Using Video Response Option to Make Money on YouTube
There’s no use denying it: YouTube is currently one of the biggest things in the Internet. Although popular, it isn’t exactly the most profitable venture if you are looking for ways to make money online.
Fortunately, times are changing and new ways for you to make money on YouTube is becoming possible.
Why would you even consider making money on YouTube in the first place?
There are far easier ways for you to earn money. For one, YouTube is the 6th most visited site in the US. There are about 107 Million US visitors in YouTube every month. That’s more than the popular of most countries in the world!
Do you know what this means? You can reach almost an entire country the moment you decide to take your efforts to make money online on YouTube. There’s no wonder online businesses and marketers are going crazy over YouTube. There are potentially thousands of customers that their products can reach in one site alone.
Another reason why you should make money on YouTube is the convenience it holds for the consumer. Like a TV ad, a YouTube video stimulates the mind and the senses of the viewer, in contrast to a banner ad or a promotional article. The only difference it has with a TV commercial is the absence of millions of advertising space!
So now the big question is: how do you make money on YouTube in the first place? Despite the desire of online business owners to make YouTube a means of profit, most of them don’t even know how to start doing so.
What’s a Video Response?
One of the open secrets to make money on YouTube is to use the video response function. Posting a video response is a means of marketing your video by finding videos of the same category as your video. After finding a video in the same category as yours, you will post your video as a video response, creating a connection between that video and yours.
Below is an example of the list of video responses a single video has amassed. You must be wondering how a single video can have as much as 166 video responses; that’s because it is one of the most viewed YouTube videos of all time, with as much as 184 Million hits! By posting your video as a video response, you are compelling the visitors of the video to at least have a glimpse of your video response…
How can I use the Video Response function to earn money then?
Probably the biggest question in your mind is how you can actually make money on YouTube. There are two certified ways. For one, you can promote your business using a YouTube video response. Consider this video below. It is about the Social Media Revolution and has almost 2 Million views.
The video responses include videos that either promote a brand or business about social media. All of these video responses are more or less related to the original video about social media, right?
Another way is by promoting affiliate products. You can use the affiliate link and shorten it with sites like snipurl or bit.ly so as not to turn off the viewers of the video.
You can also include the description of the affiliate product your are promoting in the description box or include it in the sticky notes that pop out at some point in the video. Make sure, though, that these pop-up notes do not get in the way of the viewing experience.
Which videos should I look for?
As I mentioned, you don’t just post a video response to any video you pass by. The foremost consideration is that the video must be related to yours and must indeed be a video response of sorts. If not, the video owner may end up rejecting the request to make your video a response. After all, posting a video response often requires the approval of the video owner.
Another consideration is the amount of video responses to the YouTube video. If there are more than 200 video responses, what are the odds that a visitor will even look at your video? Posting a video response to videos that have 1 to 5 video responses will help you make money on YouTube at a much better rate.
Lastly, the number of visitors the video you are responding to must be sufficient. You can’t make money on YouTube if you are responding to videos that barely have a thousand hits on them. You must respond to videos that are not only relevant to your video but is also virally known in the Internet. I’m talking about 1 Million hits at the very least.
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