Make your online video meeting more like “real” video

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"Real" video — the kind we've been watching all our lives — involves more planning than typically goes into today's online video meetings. This is an opportunity to stand our.

For many sales professionals, conducting online video meetings is now a big part of the job. And, it’s not something that comes naturally to most of us. Even if you perform well and the group resists talking over one another, attention will wander in online meetings. Multiple talking heads on a small screen? That’s very […]

Better video in online sales meetings

Business team using laptop for a online meeting in video call.
Talking heads make for OK videos in online sales meetings. But well-thought-out visual support can deliver a lot more infomation faster.

Increased familiarity with online video platforms like Zoom has opened up opportunities to stand out from the crowd with better quality video. Maybe you’ve already improved your on-camera game with expert lighting tips or by adding a spiffy virtual background. But there are still plenty of opportunities to make better use of video in online […]

Video for online sales communication: free tools

Looking to host better meetings and raise the level of your working-from-home game with video? Just about everybody is using video for online sales communication these days, not just “inside sales.” Here are some free tools for videoconferencing, video production, virtual classrooms, interactive video, and more, that you may not have run across up to […]

New and different videos for online meetings

Are you prepping for a meeting that has unexpectedly been moved online in response to the coronavirus crisis? If so, you’re probably up against the fact that B2B sales presentations and interactions on the small screen are pretty low-energy compared to live meetings and presentations. You can boost the energy level of online conferences with […]

Video marketing statistics you can argue with

Here’s an infographic chock full of video marketing statistics you can use to argue your need for a bigger video marketing budget. Candidly, I’m not a big fan of infographics. Too many cite numbers that are unverifiable (like the 7-second attention span of a goldfish), or questionable sources (like other infographics). But this one, from […]

2020 Technology Video Checklist

The 30 items in this technology video checklist come out of our experience with hundreds of teams from tech companies putting together product introductions, demos, and other short videos designed to get customers up to speed on what a particular technology solution can do for them. Organization Team includes the people with the most customer […]

How agile video production works

Daily online meetings, one of the hallmarks of agile software development, and speed up the production of videos, too (it *is* digitial software, after all).

Do you have a looming deadline for a presentation that explains something new, exciting, and complicated —   but there’s no consensus on the best way to explain it? Is your sales or investor relations team clamoring for a video that will speed up conversations with non-technical decision-makers? This may be the time to try agile […]

How to use video to differentiate your technology solution

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Tech providers struggle to differentiate their solutions. You can use video to make your differentiator stand out — as long as you don't ask the viewer to absorb too much.

For many B2B products and services, technology itself is a big differentiator. But vendors of these technology solutions often struggle to differentiate their own solutions. It’s a problem because, according to Gartner research, when technology buyers aren’t sure what makes a solution different, they don’t buy from that vendor. When you use video to differentiate, […]

What types of videos can influence B2B buying decisions?

75% of consumers say they've bought a product after watching a video about it. What makes video valuable to a consumer can also affect B2B buying decisions.

A notable difference between B2c and B2B buying decisions is that most consumers (75%) say they’ve placed orders immediately after watching a video. That may happen with some B2B products, but not the enterprise technology solution videos my company specializes in. Still, B2B buyers are also consumers. So it’s worth taking a look at the […]