Ministry Marketing: Create Value In Your Videos

So you are ready to start your online video ministry marketing strategy for your book, ministry, or church, but you think to yourself: “What am I going to say?”

The key to a successful online video ministry marketing strategy is NOT to sell or convince you have the best ministry or book in your videos, but to share valuable content, inspiration, and help.

Yes, share. As you share information in each video, you are creating value. You can’t get away from this simple fact in regards to what viewers are thinking when they watch your videos. Basically, it’s as simple as this: "What’s in it for me!"

 If you’ve been involved with any online marketing in your ministry or business at all you, know the phrase "Content is King" !

You may also know the truth of this statement, one of which I can still hear from a Christian mentor’s voice, Dani Johnson, where she says,

“The marketplace pays for value. Your value is your skill!”

So, what is your skill? What trade or talent do you excel in? What gifts has God anointed you?

I know I have seen some powerful videos from Christians who can write beautifully, in poems or blogs. What they do is put the poems to video and music and create a powerful testimony.

 Try this simple online video ministry marketing creation method to help with your content.

You may have a book your are trying to sell. Or maybe you have a business product or service. Think of your top five frequently asked questions and answer them…while looking into the camera!.

One of my questions my clients ask me is “Why use video?”

So I turn my camera on…looking into the lense and answer:

“Why use video online with your marketing ?  Well if you look at the fact 60% of all traffic is video. And the fact that YouTube is the Fourth largest search engine and 26 BILLION videos are watched per month in the United States alone….And the simple fact that online videos is the single highest leverage too you can use to build your business or ministry promotion…. its obvious video is marketing tool you need in your arsenal.”

You may get asked questions about your healing ministry, your Christian school, your evangelistic crusades. Answer the questions and watch how easy it becomes to create content.

Do you preach? Try sharing a short message (under 10 minutes) that will encourage someone. We are doing this at Firebrand Video Ministry.

So get your little video camera and stretch it out arms length from yourself and talk away into the camera. Share your knowledge.  Share your anointing! Answer those questions and you are on your way to some great content. It really is as simple as that.

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                      Easy Online Video Ministry Tips:
                     Choosing The Best Camcorder

Choosing the best camcorder for your online video ministry that’s simple to use and under $200 is possible now thanks to the Flip Camera and Kodak’s Zi8. It’s a camera that fits in with all ministry budgets.

If you have more funds, of course you can buy the larget High Definition cameras. But this series is for easy to begin video ministry tips.

I first learned how great the Flip camera is two years ago. It was so simple that my children grabbed it (age 10 years and 6 years old) and started to make their own videos. My  6 year old son grabbed one time when I was taking a nap. After singing some songs into the camera, he got the idea of playing a joke on and video me while taking a nap!

Forget the expensive big and heavy expensive cameras. I put mine back up in my closet now.

My favorite is the Kodak ZI8. I shoot most of my online video marketing shots with this camera now.

One reason why I like it so much is it has an external mic port. In addition the Zi8 includes electronic image stabilization delivering a very respectable video quality in High Definition or Standard Definition all under $200.

While this online video marketers and minister’s secret camera tool may not be perfect, it is still one of the best camera’s that you can easily use for your video campaigns.

One detail you need to be aware of when using this camera. All of these pocket camcorders may advertise as High Definition models, but they still can not compare to the true HD camcorders that have more superior lenses and sensors.

With that being said, the Flip and others do have a great image quality and the companies continue improve. The Kodak Zi8 is the first small camcorder to boast of a 1080p 30 p video campture and 5 megapixel still image capture.

If I am just uploading my videos to YourTube or Facebook, I still use the basic WVGA which doesn’t take as much memory card space and is easy to edit on my Mac Book.

I also carry a Flip Mino Camcorder for spontaneous video. I have learned a lesson though. This camcorder stays hidden in my purse away from my children’s hands!.

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           7 Simple Online Video Marketing Secrets

                            Free Screen Capture

This online video marketing secret unveils a solution for you to have videos without YOU being in the camera.

It involves a screen capture web application from Jing.

Basically, Jing is a screencasting software launched in 2007 under the name Jing Project by the TechSmith Corporation. It is free to download and use for any purpose, but works great with online video marketing. The software can take a picture or video of your computer screen and then uploads it to the web. If you upgrade at a small price you can download the picture or video to use in your video or make it a stand alone video.

When it’s uploaded, an url is automatically created and then can be shared with others to view.

This is one of my favorite online video marketing secret tool. Jing is compatible with Mac and Window users.

All you have to do to start using it is sign up for an account, download the software, and begin! The simple format and the ability to quickly upload screencasts has made it an often used video tool in many marketers toolbox.

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           Online Video Ministry:  7 Simple Video Tips

With the increase in people online and watching videos, there has never been a greater opportunity for online video ministry to reach out with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Check the latest social media and video watching statistics:  The social media site Facebook tops Google for weekly traffic in the United States. It took television 13 years to reach 50 million users…..The internet took four years, the Ipod three…Facebook added over 200 million users in less than a year. Moreover, if Facebook were a nation it would be the 3rd largest! (Erik Qualman’s book SOCIALNOMICS is a great book on the power of social media).

So what does this mean for you or your ministry.

If you have a passion for the lost, it means the harvest are ripe for souls to be introduced to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

If you are a ministry, it means you have a chance to impact not just your local area with your ministry but the whole world.

The internet is one of the greatest tools where you can harness it’s power for promoting your ministry as well as reach out to a world looking for hope and answers.

In this free video series from DTC Marketplace, you can learn simple online video tips to help you learn how easy it is to get started, what the best camera you can get under $200, how to make great slide show movies out of your pictures and so much more.

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          7 Simple Online Video Marketing Secrets:
                   Brilliant Videos From Pictures

So you may not quite be ready to star in your own video. This one online video marketing secret is one of my favorites in making quick movies from picture clips and even short video clips. It’s called Animoto!

Animoto is a web application that produces videos from your selected photos, video clips and music. It is THE BEST online video tool to produce stunning professionally video slide shows fast and shockingly simple.

So you get to choose your pictures (or video clips) in your slide show and upload them. You have the option of being able to add text, highlight certain photos, and re-arrange them as you like. In the second step you can add music, your own or selected tunes from Animoto’s library. From there you choose the speed, name the video with a title and description and click finish allowing the site to produce your professional online video for your own marketing!

Each of your video clips and music is analyzed in this amazing process. According to the website, the song is analyzed, producing an unique video every single time a set of photos or videos are uploaded. Animoto claims that no two videos are ever the same.

One of the latest features I really enjoy with my I-Phone is the Animoto application. I can take my photos that I just shot and make a little video. I did this recently at a birthday party by taking a bunch of photos and shooting a few video clips with my I-Phone. Then while I was still at the celebration, I created a video to show off to the family. Of course they loved it, and I was able to e-mail them to each who asked for a copy, all from my I-phone.

So image this application in your I-phone or on your computer when you need to make a simple online video for marketing!

One other note, I upgraded my account (http://OnlineVideoTool) at a very reasonable rate so I can create longer than 30 second videos. This gives me the opportunity to not only make longer videos, but also to download them to my computer to add  two small I-Movie editing features.

For one, I take out the music they allow you to use, and add my own “royalty free” music, just to be on the safe side with any copyright issues. And then I add my domain name shadowing the whole video in the lower right corner.

I get a stunning video every time at less the time it would take to edit such a creation myself!

Animoto is one simple online video marketing secret tool that I rely on often!

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