There are so many amazing things that you can do with online video once you have the video assets.  We read about trends, new ideas and examples everyday here on the Video Commerce Consortium and at ReelSEO, and everyday I get excited about what business are doing with their video strategies.  There are also tons of great articles with convincing ROI figures from online video but there are still literally hundreds of e-commerce sites stagnant in their development of a video strategy.  I’m sure there are probably thousands of reasons for this from budget constraints, timing, and lack…

Two weeks ago, I had the pleasure of moderating a panel on the topic “Video Studios That Scale: What You Need to Know” at the Liveclicker Video Commerce Summit. On the panel was Kevin McNall from Brown Shoe Co, Kristopher Martin from Onlineshoes.com and as a last minute stand-in, the always camera ready Melissa Salas from BuyTV/Buy.com.

With one less panelist presentation than we had planned for, we decided to fill the time after Kevin and Kristopher’s presentations by turning the topic into an open forum. What came out of this was somewhat interesting but as life goes, pretty normal.…

I suppose that the title is about as obvious as saying water is wet but sometimes pointing out the obvious can get you to think a little differently to make some profitable changes.  For many products, descriptions can be pretty straight forward but for others such as wine, descriptions become a bit more subjective.

Here was a description I found for a Tenuta Biserno Insoglio Del Cinghiale:

Medium crimson hue. Intensely brambly aromas of raspberry and pencil shavings. Lovely mouth-feel frames juicy flavors of strawberry and earth; perfect balance. Clean, tart finish.”

I love wine and despite growing up in…

Today I  began my day no different than most others; I browsed through numerous news articles, blogs and trends related to online video.  I’m continuously excited to see how quickly online video is moving in so many different directions and benefiting people and businesses around the globe.  From YouTube’s new scheduling feature, greater mobile optimization and the speed of social video (most recently surrounding Osama’s death) to effectively leveraging advertising dollars in each of these areas, there is always something going on that’s pushing the online video envelope.  That excitement aside, a reality dawned on me that there are…

The bar is being raised on the quality of user generated video.  Before I begin, I want to clarify what I mean when I use the word “quality” because it falls into a few different areas.  When I talk about quality video I’m specifically referring to production, content and distribution quality.  In short, production takes into account single or multi-camera set up, type of camera, lighting, sound, framing, angles and editing.  Content addresses what you’re actually saying on camera, along with enunciation, body language, eye contact and word emphasis, etc.  Distribution is how you leverage your final video asset to…