Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Good Ol’ YouTube

With Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Pinterest hogging the social media limelight, it’s easy to forget about Youtube as a valuable tool to promote your business. YouTube allows viewers to get acquainted with your business, employees, products, and services. This tool provides viewers with an authentic experience as they can gain a broader understanding of your business.

All businesses should take advantage of the benefits YouTube provides. Videos are free to post and will create greater visibility for your business on YouTube and the general Internet. YouTube may also assist in SEO and link building for your website, when videos are correctly tagged and linked to your business’s website. All it takes to make and post a YouTube video is a decent camera and time.

YouTube can be used in a variety of ways to inform, educate, and entertain your target audience. Companies selling complicated products may choose to provide tutorials on how to use their products. Companies may also gain publicity by showcasing their usually boring product in an interesting way. For example, one company, Blendtec, has achieved a lot of attention by producing entertaining videos about their blenders. In their videos Blentec’s CEO portrays a quirky host who blends anything from fruit to iPhones, thereby showcasing the blender’s strength and durability. Here is a link to one of their videos: http://www.willitblend.com/videos/view/129.

Incorporating Youtube videos in your company’s social media plan is a great way to interact with the public. Utilizing video enables a company to engage the viewer’s senses in at least two ways: visually and audibly. So don’t forget about YouTube when devising a social media plan for your company.

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