Ivory Coat Custom Video Case Study
Ivory Coat Companion Goods is committed to providing natural dog care products made here in Australia. Their range includes dog food, treats, shampoos
Ivory Coat Companion Goods is committed to providing natural dog care products made here in Australia. Their range includes dog food, treats, shampoos
First, let’s give you a bit of a background as to how we got started with this particular video project. A few months back, we held a promo
Even though the Armadale Eye Clinic has been servicing the Melbourne suburb of Armadale for quite some time, they wanted to make clinic more accessible to their patients.
The Concept In 1993, immediately after graduating from the Laws
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The Concept To communicate the effectiveness of Melbourne Listing Service’s
Businesses are different in nature. This is why certain marketing
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Did you know that more and more businesses today are
Who says this is just a dream? Raul Oaida, a young tech genius in Romania recently realised that his is finally coming true when he reached out to a marketing genius here in Melbourne, named Steve Sammartino.
When I got married I planned to surprise my bride
ICMI Speakers and Entertainers is arguably the top Speakers Bureau in Australia. Because of their respectable position within their niche, the company wanted to enhance their online presence and further catapult their credibility with a custom video; which is why they got in touch with Melbourne Video Production.
As a business owner, you need to go beyond the
You might have noticed our new video on our home page. Just play it and you will quickly find out more about the types of videos we do for our clients. You will also view snippets of the videos we did for clients and for our own business.
At this time when the popularity of YouTube is sky-high, it only makes sense that any small business should look into creating their own videos to get the attention of their customers. But I know it is not an easy thing to do especially if you know next to nothing about video production, more so getting it noticed on the Internet.
This is true in the case of web videos. We, at Melbourne Video Production, noticed an increased in the number of inquiries and clients getting our video marketing services days after comScore pointed out that almost 87% of internet users watch videos online.
The team at Melbourne Video Production has been waiting to share this for a while now! It’s a secret project we’ve been working on for the past 12 months. Here’s the short version:
After being disappointed with another production company’s results, Empower Wealth approached Melbourne Video Production for expert help. We not only assisted in achieving their goal, we met a very tight deadline with a custom video full of graphics and smooth editing. That’s a complete home run!
For most employees, having personal endeavors supported by their boss can be as awkward as bumping into an old flame while plotting to rob a grocery store. Thanks to the generosity of the Melbourne Video Productions (MVP) owner David Jenyns, not all employees have to feel that way. David pledged financial support to one of his key team members Adrian Cabrie who happens to be an independent filmmaker as well as MVP’s editor.
Are you struggling with creating videos to help promote your business? Do you envy all those YouTube clips that have thousands of views?
What we also want to do, a couple of things from a testing and split testing perspective that I spoke about in the last session, like everything, you want to split test. If you click on the ads tape here, it takes you back to the actual ads which are running in that particular group.
You can’t just put up a Twitter page and then let it sit there and hope that you’re going to get 100,000 followers overnight. I talked about using it more productively. This is all in terms of using it for local business.
The Melbourne Video Production team was asked to create a clean, sharp and effective “Your Story” video for Melbourne Child Psychology’s practice. Effectively covering the wide range of supportive parental and child services available – and all within 3-minutes – was a challenge we were definitely up for!
I just want to touch on the buying domain material. I think it is a wise move to be buying up business domains right now in your niche and in your space and just doing 301 redirect, not for any other benefit than just owning the space.
The big thing which is going to be another message for the whole session today is that one page, one purpose. Every single page on your website should have a purpose and have an outcome. You should work out what that page is designed to do and make sure that it does it.
I’ve been considering getting a 1300 or 1800 number because I currently use my mobile number which is working fine for me, people do ring it. Do you have any research on how much difference it makes having that type of number?
Why split test? Things like split testing: these websites are identical except for the red and green button. Having a red button increases conversions by 21%. Twenty-one percent more people who came to your site actually converted.
The perfect domain name I suppose when I think of building a website, and you go back to, I talked about how I work with a client. Firstly I understand the target market. The next thing that I do is I look at their products and services and I do the keyword research like I talked about.
The way that I’ll structure this, I’ll just draw it up really quickly. If we think of our primary money phrase, it’s going to be your home page. You’ll optimize your home page for that primary keyword.
After we look at the products and services, shift to the target market. Like I said, get inside their head. I like to create a little bit of an avatar.
Did you enjoy it? An awesome book. In there, it tells a story about a guy in the 1980s, early ’90s, in New York, New Jersey who bought all the old timber that was part of the walkway of the Brooklyn Bridge that goes across the Hudson.
