"Tips & Tricks From a Pro YouTube Partner"
Posted on 01 February 2012 by admin
Last year my good friend Gideon Shalwick travelled Los Angeles to speak at the Blog World Expo event. It was a huge blogging and internet marketing event with over 4,000 attendees – the biggest event of it’s kind.
This presentation is about an hour long, and he explains his famous YouTube Business Blueprint for you to implement in your business.
Grab some coffe and a notebook and enjoy the keynote.
Oh and, after you watch it, please leave a comment to share your thoughts!
Posted on 08 October 2011 by admin
Don’t like your youtube username anymore? Here is how to change your YouTube channel URL! Maybe you’re stuck with a channel name you don’t really like anymore, but all your videos, views and subscribers are on it already. How can you change your existing channel name to something else on YouTube?
Well, you unfortunately can’t change your YouTube account name, but you can setup a vanity URL that redirects to your existing channel with a mask.
Follow the steps in this video by Tim Schmoyer from Reelseo if you are a youtube partner and you’ll get your new channel url in just a few days.
Note that this is not changing your account name, it’s just simply a URL redirect, that’s all. Your name will appear the same in people’s sub boxes, when you comment, upload, etc. Changing one’s account name is still very much not possible due to technological limitations on how YouTube infrastructure is setup.
Do you think this will effect your SEO and the way your videos rank on youtube and google?
Posted on 04 July 2011 by admin
If you are in my email list you know I’ve been playing around with some of the “king tricks” taught inside Paul McGregor’s video sponsoring course.
I like the fact that it he’s teaching stuff that everyone can use to get more traffic, increase youtube views, get more exposure and make money on youtube… Even if you are not a youtube partner.
I sent out an email with link to a private “workflow” video from inside the course but you might not have got it so if you want to take a look just let me know (via email or comments) and I’ll give you access.
It’s a video where he shows what a typical day looks like, how he approaches JVs on youtube to do collabs for contests and sponsorships.
I made 200 bucks the next day of getting the YouTube King course just by sending an email to a guy with a youtube channel so I can see everyone making money and getting traffic using these “king tricks”.
Let me know if you want to check out the private video and I’ll give you a password.
Alejandro
Posted on 05 May 2011 by admin
This is probably one of the best produced videos I’ve seen in a while that teaches you how to increase your views and make more money on YouTube.
In it you can see my good friend Gideon Shalwick -who you probably already know if you don’t want to call yourself a video marketing noob- talking about the most important elements that your video MUST HAVE in order for it to get the most views on YouTube in 2011. Check it out:
Gideon goes a bit more in depth on how to monetize those views -and the different things you can do to make money from your videos- inside his Rapid Video Blogging report.
If you liked the production quality of this video you will love Rapid Video Creation (a secret training thing he has, don’t ask…)
Make sure you get the free report and start turning your video views into cash!
Posted on 03 May 2011 by admin
In the last few months I’ve been focusing on Increasing my YouTube Subscribers List, my Video Views and my Email List Readers here on How To Get Views.
I think one of the key reasons why this is working for me is that I’ve become more methodic and now follow a clear strategy to achieve it.
Writing this blog has probably been the number one reason why I’ve been able to keep my focus and get so many great results.
When I was in school I used to do mini-lectures with my friends right before the exams as if I was the teacher. This helped me learn the boring lessons so much faster and easier.
It’s the same here.
Because I blog about how to get more views and subscribers on YouTube I think I’ve become a real expert in the subject matter…
Since February 2010 (about 15 months ago) when I launched this blog, my YouTube subscribers have gone from 4k+ to 16k. That’s close to a thousand new subscribers every single month. Not bad, right?
Views have also gone up like crazy. My main YouTube channel’s Total Upload Views (that’s the total number of views on all my videos) is now around 9,7 Million. That’s almost TEN MILLION PEOPLE who have watched my videos.
I have 46 videos with over a hundred thousand youtube views on my card flourish channel. Two of them have actually passed the 300k views mark.
Getting blog or email list subscribers is a totally different thing. When I started this blog I decided not to make a new YouTube channel to promote it just to see how far it could get without all the youtube traffic, which is funny -I know- but has thrown some really interesting results.
My email list is growing consistently every single day, which is pretty good considering I’m not driving any traffic from YouTube. I can’t imagine how big it could be if I also made videos instead of just text posts…
Who knows, I might just start doing that sometime 
Anyway, I already have a great youtube channel for my “obscure” little niche that I can use as a “real time” case study and it actually drives tons of traffic to my card flourish blog.
Why didn’t I create a specific youtube channel for How To Get Views?
As I said, it was a little “traffic” experiment but it also has to do with what I wrote at the beginning of this post.
