YouTube and Video Marketing: An Hour a Day

by Greg Jarboe; Foreword by: Suzie Reider

• ISBN13: 9780470459690
• ISBN10: 0470459697
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-08-01
• Publisher: Sybex

Summary

Written by an in-the-trenches YouTube and video marketing expert, this book focuses on practical, how-to advice for understanding video marketing tactics, developing a strategy, implementing the campaign, and then measuring results. It also is the only one to extensively cover keyword strategies and video optimization, distribution and promotion strategies to other sites and blogs, YouTube advertising opportunities, and crucial metrics and analysis.The first chapters lay the foundation with a quick survey of YouTube and video marketing techniques, helping marketers understand what is and isn't successful. The book then helps readers develop a winning video marketing strategy before guiding readers through the crucial keyword development phase and best practices for creating and maintaining a presence on YouTube via brand channel development and customization. Readers then learn how to optimize video for YouTube and search engine visibility. The expert author then shares his detailed, insightful promotional tactics, including how to engage the YouTube community as well as how to best distribute and promote videos to blogs and other video sites. The book then explores effective and affordable YouTube advertising strategies before exploring metrics and analytics. The book concludes with compelling case studies, additional resources, a glossary, and information about creating and editing video.Full of interesting case studies, step-by-step guides, and hands-on tutorials-and written in the popular Hour a Day format, in which intimidating topics are broken down into easily approachable tasks-this book is sure to help marketers and advertisers at all levels develop, implement, and measure successful video marketing campaigns.

Author Biography

Greg Jarboe is an Internet video marketing and optimization expert. He is President and cofounder of SEO-PR, an award-winning public relations, search engine optimization, and video production company that has worked with such clients as Southwest Airlines, SuperPages.com, The Christian Science Monitor, the Wharton School, Better Homes and Gardens, and Parents magazine. Greg is a frequent speaker at Search Engine Strategies conferences and a regular contributor to the Search Engine Watch blog (blog.searchenginewatch.com). He is a member of the Market Motive faculty and a principal in the ChannelOne Marketing Group. Greg was also profiled as one of 25 successful online marketing gurus in the recent Online Marketing Heroes book.

Table of Contents

-A Short History of YouTube

-Online Video Marketing

-Month 1: Map Out Your Marketing Strategy

-Month 2: Optimize Your Video

-Month 3: Create Compelling Video Content

-Month 4: Create a Channel

-Month 5: Engage the YouTube Community

-Month 6: Learn Video Production

-Month 7: Become a YouTube Partner

-Month 8+: Trust, But Verify YouTube Insight

-Case Studies

-Final Thoughts

Index

Glossary

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