The first thing you can do is choose its locations. Unlike SEO general search results, not Google Local, just general search results, your listing will pretty much appear for anybody in Australia who searches.
Why Google AdWords? So just to reiterate. Why do AdWords? Firstly, you get to target people who are actively looking for your product and services.
But what you can do, to give you an idea, if I go to find keywords, I’m just going to add some keywords into this group as an example and give you a way to do it.
Hot seats. Your sites or competitors.’ Alright, let’s go and I want everyone else to put in their two cents in as well, not just myself. Integrated Consulting Solutions What’s the site, iconsultingsolutions.com.au?
Understanding keyword targets. I just wanted to talk about keywords and how I do keyword selection. Understanding the keywords, I suppose there are two types of keywords that a lot of people think about.
Now, when it comes to PR, there are two types of publicity that is available for you. I’m running through this quite quickly today because I want to get jam-packed as much as I can in here in these 45 minutes.
My name is Pete Williams and for those of you who don’t know Dave, Dave Jenyns over there. Welcome to the Small Business Internet Marketing Workshop today. We’re going to cover a lot of ground when it comes to running a successful business.
What am I going to do to get it out? So for distribution, the best two ways are e-mail or fax. There are a lot of services that can do it for you which I’ll go through in a second. I still personally prefer fax.
Being a time-poor small business owner, I’m concerned because there is just this plethora of things that can be done. How do you work out what percentage of your time
to spend on these sorts of activities?
When it comes to a small business press release format, it’s basically a five-step format to write a press release.
Being the content. This is the other side of the coin. Let me give you a bit of context.
I just want to talk about testimonials for a moment as well, to tie this thing together. What is the purpose of having testimonials on a website, on a proposal? I hope you guys are giving out proposals to your clients in your particular niches. Put testimonials in your quotations.
Let’s just go through a couple of things and we can delve in as deep as we can in these 45 minutes. Just to step back a little bit before we get into the whole PR thing, with any business, it comes down to two factors.
So then let me move down to network devices. Let me explain it to you. Google has their search results page, which is the first box. So you want your ads to show up on the Google search network when people search.
Now keywords, this is where you throw in the actual keywords you want to target for this particular group. Hopefully, as Dave mentioned before, you’ve done all this keyword research tips which we’ll talk about a bit more.
Basically SendOutCards is an offline autoresponder service which I have been playing withfor about 12 months and getting some good success.
I just wanted to talk about how to write e-mails that convert. I like to include, text, video, audio and PDF. Hit them on multi modes.
Then the idea of monetizing: the database is a goldmine. Once you build up that database, then you can continue to market to that database as I talked about. So there are lots of things that you can do.
Promote the heck out of it. Self-hosted vs. service. Then you just want to promote it heavily. So you put it all over your site like we were talking about before. I’ve got it on site wide.
So we want to try and capture their e-mail address and the way that I do that is we want to entice them by creating a white paper or a free report
I want to talk briefly about, well, what do we put into this report? This comes back to this idea, and not enough people do it, get really clear on who that avatar is, it makes all the difference.
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Beacon Cove Dental engaged Melbourne Video Production to produce a clear and concise “About Us” video on their surgery.
Then building that autoresponder system, you can have sequential mailings go out to them. I’ve just given you a little bit of a template here that you could follow for most local businesses.
Now we got to this level. I feel like I’m on an infomercial or something. This is my camera, it’s called a Sony Z1. This is an HD camera. I guess the difference between these types of cameras is the functionality and how many things you can customize.
Now, this will make a big difference to the quality, professionalism of your videos. The image quality improves with more light, because cameras, that’s what they do, they absorb light, they read light and they turn it into data that becomes an image.
So there is lots of equipment out there. I mean there is lots of equipment.
Everyone needs one, it’s a must thing to have aside from knowing the latest video production rates.
Just quickly this is the set up we use. We use a black backdrop.
The last thing is backgrounds. When you’re shooting something, if you’re shooting something about you presenting something on a regular basis, having a good background is important, a backdrop.
Now in terms of takes, be prepared to make mistakes. Every single professional actor, every person who’s ever stood in front of a camera or on a stage has made millions of mistakes.
Now here is the moment we’ve all been waiting for, when you’re actually presenting. As I said, this is about presenting to the camera.
This is a fantastic development in technology where you can record off your screen. Most of you are probably using it these days. It’s great for videos, for business tutorials, for feedback for people.
Foodie Pooch came to Melbourne Video Production with the need to introduce their innovative and healthy pet food to the market. There were two catches: the fact the public are fairly unaware of pet nutrition and that our client and Foodie Pooch owner Alla had a pretty tight deadline.
