Local SEO for Video Business, Aerial Cinematography

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The Importance of Local SEO for Your Video Business

How does your website rank in local searches? If you are offering video services such as weddings, duplication, transfers, corporate videos or others, your customers must be able to find you in a Google search such as “wedding video Podunk, Iowa” or “DVD duplication Toronto” or “business video, Arlington, KS.” Local search is all that matters.

You may be surprised to learn that most brides do not use the word videographer. Instead they use “wedding video Podunk Iowa” or some such. But don’t take anyone’s word on this. Sign up for Google Analytics www.google.com/analytics/ and you will see what actual search words people are using to find your website.

Here’s what one successful videographer says:

After studying my web stats and Google Analytics, I concluded that brides are searching the area first and then what they are looking for. So in my area they are searching for Harrisburg Wedding Video. (city has been changed) I am #1 in the Google search results against some big players in the Harrisburg region.

Content is the key. Lots of quality words, videos, and links. Link to other vendors. Get a blog and blog often.

You don’t have to come up on the first page of overall searches. Your clients want to hire a local producer, not a long distance producer. So it’s better to come up first in those searches for “wedding video” or “Corporate Video Production” in your town, region, state or zip code. Here’s an article that will help you win this game of local searches. http://www.videouniversity.com/articles/optimizing-for-local-search

Spend time following the directions in this article. This can make a big difference for your business.

Aerial Cinematography With Model Helicopters Gets A Big Boost

This growing field has just received a boost from a new federal law. The law compels the Federal Aviation Administration to allow drones to be used for all sorts of commercial endeavors — from selling real estate and dusting crops, to monitoring oil spills and wildlife, even shooting Hollywood films. Local police and emergency services will also be freer to send up their own drones.

NY Times Article

NY Times Video

They don’t all cost $5000. Here’s a Drone Quadricopter with video camera for less than $300

A Good Strategy in Business
The challenge is usually dealing with change and competition. The first step toward effective strategy is diagnosing the specific structure of the challenge rather than simply naming performance goals.

The second step is choosing an overall guiding policy for dealing with the situation that builds on or creates some type of leverage or advantage.

The third step is the design of a configuration of actions and resource allocations that implement the chosen guiding policy.

From the book Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters” by Richard P. Rumelt”

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To Your Success,

Hal Landen
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http://VideoUniversity.com
Helping Producers for over 14 Years