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Best 4 Ways Video Marketing Can Help Your Business
By Kenneth Horsfall
As you already know the world of marketing is ever-evolving, the ways we use to market our products and services have changed.
We are living in a content-driven world and one of those fast-paced growing content is video marketing; video marketing content helps businesses a lot for so many reasons and one of those reasons is the fact that Videos help your company improve the relationship with customers and build trust with potential clients not just only that alone, Videos evoke emotions online better than any other medium. You can use the tone of voice, music, and facial expressions to your advantage. This marketing tool can help humanize your brand.
According to a recent Aberdeen report, marketers who use video see much faster revenue growth (49 per cent) than those who do not. However, video has become more than just a marketing tool. With their capability to visually explain and demonstrate things and concepts, videos can help businesses not only showcase their products and services, attracting new customers, but they can help companies attract new employees and even make workers more productive.
If you’re a business owner or marketer, then you probably have a specific strategy in place for marketing your business.
Wait, you don’t?
Well, then it looks like (unfortunately) you’re in the majority.
In fact, 70% of marketers lack a clear or consistent marketing strategy. Ouch.
Luckily, it’s never too late to implement some marketing tactics that will help give your business a boost.
You see, there are countless ways to market your business, but not every method is equally effective.
You can try creating traditional advertisements, email marketing, social media marketing, knocking on people’s doors, etc.
But there’s one extremely powerful strategy that can help your business: Video Marketing.
Video marketing is so powerful that it can generate up to 1200% more shares than text and images combined!
That is a ton of engagement (and potential sales) that you’re missing out on by simply not implementing a video marketing strategy.
With that in mind, let’s go over a few videos marketing tips that can help engage your target audience while helping you grow your business.
- Start With A Plan Of Action
Before you create an effective marketing video, you need to have a clear idea of what you want your video to accomplish.
Do you want it to help sell a particular product or service? Or are you trying to show off your amazing company culture?
Whatever your objective is with this video, it’s important to develop and write down a marketing strategy.
How important is a marketing strategy?
According to one study, 33% more goals are accomplished by those who create and write down a clear plan of action.
Once you have a strategy, it’s important to give your customers something memorable so they’ll want to support your business.
Now that you’ve got a strategy, it’s time to…
- Craft A Great Story
So maybe you’re thinking, “Well, I’ll just pull out the old iPhone, record a few shots of people talking about my business, and then call it a day.”
Well, that’s certainly one way to start your video marketing process…
…down a very, very dark and difficult road.
You see, creating a video is one thing, but creating a video that attracts customers and makes them want to buy from you is a whole different animal.
And as we’ve mentioned before, even a 30-second commercial requires a ton of time and careful planning.
So, one of the first things to keep in mind when creating a video is: the story.
The story is, in a sense, the engine of your video. Without it, your video is going nowhere.
When Developing A Good Story For Your Video You Want To Make Sure To:
- Be honest and personal. Your content needs to be a reflection of your company. Make sure you are genuine with your audience; don’t be afraid to get a little personal.
Honest can really resonate with your customers, and it can help you build a bond that will also promote brand loyalty—a factor that will give you a leg up over your competition.
- Have a beginning, middle, and end. Like every good story, your story needs to feature these three stages or else the message could get a bit muddled.
You don’t need to get Shakespearean by any means, but a story that goes through a beginning, middle, and end has power.
How so, you might wonder?
With this kind of structure, you can build up the emotions of an audience, keep them enthralled, and set them up for a resolution (or a good call to action).
- Get creative and stay true to your brand. Have you noticed any trends in commercials or advertisements lately?
Perhaps you’ve seen a lot of them that feature random quirky characters or talking animals spouting off cheeky one-liners?
This style of commercial is usually good at grabbing the attention of viewers because of the humour and creativity involved.
And if you want to craft a video that will effectively market your business, you’ll need to get a little creative as well.
