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USING VIDEO TO

IMPACT SALES AND


CUSTOMER SUCCESS

How to Align Video Across Your


Customer Journey and Sales Cycle
CONTENTS
Introduction: Video Works Across the Entire Customer Journey 3

Chapter 1: Video’s Impact on Your Business at Large 5

Chapter 2: Why Use Video to Drive Sales? 7

Chapter 3: How Video can Help Turn Prospects into Leads 8

Chapter 4: Turning Leads into Buyers with Video 10

Chapter 5: How Video Improves Customer Success and Retention 12

Chapter 6: Video’s Role in Brand Advocacy 14

Chapter 7: Measuring the Impact of Video


Across Your Customer Journey 16

Conclusion: Video Optimizes Your Results at Every Stage


of the Customer Journey 18

Additional Resources 19

Endnotes 19

About Brightcove 19

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INTRODUCTION:

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The Customer Journey
and Sales Cycle

With this change to customer-journey customer satisfaction, and more loyal brand
alignment, brands are improving the advocates who make repeat purchases and
customer experience by communicating recommend the brand’s products to others.
in one seamless motion as the prospect
With marketing, sales, and customer success
becomes the customer becomes the
teams focused on the journey, the only
advocate. And as you’ll read in this eBook,
question becomes which group leads at
it’s paying off in terms of positive business
each stage and how the hand-off between
results that include reduced sales time for
these organizations is handled.
converting prospects to customers, higher

For business leaders who want to drive more revenue, this eBook offers guidance on:

• How to align video content across your • Which department should lead
customer journey content development at each stage
of the sales cycle
• Tips for effectively incorporating
video into your sales and customer • Types of video that work in creating
experience strategies seamless customer experiences

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CHAPTER 1:

VIDEO’S IMPACT
ON YOUR BUSINESS
AT LARGE
Few mediums are more powerful than video.
When it comes to communication, there and communication around the customer
are few mediums more powerful than journey. Using video throughout the
video. Brands that strategically use video entire customer journey creates a holistic
for marketing distinctly set themselves approach to outreach and provides
apart in marketing performance from a seamless customer experience that
those that don’t, with a 66% greater delivers business results.


increase in MQLs delivered to sales
(11.2% vs. 6.7%), 2.5 times the growth in
marketing’s contribution to revenue, and WHEN BRANDS USE VIDEO FOR MARKETING,
54% more growth in brand awareness THEY PERFORM BETTER YEAR-OVER-YEAR
year-over-year (10.5% vs. 6.8%).2 THAN THOSE THAT DON’T, WITH A 66%
GREATER INCREASE IN MQLs, 2.5X THE


But that’s only the beginning. Brands GROWTH IN MARKETING’S CONTRIBUTION
that use video marketing are also seeing TO REVENUE, AND 54% MORE GROWTH IN
tremendous impact on the business at BRAND AWARENESS.
large, with three times the growth in
Aberdeen
company revenue (11.6% vs 3.9%), and
40% greater decreases in customer
acquisition costs year-over-year (3.7% vs.
2.6%),3 compared to those who don’t.

With success like this, it’s no wonder


that brands are expanding their use of
video beyond marketing, into sales and
customer success as they align their goals

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The Customer Journey as Viewed by Sales, Customer Success,
and Marketing
All three teams – marketing, sales, and each stage. Which department leads the
customer success – share focus on the journey changes as the customer moves
customer journey and contribute to across the stages.

SALES AWARENESS QUALIFICATION SOLUTION PROPOSING


STAGES DISCOVERY EVALUATION AND CLOSING

CUSTOMER CLIENT HEALTH BRAND


SUCCESS LOYALTY RECOMMENDATION
STAGES

MARKETING AWARENESS ENGAGEMENT ENGAGEMENT CONVERSION RETENTION ADVOCACY


STAGES INTEREST CONSIDERATION

DEPARTMENT Marketing Marketing & Sales Marketing & Sales Sales Customer Success Customer Success
LEADING THE
STAGE

