{"id":196,"date":"2022-10-31T17:43:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T17:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nexgenlocalmarketing.com\/?p=196"},"modified":"2026-05-11T17:27:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:27:32","slug":"how-to-make-the-most-of-video-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nexgenlocalmarketing.com\/blog\/how-to-make-the-most-of-video-marketing\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make the Most of Video Marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n.nxg-post-redesign{max-width:860px;margin:0 auto;color:#102033;font-family:inherit;line-height:1.7;font-size:18px;}\n.nxg-post-redesign p{margin:0 0 18px;color:#102033;}\n.nxg-post-redesign h2{font-size:34px!important;line-height:1.18!important;margin:46px 0 14px!important;color:#102033!important;letter-spacing:0!important;}\n.nxg-post-redesign h3{font-size:24px!important;line-height:1.25!important;margin:28px 0 10px!important;color:#102033!important;letter-spacing:0!important;}\n.nxg-post-redesign 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a clear job: explain, prove, answer, compare, or convert.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<nav class=\"nxg-toc\" aria-label=\"Article table of contents\">\n<h2>In this guide<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"#choose-the-right-video-type\">Choose The Right Video Type<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#make-production-sustainable\">Make Production Sustainable<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#turn-videos-into-leads\">Turn Videos Into Leads<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/nav>\n<div class=\"nxg-grid\">\n<div class=\"nxg-card\">\n<h3>Clear purpose<\/h3>\n<p>This is one of the core pieces that makes video marketing work as a practical business strategy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nxg-card\">\n<h3>Strong hook<\/h3>\n<p>This is one of the core pieces that makes video marketing work as a practical business strategy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"choose-the-right-video-type\">Choose The Right Video Type<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"nxg-figure nxg-topic-visual\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nexgenlocalmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/196-how-to-make-the-most-of-video-marketing-inline-priorities-v3.png\" alt=\"Storyboard diagram showing video marketing priorities for local businesses: hook, proof, and offer.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" \/><figcaption>Local business videos need a clear hook, visible proof, and a reason for the viewer to act.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In order to make the most of video marketing in 2026, you must plan your approach and determine which type of video to create. Different types of videos have their own pros and cons. You must also decide whether your videos should be educational, informative, or both. Here are some tips to help you choose the best type of video for your needs. High information retention rate To maximize the effectiveness of your video marketing campaigns, you need to make sure that your viewers retain information. Luckily, there are several ways to measure this. To begin, look at industry benchmarks. The data will tell you what your audience is consuming and for how long. For example, with the rise of short-form content on platforms like YouTube Shorts and TikTok, a viewer might engage deeply for 60 seconds, while longer educational content can hold attention for many minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Video content can stimulate your customers&#8217; visual and audio senses, which will help them retain information. This is a great way to build customer loyalty. It&#8217;s also an excellent way to educate and empower customers. Using videos that tell a story will often resonate with customers on an emotional level. Videos that spark an emotional response from customers are also more likely to be shared.<\/p>\n<p>Using video to communicate with your customers is a great way to increase conversions. It can also help your SEO, and can send a stronger brand message. It&#8217;s worth checking out your competitors&#8217; email lists to see which ones are using video. If you see that they&#8217;re using it, you might want to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>Another way to improve the effectiveness of your video content is to add a call-to-action at the end. You can use a short, simple logo to mark the end of the video. This will allow your calls-to-action or email collector to appear right after the video. For longer videos, consider creating shorter 30- to 60-second cuts for social media. This will result in higher engagement and more bang for your buck.<\/p>\n<p>Video remains the most popular type of content consumed online today. A vast majority of internet users prefer video content over non-video content, with the average person watching many hours of online video per week. As of 2026, online video consumption continues to grow, with the average person watching well over 100 minutes per day.<\/p>\n<p>Research shows that video content can boost customer engagement and sales. Moreover, nearly all marketers plan to continue using video content in their advertising campaigns. Studies have shown that videos are the most popular type of content on social media sites. In fact, YouTube alone has grown to over 2.7 billion users, not including the massive audiences on TikTok and Instagram Reels. Multi-sensory experience A multi-sensory experience is a powerful sales tool that strengthens consumer-brand connections and improves customer retention. Research shows that consumers remember a store with a memorable sensory experience more often than one that fails to engage their senses. In addition to improving retention, multi-sensory marketing campaigns strengthen emotional connections between brands and consumers.<\/p>\n<p>This is an approach to marketing that targets the customer&#8217;s five senses, creating a unique experience that engages their minds. Unlike traditional marketing methods that target the visual sense, sensory marketing uses all five senses to create a lasting impression that reflects the brand&#8217;s personality. When used correctly, it can significantly increase brand recall.<\/p>\n<p>Another great example of how brands can engage with consumers is through touch marketing. In stores, shoppers can feel the texture of products and try them out before purchasing them. For example, Starbucks allows customers to smell their coffee, and Costco offers samples to try out their products. A Retail Dive survey showed that more than half of consumers go to brick-and-mortar stores to touch and feel products. By replicating this experience on the web through descriptive video, brands can improve their customer&#8217;s confidence in their purchases.<\/p>\n<p>Multi-sensory experience marketing can lead to more engaging conversations and a greater chance for conversion. It has proven to be an effective method for brand retention, and it can help you stand out in the crowd. By using all five senses, consumers are more likely to be captivated and become loyal to your brand.<\/p>\n<p>Brands that are memorable are often built by tapping into their audience&#8217;s emotions. This is why the Coca-Cola brand can make consumers feel a sense of taste or smell. It is a proven strategy that can increase sales. It is important to understand the brand before choosing the senses to engage.