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10 Tips for Optimizing Large Video Libraries

4 MIN TO READ Working with large video libraries is often needlessly complicated and frustrating. Old content gets forgotten, videos are hard to find, and you may even have some duplicates in there. Here are 10 simple ways you can streamline video management to ensure your expansive video collection stays organized, secure, and easy to explore for your viewers.

How Small Business Can Benefit From User-Generated Content

3 MIN TO READ In this guest post from John Hallam of Vidrack, a web-based video recorder for crowd-sourcing content, we explore the benefits and challenges of leveraging user-generated content for business. In the best case scenario, user-generated content can take the headache out of creating great videos for your brand or products. Your fans and followers will happily do that for you, inspiring others…

What To Do If You Don’t Want Your Video To Go Viral

3 MIN TO READ Online video is synonymous with viral cat videos and charity campaigns that seek to reach as many people as possible. At the opposite end of the spectrum, however, there are many types of videos that should not be shared by anyone except authorized viewers. For instance, employee training videos, internal company communications, or videos intended only for paying customers. At…

5 Tips for Using Video for Employee Training

4 MIN TO READ When talking about online video, cat videos and viral campaigns immediately come to mind. However, as a communication medium, there is nothing more effective than video. This makes it particularly appealing as a tool for employee training. Importantly, video can save a substantial amount of time and money for businesses undertaking a major training program. Read on for our top…

8 Things to do With Your Extra Bandwidth and Storage

3 MIN TO READ You may have noticed that last week, we doubled bandwidth and quadrupled storage for all our plans, and also introduced new lower pricing tiers. While many subscribers have already gone nuts with all that extra streaming and space, we thought others might need a little inspiration for ways to implement more video in different areas of your business. Here are…

How to Leverage Video to Improve the Consultative Sales Process

3 MIN TO READ Consultative sales is often an intensive process that requires one-on-one relationship management, making it a lengthy sales cycle and usually very expensive in terms of cost of acquisition. There are right ways and wrong ways to approach consultative sales, but that’s not our focus today. Whether you approach it more like an advisor or a manager, online video can help…

Anatomy of a Great Explainer Video

3 MIN TO READ If you don’t have an explainer video on your homepage, you are missing out. The positive impact on everything from SEO to conversion rates has been well-documented. Explainer videos have become an essential marketing tool for any business with an online presence (e.g. everyone). So, what separates an effective, compelling explainer video from the crowd? Keep reading to learn the…

Is The New York Times’ New Strategy for Online Video Working?

3 MIN TO READ Not too long ago, print newspapers were declared dead in the water. The recession was brutal to businesses built on paper subscriptions, and many industry players were consolidated or shuttered as readership dropped and their ad revenue model unraveled. The New York Times is one of the few that emerged with a better online business model for content delivery, subscription…