Youtube = poor conversions?

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Has anyone had any real success promoting with Youtube?

I've received over 1000 visitors the last couple days with Youtube and have only received one sale selling a TV on PC product from Clickbank.

Please share your experiences
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  • Youtube gets me alot of views and exposure but not many sales.
  • I make daily sales from You Tube.

    It is not complicated, it is something that requires consistent work and set your video up for the long term. You dont know when the user will be looking for your product, a month, a year, 2 years, make sure you are there ti receive it.

    Cheers,
    Mukul
  • I also get a lot of views, but poor conversions..Never had much success with youtube, but for branding it's great
  • Keep in mind that You Tube view to conversion is lower then your standard. I think my traffic conversations at 6% of total views. Just keep working at it...
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    • Define conversion....

      Do you mean 6% of your video viewers click to see your offer (CTR)

      Or

      Do you mean that 6% of your video views convert to a sale (conversion)

      Or

      Do you mean that 6% of the people that clicked FROM Youtube end up in a sale? (on-site conversion)



      Because my youtube views : sale conversion is at .4% (yes, with a decimal). I'd like to see your channel (PM if you don't want to post) if you're getting sales on 6% of the total youtube views you get. That is insanely high from what I've seen.
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    yeah, my views to traffic conversion rate is 9%, but sales are very hard to come by
  • Youtube traffic is not targeted taffic, and generally most visitors are not in a "buying mode". I know when I visit youtube I'm not looking to buy something. I am just looking for a video or something to waste some time.
  • Why would anyone expect to make a video, post it on youtube then link out to Clickbank and have great conversions?

    Conversion is a matter of intent. Do Youtube visitors go to Youtube with Credit Card in hand? What is the demographic of the Youtube user? What are their intentions?

    Sales is a process.
  • If you are looking for people in the buying mood, you have to look for people the problem solving soon. Your video the solution to there problem. You have sneak peak and then action them to your website. Many will not bite, but a % will if they need to solve there problem bad enough.
  • I believe you can get alot of traffic (views) but it also has to do something with the content of the video as well.

    2 important things (targeted viewers) and the content has to be for them. solving their problem. Giving back.
  • YouTube is Social. It's like advertising on MySpace or FaceBook or Twitter. You need to build a relationship with the people first, and then try to offer them something.
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    • YouTube is useful for building up authority for your videos as the advertising costs can be very low per click. Compare this to a video that is not advertised which can take much much longer to get the same amount of hits if at all.

      Building authority with your YouTube vidoes helps build authority with your business which helps with Google.
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