The best way to start this process is to develop a central theme around what your video is marketing (maybe a specific product/service), and then infuse your company’s personality into it.
Whether your company has more of a slapstick culture or a more serious-minded one, it’s important to stay true to your brand.
That way, your audience will instantly recognize you, and you can develop the ever-important brand loyalty we mentioned earlier.
Are you lacking some much-needed inspiration? Check out these 40 creative video ideas that can help spark your imagination!
Now that you have a great story to share, you want to make sure that you…
- Keep Your Videos Short
With blogging, long-form writing can help with SEO and give a writer enough space to provide a lot of valuable content.
With video, however, you should keep it short and sweet.
Why is that?
Because with the many advances in technology, people now have shorter attention spans than goldfish!
A good tip for creating an effective video that will hold the attention of your audience is to keep the duration of the video to around (or less than) one minute.
With the proper video length set, now you want to…
- Promote Your Video Everywhere
After you’ve created a quick and compelling marketing video, it’s time to share it with the world.
One of the first places you want to share your video is on your company’s website.
This will help you drive customer traffic and create engagement with your site.
Next, you should add your video to landing pages and emails. By simply including a video on your landing pages, you can increase conversions by 80%.
And by including videos in your email campaigns you can increase click-through rates by 50%!
After that, you should post your video on your social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram (etc.), to help increase your reach as well as your conversions.
Looking to share your video with an even wider audience?
Here’s a list of 28 video sharing sites that will allow you to promote your new video to even more viewers.
Conclusion
Does it sound like there’s a lot that goes into creating a marketing video?
Well, there is!
Not only do you have to plan out an effective strategy, craft a compelling and concise story, and promote it like crazy, you also have to consider the time and financial investment involved in doing all these things.
It may seem like a lot, but the investment in cost and time for a well-produced video is definitely worth the ability to:
- Connect with your target audience
- Generate more leads
- Increase sales
- Grow your overall business
Kenneth Horsfall is the creative director and founder of K.S. Kennysoft Studios Production Ltd, fondly called Kennysoft STUDIOs, a Nigerian Video and Animation Production Studio. He is also the founder and lead instructor at Kennysoft Film Academy and can be reached via di******@*************io.com
By Aduragbemi Omiyale
An institutional investor, First Ally Capital, has strengthened a leading Nigerian financial technology company, Mathesis Analytics, to scale its proprietary credit decisioning infrastructure.
It made this possible by injecting fresh capital into the firm, which specialises in AI-powered credit decisioning infrastructure, an action that will directly support the growth and scaling of Mathesis’ core mission of providing the intelligence and infrastructure needed to bridge the credit gap for millions of unscored or underscored individuals across Nigeria.
With this investment, Mathesis will enable financial institutions to confidently assess and extend credit to borrowers who lack a formal credit history by leveraging an expanded pool of alternative behavioural and transactional data.
To date, Mathesis’ systems have supported more than 8 million loans for over 2 million unique borrowers in Nigeria, and the company is actively deploying its infrastructure to establish a growing pan-African footprint.
With the investment from First Ally Capital, Mathesis is well positioned to transform how the credit ecosystem operates, driving financial inclusion in partnership with lenders across the continent.
A significant barrier to credit access in Nigeria, which prides itself on being Africa’s largest economy, is data fragmentation. Borrowers frequently build positive financial behaviours across multiple digital platforms by repaying microfinance loans, saving through fintech wallets, or servicing Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) facilities.
However, under traditional credit infrastructure, these achievements remain invisible to new lenders.
Mathesis addresses this challenge through the concept of Personal Equity—the quantified expression of an individual’s financial behaviour aggregated across every institution with which they have transacted.
By translating these disparate signals into a precise, portable measure of creditworthiness, Mathesis creates a comprehensive credit identity that reflects the full breadth of a person’s financial life.
“True financial inclusion cannot be achieved in a vacuum; it requires structural collaboration in which lenders and fintech companies work as partners within the ecosystem.
