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Neatly packaged to takeaway

Whilst these videos made by Sandwich Video are a bit ‘flavour of the month’ for the new online brands like Groupon and Square (my favorite is Jawbone), they do a few things really well IMHO:

  • They’re well produced and look professional (that’s a given right?)
  • They tell stories in plain English (or American, depending on your bias) what the product or service is all about
  • They use real people in situ to explain
  • They show the product or service in action, or demonstrate how it works rather than some complicated diagram or explanation
  • They reveal the real benefit to the user rather than wrapping in corporate justification or jargon
  • They’re short and sweet, to the point

We should use videos like these (and these in my previous post) to explain things to customers, in this simple way.

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Why Khan’t we do this?

Why can’t banks communicate this way?

Video is an easy, quick, cheap way to effectively communicate complex products. If the Khan Academy can do it in 1000′s of videos across dozens of freaky complex issues, why can’t banks?

We can’t because creating simplicity, clarity and understanding may just be too hard to take.

P.S. Favourite quote from this video“It (the bank buidling) looks like an old greek or roman temple … I think that’s not an accidental appearance”

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