Monday, July 15, 2013

Whiteboard animation, video scribe, speed writing video for less than $50 - Wow!

Adding a video to your website increases your traffic, search engine ranking, increases your click-through ratio and generates more sales. And now, you can add a really cool whiteboard, video scribe, speed writing animated video for less than $50.

Aw, go on. Email us to start dialogue on how we can create the script and animation to bring you more traffic and sales.

Videos increase your Google rankings and your conversion rate goes up by 30% or more.

Email gary@metroweblinks.com or call 586.791.4242 and we'll get started on creating you an animated video that delivers.


Friday, February 1, 2013

Adding an animated video to your website makes good sense

Why you should place a multi-media animated video (or whiteboard, or video scribe) on your site

Placing a video on your website has many positive effects. The video, which can have it's own list of searchable tags and labels, give you more options for being found in Google and other search engines. Videos, simply put, make for good SEO.

But, equally important is the fact that video is a much better way to communicate your message. What would you rather do, read a bunch of copy or have some nice guy tell you everything you need to know while displaying engaging imagery? The Internet is now a multi-media environment. How many commercials on television do you think would have an impact on you if the screen only displayed text that you were forced to read? Probably close to none.

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Adding video to your site can be as inexpensive or costly as you desire. If you're very budget conscious you can just produce a straight testimonial video which pretty much entails nothing more that a good script (I'll be happy to write that for you) and and actor (or you) to believably read the script and deliver your message (with a bit of humor, if I do it).

Or, you can produce an animated video which although a bit more costly is the hottest thing out there right now: animated, whiteboard or video scribing.

The following is an example which entails a whiteboard video created by the artist who also wrote the book.








If you'd like to have a similar animated video produced for your website, please contact me. I will be happy to write your script and recommend one of many talented artists and animators to get the project completed.

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In the meantime, feel free to check out some of my other sites and blogs:

MetroWebLinks.com - Jammed with smart, low-cost ideas and options for graphic design, video production, scripts, banner ads, SEO, email marketing and more.

Portfolio Blog - Just a lot of samples of graphic designs, ads, trade show displays, logos, etc. 



Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Should you add a testimonial video to your website? Damn straight!

You've probably noticed that more and more websites feature some sort of video. There are two main reasons for you to consider adding video to your website: 1) videos are much more effective at communicating your message to visitors without boring the hell out of them, and 2) videos do wonders for helping your web page move up in the search engine rankings.


According to some experts, videos are 50 times more likely to rank on the first page of Google and your conversion rate can increase up to 30%.

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Ah, but producing a video sounds so cumbersome and expensive. It's not. Or it is. Here are just a few of the possibilities for video productions you can incorporate into your online marketing plan and keep your costs down.

Video Testimonials

Some of the most popular videos out there are simple testimonials. One person in front of a camera telling a story. It might be sharing an experience that the on-camera person had with the company (or pretends to have had), or it might be a straight commercial touting the benefits of whatever product or service being offered. But one thing is for certain, most visitors prefer that you communicate your message without making them read or scroll...or think.

And the real beauty of a video testimonial is that there is almost no expense. Now, as a writer, I strongly recommend that you hire me to write your 30 to 120 second script, but you can certainly write your own, set up a camera (some great, inexpensive HD cameras are available at Bestbuy.com and other retailers), record your testimonial, upload it to YouTube.com and embed it on your page.

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This testimonial video was produced from a script that I wrote for a rehab center in New Jersey. Clients often hire me because of my background in comedy and marketing, and most of the scripts I write are allegedly funny. I did make sure that the client was aware that for a rehab center I would go more for clever than laugh-out-loud jokes. Although humor does make a video more memorable, you must be careful to not distract from the message.




So, if you're looking for a way to make your website more effective and ultimately more profitable, then you should definitely consider adding a testimonial video to your pages. Oh, and you should contact me to write the script. Very reasonable. Very effective. Very funny. (funnyscriptwriter@gmail.com)

Here are just some of the dozens of testimonials about my script writing work. Video is the way to go. And a professionally written, funny script makes it all the better.


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If you are a do-it-yourselfer, here's a video camera that I'm considering purchasing. It's a Bell and Howell Zoomtouch 1080p HD High Definition Digital Video Camcorder, and it's very inexpensive. Like $139. Wow.

Stay tuned. Next time we'll look at cost-effective ways to create popular animated videos including whiteboards and video scribing.

In the meantime, feel free to check out some of my other sites and blogs:

MetroWebLinks.com - Jammed with smart, low-cost ideas and options for graphic design, video production, scripts, banner ads, SEO, email marketing and more.

Portfolio Blog - Just a lot of samples of graphic designs, ads, trade show displays, logos, etc.