“This investment from First Ally Capital validates our approach to reshaping credit infrastructure. By quantifying Personal Equity, we empower lenders to safely look beyond the constraints of formal credit histories and recognise a borrower’s true creditworthiness. This capital enables us to accelerate our pan-African expansion while maintaining the robust, institutional-grade infrastructure our partners rely on,” the chief executive of Mathesis Analytics, Winston Osuchukwu, stated.
On his part, the chief executive of First Ally Capital, Mr Ebenezer Olufowose, said, “At First Ally Capital, we pride ourselves on being a one-stop destination for financial solutions, offering a diverse portfolio of services ranging from investment banking and asset management to trusteeship, inclusive banking, and real estate.
“Our investment in Mathesis Analytics reflects our strong belief in the company’s vision and our commitment to supporting forward-thinking enterprises that deliver excellence.”
By Aduragbemi Omiyale
The chief executive of Canal+ Africa, Mr David Mignot, has disclosed that MultiChoice is now fully integrated into the media group.
Mr Mignot disclosed this via a statement issued on Thursday, noting that this development marks a new phase in the evolution of one of Africa’s leading pay television operators.
He noted that the integration positions MultiChoice within a global media organisation with an extensive international footprint.
“MultiChoice is now a full subsidiary of a truly international media group operating in 70 countries. The group was founded in France, is listed in London and Johannesburg, and has a strong African presence with operations in more than 45 countries,” Mr Mignot said.
The statement underscores the scale of the combined business, highlighting Canal+’s global reach alongside its significant investments across Africa.
The completion of the transaction is expected to strengthen MultiChoice’s position in the African media and entertainment market by giving it access to the broader resources, expertise and international capabilities of the Canal+ Group, while reinforcing the group’s commitment to the continent.
MultiChoice operates across sub-Saharan Africa through platforms including DStv and GOtv, serving millions of subscribers with entertainment, sports and news content.
By Adedapo Adesanya
FoodCourt, a Nigerian cloud kitchen startup backed by Y Combinator, has suspended operations after months of unpaid salaries and mounting debts to vendors triggered a staff strike and forced the company to halt customer orders, according to a report by TechCabal.
The publication reported that customers first noticed on March 4 that they could no longer place orders through the FoodCourt app after the company disabled ordering as kitchen workers, delivery personnel and branch staff embarked on strike over unpaid wages. The company also owed outstanding payments to vendors.
By April 19, FoodCourt had temporarily shut its last operating branch after suspending activities across its Lagos and Abuja locations while seeking fresh funding and restructuring the business, according to the report.
The company’s chief executive, Mr Henry Nneji, said the decision to pause operations was not caused by a single issue but by a combination of operational, organisational and working-capital challenges.
“It’s important to clarify that the decision to pause operations wasn’t driven by one single issue. We reached a point where it became clear that continuing to patch those issues while operating wasn’t the right long-term decision,” he said.
“The objective is to build a stronger business than the one that existed before the suspension. We fully intend to bring FoodCourt back,” he added in an emailed response.
The company acknowledged outstanding obligations to employees, vendors, riders and service providers, but declined to disclose the number of affected workers or the total amount owed. It said efforts were underway to resolve the liabilities as part of its restructuring process.
It was also reported that the startup’s financial difficulties worsened after expansion into additional locations increased operating costs, while its cloud kitchen model came under pressure from rising labour, logistics, food and marketing expenses.
Despite the shutdown, Mr Nneji said FoodCourt intends to relaunch after completing its restructuring, adding that the company believes demand for its products remains strong.
Founded in 2021 by Henry Nneji and Paul Adokiye Iruene, FoodCourt operates cloud kitchens under multiple virtual restaurant brands through its consumer app. According to TechCabal, the startup had previously disclosed raising $1.7 million, delivering more than one million meals and reaching $4.3 million in annual recurring revenue by the end of 2024.
