Chapter 14

The Big Picture: Marketing with Videos

In This Chapter

arrow Making video marketing part of your marketing strategy

arrow Crafting a video marketing plan that gets results

arrow Optimizing your videos to maximize their impact

arrow Incorporating best practices into your video marketing strategy

arrow Knowing the reality of viral videos, driving views, and promoting your videos

Video is an important part of your visual social marketing strategy. Videos can communicate a business, a product, an idea or a value proposition quickly and effectively. If a picture is truly worth a thousand words, a video is worth 100,000 words. Using motion, images, and sound can communicate information, feelings, and emotions. According to Dr. James McQuivey of Forrester Research, a single minute of online video is the equivalent of 1.8 million written words.

Video marketing isn't just about being seen on YouTube, in case that's what you think. Though YouTube is the most popular video network (Chapter 15 is dedicated to ...

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