Rehumanize Your Business: How Personal Videos Accelerate Sales and Improve Customer Experience
Buy Rights Online Buy Rights

Rights Contact Login For More Details

More About This Title Rehumanize Your Business: How Personal Videos Accelerate Sales and Improve Customer Experience

English

Accelerate sales and improve customer experience

Every day, most working professionals entrust their most important messages to a form of communication that doesn't build trust, provide differentiation, or communicate clearly enough. It's easy to point to the sheer volume of emails, text messages, voicemails, and even social messaging as the problem that reduces our reply rates and diminishes our effectiveness. But the faceless nature of that communication is also to blame.

Rehumanize Your Business explains how to dramatically improve relationships and results with your customers, prospects, employees, and recruits by adding personal videos to emails, text messages, and social messages. It explains the what, why, and how behind this new movement toward simple, authentic videos—and when to replace some of your plain, typed-out communication with webcam and smartphone recordings.

 •   Restore face-to-face communication for clarity and connection

•    Add a personal, human touch to your emails and other messages

•    Meet people who’ve sent thousands of videos

•    Learn to implement your own video habit in an easy, time-saving way
•    Boost your replies, appointments, conversion, referrals, and results dramatically

If you’re ready to influence, teach, sell, or serve in a more personal way, Rehumanize Your Business is your guide.

English

ETHAN BEUTE is VP of Marketing at BombBomb. He's collected and told personal video success stories in hundreds of blog posts, in dozens of webinars, podcasts, and stage presentations, and in countless conversations. He led marketing inside local television stations in Chicago, Grand Rapids, and Colorado Springs.

STEPHEN PACINELLI is the CMO at BombBomb. For nearly a decade, he's implemented personal video within multiple sales teams. Pacinelli was a National Sales Manager, Vice President of Events, and National Speaker for Realtor.com. He's delivered presentations to more than 1,000 audiences.

English

Introduction/Preface

PART 1 WHY IT’S TIME TO REHUMANIZE YOUR BUSINESS

Chapter 1 The New Way to Communicate, Connect, and Convert

A Simple Video Makes A Big Difference

Video for Relationships, Not Just for Marketing

It’s Like We’ve Already Met

Video Makes You More Familiar and Approachable

The Numbers: Video Email vs Than Traditional Email

The Stats, Claims, and Hype to Ignore

The One Question to Ask Yourself

Chapter 2 Email: The Indispensable, Broken Tool

You’ve Got Mail

Alternatives to Email

The Indispensable Tool

The Problem of (Over)Crafting Your Emails

So, Emojis?

Repairing Email

Chapter 3 Video:The Personal, Rehumanizing Tool

Relationships Are the Whole Point

Millennia of Human Brain Training

Our Faces Speak the Same Language

The Eyes Have It

Talking with Your Hands

The Warmth of Your Smile

Outsmarting Our Mental Shortcuts

Chapter 4 Six Signs This New Approach Is for You and Your Business

1 You Teach, Train, Sell, or Serve

2 You Drive Opportunities Toward Face-To-Face Meetings

3 You Want to Improve Customer Experience

4 You Risk Disintermediation by Web Apps, Tools, and Automations

5 You Benefit from Word of Mouth

6 You Win More Opportunities Face to Face

PART 2 WHEN TO REHUMANIZE WITH VIDEO

Chapter 5 Nine Stories of Sales Acceleration and Better Customer Experience

Author Dan Pink and Professor Dan Smith

The Most Important Sound in Any Language

Leadership, Video, and the Handwritten Note

Appreciation You Can Feel

More Sales Replies and Fewer Support Replies

Even More Success in Customer Success

The First Salesperson to Send 10,000 Videos

A Sales Team That’s Sent 10,000 Videos

Personal Touch, Faster Conversion, and More Referrals

It’s Not About the Video

Chapter 6 Ten Times to Send Video Instead of Plain, Typed-Out Text

1 Cold Prospecting, First Introduction

2 Nurturing Responsive and Unresponsive Leads

3 Great to Meet You

4 Project or Process Update

5 Holidays and Special Occasions

6 Bad News or Apology

7 Checking In

8 Internal Communication

9 Invitation

10 Thank You

When Not to Send Video

PART 3 HOW TO RECORD AND SEND VIDEOS

Chapter 7 Sending Video in Email, Text Messages, and Social Messages

3 Ways to Send Video in Email

  • The Screenshot Method
  • The Mobile Method
  • The Pro Method

Video in Google Chrome, Gmail, and Outlook

Screen Recording Videos

Sending Video in Text Messages

Sending Video in Social Messages

Delivery, Filters, and Firewalls

The Video Viewing Experience

Face to Face in Any Channel

Chapter 8 Why You’re Not Sending Video and How to Get Comfortable on Camera

Why We Stop “Doing Video” Before We Even Start

  • You Don’t Like How You Look or Sound
  • You Don’t Know What to Say
  • You Don’t Have A System or Process

You Look (And Sound) Great

  • People Already Know What You Look Like
  • Vulnerability, Authenticity, and Connection

You Know What to Say

  • Don’t Use A Script
  • The Shiny/Authenticity Inversion
  • Empathy, Value, Call to Action

Your System or Process Results from Execution

  • One or Two Start Points
  • Start, Then Iterate

Seven Tips for Better Videos

  • Practice
  • Set Your Camera at Or Above Eye Level
  • Look into The Lens
  • Talk to One Person
  • Don’t Use a Script
  • Know Where the Light Is
  • Smile

Chapter 9 The Salesperson’s Guide to Video Cameras

Video Camera Tips

  • Webcams
  • Smartphones
  • Other Cameras
    • Camcorders
    • DSLRs
    • Mirrorless Cameras
  • Microphones

Video Setup Tips

  • The Office Setup
  • The Mobile Setup
  • The Pro Setup

The Right Tool for The Right Job

PART 4 IMPROVING VIDEO RESULTS

Chapter 10 How to Get More Opens, Plays, and Replies

Top Reasons for Video Email Underperformance

  • It’s Not Sincere
  • It’s Not Clear
  • It’s Not Targeted
  • It’s Not Tracked
  • It’s Not Differentiated

How to Get More Email Opens

How to Get More Video Plays

How to Keep People Engaged In Your Videos

How to Increase Your Reply Rate

Cold Prospecting: How to Get More Opens, Plays, and Replies

  • The End of Cold Calls
  • A Personal Video to Every Prospect!?

Chapter 11 So You Sent A Video Now What?

How Tracking Helps You Follow Up More Effectively

What to Do If Your Video Email Didn’t Get Opened

  • To One Person
  • To A List of People

What to Do If Your Video Didn’t Get Played

  • To One Person
  • To A List of People

What to Do If You Didn’t Get A Reply

  • To One Person
  • To A List of People

Multiple Views, Latent Demand, And Long-Term Follow Up

Chapter 12 Where Rehumanization Is Now and Where It’s Headed

A More Effective and More Satisfying Way to Work

The Soft Edge

The State of The Movement

Measuring More Than Opens, Plays, and Replies

Your Next Steps

  • As an Individual Practitioner
  • As a Team, Department, or Company

Index

loading