In some ways, businesses are in two distinct and seperate camps on opposite sides of a river when it comes to determining what kind of video content they should create. On one side of the river are business that have website traffic and on the other side are businesses that have none.
So, what kind of content, in particular, video content should your business be creating and what should you do with it once it exists?
The answer can be relatively simple and should always revolve around what do you want your content to do for you? When you have a clear answer to this question you can begin to understand:
Who your video content is for/ who will your content benefit?
What your video content should be about.
How you should distribute your content/ where should your content should live?
The answers to the above will differ from business to business and will change further depending on the individual size of each business in relation to the amount of website traffic, social media traffic and overall brand awareness that it already yields.
So, for larger businesses that have already earned a following there may be a lesser requirement for content that focuses on the short hard-sell or at least an additional requirement for new content that doesn’t scream “buy me now”.
Longer form content that focuses on detail, logical comparison and friendly, informative natural discussions about the products and the space a business operates in have become a popular method of retaining customer interest and a great method to evolve newer customers into lifelong advocates of your brand.
For smaller businesses with little to no website traffic shorter and clearer videos about the services your offer and the products you sell will generate a greater return on investment (ROI) than longer formats. A focus on the cost of distribution of your content or the cost of video marketing is also warranted and often forgotten and can be discussed anytime with a suitable digital marketing agency.
"A video that sits on a website with no traffic does very little to help a business. "
What types of videos are useful as longer form video content?
Product Demonstration Videos
What types of videos are useful as short form business video content?
Product Videos
Brand Videos
How should I distribute my video content?
A better initial question may be “who do I want to distribute my content to?”
This will all depend on your business and who your potential clients/customers are. Having said this we have some suggestions that may help determine where you should host your content and in particular how to reach your audience using paid online advertising (more commonly known as pay-per-click advertising).
The question of where you should host your video content is answered easily.
Answer:
Everywhere you can! You should host your video content on every available platform you can purely for the potential signals Google’s algorithm will pick up to help your search engine optimisation (SEO) efforts.
A single video can be uploaded to multiple platforms such as:
- Facebook – See here for a guide on “how to post a video to facebook”
- Instagram – see here for a guide on “how to upload your video to Instagram“
- Email Newsletter – see email marketing
- Youtube – see here “how to upload a video to Youtube“
- LinkedIn – see here for “how to upload a video to LinkedIn“
- Google My Business
- Yelp
- Medium
Paid distribution of video content through PR campaigns and Pay-Per-Click advertising is different to simply posting it on your social media channels. It puts your video content to work to attract new customers and clients.
As we mentioned earlier, if you understand what you want your corporate video content to achieve, with the right push you can use your videos to:
- Create Direct Sales
- Generate Leads
- Inform Your Current Customers
- Inform Potential Customers
- Push Your Brand to Current and Potential Customers
If you know who your content will benefit:
- People within your current network.
- Potential customers within a defined location.
- Potential customers that are aware of your product or service.
- Potential customers that are using products or services that are similar to yours or will benefit from your products or services.
You will be able to know which PPC platform is most suitable to reach your potential customers on and better create unique and engaging video content.
If you create engaging content that reaches the right audience you will be able to get them to complete specific actions such as visiting your website, watching your content, providing email details, making purchases or sending enquiries.
Which pay-per-click advertising platform is best for my business and my video content?
As always, it depends on what your content is, who you want to watch it, what you want them to do once they have and what your budget and goals are. Below is a brief breakdown of the available platforms with the widest reach:
Is Facebook and Instagram marketing a good way to market my video content?
Comparatively cheap compared to other platforms. You can develop an excellent understanding of how your content is being engaged with in terms of impressions, views, shares, clicks and website engagement.
Is Linkedin Marketing Useful for my business video content??
For B2B marketing and branding. Very expensive compared to other platforms but be useful in distributing longer form content and general branding content to a very strict viewership on industry professionals such as CEO’s, General Managers and marketing professionals.
Is Youtube marketing useful for distributing video content?
Your video can play before, after or in the middle of other Youtube content that your current customers or potential clients are already watching.
If you would like more information on video marketing services or video production services please don’t hesitate to contact us. We would love to hear what you do and how me may be able to help!
Christopher Lichti
Christopher Lichti is the founder and lead content strategist at Video Outcomes, a video marketing, corporate video production and corporate videography company based in Melbourne, Australia founded in 2017.
Christopher's background in developing video content for ppc campaigns on platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn started in 2014. On the days he is not making videos he is making music and playing with his kids.
4 comments
free v bucks generator
August 9, 2021 at 4:35 pmWay cool! Some extremely valid points! I appreciate you writing this write-up and the rest of the website is really good.
Christopher Lichti
September 17, 2021 at 10:32 amThanks for taking the time have a read through!
ps4 games your
August 23, 2021 at 10:31 pmHey There. I found your blog using msn. This is a really well written article.
I’ll be sure to bookmark it and return to read more of your useful info.
Thanks for the post. I’ll certainly return.
Christopher Lichti
September 17, 2021 at 10:31 amGrateful for the feedback!