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.
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 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.
The title is the same for each.
The background is the same for each and
They’re even looking at the same place off-camera.
YouTube shows they each have less than 20 views even though they were uploaded over seven months ago.
But there’s a bigger problem here.
When I sat down with Mark Merenda, CEO of SmartMarketingNow.com to interview him recently, he graciously provided a personal endorsement of me without even asking him!
Mark is a well-known marketing expert who helps lawyers across the country create their marketing message. In this video testimonial he talks about me (which is something I never get to do).
This statement comes to you directly from Jeanette Gibson, the New Media director at Cisco. Never heard of Cisco? You should have. They’re the largest company behind the internet. In fact, they make the internet work.
This video interview by SocialMedia.biz asked how video and social media are used at Cisco. The answer provided the title [...]
In this video I give my final “State of Affairs” commentary about online attorney video marketing from 2009.
Watch the video to learn more.
Did you know that traditional lawyer advertising has “sucked?” It’s true. Lawyers made a terrible name for themselves when they’d advertise. Why? Because lawyers failed to educate their potential clients. In this 3rd video I give a “State of Affairs” commentary about online attorney video marketing from 2009.
Watch the video to learn more.