So the way we shoot Dave’s is, you aim the camera so the top of the frame is the top of the head. Then generally you want to go around, this is called a mid shot, a mid shot like this.
At the time we began working with Melbourne based Westminster Law, they already had ideas about what their web videos would be like; they simply needed a professional team to bring those ideas to life. And that’s where we came in. 🙂
Now this is your basic three point lighting system. What it is, I’ll talk you through this. I’ve got it set up here. You’ve got what is called your key light, which is your main light. This will be your strongest light which will give the most light onto the subject.
There are three types of video basically that we’re going to go through. There’s live video, which we’re recording today and generally you’ll be doing most of that.
Just a couple of comments. Most of your framing discussion here is about a structured environment.
Firstly, for those of you who don’t know who I am, I’m part of an organization that built a business, a very significant business on the back of video, a New York Stock Exchange listed business.
First I just want to talk about video in general. TV and web are becoming one, there’s no doubt about it. You can buy televisions now that are web ready, screens on computers are getting bigger, everything is converging, so it’s a great time to be getting into making videos.
There are a lot of opportunities I think that we’ve all found over the past couple of days but the ones that I focus more on with the businesses that I’m involved with, one is the band that I dj and manage is first and foremost.
So what does that all mean? It’s all about balance. You guys, by the end of today, we’re going to have you get started. We’re not going to actually shoot any videos with you, but we’re going to have you start to devise three that you might want to make.
So it’s all about trying to get your message and your good product in front of as many people as possible.
It just ups the quality of it. I’m going to make that four seconds because it is a bit long for me. Ok, so now we’ve got a lower third, bang, so we know who I am.
VideoHive is a website that I’ve only recently come across and have absolutely fallen in love with. Go to videohive.net and it’s a great resource for Adobe Effect templates for video intros.
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Let’s assume that we’ve got our content, everything we need, it’s cut up the way we want with zooming in and zooming out and things like that. So that’s all great.
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I like editing but it is incredibly time consuming. You all of a sudden find three hours down the track you’re having fun and not making any money.
I use it in pretty much every corporate doco that I make and it’s just the best way to introduce someone without them having to say, hi, I’m Ben, I do this.
That’s a bit about transitions. I’m going to use transitions again in a sec. One thing you’ve noticed with a lot of the online videos that we do with Dave is an intro and an outro, it’s really important, that first act and call to action as well.
I’m just going to make this screen a little bit smaller. For those of you who have used this, what I’m going to do is basically select all the footage, because it is only one minute forty-two long. Up the top you’ve got your event.
The great thing about iMovie again is that it gives you access to your own music which has its benefits and its problems in the sense of copyright and things like that.
The next thing we need to talk about after setting the background images, is also setting an auto play feature. I’m just going to come through to my channel.
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Remember what the point of getting your videos out and about is. The point is to drag them back to your website. For the majority of a lot of the videos that I do, I want to get them back onto my website to get them into my funnel.
At a glance, headset adaptor cables appear to be the same, which may confuse a customer trying to decide which one to select and buy.
Hollywood International Buffet Restaurant wanted to effectively convey that they serve amazing food in a fun, energetic atmosphere.
What it does, it’s got the most beautiful, easy to use interface. You just upload images, whatever you want, photos, logos, whatever you want.
We take the view in the Challenge that it’s best to provide people with more than one way to access your content. So we offer the streaming version of our content which we generally do via YouTube, largely because we can get Google to pay for the bandwidth.
iStock is something we use quite extensively. Has anyone used iStock? Yes, it’s a really good resource to get stock footage, like stock photos, stock videos, stock flash intros, audio if you need a sound track, royalty free soundtracks
The first thing is conversion software. So what I showed you before lunch with iMovie is to just use the inbuilt conversion and encoding engine that comes with part of iMovie.
This is VideoCue Pro. This is a tool we use quite a bit in our office, in the telco company as a tool for a cue prompter, a teleprompter.
It’s like when people build websites, they just shove everything they’ve ever thought of on to the website.
Someone you might not like, you might not buy a product from them. You also need to know your avatar as well, that’s really key.
I’m going to start with the bottom one first. When you’re making these things, even though you might be in front of the camera, or even filming someone else, it’s not about you, it’s about the people, it’s about your audience. That’s a massive thing to think about.
Then I come into the selling, which is the final part of that act. I’ll start to build that proof, proof it works. That’s where you show them examples of, here is me with that number 1 position.
I’m going to make a pretty bold claim right now. I don’t think you’ve ever seen a film or a TV show that you loved that didn’t have a good script.
