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    • May 5, 2019
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    Promotional Video Marketing Strategy For A Startup Company

    To come up with an amazing idea of your own and initiating startups, for you could possibly be a dream come true. But dreams, to turn them into reality, might not be as easy as it sounds. In today’s age of digitalization, for a start-up to build a foundation in the marketing arena, passion and finance, as crucial as they are, are still not enough to make up the mark. ‘Smart work’ is known to have more leverage than ‘hard work’, for a company to structure and spread in the already competent marketing world.

     

    Video marketing could be a great strategy for your startup to spread its wings. With a well sorted plan to connect the dots, between promotion and marketing, your startup could anchor itself in the center of the attention. Video marketing could be a creative endeavor to engage the audience with the use of all the sensory receptors working along the motions in the video to encourage imaginations of their own. It can bring clarity and reduce the ambiguity related to your startup and pave the way in fulfilling the demand of the clients and users. All in all, it can be a fresh start to your very own start-up with the designated target audience.

    Here are some of the strategies to promote the video marketing for your startup company that can benefit both your startup company as well as the users group.

     

    Right Video For Right Audience

     

    First of all, you will need to create a video in such a strategy that it can make an impact on the target audience like: Animation Video, Educational Video, Explainer/Tutorial Videos, Product Videos, Testimonials, FAQ Videos or Demonstration/Instructions Videos. Your focus should always be more on the quality rather than the quantity. A quality video that has a good content, can be eye-glazing for the target audience. It should be catchy and relatable and it all depends on the way you can decorate it as creatively and as uniquely as you can. It should be something that can excite the audience. Selecting proper and eye catching thumbnails for the target audience could be a good strategy for video marketing.

     

    Video Marketing Distribution Channels

     

    The video that has been created need to be distributed in such a way that it conveniently reaches the target audience, be it, that there is a strategy for the get-go. This is where the video marketing distribution channel comes at hand. There are many video marketing distribution channels that can contribute in the promotion of the startup videos from where you can choose and decide the ones that work for you at best scenarios. At the moment, a lot of startup companies have paved their way to success through the media platforms such as YouTube and Facebook that enunciates visibility for any kind of business. If you find the video you created to be trustworthy, you can even sponsor it in the chosen sites to increase its audience reach. Currently, YouTube and Facebook have proven to be the best options for video marketing distribution channel.

     

    Optimization

     

    An essence to video marketing and implementing in the video marketing distribution channel is the internet usage. A study shows that about 50 per cent of the people in the world purchase through online exchange. Hence, using the internet as a weapon to shape up your startup is the key to its exposure. Thus, with the use of internet, many startups have boomed their path to success and along with that, also another marketing strategy for you to boost your startup is by generating viral videos. Viral videos are relatable, convenient, short, and easily understandable and with the use of appropriate video marketing distribution channels, it can pull a large number of audiences, subsequently, helping your startup gain more popularity. To stay relevant, with the demand, you should focus your priority into making relatable quality content which the clients and users find interesting and catchy.

     

    Viral Videos

     

    With the selection of video marketing distribution channel of your choice, you need to be able to optimize it so that it can have its maximum reach. For distribution channels like YouTube, you should ensure the enforcement of all the online based protocols so that it can attract audience to its best possible potential, with the usage such as right keywords and convenient and best tags that can pave the way to outreaching and delivering to the highest range and amount of audiences. Likewise, in Facebook, paid advertising can be a useful video marketing strategy to gain larger audience reach. One must not hesitate in spending a little extra, as, in final, it is compensated with larger audience and consequently more interested clients.

     

    Demand And User Generated Content

     

    Another strategy to build up audience for video marketing is the reliance on the User-generated Content (UGC). It’s because consumers are impacted by their peer’s choice rather than the pitches of marketers and in addition to this, UGC is also a fundamental strategy to increase the goodwill among the clients. An analysis showed that more than 50 per cent of the videos on Facebook are UGC. In similar context, UGC helps to identify the theme or story for promoting the videos such that it reaches the target. It is based more on consumer demand considering the opinions and choice of the users in the generation of the content to stay relevant for the time being. Application of the UCG is a convenient and an appropriate strategy for the promotional video marketing based on the demand-response request.

     

    YouTube Advertising

     

    As mentioned earlier, YouTube can be a relevant video marketing distribution channel for video promotions. It has, for the time being proven to be the biggest destination for video marketing and a platform for resulting on much needed impacts on video marketers globally. Hence, being able to utilize YouTube as a marketing platform as well as simultaneously using it for channeling the marketing distribution could be just what you need to popularize your startup! Likewise, the key to stay relevant on YouTube is to remain consistent, focusing on the present, strategically collaborating with the content creators, and sharing your content in almost every possible networking site across the web. If you focus on being more consistent and staying relevant, it helps in your promotional video to feed itself into the YouTube algorithm, which could be the jumpstart your startup might need!

     

    Facebook Video

     

    Just creating and uploading the video in YouTube is not a practical way to video marketing. The key is to make it get involved in video marketing distribution channels as possible. And, Facebook concludes as an appropriate distribution channel in doing so. To make it more into context, instead of sharing the uploaded video link from the YouTube to rather, uploading it on Facebook is a better alternative. That serves both for the promotional video marketing as well as engaging in the marketing distribution channel attentively. This has another purpose as well, as it increases the weightage when uploading and promoting the video natively, rather than the former, strategically increasing the range of the audience.

     

    You can take the example of Buzzfeed, which brands on using the Facebook video. It has four popular brands on Facebook: Buzzfeed Video, Buzzfeed Food, Buzzfeed Tasty and Buzzfeed Live and they’re uploaded natively on Facebook. Hence, it contributes in helping to reach a larger target audience while being in the algorithm as well as promoting itself by popularization based on UGC. To make the promotional video relevant, it should go along the demand-response. At present, 15-20 second videos are popular, with thumbnails that are helpful to attract larger target audience and which are compelling enough to deliver the chosen content. In conclusion, video marketing through Facebook can aid more in promotion if done in a planned way, layered strategically with contents of your choice, relatable and involving the exercise of the conveniences.

     

    Hence, it can be concluded that video marketing is an important aspect to many startup companies and even small scale industries to promote their brand globally within a short period of time. Monetizing the video has become an integral part to networking and commercializing the video ads, farsightedly contributing in popularizing the startups. With the continuous rise of increasing internet demand, and easy access to online videos, it has become comparatively easier to align marketing and startups, and now is the time to practice it for building your own startup! Video marketing is a strategic tool which can be weaponized in your direction for marketing your content to reach across the globe. It can be a boon and a bane, based on the how you utilize it. It could be a challenging approach, but, once it does its trick, video marketing could leap towards succeeding at an exponential rate. Hence, focusing on grabbing audience time while consecutively standing unique, and simultaneously targeting wider audience could help your startup to build more suffice and building anchorage in the marketing world.

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