By Innocent Ibhaluobe
YouTube is undoubtedly the world’s largest video-sharing website with hundreds of millions of people watching
its videos daily. It is a fact that when looking for information, a sizeable number of people prefer watching a video about the subject than reading a book on it. This explains why so many people use YouTube and why many website owners now plug videos into their websites in addition to their articles.
The huge number of users of YouTube has made it a great marketing platform to source for potential buyers, and indeed, you can acquire thousands of highly targeted traffic from YouTube for free and increase your income. Here is a simple system to follow to make comfortable income consistently from YouTube.
The main idea of this system is to create simple, informational YouTube videos for a target profitable niche market. The videos are to get the attention of thousands of prospects and take them to the review page of the product you are
promoting, and from there to its sales page where they make an order and you get paid a commission.
Once the system is set, you can continue to make money from the traffic coming from viewers of your video even without you doing anything again. And by the time you have several of such video campaigns on the Internet; you can then multiply your income.
Determining A Profitable Niche To Explore This is always the first thing to do if you are talking about making money on the Internet as a marketer. This step is very important: You must be sure from the onset that the market you are targeting has a record of buying products. If they don’t but are only interested in getting free stuff, then you know you cannot make money there.
You need those that can buy your products so that you can make money. Therefore, follow the steps below to find a profitable niche market to explore. Finding A Niche With A Record Of Purchasing Products Starting a successful YouTube video campaign begins with finding a niche where people have a record of buying a lot of products. To do this, you can visit affiliate centres like Amazon.com, Clickbank.com, and Cj.com and see the array of products they are selling, you can also check for top-selling products in some of the affiliate centres to have an idea of products
and niches people are buying a lot from.
Therefore, you can rest assured that any of their book titles can be a profitable niche to promote. After determining the market to target, the next thing is to find quality products with good conversion rates to sign up to promote. There are several affiliate centres, including Amazon.com, Cj.com, Clickbank.com, and Jvzoo.com where one can find various products to promote and earn commissions on sales. You can also find affiliate opportunities from individual companies or websites if you do a search in Google for your target niche market or the products you are interested in promoting.
Setting Up AReview Page For The Product Your marketing campaign will be more effective and produce more sales if you have a review page for the product you are promoting that you will be sending prospects to before they are taken to the product’s sales page. This pre-sells and removes buying resistance considerably from your prospects before
going to the product’s sales page. In such a buying mood, it will be easy to make more sales than taking prospects directly to the product’s sales page from the point of acquiring them.
Although you can use the free Blogger.com website platform to set up your product’s review page, it is, however, more professional and effective to host your review page in your own server with a unique domain name. Some prospects may not take your site seriously the moment they see you are using a free website, talk less of following your link to buy the product. You might make some sales though if you used a free website platform, but you would make more if you use a self-owned domain name hosted in your server; that’s what all professional Internet marketers use. With one hosting account, you can host numerous websites or pages. You can even share an account with other people or help them to host their sites on your server for a fee, such that at the end of the year, you are paying peanuts or nothing at all to renew the account.
You might even be making some profit from selling hosting space to other people. You can get a hosting package today with HostGator, one of the industry leaders, at a 25% discount by using the coupon code: moneyway2014. To write your product review, you can read up information about the product, including previous buyers’ reviews, to write something exciting about the product by emphasizing its strengths and playing down its weaknesses if it has any. You can read up a couple of reviews online to have an idea of how to prepare yours.
Having done that, the next step is to create simple YouTube Videos that will provide valuable information to your target audience. Creating Simple YouTube Videos Firstly, let me point out that you don’t need any experience or skills to create these videos and you do not need a camera or anything like that as well. All that you need to make the
videos is your computer and free software that I will show you shortly.
For this YouTube income-generating system to be effective, you will need to create several videos for your marketing campaign, the more the better. All you need to do is to use the knowledge of creating one to produce others, it’s that simple. And the beautiful thing about creating these videos is that it doesn’t take time to create them; in fact, you can produce 1 or 2-minute videos and that will be great as long as they give the viewer the information that they want.
These are not live videos and you or any other person needs not to appear in them. They are simple videos that provide information on a subject to the viewer. Let’s suppose we are targeting the fitness market and we want to create a video to promote a product in that niche that we are an affiliate of. This is how we go about it: We need to pick a relevant topic to do the video on.
We go to the book section of Amazon.com and do a search for fitness. Pick one of the books and click on the “Look inside” link on top of the book’s cover. You will be able to see the outline of the book with the topics that it treats.
For instance, we have a book that outlines 12 myths people usually have about having a fit body.
Therefore, “12 myths about having a fit body to avoid” can be a good topic for your video. Now do some research for this topic and have a summarized 12 points report. After that is done, open PowerPoint, which is part of Microsoft Office available in all Windows-operated computers. If you are not familiar with PowerPoint, take some minutes to familiarize yourself with it, just like MS Word, it’s not difficult to understand and use.