Now I’m going to go into all the other things that you can use to generate video content. The first one is FAQs, frequently asked questions.
Video Transcript: Giving tutorials is about positioning yourself as an
Now tutorials, this is where you position yourself as the expert. Now I have a real passion about helping people position themselves as the expert.
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It’s all about buying, building and selling websites. The way that I go through the process, I lead off with buying, building and selling is the biggest opportunity online, so I’m hooking them with, we’ve got a huge opportunity.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/bvtR_37TQAA? The Concept Andrew from Aamion Deceased Estate management wanted
https://www.youtube.com/embed/KTR8k7MOw1E? They wanted to tell a story that was engaging
The ladies, armed with their own props were able to breeze through the shoot while following their scripts. Each short FAQ video was filmed in one take – to
Melbourne’s healthy pool people came to us about creating a video that could show the public what they do and also get their personality across.
But there are some businesses which get a better return on investment when they start producing videos. What types of business profit the most from their online videos?
SOPA is an anti piracy bill that was debated in the US. The acronym stands for ‘Stop Online Piracy Act’.
There is no denying that Steve Jobs was a visionary and had the ability to see trends in internet videos in advance and had the vision to get there.
How-to video, also known as instructional video is a great way to boost your online presence. By means of some well-made, well-scripted how- to videos, you will increase traffic and those all-important sales.
There are many reasons to use online marketing solutions video to promote your business. Here are a some of them.
To keep up with the demands of the consumer, it has had to become a medium which adapts very easily. This is a marvelous marketing tool and as such you need to be aware in which direction it is moving.
It is obvious to all that the biggest video site is YouTube but it certainly isn’t the only one that offers online video sharing for video marketers like you.
There are two well known video examples that demonstrate the two sides of the same coin in internet marketing promotion. They demonstrate how important it is to carefully think about the way you portray your business through web video.
Because it is so important, you need to get it right, and avoiding these common mistakes in creating online business videos that will start to put you ahead of the pack.
You might benefit by following the DIME method of creating great videos. DIME stands for Dazzle, Inform, Market and Educate. If you aren’t including at least three of these steps in your web video production, you need to think again.
There have been some significant changes in YouTube’s service recently.
One infallible way to keep your audience interested is to get them laughing. Of course there is a time and place, but if you can inject some humour somewhere into your video, you will have your prospective customer coming back for more.
Web video production has suddenly become big business and is making the main players very handsome sums of money.
Social media is having an impact on web video marketing,
If you are willing to take the time and learn a few video production techniques, creating your own videos and then marketing them are well within most people’s reach using effective techniques.
What happens when you put Youtube vs TV in the boxing ring? With the introduction of Smart TVs, traditional programming is on the way out. Youtube marketing expert, David Jenyns, says that Web TV will knock-out traditional TV by 2015.
Have you been working in your industry for a number of years and gained valuable knowledge which very few other people have? Would you like to monetize your business in new ways?
It is time Australian online companies caught up to their American cousins in the industry and made online video part of their video marketing campaign. It is good to start off right, so here are some tips to get your online videos off to a flying start.
To get really high quality videos that are going to help sell your business, you may need the services of a reputable video production company.
People today are more likely to be switching on their
All great videos start with a great online video script.
You may think web video is only watched by teenagers who want music, their favourite TV programs and movies. Nothing could be further from the truth.
There is no better time to start an online video marketing campaign than right now.
As the use of web video to promote online businesses
There are many reasons why video making should be part of the curriculum of every secondary school in Australia. The creation of video is no longer just for the lucky few – it can be well within the reach of everyone who wants to try
How does this affect the average business concerned about getting its online marketing strategy right? With web video and social media working together, online businesses are able to increase their credibility, separate themselves from the competition and maintain their reputation.
To make your online marketing campaign a success, it is important to pay attention to both old and new strategies as well as investing on quality videos regardless of video production rates.
We are used to playlists when listening to music, and
It has just become easier for online business owners to
Mobile devices, particularly smartphones are on the rise in Australia
Traditionally, online businesses have first built their website and then have thought about the possibility of creating small business videos. Is this the right way to go? Just because it has always been done in this order doesn’t mean you have to continue doing it this way.
There are signs that traditional media is being overcome by the power of video production marketing. This has important implications for online business owners who need to keep up with the trend in order to stay successful.
Online business owners generally recognize the need for web video on their sites. However, there are some businesses that don’t think their business lends itself to is using videos. Are you one of them? Let’s say you are a dentist – how could video be applicable to you?
