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How to Turn Your Blog Posts Into Video In Less Than 5 Minutes

A little behind on the video craze? No worries! You don’t need to spend hours producing video content with expensive equipment when you have existing blog content and automated software. I easily repurpose my existing blog posts into videos with Lumen5 in less than five minutes and this post will show you how.

Lumen5 is an automated and intuitive tool that allows you to turn blog posts and other content into animated informative videos. You can then share those videos directly to your website and all your social media channels.

Once you sign up (for free!) for Lumen5, you can create videos from your blog posts, text or from scratch in under 5 minutes. Here’s how!

Step 1

Convert your blog post/text/script to video.

There are three ways to convert your existing content into video with Lumen5: a link, copy and paste text and starting from scratch.

Here’s a screenshot from the dashboard where I made a video about ‘How to Get Paid for Blog Sponsorships’ and then published it to YouTube!

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The first option is to enter a link to an existing blog post or article. Lumen5 then fetches the content and starts populating your storyboard.

This is the most efficient way to create a video on the platform. Lumen5 AI bots essentially do all the work for you by automatically pulling text and images from your post or article.

Of course if you don’t like what the AI bots pull you can always change it up manually.

The second option is to copy and paste the text from whichever source you wish to create a video with. Lumen5 will use that content to help you create a video.

The third approach is to start from scratch. You can type your content in manually to create a video. Once you decide which approach you’d like to use, the following screens will appear to help you choose a video format and a theme.

Lumen5 automatically provides a foundation to create your video on. All you need to do is arrange your storyboard and edit.

You’ll see text from your blog post or the text you copied and pasted on the first screen on the left. A video storyboard is on the right. The blog post/article title populates a box in the first slide of the storyboard.

You can add to the storyboard by choosing text that summarizes your post. Simply click on sentences to add them to your storyboard.

If you’re building from scratch, or using the other two methods, you can add text manually by clicking the ‘+’ button and start typing your text. You can also rearrange sections of your storyboard by hovering over the box you want to move.

We recommend no more than 120 characters per box so that the text fits perfectly into the slide/scene of your video. Click within the box to edit the text and reduce characters if needed.

Lumen5 calculates the length of the slide, the positioning of the text, and which words to highlight in the video slide, automatically. You can of course override the suggestions and edit the video to your liking.

add image

For each video slide, you can choose a background from the expansive library of videos, photos, and icons. Lumen5 also includes any images from the article. Alternatively, you can upload your own media.

If you choose to upload your own images, they need to be at least 500 x 500 and in JPG, PNG, or GIF format. The maximum upload size is 15MB.

To change the background image of any of the storyboard slides, simply drag the image from the library to the slide. Keep in mind that the background will be slightly animated in the finished video. You can preview your video to preview image effects.

Add music

You can add music to your video using any of the millions of copyright-free audio files provided by Lumen5 or upload your own file (just ensure that you have the rights to use the audio for commercial purposes).

Clicking the ‘Mood’ drop-down menu gives you an array of music to match the mood or feel of your video. You can preview a track by clicking the ‘Play’ icon to the left of it.

Once you’ve made a choice (there are lots of options – granted they are not hip hop/pop TikTok mainstream but who cares?)

Click it to apply the track to your video. Of course, adding music to your video isn’t a must. You can leave this section blank if you wish.

Brand your video

You can add brand identity to your video by setting colors, adding a logo and choosing/uploading your preferred font.

Choose your text and background colors to match your brand colors.

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Add and position your logo

You have the option of uploading a logo or adding a watermark (which can be a simple version of your logo or something else) to your video.

Select or upload your preferred font

You can select or upload fonts to match your brand fonts.

Set the total length of your video

As you edit and format your video, Lumen5 calculates the total length of the video. You can adjust this by choosing a Fast, Normal or Slow transition speed.

You can also select a Landscape, Square or Vertical video format.

The final slide

The last slide of your storyboard is labelled ‘Outro Scene’. You can add a logo to this slide or leave it at the default ‘Share this video’ text.

