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Will You Add? - Why Most Marketing Videos Don't Work
A call today on our Redundancy Hot-Line started us thinking again about the contradictory implications of old legislation on new rulings on Ageism, due to come into force in the UK in October 2006.At the moment the European Equal Treatment Directive, commits the UK Government to introducing legislation outlawing age discrimination in employment and vocational training, by October 2006, but critics say that so far the government has been acting only in employer’s best interests.In July 2005, the Government published the draft regulations on age discrimination. Whilst the regulations are subject to further consultation and some elements may t
However, a charismatic business leader who uses short, punchy (and rehearsed) sentences can add tremendous impact and clout to a marketing video.
4. Poor production values
While watching your corporate video, your customers will be left with an impression of what type of business you are and what to expect when doing business with you.
A fast way to subconsciously get across the wrong image to your viewer is to have grainy pictures, poorly fr
Being a manager is not an easy job. There is a lot to it. There is never enough time in the day to get everything done. However, to achieve success, you must address the most important things first. Then the other things will fall into place.The best way to do accomplish this is by planning your week first thing Monday morning. Review your email, schedule, and to-do list. Determine what you need to accomplish for the week. Write the activities down—preferably in your electronic organizer.How do you determine what is most important? Think about your role. One of your prime functions as a manager is to serve those who get the work done so the
Over the years, I have been given many failed corporate communications videos to watch and have found that they all suffer from one or more of the following problems.
1. A poorly written script
This would have to be one of the most common problems. The script provides the backbone to any video project and it must be perfect. It needs to be to the point, clear and interesting.
Often scripts get written in-house resulting in wordy and highly detailed pieces of prose that do not translate well onto the screen. Quite frankly, they are boring. Unfortunately, pretty shots and expert editing cannot hide a tedious narrative.
Worse still, is when the script goes back and forth and the content is played out in an illogical sequence. This results in no viewer being able to quickly understand your core marketing messages, if they can understand it at all.
Ideally, a script conveys the most important pieces of information that your target market wants to know and is written with an objective in mind.
2. The video is too long
In this day and age of high speed broadband and other time-saving devices, very few of us have attention spans that can handle information for more than a few minutes.
Any video over 10 minutes is destined to lose viewers after the first few minutes.
Yet, surprisingly there are many marketing videos today that are well over 12 minutes in length.
The best marketing videos are short and succinct. Yet, it is far easier to cram everything into a video than to make a short and concise one. In the words of Blaise Pascal, "The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter".
3. "The "look mum I'm on TV" scenario
While some of us may cringe at the thought of a camera placed in front of us, there are many people who relish the opportunity to show their face on television.
This can result in corporate heads droning on incessantly about how wonderful their company is (and what a great job they are doing). Sadly, this does nothing else but soothe corporate egos and turn viewers away.
Few people realise that talking to a camera in an appealingly manner is a skill in itself. Having a CEO spieling boring corporate fluff while looking dumbstruck and awkward in front of the camera does not a good video make.
However, a charismatic business leader who uses short, punchy (and rehearsed) sentences can add tremendous impact and clout to a marketing video.
4. Poor production values
While watching your corporate video, your customers will be left with an impression of what type of business you are and what to expect when doing business with you.
A fast way to subconsciously get across the wrong image to your viewer is to have grainy pictures, poorly fra
Fixing bugs fixes symptoms: like taking aspirin for a headache, it may provide temporary relief but does nothing to prevent the next headache. It’s ok, and often necessary, to relieve the symptoms but you have to dig deeper if you’re going to prevent problems from recurring.The reasons and benefits for getting past the symptoms to the root causes are well-known, but many companies still tend to confine their root cause analysis efforts to well-defined technical problems such as physical component failures. We need to apply the same philosophy to general business problems, especially if they are chronic.The first difficulty in getting
Worse still, is when the script goes back and forth and the content is played out in an illogical sequence. This results in no viewer being able to quickly understand your core marketing messages, if they can understand it at all.
Ideally, a script conveys the most important pieces of information that your target market wants to know and is written with an objective in mind.
2. The video is too long
In this day and age of high speed broadband and other time-saving devices, very few of us have attention spans that can handle information for more than a few minutes.
Any video over 10 minutes is destined to lose viewers after the first few minutes.
Yet, surprisingly there are many marketing videos today that are well over 12 minutes in length.
The best marketing videos are short and succinct. Yet, it is far easier to cram everything into a video than to make a short and concise one. In the words of Blaise Pascal, "The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter".
3. "The "look mum I'm on TV" scenario
While some of us may cringe at the thought of a camera placed in front of us, there are many people who relish the opportunity to show their face on television.
This can result in corporate heads droning on incessantly about how wonderful their company is (and what a great job they are doing). Sadly, this does nothing else but soothe corporate egos and turn viewers away.
Few people realise that talking to a camera in an appealingly manner is a skill in itself. Having a CEO spieling boring corporate fluff while looking dumbstruck and awkward in front of the camera does not a good video make.
However, a charismatic business leader who uses short, punchy (and rehearsed) sentences can add tremendous impact and clout to a marketing video.
4. Poor production values
While watching your corporate video, your customers will be left with an impression of what type of business you are and what to expect when doing business with you.