<\/p>\n<p>The best video marketing strategy takes advantage of the power of motion. By engaging the viewer through motion and sound, video allows the brand to tell a story that appeals to multiple senses. Combined with other marketing materials, video creates an emotional experience that can be memorable. Human connection In video marketing, it is important to create an emotional connection between your audience and your brand. People are more likely to purchase a product if they can relate to the brand&#8217;s human side. In video marketing, you can introduce yourself, show your work, and provide testimonials. This will strengthen your brand&#8217;s authority.<\/p>\n<p>The strongest way to create a connection with an audience is to include a human face in your video. A human face, eye contact, and stories will engage the viewer and help them connect on an emotional level. If you&#8217;re having trouble creating a video, you can find a company that specializes in this type of video marketing.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;re creating a video to promote your brand or to help a customer with a problem, you&#8217;ll want to connect with your audience on a human level. It will go a long way in securing repeat business. A human-to-human connection will make your video stand out from the crowd, and will make your audience feel like you know them personally.<\/p>\n<p>The human face will encourage an emotional response, especially if the video includes the brand&#8217;s CEO or team members. Faces have a special place in the human brain, with neural circuits dedicated to responding to them. This is why video messages from a key company figure are often more memorable than a generic text-based message.<\/p>\n<p>People connect to brands on an emotional level and are more likely to buy from companies that show an emotional connection. Emotional marketing can not only increase sales, but also help a business grow and reach new people. By creating an emotional connection with your customers, you will be on your way to success in video marketing. SEO impact Adding video to your website can have a direct impact on your SEO rankings. Search engines like Google give higher priority to websites with high-quality, engaging video content. Video encourages visitors to stay on a page for longer, which reduces bounce rates. This &#8220;dwell time&#8221; signals to search engine algorithms that your page provides value.<\/p>\n<p>Video content also benefits local search. It is shared across platforms like YouTube and Facebook, which can increase its visibility and traffic. The popularity of video content is only expected to increase. People like watching videos and are likely to remember them if they see them. In addition, video production has become more affordable for small businesses, making it an increasingly important aspect of SEO.<\/p>\n<p>Video content should contain keywords relevant to your business. Including keywords in your video&#8217;s title, description, and even the video file name is an effective SEO strategy. People watch videos on smaller screens, so it&#8217;s important to optimize for these screens. Using structured data (metadata) for your videos is another way to improve their search engine rankings and visibility.<\/p>\n<p>A video&#8217;s SEO impact can be significant. Videos signal to search engines that you have quality content that adheres to frameworks like Google&#8217;s E-E-A-T (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness). These signals also result in higher click rates, which can improve your ranking in search results. Videos are more likely to be watched by potential customers than articles. A strong SEO strategy can lead to a surge in your traffic. In addition, video content boosts backlinks, which are a critical element of positioning on the web.<\/p>\n<p>Creating videos that appeal to consumers is a key to success. Make sure to measure their performance so you can optimize your videos for the best results. Once you have done this, you&#8217;ll be able to determine which videos are performing the best and which ones need more work. Using web analytics to track the performance of your videos can give you a good idea of how well they affect your site.<\/p>\n<p>When implementing video marketing, keep in mind the length of your video and its content. With the dominance of short-form video, creating content under 90 seconds is key for platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. These short, engaging videos can capture attention quickly, boost on-page engagement, and indirectly increase your organic ranking.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"make-production-sustainable\">Make Production Sustainable<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"nxg-figure nxg-topic-visual\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nexgenlocalmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/196-how-to-make-the-most-of-video-marketing-inline-workflow-v2.png\" alt=\"Workflow diagram for video marketing from script to filming, editing, and publishing.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" \/><figcaption>A simple video production workflow keeps scripting, filming, editing, and publishing organized.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"turn-videos-into-leads\">Turn Videos Into Leads<\/h2>\n<h2 id=\"action-checklist\">Action checklist<\/h2>\n<div class=\"nxg-checklist\">\n<div class=\"nxg-check\"><span>1<\/span><\/p>\n<div><strong>Plan the topic:<\/strong> Keep this step specific, measurable, and connected to a lead or visibility outcome.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nxg-check\"><span>2<\/span><\/p>\n<div><strong>Record simply:<\/strong> Keep this step specific, measurable, and connected to a lead or visibility outcome.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nxg-check\"><span>3<\/span><\/p>\n<div><strong>Edit for clarity:<\/strong> Keep this step specific, measurable, and connected to a lead or visibility outcome.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nxg-check\"><span>4<\/span><\/p>\n<div><strong>Distribute widely:<\/strong> Keep this step specific, measurable, and connected to a lead or visibility outcome.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nxg-cta\">\n<h2>Want more useful video assets?<\/h2>\n<p>Nexgen can help build a video plan tied to search, social, and lead generation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/services\/video-marketing\/\">Talk with Nexgen<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video marketing works when each asset has a clear job: explain, prove, answer, compare, or convert&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video-marketing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nexgenlocalmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nexgenlocalmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nexgenlocalmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nexgenlocalmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nexgenlocalmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nexgenlocalmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1210,"href":"https:\/\/nexgenlocalmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/1210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nexgenlocalmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nexgenlocalmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nexgenlocalmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nexgenlocalmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}