Should you add streaming video, flash video or audio podcasts to your website?

Is that what it takes to succeed these days?

What kind of rich media should you use? Where should you use it? How much will it cost? How much could you profit from it? Is it hard to do or maintain?

Can you reuse that TV commercial you got talked in to buying a couple of years ago on your website? Or just post the same offline Powerpoint sales and training presentations you've always used to your website? Or should you include more multimedia touches in your offline Powerpoint shows?

The questions come almost as fast as the ideas. And in the case of many of the questions above, the answer may be NO!. Here's how we help you decide »»»

Flash Video vs. Quicktime vs ?:
Your visitors don't care (thank goodness!)

Certainly the up and coming teen consumers (and their even more consuming tween siblings) aren't impressed by your chroma keyed, interactive Flash actionscripted integrated video. They sure as heck don't care what format you used, never mind what codec.

They may think the way you did that movie clip so that the person looked like they were walking in to the actual web page was a little cool, but only cool enough to buy you a couple of extra seconds...not minutes...to prove your worth.

So? How are you going to pull that off? Here are some of your online video engagement options »»»

Use Video Online answers video marketing questions

It's predicted that within two years, more than 50% of the content we all view on the Internet will have been created by other Internet users like ourselves, not by the marketing and advertising professionals We're devoting this new site, www.usevideoonline.com to helping them (you?) profit from their efforts. Take a peek at how others are profiting from video online »»»