Step 3

Publish your video

You can preview your video during the editing process to ensure that everything looks as it should. Once you’re happy with it, click ‘Finish’ and Lumen5 will render a final version in 10 minutes or less.

You’ll receive an email once your video is finished.

Once your video is rendered, you can immediately download it to your computer to publish on your other social channels and website.

It’s as easy as that. To make things sweeter, you can edit your video after it is rendered.

There are tons of features and options at your disposal to help you create a professional and engaging video for your business.

Get in there, play around, have fun and share your awesome content with the world.

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How to Start and Grow Your Business On YouTube

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Struggling to get your business or brand started? Here’s how you can start driving more traffic and get more business on YouTube. YouTube is an easy, accessible way to not just start, but grow your brand, too.

You want to start a business, but you have no idea where to begin.

You know that video, especially YouTube, is huge in popularity and it seems everyone in the universe is on it except you.

So you’re wondering if you should start a YouTube channel to start and grow your business. But then again, isn’t that just for big-time creators who already have name recognition?

Not exactly.

Solopreneurs can start successful businesses on YouTube. You don’t even need fancy video production experience or expensive equipment to do it, either.

Even better, you can use YouTube to grow your business beyond infancy to a profit-generating machine.

Before we get too far into the weeds about growing a business on YouTube, let’s first cover starting a business with YouTube.

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You can start your business on YouTube by using it to:

Identify your audience and competitors
Grow your email list and build a sales funnel
Publish content and increase brand awareness

Let’s dig into what each of these entails.

Step #1: Conduct market research via online communities

Starting a business on YouTube isn’t much different from starting a business with a blog.

You’ll need to first understand the content your audience wants. Viewers use YouTube for a variety of things.

86% of viewers said they often use YouTube to learn new things. Another 37% go to improve their professional or academic skills.

90% of consumers say they discover new brands or products on YouTube.

Therefore, you’ll want to make sure you create in-demand content for your audience.

Happy viewers may one day become happy customers with a little nurturing.

To understand what your audience is looking for, start by watching videos from influencers in your niche.

62% of consumers follow influencers on YouTube, so it’s definitely a great place to start.

What struggles or concerns do they commonly bring up? What products do they recommend? What kind of language do they use when talking to their followers and about your industry?

Besides searching through YouTube itself, you can use a platform like influence.co to find YouTube influencers.

Next, watch product reviews and other videos from people who fit your buyer persona.

See what they have to say about brands in your field and what qualities make them love or move on from certain businesses.

As an example, if you’ve noticed many videos where customers complain about a brand’s customer service, that’s a flashing sign that you should invest in customer service.

Next, watch your competitors’ content to see where their strengths and weaknesses lie.

For instance, you may notice they share lots of expert-level content, but not much to help customers who are new to the field and searching for information.

Make sure to study the discussions in the comments section and discussion boards, too.

Let’s say you wanted to create a course about becoming a digital nomad and traveling the world.

You can visit Reddit’s Digital Nomad subreddit to learn about your audience’s opinions of other brands, influencers, and products in that field.

If you can, join the discussions so you can ask questions and get more detailed feedback than by reading alone.

Lastly, you can use tools like TubeBuddy and vidIQ to identify keywords and trends to build content around.

Now, with research out of the way, you’re ready to create and publish your content.But you don’t want your videos to sit idle on YouTube.

Instead, you’ll want to use it to increase awareness of your brand.

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Step #2: Increase brand awareness with YouTube

67% of businesses use YouTube to distribute their content.

One reason why YouTube may be so popular is that it’s a visual search engine where users can discover and learn about your business.

To increase brand awareness for your business, make content that is easy for YouTube to recommend and easy for viewers to enjoy.

First off, make your videos keyword-optimized, so it’s clear to viewers what they’re about. Make sure to include keywords in your video title and have a filled out description, too.

This YouTube SEO from HubSpot can help get you started.

