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The Merits of Adding Company Videos to YOUR Marketing Mix.

People, both young and old, are hooked on video. After all, it’s been around for over a half century. Since the advent of network and cable television, and now with the internet explosion that allows for streaming video to enter the lives of millions and millions of people around the world, the impact of video is growing by leaps and bounds. Now that we’ve established the incredibleness of video, let’s look at the advantages businesses can realize by utilizing it.

Developing company videos on your website is cost-effective when compared with traditional print advertising. Face it, running advertisements in magazines and in newspapers is not only costly, it’s also not very effective because the people you want to reach often miss your message. Today a company video presentation can be played in many formats and viewed in many places like mobile kiosks, large-screen presentations, smart phones and, of course, websites. Video is becoming a mega powerful medium, and it can be produced at a cost you’ll find appealing.

Video on websites is a boon to marketers. When most people visit websites and a corporate video or training video is offered, more often than not it gets played. Why not package your sales pitch in a medium people want? Want proof of how big a web video is on the Internet?  YouTube videos are seen on an average of 2 billion views—each and every day. And don’t worry about how people will find your video, because Google’s search algorithms pay a great deal of attention to it.  Videos come up high on searches.

Your company video doesn’t only have to be shown on your website. Just make sure it’s social bookmarking-friendly, and it can wind up on Facebook, Twitter, Stumbleupon, Digg, Del.icio.us, Squidoo, Newsvine, reddit, and Diigo, spreading your video marketing message around the world for all to  see and  purchase your products and/or services.

Best of Days to You,

Audrey Ferrante

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What does “web-to-print” mean and why do I care?

We’ve noticed that “Web-to-Print” and “Print-on-Demand” are used almost interchangeably. It almost should be “Web-to-Print-on-Demand!” That’s more to the point, but much too wordy.  Still, the connection cannot be denied. So let’s go on to discuss “Why I care…”

The WORLD is now 24/7/365. Companies from overseas can order our product or be our vendor partners. The internet is ALWAYS on (except when Comcast/Verizon/”Put your ISP name here” goes down…Which is a HUGE pain!). There is ALWAYS business being done somewhere in the world.  Why shouldn’t you use tools that are 24/7/365 and have access to the world?

It is absurd these days to even think of running a business that is not leveraging the power of the internet.  Enlightened print buyers and print service providers use the internet in their purchasing and ongoing communications to achieve high quality printed products. Now integrate this capability with the ability to monitor your printed inventory and you really have a powerful tool at your disposal.

Just by having a secure web portal for your inventory that you can monitor, you can interact with and place orders with your print service provider on your timetable, not on the provider’s business hours. If they are really savvy, the print service provider will integrate the ordering portal with their preflight and production system, to process the order faster.

So remember…” Web-to-Print-on-Demand”…It may just catch on and you will be able to say that you saw it first here!

Best of Days to You,

Audrey Ferrante
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