Videos are all the rage now because they grab people's attention more than anything else. Affiliate marketers have even started to use video marketing in hopes of increasing their commissions. Some affiliates are starting to use video marketing as their only method within affiliate marketing. Although it is really effective, it's really not something that anyone should solely use unless they've already made enough money as it is. YouTube has been popular lately with affiliate marketers and it still is the number one video site to go to that has traffic already available. The best thing about this method is that it's 100% free unless you outsource your videos.
You can usually make little short videos on a video maker that comes with your computer. They don't really need to be of high quality because all you're doing is trying to grab a person's attention enough so that he will click your affiliate link and check out the information on the site. Most people use YouTube in general to advertise just about everything they have on there. The best thing is that YouTube is okay about marketing things just as long as it doesn't violate their terms or use any copyrighted material within the video. This does not mean, however; that you can go about spamming YouTube unless you want to get your account banned.
Just like YouTube, there are other video sites you can use to upload your video. Some advice that people should take about creating videos is that it's best to create unique videos for each video site. Think of it as placing the same exact article on different article directories. That's usually the same for videos too because people don't want to see the same video from one site to another site. As stated before, they don't have to be long, but having unique videos for the same product really helps increase your conversions a bit because one video may appeal to a person more than another.
Another technique that you can use with video marketing is watermarking your videos with the site that you want people to go to. Watermarks are pretty common with videos in which viewers usually go to the watermarked site due to curiosity. This is where you want a nice looking site because you want to change their curiosity into becoming a perspective buyer. Watermarks also help to ensure that the video is yours and it keeps others from stealing your videos and placing it on their account to get traffic. Usually when they take your videos when it's watermarked, people will still go to the site and you can view it as free promotion from another person.
As you can tell video marketing can be lucrative, but it's not something someone should solely focus on. It would be great to mix it up with article marketing because they are both pretty effective methods especially within the affiliate marketing industry. Most people tend to use them both together anyways as they're both free methods and help conversions a lot more than paid alternatives. The best thing to do is figure out if video marketing is for you or not, but keep in mind it does take a bit more work than other alternatives.
You can usually make little short videos on a video maker that comes with your computer. They don't really need to be of high quality because all you're doing is trying to grab a person's attention enough so that he will click your affiliate link and check out the information on the site. Most people use YouTube in general to advertise just about everything they have on there. The best thing is that YouTube is okay about marketing things just as long as it doesn't violate their terms or use any copyrighted material within the video. This does not mean, however; that you can go about spamming YouTube unless you want to get your account banned.
Just like YouTube, there are other video sites you can use to upload your video. Some advice that people should take about creating videos is that it's best to create unique videos for each video site. Think of it as placing the same exact article on different article directories. That's usually the same for videos too because people don't want to see the same video from one site to another site. As stated before, they don't have to be long, but having unique videos for the same product really helps increase your conversions a bit because one video may appeal to a person more than another.
Another technique that you can use with video marketing is watermarking your videos with the site that you want people to go to. Watermarks are pretty common with videos in which viewers usually go to the watermarked site due to curiosity. This is where you want a nice looking site because you want to change their curiosity into becoming a perspective buyer. Watermarks also help to ensure that the video is yours and it keeps others from stealing your videos and placing it on their account to get traffic. Usually when they take your videos when it's watermarked, people will still go to the site and you can view it as free promotion from another person.
As you can tell video marketing can be lucrative, but it's not something someone should solely focus on. It would be great to mix it up with article marketing because they are both pretty effective methods especially within the affiliate marketing industry. Most people tend to use them both together anyways as they're both free methods and help conversions a lot more than paid alternatives. The best thing to do is figure out if video marketing is for you or not, but keep in mind it does take a bit more work than other alternatives.
