If a picture is worth a 1,000 words, then an effective direct marketing sales conversion video can be worth 10,000. Online Video Marketing Deep Dive shows how fusing direct marketing with video marketing delivers sales. As technology has driven fundamental changes in direct marketing, Gary Hennerberg has successfully transferred traditional direct marketing principles to emerging new media. An author, speaker, strategist, copywriter, and analytics pro, he founded marketing consultancy Hennerberg Group, Inc., in 1992. Email him below or follow Gary on LinkedIn.
Co-authoring this blog is Perry Alexander of Success Messenger Group. Alexander’s passion is conveying information clearly and compellingly. He is a veteran marketing strategist, copy editor, design pro and video producer. Hennerberg and Alexander have worked together since 1996. They integrate direct marketing methodology with online video and other marketing applications for end-to-end, strategy-to-roll-out initiatives. Follow Perry on LinkedIn.
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Is it really possible to apply direct marketing principles to those new "micro social" 6-second videos (like Twitter's Vine)? ... And expect to monetize it? We're about to find out, and we'd like to invite you to get on board with the campaign test with your ideas. In turn, we'll share with you the results and statistics we'll gather from email blasts, Facebook posts, YouTube views, and ultimately sales performance. You may know about Twitter's latest foray into "micro social" with six-second videos on Vine, and if you're like us, you shake your head and ask, "really? Who would do that and why?" Moreover, is there a way to make money from this?
Our opinions on such wild concepts, however, don't matter. Results are what drive us as direct marketers. So rather than pour cold water over a new tool, we decided to dive into it to see if we could make it work. We're about to test the concept and find out if we can make it a success. We'll report on what's happening over the next few weeks and in April we'll have the final results.
(If the video isn't just above this line, click here to view it.)
This six-second video test starts next week, so it's early in the campaign with time to adapt and adjust. And that's where your ideas can come in. The campaign extends into early April, allowing plenty of time to adjust it along the way.
But there is a twist: because the organization we're testing this concept for doesn't have a large Twitter following, we figured, heck, why not create short video blasts that can reside on YouTube, Facebook, and a web landing page (where we already have a large audience), and see what happens.
We invite your participation in formulating this test by answering a few questions (along with other questions and suggestions you think of) in the comments section below. Here's how you can participate:
Please share your ideas in the comments section below, or email me directly. We'll keep you updated in our future blog posts, and we'll find out together if all of this worked. If it's a bust, we'll tell you that, too.
With so much new coming into our marketing world, the more we share successes and failures with each other, the more effective and profitable we'll all be.
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