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Turn Your Videos Into Cash Click The Headline For A Live Example Introduction: Jay Douglas and Terry Telford recently recorded a tell-all TeleClass that showed attendees how to create and produce high performance sales videos for their websites. The following excerpts were taken directly from the TeleClass. Jay Douglas and Terry Telford Reveal How To: * How To Create A High Performance Sales Video * How To Make Sure Your Video Is A Success And Not A Flop * Software And Hardware Tips How To Create A High Performance Sales Video Terry: So what s actually on the video? Is it a really quick summary of what would be on the sales letter? What s the content there? Jay: Well basically I tell them what I m going to tell them, tell them, and tell them what they have to do to take action. I ll go over the sales letter and see what the features are; I m not worried about the benefits. In traditional copywriting, they tell you to tell them what the benefits are; you re going to have a lovely home and you re going to get all the things you want in life and blah, blah, blah. Well, look, I have 60-90 seconds and I ve got to tell the people, look, this is what you re going to get with this product, this is what it s gong to do for your business, this is what it s going to do... a, b, c, d, you re going to get this and this. It is a short, tight synopsis of what is on the sales page. Then people can look at the video and say, you know what, I m really interested in this, I m going to read the sales letter to get more information about this. Then you have a really targeted person that is on your web page. They see the video and you do your 60-90 second "schpeal" and well, they re not going to read the rest of the sales page. And my point is, they probably won t reach your sales page anyway; for the most part, people are getting away I believe from these 30, 40, 50 page long sales letters that talk about, I call it obnoxious things, like I m going to blow your socks off. It s unbelievable, it s not credible and people don t have time for it. How To Make Sure Your Video Is A Success And Not A Flop Terry: You know what Jay? This just blows my socks off! Because part of what I do is copywriting, so from a copywriting standpoint, I always sell in the benefits, I sell the sizzle, not the steak. What you re saying goes completely against my copywriting training: don t sell the sizzle, sell the steak. So in a video, you re doing the absolutely opposite, focusing on the features instead of the benefits. You re doing it opposite to what your sales page is doing. Jay: That s true, and I ve done for example, videos for major copywriters like Mike Fortin, the copywriting king, but the videos that I ve done for him have all been in the vain that I told you. I talked features, what you re going to get, what this is gong to do for you, what s the bottom line, what am I getting at? That s what people want to know in the 60-90 second realm. Now, as I said, once they watch your video, then they become qualified; well, yeah, I d like to get some more information on that. They ll either bookmark your page or sit down and read it right then and go through that 10, 15, 30, 40, 50 page letter at their leisure because now they re really interested in what you have. But if you come off with a video that says oh, we re going to give you the lifestyle that you want and you re going to be walking the beach with 15 Tahitian girls, they don t want to hear that. That video is not going to sell, guaranteed. Terry: Then the actual purpose for that video is not necessarily to sell the product, but to draw people into the sales letter; your video is actually acting as a surrogate headline. Jay: This is true. This is true. And actually, we started testing videos that are on a squeeze page and they say, here s the video, here s the headline, here s the sub-head; and it s either got an order button or a sign me up for more information button. That s it. Terry: Wow, so you just eliminate all the copy and have the video do all that for you! Jay: Yes, and we found this, believe it or not, very effective. The reason is, that people don t have time, they re too busy, or the baby starts crying; the phone s ringing; people have short attention spans. Hit the video, they say oh I like that or I don t like that, and you ve got a really targeted person coming out of that funnel. Terry: That s fantastic. So basically, the videos can be the summary, same procedure or the same purpose as what the headline would be. If you combine a 60-90 second video at the top of your web page, then continue on with your regular copy; for anyone who s very detailed oriented can go ahead through the copy, but basically that video s going to sell for you. People are getting to scroll down to the order button, they ll read the copy or they ll disqualify themselves and hit the back button. Jay: And move on, exactly. Software And Hardware Tips Terry: Excellent. I think what we should do Jay, before we go on down the vein of the actual purpose and what the video is doing for us, maybe we can backup and get a little bit more technical and look at what kind of software, and hardware we need to get this video going. Let s look at the hardware first; what do we need hardware-wise? Jay: Obviously you have to have a computer and if it has Windows XP on it [I don t know anything about Macintosh so I m speaking only to the Windows people and I hope that doesn t tick some people off that are on the call], but I m a Windows guy. Windows XP, you already have the software on your computer that you need to make videos and it s called Windows MovieMaker. It is almost like a step child of the Camtasia Studio Suite. Camtasia Studio, it s a $300. program; that will do a little bit more than Windows MovieMaker but Windows MovieMaker is a free program and has a phenomenal set of capabilities, it s pretty straight forward. Once you get in there and start playing around with it, you ll see it s quite easy. When you first open it up any program, it looks a little bit daunting if you don t know what you re doing; you re not familiar with it. Get in there and play around with it a little bit, you ve got everything you need right there. The only other thing you really need to start making your own videos is a microphone and there are three kinds. There is the desktop microphone you can move around on your desktop, the headset microphone and then what s called a Lavaliere microphone. Of course the headset is just strapped on your head with the earphone and a little mouthpiece. The Lavaliere is what you see the newscasters wear on TV, NBC, ABC news; they have a little tiny black microphone that s clipped right on their shirt or blouse. When they talk, it picks up really well. You can get it at a place like Radio Shack for $10, $15, $20. I recommend the one with the headset with the boom microphone on it. Something from Plantronics is a good buy; also Logitech has good microphones like that. Once you have the microphone, speak into it, I m just talking about doing what they call Screen Capture Videos. That is, you can combine things that you put up in PowerPoint, still photographs, you can even combine moving video, live video into it. But that s all the equipment you need to make what I would call Screen Capture Videos. Now of course if you re going to make a live motion video then you ll need a video camera. One of the biggest fallacies that I ve discovered when 99% of people talk about let s make videos, they think automatically, I ve got to stand in front of a video camera. That s not the case. If you want to do that you can, but if you re going to be producing your own video, then of course you re going to need the camera, but there are massive amounts of video on the internet you can purchase; you ne