I was asked this question recently by an attorney who was considering hiring me to create his video. He lived in a large college town and was considering hiring some college students who were learning about video and TV production. He asked a good question: “Can’t I just go to these people and have them shoot my video?”
The answer is…
I am thrilled to be back from a lecture I presented to over 250 attorneys in Fairfax, Virginia about the benefits of creating educational video to market their law practices. Before leaving New York, I had visions in my mind of the crowd going wild; jamming to the music; raising their hands and singing along; demanding more and then of course chanting my name for an encore. Then I woke up and realized it was a daydream of sorts.
Kelly Spradley from Impirus legal websites just profiled all the work I do with creating videos, my websites and blogs. Pretty cool article. Take a look.
Have a great day!
Gerry
In these photos, you see action behind-the-scenes as we create video for two energetic and smart law firms; Pyrros & Serres and Gacovino & Lake Associates.
It was a video of the inside of my heart, and I’m very pleased to tell you that it was still inside my body when I was watching it!
I went for an echocardiogram this morning, which is a test that uses high frequency sound waves to image the heart. when I saw was nothing less than amazing. I watched my mitral valve move as blood was pumping through the different chambers of my heart.
I represented a young boy who suffered torsion of his testicle which cut off the blood supply causing him to lose his testicle. When the boy presented to the emergency room with exquisite pain in his groin doctors failed to timely recognize that the blood supply to his testicle was being cut off. By the time they finally took the appropriate tests and performed surgery on him, his testicle was long gone. In torsion cases, the doctors have a window of opportunity in which to recognize the problem and fix it before permanent, life-altering damage occurs.
That’s the total number of views that my videos have received as of today, February 16, 2010. That’s not a misprint. That’s not my mother-in-law clicking on the same video 10,000 times either.
Just imagine if that number of viewers saw your videos. Would you have more callers to your office?
It’s true. 99% of attorney video truly stinks. It’s boring. It’s unimaginative. It lacks useful information. It’s stuffy. It continues to personify lawyers as inaccessible and unapproachable. Many lawyer videos do nothing but talk about themselves.
Guess what? In case you haven’t noticed, viewers don’t care about you. They only care about themselves. Until lawyers and their video producers recognize this, lawyers will continue to make video that stinks.
Ever hear of Blip.tv or Dailymotion.com? You should have.
These are free video sharing sites. Naturally, I upload my videos there, among many others. I only post original content. I only post useful and educational material in my videos. I never violate terms of service. I respect others, and expect others to respect me. I always respond to comments on my videos. I’m always considerate of someone else’s comments even though I may not agree with them. Well, guess what?
I opened up my e-mail today and noticed an interesting headline in my Google alerts. The headline read “When Black Ice Strikes, Who’s to Blame?”
I was even more curious because it had my name and website listed under the headline. I knew that I didn’t write a blog post with that name or a video with that title. I was intrigued.
The website URL was the New York Times online blog. I clicked on the link which took me to the New York Times online site. The blog post was all about black ice and how dangerous it is in New York City. Further into the article the writer mentioned a video I made titled “Slip and fall on snow and ice-who is at fault?” and some of the comments I made in my video.
