Before you read this blog post any further, head on over to Beanstalk and read the Customer Story: Young Copy blog post written by Chris Nagele, Principal of Wildbit, Beanstalk’s parent company.

Benefits of using Beanstalk

With big brand names using Beanstalk’s subversion hosting like Puma, New Relic, and Realmac Software, Young Copy set out to become a featured brand as well. Using Beanstalk has proven more than useful by providing Young Copy, our team of technical writers, and our clients with multiple benefits including:

• Fast and easy setup / administration
• Security
• Reliability and speed
• User-friendly
• Affordable

In addition to the great usability aspects of Beanstalk, Young Copy is saving thousands of dollars annually by moving to a hosted subversion service. And we haven’t looked back since starting, which led us directly to becoming a featured customer on the Beanstalk blog.

Why we were featured on Beanstalk

Young Copy is an up and coming professional writing services company that has developed a brand for providing high quality writing services that generate results. For years, mostly developers and programmers have been using some type of version control. Since we cater to software and technology companies that use version control, using subversion hosting makes sense for our technical writing team.

Chris says, “Version control is no longer just for software developers. With Beanstalk’s ease of use, it can be applied across many industries including design, writing, and document management. Young Copy is a great example of this.”

Chris is right. And Young Copy has proven that point. Since using Beanstalk, we have improved the turnaround time for delivering software documentation and technical manuals to our clients while achieving higher quality in the work we complete. As a result, our technical writing services clients are happy, very happy.

Have the videos been successful?

You bet. Even though the first three videos have only been online for over a month, the Young Copy Client Video Testimonials page has approached the top 10 most viewed pages on the entire website. Client video testimonials are powerful, very powerful. In today’s Internet world, it’s time to go beyond just testimonials in text. Don’t get me wrong. Testimonials in print and text are still great, but nothing beats the power of video marketing using live, human interaction.

Top SEO rankings in Google

If you have spent any amount of time on the Young Copy site, you know that we provide SEO copywriting services and SEO top ranking services to our clients. We’ve achieved amazing results for our clients. And we have achieved top rankings for the Young Copy website. But since this post is about client video testimonials, I thought I’d share with you that today, we currently rank top 10 in Google for video testimonials and client video testimonials. In fact, we’ve reached the #1 spot depending on which Google server your browser uses when you search for one of the key phrases.

Isn’t it your turn?

We’re professional writers. But we’re professional writers with marketing expertise and serious revenue generating skills. I lead a team of highly qualified, brilliant and talented writing and marketing geniuses. We’re good, very good. And we think it’s your turn to get started. It’s time to take your enterprise to another level. So whether you need Young Copy’s promotional writing services, technical writing services, or all-out professional SEO copywriting services, contact us today and start increasing your revenue. Oh, we can even film, edit, and bring your client video testimonials to life.

Why did I choose to include video testimonials on the Young Copy website?

I have spent more than 10 years working in the hosting, software, and technology industries. Over the last several years I have witnessed tremendous success with video testimonials produced by clients and friends of mine in those industries. Aaron Phillips, then vp of marketing and sales at LayeredTech, said the video testimonials published on the FastServers.Net website was one of the most popular pages on the entire site. The page received thousands of visitors and inspired a new wave of customers to signup for the dedicated server hosting company’s services.

Another example is PEER 1, one of the largest peering hosting companies specializing in dedicated servers across the globe. PEER 1 has video testimonials describing how their services helped customers handle millions of visitors monthly without any incidents or major hiccups in server uptime. I highly respect PEER 1’s marketing team, led by Rajan Sodhi, vp of marketing, and have witnessed first-hand how important his customers’ video testimonials are to the overall PEER 1 marketing strategy.

Other high-end hosting companies have published their own set of client video testimonials. RackSpace and LiquidWeb are at the top of the list. In addition to hosting companies, major software as a service (SaaS) providers have been launching their own set of client video testimonials. 37Signals, developers of project management tool Basecamp, customer relationship management tool Highrise, and a few other leading collaboration projects, is raising the bar high with their client video testimonials, available on the 37Signals homepage.

Up close and personal – does it work?

Meeting with happy clients face-to-face is one of the best things you can do as a business owner. When I set out to interview my clients for the Young Copy video testimonials, they were more than ecstatic to spend 15-20 minutes chatting with me about the successes they achieved by using Young Copy’s promotional writing services and technical writing services. Fortunately, I was able to personally interview six clients in one gathering – HostingCon 2008 in Chicago, Illinois.

Even though these executives were busy showing current and potential customers their own products and services, I was able to put together a list of interview questions, specific to each client, and send it to them prior to the show. That way each client could spend time preparing for the interview, without any surprises or hidden agendas. The interviews were a success. I got to sit down with each client and learn why they chose, and continue to choose, Young Copy as their preferred marketing, writing, and technical communications company.

It’s your turn to get personal

So take a few minutes and view the first three of six Young Copy client video testimonials. And go ahead and subscribe to the Young Copy blog so you can be the first to view the next three video testimonials when they become available.