Category: Technology

The Explainer Video

If you are going to sell a product or service online, video is an absolute must.  Keeping the pitch short when you’re selling is always a good rule.  Our research has discovered that the average viewer’s attention span lasts an average of 55 seconds.  Enter The Explainer video!

Explainer videos, as they have come to be known, are short, fast-paced, informative videos that state the video message with creative animation and text. Explainer videos should be entertaining, energetic and fun to watch so as to capture and retain the attention of the viewer.  Stats have shown that pages with explainer videos have higher conversion rates.

We recently completed one for a company called Patriot Consulting which specialized in Enterprise contract staffing.  They supply large companies with offshore consulting teams with focus on project leadership, business transformation, and data analytics.  Finding and building an qualified offshore team is a challenge.  Patriot Consulting has streamlined the process for their clients and makes it easier, faster and less-costly to find, hire and implement their off-shore team members.

Although I have explained their services in a couple sentences, you will find the explainer video we produced for them to be more entertaining and descriptive.

Explainer videos are perfect for social media campaigns and video advertising.  If you want to teach, inform, educate, or inspire, The Explainer video is a perfect solution.

Administering Facebook Pages without a personal Facebook profile

Facebook Pages 101! Facebook has done away with the limited “business only” profile.  Understandably, some people do not want a personal Facebook profile but do want a Facebook business page.  Sometimes, they do have a profile and would like to appoint a third party to administer the Facebook Page, but do not feel comfortable providing their personal login credentials.  Solving the second… Read more →

Watching YouTube Videos with Subtitles in Different Languages

Let’s say you are watching a YouTube video with another person, but you see that they are struggling to understand the language spoken in the video. I go through this every time I try to share a funny clip from Rick & Morty with my mother. Did you know that YouTube allows you to select subtitles in different languages? Follow the steps in the tutorial below!

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Inbound Marketing

The practice of creating quality content to pull people toward your company has been coined as Inbound Marketing by the web advertising company, HubSpot. This creates new connections which can turn strangers to your business into site visitors, which can turn into leads, which can turn into customers and eventually, promoters of your business, leading to more business. HubSpot encourages business owners and ad… Read more →

Editing a Video in Portrait Mode

Exporting to (portrait) orientation is not recommended because the TVs and monitors we watch are landscape oriented. For that reason, video streaming services like Vimeo and YouTube display portrait oriented videos by squeezing them into a landscape orientation with black space on each side.  This makes your video smaller. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9zSfinwFA Now, I understand that there might be some reason, like you… Read more →

Valentine’s Day – The Loveliest Time of Year

The Loveliest Time of Year Although the exact origins of Valentine’s Day are cloudy, we do know that on the 15th of February, the ancient Romans celebrated the feast of Lupercalia Spring Festival. As Christianity become more prevalent, the festival moved to the 14th of February, corresponding with the saint day that celebrated several early Christian martyrs with the name… Read more →

Making Custom Annotations in YouTube

Video coupled with custom annotations is a marketing must.  If you want to get people to visit your website, video is an excellent medium to choose.  Uploading to YouTube is a given because that is where the eyes are.  YouTube also offers custom annotations which will allow you to make clickable links within your video.  The latest addition by YouTube is a new… Read more →

Here’s to Googling You, Kid.

Jazz Unlimited School of Dance Arts has been offering dance classes for over 40 years and boasts a team of skilled, passionate instructors who have degrees in dance, and experience with professional dance companies. Another company redesigned Jazz Unlimited’s website using a much better template and sharing capabilities. They switched from using Microsoft Publisher to a WordPress CMS, which is more intuitive.… Read more →

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Technology Help on a Tuesday

We love problem solving and providing help with technology.  We want people to enjoy their technology during these exponential times.  So it is fitting that we are proclaiming that every Tuesday shall now be referred to as TechTuesday at SQP! On TechTuesday, we will offer free technology help.  Hey!  Everyone needs help every now and then.  We didn’t get to… Read more →

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Change Responsively

Responsive Website Development It’s easy to think that the way things are will always be, but change is good. Change reminds us that anything is possible. We’ve changed our website three times in the past 8 years. Why change? The bottom line?  Your growth depends on your website and brand. As you begin to embrace the possibility of updating or… Read more →