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?
When you do a YouTube search, they now offer ‘promoted’ videos in the yellow space at the very top, very bottom and right side of the page. To get those spots, you must pay to advertise your videos there. How much you pay depends on what you’re willing to pay, similar to Google’s pay-per-click campaigns.
Anytime I see a video being ‘promoted’ it tells me:
If you missed my attorney video webinar in December, you definitely do not want to miss this one on March 17, 2010 (St. Patricks day) at 12:00 noon (Eastern time).
Legal marketing expert Larry Bodine is hosting this seminar, and I’ll be explaining the importance of why you need to be on video to market yourself in today’s economy.
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.
Scott Drake discusses video marketing with New York Medical Malpractice & Personal Injury Trial attorney Gerry Oginski.
Oginski produces his own video and distributes the content to his website and other 3rd party sites. He uses video as his primary marketing tool.
Video production for lawyers cost either time or money. Often, it costs both.
Creating a quality-driven educational message is not as simple as standing in front of your Flip video camera and simply pressing the big red “record” button. Same goes for using your Kodak Zi8 with an external microphone. Maybe you’ve had your eye on that Sony Webbie or one of the other handheld pocket-camcorders. Regardless of what camera you use, don’t just press that ‘record’ button and upload right to YouTube.
Shooting video is really simple now. We have the Flip Mino camera, where you just push the no-brainer red button. We have the Kodak Zi8, now. We have the Sony Webbie camera. Really simple: Just push the big button in the middle and start taking your video. We can even use digital point-and-shoot cameras to take hi-def video now too.
Video is the future of all things online. You can’t just create one or two videos. You need five, ten, fifteen and more educational videos to attract new clients to your website for more information.
Your goal is to dominate the online video world.
My watch needed a new battery the other day. It’s a Seiko diving chronograph. Steel bracelet, multi-function display, with day/date/time/stopwatch/ alarm and count-down timer. Oh yes, did I mention it tells time both analog and digitally? It’s really cool.
Well, I decided to take it into a little jeweler’s shop on the same street as my office. I dropped the watch off, told them I needed a new battery, and I’d be back in 10 minutes.
“What did you say?”
“You sound like you’re in a tunnel.”
“You sound like you’re in the toilet.”
“You sound tinny.”
“Your audio seems like it was made with a child’s toy microphone.”
