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How to Create Your Own Viral Videos
A few days ago we began our discussion of how to create videos that are buzzworthy and how to launch them to create a splash in your market.
What you learned there is enough for you to create hugely popular and successful videos. But here are a few more things that you can do that will really help catapult your viral video…
POST your videos everywhere you can.
This includes posting your video on social networking sites (like on MySpace, Facebook and Twitter) and bookmark the video on social bookmarking sites like:
Digg,
Del.icio.us.
PREPARE short videos.
If you have a lot to say and do in your video, then break it up into a series of shorter videos. Ideally, very short videos are best – about a minute long.
Think of it this way…
How often does someone tell you, “Hey, you just have to watch this 10 minute video?”
In the “get every thing fast” Internet Age, that’s like handing someone a copy of the huge book “War and Peace.”
Now compare that to how often someone sends you a link to a 30 second or one minute video.
You get those more, right? That’s because everyone has time to set aside 30 seconds or so to watch a video. Short videos increase viewership – and encourage viewers to pass them along to their friends.
PICK your video title and thumbnail pictures carefully!
You want your video title to get attention – but it should also include your keywords. On YouTube you can change your titles and keywords, so don’t be afraid to go back and “tweak” them to increase views.
Some people watch videos depending on what the thumbnail of the video looks like. You can choose a beginning frame, middle frame or the last frame of your video to display on YouTube. Pick the most visually interesting. And indeed, when you create your video you should ensure your thumbnail frame is eye-catching!
PROVIDE plenty of room for heated discussion.
When you create your video, create it with the goal of stirring controversy. And then when controversy and heated discussion erupts on YouTube, forums or elsewhere… encourage it!
Quick Tip: ASK your subscribers, blog readers, forum friends and others to comment on your YouTube video. If you don’t ask, few actually will do so on their own. But once you get comments going (especially a heated discussion), more people are willing to jump in and join the discussion.
PUSH your video like crazy!
If you can hit the “most viewed” page on YouTube, then even more people will see it… and it will truly go viral. That means you need to push (market) your video with the gusto of a bull running down the streets of Pamplona!
PERFECT the process by hiring professionals!
Yes – you can actually outsource the distribution of a “viral” video. That’s because most videos don’t go viral on their own. No matter how good the video is, it absolutely needs to be marketed heavily to have the best chance for the viral effects to kick in.
If you’re unwilling or unable to do it yourself, there are firms that specialize in blanketing your video link on websites across the ‘net. You can search for them online – or go to a freelancing site like elance.com. But be sure to do your due diligence to make sure you truly are dealing with professionals.
But while videos are the “in” thing right now, they’re NOT the only creation that can go viral and we’ll expand in our next post…
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