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YouTube – how to build your personal brand

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Building-YouTube-brandIn today’s business when the world has changed into a global village with the everyday advancements in the field of technology. The rapid increase of Internet users across the globe is also growing with every passing moment. Social networking sites have grabbed the attention of millions of users in no time. Individuals and businesses want to build their brand to get maximum visibility in a short span of time. Building your personal brand using various websites is very useful like LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook but there are some websites which increase your brand visibility in the most effective manner. In the following article we’ll focus on building your personal brand using YouTube.

Building your personal brand via video is one of the most effective medium because of its content type and interactive nature. YouTube has brought the facility and leverage to everyone to broadcast one’s favorite videos.

Branding your profile

Branding your personal profile on YouTube is not difficult to do. You have to decide how to make your existing brand consistent with your newly created YouTube channel. Choose wisely between multiple face and single face channels as this might affect your branding effectiveness.

Choosing a channel name

Choosing a channel name on YouTube for your personal brand can greatly affect the overall impact of your branding efforts. You can choose the channel name as your business name or full name or any keyword for which you are doing your branding activities. In order to create a channel on YouTube, you have to register yourself first as a user and then you can create the channel as desired.

Setting up your profile

Setting up your profile and filling it out is very crucial as it may help people and other users in the community to locate you. This way you can reach to millions by only giving a single URL which best describes your brand.

Customizing your channel

In order to view your channel as it stands you need to log in to your account and select the option ‘switch to player mode’ (which is on top right on your account information screen). This will display the newer layout where people can choose your latest brand videos and watch others.

Title and tags of the channel

On the ‘Edit Channel’ option click on ‘settings’ to give your channel an appropriate title. It will be more effective to give your channel a title which best reflects your brand. For example ‘Tim’s SEO tools blog’. On the right you need to specify the tags for the content of your channel. These tags will be used while people will use search engines to look for a specific brand.

Once you have set up your profile for your brand and other customization. Focus yourself to creating amazing videos.

Create amazing videos

By keeping in mind the phrase ‘content is king’ you have to create videos that are really interesting and have something to watch for people that they have not seen before. You must keep in mind that your brand videos are worth spreading if they are unique and different.

Producing video content

Producing video content is very important part of building your personal brand using videos. You have to take several videos of the same concept and then select the best one that fits your content. In the description part of your brand video you need to post a link back to your website. This way you can make people visit your site who might not have heard about your brand before. Once you have created 8-10 videos you can start promoting your videos.

Promoting your videos

You are required to spread your channel and videos everywhere like facebook, twitter, Google reader and your blog. You can also embed your videos from YouTube to your existing website or blog.

With YouTube channel and video facility you can reach to hundreds and thousands of visitors within days. You can share your videos to a vast majority of people and can give a boost to your brand. Thanks to YouTube channels and videos.

Video blogging

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Video bloggingThe idea of video blogging is not a new one as video has been remained a very important type of content creation and distribution. The interesting thing in video blogging is its nature of content and ability to produce the desired impact on the viewers. Video blogging is there for quite some time now but only some of the video bloggers know how to create and distribute it effectively. Even the video equipment to create video and platforms to spread them are easily accessible and cheaper yet the idea of video blogging is not promoting considerably. Following article will highlight some of the most important ideas which will help video bloggers to create and distribute the videos easily.

Video blogging is still in its early days

Besides the growing demand of video viewership the idea hasn’t really made its impact so far. These can be many reasons for that and the obvious reason might not be to purchase the equipment and other tools to create and generate video content rather the short time. People don’t have time to really prepare for the shoot of a particular experience of them and record it in the form of video to make it available for others to view. The trend of creating videos and distributing ones own video is taking off slowly and nobody can speculate what will be its impact in the coming days.

What does web video do

Since the demand of video is great on the Internet therefore it can really help the businesses and individuals to promote their brands locally and globally. With everyday advancement in the technology gadgets it has become very easy to every individual to create and publish the videos of his / her own choice and convey to world as desired.

Creating video for your video blog

Creating the video for your video blog is very easy and inexpensive. You need to have some research on the web to look for a list of digital camera. Even mobiles contain the facility to generate quality audio and video content that is publishable to listen and view on the web. You need to be very careful in purchasing the video camera or device. Choose the one which best fits within your budget and has good audio and video quality. You must know the art of editing and mixing your videos well because that is necessary to get the attention of the viewers. Choose your video cam that is compatible with your technology platform e.g. Windows, Mac or any other.

Distributing video blog

Posting videos on different social networking sites is very easy and free. There are a number of social networking sites including YouTube. You need to embed these videos in your websites or blog as well to grab the attention of visitors. Produce quality videos and embed them within your blog. You need to improve your videos continuously and the best way to do it is to post the video and then view it. Notice the areas that need improvement and after editing them post it again. This way the quality of your video will keep improving all the time.

Posting videos to different social networking sites is very easy and free. You just need to get yourself registered and then you can have the option to start posting as many videos as you can. YouTube allows creating channels based on a specific topic and keyword. Once you are registered and set up your channel you can upload your favorite videos to your channel. You can customize the way you want to allow the people to view your videos.