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Post Category: How-Tos

How to Help an Executive Look Good on Camera

8 MIN TO READ Appearing on camera can be nerve-wracking, even for executives. There’s something about staring into a camera lens that tends to spike people’s stress levels, no matter how high-powered their day job might be. After all, just because they’re running a company doesn’t mean they appear on camera all the time. The last thing you want is for your subject to…

How to Maximize Your Investment in Video Production

6 MIN TO READ In this guest post by our friends at Flow Production and Post, a video production studio in NYC, learn how to create multiple videos from a single project to target different viewers. As you’ll see, this clever approach allows you to extract maximum value from your investment in video. You have probably heard it dozens of times by now: if…

7 Best Practices for Restricting Sharing for Business Video

5 MIN TO READ Videos aren’t just for marketing. They can also be leveraged for internal communications, training, collaboration, and in client deliverables. In those types of scenarios, it’s critically important to be able to restrict your audience to a select group. In this post, we’ll walk through seven examples of when curtailing sharing is necessary, and best practices for securing your videos with…

Improve Your Testimonial Videos With These Six Secret Techniques

6 MIN TO READ Testimonials are a powerful way to encourage new customers and to build your brand identity. Yet they have to be done properly to be effective. Testimonial videos that feel rote, generic, or coached aren’t going to inspire trust in your brand — quite the opposite. If you want to create testimonial videos that customers really listen to, you need to…

How to Use Video Analytics to Measure Traction In Each Stage of Growth

5 MIN TO READ Traction is the early support from your target customer base that allows you to quite literally “get the ball rolling.” Like a runner sprinting off the line, you need good grip to get started. If the support is continuous, and grows in numbers, the runner moves faster and more efficiently as they accelerate. The runner, of course, is your business,…

How to Hire Freelancers for Business Video Production

6 MIN TO READ The standards for business video are incredibly high. Any problems related to the audio, visuals, or post-production can derail the final product, leading to reduced viewer engagement and unhappy clients. This applies whether the content is destined to be a commercial, shared online, or for internal communications. For that reason, video production companies rely on freelancers with highly specialized skill…

How to Create Effective Product Videos with Emotional Storytelling

4 MIN TO READ It’s a hard truth that not every product is exciting. They might be incredibly necessary, they might even solve important problems, but at the end of the day, they are still… boring. However, that doesn’t mean the stories told about these products have to be boring. In fact, using video, you can demonstrate the exact opposite. The key to success…

Firefighting: How to Use Video to Respond Quickly Online

6 MIN TO READ It’s one of those days. Everything is going wrong – products are failing, websites are crashing, and customers are grumbling. Worse, they’re posting about it online for the world to see! Before things get out of hand, you need to start engaging with your customers in a helpful and meaningful way. That’s where video comes in. Video can be a…