If you plan a marketing campaign for 2024 and beyond for your Digital Marketing strategy, videos must be part of your marketing mix.
Whether you have a small business or a large corporation, videos are critical to increasing awareness about your business. If we can go further, videos are mandatory for brand positioning in a digitally connected world during contemporary times.
As a startup or small-scale enterprise looking for expansion, awareness is crucial for the business plan. People need to know about your business to browse on the web or visit physically. Brand awareness is brand positioning among the target audience and niche market.
This article will focus on methods to increase awareness for small businesses.
Initially, we will explain a couple of reasons why businesses should use videos for their business positioning.
Why are videos the most popular medium for business awareness?
Small businesses should use videos on a mega-scale for the following reasons.
Inexpensive and easy to create
Creating videos and using them to increase brand awareness is much more convenient than traditional marketing methods. You can use a camera and record the video or assign it to someone from your team. The second step is to enhance the video using a video editor. You can also use images to make videos via video-making software or online tools. You only need a camera and the skills to capture photos/videos to make stunning marketing videos.
Effective engagement
Videos provide better engagement compared with texts or images. If you have shopped online recently, you must have seen product and explainer videos on e-commerce platforms. Companies like Amazon and Flipkart promote small businesses across India using videos to showcase their products.
Businesses can actively generate leads through videos. They can also effectively engage their existing and potential clients through videos.
Real-time feedback
Businesses can use videos to get real-time feedback from their customers. It is also an effective way to communicate with the end-user directly. It builds trust and generates natural referrals. Global brands such as Airtel, Netflix, etc., are very active on Twitter, interacting with end-users directly.
Wider awareness
Geographical boundaries cannot restrict the reach of your videos. You upload your videos on video streaming platforms, and the world can watch them in real time.
Thus, videos target the worldwide market and potential customers to increase your brand’s awareness. Videos also boost sales and establish your brand by retaining your pool of loyal customers/clients.
If you are a beginner in the business domain and curious to explore the potential impact of videos on brand awareness, read the following section about methods to spread awareness through videos.
How can small businesses increase awareness through videos?
Consistency of the content is your superpower. Your videos will generate the desired awareness only if relevant and engaging for the target market and customer/client segment.
Tutorial/how-to-do videos for customers
The study says “How-to-do” videos are the most-watched videos on social media and YouTube. Create a stunning video with an online tool such as an online video editor and circulate it on different platforms.
Make a business page or channel for your brand, and publish tutorial videos regularly. There should be consistency and scope for open communication. You can build and retain a loyal customer base by promptly replying to customers’ queries, troubleshooting if they have problems with your products/services, and welcoming their suggestions/feedback.
If they are satisfied, the existing customers will refer your brand to their friends/family or promote it on social media platforms, thus increasing your awareness and customer base. So, focus on building a group of loyal customers.
Vlogs
Video blogs or Vlogs are new tools to increase business awareness. You have two options here. First, you can make a video blog about company products and services and promote them on your website and other social media platforms.
Secondly, hire a professional vlogger to shoot a video around your business and publish it on their channel. Video blogging is a form of influential marketing. Subscribers and followers of the vlogger will watch the video. It gives genuine and real-time responses from viewers who could become your potential customers.
Some leading vloggers in India are CA Rachana Ranade, Ankur Warikoo, and Bhuwan Bam.
Videos on social media
Social media is the most desirable destination for building your brand, targeting a niche market, and improvising with real-time data. You can post videos in the news feed, stories, and through hyperlinks. Customers can interact here in real time.
Social media channels can target the correct set of audiences for your brands. The facts say in their favor.
Let’s examine the information:
- Facebook has more than 2.6 billion monthly active users (Statista).
- WhatsApp has over 2 billion users. They share over 1 billion video and text messages daily.
- Instagram also has nearly 1 billion users.
- After Google, YouTube is the second-biggest search engine.
- TikTok is available in over 160 countries and has over 1.1 billion users.
Nothing speaks the truth as facts do. Harness the massive potential of social media and increase your brand presence and business turnover with interactive videos.
Create videos for YouTube.
YouTube offers multiple ways to promote your business. First, to increase your brand presence, you can hire a vlogger. Secondly, you can make videos using an online video editor tool and attach links to the product or service video.
In addition, you can also run your advertisements on third-party channels with paid features of YouTube.
Thirdly, create explainer videos and build a community where people can chat and interact with the brand. It will help brand positioning, engagement & recall, and generate new sales or leads.
Optimize content
Creating videos is only half the work done regarding video marketing being an integral part of a content marketing strategy. You must optimize your videos to get the desired outcome of the video marketing campaign.
- Ensure your videos are optimized suitably for multiple devices.
- People use smartphones, laptops, tablets, and several other devices to access information. To tap your target audience holistically, create content adjustable according to the screen size. It means no stretched or blurred videos.
- Optimize your videos demographically. Understand your brand and its relevant target audience. In addition, if you want to increase brand visibility for a bigger market, take the help of translation service provider companies and make your website multilingual.
- People should relate the video content to their problem, and the video should provide a viable solution.
