Animated Explainer Video: Creating Engagement to Clients

What is an Animated Explainer Video?
Animated explainer video is this short video that is used to engage your audience both online and offline. In most cases the animated explainer video usually explains what you do, or what your company or product is all about. Many companies across the globe have utilized the power of animated explainer videos to simplify complex ideas and concepts to customers and prospects. This has helped them tremendously to both increase their sales and build their brand.

Big and small companies alike have experienced the power of these animated explainer videos in marketing their products, explaining complex procedures, teaching what they do and offer. They have also seen an increase on their Return on Investment, increase in number of clients and prospects because of the responsive engagement the video are creating.

What is an animated explainer video and how is it produced? Just like I have pointed out in the sub paragraph above, these are short animated engaging videos that can be placed on a website. The animated videos can also be used for TV commercials to explain in a simple and effective way who you are and what you do.

There are several stages during which your highly converting explainer video will go through. Firstly the producers of the video need a highly converting video script written by a highly skilled copywriter. The copywriter must be able to synthesize your sales message or ideas into a 150 words script that will communicate your message clearly and to the point.

The video script is the most important element when it comes to animated explainer video because the script will either make or break the video. A good and quality video script must summarize the message within the one minute cap that is the standard duration for most videos. Nonetheless, most animated explainer videos have a range of 1 to 2 minutes in length and each minute is approximately 150 words when counted.

The copywriter must therefore ensure that the message to be passed must be within the 150 word count for a one minute video or so. The script must be written in such a way that the audience will be engaged awesomely when watching the video. The script must have a very clear call to action that will allow the viewers to take a given specified action after watching the video.

After ensuring that you have your well crafted and well written video script, then you need a voice over for your video. You can choose to have your own voice over produced by yourself or engage a professional voice over artist. I would rather recommend a professional artist to do the job simply because you may have the right script with the right message but a bad or poorly recorded voice-over may send the wrong signals to your audience.

After you have ensured that a good and high quality voice over is ready. The video producers then choose to have a storyboard created to visualize how the video will look like. In this case a talented storyboard artist with the appropriate skills to illustrate the video through the script is given the task of bringing your ideas to life.

The storyboard artist creates the video on a scene by scene basis for the approval of the client who wants the video produced. The approval of the storyboard by the client would mean that the video finally needs to be move into the final stage which is the productions stage.

The final video production phase would then begin after all of the other stages are completed. The stage would involve animating the video to match with the voice over. It may not just involve mere animation of the explainer video; every aspect of the animation must reflect the message to be passed and the engagement needed. The viewers must stick to the video to the end.

And after the final animated explainer video with the right format is produced, then it can be uploaded to YouTube or any other video sharing site to create more views. It can also be placed on a website on the landing pages of the website for the site visitors.

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Charity Shopping – Lending Hand to a Needy

The concept of a charity shop varies from country to country. For instance, it is called thrift store, resale shop, hospice shop in the United States and Canada, Opportunity (op) shop in Australia and New Zealand and 2nd hand shop in Malaysia. Therefore, charity shopping is a retail authority established by a charitable organization with an intention of fundraising. Australia Charity is widely known in this respect.

Charity shops often sell rare collection of famous people. However with the passage of time many new concepts in charity shopping have aroused. Many charity shops today work in the form of online shopping malls where people can buy products of their choice whilst donating.

There are some new concepts arising in charity shopping that are gaining popularity day by day. One of them is shopping for a cause. Such concepts provide normal shopping means to its customers while a portion of the amount spent by the customer is donated to his own selected charity from the list. Such shopping charities have their online existence e.g. AusCause (Australian Shopping Charity) and iGive (US Charity Shopping Charity). The same procedure is being followed by a number of charitable organizations for raising Australia Charity.

Charity Shopping In Australia

In the hard times, the charity organizations need to help the deserving as well as keep their own sustainability. Charity shopping is usually meant to support the people living on a limited or fixed income, thrifty people, collectors, patients, institutions, and people affected from natural disasters etc. Shopping from US thrift stores has earned a wide popularity of a slang term, thrifting. Similarly the popularity of Australia charity shopping is earning wide reputation across the world.

Some of the chief charity (opportunity) shopping groups in Australia are the Salvation Army – trading as Salvos, the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul – trading as Vinnies, the Brotherhood of St. Laurence, and the Red Cross.

These groups play a pivotal role in order to strengthen the cause of Australia charity. Apart from this, some of the local religious and secular charitable organizations also contribute towards Australia charity by running opportunity shops. The most common among them are ‘missions’ and ‘animal shelters.’

A lot of work has been done on Australia charity since the previous years and still is in progress. Charity shopping provides a platform and a helping hand to the poor, needy and affected people of the society. In order to save humanity and the planet earth from further destructions, we must join hands to work together for this noble cause.

Charity Shopping and the Thrift Lifestyle by Lettice Wilkinson presents a universal summary of charity, opportunity and thrift shopping keeping in vision the best charity shops around the world. She also points out the challenges, tactics and motivational forces behind this unique retail sector.

The author has presented her analysis of charity shopping after spending summers of 2008 while visiting hundreds of charity shops in Edinburgh, Bradford, Kent, Bristol, London, New York and Sydney. Therefore, it is a nice guide that highlights illustrated private stories of the opportunity shop experience today.

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The Gritty Truth About Work At Home Jobs

By definition, a “work from home” job is a means of employing yourself in the place you live. There are many types of work at home people, (sometimes called WAHM, work at home mom, WAHD, work at home dad, or simply WAHP, work at home person). Some WAHP’s report to a major business, some WAHP’s report to a boss, but many report to no one.od your screen with–usually–meaningless jargon.These types of WAHP’s are a unique sort of freelancer–and being so, they must navigate through the world of scams and rip-offs on the world wide web to find suitable, realistic, honorable and paying work for work at home professionals. The search for a legitimate program is a daunting task. A simple Google search for “work at home” yields over 25 million results. Such searches on Google also expose you to the insane world of Google ads. To the marketing industry, these ads are called Adwords, and they floMany sites behind a given AdWords advertisement are unsubstantiated, auto-generated spam sites that throw ridiculous and unattainable products in your face. Therefore, the work at homer must stray away from Adwords, and navigate through the remainder of the “too-good-to-be-true’s” and the solid, honest programs.So once you differentiate between the scam spam and the realistic opportunities, you are left with a few options:First, you could apply to work for a job at a major company that you know employs work at home personnel. Some of these companies include JetBlue airlines, Dell, OfficeDepot.com and many, many telemarketing companies that require you to pay your own hefty phonebills and well as buy your equipment.Or alternatively, you could take your future into your own hands and begin making your own income over the internet. Doing this requires finding the right program, and finding the right program requires finding materials that unbiasly review each and every $67 opportunity that you see getting thrown in your face.I want to leave you with one important thought: People don’t spend months or years writing, producing and marketing programs or eBooks that don’t offer anything. Sure, some scammers want a quick buck and they’ll put together a last-minute, meaningless rip-off program. But you can avoid getting involved with such programs by engaging in some simple research.

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