Episode 60

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3rd Sep 2018

EVM060 Video marketing strategy at scale with Hope Horner

In this episode I talk to Hope Horner, CEO of Lemonlight and a three-time entrepreneur that has been featured in Inc.'s Top 25 Entrepreneurs to watch in 2017, Entrepreneur's 11 Marketing Experts that Could Changes Your Business, and Pepperdine’s 40 Under 40.

Lemonlight is an LA based business that produces and distributes branded video content at scale. In this episode, we explore how the business industry is changing as a result of brands and businesses changing requirements for more video - faster and at a larger scale.

In this episode

  • What led Hope into Lemonlight and the world of video marketing
  • Lemonlight - what they do, how and when they started
  • The biggest shift that online video has undergone in the last 5 years
  • Video as an effective medium and an important part of the digital marketing mix of businesses today
  • Challenges for businesses and how they can successfully cut through the noise
  • How video fits in the full funnel video strategy
  • Hope’s take on the delight stage of the strategy
  • The biggest mistakes businesses make in their strategies
  • The advantages of the ease of producing and multiple ways of distributing video content
  • Why commercials have been so effective through the years
  • How traditional agency models are changing today
  • Lemonlight working directly with businesses and agency partners
  • Hope’s tips on the first steps to start using video effectively in business
  • The role of video producers in creating strategic videos
  • The future for online video marketing and production quality element of video
  • Hope’s thoughts on how to start on video marketing
  • Sneak Peek on Episode 61 with Paul Remondo on Facebook Advertising

 

Links mentioned in the show

Hope Horner LinkedIn

Lemonlight Website

Lemonlight Facebook

Lemonlight Twitter

Lemonlight LinkedIn

Lemonlight Vimeo

30 Video Ideas for your Business

Free Foundations Video Course

Convert Kit

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The Engage Video Marketing Podcast is a weekly show with a mission to grow confident Video Strategists. Each week your host, leading video strategist Ben Amos will share world-class guest interviews, video strategy training, latest social video trends, case studies tips and tactics to help develop in confidence as a Video Strategist to better serve your clients and grow businesses.

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Ben is a passionate online video strategist, entrepreneur, video producer, speaker and educator working with savvy brands across Australia and the world to connect them to their ideal audiences through effective online video marketing. He is the Owner and Creative Director of Innovate Media, an online video strategy and production agency based out of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.

As host of the Engage Video Marketing Podcast, and creator of the Online Video Strategy Blueprint Ben’s mission is to help other creatives, marketers, entrepreneurs and video producers better understand how to attract, engage and convert audiences online with video.

At the heart of it all, Ben believes that effective online video content has strategy at its core. As content producers, marketers or business owners we must rise up against the ‘avalanche of average’ video content surrounding digital audiences today and deploy video strategically, deliberately and creatively across platforms for maximum results.

Behind this, Ben’s a proud Dad of two daughters, a family guy and an adventurous Aussie who loves building sandcastles with his kids at any of the beautiful beaches of his home town on the Sunshine Coast, Australia.