Next, make sure your videos answer your audience’s questions. You can find these questions through a mix of customer and keyword research.

After that, cater your video length to your audience’s preferences. Having a super short or super long video won’t necessarily guarantee you more views and likes.

So how long should it be?

One study found the average video length across industries as of December 2018 was 11.7 minutes.

Backlinko found that the average length of a YouTube video on the first search results page was 14 minutes and 50 seconds.

Besides that, many large YouTube creators are making their videos longer to increase their chances of getting recommended by YouTube.

That doesn’t mean your videos should be 11.7 minutes or 14 minutes and 50 seconds, however.

Make your videos as long as they need to be to answer a question.

At the same time, make your videos as concise as possible. Your viewers’ time is precious, and making videos that go on and on won’t endear them to you.

Additionally, only 52% of viewers will watch a video all the way through.

Making your videos a viewer-friendly length — and entertaining and informative — could increase the number of people who watch your full video.

Use animations or text overlays to make your content easier to digest and watch, as well.

For example, Podia included this text overlay at the beginning of our 40 digital product ideas video as a brief introduction to the main video content.

If you can, share a transcript of your video on your blog. This can help people find your video through search engines.

You could also create social media videos to promote your new videos.

As an example, I created this Instagram post to promote my YouTube video about my Social Media Course recently.

The final way to increase brand awareness through YouTube videos is by publishing content regularly.

Don’t feel pressured to produce videos every day, especially when you’re just starting out. One video per week is much more practical for smaller creators starting out on YouTube.

You can repurpose your existing webinars, live streams, and social media videos into YouTube videos, too.

But how much content is “enough”?

You’ll only have enough content once you’ve definitely answered all of your customers’ questions. That could take years to do.

But for reference, businesses with 0 to 30 employees had an average of 174 videos.

With a steady publishing schedule of one to two videos per week, plus bonus content from webinars and live streams, you could probably reach that number within two years.

However, don’t pressure yourself to meet an arbitrary quota.

It’s much more important to answer questions relevant to your audience — and answer them well — than to try to publish a certain number of videos.

Besides, creating videos is only half the battle. What comes after creation — our next step — is just as important.

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Step #3: Lead viewers to your sales funnel

You don’t want to have people watch your videos and just leave.

Otherwise, you’ll have little site traffic or sales to show for it.

With 82% of global IP traffic expected to be video by 2022, you’ll want to start incorporating more video into your marketing processes, anyway.

To get viewers to take action, you’ll need an email list and sales funnel.

You’ll want to have an email list so people who want to learn more about your brand can receive personalized marketing information.

A sales funnel can also give you a structured process for helping viewers become leads and customers, too.

Here’s how to set up a sales funnel with YouTube.

A viewer watches your video
They then click on your landing page link in your video description to receive a free offer
They join your email list and receive their free download
You send them educational and informative content
They eventually become your customer

Preparing your sales funnel will go in the opposite order, however.

First, set up an onboarding series with one of these beginner-friendly email marketing platforms. You’ll want these first few emails to welcome viewers to your brand.

Use your onboarding series to tell them more about what they can expect from your emails. You can also point them towards older content they may enjoy.

With your email list set up, you should prepare your lead magnet.

A lead magnet is an email course, ebook, or other digital download to convince people who are on not sure about buying to sign up.

My lead magnet is included free access in my Freebie Library, for example.

The sole purpose of a landing page (in most cases) is to get someone to join your email list.

You can create a landing page using this top landing page builder.

To make things easier on yourself, sign up for Podia. On Podia, you can build your landing page and email list — and sell your digital products — from one place.

However, don’t confuse people and include multiple offers on your landing page.

Your landing page should have one purpose and offer, such as for viewers to access an ebook or email course.

Having too many offers can confuse viewers and may stop them from taking action.

Research from Unbounce found that landing pages with one main call to action (CTA) had the best conversion rates. Those with five or more CTAs had the lowest conversion rates.

