Online Video Revolution : How to Reinvent and Market Your Business Using Video (Hardcover)--by John Cecil [2013 Edition] ISBN: 9781137003072

Online video expert, John Cecil provides a guide to successfully utilizing video in your marketing strategy by outlining tools and techniques for video creation and distribution. Online Video Revolution provides a holistic, metrics-driven approach which has been successful for Canon, Legalzoom, eHarmony and many more. "The Internet is changing. Once a text based medium, it's now transitioning into a video based one. Simply put, marketing to your customers online using traditional techniques no longer works. Why video? It has the power to engage your customers and prompt a response. It can increase the time they stay on your site, influence what they buy, and feed their desire to trust you. This book will teach you how to properly utilize video to help bring your product to life and increase your conversions. Online video expert, John Cecil, provides a guide to successfully incorporating video into your marketing strategy and explains why it's essential in today's market. With the constant flow of information on the Internet, it's vital that you attain the complete attention of your consumer, and video can make this happen. It's been proven that online video will help turn web site visitors into buyers, increasing success and profits. This book details how video technology can be useful to you and outlines tools that can create online visibility and sustainability. Cecil provides techniques for producing and distributing video, maintaining a strategic online video marketing plan, and ultimately creating a greater return on your video investment. The author's approach to video marketing has already been successful for companies such as Canon, eHarmony, Capitol Records, and Experian. Video marketing needs to be a critical piece of a successful online strategy, and this book will teach you not only how to get started, but how your video project can pay for itself with increased ROI."--Publisher's description People read less and less and rely on video more and more in virtually every aspect of their lives. This work will impart current best practices to illustrate how video can 'bring a brand's personality to life' through custom-tailored spokesperson and rectangular video 'snacks' which help put a human face on a brand. This is a marketer's guide to the online video revolution. It is about media technology and how production and professional video delivery work together to provide the key to generating impressive RO. The authors holistic, metrics-driven approach to video marketing has met phenomenal success for companies like Canon, Legalzoom, eHarmony, Napster, MAD MEN, Jazz @ Lincoln Center, HSBC and Experian, with media consulting for Procter and Gamble, McDonald's, Anheuser-Busch, Intel, Nike, Starbucks, British Airways, General Motors, Isuzu, American Airlines, Warner Bros., Philips, Kraft, Best Buy, Brooks Brothers, Philip Morris, JC Penney, Exxon-Mobil and AOL. Online Video Revolution will share their methodologies and creative secrets, updates and upgrades for the new video age Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-2 Lights, Camera, Action! Text Goes to Video-Based Content....Pages 3-24 Video in the Media Mix: Where It’s Been and Where It’s Going....Pages 25-38 Participate in the Video Revolution....Pages 39-65 Creating Video: Top Considerations for Production Success....Pages 67-86 Return on Investment (ROI)....Pages 87-105 Delivery....Pages 107-125 Video Production....Pages 127-146 Video SEO—The Science of Getting Seen....Pages 147-167 Make Your Videos Social....Pages 169-181 Taking Your Video to the Bank....Pages 183-184 Back Matter....Pages 185-208