March 19, 2008

Niche Selling Secret: Post your affiliate software tutorials on Youtube

I wanted to share some recent personal success with you. I have some tutorials on one of my niche websites demonstrating how to use certain features of a professional mapping program. I think we all know that tutorials, especially video tutorials are a great way to build a community, subscribers and loyal customers. These videos have previously only been offered on my website and I didn’t previously think of offering them on any video streaming sites such as Youtube, Revver or etc. However, things have been pretty slow lately so I though it wouldn’t hurt to produce and distribute them to another market segment.
One of the things I did want to be sure to do though is before I published them on Youtube was to embed in the video some kind of information to direct people to my main site. This was done so that it reduces the chances that someone will try and use the video on their site and thereby reducing the chances that my affiliate commission will be “redirected” to them.

To do this I simply added a caption at the beginning, middle and end of the video saying that for more information they should go to http://mymainsite.com

Now, the success; on Friday, I posted the first tutorial to Youtube, by Saturday I had received a sale.  By Monday, I had recieved 2 more sales. Not even a week later I have four videos on my Youtube channel that have received almost 78 views! It may not sound like much but that is 78 people seeing my tutorials and my embedded advertisement for my main affiliate site.

So if you have some tutorials sitting on your site, I’d encourage you to reproduce them for Youtube or a similar site. You might too have some fantastic results.

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May 11, 2008

Brent Crouch @ 10:23 pm

What software did you use to embed the name of your site into the video?

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