More Traffic Tips For YouTube. . .
You don’t need to just stay on Youtube to drive traffic to your Youtube videos.
Here are some Web 2.0 tips to steer traffic to your Youtube videos:
On your blog or website, you should link to your Youtube videos or embed them on your site.
You can create a Squidoo lens, at www.Squidoo.com, that links to your Youtube videos.
Then make sure that you go find other people on www.Squidoo.com who are in your market, and post comments on THEIR Squidoo lens.
This is how it works in any social networking community. When you interact and comment on people’s writing, or posts, or pictures, they will often visit you and go to check out your website.
And people who are visiting the blog or Squidoo lens will see your comments, and the link to your Youtube video or website or both, and go to check them out.
The more you interact, the more connections that you will make.
Hubpages.com is another great place to interact and meet a lot of people in your field. Again, create your own “hubs”, and go comment on other people’s “Hubs”.
Another great place to do this is on Twitter.
You can create a Twitter account, and sign up to follow people in your field. Many of them will follow you back.
To find a targeted market on Twitter, you can use www.summize.com, to search for what people on Twitter are talking about.
You can also go to www.Twittermoms.com, which has lists of mothers who Twitter, broken down into subgroups like mothers who scrapbook, mothers who are into green living, work at home mothers, et cetera, if any of those are in your market.
What Every Shrewd Marketer Should Know About Selling Their Product
This is equally as important as creating your product. You can create the best, most useful product in the world but that doesn’t do you much good if you don’t know how to sell it, does it? Your product doesn’t make you any money sitting on your hard drive.
There are numerous ways to sell an information product online and you may end up choosing to use several of them.
Adwords are the advertising links that you see in blue on the right side of Google Search pages.
If you had a dog training ebook you would bid to have your adwords ad appear when people typed in relevant search phrases like “Dog Training” or “How To Teach My Dog To Sit”.
Some people make their living entirely by selling information products through adwords, so that is certainly an option. If you want to learn about adwords, read through all of Google’s own tutorials on the subject, and then buy some books on Adwords as well.
Another place to sell an information product is on The Warrior Forum, a popular internet marketing forum.
Then, you can go to the section of the site titled “Warrior Special Offers” and start out selling your information product there, if it is appropriate.
This works better if your product is related to internet marketing. Also, you need to offer the product at a price better than is offered to the general public, which is why it’s called a “special offers” section.
It currently costs $20 to post a Warrior Special Offer.
Another very popular way to sell your product is through Clickbank.
Clickbank only (at time of writing) specializes in downloadable products.
Then, you can encourage affiliates to sell your product for you, in exchange for a generous commission.
To entice affiliates you are going to have to offer a really large percentage of the product price, at least 50 percent and preferably 70 percent.
The affiliates will do all of the hard work for you, paying for adwords to drive traffic to your sales page, writing articles for article marketing directories that link to their pre sell page or to your sales page, creating pre-sell pages that link to your sales page…and the more you pay them, the more incentive they have to work hard to sell your product.
Never undersell your affiliates. Do not offer your product for $25 if you have set the price they will promote it at $37.
Offer good affiliate support. Offer them artwork to put on their sales page, showing your product; several different product pictures would be ideal.
Offer them a free squeeze page that they can put their affiliate link on.
Offer a cash bonus for every 100 copies of your product sold.
Make sure that the terms and conditions of your affiliate offer are clear and specify what the affiliates can and can’t do: no misleading ads, etc.
So you know know how to create an information product, how to price it, and where to sell it. The only thing left for you to do is get cracking and start building your profitable information product empire!
