Video marketing

Video marketing is a strategy used by firms in order to promote products and services, by making use of short, crispy, informative videos, with the purpose of inducing awareness to the prospective customers about the promoted products/services and enticing them into purchasing the above-mentioned products/services.

Video marketing involves producing videos and posting them to several video sharing websites to boost your website traffic and get "Word of Mouth" publicity. There is nothing else that comes close to the effectiveness and persuasion power of a well designed video message.

Video communication is an efficient means of communication which reaches to prospective customers very fast & in a cost-effective manner. The use of videos on the Internet brings numerous advantages. Videos give you the opportunity to communicate important messages to people more accurately and efficiently than ever.

Some of the Video sharing websites are

YouTube - http://www.YouTube.com ,
Google Video - http://video.google.com/
Yahoo Video - http://video.yahoo.com ,
FlickLife - http://www.veoh.com ,
Blip - http://blip.tv ,
Crackle - http://crackle.com,
Flurl - http://www.flurl.com,
BoFunk - http://www.bofunk.com ,
Vimeo - http://vimeo.com &
Flixya - http://www.flixya.com

Why Video Marketing is simply great :

• Google is showing more and more videos in SERPs.

• Producing a video is cheap and posting it is free.

• Most video sharing services such as YouTube have several tools to help people spread the word. The users    actually market your videos for you.

• Video communities are a lot more active than any other Web communities. It is not uncommon to post a    video on YouTube and get 100 comments in a week.