Perfect Gift for a Marketer: A Personalized YouTube Video Player

Posted by vitomy on April 14, 2011 0 Comments

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You probably know quite a few people who work in marketing and sales. In fact, there is a pretty good chance that you also make your living by promoting and selling a product or service or manage a marketing department. So, you probably also know the sorts of gifts that you and your co-workers would like for birthdays and the oft-dreaded secret Santa gift exchange at the end of the year. Coffee mugs or t-shirts with marketing or work related jokes are always a safe bet but they are pretty generic as far as gifts go. Also, although veteran coffee drinkers (and who isn’t) might disagree, a mug or t-shirt isn’t going to make work any easier or boost productivity.

So what do you do on those gift giving occasions that involve fellow co-workers? Handing over a coffee mug, t-shirt, or some witty hat might be tempting but there is a much better option. For a unique gift that your fellow marketers and salespeople will appreciate, try giving a personalized YouTube player. Ok, so this might sound like a bad joke but we aren’t talking about giving one of these to a significant other for some important occasion like a birthday or anniversary. I wouldn’t recommend going that route but it is an ideal gift for anyone who has wanted to build a YouTube player or could use an affordable online video platform. Since online video content is rapidly becoming a major aspect of marketing, this basically means all modern day marketers.

Sure, some of your co-workers might give you a strange look when you tell them about their gift, but when they see that you have personalized it with their name they might feel better about it and when they find out what they can do with it, they are going to be very grateful. If the person is still being stand-offish after a week or so because they think you gave them a cheap or thoughtless gift, show them the following features of their customized video player:

Teach them how to simply link to their favorite YouTube videos – The best customized video players will be able to make playlists of YouTube videos. This will show that you want them to have fun with their video player when not working.

Show them how to make a branded video content and players – They should see the wealth of work-related opportunities associated with a feature that allows one to easily create custom video.

Help them further customize their online video player – Tell them that you wanted to leave most of the customization up to them and then show them how they can give it different themes.

Whether you are giving a video player to one co-worker or the entire marketing department, you can be assured that once they see how easy it is to use them in presenting video for marketing, they will be glad you didn’t add to their coffee mug collection.

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For example, check out this online video player made by a Vitomy user for Charlie Sheen