Local businesses struggle with Facebook video marketing primarily because they do not have an effective strategy. This lack of strategy may stem from the fact that not all local businesses understand how to utilize the social media space. For most businesses, a video marketing strategy on social media does not even exist.
If you’re wondering how to build the best video marketing strategy on social media for your local business clients, we’ve got the answers.
We’re here to help local businesses develop a proven Facebook video marketing strategy with the help of our friends at BlitzMetrics. Dennis Yu, CEO of BlitzMetrics and renowned social media lead generation expert, has brought a different way of thinking into video marketing. Local businesses need to look no further than the 3×3 video grid!
What is Dennis Yu’s Facebook video marketing strategy?
The strategy itself is relatively simple, but the reason the 3×3 video grid Facebook marketing strategy has proven to be so effective is that it moves prospective customers down the funnel and converts them into purchasing customers. Each video in the grid is designed to move the consumer along their personal buyer’s journey.
When an SMB can address the why, how, and what of its business, it is able to effectively sequence its social following and ultimately convert views into sales.
Before we dive further into this Facebook video strategy, here is a quick video explaining the 3×3 video grid brought to you by Logan Young, co-founder of BlitzMetrics.
As Logan mentions, most businesses only create videos surrounding the what, which is the specific product or service that they offer. By sharing video marketing content that only addresses the what, you are immediately in “selling” mode, or pushing to sell your products and services. People don’t like being sold to, so it’s important to gain the trust of your social following before pushing the sale.
The 3×3 video grid ensures that local businesses build brand awareness first, then build social engagement, and lastly convert the sale. Each step consists of 3 different videos, strategically designed to generate social leads.
The 3×3 Video Grid Strategy for Facebook Video Marketing
1. The Why – Awareness
This first step is for a local business to develop brand awareness. Therefore, the first set of videos a business needs for its social media video campaign is the why videos.
Start with the why—this is a local business’s passion and its stories. No matter what industry it belongs to, a business would always have a story or history as to why things fell in place and why it came together.
Industry Example (Health and Wellness):
→ Video 1: A business owner may have had a past injury or chronic pain that drove them into opening a fitness/injury rehabilitation center to help others with their discomfort.
→ Video 2: A business owner may refer back to college sports, where they always pushed their teammates to focus on the fundamentals of proper weightlifting, which lead them to a career in physical therapy.
→Video 3: A business owner may share a story about the first time they received physical therapy or athletic rehabilitation, and how that experience drove them into starting their own business.
No matter the industry, vertical, or business, there will always be a story (or multiple stories) around how the business came to fruition. By relating this story, consumers will develop an emotional connection with the why of the business and will connect on a deeper level with the brand. In this way, the why video’s role is to help consumers understand a local business, develop a relationship, and even relate and connect with their story and brand.
The goal of these why videos is not to push a product or service but to develop brand awareness with a local business. Consumers want to do business with the places that establish authenticity in their brand, and sharing stories help in doing so.
- In 2013, the Boston Consulting Group surveyed 2,500 American consumers and found that being authentic was indeed one of the main qualities they said would attract them to a brand. (The Economist)
The why videos are all about attraction and awareness, so a local business must do its best to tell a memorable story. In this 3×3 Facebook video marketing strategy, the why videos tell the story that sets the stage for the how videos.
2. The How – Engagement
The second set of videos a business needs for its Facebook video strategy is the how videos. This step of the funnel is focused on engagement. The how videos are designed for a business to share its expertise online. Once again, it does not matter which industry or field a local business operates in because there is always something educational that a business can share with its prospective customers.
The purpose of the how videos is to generate engagement with the content, and to help establish the business as a trustworthy source of information in the industry. Additionally, by engaging with helpful content, your audience will gain a more positive connotation with your brand, and be more receptive to future interactions with you.
Industry Example (Health and Wellness):
→ Video 4: A fitness/injury rehabilitation center will record and share how-to videos with tips on proper stretching techniques for shoulder pain.
→ Video 5: A fitness/injury rehabilitation center will record how to deal with the mental health issues that stem from a major injury or dealing with the stress of not being able to work due to injury.
→ Video 6: A fitness/injury rehabilitation center can share tips and tricks for people, who sit in an office chair, to avoid a tight neck/upper back.
Not only do these videos help a local business in showing its knowledge, but also provide enormous value to those who may not know proper stretching techniques or how to check their oil. Consumers are looking for educational videos online all the time, and the internet is used by many people for gaining more insight or education.
- Searches related to “how-to” on YouTube are growing 70% year over year, with more than 100M hours of how-to content watched in North America in 2015. (Search Engine Land)
People are actively looking for answers online on how to do a variety of things, and local businesses can capitalize by putting this type of material right in front of their social following.
The Importance of The Why and The How Facebook Videos
The bottom line is that a local business would always want to convert prospective customers into permanent ones. With the why and how videos, a business can develop authenticity and engage those prospective customers with educational content.
So far, a local business has worked to get its followers to believe in its mission through the why and the how videos. Now it’s time to sell!
3. The What – Conversion
The final step of this video strategy for local businesses is to create the what videos. The “what” here is the product or service that a business offers. This step is what most businesses do first, and that is to advertise or push their products/services online. Without the why and the how to set the stage for the what, businesses are being ignored by prospective customers, as they do not want to connect with a business who constantly spams them with sales pitches.
With the 3×3 Facebook video strategy, prospective customers have journeyed through three stages and are ready for that sales pitch!
Industry Example (Health and Wellness):
→ Video 7: A fitness/injury rehabilitation center could promote its one-on-one therapy services.
→ Video 8: A fitness/injury rehabilitation center could promote its mental health awareness month (May) specials and talk about the relationship between fitness and stress relief.
→ Video 9: A fitness/injury rehabilitation center could promote its group fitness sessions.
Through the use of the 3×3 video grid strategy, a local business is able to deliver video content effectively so that its sales pitch is heard.
How to Set Up Your Facebook Video Marketing Campaign
One of the challenges that businesses face with any Facebook video marketing strategy, is to understand the dynamics related to execution.
True that you’ve done the hard work and created the videos, but if you don’t execute them in the best possible manner on Facebook, then the videos might not have the desired impact that you’re looking for.
When it comes to setting up your video marketing campaign, the core idea is to move prospects “down and across” the consumer funnel. What this means is that businesses must ensure that consumers view videos that compliment their current stage in the buyer’s journey.
For example, as soon as someone watches 75% of the first why video, they should be served with options to see the other why videos and be nudged to start watching the three how videos.
Moving along, once prospects consume 75% of a how video, they must be removed from the why video viewing list completely. From this point on, those consumers should be served with options to view the other how videos, as well as the three what videos.
Finally, when prospects consume 75% of a what video, they must not be shown options to view the how videos anymore, and only be nudged continuously to watch the other what videos in the series. Therefore, in the end, the network should look something like this.
Key Video Tips
- Remember to keep videos relatively short! Facebook recommends videos between 20-90 seconds length, so we recommend 1 minute as a good place to start.
- Each why video should be unique from the rest. By creating 3 different why videos, 3 how videos, and 3 what videos, a local business is able to test which type of story performs the best!
- The videos do not have to be fancy. You do not need special lights, graphics, or a set. You will just need your smartphone, and one minute of insightful content.
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