. In fact, this is so important it’s the one area where I even recommend hiring a marketer to help if you really can’t make the time. Here are a few bonus tips for video planning:

• Focus your efforts on 1 target audience.
• Look for tie-in opportunities, such as holidays, product launches, local/national news or events, etc.
• Embed your video in an email & send it out to your list – make sure you clearly ask for “likes,” ratings and shares!

Hope that helps!

Richard Bouchez
@richardbouchez
Social Media Specialist for EZWebPlayer.com

Originally posted on the EZWebPlayer blog

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Richard Bouchez is a certified Inbound Marketing professional specializing in Social Media Marketing & New Media content development. Richard’s web, audio & video work has been honored with Emmy, Promax & CBA awards.

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Blogs to Facebook, Where Your Biz Should Be and How to Start

Ok, perhaps you have a website… what’s next? You’re certainly aware of blogging, Facebook and other social networking. Perhaps you’re even considering starting a blog, but what should you do with it? The first thing to do is read “If I Started Today” by Chris Brogan. I’m going to describe Chris as a “Crowd-sourcing Leaking Sieve of Social Marketing Tips, Tricks and Information.” With his vast expertise, a common sense approach and his own hindset in mind Chris walks you step by step through the “what’s and how’s” of getting online & marketing your business through blogging, Facebook and Linkedin. Chris includes simple strategies and tools that will set you on the right path and point out other social networks you should venture onto from there.

“If I Started Today” By Chris Brogan

Here’s what I’m going to do. I’ll build three different scenarios out, and give you the starting points for what I’d do with social media if I were in these steps.

This really is a remarkable resource as is Chris’ blog at www.chrisbrogan.com. If you found this, or any of our articles useful, Linkedin recommendations are greatly appreciated! To view my Linkedin profile visit: www.Linkedin.com/in/richardbouchez For help marketing your business or to learn more about me click here.

-Richard

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