Lastly, include a link to your lead magnet and landing page in your video description.

There you have it — you’ve created a sales funnel in just a few steps.

As your business grows, you can add more tools to your sales funnel like paid ads or influencer partnerships.

In the meantime, a landing page, lead magnet, and onboarding series should do just fine.

With a little hard work, you too could have an effective YouTube-based sales funnel in place.

Now that we’ve covered ways YouTube can help you start your business, let’s delve into how it can help you grow your business.

How to grow your business with YouTube

There are three ways to use YouTube to grow your business, including:

Testing product ideas
Building brand awareness and sales
Reaching customers at all stages of the buying journey

Let’s take a look at each of these in-depth.

Method #1: Customer validation

You shouldn’t act on your digital product ideas — until you get customer validation first, that is.

40% of consumers worldwide said they purchased products they discovered on YouTube.

With a buying intent that high, you won’t want to promote an unproven product that could leave a sour taste in early buyers’ mouths.

Indeed, you should test your product ideas with your audience.

One way to validate your idea is by first collecting feedback from your followers.

Then create a basic version of your product and release it for testing (here’s how you can create a product prototype in one week or less for extra information).

If they respond well to it, ask what you could do to improve it. Repeat this process until you have a full-fledged product ready for sale.

Another approach is to give away your product for free and assess users’ reactions.

You could use in-person events to validate your product idea.

You could also validate it through live online events on YouTube like webinars or masterminds.

A third way to test your product is by bundling your most popular content into a digital product and selling it from your storefront.

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If your audience responds well to your bundle, you could expand it into a larger course or download. If not, you can go back to the drawing board without having misspent any time or money.

Here’s what you should take away about product testing:

You can use YouTube to validate your product ideas. Your YouTube videos can either serve as announcements and promotions for your product idea or even be used as the prototype itself.

To expose more people to your products, look into YouTube ads.

Method #2: Use YouTube ads to increase awareness and sales

YouTube ads are a fantastic way to bring more traffic to your channel and business.

Even better, YouTube advertising doesn’t have to be TV-commercial quality to woo your viewers. You can shoot professional-quality video on your smartphone with a basic at-home set up.

There are six main ad types to choose from. Many of these ads are video ads, though Google offers non-video options, as well.

Google Text ads, can appear in the YouTube search results page.

But just what should you promote with those ad types?

Your YouTube channel and website are a good place to start.

YouTube ads could also spotlight your product and its benefits.

83% of paid YouTube mobile advertising receive attention. That’s compared to 45% for TV advertising.

Plus, you can target viewers based on specific criteria. This could help you send ads viewers are more likely to watch and engage with.

OK, regardless of whether you use YouTube ads, our final strategy will help put new customers on the playing field for you — every step of the way, in fact.

Method #3: Use YouTube to reach customers at all stages of the buyer’s journey

Businesses can use YouTube to reach and convert customers at all points in the buyer’s journey.

The easiest way to reach customers at all levels of buying intent is by releasing educational and entertaining content.

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This content would be great for customers getting into personal organization who aren’t yet ready to work with an organizer.

For consideration and decision stage customers, you could share case studies, product demos, Q&As, and the like.

Having their questions answered and seeing The Organized Soprano could help viewers get to know and trust her. More trusting viewers could convert into customers later on.

Webinars and other live-streamed content work well for consideration and decision stage YouTube content, too.

While you can — and should — produce as much content as possible for YouTube, it’s fine if you want some help.

24% of marketers said a lack of content was a concern for them.

To help your brand, you could share user-generated content (UGC) from your followers.

UGC is simply any content your audience makes about your company, such as product reviews or comparisons of your brand to others.

UGC won’t always be as polished as your brand content, but that can be a good thing.

48% of marketers said UGC can help to humanize their marketing. Another 73% of marketers agree that UGC makes marketing more authentic.

44% said it could support their marketing campaigns, too.

Like any piece of good content, UGC can help out viewers at every stage of the funnel. UGC from your customers could introduce your brand to viewers who may not otherwise have learned about you.

