Video is all the rage online these days and YouTube is leading the way. According to Clean Cut Media on the web: “YouTube is the fourth largest Site on the Internet and the largest video website on the web. This online video juggernaut has 300 million Worldwide Visitors a month and 5 billion Video Streams are downloaded each month or 40% of all videos online.”
“Adults spend 15+ hours on the Internet per Week and they expect 217 million US internet Users by 2012 or 71% Penetration, 55% broadband access will grow to 90% by 2012 and online video viewing increased 35% year over year.”
If these statistics alone didn’t convince you that advertising your home based business merchandise on YouTube is a good idea then here are 5 other benefits associated with promoting your product on their website:
1. If your home business website theme is Internet marketing you could create a short video featuring Internet marketing tips for beginners and make it a weekly feature. Eventually people will begin to view you as an expert in your field and they will click on your link contained in your signature file leading back to your home page to find out what your website is all about. Because these visitors feel as though they already know you they are more likely to do business with you than with a perfect stranger.
2. Once you’ve uploaded your video to YouTube and the other top video sharing sites on the web you can add links to your production in your email signature file, on your home business web page, on any banners and promotional flyers your distribute offline and on your sales page. This is a great way to increase traffic to your website, build your email list and increase sales and profits.
3. In every video you create try to have your home business website address visible as much as possible. Also be sure to include your name, your phone number, preferably a 1-800 number because it gives your business a more professional appearance, your business address and if you can include a photo of yourself in some way this would be a plus because people would be able to associate a face with your enterprise which raises their level of trust in your business. After all, the whole idea of uploading these videos to YouTube is so people can find you and your home business website.
4. Becoming a member of the YouTube community offers several advantages in and of itself. Join the forum on their website and make regular contributions to their discussions. Try to assist people with their problems and answer any questions relating to Internet marketing that may be posted by other members. Once you become a regular contributor of helpful content then your reputation will grow within the community and other business owners will begin to trust you and your enterprise.
By creating relationships with other members you open up other business opportunities such as establishing joint ventures with other webmasters or ad swaps and link exchanges. These are other great techniques for generating more traffic and increasing sales and profits for your business.
5. After creating your Internet marketing video you can embed it on your home business site and on your blog, if you have one, as well as uploading to YouTube and the other top rated video sharing websites online. You can create agreements with other Internet marketers, who are utilizing video marketing, to place a link to your production on their website and you would reciprocate by doing the same.
As you can see the advantages of promoting your home business and your products on YouTube are tremendous and if you’re new to the Internet it’s a great way to get established in a hurry while increasing your traffic, building your email list and increasing sales and profits for your enterprise.
Thanks for an informative post. All great ways for anyone to use for web site promotion. And simple to do too.
Ad swapping is a particularly effective method to get fast, targetted traffic to your web site, grow your opt-in mailing list and build longer term mutually beneficial relationships with other site owners – for example for cross promotional opportunities and repeat ad swaps for an exponential effect.
Always provide your ad swap partner with stats on the effectiveness of your swap – for example proof that you sent their ad to your list, size of list, number of clicks and so forth. They will value that and at the same time you prove yourself to be a genuine and relaible ad swap partner yourself.