TYPES OF VIDEO • Brand • Explainer videos • How-to/ • In-depth • “Meet Your • Customer
CONTENT THAT promotion Tutorials product demos Support Team” reviews
WORK IN EACH videos • Tips series videos
STAGE • Webinars • Technical • Testimonials
• Infographic • Business use- demos • Onboarding
videos case videos • FAQs videos • Case studies
• Customer
• Expert • Webinars • Micro-demos testimonials • Knowledgebase • User-generated
interviews created by sales videos videos
• Self-guided reps • Case studies
• Thought demos • Training videos • Customer
leadership • ROI videos panels at events
presentations • How-to/ (live-streamed
• Interactive
video • Contract tutorials & recorded)
• Teaser videos overview videos
• New product • Executive
• Interactive videos videos (live-
video streamed &
• Troubleshooting recorded)
videos
• Employee-
• FAQs created videos

• Brand videos
promoting your
values & culture

Marketing’s role in leading the customer team’s calls, pitches, and proposals. Your
journey during the Awareness stage, and customer success team can use video to
the Interest phase of Engagement, is inject a human element into content that
well-understood. For your sales team, the will speed product adoption and more
opportunity lies in leveraging the right quickly answer FAQs, ultimately delivering
video content at the right time throughout higher customer satisfaction, better
the sales cycle, to complement your loyalty and retention, and lifting advocacy.

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CHAPTER 2:

WHY USE VIDEO


TO DRIVE SALES?
Getting time with prospects is more Sales guides the customer journey as
challenging than ever. Your sales team can marketing qualified leads (MQLs) become
use video to better engage prospects and sales qualified leads (SQLs), and as SQLs
communicate value at every stage of your are converted into buyers. Refer back to the
sales cycle. With relevant content, you chart on page 6 to see where the different
have a good reason to follow-up and stay stages of the sales cycle fall within the
top-of-mind with prospects, keep them customer journey and examples of the types
engaged, and accelerate the sales cycle. of content that are effective at each stage.

Video-enabled sellers outperform sales people without video in critical success metrics
like customer retention rates (72% vs. 66%), lead acceptance rates (56% vs. 47%), and
percent of reps reaching quota (54% vs. 50%).4

SALES STAGE WHAT HAPPENS IN THE STAGE

AWARENESS Prospect has made initial contact with your brand, but has not engaged.
No sales action is required at this stage.

QUALIFICATION Vet opportunities with prospects who have engaged with your brand
at a high level (e.g. took a phone call with outbound sales rep or viewed
marketing video/downloaded collateral).

DISCOVERY Vet opportunities with prospects who have shown interest in your
product to determine if your solution might be a best fit and if the
prospect is actively looking to buy.

SOLUTION EVALUATION For opportunities considering your product as an option, create a vision
of value for how your solution and brand addresses their business pain,
and how it’s different from competitors. Build a business case.

PROPOSING/CLOSING For opportunities that have committed to purchase your solution, finalize
the contract terms, provide proof-of-concept, and address any lingering
reservations the prospect has.

DEAL The contract is signed and the deal is closed/won.

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CHAPTER 3:

HOW VIDEO CAN


HELP TURN PROSPECTS
INTO LEADS
The Qualification, Discovery, and Solution Success is realized when your marketing
Evaluation stages of the sales cycle overlap and sales teams align their needs to develop
with marketing’s Engagement phase of content and share resources that support
the customer journey (See chart on page the goals of both of your departments.
6). Since the activities during these stages
By aligning with your marketing team, you
are jointly led by marketing and sales, the
ensure the right mix of videos is created.
lines between marketing and sales content
All external-facing videos, regardless of
can get a little blurred.
their specific purpose or who produced
Marketing’s goal is to further educate and them, should be made accessible to your
interest prospects who have become aware sales reps so they can share them with
that your company might offer a solution leads during specific interactions. This can
to their problem by keeping content be done easily if your company has an
customer-focused rather than product- online video platform (OVP) that connects
focused. But your sales reps are trying to to your CRM. You should also provide your
determine which leads have a real interest sales reps with the capability to “self-author,”
in your product, and of those, which ones i.e. create their own custom videos.
are a good fit and are actively looking
to buy. Sales needs content that speaks
directly to the benefits of the products to
move leads from interest to consideration.

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For example, prior to a sales call, your reps with a prospect by sending a micro-demo
can send an explainer video to a prospect that they recorded themselves of a product
to tell your brand’s story and convey value. feature that addresses the prospect’s need.
This can show why your product is the right
When your sales reps are armed with
solution and that there’s value in working
the right content, they can use video to
with your brand. For your less experienced
have more meaningful conversations with
sales reps, this type of video can also help
prospects and shorten the sales cycle.
them articulate your value proposition.
After a call, your sales rep can follow up

Questions Qualification and Discovery Videos Should Answer


• What problems do your prospects • What are the business benefits?
need to solve?
• What is your brand’s solution to
• Why is it important to solve the problems?
the problems?

