A common misconception on the web is that viewers watch videos from beginning to end. The reality is they often don’t…rather, they fast-forward though videos, jump around or watch the first few seconds and then leave.
YouTube and similar sites have fueled this misconception with their “view” counters, which show how many times a video has [...]
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3 Simple Tricks To Keep Viewers Glued To Your Videos
Keep Your Videos Short If You Want To Keep People Watching
Although web video has grown at a dizzying pace, one statistic has always held steady; the shorter your video, the more people who will watch it from beginning to end.
And the ideal length for web videos, statistically, has always been around 2 minutes. Go beyond that and viewership drops dramatically. For example, Tubemogul reports [...]
The Secret To Knowing If Your Product Will Be a Hit or a Flop
One of the few television shows I watch regularly is Pitchmen. It’s a new reality show on the Discovery Channel that follows TV pitchmen Billy Mays and Anthony Sullivan. I did a blog post earlier about it here and you can learn more about it on Discovery’s site here.
One of the recurring patterns on the [...]
The #1 Reason Why People Fail With Web Video
When you specialize in one field for any length of time, it becomes easy to spot trends in other people starting out in that same field.
For example, a martial arts instructor will see people always making the same mistake with kicks. A chef will see people making the same mistakes in a kitchen. Or a [...]
What a 17 Year-Old Can Teach You About Your Business
I occasionally have a student do odd-jobs for me. By student, I mean high-school student. She’s just 17.
Last weekend I got a text message from her. She wanted to know if she could borrow one of my cameras for a video she had to make for a school project.
A few hours later, she came over, [...]
TV Pitchman Billy Mays Lands Reality Show…and The Attention of Corporate America
Hi Billy Mays here for…OxiClean, Orange Glo, Kaboom, Mighty Mendit…and the list goes on. If you own a television, then at one point or another you’ve seen the 50 year-old, black-bearded Mays pitch these products.
And you’ve probably laughed. But a better idea might be to learn.
That’s because Billy Mays and his sometimes partner Anthony Sullivan [...]
Video Content and Editing Style Control Viewer’s Brain Activity
One of the most common misconceptions with web video is that you can sit down in front of a camera, record yourself talking for 5 minutes, upload it to YouTube and you’re business will suddenly flourish.
Unfortunately, that couldn’t be further from the truth.
We’ll save the traffic portion of the above scenario for another post…and instead…focus [...]
Can You Really Earn Six-Figures a Year From YouTube? These People Do…
While I’m a staunch believer that the best way to make money from web video is by creating quality, educational based videos (and then charging for them)…I’m always happy to see the unique and creative ways that others are using to earn a living from web video.
Particularly if these people are underdogs, with no special [...]
New Jersey Woman Uses Web Video To Find a Husband
This is a story I’d normally never cover in this blog, however, it’s an excellent demonstration of what can be achieved through web video marketing.
The story goes like this. Neenah Pickett is a 42 year-old New Jersey woman who has never been married. By 2010, she wants to find a husband (or the man who [...]
Street Psychology and Video Marketing
Anyone involved with marketing on a daily basis tends to become a student of psychology. And those of us buried in the deeper levels of direct response marketing tend to be serious students of psychology.
In my experience (and opinion) psychology gets broken down into two categories; clinical psychology and street psychology.
Clinical psychology is the [...]






