Saturday, December 8, 2012

Using YouTube As A Marketing Tool


Having a business in the physical world is no longer enough. Most co-operations around the world understand the need to expand their business and what better venue than the internet is available to them? In an age of science and technology, the use of the internet for business has risen to a significant extent.

YouTube is a website where you can share your videos online for free and people can also watch them, without spending a dime. As watching videos is getting very popular with people from different cultural and socio-economic backgrounds, companies are using them as a great marketing tool that gives them a unique opportunity to endorse their products. Nearly a billion people watch YouTube every day. Imagine in a world of 7 billion, a billion people viewing one particular website, in itself spells how successful the website actually is. Using YouTube as a marketing tool is neither difficult nor it takes much time. It doesn't need any professional video making equipment. Nicely made videos attract more views which, in turn, is beneficial for marketing campaigns. It is a great tool to impart training and product description.

How to use YouTube for marketing

1.You can showcase your products and services. You can give demonstration about the product.

2. You can directly put the link of your website in the video. It is very helpful when you market a number of affiliated products as this helps to get good traffic.

3. You can post the interview of the people who use your products.

4. You can put a business logo in the video so that people remember your brand easily.

Strategy to use YouTube as a marketing tool

1. Quality of video content should be good so that it can attract a large number of viewers. There are a large number of people who go by quality of the video. Videos related to entertainment or demonstration should be high class video material.

2. Large video library help to provide more choice and content to the viewers thus attracting more views. It helps to give multiple results of own videos if someone searches the related topic.

3. Create YouTube Annotation and Links-Annotations are areas of text or hotspots that are created after uploading the video. It can show simple texts or click-able elements. Using a subscribe hotlink as annotation gives good results.

4. Using YouTube promoted video ad overlay-You can endorse other videos of your library by this method. It takes the viewer directly from YouTube to your website. Here, you can use images and shortened web links.

5. Posting video response -It gives your YouTube videos and channel, greater exposure.

6. Create Playlists-It gets your video content on top section of YouTube video pages that are labelled "Related Videos" or "Suggestions". This enables you to use more popular videos in the playlist to drive views to your newer but less popular content.

7. YouTube Close Caption-Use natural language instead of modest keyword optimization as it increases search visibility.

Try using these tips and see the difference in your campaign.

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