Types of Videos that Work

• Explainer videos • Webinars

• Tip series • Self-guided demos

• Business use case videos • Interactive videos

Questions Solution Evaluation Videos Should Answer


• How, specifically, does your product • How can your product impact the
solve the prospect’s problems? prospect’s users and business?

• What are your product’s features • What sets your brand/product apart
and benefits? from your competitors?

Types of Videos that Work

• How-to/tutorials • FAQs

• Webinars • Micro-demos created by sales reps

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CHAPTER 4:

TURNING LEADS INTO


BUYERS WITH VIDEO
During the Proposing and Closing stage When a large number of stakeholders
of the sales cycle, potential buyers are are involved in a purchase decision and
narrowing in on the best solution for their getting them all in a room is difficult, it can
needs, making a commitment, justifying be useful to make a video that addresses
the decision, and making the purchase. the major contract terms of your proposal.
Providing links to videos within the PDF
Videos in this stage should help your sales
of the contract itself can drive home key
reps support different conversations during
points. As an example, a company buying
the buyer’s decision-making process. By
a software platform might be concerned
thinking through the proof points buyers
about the level of training and customer
need addressed, you can have a set of
support they’ll receive after purchase.
videos ready that your sales team can use
Providing a link to your company’s product
on the fly. Or, you might decide to create
support documents and videos can help
videos to help close a specific deal.
ease this objection.
A technical demo video, in the absence
of a sales engineer, allows a salesperson
without deep technical knowledge to
take the conversation to the next level
by easily explaining a complex topic.
Customer testimonials and case studies
are powerful ways to drive home product
benefits and build brand credibility.

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The key to successfully using video to close
more sales is to apply video in a way that Questions Proposing
complements your current sales strategy. and Closing Videos
When used properly, your video strategy
will meet your prospect’s needs, support
Should Answer
each step of your sales cycle, and help you • How can you prove your
win more business. product’s value?

By using an online video platform (OVP) • What information will help you
and integrating it with your customer handle objections?
relationship management (CRM) platform
• How can you accelerate and
and marketing automation platform (MAP),
finalize contract terms?
you can easily manage, share, and measure
video engagement by lead. From the CRM, • What’s needed to close the deal?
you then have the ability to see video
analytics for each individual prospect or
customer contact, alongside all of their Types of Videos that Work
other interactions and contact details.
• In-depth product demos
This provides your marketing, sales, and
customer success organizations with a • Technical demos
complete and united view of all video and
other engagements per contact. • Customer testimonials

• Case studies

• Contract overview demos

• ROI Videos

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CHAPTER 5:

HOW VIDEO IMPROVES


CUSTOMER SUCCESS
AND RETENTION
Customer experience is the practice occurs because brands become better at
of designing and reacting to customer retaining customers by thinking through
interactions for the purpose of meeting their post-purchase needs to ensure they
or exceeding customer expectations, know how to use the product, can easily
thereby increasing customer satisfaction, find help when they need it, and are aware
loyalty, and advocacy. of features or complementary products


that can help them perform better. Better


product familiarity and customer service
INCREASING CUSTOMER RETENTION RATES lead to satisfied, loyal customers.
BY 5% INCREASES PROFITS BY 25% TO 95%.
Videos can help strengthen customer loyalty
Bain & Co.
and retention by providing valuable post-
purchase experiences. Onboarding videos
can welcome customers to your company,
Positive customer experiences matter.
cover common questions customers
Classic research by Bain & Company
have about your product, shorten their
found that increasing customer retention
learning curve, and reduce support time.
rates by 5% increases profits by 25% to
Videos highlighting new features enable
95%. And a recent Xerox study found
customers to get the most benefit out of
that over half (54%) of consumers would
your product and help drive upgrades and
pay more money for better customer care
renewals. Videos touting new products
from their preferred brands.
drive additional purchases. Brand videos
By aligning externally-facing organizations promoting your values and culture help
under the customer-journey model and build a sense of community between you
sharing goals among them, the customer and your customers.


