I interviewed ExpoTV.com’s Founder and President, Bill Hildebolt, about their research findings on the opportunities brand retailers, e-commerce sites, and other marketers have to target Millennials with user-generated online video. I also shared my own tips for effective strategies that retail brands and e-commerce sites can use to persuade Millennial consumers to buy from them.
Product videos are vital to e-commerce sites, but they don’t always lead to increased search traffic or social media engagement. To maximize exposure and buzz, marketers need to explore other types of video formats that are better suited to that task. One example is a ‘making of’ or ‘behind-the-scenes’ video.
Opening up about your company culture and the processes behind your products is a good way to gain, or retain, consumer trust in this age of Radical Transparency. Rather than simply trading on an idea of what you stand for and living in fear of…
In a double-interview special: I talked with Zappos’ Senior Manager of Photo & Video, Laurie Me’chelle Gates (previously Laurie Me’chelle Williams), who shared some of the tangible, real-world business benefits from her company’s social video strategy. Before I get to my interview with Laurie, below is a dissection of why I think some companies and agencies are not using social video in the right way.
“Social video” is already being considered the next big business trend. So why am I starting to get worried?
Unfortunately, I am seeing “social video”…
E-commerce video continues to scale. Last year, a whopping 73% of US retail websites incorporated video clips, according to eMarketer. Still, video remains woefully underused and hard to find on many e-commerce sites.
I interviewed Google’s spokesperson Andrea Faville to learn more about the video features available on Google+ (Plus) Pages. Andrea shared examples of e-commerce and retail businesses across the web taking advantage of the newest video features and shared some tips for how you can do the same!
How-To product videos are one of the most under-utilized features that every e-commerce site should have. Many brands and retailers should be doing a lot more of them for real financial gain as well as social value with their customers. Learn in this post what are the many benefits of doing how-to videos for your own brand, and some helpful times for getting started.
In a transformed business environment where social activity is given it’s own currency and value, retailers and e-commerce businesses today are understanding better that properly measuring the performance of a video campaigns requires more than just the single ratio of money to deem if it has been successful return on its investment. The Social Return on Investment, or “SROI,” is a relatively new value system that is helping companies better understand value goals that have been often overlooked before, and video is ripe with data for helping us achieve that.
In my earlier “Psychology of Online Video” article, I featured behavior science experts explaining how online video influences our shopping habits by setting off our brains and triggering consumer purchases. Here I delve further into behavior studies with online video and explore the connection between “neuromarketing” and online video: and learn where brain science, marketing, online video, and eCommerce all meet!
What is it about online video that influences our shopping habits? What’s behind how it affects our brains? Here are 5 explanations shared with me by behavior science experts about why online video triggers consumer purchases, and my own marketing tips for how e-commerce specialists can take advantage of each of them.
I interviewed social video expert consultant and creator of one of the earliest – and still most successful social video series today, George Wright. In this rare interview, George shared with me the keys to how he managed to make BlendTec’s “Will it Blend?” YouTube video series a viral sensation and an economic success. He also shared his tips for what we can learn from doing product videos in our own retail, e-commerce, and marketing activities.
I originally met and interviewed George Wright back in late 2008, when he was Blendtec’s VP of Sales & Marketing. (George has…
Members of the video commerce consortium are e-commerce leaders, brand marketers, and innovators in their industries. The logos below represent only a small sampling of the organizations with delegates currently participating.
