YouTube for Business: Online Video Marketing for Any Business [Paperback]

Michael Miller (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 29, 2008 | ISBN-10: 0789737973 | ISBN-13: 978-0789737977 | Edition: 1

To any businessperson or marketing professional, YouTube’s 20 million viewers are a tempting target.
How can you tap into the potential of YouTube to promote your business and sell your products or services?

The answers in YouTube for Business show you how to make YouTube part of your online marketing
plan–and drive traffic to your company’s website. In this book you’ll learn how to:

 

• Develop a YouTube marketing strategy

• Decide what types of videos to produce

• Shoot great-looking YouTube videos–on a budget

• Edit and enhance your videos

• Create a presence on the YouTube site

• Manage a video blog

• Generate revenues from your YouTube videos

• Produce more effective YouTube videos

 

Includes profiles of

successful businesses

• Blendtec

• Charles Smith Pottery

• Annette Lawrence, ReMax ACR Elite Group, Inc.

• Stone Brewing Company

• D-Link

 

Author Michael Miller has written more than 80 how-to books over the past two decades, with more than

one million copies in print. His best-selling books include YouTube 4 You, Tricks of the eBay Business Masters,

Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Computer Basics, and Googlepedia: The Ultimate Google Resource.

 

Front cover quote:

 

“Never thought you could use YouTube for your business? Well, think again! This book gives you

a complete overview of why, how, and the technology to get you started.”

 

– Rhonda Abrams, USAToday small business columnist and author of
Successful Marketing: Secrets & Strategie

 

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

YouTube’s 120 million viewers are a tempting target for any business, large or small. How can you tap into the potential of YouTube to promote your business and sell your products or services?

 

YouTube marketing is easy enough that any business can do it. All you need is some low-cost video equipment–and a winning strategy. After you figure out the right type of videos to produce, you can use YouTube to attract new customers and better service existing ones.

 

That’s where this book comes in. The valuable information and advice in YouTube for Business help you make YouTube part of your online marketing plan, improve brand awareness, and drive traffic to your company’s website–without breaking your marketing budget.

 

In this updated second edition of YouTube for Business, you learn how to

• Develop a YouTube marketing strategy

• Decide what types of videos to produce

• Shoot great-looking YouTube videos–on a budget

• Edit and enhance your videos

• Create a brand presence with your YouTube channel

• Produce more effective YouTube videos

• Promote your videos on the YouTube site

• Link from your videos to your website with Call-to-Action Overlays

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Michael Miller is a successful and prolific author. He is known for his casual, easy-to-read writing style and his ability to explain a wide variety of complex topics to an everyday audience. Mr. Miller has written more than 80 nonfiction books over the past two decades, with more than a million copies in print. His books for Que include YouTube 4 You, Making a Living from Your eBay Business, Tricks of the eBay Business Masters, and Googlepedia: The Ultimate Google Resource. You can email Mr. Miller directly at [e-mail]. His website is at www.molehillgroup.com, his YouTube channel is at www.youtube.com/user/trapperjohn2000, and his Video Blogging for Business video blog is at businessvideoblog.blogspot.com.

 

 

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Que; 1 edition (August 29, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789737973
• ISBN-13: 978-0789737977
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #717,581 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michael Miller is the best-selling writer of more than 100 non-fiction books. He writes about a variety of topics, including computers, online selling, business, consumer electronics, and music. From his first book (Ventura Publisher Techniques and Applications, published in 1988) to his latest title, he has established a reputation for practical advice, technical accuracy, and an unerring empathy for the needs of his readers.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Internet marketing book that can help small businesses and nonprofits alike use YouTube to enhance their marketing efforts!, September 7, 2008

By 

Jeff Lippincott "JLIPPIN" (Princeton, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: YouTube for Business: Online Video Marketing for Any Business (Paperback)

I loved this book. It is well outlined and well written. And it is very topical in today's business marketing world where small businesses can use YouTube to enhance their online marketing efforts significantly. The book has 16 chapters divided into the following five parts:

I. Marketing your business online with YouTube (1-3)
II. Producing Your YouTube Videos (4-8)
III. Managing Your YouTube Videos (9-11)
IV. Working with YouTube Video Blogs (12-13)
V. Promotion and Monetization (14-16)

And each Part is concluded with a "Profile" which applied what had been discussed in the chapters preceding it. I found these profiles very helpful and informative. Not too long ago I read and reviewed "Show Me: Marketing with Video on the Internet" (ISBN: 1884230016). I had high hopes for that book and wanted it to be like the instant book being reviewed. Unfortunately it fell short of my expectations. However, after reading "YouTube for Business" this other book might be a good companion read?