It can also encourage would-be customers who are thinking of buying from you to go ahead and make a purchase.

Basically:

The best way to reach would-be customers at all stages of making a purchasing decision is by releasing high-quality content to answer their questions. Use UGC from your customers from time to time, too.

And with that, you’ll be on a steady path towards growing your business with YouTube.

Use YouTube to boost your business

People don’t just go to YouTube to pass the time or get a chuckle. More and more consumers are using YouTube as a way to discover new brands and get help with their concerns.

You don’t have to be an established business to reap YouTube’s benefits, either.

Creators can start their businesses on YouTube by using the platform to:

Identify their audience and competition
Grow their email lists and develop a simple sales funnel
Share content and raise brand awareness

But you can keep that momentum going on YouTube, too. Specifically, you could grow your business and earn more sales on YouTube by using it to:

Validate your product ideas
Increase brand awareness and sales
Reach customers all along the buying journey

With so much to gain and so little to lose from joining YouTube, don’t let self-doubt hold you back any longer.

Start your business on YouTube today and start driving more traffic towards your business today!

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The Simple Way to Create Marketing Videos

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Looking for an easy way to insert videos into your website or social media platforms without breaking the bank? Everyone knows how popular video is nowadays. Social video is a social media trend to watch—it has exploded in the past year and we see no reason that it won’t continue to grow exponentially. 93% of brands say they’ve gotten a new customer from video alone. Posting new videos on social media regularly can help you reach new customers, stay top-of-mind for existing customers, and drive results all year round. Let’s face it videos are superior when it comes to a entertaining way of learning how to do something quickly! Here’s how you can create professional videos simply and easily like the pros!

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Fortunately, even if you’re not technically or artistically blessed there are super easy ways to create video, some of which don’t even require showing your face on-screen. Which, let’s face it not everyone is a fan of doing!

You can use screen captures, images and video clips to create video ads for your business.

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This post discusses an excellent desktop and mobile tool I use to create Social videos for business and personal use.

Animoto is one of the fastest and easiest ways you can make professional videos that’ll help grow your business and help put it in the spotlight.

You can create stunning videos in minutes with their online video editor, to increase sales with video ads and promotions, create marketing videos for social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, and improve brand awareness with powerful professional videos.

Best of all there is no video editing experience required.

Here are just some of the benefits of adding video to your marketing:

- Increase sales
- Drive Website Traffic
- Find a New Audience to Engage
- Get Inspired!

Animoto is a video platform which allows you to turn your pictures into music videos.

The popularity of video communication is increasing rapidly, especially with social video-sharing platforms like YouTube, MetaCafe, Vimeo and others.

Making videos is not too difficult, but making quality videos takes some skill.

I’ve researched several video platforms like Promo and Vimeo etc, but what I like about Animoto is its simplicity and ease of operation, yet the output is so incredibly professional.

Animoto was created by a group of experts in the field of technology, television and film.

The technology they use is proprietary and comparable to the same sophisticated production techniques used in television and film.

The company is based in New York and has received several awards since they first launched in 2005 – They even partnered up with Getty stock Images stock library, to use for your Animoto video projects with no additional charge beyond your subscription.

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How Does Animoto Work?

The process of making Animoto videos requires 3 main steps:

STEP 1
Select a video storyboard or start from scratch

Upload pictures from your computer or other social sites to Animoto;
Organize the pictures in a sequence you want them to appear in; and
Choose the music clip from your computer or Animoto’s library.

Pre-built storyboards are adjustable video templates, designed to make it easy to create and customize marketing videos. With storyboards for editorial content, ads and promotions, seasonal sales, how-to guides, and more, you can create eye-catching videos quickly; then easily adapt them to fit your business.

STEP 2
Add your photos, video clips, and text to customize your video
To begin, just drag and drop images and video clips into your video storyboard. Then customize your video by editing text, choosing songs from our library of licensed music, and changing fonts, transitions, colors, and more with ease.

