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Rouxbe: How-to Web Video At Its Best

Saturday, March 5th, 2011


Web video runs the gamut from entertainment and news to brand and product promotion. More and more, smart brands are increasing the stickiness of their sites and inspiring brand loyalty by offering how-to videos that teach consumers about new products or offer new ways to enjoy older products. It’s the brand equivalent of lending a helping hand.

Given this fact, if you haven’t already, now seems like a good time to start thinking about how to approach the use of video for your site.

The good news is, producing online videos for your site need not be intimidating (see LC post 1/12/2011). The key to success is to be engaging, informative and brief.

At Rouxbe (pronounced roo-bee), the web’s first-ever online cooking school, they are masters of the engaging, informative and brief.

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Video Increasingly Key Driver of Site Traffic…

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

You’ve no doubt heard that YouTube is now the number two search engine after Google. This is an incredible ascendancy and marks a turning point that anyone using the web to reach customers will have to take note of.

It means, in terms of SEO, video is fast becoming the best method to drive traffic to your website. Embracing video and learning how to get the most from it will pay big dividends down the road. Thankfully, video doesn’t need to be hard. Or expensive.

Here are a few thoughts about how to approach video to drive traffic to your site.

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The Crabby Cook – Web Video Series

Thursday, December 30th, 2010

Jessica Harper, aka The Crabby Cook, has been busy creating a series of web videos to promote her blog and new book, The Crabby Cook Cookbook.  These 2 minute rants and raves, all personally written by Jessica, are filled with light-hearted humor.  As a fan recently commented, “I’d totally watch a Jessica Harper/Crabby Cook cooking show. In a terminally over-crowded genre I think she’d offer something different and very entertaining.”

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