Viral Marketing with Online Video
Category: Traffic Video | Dec 30, 2009 |
Arguably, the best way for you to market your business is to have someone else do it for you for free, over and over and over again!
To many marketers this may sound like just a ‘dream’ but it happens everyday via ‘word of mouth marketing.’ You know the kind I’m taking about. That’s when you’re chatting with a friend and they start to tell you all about this new ‘gizmo’ that they are using and how much they like it.
And because they like it so much they personally recommend you buy it too. In fact, they may even encourage you by telling you “you have to get it!”
This of course is every marketers dream because the referral comes with a built-in testimonial (product endorsement) from one personal friend to another and it doesn’t cost you a dime!
Often times, friends have a powerful influence over how we act, and even what we buy. Just think of how many things you have bought in the past simply because a friend recommended it. Have you ever gone to see a movie at the recommendation of a friend? How about that restaurant they recommended?
We are naturally more inclined to do something if a friend tells us to because we know, like and trust their opinion. This is the power of word of mouth marketing.
Understanding this, the trick then becomes figuring out how to get one friend to virally pass your message along to their friends, who pass it along to their friends, and so on.
But before we discuss how to do this, first let’s take a look at what I like to call the ‘Goo-Tube’ phenomena.
Chances are, by now, you have heard about Google Video and Youtube. Well there is good reason for that. You see, Youtube.com is the 8th most visited site on the net today while Google is the 3rd.
This is good to know because both of these websites offer free video sharing services allowing you to tap into their massively trafficked sites virally!
If you have been on the net for a few years you’ll remember how expensive it can be to host large files such as audio and video on your server. Even if your site got just a small amount of traffic to it that watched your video or listened to your audios you could expect a hefty bill in the mail from your web hosting company for “exceeding bandwidth”. I don’t know about you but the term ‘bandwidth’ quickly became a bad word in my office.
But like always, especially on the Internet, times are quickly changing. When it comes to hosting video on or web sites, we no longer have to be concerned about that awful thing called bandwidth. Nope, no more.
Both Google Video and Youtube have graciously provided a central location for people like you and I to upload and host our videos for free for other people to view and PASS ALONG!
That’s right — pass along. Ah, I love those words. Why? Because they equate to free, word-of-mouth marketing!
Do not underestimate the power behind this marketing strategy. Google certainly didn’t. In fact, in November 2006, Google bought Youtube (TIME magazine’s 2006 Invention of the Year) for 1.65 Billion in Google Stock!
Presently, both Google Video and Youtube.com remain separate web properties. But who knows what the future will bring. Only time will tell if the two get married and give birth to a big beautiful baby named “Goo-tube”!
As marketers though, what this all really means is a huge opportunity to tap into these incredible resources and drive targeted traffic to your website for free!
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More abuse of authority by the New York City Traffic Enforcement Agency. In this video , I spot a traffic enforcement vehicle parked blocking a fire hydrant.I went searching for the driver and found him in the bank a block away from his vehicle. He admitted that he is not allowed to park blocking a fire hydrant , but claimed there was an emergency.Then I told him that I had him on video leaving the bank.He got nervous and apologized.
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digital video maps for air traffic control. where to find them?I've searched high and low. Any links to where I can find them?
The fact that they are traffic officers is all the more reason for them to FOLLOW THE LAW! As a former traffic enforcement official, I am absolutely appalled at what this officer has done.
Kudos to Jimmy! Keep up the good work!
he sure had an “emergency”…he thought someone froze his funds in the bank lmao :p
whats your BADGE NUMBER
i hope one day someone beats your ass on camera…again jimmy…YOUR A FUCKEN DISGRACE….get a life…if your so much against illegal parking then become a fucken traffic agent yourself!!!! these people are NOT COPS…THERE TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT AGENTS…do your research before you go on your cow boy hunt…ASSHOLE….
No, Lazy asses
you should become a ticket person thingy and give all those asses tickets.
Cop should have tazed his ass.
well if thats true then you’re not a very good brother for sayin thats he’s secret service for all to see lol
well dude my bro can he works for this secret service for the u.s
you can go to the court clerk (problely the same one you would pay bail
too , them you want to plead not guilty,request a trial with the officer
present and you want to subpoena the dash camera video of your traiffic stop..
then you have to have the subpoena sent to the police dept
the clerk should help you
Yes…but what is a 'youtube camera'?
Edit: very cool. I hadn't heard of that.
get a subpoena
Yeah, Youtube has been fukin' up lately.
It's happening to me too, hopefully they'll fix it soon.
These are not cameras but light sensors. Have you noticed that fire trucks and ambulances have strobe lights flashing on the front of them?
The strobe light is registered by the light sensor which flashes at a set frequency to change the traffic light to green in the direction the emergency vehicle is going.
No State requires cops to video all their stops.
Every jurisdiction I know that does have video cameras in the cars, the cops control is limited to on/off.
As to getting a copy, that would be through a motion for discovery filed as part of the court case. They don't just hand them out.
Richard
Is there any way to get traffic to my website?
A link would have been a good start.
lacrosse Who would not want to get that for free? I saw that they offered that actual goodie and it was for free on [FREURL]. So many people are going there today to get it.
I know CalTrans has videos set up all over the state, but I'm not sure if they have it for that area. Here's the link for CalTrans.
EDIT: I didn't notice you tried the website already. Other than that, there's no other way to retrieve it yourself. Sometimes the news will show the footage if it's worthy of their time.