Marketing is not just about going house to house promoting your products and services or paying thousands of dollars just to have a TV or radio commercial aired to let people know you are launching a product. With the help of the Internet, business owners, manufacturers and home-based job seekers will find that marketing can be done without spending too much money and at the same time being able to earn extra businessideaus.
The Three Common Types of Internet Marketing
There are actually three types of Internet marketing and I will address each one in detail. Then you’ll have enough information to help you decide whether this business is for you and if you will benefit more from one, two or maybe all three types.
1. Video Marketing
This advertising strategy is similar to how television ads work to promote a specific type of product or service. The only difference is that video marketing is now making its way to the digital world. It is viewed as a means of reinforcing an existing marketing campaign to help remind Internet surfers of products that are available. You can also earn more money by accepting advertisements which you can include in your video postings.
Advantages of Video Marketing
Social Media Friendly
It doesn’t take a genius to know that videos about product promotions and endorsements can be spread through social media. As a matter of fact, people can even hire social networking fanatics to spread videos by posting them on their walls and tagging their friends as well. Imagine a Facebook wall without tagged posts in forms of movie trailers, music videos, slide shows and product endorsements. It would be super boring and utterly plain.
Budget Friendly
This is considered to be one of the friendliest marketing strategies in terms of working within your budget. So if you are looking for a cheaper way to further promote and support your existing advertising campaigns, these videos can help you in a really big way. Posting on social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace or Orkut is completely free. Merchants can work with you by paying you a commission just to have their products advertised through your videos on YouTube.
Style Friendly
Forget about using old school flyers and sticky posters to market your business, services or creations. You now have an option to advertise in style through Internet marketing. People who are into staying connected and finding everything they want in a snap would find video marketing a really effective and helpful way to shop and look for services without much effort.
Location and Target Friendly
You can specify your target audience as well as the locations where you would like your videos to be shown. This works regardless of whether you have a local business that you would like to promote or if you’re hired to make videos for nationwide businesses.
Disadvantages of Video Marketing
There are several things that you might call limitations in terms of using video marketing as an Internet business model. Consumers will not be able to physically take a sample of the products that you are promoting. If you are the one in charge of coming up with the video, you need to have the required skills to make the video ad so the final product is flawless. Another fact to consider is that some videos are believed to be scams, so be careful with regard to the ads that you respond to.
How to Start Video Marketing
Make a profitable business venture through video marketing and here’s how you can be the king of Internet businesses:
I) Be a video editing master. If you are into video making and you have the skills to turn simple storylines or concepts into amazing videos, this is the perfect business for you. Be creative and you can become successful.
II) Invest in video editing programs and software which can be pretty easy to find. There are some that are highly sophisticated and expensive but you can also purchase software that’s very affordable, user friendly and is still able to create fantastic video effects as well.
III) Find your target market. Remember that you can choose which kinds of videos you want to make so think about your concepts, ideas and the types of products that you want to work on.