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Videos Sell Products – Even if Users Don’t Actually Watch them

While adding video to your online store isn’t exactly new, it is still a medium in its infancy.  Only within the last year or so have retailers begun to wake up to the power of video as a marketing tool that builds customer confidence and increases conversion rates. The amazing thing about video is that it works to this effect whether it’s watched or not.  In other words, just by adding product videos to your site, whether they’re watched or not, will help move products.

Why add video to your site’s product pages?  Because simply put, product videos sell products.  While shoppers who actually view a product video are buying at a higher rate than those who choose not to watch the video, what has proven even more interesting is the fact that people who do NOT watch the video are converting at a significantly higher rate than shoppers viewing the same product page without the option for video viewing.