How do I increase my YouTube video views?

If you perform any video marketing or decide to implement video marketing in your marketing efforts in the future, this easy technique will significantly increase your YouTube video views.

First, you need to upload your video to YouTube.com.  Then you need to find a related video with a high number of views.

As soon as you find a popular related video, you will post a video response.    Look underneath the video in the section called “Video Responses.”  If you look to your right, you will see the link “Post a Video Response.” Click on that link and the next page will have the following tabs at the top, “Record a Video”, “Choose a video”, or “Upload a video.”  Click on “Choose a Video”.  From there you will select a video from your list.

Once you have posted your video in the video response section, you can go back and see your video in the Video Responses section.

This straightforward strategy has the potential to bring thousands of people to your video.

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How do I get my videos to get traffic from the search engine?

Creating videos to promote your business is one of the great strategies you could ever use.  Can you believe that twice as many people search YouTube versus Google search engine?  Google wins either way.

Today, internet user average attention span is measured in seconds. Once your visitor comes to you from a major search engine search query, or by a recommendation link on a review blog, the new web visitor applies only a very limited effort and time to see whether she can make sense of what you are communicating/selling/proposing and to decide whether your content, style, look and approach are a good fit for what they was actually looking for. If you can engage their interest right there and then, and offer a fast, highly visual way to let them discover what your “message” is, then your video marketing was successful.

Here are a couple of ways to get your video more traffic from the search engine.

• Upload your video to Tube Mogul.  – Tube Mogul the ultimate online video analytics and distribution company to over 25 video networking sites with only one click
• Social bookmark your video using Only Wire. Only Wire syndicates your content and articles to the web’s top social networking sites with a single button click.
• Submit it to video search engines:
  • http://www.blinkx.com/
  • http://www.casttv.com/
  • http://clipta.com/
  • http://www.munax.com/index.htm
  • http://about.picsearch.com/
  • http://www.truveo.com/
  • http://www.yovisto.com/

Follow these steps to have a successful video marketing campaign get traffic from the search engine.

How can you upload one video to over 25 video networking sites with one click?

I come across a very valuable and simple method to upload one video to over 25 video networking sites with only one click.  The website is name Tube Mogul and did I mention it is my favorite word….FREE!

Tube Mogul is the first online video analytics and distribution company serving publishers large and small who need independent information about video performance on the Internet and automated upload to the Web’s top video sharing sites.

To get started, you must become a member with every video networking site that partners with Tube Mogul.  After you obtain the user name and password, you input it only one time and Tube Mogul will save them for you for the next time you upload your video.

Tube Mogul’s analytic technology aggregates video-viewing data from multiple sources to give publishers an improved understanding of when, where and how often their videos are watched, track and compare what’s hot and what’s not, measure the impact of marketing campaigns, gather competitive intelligence, and share the data with colleagues or friends.

To paying clients, Tube Mogul offers a wealth of additional tools to promote, track and manage video content. Among them:

VIDEO PROMOTION: Tube Mogul seeds your video organically (not in an ad unit) and guarantees TV-sized audiences on a cost-per view basis, tracking rich audience data in a self-serve dashboard. >> MORE

RICH ANALYTICS: Tube Mogul InPlay tracks both syndicated and on-site video performance data, including audience engagement, region tracking, referring sites (including search terms) and much more. >> MORE

Definitely, experiment with Tube Mogul with your promotion videos next time.  You will be really impressed at the promptness and simplicity of Tube Mogul.

What is the best way to capture a testimonial?

How would you like to gain 30% more online sales with 7 simple steps from audio testimonials?

I know you are probably thinking  that you can’t record everyone you do business with with a web cam or video.  And, you don’t have to.

After your customer purchase a product or service from you, ask them if they can give you a testimonial. Use Audio Generator to help your customers record an audio testimonial with a simple phone call.

All you need to do is send a link to your customer and it will walk them through the steps I will illustrate for you.

Step 1: Your client will enter a text testimonial, along all of their contact information.

Step 2: Next, your customer is given a toll-free number to call, and a PIN number that is based on your Audio Generator customer ID. The IVR message instructs the user on when and how to leave an audio message.

Step 3: Your client will upload a picture or image they want to use for the audio testimonial

Step 4: The system displays a message that the audio testimonial has been saved.

Step 5: Login to your member’s area, and copy the  raw audio into MP3, paste it into your website.

Step 6: Upload the picture or image of letter on YouTube along with the mp3 recording of their testimonial.

Step 7: Copy the code from YouTube to your website to your testimonial page.

There you have it. An online video without have the client actually record themselves on video. Please visit Audio Generator for more details on getting started to boosting your sales up 30%.

How many people watched Balloon Boy on Youtube?

How many people watched Balloon Boy on YouTube? Close to half a million within the past week.  Please don’t ever go to this extreme to get noticed or drive people to your site.  I was watching it live when the balloon was actually in the air and I was holding my heart in my chest the entire time because I actually thought there was a little boy in the balloon.  I am glad it wasn’t, but I don’t like being betrayed that way for ratings.   He wanted  to be noticed and he receive actually that.  You don’t want anyone speaking negatively and harshly about you or your business  just to get noticed. This is not the way to go.

This is to say, you can have a viral video on YouTube without going to this extreme.  What if the dancing baby – who danced to Beyonce “Single Ladies” was wearing a baby t-shirt with your company’s name on it? Not to say you have to dress up your baby or pets to get noticed, but people do love entertainment. This video has over 3 million hits.

Think outside the box and be funny, not institutional psych, having to serve jail time.  Look over some YouTube clips and get a couple of ideas of how you can make a funny viral video.

Nonprofit = Reach Millions of Viewers with Youtube

YouTube is using some of their internet power for good.  YouTube is teaming up with nonprofit organizations that apply through YouTube partnership program to promote their nonprofit group on the first page of the nonprofit YouTube channel. I think it is a good idea for nonprofit groups to raise money online.  I think it may be easier than applying for grants.  I know some people will disagree with that, but those same people who claim they can get grants for you for a small charge .

I love the way MoveOn.org Political Action, one of the largest Political Action Committees in the country took their political cause to the internet and made millions for their cause.  Starting with online petitions to get their members.  Through 2004, MoveOn.org Political Action raised approximately $11 million for 81 candidates from over 300,000 donors. In 2005, MoveOn.org Political Action grew to 3.2 million members and 125,000 members contributed $9 million to progressive candidates and campaigns (average donation: $45).

But, YouTube have requirements for the nonprofit program.  Your nonprofit group may not be religious or political in nature and may not be focused primarily on lobbying for political or policy change.

Besides that, YouTube helps you setup your nonprofit channel.  The World Water Day Video that debut on their nonprofit channel for the first time raised $10,000 in one day.

These are the steps for you  to get ready for your debut on Youtube to raise more money for your cause:

• Make sure you have a website (We specialize in web design services, just in case)
• Sign up with Google to use their free tools to raise money and promote your work.
• Apply for YouTube nonprofit program (If you already have an approved Ad Sense account, less than 24 hours. If you don’t yet have an Ad Sense account, becoming a partner will take up to 3 days.)
• Download Camstaia Studio (Free 30 day trail) Easy software to make a video for your cause to download on YouTube
• Keep making videos and keep promoting them.

Please come back and let us know if YouTube nonprofit program helped your cause.