It’s all about STRATEGY and FOCUS.
The first thing you need is a plan. You have to be able to keep focusing on it and to create AWESOME -not just good- quality videos.
Find out who you are communicating with, who your audience really is and give them what they want.
You can go back and read this 5 Lessons To Kick Ass On YouTube that I wrote long ago. They will help you get a clear vision and set up a plan of attack.
It’s 2011 and you can’t just hope that people watch your low-framerate webcam videos. Save some money and get a good camera.
I bought a Canon 550D / T2i DSLR camera a few months ago and I totally love it. This little machine can create Hollywood-style movies and people just “like” my videos for how awesome they look.
It’s really hard to compete when everyone else is putting up amazing HD videos and you still use your old nokia to record yourself.
Get a DSLR camera and you’ll see why I’m proud to say it’s been one of the best investments I’ve made in the last few years.
To become a real YouTube Pro you will need not only quality content but also quantity.
People love it when you regularly upload new videos and so do the guys on the YouTube Partner Team.
If you want to start making money on youtube you will have to make A LOT of awesome videos. You’ll have enough time later to learn all the effective ways to increase youtube views there are.
This is the completely opposite to what I have set up here right now. If you do have a youtube channel but you don’t have a blog where you can grow your email list…
You are doing it WRONG.
Find out how to set up a blog for your youtube channel, even if you already blog about any other stuff YOU WILL NEED a blog for your channel.
Here is my favorite guide on how to do this: Rapid Video Blogging (Free Download)
I can keep going but I think you have enough things on your To-Do list for now so get down to it.
Didn’t I start this post talking about FOCUS anyway?
If you can’t wait to get more tips you can always subscribe to my email list and I -as a thank you- will send you my YT SUB MAGNET so you can too use it on your youtube videos.
Posted on 01 May 2011 by admin
When you search google for “increase youtube views” or “buy youtube views” you get thousands of pages offering “cheap” services that promise to get you more views if you send them some money. Please, don’t do that.
Everybody knows that auto-refresh bots that change your IP and use proxy lists to try to trick YouTube into thinking the views are legit and are coming from different users…
DON’T WORK.
It’s not the first time I write about how to increase youtube views in this blog obviously, in fact, about a year ago I wrote about the “4 fastest ways to increase youtube views you must know” and I’ve been looking for alternatives ever since.
If you browse through the HTGV archives you’ll find tons of practical tips on the subject but if anyone asks me what’s the number one thing they should focus on if they want to increase their views on youtube I will probably say:
Focus on creating HIGH QUALITY videos.
There is no easier way to get more views than making videos that people like. You won’t make a video go viral just by telling people to share it with their friends. It just won’t work. It has to provide more value, or just be more beautiful, funny or stupid than any other video they can find on youtube.
Videos that go viral get so many views because people watch them over and over again, and they can’t wait to show them with their friends. Not because you pay someone to shove it down their throats!
Here is a real life example…
About a week ago I uploaded one of the most awesome card flourish videos EVER to my youtube channel. I went to bed that night and when I woke up, views exploded.
In just a couple of days it got ten times more views than normal, just because it was ten times better than any other random video on my youtube channel.
It’s been under seven days and this video is about to hit 50.000 views. It got featured on the YouTube homepage (Spain) and then got blogged by some high traffic blogs.
Why?
Because they saw how awesome the video quality, the music and the content (kick ass card flourish moves) was.
Everyone and their mothers on facebook were sharing it in their walls, twitter was ON FIRE.
It became the #1 Top Favorited YouTube video in Spain for 2 days straight.
Why? Because it was remarkable.
So, if you have a small ad budget to spend in fast “increase youtube views solutions”, think twice and put that money into video production or hire someone who can give you good content ideas and can make your videos remarkable.
My advice here is that next time you are about to upload a mediocre video to youtube, stop for a second and think…
Is this a video that you want people to show their friends as an introduction to what you have to offer, does it really represent your awesomeness? If not, don’t try to buy fake views for it, spend your money and efforts in making it a video worth spreading.
And that, is how YOU should increase youtube views in 2011.
Now, let’s get to it!
My name is Alejandro, I'm from Spain and I do YouTube Video Marketing for a living.
I started my first YouTube channel in 2006 where I post card flourish videos. My Cardistry blog and YouTube Channel have become -hands down- the biggest in the industry.
I am a YouTube Partner and also do consulting services for private clients such as "big-ass" YouTube Partners and local small businesses.
My YouTube videos have been watched by way over 10 MILLION people already.
In HTGV I'm going to teach you all the tips and tricks I've discovered along the way. Get ready.