STEP 3
Produce your video and share
Once you’ve finished editing your video, produce and share it to Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and more, all directly from Animoto.

You can also email out your video, download it to share, or embed your video on your website.

Once you follow the above steps, Animoto processes the video which could take a few minutes depending on the number of pictures.

Once the video is processed, it can be uploaded to YouTube or embedded in blogs and other social sites like Facebook, Twitter, etc.

No two Animoto videos that are produced are the same and it is a unique way to share your pictures.

What Can I Use Animoto For?

Animoto has several templates that can be used depending on the type of video you want to produce. You can use Animoto for personal or business purposes and choose from their vast library of pre-designed templates. Talk Fusion also allows you to customize templates to personalize the “look and feel”.

In terms of personal uses, you can create unique video cards using personal pictures for special occasions like birthdays, Valentine’s day, weddings, etc. You can turn your family vacations and holidays pictures into cool music videos. You can use Animoto for business reasons like creating professional photography portfolios, using it for small business advertising, real estate agents can create it to present home they are selling, etc.

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The above videos can be shared on social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and even uploaded to YouTube. I’ve used Animoto videos for both, personal and professional purposes.

What Does Animoto Cost?

Animoto has 3 plans and pricing options as shown below:

the LITE option is free which allows unlimited 30 second videos; get 10% off annual personal plans with my code PER10OFF
the PLUS option costs $5 per month or $30 per year; and
the PRO option costs $39 per month or $249 per year; get 10% off annual business plans with my code BUS10OFF.

For 2020 here is the updated pricing for Animoto:

This accurately reflect the new U.S. pricing model for Animoto’s video plans. Provided below is a breakout of both Annual and Monthly plans for Personal, Professional, and Business subscriptions:

• ANNUAL PLANS:
o Personal: $60 ($5/month)
o Professional: $396 ($33/month)
o Business: $588 ($49/month)

• MONTHLY PLANS:
o Personal: $9
o Professional: $65
o Business: $94

I’ve tried all three options and am currently using the PRO option.

If you use it just for personal purposes, you can use the LITE and PLUS options, however, if you use your videos for commercial purposes, you need to have the PRO membership.

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The option you choose will depend on what you plan to do with the videos.

I would suggest using the free version to get a feel of the system.

Determine what you want to use Animoto videos for, for example, if you will be using it more for personal purposes and intend to make many videos in a year, you can go with the PLUS option.

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However, if you are going to use it for professional and business purposes, I recommend getting the PRO option because it comes with the appropriate licensing.

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How To Win Business With B2B Video Marketing (Infographic)

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How To Win Business with B2B Video Marketing – (Infographic)

This post is from One Productions, a video production company based in Dublin, Ireland who have created a highly valuable infographic for beginners on the 5 stages of video production and marketing.

Did you know that 70% of B2B buyers watch videos along their path to purchase? It is therefore imperative for B2B marketers to master the
art of video production and marketing.

Our infographic offers a handy beginner’s guide which covers the benefits of B2B videos, how to set
goals for your campaign, advice on selecting a video style and a quick overview of the stages of a B2B video marketing campaign.

In this article, we offer a handy beginner’s guide to B2B video marketing.

What is a B2B Video?

B2B videos are those which are used by businesses to sell a product or service to other
businesses.

They can be used to communicate with customers at different stages of the sales
funnel.

Some examples of popular B2B video formats include explainer videos, webinars, and client testimonials.

A highly engaging content format, Vidyard CEO Michael Litt once described video as being “the next best thing to being in person.”

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Preferred for its immersive and attention-grabbing nature, it is no surprise then that 62% of B2B marketers rate video as the most
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What’s more, the use of video in B2B campaigns has been associated with increased click-through rates, website visits, and SEO value.

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If you would like to learn more about how video can boost your B2B marketing strategy, then you should certainly browse through this infographic from One Productions.

