| Internet has made the transition from Web 1.0 | | | | No body wants to spend 30 minutes to watch |
| which is html and static links to | | | | your company history before the video go into |
| interactive, dynamic and user driven sites | | | | the key topic. Hence, make sure your video is |
| called Web 2.0. Web 2.0 sites are now the | | | | short and targeted to key marketing message. |
| highly traffic spots that had been used by a | | | | |
| lot of online marketers to boost their sales | | | | Video Submission & Distribution |
| or services. Online video distribution & | | | | |
| sharing is one of the key web 2.0 tools to | | | | If you want market with video online, you |
| expose your business to the world. | | | | video must get seen. So you need to submit |
| | | | your video to Web 2.0 Video sharing sites. |
| The use of video is an effective and simple | | | | You probably heard about YouTube & MySpace or |
| way building a solid relationship with your | | | | you even watched the videos shared from these |
| clients. Video has truly arrived in the | | | | sites before. You are probably one of the |
| online marketing world. Basically, what we | | | | millions users who are searching and looking |
| will see is every website on the internet | | | | for short video clips daily. There are online |
| becoming its own broadcasting system on the | | | | marketers who spend about 20 minutes to make |
| subject matter covered by the niche. | | | | a short video clip and upload to these sites |
| | | | and netted with the traffic and thousands in |
| The 3 basic formulas of using video to drive | | | | sales as an affiliate. This is the powerful |
| traffic to your website involve: | | | | of video marketing. Other then YouTube and |
| | | | MySpace, the recommended Web 2.0 sites to |
| - How to make an effective internet friendly | | | | submit your video are: |
| video | | | | |
| | | | - Google Video - You'll need to download a |
| - Must clear deliver your marketing message | | | | small piece of software in order to upload |
| | | | your video, but the extra 10 minutes makes it |
| - Where you should submit your video for | | | | well worth your while for months to come! |
| maximum exposure | | | | |
| | | | - Yahoo Video - Smaller than Google Video and |
| Internet Friendly Video | | | | YouTube but still a lucrative place to upload |
| | | | your promo to. |
| Although stats shows that 70% of net surfer | | | | |
| are now using broadband to connect to | | | | - SoapBox dot com - An MSN video site. |
| internet, but if you video file is too big | | | | |
| and take long time to load even with the | | | | - MetaCafe - Like google video they offer |
| broadband speed, you are out. | | | | desktop software to make uploading easier on |
| Psychologically, most internet surfer's | | | | their users. |
| patient only stand for 6 - 8 seconds, they | | | | |
| will "click away" if they need to wait too | | | | - PhotoBucket - has a Web 2.0 enabled video |
| long for the file to load because they have | | | | space. |
| other better options from many other website | | | | |
| with the same topics. Hence, to make your | | | | - Webshots owned by CNET also offering |
| video marketing work, the first thing you | | | | website traffic opportunities through online |
| should look into is your video file format, | | | | video sharing. |
| Flash SWF is a better format then AVI format | | | | |
| as the SWF file size tend to be smaller than | | | | - Netscape's video sharing is at Ning dot |
| AVI file size. There are many online video | | | | com. |
| making and conversion tools available online | | | | |
| where you can use to convert your file to a | | | | In Summary, |
| format that can load almost real time on | | | | |
| internet and keep your potential customers at | | | | Web 2.0 sites are current and futures hot |
| your side. | | | | spots for highly traffic sites. You can drive |
| | | | traffic from these sites using online video |
| Clearly Deliver Your Marketing Message | | | | clips. Making an internet friendly video |
| | | | clips and submit to Web 2.0 video sharing |
| | | | sites will drive significant internet traffic |
| | | | to your websites and let you make more sales. |