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SHOULD I
INVEST IN A MARKETING VIDEO?
By Greg Ball, President of BMI
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Trying to decide whether to invest in a
video to market your products or services? There’s power in a well-designed
video message. Here are some of the reasons why a video can be your most
highly effective tool for generating sales. A video can:
1. Multiply selling power.
Selling products and services face-to-face
is effective if your salesperson is effective, but it’s limiting. You can’t
possibly make personal sales presentations to thousands of hot leads every
day. That’s where VIDEO comes in. Video multiplies your selling power and
increases the number of prospects you can reach. Produce a video once and
every customer gets a personal and compelling sales presentation.
2.
Grab and keep attention. A well made video can be entertaining,
emotionally moving, informational and enjoyable. It engages the viewer using
sights, sounds, action, and drama. This adds to your sales presentation in a
way that isn’t always possible in personal sales.
3. Show the product or service in
action. You can demonstrate,
educate and motivate using video. Virtually every product “shows” well in
video, but especially those that involve action, movement or sound. A
picture’s worth a thousand words, and a video is worth a thousand pictures,
making complicated or difficult to explain products sell more easily
with video demonstrations.
Services are intangible but are easily
showcased in video by showing people using your service and by giving
evidence of the benefits they receive. For example, tour companies’ videos
often feature scenes with happy couples in famous places. This is far more
compelling that photos, literature or sales presentations alone.
4. Give testimonials of thrilled
clients. This gives your product
or service credibility.
5. Allow repeated viewings.
A video has the selling power of a personal sales presentation, but
potential customers can repeatedly view it.
6. Make marketing affordable.
In the past, only Fortune 500 companies could afford production costs and
air time. Now videos can be affordably made and shown. Once you have the
video, you can mail potential customers a CD or DVD, buy inexpensive air
time on cable to target specific markets, place it on the internet on your
company website, Google, or Youtube, or email it for free.
The Internet has completely revolutionized
video as a sales tool. Today, ANY COMPANY — from the largest fortune 500
corporation to the smallest home business — can utilize 100% of the selling
power of video, more easily, more effectively, and far more affordably than
was ever before possible.
7. Make buying easier for customers.
Potential customers decide how and when to watch the video. That reduces the
intimidation many consumers feel in a one-on-one sales situation, and
customers are more comfortable buying this way. If what you’re offering is
large, you can bring it to your customers by video far more easily than you
can bring all your customers physically to it — for example, video’s a great
way to take customers on a factory tour or show them a travel destination.
Conclusion
Ultimately the benefits of a video can
radically outweigh the costs, increasing sales exponentially. We’d like to
help you get started. Creating high impact marketing videos is one of our
specialties. For more information on producing a video for your
company or business, call us at (954) 432-1274 or email us at
info@ballmediainnovations.com for a no obligation consultation.
For outstanding quality at
competitive prices call us Ball Media Innovations today!
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- Ball Media Innovations, Inc.
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