This article shares some ideas on how you can Increase conversion with a video call to action using interactive CTAs. B2B technology videos are mostly created for the purpose of putting ideas into prospects’ heads (aka “messaging”), hoping they’ll pursue one or more of these ideas to the next step. Typical next steps are
- email us
- call us
- chat with us online
- download a white paper
- download a free trial
- subscribe to our ______.
- request a live demo
- sign up for a webinar
- sign up for get a free evaluation
These have all been mentioned in videos we’ve created — typically at the end. We used to embed hyperlinks associated with the CTA in the videos themselves, but that was before the ascent of the Flash-incompatible iOS mobile platform. These days few of our clients bother with Flash — and preferred video formats like mp4 and QuickTime don’t allow you to embed hyperlinks.
So we’ve had to count on the web page that contains the video to supply hyperlinks by which the viewer can answer the CTA or get other relevant content. It works, but making the viewer look away from the action to locate the Call To Action makes it a little less urgent, and less likely that action will be taken.
Overlays to the rescue
How much less less likely that can be, we learned at a breakfast presentation here in New York hosted by the CEO of Viewbix Jon Stefansky. Viewbix has a solution for overlaying interactive links on videos. In one customer case Stefansky recounted, a customer had managed to put up videos that attracted 2,000,000 views, resulting in exactly six (6!) contacts. They now get a response rate on the order of 20%. We had already decided to try Viewbix out on our own promo video — this and other evidence Stefansky brought up hurried things along.
