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TELL YOUR COMPELLING CAMPUS STORIES Why Are Videos So Effective To Tell Your Compelling Campus Stories? Improve Enrollment & Advance Fundraising With Professional Multimedia Products

Slide Engages, Entertains, and Explains If you think about it, the effectiveness of video is not surprising. After all, vision is our most dominant sense. Most information transmitted to our brain is visual. So if still pictures can massively boost engagement, imagine what moving pictures can do for your school. Likewise, videos provide a great way to share your compelling campus stories by presenting them in action! Use video to engage, entertain and explain by showing, rather than telling, your school’s compelling campus stories.

CVP Tip: Remember, having an engaging video on your school’s website or landing page that entertains and explains your school’s identity and mission increases a visitor’s conversion by more than 80%.
Builds Trust A series of professionally produced “testimonial” videos can build your school into a valued community partner whom people trust. These kinds of videos cultivate positive perceptions about your school through spotlighting and building relationships with the special people who make it up. When a prospective student or major gift prospect watches an enthusiastic or inspiring person in your school testify about its value, you’re on the road to cultivating a personal relationship grounded in trust. These kinds of videos offer powerful personal invitations to join your school or give to it. Remember, no parent or student wants “to go” to school. This is transactional. Students and parents want to “trust” your school, which is transformational! Testimonial videos are powerful tools that help to build that kind of trust!

CVP Tip: Remember, testimonial videos capture the difference your school makes! They allow members of your school community to make personal connections that build trust! Imagine a current student confidently talking about their academic and extracurricular achievements, a talented faculty member passionately voicing their love for their subject, a grateful parent tearfully recounting their child’s remarkable journey, or an amazing alumnus boasting about their favorite campus memories. Of course, the setting for all these incredible stories is your school!

CVP Tip: Every school has dynamic students, inspiring faculty, passionate parents, and impactful alumni, so let them be the stars of your school’s productions. They are the people best equipped to tell your school’s compelling campus stories!

CVP Tip: Remember the expression, “You never get a second chance to make a first impression.” Well, this is your school’s chance to make a great first impression - online! In the ever-expanding online world, a professionally produced and scripted video allows you to choose a student, parent, or alumni “ambassador'' who will serve as a “greeter” who welcomes people and testifies thoughtfully about why to join or give to your school.

CVP Tip: Remember, unlike in-person testimonials, a professionally produced video always allows you to control your school’s message, so don’t waste your school’s chance to put its best foot forward! In addition, having this kind of online video allows you to welcome the world to your school all day, everyday!

CVP Tip: Remember, investing in professionally produced multimedia products is well worth it! Your school probably has invested a lot of resources to make its “Admissions” or “Advancement” suites two of the most inviting and professional spaces on campus. Yet, many more people will visit your school online than who’ll visit these physical spaces. Ask yourself, “Would you allow a non-professional to build or decorate these impactful spaces in your school?” Of course not! Why wouldn’t you make the same kind of investment in your online content, especially because it reaches far more people?

CVP Tip: Did you know that 94% of first impressions relate to your website design?

Appeals to Mobile Users Effective marketing videos tell your school’s compelling campus stories in a conversational form that is easily “shareable” on social media. Videos shared on social media provide tremendous “word of mouth” advertisements that are incredibly powerful. Someone willing to share a video your school produces trusts your school and is a strong advocate for it. In addition, these videos give prospective students, families, and prospects more confidence to visit the campus, apply, or give to it.

CVP Tip: Remember, video and mobile go hand in hand. 90% of consumers watch videos on their mobile devices. YouTube reports mobile video consumption rises 100% every year. Short and succinct videos work better for your school in this context!

CVP Tip: Remember, engage people who share your school’s videos on social media with an online, “Thank you”! Take a moment to thank them for their support by saying “thanks” on their social media channels. Watch how these people will become even greater champions for your school because you didn’t take their loyalty and trust for granted!

Stimulates Social Shares As brand managers, you must remember that people share emotions, not facts, especially about why they identify with your school. So create fun entertaining videos about your school to encourage social shares of it. Even the most “elite” schools recognize that having fun is important. Sharing some content of your students simply being kids or educators spontaneously working joyfully with students tells a lot about your school to your target audiences. These videos tell people that your school is a place where people enjoy being and learning with each other. These kinds of videos do not necessarily have to be professionally produced or have long shelf lives to be effective. Emotions are not exactly ROI, but social shares of these kinds of videos can increase traffic to your school’s website and social media channels, and you can help direct these people to more elevated content about your school.

CVP Tip: Remember, 76% of users say they would share a branded video with their friends if it were entertaining and engaging. So think about how these videos can positively augment or change the perception of your school!

Boosts Google Analytics Video content is an excellent tool for learning, but it’s also super easy to consume. Today’s life often is too busy to have time to read long descriptions about your school or dig deep into its services, especially when a prospective family or prospect is first inquiring about your school. Your target audiences - parents, students, prospects - want to see the school in action. They first want to get a feel of the place, and video is one of the most important driving forces to advance your content marketing to get them to want to learn more about your school.

CVP Tip: Remember, only 20% of website visitors will read content all the way through, but 80% will watch a video in its entirety when captions accompany it. A well-produced video that invites people to learn more about that transformative academic, fine arts, extracurricular or athletic program at your school makes a difference in whether someone will apply, join or give to your school. Videos often inspire more effectively than the written word!

Boosts Google Analytics Viewers watching videos about your school increase their time spent on your school’s website. Thus, longer exposure builds trust and signals search engines that your school’s website has good content. Since Google now owns YouTube, there has been a significant increase in how much videos affect your school’s search engine rank. The overall effect of this development is that schools that don’t take advantage of using videos to market themselves will miss out in this critical way. So think about it, if your school doesn’t quickly appear on a Google search, you’ll remain the area’s best-kept hidden secret. Ultimately, you might remain such a great secret that you will eventually close!

CVP Tip: Remember, your school is 53 times more likely to show up first on Google if you have a video embedded on its website.

Boost ROI How much does your school spend on marketing each year? Does it even add up to the cost of a year’s tuition for one student at your school? Or add up to 1% of the total cost of your school’s annual fund or capital campaign? Think about how much value your school will get from a professionally produced “about” video, annual fund commercial, or capital campaign video that engages prospective students, parents, or major gift prospects. Throughout the school year or for the duration of a capital campaign, your school will repeatedly show these kinds of videos, making them well worth the investment. Attract more students with compelling videos inviting them and their families to join your school community! Attract major prospects with a compelling campaign video that calls them to action and includes an ask for that new transformative building or vital scholarship program!

CVP Tip: Remember, 10 minutes of professionally produced video with high-quality digital photography segmented for various purposes should cover your school’s multimedia needs for the school year. On average, one minute of professionally produced video costs between $2500 or $3000. Therefore, if these multimedia services help attract even 2.5 additional students to your school with a tuition point of $10,000, it yields a positive ROI. Similarly, an 8-10 minute capital campaign video for a $5,000,000 building represents less than 1% of the total project cost!

CVP Tip: Remember, a capital campaign at its inception is completely aspirational. Your school wants to make this dream a reality! Using green screen technology with CampusVision Productions enables your school the capacity to bring this dream to life even before the first stone has been laid! Like your favorite superhero movies, green screen technology lets you drop in whatever background images you want behind the actors, which in this case most likely will be your head of school, lead donors, or engaging students. When a background isn’t available - like that new transformative building your school needs - green screen comes to the rescue! You’ll be amazed at the quality of the production, but even more at the price to use this impactful technology!

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