success team becomes an extension
to the sales team – facilitating repeat


purchases, upselling, and cross-selling to 54% OF CONSUMERS WOULD PAY MORE
happy customers when appropriate. This MONEY FOR BETTER CUSTOMER CARE
FROM THEIR PREFERRED BRANDS.
Xerox

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Ensuring customers have self-service An enterprise-level online video platform
access to your knowledge-base, “how-to,” makes it easy to create video playlists that
and other informational videos increases cater to customer needs because it can
customer satisfaction. 72% of people think be integrated with your CRM database.
self-service support is a fast and easy way This allows you to create playlists based
to handle support issues.5 91% of customers on a customer’s purchase history and
would use an online support center if it known data, making for a more valuable
were available and tailored to their needs.6 customer interaction and experience.

Questions Customer Loyalty Videos Should Answer


• How can you help new customers get • Which product features will be most
up and running with your product? useful to a particular customer?

• To what questions do most customers • Which video experiences can


need quick answers? be personalized?

Types of Videos that Work

• “Meet Your Support Team” videos • “How-to” videos

• Onboarding videos • New product videos

• Knowledgebase videos • FAQ videos

• Training videos • Brand videos promoting your values


and culture
• Interactive videos

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CHAPTER 6:

VIDEO’S ROLE IN
BRAND ADVOCACY
Advocates are the most dedicated and by word-of- mouth, rather than directing
vocal champions of your brand. more effort toward the process leading up
to the sale – a smart move considering that
Customers turn into brand advocates based
82% of companies agree that retention is
on exceptional customer experiences.
cheaper to execute than acquisition.7
By focusing on creating amazing customer
Making brand advocates the heroes of
experiences and fostering a “go above
your communications showcases how your
and beyond” culture within your company,
company helps them to be successful and
you have the opportunity to create an
brings awareness to your brand in the most
enthusiastic advocate out of every customer.
positive way. You’re not the one touting
Video can help you here, too.
your product’s benefits – they are. 83%
Brand advocates are the heart of any percent of people trust recommendations
successful, growing business because they from friends and family more than all other
send you referral leads, for free. Savvy forms of advertising.8 And 66% of people
businesses are putting more focus on trust consumer opinions posted online.9
converting loyal customers into advocates
and growing their current customer base

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Brand advocacy can be shown through television boxes as a new awareness outlet.
video in multiple ways. Customer Video should be a part of your content
testimonials and case studies are obvious mix because of its proven effectiveness in
ways that video can bring a customer’s driving marketing results. By 2020, video
story to life. Joint webinars are another. will account for 82% of all web traffic,10
User-generated product reviews hold and customers have come to expect it.
significant word-of-mouth weight. Live-
Finally, when it comes to brand advocacy,
streaming panel sessions with customers
don’t forget to include your employees.
at events and making the video files
They can be some of your strongest
available on-demand later also works well.
advocates. Be sure that employees at all
Encourage advocates to support your levels of your company understand your
brand through every possible outlet. Ask brand’s culture and the messages you’re
them to share their brand experiences conveying to the world. You can educate
through comments in social media, blogs, employees by live-streaming executive
online review sites, forums, and in-person communication videos, sharing recorded
at events. Request permission to post their video presentations about new initiatives
testimonials on your website and to use and products, or having employees share
them as customer referrals. Some companies personal stories about the company and
are using branded channels on set-top what it means to them personally.

Questions Advocacy Videos Should Answer


• What business results has the customer • Why did they choose your brand
achieved through using your product? and product?

• How does your product make their • Why do they remain loyal to your
job easier? brand and product?

Types of Videos that Work

• User-generated product review videos • Case studies

• Customer testimonials • Live-streaming and recorded


executive videos
• Customer panelists who participate in
webinar or events • Employee-created videos

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CHAPTER 7:

MEASURING THE IMPACT


OF VIDEO ACROSS YOUR
CUSTOMER JOURNEY
An enterprise-level online video platform Instead of needing multiple tools to manage
unlocks the power of video across the and measure videos according to which
customer journey so that you can deliver channel or audience they’re distributed,
a consistent experience to your prospects with an OVP, one single tool does it all. You
and customers, resulting in a better can store, manage, publish, distribute, and
experience for them. It also allows you measure live and on-demand videos.
to ensure all of your brand’s videos are
An OVP offers real-time, macro-and micro-
aligned to their intended business results
level video analytics that allow you to
and accessible across your entire company
track click-through rates, engagement, and
so that they can be repurposed in multiple
drop-off rates. You can also gauge video
ways, gaining additional ROI. It enables
performance by channel and geography.
you to do this quickly, easily, and at scale.

