Your competition is telling their story, are you?

Your competition is telling their story, are you?   Personalizing your message to connect with the prospect and your current customer base is an on going effort on your part.  Using video to personalize your business and reach out to your prospects and customers needs to be part of your marketing plan.  One video is not the end all.  A variety of videos that you can use to build up a YouTube channel is important. Is your competition using video then you must.  If they are not, then you need to be ahead of the curve and share your story.  Share your products, services and knowledge to turn those prospects into customers.

Having a blog that is part of your website that you are feeding the Google monster (Google SEO Guide) with on-going content aimed at informing your people is another key element in your marketing mix. This takes me to the title of this blog post, Your competition is telling their story, are you?  Using video on your site, in multiple places and within your blogs is a good plan.  When it comes to your blog feeding it with good relevant content needs to be part of your strategy.  Relevant content is key based on your business type and the SEO keywords.  I learn recently that a blog post series on Dr. Singh’s iCrush Diabetes seminar series was iffy on relevant to my site.  You see my intent was to promote the series produced for him on Diabetes. However diabetes keywords used were not relevant to my video production site.  This would end up hurting me with the search engines.

So what I did is turn the blog post titles to include seminar video example and then change the content to talk about examples of the videos we produced.  Did I do this correctly, jury is still out on this one.  Did I learn something?  Sure did!  This goes to show that we are all students and can be taught, sometimes through failure.  Ouch, those hurt but a lesson we do not usually forget.

Getting back to my theme – Your competition is telling their story, are you?   Your competition is out there eating away at a market share.  You need to be ahead of them in your message.  People like doing business with people they know and trust.  Contact me at 231-937-5420 to discuss how we can help you.

Enjoy this fun behind the scenes video DW Video produced on their Ferris State University project.

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Ferris State University

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Video Storytelling

The art of storytelling has been around for centuries and the art of video storytelling is here today. We are wired to listen and we learn better if someone’s words and visuals can have both meaning and emotion. Here are some tips on video storytelling. 1) Keep it simple. Keep it easy to understand. 2. Play off Emotion. Does your story solve a problem?  Does it make someones life easy? In this video Dr. Singh’s patient has a story on how he has changed her life.  After conducting the interview the passion in Barb’s voice. I pictured the video in my head.  Going the extra mile and recording at her home really helped tell the story. [youtube_sc url=”http://youtu.be/_EI4QzpV9ck” title=”Video%20Storytelling” rel=”0″]

Video-Storytelling

Video Storytelling is an art. Connect with your audience by making it real and sharing emotion.

3) Keep it real and tell the truth.  As a consumer we know when the message is fake and there is something wrong in Denmark. 4) You have to know your audience and address there problem – solution when doing video storytelling. One of my favorite movies, Eddie and the Cruisers. Eddie was talking to his song writer, ‘Words and Music Kid – Words and Music’.  The combination of words and video carry the same power.  Telling your story and keeping it simple is what most of us want.  Especially when telling your story on your blog, social media and websites. Knowing that when a student is coming to a College or University the parent is with them.  Knowing this part of our story for promoting Ferris State University we interviewed a proud Bulldog parent.

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Contact Duane at 231-937-5420 to discuss your video needs.

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