STOP Trying to Go Viral On YouTube!!!

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Seriously...stop...

Go viral on your one-page landing site packed full of advertisements like this guy did:

Freaky Best Man Speech

I will seriously never try to go viral on YouTube from now on, ever. I got the above link in a forwarded email, that is going to spread like crazy--and it's really not that funny of a video at all.

So here's something you might want to take away from this: if you spend your time trying to go viral on YouTube you are going to get tons of passive viewers and YouTube is going to make a lot of money (and a few people might click through to your dog training affiliate site or whatever :rolleyes.

Go viral on YOUR OWN landing page and social bookmark, viral email and etc. with it. This just got the wheels turning for me...
#stop #viral #youtube
  • Profile picture of the author Bakai
    Some videos are best not going viral, but for marketing purposes it is best to get as much traffic using a variety of means. , can bring traffic to your dating site. Go figure.
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  • Profile picture of the author Eric Land
    lol to the video
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    • Profile picture of the author jasondinner
      the traffic jump on that in Alexa is very impressive, but I still wouldn't NOT use YouTube.

      You can't discount the fact that Youtube has tens and maybe even hundreds of millions
      of eyeballs at your disposal.

      Some little experiment I'm doing right now is already producing results for the simplest
      of videos and is exceeding my expectations.

      People make FULL TIME INCOMES just from YouTube.

      But, either way the best man speech video is a great example of the power of viral marketing.
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      • Profile picture of the author CreatingDough
        What little experiment are you trying?
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        • Profile picture of the author jasondinner
          Originally Posted by CreatingDough View Post

          What little experiment are you trying?
          I wish I could tell you, but I only intend to share my results with my coaching students.

          sorry man
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  • Profile picture of the author Alex Sol
    That actually was funny

    And I gotta agree with you - this page has a much bigger possibility of going viral.

    I often forward funny e-mails to most of my friends, and they forwarded it on and on and on and on...


    p.s. for that particular video, I would add another banners... There is a CB product: "Best Man Speeches" or something of that sort... I think you can find affiliate offers for almost any video you try to make go viral
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  • Profile picture of the author Sean Hoffman
    Looks like his server just got borked.
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    • Profile picture of the author jasondinner
      Originally Posted by Sean Hoffman View Post

      Looks like his server just got borked.
      OUCH - 2009-01-22_1017

      He probably got a $5 per month hosting account and exceeded his bandwidth. LOL

      I bet the hosting company said he'd have unlimited everything. HAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAAA
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  • Profile picture of the author Star69
    LOL! I just emailed my sister the link to that page so she could watch the video, too, and I know she'll pass it on to her friends, too.

    I didn't even think about how I was making his video go viral until I read the rest of the posts in this thread.

    Good job. (And I thought the video was quite funny.)
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  • Profile picture of the author ZelimirGraf
    Originally Posted by Andrew Maule View Post

    Seriously...stop...

    Go viral on your one-page landing site packed full of advertisements like this guy did:

    Freaky Best Man Speech

    I will seriously never try to go viral on YouTube from now on, ever. I got the above link in a forwarded email, that is going to spread like crazy--and it's really not that funny of a video at all.

    So here's something you might want to take away from this: if you spend your time trying to go viral on YouTube you are going to get tons of passive viewers and YouTube is going to make a lot of money (and a few people might click through to your dog training affiliate site or whatever :rolleyes.

    Go viral on YOUR OWN landing page and social bookmark, viral email and etc. with it. This just got the wheels turning for me...
    wait...you`re not serious about not using YouTube?? How can YouTube do anything else than spread your video like a virus??? It sure as hell can`t hurt, it takes like 5 seconds to post the video with tags and everything, it`s good for SEO, it`s good for your site (you can display your domain name inside the movie and brand it)...I mean, I don`t see a single reason why every marketer in the world shoudn`t do this? And after all that, you can still put the original video on your landing page...
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    • Profile picture of the author Andy Money
      Originally Posted by ZelimirGraf View Post

      wait...you`re not serious about not using YouTube?? How can YouTube do anything else than spread your video like a virus??? It sure as hell can`t hurt, it takes like 5 seconds to post the video with tags and everything, it`s good for SEO, it`s good for your site (you can display your domain name inside the movie and brand it)...I mean, I don`t see a single reason why every marketer in the world shoudn`t do this? And after all that, you can still put the original video on your landing page...
      See OP for all of the answers to those Q's. lol. I've got a PRODUCT on marketing with YouTube and I'm saying this--I've thought it through. Going VIRAL OFF of YouTube is smarter than going viral ON YouTube. I'm not saying to NOT market on YouTube though... big difference.
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  • Profile picture of the author Aaron Moser
    The best man speech was pretty funny!

    Thanks,
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    • Profile picture of the author Magic Johnson
      I just saw the subscribers count for Kev Jumba on YouTube. 400,000 subscribers.

      That's quite impressive for posting his college journal spoofs.

      And you can join Adsense with YouTube.

      The possiblities are endless. If you know how to create video you have the market on YouTube.

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      • Profile picture of the author ZelimirGraf
        Well, okay...I`m just saying, if you got a video you know will arouse attention, it`s fairly reasonable to say that it should be on YouTube. Don`t you think so? Of course there is SEO, so you can put a low quality video via TrafficGeyser of TubeMogul and even get some love from SE that way, but if it`s a high quality video, people gotta see it...
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