If you don’t have PowerPoint on your system, you can download and install “Open Office” instead. Using PowerPoint, create a slide for each of the 12 points of your report. The first slide is for the introduction where you state the topic of the video presentation. Don’t forget to put your website’s URL at the bottom of the introduction.
You can also insert suitable pictures that you have a license to use or are free to use in the slide to make it more appealing.
Choose the display format for your slide and save it. Check to see that it is playing well and that the slides are well-formatted and proofread. Having done that, the next stage is to convert the PowerPoint presentation you have created into a video format. To do this you need a certain software product. There are paid software products in the market for this, however, you can use Screencast-O-Matic, which is free to use.
Download and install Screencast-O-Matic at their website screencast-o-matic.com to your computer system. Again, take some time to study and understand how it works, but I can assure you it is very simple to understand and use.
Screencast-O-Matic operates by recording materials or files on your computer screen.
After installation, open it; it will cover an area of your computer screen on which it will record anything you display there. Click on the PowerPoint presentation that you made earlier, and as it starts rolling, click on the start button of Screencast-O-Matic to start recording.
Using a headset with a microphone inserted to your computer, read the text showing on each slide. Be sure to do this in a quiet place so you don’t have background sound interfering with your recording. If you think your voice is not good enough, you can ask someone else to read the text for you, or you can simply play suitable background music while the recording is going on.
You can get background music for free here: freeplaymusic.com, jewelbeat.com, freestockmusic.com Let your videos not be too long, 3 to 5 minutes is okay. You don’t want to bore the viewer, but for them to quickly watch the video
and visit your product’s review page.
That’s it, your video is done!
Submitting Your Video To YouTube
Go to Youtube.com to sign up and follow the direction to uploading videos.
It’s free and easy to upload a video to YouTube, and you can upload as many videos as you want with nearly no limits.
It’s hard to believe that before YouTube debuted in 2005, there were no widely popular ways to share videos on the internet with friends, family, and strangers.
But of course, today it’s fast and simple to publish video online (so much so that 300 hours of new video are added to YouTube every minute of every day).
Here’s how to upload your own YouTube videos, both from a browser and the mobile app on your iPhone or Android phone.
How to upload a video to YouTube using a web browser
1. Navigate to YouTube in a web browser.
2. Make sure you are logged in. If you don’t see your account avatar in the upper right corner, click “Sign In” and enter your Google account information.
3. Click the Create a video button at the top of the screen. It looks like a video camera. In the drop-down menu, click “Upload video.”
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4. The video upload page should appear. Under “Select files to upload,” click “Public” and choose what level of visibility you want for the video everyone can see a public video, but you can also make it unlisted (it’s still publicly available, but only to people with a direct link), private (meaning only you have access), or Scheduled, which means it won’t go live until a later date.
5. Click the large arrow to choose the video file, or you can simply drag the video file onto the page.
6. While the video uploads, you can enter information like the name and description of the video.
7. Click “Publish” to complete the process. You can publish the video while it’s still uploading, or wait till the upload is complete. Either way, the video won’t appear online unless you click “Publish.”
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Once the video is uploaded, it will take a few minutes to process. The time it takes to process will depend on how long the video is.
How to upload a video to YouTube using the mobile app
1. Open the YouTube app on your iPhone or Android phone.
2. Tap the video upload button at the top of the screen. It looks like a video camera. If this is your first time using the upload feature, you might need to give the app permission to access your camera and photo library.
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3. On the next screen, tap the video you want to upload (you can also record a new video or “Go Live,” meaning that you’ll start livestreaming from your phone camera).
4. Tap “Next.”
5. Enter information like the name of the video, choose a privacy level, and tap “Upload.”
Replicating The Process
Replicate the process of creating videos and produce several videos in the same niche but on different topics, with URLs all directed to the review page. This increases the traffic coming to the product’s review page, which also enhances sales.
Driving Traffic To Your Videos
Even though you can enjoy free traffic from the multitude of people that visit YouTube on their own daily to watch videos, you can increase the traffic to your videos by doing some traffic generating activities. These include promoting your videos on social media like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, blogs and forums, etc.
Success Factor In YouTube Video Marketing
The videos have to look professional even though they are simple videos. The text should be well proofread and formatted and there should not be background noise interfering with the sound. If you or someone else is reading the text, let the voice be audible and clear so viewers don’t get confused about what you are saying. The product’s review must be well written.
Remember: This is actually a sales copy to make the product irresistible. You don’t have to lie about the product, but from what you read about it from previous people who bought it and rated it high, you can emphasize its areas of
strength, while acknowledging the product’s shortcomings if there are any, but playing it down and proffering solutions to the shortcomings.
You can study a number of product reviews online and learn how to write a good one. However, if you feel you can’t write one, do outsource it to someone that can do a better job. The strength of your product review can determine whether prospects coming here will move ahead to order the product or not.
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