Internet marketing today seems to be about putting together successful ways to generate traffic to your company or nonprofit Web site. You can do this by performing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques. You can do this by creating lots of content pages in your Web site. You can do this by writing articles and posting them on free article-posting sites online. Each article will have a by-line directing traffic back to your site. You can generate traffic by creating one (or more than one) blog which will direct traffic back to your site. And after reading this book you can generate traffic by creating simple videos you post on YouTube that will direct viewers back to your Web site.

The really neat thing about YouTube traffic generation is that it not only generates traffic, but it allows you to get your face and voice in front of people as though you were standing there talking with them. You can become three-dimensional rather than just two.

My favorite part of the book was Part II where the author goes into some depth into how to produce videos for posting on YouTube. And it is these same videos you will want to paste into your main Web site and your blog posts. I highly recommend this book for just about any small business owner who wants to make a name for themselves better and quicker. 5 stars!

PS. Take a look at the Search Inside material offered by Amazon so you can examine the Table of Contents of this book and more fully understand what this book has to offer.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect, honest, full of Info & advices, January 11, 2009

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Rolands Petrevics "taiwan.typepad.com" (Taiwan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: YouTube for Business: Online Video Marketing for Any Business (Paperback)

I am reading a lot, on various marketing topics, and now, i am at the stage, where I can distinguish between really honest, helpful and hardworking books on subjects - especially on marketing.
Such an honest book in 2009 in virtually impossible to find! No really! Author does not tries you sell his stuff. Author does not asks every second page to subscribe his newsletter of whatever. Instead - he packs book full with VALUABLE info, on just exactly what the topic is - how to use youtube in your marketing matrix.

And one more thing - if you afraid (same as I did), that author will pack 3/4 of book on useless topics on what youtube is, and how to use it and bla bla bla - then don't! I was such a positively surprised that this book is all packed with valuable info, covering as technical issues, and then goes giving you most valuable that can be - examples and tips on what and how you can put on youtube. Just read the book - stop a little - and think how it apply to your business - and a spark happens in your mind. Thanks to author I had a lot of a-ha moments when I was reading his work.
Highly recommended!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A very basic guide on how to produce online video media and how doing so can help benefit your business, November 1, 2009

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M. Rosenberger - See all my reviews
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This review is from: YouTube for Business: Online Video Marketing for Any Business (Paperback)

"YouTube for Business: Online Marketing for Any Business" is a very simple guide on how to use YouTube and how it can help your business become more modernized and tech-savvy. However, the content of this book is somewhat decieving. The first few chapters actually talk about how YouTube vidoes can help enhance your company's image and increase the overall awareness of your company. It elaborates on how producing YouTube videos allows your customers to put a face to your company and become, in a sense, more personable. In addition, Miller also talks about why your company's online presence is benefitical in the long run and how it can be used to reach potential customers from all over the world. Information of this nature is, unfortunately, brief and the remainder of the book serves a very basic step-by-step guide to producing effective videos, managing them on YouTube, and how to track your videos in terms of website traffic.

Personally, I found that this book was a bit of a disappointment. I believe that the first 3 chapters are legitimately benefitical to companies that are curious about how to utilize the internet and online videos to better organize and promote themselves. Aside from these chapters, and a few chapters on to generate revenue for your business via YouTube, the rest of the book is relevant only to those who struggle with the concept of creating different types of videos and managing a YouTube account. Nonetheless, this book can help any business (or individual for that matter) learn about the practical uses of YouTube and can be benefitical for very inexperienced internet users.