If you don’t have time for commercial video production, then you are just not getting your priorities straight. Web video can be used for so many things in your business:
Online video is the way to go if you are
Video marketing companies use web videos for more than just selling more McDonald’s burgers and Cadbury chocolate bars. Now increasingly senior executives are using them to make purchasing decisions. You’ve got to get those videos pitch perfect!
Adding music to your online videos can mean they sparkle and intrigue just that little bit more. However, it is very important to choose the music wisely, as there are some traps for unsuspecting players.
Online video requires significant investment, and you therefore need to measure the Return on Investment (ROI). Here are some ways to measure and improve that ROI.
You as an online business owner cannot afford to ignore
When you are seeking more revenue streams, you should look
Promotional videos have their place, but let’s face it, no one is going to pay much attention to you going on about how great your business is.
It is now seen as an essential part of online marketing, not just an optional extra. Visitors to websites expect to see videos posted there; it is seen as the norm rather than the exception.
Google has recently added online video advertising campaigns to the AdWords platform, AdWords for Video. So far it is limited in release to the UK, the US and Germany as a beta version.
The signs are unmistakable – more and more people are consuming web video an ever increasing rate. To even keep afloat business wise, you simply must be a part of it. Maybe you have started making and uploading your videos.
When people get involved in the technicalities of making corporate video clips, they often forget that one of the most powerful additions to a video can be a line or two of text.
Online video is one of the most powerful marketing tools around, so it pays to take advantage of it whenever you can.
Every week more and more people are watching videos online and spending greater amounts of time doing just that.
I am sure it has become apparent to you that more and more people are spending increasing amounts of their time watching videos on the web. In order to stay ahead, it is vital that you too become involved in video production, for the sake of your business.
Our first few meetings were centred around the style and content of each video. We all quickly agreed that simple, clean and elegant was the way to go.
There’s never been a better time for a business to start making is always the right time to start boosting sales. This is the main reason, but there are other reasons for you to start making videos.
All this in mind, we decided upon using a QR code. For those that don’t already know, a QR code looks like a square barcode and it acts in much the same way, but has limitless possibilities.
You may have been making videos and corporate video clips for
There are number of areas you should have a careful look at before you hire someone to do the important job of making and marketing your videos for you.
Although he has had 36,000 hits, you can be sure that he hasn’t had many of those people watch his video from beginning to end! However, if you are running an online business, it is important that you keep your viewer interested and watching until the very end.
Of course there are just too many videos and blog posts to comment on every one, but as often as you can, let the video maker or blog post writer know that you have read and appreciated what they’ve done.
There is a perception out there on the internet that online businesses are just there to scam unsuspecting victims. If you can make an interesting video with you presenting as a genuine, authentic person who has his customers’ best interests at heart, you will go a long way to prove that you are there to deliver on your promises.
We were recently approached by Masterclass Media about producing the video components for their Masterclass App series.
Our team from our website video production in St. Kilda have always believed that web video marketing is a great tool for any business, but make sure you use it honestly and make sure you do nothing which could ruin your online reputation.
All these means have a definite time limit and cost money. Now there is a much more effective way to go about it.
You need to focus most of your efforts on YouTube and there are a few reasons for that. Quite rightly,
You need to consider what it is you want to do with your video – where do you want it to be seen and in what format?
Did you think that audio was just about talking into
It has spread around the internet not through a virus, but by people intentionally sending it on to their friends and family because it is something
Many people realize the huge potential online video has to promote their business and drive traffic to their door using promotional video production.
There is no better place for entertaining, informative video to be found than on sites like LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus and more.
You’ve planned your video, written the script, recorded it and
You’re in a hurry and you need to make a web video quickly using video creation programs to support a sales page that’s going live.
After you have completed your video, you may need to
You need to remember that any sort of teleprompter is only there to remind you of the key points. You still need to work hard on delivering a fluid and free flowing presentation.
It seems that whenever you have a video camera set up and you’re preparing to do a shoot, something will go wrong.
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This is viewable area you select when making your video. If a video is well framed, the viewer will be unaware of the actual framing, it will just feel right.
It can be a bit overwhelming for first time video makers to plan, prepare and actually shoot their first
Have you ever sat back in frustration looking for easy screen capture video tips and thought ‘this would be so much easier to
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Many business owners shy away from outsourcing video editing services
One of the final decisions you will have to make
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A smooth and expertly edited transition process in your video
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Every video starts with a great online video script. Even
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You realize that internet marketing videos are a great tool
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Online video is very important to your marketing efforts. Two
Sometimes you find yourself as an online business owner creating
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In Part One of this post, I’ll take you through
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