A fast way to subconsciously get across the wrong image to your viewer is to have grainy pictures, poorly fr
Sitting through an interview for a job is stressful for just about anyone. It's understandable and pretty much expected. Now you have likely found quite a bit of information on the internet regarding your resume, but what about handling the job interview? Do you know how to keep yourself calm after you walk through the door? Being able to 'sell' yourself in a relaxed and professional manner manner during the interview will raise your chances of getting the job offer as you make a great first impression on the interviewer(s). Every interviewer realizes that the applicant will be a little nervous. But, if you can learn to relax and answer each question in
2. The video is too long
In this day and age of high speed broadband and other time-saving devices, very few of us have attention spans that can handle information for more than a few minutes.
Any video over 10 minutes is destined to lose viewers after the first few minutes.
Yet, surprisingly there are many marketing videos today that are well over 12 minutes in length.
The best marketing videos are short and succinct. Yet, it is far easier to cram everything into a video than to make a short and concise one. In the words of Blaise Pascal, "The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter".
3. "The "look mum I'm on TV" scenario
While some of us may cringe at the thought of a camera placed in front of us, there are many people who relish the opportunity to show their face on television.
This can result in corporate heads droning on incessantly about how wonderful their company is (and what a great job they are doing). Sadly, this does nothing else but soothe corporate egos and turn viewers away.
Few people realise that talking to a camera in an appealingly manner is a skill in itself. Having a CEO spieling boring corporate fluff while looking dumbstruck and awkward in front of the camera does not a good video make.
However, a charismatic business leader who uses short, punchy (and rehearsed) sentences can add tremendous impact and clout to a marketing video.
4. Poor production values
While watching your corporate video, your customers will be left with an impression of what type of business you are and what to expect when doing business with you.
A fast way to subconsciously get across the wrong image to your viewer is to have grainy pictures, poorly fr
Affixing dates on documents is a crucial procedure in inward and outward departments of government agencies and other offices because, at times, there are legal implications associated with such dates. Writing dates manually on a large bunch of documents is labor intensive. Such a task is also monotonous, and therefore prone to human errors. Date stamp is a mechanical device used to address these problems.Traditional date stamps are made up of six or eight flat rubber bands loaded on a support pulley system that is attached to a wooden knob for holding the stamp. Ten single digit numbers, i.e., 0 to 9, are carved over the length of each band. Engr
3. "The "look mum I'm on TV" scenario
While some of us may cringe at the thought of a camera placed in front of us, there are many people who relish the opportunity to show their face on television.
This can result in corporate heads droning on incessantly about how wonderful their company is (and what a great job they are doing). Sadly, this does nothing else but soothe corporate egos and turn viewers away.
Few people realise that talking to a camera in an appealingly manner is a skill in itself. Having a CEO spieling boring corporate fluff while looking dumbstruck and awkward in front of the camera does not a good video make.
However, a charismatic business leader who uses short, punchy (and rehearsed) sentences can add tremendous impact and clout to a marketing video.
4. Poor production values
While watching your corporate video, your customers will be left with an impression of what type of business you are and what to expect when doing business with you.
A fast way to subconsciously get across the wrong image to your viewer is to have grainy pictures, poorly fr
If you are working on a restaurant business plan, and the sales just don't seem to be adding up to what you hoped, here are some suggestions on ways you can dramatically increase the revenue you are pulling in to the business that are mostly simple to do and don’t increase your fixed costs while adding nicely to your bottom line.Add cateringSimply by adding some signage and doing a little promotion, you can add hundreds of dollars a day or more to your sales by offering to do catering. This can include everything from simple set menus delivered to an office around the corner to a complete dinner course served to a hundred person wedd
However, a charismatic business leader who uses short, punchy (and rehearsed) sentences can add tremendous impact and clout to a marketing video.
4. Poor production values
While watching your corporate video, your customers will be left with an impression of what type of business you are and what to expect when doing business with you.
A fast way to subconsciously get across the wrong image to your viewer is to have grainy pictures, poorly framed shots and sloppy editing.
A well thought out and professionally created television program will create a positive impression in the minds of your prospects. After all, we all watch television and we are used to broadcast quality productions, not wobbly and unfocused shots that scream 'amateurish'.
To produce a good quality television program, it must be made using an experienced A-grade cameraman, a broadcast quality camera and a fully trained editor
5. Target audience is too diverse
Many marketing videos often try to get as many messages out to a diverse audience.
It is very difficult to produce a video that is 'all things to all people'. After all, communicating to primary school students, overseas buyers and consumers all in the one video is an extremely difficult feat to pull.
Research has found that advertising that targets a number of market segments results in higher profits than advertising that sells to a mass market.
Likewise, marketing videos that target a small audience are more successful than those aimed at a large audience. It is often wise to produce several television programs for different audiences, rather than cram all of your messages into one confusing video.
6. Let's do a video, just because we can!
It might seem far-fetched but there are companies that embark on commissioning a marketing video without really assessing if they need one.
This can be due to a number of reasons such as using up available budgets, satisfying corporate egos and employees creating work for themselves.
You are probably wondering why a video communication producer would even complain about this situation. The answer is simple.
A marketing video is an effective tool to increase sales in a company. It is actually painful and embarrassing to watch a video that is a shameless waste of company money.
Poorly produced videos might line the pockets of some video producers, but they do little to convince future clients that they are worthwhile.
If you are in the market for a marketing video, make sure you follow these simple guidelines to ensure your project is a success, rather than destined for the rubbish bin.
(c) Marie-Claire Ross 2004. All rights reserved.
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