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YouTube for Network Marketing

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What It’s Good For

YouTube is great for conveying your brand and business without words. YouTube can also literally show the face of your business to give potential team members an authentic feel and see who is behind your team. YouTube videos do not have to have a huge production. To share the message of your business opportunity simply share your story. Why did you join GDI? What success have you found? Answer these questions in your video.

How It’s Unique

NO WORDS! Blogs and articles are great, but some people just don’t have the time or desire to read, read, read! Since YouTube is an open platform, you also don’t have to be a professional director or editor for your work to fit in. Anything on YouTube has the potential of going viral because video is easy to share and quickly watch. Not many blog posts go wild. YouTube videos are also extremely easy to embed into just about anything including your GDI site.

Ways to Use It

Use YouTube to give your business opportunity a human face. Film and edit short videos offering education and marketing tips. You can even members of your downline to share their own in video form and share it on your website and YouTube page. You can share these video success stories on YouTube and Facebook and anywhere you can embed video.

People are more apt to watch a quick video than read a lengthy blog post, so give YouTube a try.

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Video Marketing and Keywords

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We’ve talked about the importance of keywords on the blog before as it relates to your websites, marketing and blogging. But one area where keywords are becoming more and more important is video. Video marketing is a powerful tool, so just like your GDI website you should be taking advantage of keywords to direct people to your videos.  YouTube has a great tool for this called the Keyword Suggestion Tool. Read on for how to use it.

What it Does

Once you navigate to the Keyword Suggestion Tool page you will be asked how you would like YouTube to help you find keywords. You can choose to have suggestions given to you based on the topic of your video, the demographic you wish to market your video to or simply your video URL. Once you have selected an option, YouTube will present you will a list of related keywords and the monthly search volume each keyword receives, giving you an idea of how popular these words are.

How to Benefit

The best way to benefit from this tool is to use it to load up your marketing video with keywords you think will drive the most traffic. If you want to attract a certain type of customer, try the demographic option and select everything from age and gender to countries and interests. The topic suggestion tool is great to see what searches are most popular. Adding in popular keyword searches will help to increase the chances that someone ends up seeing your video. Once you have decided on which keyword you would like to use, you can add them to your videos right from the Keyword Suggestion Tool page and even add multiple keywords at once.

So head over the the YouTube Keyword Suggestion Tool and try it out on your videos!

How To

How to Use Video for Your GDI Business

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A question many affiliate face is “Does GDI work?” Everyone has their different stories for how GDI has worked for them, but what better way to share this message than by showing your face and showing that you are a GDI success story? YouTube is a great way to do this and grow your business in a few other ways. Read on for how you can use YouTube with GDI.

What It’s Good For

YouTube is great for conveying your business statement and actions without lengthy written posts. YouTube can also literally show the face of your business. This gives your downline and any potential downlines an authentic feel and the ability to see who they work with or will be working with. YouTube videos do not have to be a huge production. Sharing the message of your GDI opportunity is as simple as talking about it with a few graphics or screen shots to keep viewers engaged. Also, be sure to keep your videos as short and to the point as possible!

How It’s Unique

NO WORDS! Blogs and articles are great, but some people just don’t have the time or desire to read, read, read! Since YouTube is an open platform, you also don’t have to be a professional director or editor for your work to fit in. YouTube videos are also extremely easy to share by grabbing the embed code of just sharing the direct link to the video. The embed code is an html code that allows you to embed or insert your video into anything that accepts html coding, an example of this is a WordPress post.

Ways to Use It

Use YouTube to educate your downline and those interested in the GDI opportunity. One idea is to have some of your successful downline or upline members share their stories on video and package it as an educational video that also shows social proof. You can share these video stories on YouTube and Facebook and anywhere you can embed video.

How You Can Get Started

Sign up! Simply go to www.YouTube.com and create an account. With an account you can not only upload your own videos but subscribe to different users’ videos, share videos, add friends and comment on videos. So get on YouTube and start creating social proof!