This helpful guide includes a lot of useful information, including:

– Interesting statistics about B2B video marketing
– A list of the different business goals that video can support
– A summary of the benefits associated with B2B videos
– An outline of the different types of video and where they fall in the marketing funnel
– A walk-through of the five stages of a B2B video campaign

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There are numerous elements that go into creating impressive designs with impact. We live in an increasingly visual world. Statistics support the notion that with each passing day, people are more drawn towards imagery more so than text. But let’s face it not all of us are gifted with a knack or skills for visual design or don’t have the time or inkling to learn a complicated design platform. There’s no reason why you can’t create impressive designs for your website, blog or business easily and even without any design skills! On the creative end, it really helps to have an intuitive system with an appealing layout that leads people to the information that they want and is stimulating to the eye. On top of those, you need to manage all of the graphics and images you use daily, simply and easily.

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The tools available today to help you market your business online are extremely powerful.

Visme is one company that provides tools that can save you massive amounts of time by allowing you to curate relevant content to review and share with your audience.

In the fast-paced digital environment that is the modern workday, each tool that our experts mentioned is useful, and each tool mentioned is extremely powerful in its own right.

NEW! Check out Visme’s animated characters that do a number of movements and actions!

Start creating amazing content!

Visme helps me simplify these complicated tasks beautifully with a wide variety of content they can create.

Whether you have design skills or not they make it simple to create any type of visual content for your blog, website or any marketing purpose you have.

Some examples of visual content you can create are:

Blog Header Images
Facebook Ads
Animated video
Animated characters and gestures
Whiteboard video
Instagram Posts
Google Display Ads
Email headers
Kindle eBook Covers
Snapchat geofilters
Twitter ads
YouTube Channel Art
LinkedIn Cover Images and Ads
Printables
Car Covers
Cards/Invitations and more!

What is Visme?

Whatever features that you want to implement on your website or social media, Visme allows you to make beautiful, compelling presentations in just minutes that are also incredibly simple for anyone.

Infographic Do’s and Don’ts

Creating an infographic can sound intimidating. But don’t let it scare you. Getting started is easier than you think.

One of the best ways to increase your brand engagement, traffic and overall performance is to create an infographic.

Helping others create infographics is just one of the things that Visme does best.

In this video below, they can help you get off the ground with 14 do’s and don’ts of designing infographics.

Whether your project is simple or complex, Visme has amazing ways to work with a community of professional designers who can understand your design needs in only a few minutes.

Since its launch, Visme creative process makes your design into magic. Whatever you envision they help you find a designer with just the right skill set, and then you collaborate one on one with them on your project.

The professional-grade content is suitable for any businesses large or small and personal purposes alike.

Their services are made to support everything you need to create amazing content graphics to take on the challenge of grabbing your readers eye.

Visme as mentioned, also does an excellent job of making their tools accessible to individuals that may not have much of a background in design.

New! Animated gestures and interactions!

Want to have a hello gesture at the start of your presentation slide or a goodbye at the end?

Want to clap or give a thumbs up or down, or grab user attention to a specific area of your content?

Achieve all of this by using Visme’s animated hand gestures and interactions.

Design for Agencies

If you’re an agency, Visme has a premium service which can whip up design solutions in record time. These time-saving features make it quick and simple to be connected with skilled freelance designers.

Top names like TechCrunch, Capital One, IBM, Netflix, Entrepreneur and The New York Times and Forbes have utilized their services.

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Whether you’re a freelancer, content creator, or a creative entrepreneur you’ll have access to the best design tools to build your brand without breaking your budget.

You can take your website from a group of average looking web pages and turn it into a highly optimized site featuring a rich group of content that knocks the socks off your visitors!

NEW!! I love these Animated characters that move, can display emotions and have gestures like walk, clap or even exercise!

Work for Visme!

And if you’re a designer Visme is looking to hire

A Tool to Depend On.

Whether you’re a growing business trying to bring in followers or looking to grow your platform for personal reasons, the need for high-quality visual content is rising.

