HubSpot Research reveals that 54% of respondents would like to see video content coming from businesses and brands they support. This is just one of many reasons why video marketing seems to be at the top of many marketer's to-do lists. While there's no question that video marketing is a channel worth investing in to achieve business growth, there are a lot of questions around how to actually get started -- like what equipment you'll need, where you'll find talent, and how the heck you'll figure out how to write a video script.
Before you let those overwhelming "I don't know how to do anything of this" feelings sink in, let's take a step back.
At its core, video marketing is an engaging, modern marketing strategy that introduces video content as a format for telling stories, delivering business messages, educating your audience, and so much more. No matter what the format, length, or style of the video may be, it’s considered video marketing if the end goal is to get your brand, product, or service in front of a desired audience through the use of video.
In other words, video marketing offers a ton of flexibility -- and depending on your company's needs, you can (and should) use that creative space to incorporate it as you see fit. This might mean starting with just a focus on video for social, or case studies, or how-to videos for blog posts.
Regardless of where you see video fitting into your strategy, Hubspot put together a series of educational videos and related templates and resources aimed at taking some of the guesswork out of video strategy. We broke all the information down into three stages -- pre-production, production, and post-production -- so you can take things one step at a time on your way to video marketing mastery.
Think of pre-production as your planning stage -- your opportunity to get all of your video ducks in a row. Before you fire up the lights and hit record, it's important that you spend a considerable amount of time thinking about the role video could or should play in your larger marketing strategy.
This is because, in most cases, the foundation for a valuable piece of video content starts with a thoughtful and strategic plan.
Before you start throwing around ideas for your first marketing video, you first have to determine what the overall goal of the video will be. To do this, you can start by ask yourself two questions:
All things considered, answering these questions will help you narrow your focus enough to have a more targeted, effective video brainstorm. For example, let's say you determine you want to:
Using this information as a launching pad for your brainstorm, you can direct your focus towards video ideas and formats that appeal to folks in the attract stage of the buyer's journey that can be created using animation or repurposed video content.
The result? You might end up with something like this!
Another way to make the video brainstorming process more productive is to simply start with the stage of the buyer's journey you want to target:
https://youtu.be/MhegveUTVBk
In the case of video content creation, the buyer’s journey provides a model to help keep the buyer’s behavior, information needs, and problems central when determining the format and topic you select for the video. To get a better sense of how to use the buyer's journey to inform your video brainstorm, check out this video:
https://youtu.be/eWERDfFYypg
Need a little more direction to get the wheels turning? Use this handy tip sheet, complete with 20 video marketing ideas, to kickstart the discussion.
Remember: The key to a productive video brainstorm is to identify your goals and resources upfront. The more you know about why you are creating the offer and how you will approach the actual production given your resources will help to inform what the video should cover.
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Once you've got your idea, it's easy to want to jump right into script writing. After all, writing might be one of the more familiar parts of this entire process for you. However, we recommend that you start by putting together a simple brief, designed to answer the following questions:
It's likely that you uncovered the answers to some of these questions in the brainstorm phase, but putting together this brief will ensure that you've fully scoped out the idea before moving forward.
With a brief complete, you can start drafting the script. To help you get started, check out this video script template -- the very template we used to map out the scripts for this offer.
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And as you write, here are a few key things to keep in mind:
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