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You Had Me at 2.0
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DISCOVER
THE MANY "ATTRACTION" SECRETS of the Marketing Elite that
generate flash floods of traffic to your web site,
explode your sales of products and services - and
elevate YOU to "Rock Star" status as The Authority
in your industry! 
Please, Not Another Lame YouTube Tip by Jerry Hart
5th
C’mon….you’d think I’d waste your time? This tip can be used on any of the video sharing sites out there - YouTube included.
Look for videos that are related to your niche or subject that have high views and create a quick video response to it.
Put the link to your site at the beginning of the description and show your link several times during the video.
Boob Tube vs. You Tube
This works really well because few people do video responses so your response will stay near the top.
You can get a lot of traffic without having to promote or build back- links.
Accenture study of 1,600 Americans found that 38 percent of respondents wanted to create or share content online. Aha! Suddenly the inexplicable video viral phenomenon begins to make sense. They say, put together a million monkeys at a million typewriters, eventually you will get the works of William Shakespeare. When you put together a million humans, a million camcorders, and a million computers, what you get is YouTube.
And there they are, in the bedrooms and dorms and cubicles of the world, uploading their yohoo off, more than 65,000 times a day on YouTube alone.
“If you aren’t posting, you don’t exist,” says Rishad Tobaccowala, CEO of Denuo, a new media consultancy. “People say, ‘I post, therefore I am.’”
Until about five minutes ago, remember, almost all video-entertainment content was produced and distributed by Hollywood. Period. That time is over. There was a time when advertisers could count on mass audiences for what Hollywood thought we should be watching on TV. That time is all but over. There was a time when broadband penetration was too slight and bandwidth costs too prohibitive for video to be watched online. That time is sooooo over. “The era of the creepy blue light leaking out of every living room window on the block is now officially at an end,” says Steve Rosenbaum, founder of video-sharing startup Magnify.net and one of the inventors a decade ago of citizen video. “The simple, wonderful, delirious fact is that people like you and me can now make and share content.”
Delirious or not, it’s a fact that Buzzmachine.com’s Jeff Jarvis believes has changed the meaning of TV. “Just as our kids don’t understand the difference between broadcast and cable,” he says, “the line between TV and Internet TV is about to disappear.”
Jarvis calls the phenomenon “exploding TV,” and YouTube is exploding faster than anything else: from a standing start about a year ago to more than 100 million videostreams a day.
About Jerry
* Founder of Jerry Hart.com,
* Author of Blueprint to eMarketing, (Blueprint Press, Sept. 2006) Printed in 7 languages
* Morning Show Radio Personality in major markets, including The Planet in Houston and my last stop, KISS FM in San Francisco.
*Brother is the drummer of the “Grateful Dead”, Mickey Hart. Father was the manager.
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This is happening with the music business, too. I “met” a young woman named Mysti Mayhem on Youtube and was impressed with how she is building her music presence, free, on Youtube without the need for a recording contract. Straight from the artist to the consumer! I love that.
Her music is bold and original - not the watered down pop that the record companies try to pass off as music these days. The boy band era is dead - thank God!
You can watch Mysti’s videos and then buy her CDs directly from her. She can have as many CDs manufactured as she needs to fill her orders. When she comes out with a new song or collection and she just has a few orders she could even burn the CDs on her computer and print the labels on her inkjet.
I’ve been watching other musicians do the same thing on Myspace, but in my opinion Youtube works way better, because you develop more of a relationship with your viewers when they see you in action.
Mysti has a viral video where she goes into a Nashville record company’s office and sings a song (loud!) and tries to get them to give her a contract, and I’m thinking, girl, what do you need them for??? Maybe in the old days musicians needed record companies to market and distribute their music, but not anymore.
Vive la Youtube!!!
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