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About Video

How you can refresh your site, cozy up to search engines and provide an instant connection with your site visitors? These things and more can be achieved by adding VIDEO to your web site. Creating video has never been easier and sharing video has never been more popular. Why else would Google, the world's largest search engine, buy youtube.com, the leader in online video?

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How can you add video to your site? To get started, ask yourself these questions:

  1. Is your audience interested in video?
    Take a look at you your audience and decide if they need or want to see video on your site. Will enough people use it to make it worth your while? Can you afford to be left behind if your competitor is adding video?
  2. What do you want your videos to showcase?
    Do you have "experts" that can give a short talk or demonstration of your products, services or other topics of interest to your audience? Can your staff give a sound bite about how much they love helping your customers? Do you have products that can be demonstrated and as such provide another service to your customers?
  3. What format of video will you use?
    Will you be uploading your video to a video sharing site such as youtube.com or hosting the video on your own site? There are pros and cons to both options. If hosting on your own site, do you want to rely on your site visitors' own software for viewing video or build a player right into your site?
  4. Where in your site would you place the videos?
    Video is something that can be offered gallery-style or be integrated into existing, relevant content. Good design dictates that you want to avoid visual clutter while adding a very visual piece of content. What is the best way to do this? Work with a professional designer. And we just happen to have a bunch of them at Mouth Media.