Video Marketing Strategies and the Top 7 Steps for Implementing Them

In today’s world, video marketing has become a crucial aspect of any company’s marketing strategy. The use of video has been growing exponentially in recent years, and it’s not hard to see why. Videos are a highly engaging and effective medium for brands to communicate their message and connect with their audience. You’ve heard “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Instead of writing out thousands of words (or having an AI write them for you) you can just put up a video. In this blog post, we will discuss the top video marketing strategies and seven steps to implementing them effectively.

1. Define Your Audience and Goals

Before creating any video content, it’s essential to define your target audience and set your goals. Understanding your audience will help you tailor your content to their interests and preferences. Your goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound.  For example, you may want to increase brand awareness, generate leads, or boost sales.

Ask yourself: “who’s going to watch this video? What do I want them to feel? What do I want them to do afterwards? Is there something I want to take away from having watched this?” The clearer you can define these for yourself, the better your work is likely to be.

Unsure how to approach this? Think of your customers. You know who they are, how they live, what they want. Make a video for them. Not to sell something to them, exactly, but a video that’s going to provide them with something of value for having watched it.

2. Create Engaging and High-Quality Video Content

Once you have defined your audience and goals, it’s time to create your video content. Your videos should be engaging, informative, and visually appealing. High-quality videos help to capture the attention of your viewers and keep them engaged. You can create different types of videos, including explainer videos, product demos, customer testimonials, and how-to videos. The length of your videos should be optimized for the platform you will be publishing them on.

We’ve worked with many companies who get stuck on this exact step. “We know we want to make a video but we aren’t sure what it should be about.” Look to the content you already have. Go through old blogs, articles, how-to explainers, and so forth. Draw upon some of those in your video content. That way, you aren’t “starting from scratch.” Instead, you’re building something that you know shows your authority and your company in the best light.

Don’t know how to make “high-quality videos?” Look to your competition. See what they’re doing. That’s not to say that you have to do it like them, but rather, so you can get a feel for what videos are like in your industry. You don’t need to have a team of special-effects wizards to make a high-quality video that people are going to want to watch. You just need to be able to make something that shows your company’s expertise. The good news is that you have everything you need to do that as you’re already an expert in your field. Use your videos to show what makes your company great.

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3. Optimize Your Videos for SEO

Video optimization is crucial for your video marketing strategy. Your videos should be optimized for search engines to improve their visibility and reach. You can optimize your videos by using relevant keywords, creating engaging titles and descriptions, adding tags, and including a transcript of your video. Optimizing your videos for SEO will help your videos rank higher in search engine results, and increase their visibility to your target audience.

4. Publish Your Videos on the Right Platforms

Publishing your videos on the right platforms is crucial for your video marketing strategy. Different platforms have different demographics, and it’s essential to choose the platforms that align with your target audience. You can publish your videos on social media platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. You can also publish your videos on your website, blog, and other relevant online platforms.

This is something where we often step in to help our clients. Optimizing your videos for SEO is something that, like many other services, might best be handled by the professionals.

5. Promote Your Videos on Social Media

Promoting your videos on social media is essential for your video marketing strategy. Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn provide a massive audience for your videos. You can promote your videos by sharing them on your social media profiles, creating targeted ads, and so forth. Social media promotion helps to increase your videos’ visibility and reach, leading to more engagement and conversions.

Be sure to do this judiciously. This is one more area where it pays to have a defined omnichannel marketing strategy. Just “shooting out” your videos over and over again probably isn’t going to help much. Instead, you want to have a defined plan for sending out your videos at the right time and to the right platforms. That way, you can ensure that they’ll get in front of the people they’re supposed to get in front of, thus helping your business all the more.

6. Analyze and Measure Your Video Performance

Analyzing and measuring your video performance is crucial for your video marketing strategy. You need to track the metrics that matter, including views, engagement, shares, and conversions. These metrics help you understand how your videos are performing, what’s working and what’s not, and where you need to improve.

Think of this like protecting your investment. You aren’t just making videos to make videos (although it can be fun to make videos). Instead, you want these to drive conversions, to make more profits for your company. You can’t do that if you’re unaware of how they’re doing, who they’re reaching, and so forth.

Beyond Video Marketing Strategies

Video marketing is a significant part of what we do here at Website Depot. However, we offer our clients so much more than that. Video marketing is an important component of an omnichannel digital marketing plan, but, it is just one component. Web design, SEO, paid ads management, a comprehensive content marketing strategy, and more — with that, you can get more out of your video marketing and everything else. For a free consultation about how we can help your company, reach out to us today. You can do so through the site or by giving us a call.