This is a contributor’s blogpost …
One of the best ways to make your business stand out is to embrace content wholeheartedly. Most businesses do it now, and vlogs are one part of the essential areas when it comes to online platforming. If you are uninitiated in the way of the vlog, why should you do it, and how can you do it?
It is great for SEO
Nowadays, articles are proving to be too long for people, especially those that don’t have the time to read. Instead, a video is short and sharp, and when people are searching online for content, they will search for videos, not lengthy articles. Articles are great supplementary materials to vlogs or podcasts, but if you are working on climbing the SEO ladder, blogs are the way forward.
Being truthful
The great thing about a vlog is that it’s the best way to be as truthful, in a marketing sense, as possible. In an article, it’s possible to hide behind fancy words, but when it comes to putting content out there in vlog form, it is a real image. This is a great way to connect with customers on a human level.
A comprehensive brand
As part of a brand, a vlog can be one of the best components. You can make it a key selling point of your brand, as you create a YouTube channel and add a great logo design in conjunction with a marketing plan. It becomes a very simple way to create a really effective image. When it comes to creating a brand, you can have meetings, and meetings about meetings, but if you’re looking to create an authentic brand for your business, with a face, a vlog is one of the best ways to go.
How to begin…
So, when it comes to starting out, you can be as basic as possible. The best way is to just do it. Lots of successful vloggers make content using their phone, and it still gets the views. Use this as a springboard to creating content. It needs to be short and sharp. However, you can create worthy content by having a bit more pre-planning. You could hire a writer, for example, or you could hire talent of different styles and looks to best communicate your business image. From writers to presenters, to behind the camera talent, it’s all part of the image. Just as long as you still communicate the honesty behind the brand. As time goes on and you become more confident in developing your content, you will know exactly what you’re looking for, and the pre-planning and execution of the content become better and better. It’s at this point where you could start to bring more assured content creators on board to do it for you.
Making it part of your regular content
And once you’ve managed to perfect your content, it’s at this point where you have to put it out on a regular basis. It’s a great component for a comprehensive marketing plan. You could put a vlog out once a week and combine it with other promotional materials. It can be a better alternative for other content types, such as a podcast which needs to be created regularly but could take a lot more effort to perfect. However, your content has to be king, as the cliché goes.
As you increase your business, the demand for better content becomes a very real request. And as time goes on, you would need to create bigger and better content. This means expanding your framework. But at this point, it’s important to ensure that you are developing as organically as possible. Learning how to do a successful vlog is more important right now than being comprehensive with your content. If you are putting content out on social media that are of poor quality, it is not going to help you gain customers. And all your efforts will be put to waste.
Vlogs are part of what makes a great marketing campaign. You have to make sure it’s hitting the relevant target markets. Creating regular vlogs is when the challenge really ramps up, and picking the relevant topics can be difficult after a while, but you also need to make it as good as possible. Ultimately at the end of the day, if you do these things, it will serve you very well and it will take your business up to the next level. Content is so important now that you have to be extremely skilled at one. And if you have to be skilled at just one, vlogs are the way to go.
