Video Promotion
Video promotion has been a popular promotional means recently since more and more people are enjoying watching videos online. Many online sellers are taking advantage of this opportunity.
In making videos as your own promotional tool in affiliate marketing, you may need the following to get started with the project:
- Camtasia Studio
- Movie Studio 9
- CamStudio, which you can download for free
- Sony Movie Studio
- Jing (free or you can upgrade to Pro)
- Web Cam
At this phase, it is assumed that you already have a defined list of the products that you want to sell, as well as the direct links to the vendor’s site. And of course, you should by this time promote the products and services as an affiliate.
People have become video junkies due to the advancement in technology. Since most people are visual-minded, they prefer seeing visual representation of things, which makes video presentation a perfect way of promoting products and services. Some affiliates get intimidated by the idea of creating a video to get more traffic to the website, but doing this is not hard as most people think. If you know the basics, then you are sure to be further along than most and this can be extremely fun and rewarding.
You can use Jing to record a video and still shots. Meanwhile, if you think you are more comfortable in creating Powerpoint presentations, you can come up with a slide presentation to convey your ideas in a more articulate manner since you are comfortable with the medium.
In recording a video, make sure to set the resolution of your monitor to 800×600, that you can eventually resize using SmartFocus.
Do not forget the bottom third, as this is crucial in promoting your website through videos. Do not forget to tell them your domain name, or the domain name of the affiliate website. If you do not have your own website, try to visit SnipURL in which you can put the link of the affiliate site, and then you will also have an output.
The URl generated by SnipURL can be found at the lower part of your produced video and can remain there for a few minutes. Meanwhile, in discussing details about your website, just use SnagIt in capturing photos which you can later put into a Powerpoint presentation and save it as a video file.
It would be more interesting if you will add some transitions into the presentation. You can eventually upload the video into some popular video sites so the public can view it.
Some Helpful Tips:
- Carefully check if the name of the video is your “longtail keyphrase.” The longtail keyphrase contains the product name plus a relevant deal like “deal.”
- Check if they are submitted with the URL which leads back to your own website.
- In filling out the information section, make sure to input the link of the website, or SnipURL in case you don’t have yet the website that leads back to the affiliate link.
