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Most of the time multimedia content passes us by like dust in the wind. But there are a couple times a day when we stumble upon a must watch video on YouTube like “Great White Shark Surfing,” or some awkwardly “wrong” video with Louis CK. Maybe, for the enlightened ones, a good educational video.

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As marketers, we tend to notice quality business-oriented multimedia content when it’s time for us to try and tell our company’s story. Instinctively, we already know that creating a multimedia news release will have a greater impact than a simple traditional text press release.

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But how do we create a plan in order to ensure that our multimedia news release campaigns are successful?

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But just in case you doubted your gut, here’s some data to let you know that your media relations efforts are not in vain when we integrate excellent photos, infographics and video in to our multimedia marketing content (data provided by “The Power of Visual Storytelling” by Ekaterina Walter and Jessica Gioglio):

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Related Article: From Hello to Close: How Content Marketing Is The Salesman Evolved

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Have a Plan (and an Outcome in Mind)

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Your ultimate objective is to get people to read your content. So when you initiate media relations’ efforts, it’s critical to have a multimedia content marketing strategy that produces great content and gets in the right hands.

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Write out what your objectives are for your article and how you are going to determine if it’s going to be successful. Possible metrics include:

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Related Article: Lights, Camera, Action: Ways to Add More Value to Video Marketing

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Lets’ Get to Work (Producing Great Content is Easier Said Than Done)

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When we see it, we know it’s great, but for some of us, myself included, creativity doesn’t always come easily. So, here are a couple rules to ask yourself when you are creating a story:

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Related Article: Putting Strategy to Work: Comprehensive Content Marketing Checklist

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Where are You Going to Push/Post Your Content?

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And after you generate that killer story, you’ll have to consider how and where you are going to deliver the content. Here are some places to push your content:

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How are You Going to Manage Your Multimedia Content?

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Remember, a high res image can be 10-20MB, which is large. And a video can be 500MB or larger. That creates a whole new challenge in sharing and delivering content. While it’s a victory to have a reporter want to cover our story, we still have to give them these big files in the proper format, and that’s a pain.

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But that’s a part of media relations, right? So how can we do that?

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Your Final Round Checklist Before Pushing out Your Multimedia Content Marketing Campaign:

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People can always dig further. For all you writers out there, dig deep in to your personality and create your own voice. Don’t try to be all things to all people; you’ll end up being nothing to no one. If you are funny, be funny. If you bring passion, then bring it. And after you’ve created your masterpiece, ask yourself, do you like it?"]}]}]},{"component":"li","children":["Will the title grab the readers?",{"component":"ul","children":[{"component":"li","children":["We are all familiar with the cliché, “don’t judge a book by its cover,” yet we do. And the “cover” for your article and content is your title. If they aren’t intrigued or there is no spark, they may not even get to your article. This is another reason why your multimedia content is so important. 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