Hiring a designer simply isn’t in everyone’s budget, and frankly, who knows your brand better than yourself?

Visme provides its users with the ability to create gorgeous professional content that’s sure to make an impression on the most discerning audience.

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How to Connect With Businesses Using Animoto And Getty Images

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This post is a press release from Animoto about their partnership with Getty images. If you haven’t incorporated video into your business or blog perhaps you should get on the bandwagon. Video opens up the door to connect with businesses and a whole new range of customers instantly and easily. It allows a whole new level of creation and innovation to be attained and grabs the attention of your potential audience fast.

When it comes to audience engagement there’s no type of content better than video! Let’s face it, we’re predisposed to visual types of content. Add music, movement and sound and boom! It’s a no brainer that this medium is the one that’s going to grab your customers attention the quickest. Video is highly persuasive, emotional and personal.

A good video marketing strategy will increase traffic to your site, increase your social reach, reach out to key influencers and reach new audiences.

Creating amazing videos isn’t difficult.

Read my review on Animoto and how easy it is to incorporate video into your blog or business.

Animoto – The Simple Way to Create Marketing Videos

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NEW YORK, Sept. 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Animoto, the company that makes it easy for anyone to create professional marketing videos, today launched an integration with Getty Images, a world leader in visual communications. Now fortified with a robust, searchable library of Getty Images content, Animoto is making video marketing accessible to businesses of all sizes regardless of the volume or quality of the assets they may have on hand.

“Millions of businesses want to connect online with customers and prospects using video. One of the biggest barriers to entry is a lack of professional-looking assets. Animoto wants to empower businesses of all sizes to thrive and stand out in today’s video-first world.

Getty Images is the top name in creative photography and videography and I’m thrilled to offer their catalog to our customers, seamlessly integrated into our marketing video maker,” said Brad Jefferson, CEO and co-founder of Animoto.

“Empowering businesses of all sizes to create powerful, visually engaging marketing content is something both Getty Images and Animoto are committed to doing through this partnership. Many businesses who previously haven’t had the resources to tell their story through video now have a catalog of high-quality, curated creative assets to fuel their video marketing efforts,” said Craig Peters, Chief Operating Officer of Getty Images.

This partnership was spurred by the demand to create more marketing videos for social media amongst Animoto’s business customers. When Animoto surveyed their small business customers in June 2018, they uncovered that the majority of respondents were planning on creating more videos for Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube in the next six months than they had in the past six months.

About Animoto:

Animoto’s award-winning online video maker makes it easy for anyone to drag and drop their way to powerful and professional marketing videos. The company’s certified partnerships with Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, and the Small Business Administration give it unique insight into the changing social media and business landscape, which may be why more than 1 million businesses around the world have used Animoto to create marketing videos that stand out on social media and beyond.

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Founded in 2006, Animoto has offices in New York City and San Francisco. For more information, visit https://animoto.com. Animoto is a registered trademark of Animoto Inc. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Animoto – The Simple Way to Create Marketing Videos

About Getty Images:

Getty Images is one of the most trusted and esteemed sources of visual content in the world, with over 300 million assets including photos, videos, and music, available through its industry-leading sites www.gettyimages.com and www.istock.com.

The Getty Images website serves creative, business and media customers in nearly every country in the world and is the first-place people turn to discover, purchase and share powerful visual content from the world’s best photographers and videographers.

Getty Images works with over 250,000 contributors and hundreds of image partners to provide comprehensive coverage of more than 160,000 news, sport and entertainment events each year, impactful creative imagery to communicate any commercial concept and the world’s deepest digital archive of historic photography.

Visit Getty Images at www.gettyimages.com to learn more about how the company is advancing the unique role of still and moving imagery in communication and business, enabling creative ideas to come to life.

For company news and announcements, visit our Press Room, and for the stories and inspiration behind our content, visit Stories & Trends.

Find Getty Images on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Tumblr, or download the Getty Images app where you can explore, save and share the world’s best imagery.