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How to Make Money Making Videos For Local Businesses Even During A Depression
I have made $1000’s of dollars and continue to do so making simple slide show videos for local businesses. Google loves videos and YouTube videos get ranked quite easily on YouTube especially for local search terms. Google also love websites with videos embedded on them.
Local Businesses Do Not Have Time to Make Upload and Optmize Videos For Their Business
The problem for small businesses is that most do not have the time or expertise to make videos of their business and upload them to YouTube. This leaves an absolutely wide open opportunity for a work at home entrepreneur.
This is less complicated than you might think. I create simple slide show videos for my clients. Anybody can make these videos. You simply add blocks of text and pictures to your slide show software and the software creates very nice professional slide show videos for you.
Anybody Can Make Slide Show Videos. You Do Not Have to Be Steven Spielberg.
I am using software created by Photodex called Pro Show Producer. Unfortunately this company went out of business.
Now I recommend Animoto. The reason I recommend Animoto is that it is dead simple to us. It is a bit expensive but with a few client you can easily afford it.
Animoto Cloud Based Slide Show Video Creation Software is Dead Simple To Use
Here is a video which quickly shows you how to make slide show videos with Animoto.
So once you learn how to make slide show videos for small businesses you then you can come up with some packages that you can propose to your clients. For example you could offer to create a video for $125. then charge extra for some promotion.
Once Your Learn The Basic Skills of Making Slide Show Videos With Animoto You Can Then Put Together Packages to Propose To Your Clients
For example you could charge $125 to create the video then $50. for uploading and optimizing the video on various social media platforms. Here is a gig on Fiverr I have used which uploads your video to 80 social media and video hosting sites.
You can also create packages for multiple videos at reduced rates. For example you could do 5 videos for $500. instead of $600. You can charge even more for optimization and promotion.
You Can Create Monthly Packages For Your Clients
Better yet, you can propose monthly packages of 5 videos per month for $500. (Note these prices are completely arbitrary you could charge more or less depending on what you are offering)
10 Customers at $500. per month is $5000. per month. Not Bad!
But think about it. 10 customers at $500. per month is $5000. per month. You can do the math from there. This does take work, salesmanship and customer service. Sorry no pipe dreams here. This is a real business idea.
Ideas on How to Come Up With Content For Your Videos
Here are some ideas on how to come up with ideas on creating videos.
- Testimonials. Does the customer have any testimonials on his site? You can make a slide show videos of all the customer’s fantastic reviews.
- FAQ– Research the frequently asked questions of your client’s industry and make videos on the most frequently asked questions and answers. You can get these FAQ from his competitor’s sites but also just from Google. If you type say “bankruptcy lawyer faq” into Google you will get enough FAQ to create dozens of videos.
- The customer’s website. The customer probably has all kinds of material on his website. You can just make videos using the pictures and text from the various pages of the customer’s website. The client can then even embed the video in each web page giving him even more exposure. Win Win!
What Type of Businesses Should I Contact Especially When There is a Depression?
Some people win some people lose. It sucks but it is true. There are some businesses which will thrive in down times. I am seeing a lot of people using various types of lawyers in the months to come. Even in a good economy people use them but in a bad one maybe even more.
Bankruptcy Lawyers– Unfortunately many people are going to go bankrupt in this economy. Bankruptcy lawyers negotiate this process for their clients. I see their businesses booming in the future.
Divorce Lawyers
Criminal Defense Attorneys
Personal Injury Attorneys
Mold and Home Inspection Services
Repair and Maintenance Services
Vocational Schools
Debt Collection
Just look in you local newspapers and see who is paying for advertising. If they will pay for print media then there is a chance they will pay for your services as well.
Look to See Which Local Businesses Are Advertising in Your Area. If They Are Paying For Expensive Google Adwords Ads They Might Be Happy to Speak With You
Look at Google Adwords Ads and see what local businesses are paying for Google Adwords. If they are paying for ridiculously expensive Google Adwords ads they might even be happy to speak with you.
How Do I Contact These Local Businesses?
The real answer is anyway you can. Social Media, direct email, in person, by referral. It might be a good idea to create a website with examples of your work. Even an autoresponder series which tells people the advantages of your service.
A great tactic is to actually make a video for free for a client you think could hire you each month. Make a slide show video of all his best reviews and just send it to him.
Make A Slide Show Video Of All The Positive Reviews of a Prospective Client. Then See If He Wants To Hire You To Make More.
People love to here about how great they are over and over. If they ask you to take it down do so but most people will appreciate the free promo. Then ask them if they would be interested in having you make more videos for them.
Specializing in One Niche Business Can Give You More Credibility to Your Prospects
You could specialize in one niche. Say for example you wanted to specialize with bankruptcy lawyers. Maybe a bunch of generic videos about bankruptcy lawyers then send them to your website.
Also, of course make your own YouTube channel which specializes in making videos for bankruptcy lawyers.
If the see that you already understand their business they will be more likely to hire you. Keep in mind you are not limited to your own city.
Keep In Mind You Are Not Limited to Your Own City With Local Businesses. You Can Contact All Similar Businesses in All Cities
You can contact everybody in that niche in every city in the world. Sometimes specializing can set you apart from the competition. Not that there is much in this field.
These are just some ideas to get you going. There are other skills you need to learn such as how to fully optimize a YouTube videos and basic local seo. You can Google this and find 100’s of articles and tutorials.
If you do have videos you want to promote I suggest our Classified Ad Posting Service. With your classified ad you can include a YouTube share url. We will embed your YouTube video on 100’s of advertising sites. YouTube embeds is another metric used by Google to rank videos.
How To Use YouTube And Video Marketing To Generate Affiliate Commissions
YouTube and Dailymotion as well as other video sites absolutely rock when it comes to seo. YouTube has a ranking of PR9 which is about as good a ranking as it gets. This should be no surprise since Google owns YouTube. Consequently YouTube videos tagged with your keywords will often rank higher and faster than your own website.
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4. Upload the video from your hard drive to YouTube.
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7. Promote the video. If you have a blog put the embed code on your blog and or website. Send an email blast to your list with the video on YouTube. You can even upload the video to 35 other video hosting sites. Here is a good list of video hosting sites. Here is a guy who will upload them for you to 35 video hosting sites for $5.
If you actually upload the video to 35 different video hosting sites mixing up all the titles and keywords chances are you will start to dominate the search engines for these keywords. If anybody orders the classified ad submission service You will receive recurring monthly commissions. Even if somebody orders one year later you will still get credit. We track cookies for one year.
The great thing about this traffic is that it is free and it lasts for years. Your videos will only get ranked higher and higher in the video listings as well as in the natural search engines listings. YouTube videos extremely well and quickly. Video marketing is a great way to earn affiliate commissions. If you choose to promote our program you will benefit in that the commissions will be recurring plus classified ad submissions are a hot seller.
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P.S. We would greatly appreciate you using this idea to promote our recurring classified ad submission affiliate program and I think you will find it to be a good seller. However, you can also use this technique to help rank your own site higher in the search engines. Video marketing works fantastic for seo. Give it a try. Let me know what you think in the comments area.