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What Type of Video Content Should I Create?
It’s important to keep things varied in order to keep your audience entertained and coming back for more. Plus, it’s worth experimenting early with different types of videos so you can understand which ones work best and which ones don’t.
Here are a few ideas of different types of video content to get you started with your video marketing strategies:
Answers to Common Questions: What are the most common questions you get asked all the time? List these out and then answer them, without too much, details in a 3 to 5 minute video.
Listicles: Listicles are a very popular content format, both as blog posts and as media (videos, images, infographics, etc.). You can create listicles that highlight your products or services – like “The 10 most innovative ways you can use (your product)” – or they can be educational, informational, or entertaining. Just remember, the lists should always be relevant to your audiences’ interests and your business niche.
How-to videos: How-to videos tend to perform very well because they provide a lot of value to the viewer. For example, if you were selling social media software, you could create how-to videos showing your viewers how to get started with Instagram marketing or how to grow your Facebook following. You can look to top performing blog posts for material for these videos, or you can develop a plan for a recurring series.
Behind-the-scenes videos: YouTube is a social network – the keyword here being “social.” One of the ways to humanize your brand and show that you’re more than just a product or service is to share some behind-the-scenes videos.
Product videos: Video is a great way to showcase your own products or services. These product videos could walk viewers how to use certain features, highlighting new product updates, or announce new offerings for your business.
Case studies: Another way you can promote your business and your products or services is to create video case studies of your clients. These case studies don’t need to deal exclusively with your product: they can focus on client origin stories, recent achievements, or plans for the future.
Interviews: Interviewing well-known experts and influencers from your niche is another good way to attract new viewers. These experts will have their own following, so if they’re promoting the video as well, they can help drive traffic to your YouTube channel.
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