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When you integrate your OVP with your customer success teams to deliver bottom-
CRM and MAP, you can easily manage, line results. Through a comprehensive
share, and measure video engagement dashboard, each team can quickly see
by contact. You also have the ability to which videos drive the most engagement.
see video analytics for each individual This allows you to evaluate the ROI of every
prospect or customer directly from video and optimize your video strategy.
your CRM alongside all of their other You can determine which videos your sales
interactions and contact details. This reps and customers use most and see what
provides your marketing, sales, and content is performing best so that you
customer success organizations with a can ‘tune’ your messages and understand
complete and united view of all video and which types of video to invest in. Ultimately,
other engagements with each contact. you’ll close more business, create more
exceptional customer experiences, and
By integrating your OVP, MAP, and CRM,
foster more loyal brand advocates.
you can streamline workflow and handoffs
between your marketing, sales, and

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CONCLUSION:

VIDEO OPTIMIZES YOUR


RESULTS AT EVERY STAGE
OF THE CUSTOMER JOURNEY
TRAINING VIDEO FORUM / CHAT
Video is more than a content type or a All three departments – marketing, sales,
marketing asset. It’s a powerful medium that and customer success – share focus on
connects to your viewers at their emotional the customer journey and contribute to
core. Brands that use video strategically are each stage. Which department leads the
seeing tremendous impact on their business journey changes as the customer moves
at large, with significant growth in company across the stages. This alignment creates
revenue and greater decreases in customer a common need for good content across
acquisition costs year-over-year compared all three teams. Video is leading the way
to those who don’t. in terms of content that connects.

Leading brands are aligning the goals, Better than any other medium, video
focus, and execution of their externally enables you to optimize results at every
facing organizations – marketing, sales, and stage of the journey. Different types of video
customer success – around the customer work best during each stage of the journey,
journey to deliver holistic customer so it’s important that your marketing, sales,
experiences across touchpoints. This helps and customer success teams work together
to shorten the sales cycle, increase customer to provide the right content, at the right
CLOSE
satisfaction, and create loyal brand CHECK
time, to the right audience. C
advocates who make repeat purchases and
recommend the brand’s products to others.

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Additional Resources
The Hero’s Guide to Video Marketing: The Journey Begins – Chapters 1-3

The Hero’s Guide to Video Marketing: Chapter 4 – Strategies for Video Marketing
Across the Customer Journey

Convince Your Boss It’s Time for Video Marketing

The 4 Aces of Video Marketing: How Top Revenue-Generating Marketers Stack Their Decks

The Impact of Video and Marketing Automation: 4 Must Do’s for the Modern Marketer

The Perfect Fit: How Video Marketing Can Boost Your Online Sales

Top 5 Video Marketing Mistakes: Don’t Fall Victim to These Common Missteps

Endnotes
1. David C. Edelman and Marc Singer, 6. Ibid.
“Competing on Customer Journeys,”
7. Christopher Ratcliff, “15 Fascinating
Harvard Business Review. Retrieved
Insights from Econsultancy’s 2014
September 27, 2016.
Reports,” Econsultancy. Retrieved
2. Andrew Moravick, “Understanding September 7, 2016.
the Expanding Benefits of Marketing
8. 2015 “Global Trust in Advertising” Report,
with Video,” Aberdeen. Retrieved
Nielsen. Retrieved September 27, 2016.
September 6, 2016.
9. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
10.“Cisco VNI Forecast and Methodology,
4. Ibid.
2015-2020” White Paper, Updated
5. “Customer Self-Service for Fast-Growing June 1, 2016, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Companies” Infographic, Desk.com. Retrieved September 7, 2016.
Retrieved September 15, 2016

About Brightcove
Brightcove, Inc. is the leading global provider of powerful cloud solutions for delivering and monetizing
video across connected devices. The company offers a full suite of products and services that reduce the
cost and complexity associated with publishing, distributing, measuring, and monetizing video across
devices. Brightcove has nearly 5,000 customers in over 70 countries that rely on the company’s cloud
solutions to successfully publish high-quality video experiences to audiences everywhere. To learn more,
visit www.brightcove.com.

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