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Don’t put all your eggs in the product video basket

According to a Mark Robertson, Founder and CEO of the The Online Video Marketer’s Guide, it’s a good idea for retailers to invest in product videos, but it’s not the end-all solution to your Chicago videographer needs. Highlights from the ReelSEO story are below.

Overall retailers are doing doing a fairly good job of embracing video, product video in particular. One of the statistics presented in his session said that:

“73% of US retailers feature video on product pages in Q4 2010. Which is up 18% from 2009.”

This makes sense since product video is usually more cost effective, highly measurable, and does the job of “selling”  the product. In general though, Mark felt that retailers were not using video production enough throughout the customer lifecycle. He made the analogy that:

“online video is the swiss army knife of internet marketing. It really can be used all over the customer lifecycle, whether it’s customer service, marketing, or even recruitment.”

Product videos are incredibly important to eCommerce websites, but they do not necessarily lend themselves to social sharing and universal video search. Mark cited a few examples of retailers going beyond the product video to harness the power of online video in different areas of the customer lifecycle.

ThinkThin, a health and wellness bar retailer, recently created a separate lifestyle web series featuring the company’s CEO and Founder, Lizanne Falsetto, called Lizanne Naturally. It is a once a week branded content cooking show that is very well produced, and is a good example of an eCommerce company investing in online video outside of the product page.  It also is featured on relevant YouTube channels (http://www.youtube.com/user/diethealth), and syndicated to niche target sites like diet.com.

The question that arises with this type of video is whether it will not only be good for search and social media traffic, but will it also tie back to product purchases?

  • Very carefully.  Viewers want value in the content not a sales pitch.
  • Indirectly through brand awareness.  ThinkThin rationalizes that loyalty = soft ROI.
  • Interactive calls to action:
    1. “Download recipe” link takes viewers to product website.
    2. They offer incentives for a 20% off coupon

Ultimately, Mark’s point is that there are so many more opportunities in retail online video to explore outside of the video production. Product videos are a great first step, and essential to the eCommerce website, but in order to excel, marketers need to embrace online video all throughout the customer lifecycle. If eCommerce marketers want to use Chicago videographer to increase search traffic and social media engagement, they need explore other types of video formats that lend themselves better to this type of environment.

Visit ReelSEO for the full case study and other examples of brands doing product videos well.

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