Strategic communication

  • The Double Your Freelancing Podcast: Onboarding and Roadmapping Tailored Around Video

    Learn how to take awesome conversations and translate them into increased scope of works to grow your business with heightened capabilities around marketing. Think about the impact, not just the deliverable. Paint a complete picture of marketing. See the full show notes at doubleyourfreelancing.com

  • How to make your YouTube videos interactive

    An excerpt from a post on the Videostrategy.org blog: YouTube is an attractive platform for video marketers. It has a massive built-in audience and it’s designed to help viewers discover content. However, the allure of the platform is hampered by the fact that ultimately YouTube is designed to keep viewers watching any video, not just…

  • FAQ: How we built our own server for shared storage on the (relatively) cheap

    An excerpt from a post on the Videostrategy.org blog: Earlier this year I set up our own server as a shared storage testbed. Since we got it up and running, I’ve been asked a lot of questions about it so I put together this quick guide that covers just about everything about it from the…

  • How to build a yearly video marketing budget

    An excerpt from a post on the Videostrategy.org blog: Putting together a comprehensive video budget is a daunting, but important, task. In this guide, I’m going to run through my own template to provide you a starting point for your own yearly budget. This template is designed to cover typical marketing video productions including on-location shoots…

  • The guide to stress-free client revisions

    An excerpt from a post on the Videostrategy.org blog: Post-production can get confusing (and frustrating). Clients aren’t sure when things will be delivered or if what they’re looking at is supposed to be a polished draft or just a rough cut. Creatives are confused about who’s supposed to give feedback or what revisions are within…

  • The Videostrategy Guide To Video Marketing KPIs

    An excerpt from a post on the Videostrategy.org blog: For the longest time, everyone was obsessed with view count. Clients were focused on making that number as big as possible and every video maker was fielding requests asking them to “make a viral video.” These days, video makers have a better understanding of what metrics really…

  • How to build an analytics dashboard to measure your video’s success

    An excerpt from a post on the Videostrategy.org blog: Strategy is more than just executing a smart gameplan, it’s also about measurement and optimization. Today I’m going to break down a small internal sales project at Animus and show how we designed a dashboard using Medialytics to keep the team informed. This simple tool gives us instant…

  • Going from Video Marketing Vendor to Strategic Partner – Wistiafest 2017

    This is my workshop from Wistiafest 2017. In this talk, I run through the my philosophy on modern video marketing from coming up with awesome ideas to selling them to clients, to actually bringing them to life. We cover a lot of ground. Video Marketing 101: Tactics to go from vendor to marketing partner from…

  • The Super Secret Filmcast: Value Add to the Client

    From an appearance of DoP’s Evan Bourcier’s podcast: In this episode we talk about building strong client relationships, getting hired, managing projects, and many many other things.. See more episodes at the Super Secret Film Blog.

  • Podcast: The Drive 80 Show Season 1

    Show link: https://www.drive80.com/002-ian-servin/