Why does light editing build more trust in B2B video?

Because a few flubs show a real person, and a real person educating you is more believable than a polished pitch trying to dazzle you.

Quick Answer

• Your own experts belong on camera. They represent the company, they know the stuff, and trust is what closes the sale.
• We record on Riverside and do a little cleanup. It stays very lightly edited on purpose.
• Packaging is ours: thumbnails, optimized descriptions, chapters, links. Posting takes your team about 15 minutes.

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The flubs are the point

The people on camera should be your experts, not actors and not marketing. They represent the company and they know the product or service. The whole reason for the video is to build enough trust to close a sale, and that trust comes from the person, not the polish.

That is why the editing stays light. We handle it, we use Riverside, and we just do a little bit of cleanup.

"By showing the little bit of flubs and things like that, you're kind of showing your authenticity. You're helping people build trust when they see you're a real person, and you're really just trying to educate them rather than razzle dazzle them with marketing fluff." — Dane Frederiksen

A buyer watching a B2B video is trying to learn something, and a small stumble tells them a real human is teaching them. Over-produced video sends the opposite signal. It reads as marketing, and buyers discount marketing.

The next step after editing is packaging, and that is ours too. We make the thumbnails, write the YouTube descriptions that have to be optimized, and put together the chapters and links. Your team just posts, which in many cases is what companies prefer. My guess is that takes about 15 minutes. If you would rather not, we can post it for you with guest access.

In the full video I walk through every step of the system, who owns each one, and why the whole thing starts at about an hour a week from one person on your team.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Who should be on camera in a B2B sales video?

Your own experts. They represent the company, they know the product, and buyers trust a real person who knows the material far more than a polished spokesperson.

How much editing should a B2B video have?

A little cleanup and not much more. Leaving in a few flubs shows authenticity, and authenticity builds the trust that closes the sale.

What does packaging a video include?

Thumbnails, an optimized YouTube description, chapters, and links. We deliver all of it ready to post, so posting takes your team about 15 minutes, or we post with guest access.

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Full Clip Transcript

They represent the company. They know the stuff and we're trying to build trust so we can actually close the sale here. So that's why they need to be probably the people. We can handle the editing. We use Riverside. We just do a little bit of cleanup. It's very lightly edited because by showing the, you know, the little bit of flubs and things like that, you're kind of showing your authenticity. You're helping people build trust when they see a real person and you're really just trying to educate them rather than razzle dazzle them with marketing fluff. Next step, packaging. We'll handle making the thumbnails and coming up with the descriptions for the YouTube videos that have to be optimized, things like chapters, links. We'll put all that together for you so you guys can just post, if you are the ones posting, which in many cases that would be the case. People want to handle that themselves. So that could be one area where your team needs to spend a little bit of time. I'm just guessing 15 minutes. We'll have to see how long that actually takes, or we can do that for you with guest access.

Full Transcript

This is how much time it takes from your team to build a video creation system that drives inbound leads. It depends on which of the 10 steps below that your team wants to handle and how often you want to create videos. There's three key steps you and your team are best suited to because of your roles and expertise and we'll get deeper into those 10 steps in a moment. I recommend starting out with one video a week by using about an hour of one team members time. The video's performance data will help us see what to improve next time and where to double down. It's entirely up to you. This can be adjusted at any time and taking on more work internally changes your time commitment.

So it starts with step one. We're gonna get the buyer questions from your sales transcripts. You have access to those better than us. So that's probably a good role for your team.

Next, we're gonna create the scripts and graphics.

Then the next role, because of your expertise internally with the product or service you have, having your people on camera is probably gonna make the most sense. They represent the company, they know this stuff and we're trying to build trust so we can actually close a sale here. So that's why they need to be probably the people.

We can handle the editing. We use Riverside. We just do a little bit of cleanup. It's very lightly edited because by showing the, little bit of flubs and things like that, you're kind of showing your authenticity. You're helping people build trust when they see a real person and you're really just trying to educate them rather than razzle-dazzle them with marketing fluff.

Next step, packaging. We'll handle making the thumbnails and coming up with the descriptions for the YouTube videos that have to be optimized. Things like chapters, links, we'll put all that together for you so you guys can just post. If you are the ones posting, which in many cases that'll be the case. People wanna handle that themselves. So that could be one area where your team needs to spend a little bit of time. Or we can do that for you with guest access.

And then of course, there's the analytics. Once we post these videos, we're gonna see how do they perform? And then based on performance, that's gonna help us prioritize, which you probably wanna be involved in this, is like, what questions are being answered? Where are people dropping off on the videos? What's the next content that we need to make? The priority content that's actually gonna help move them down the funnel. So we're gonna see where in the funnel, if this is the beginning of the funnel, they're moving towards the sale in this direction, we're gonna see where are they dropping off? And can we get them, all their questions answered until we get to 80% of the way through? And then they're typically ready for a sales call. So we're trying to prioritize the content that's gonna help them move down the funnel and close a deal.

Then we're gonna iterate based on the data that we learn. Just kinda talked about that, based on the priorities that we have, and then we're gonna repeat this entire process. We start with the buyer questions, then we go to the sales transcripts, pull those out, make our video content, post it, then we analyze and see what do we learn, and then we revise. And because of the analytics, going into our revisions, this is just gonna get better and better every time. So we're gonna start checking off all the buyer questions that they have until, in a theoretical world, they've run out of questions. So that's what we're headed towards. And if you want some help with this, just reach out. That's what me and my company do.