Sunday, February 12, 2017

How to Use Wistia: A Step-by-Step Guide



Whether you're a B2B or B2C business, videos can help you strengthen relationships with your customers, save time, and boost conversion rates. And if you haven't experimented with this powerful medium yet, you're missing out -- 66% of B2B marketers are already creating video content to support both their marketing department goals and larger business initiatives.

When it comes to the use cases for video, the possibilities are endless across your organization: Sales teams can close deals with personalized video voicemails, support teams can walk customers through frequently asked questions with engaging tutorials, and HR teams can onboard new teammates with ease. But that's just the beginning. Businesses that have fully adopted video are constantly coming up with new ways to make meaningful connections with their audiences through video content.

In this post, we're going to review the business value of video and walk you through a step-by-step guide for using Wistia -- a video hosting platform -- to create video content for all of your marketing and business needs.

Sunday, February 5, 2017

Another Day, Another Attempt to Unseat Snapchat: Facebook Unveils Messenger Day



“If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.”

This is a lesson Facebook has perfected over the last year as it continues to launch products to compete with Snapchat, the app it tried and failed to purchase back in 2013.

The battle over the disappearing social media story continued yesterday with Facebook’s launch of Messenger Day. Messenger Day works like Snapchat Stories, Instagram Stories, and WhatsApp Status: Users share photo and video messages embellished with text, drawings, filters, and emojis with friends that disappear after 24 hours.

As of yesterday, the new feature was being gradually rolled out to all iOS and Android Messenger apps. In this post, we’ll cover what Messenger Day is all about, how to use it, and how this announcement changes the ephemeral messaging competition heating up between Snapchat and Facebook.