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I feel like it’s just been a couple of days since I blogged about Goose Island Beer Company. Oh yeah… it has only been a couple of days.

Well, I can’t help it! They keep doing great stuff that serve as good marketing examples.

One of the things I try to remind clients is that “old” videos can continue to be shown years after their intended air date. The trick is to look for situations where it works.

Case in point… the Goose. Yesterday on Facebook, they posted about the Craft Brewers Conference taking place in San Diego… “It reminds us of a couple of years back when we hosted this party at our brewery in Chicago.”

The post links to this video from two years ago. It’s AWESOME! Possibly the best event video you’ve ever seen. Did I mention T60 produced it?

Okay, maybe that means we’re not quite objective enough to critique it, but the video really did turn out well. So from Goose Island’s perspective… why not look for an opportunity to show it again? And that’s exactly what they did.

The Goose Island party took place two years ago, but because they had the foresight to produce a video… it lives on to this day.

With all the time and money it takes to put on a special event, it only makes sense to add video to the mix. It can give you marketing value years after it’s over.

Just ask the Goose.

–Tony Gnau

Wait a second!? It’s Archive Friday. T60 usually doesn’t post a blog on Friday. It’s a day to unabashedly promote its past videos!

Well, today we can serve you as well as our shameless plug. :-)

All week we’ve been highlighting Christmas videos and how they can serve companies in their PR/marketing efforts. In most cases, it’s simply putting a holiday spin on the same types of videos businesses should be doing all year-long.

Demonstrating company culture, focusing on charity efforts, highlighting standout employees, and now… promoting company events.

T60 has done a couple of videos in the past for NBA All-Star Chris Bosh. While he was playing for the Toronto Raptors, we were hired to document his annual Christmas party for local kids.

• VIDEO: Bosh Christmas Bash

Businesses hold all sorts of holiday events. Having a video produced like this allows them to share the experience via social media, and also provide a terrific promotional tool for the next year.

–Tony Gnau

All week we’ve been reviewing the video series that Hyatt Regency McCormick Place had us produce. It’s worth examining because it highlights a marketing idea more businesses should consider.

Producing a video these days is a no-brainer. Between company websites and social media platforms, it’s important to let potential clients know what a business does and video is a terrific way to communicate.

The problem is some businesses produce a single video and leave it at that. In many cases this is fine, but if a company offers multiple products or services they could be doing themselves, or worse, their customers a disservice.

Instead of a single video that tries to be all things to all audiences, they may be better off producing a series of short videos allowing viewers to pick and choose which ones interest them. It saves customers precious time, and it also ensures companies get a motivated audience.

The Hyatt Regency McCormick Place sales and marketing staff wanted videos highlighting the hotel itself, the hotel ballroom, the McCormick Place Grand Ballroom, and finally McCormick Place’s West Building.

FEATURED VIDEO– Hyatt Regency McCormick Place: the West Building

Now the hotel’s potential clients can simply choose to learn about the venues that make sense for them.

–Tony Gnau

It’s day three of looking at Hyatt Regency McCormick Place’s video series, and today is when the whole concept really comes into focus.

The hotel’s sales and marketing staff opted for a series instead of a single video to give viewers options. They understand that each of their potential clients has different needs, so they wanted them to be able to choose the videos that best apply to their unique situation.

Hyatt Regency McCormick Place is Chicago’s convention hotel. It’s attached to the city’s convention center, McCormick Place, and that fact allows them incredible flexibility in dealing with meeting planners and corporate clients.

I have already shown you videos on the hotel itself and the hotel’s ballroom, but the videos I’ll show today and tomorrow are great examples of why giving clients viewing options is a nice way to go.

Working from the perspective of a client who needs to host a HUGE event… I’ve stayed at Hyatt hotels in the past, so I don’t feel like I need to watch the hotel video. My event is way too big to host at a hotel ballroom, so I know I don’t need to watch that video. I look at the video lineup a little further and see options for McCormick Place’s Grand Ballroom and West Building… now those are videos I’m interested in!

VIDEO– Hyatt Regency McCormick Place: the Grand Ballroom at McCormick Place

No need to waste valuable time watching a single video that includes every aspect of what the hotel complex has to offer. The client can simply jump to the one that interests them.

Tomorrow, we’ll wrap-up the series with a look at the West Building.

–Tony Gnau

Courtesy: Virgin America

Any company putting on a big event these days that doesn’t incorporate video is missing a great opportunity, and Virgin America provides a nice example.

I’m not talking about featuring video at the event, although that can be done as well. What I’m referring to here is having a production crew shoot video during the event and creating a video that can be shared after it’s over.

By doing so, the event lives on even after the party’s finished. Send email links to participants. Share it with anyone who couldn’t attend, and by all means pump it out via social media.

I saw a good example over the weekend. Virgin America has moved into the Chicago market. Instead of making a one day splash, they created a video that I saw on Facebook.

Now I’m in on the party and celebration… thanks to their video.

–Tony Gnau

VIDEO– Virgin America