Steps to Create Killer Marketing Videos

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7 Steps to Creating a Killer Marketing Video

Douglas Karr Last Updated: Monday, November 20, 2017

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We’re ramping up an animated video for one of our clients at the moment. They have a ton of visitors coming to their site, but we’re not seeing people stick around too long. A short explainer will be the perfect tool to deploy to get their value proposition and differentiation across to new visitors in an impressive way.

Studies show that consumer demand for video content has increased dramatically, with 43% wanting to see more videos from marketers. Videos and animated content have become highly significant in the conversion process, with 51.9% of marketers claiming that video has the best ROI as compared to other types of content. In fact, landing pages with videos lead to 800% more conversion. MicroCreatives

MicroCreatives, a full-service off-shore creative design agency, produced this insightful infographic – 7 Ways to Create A Killer Marketing Video – that should help any company or creative kick-off their first video project. The infographic walks you through the steps necessary to develop your next video project.

Here are the 7 Steps to Create a Killer Marketing Video

Determine your video’s objectives and target audience
Pick the right type of video content for your purpose
Keep it short
Center it around a brand story
Don’t be boring
Decide on where to put your video
Measure and analyze performance

I genuinely appreciate that they started with the goal in mind and ended with measuring the performance of the effort!

Douglas Karr Last Updated: Monday, November 20, 2017

1 minute read

Douglas Karr

Douglas Karr is the founder of the Martech Zone and CEO of DK New Media. Douglas has helped dozens of successful MarTech startups, has assisted in the due diligence of over $5 bil in Martech acquisitions and investments, and continues to assist companies in implementing and automating their sales and marketing strategies. Douglas is an internationally recognized digital transformation and MarTech expert and speaker. Douglas is also a published author of a Dummie's guide and a business leadership book.

It all started as a book club.

Yes, I’m serious. I started my work on the web more than two decades ago. My first site was Helping Hand, which curated the best sites from around the web to help people with their computers and navigate resources on the Internet. Years later, I sold the domain to a company that helped folks quit smoking, one of my first big contracts.

I began blogging on Blogger and waxed poetic about everything from politics to Internet tools. I was all over the place and mostly wrote for myself – without much of an audience. I belonged to a Marketing Book club in Indianapolis that quickly grew out of control. Over time, I discovered that more and more of the group were coming to me for technology advice. The combination of my technology background and my business and marketing acumen was in high demand as the Internet rapidly changed the industry.

After reading Naked Conversations, I was motivated to better brand and control the content on the site. I also wanted more control over the look and feel of my blog, so I moved to my domain in 2006 and built my first WordPress site. Since I was focused on marketing technology, I didn’t want the domain with my name to get in the way, so I moved the site (painfully) to its new domain in 2008 where it’s grown ever since.

The Martech Zone is owned and operated by DK New Media, LLC, a company I started in 2009. After working with virtually every major online marketing department in my tenure at ExactTarget and launching Compendium, I knew there was a great demand for my expertise and guidance within such a complex industry.

DK New Media oversees my consulting, publications, podcasts, workshops, webinars, and speaking opportunities. Highbridge, my agency with two other partners, helps companies maximize their investment in sales, marketing, and related products. We offer integration, migration, training, strategic consulting, and custom development.

Thank you so much for your support over the years!

Douglas Karr
CEO, DK New Media