Quote: (08-05-2013 04:59 AM)Beyond Borders Wrote:
Well, youtube is largely a traffic generation strategy, so the list of ways to monetize it would be virtually endless. It's just another way to pull people into a marketing funnel of some sort that happens to have an extremely broad and possibly-viral reach.
Exactly. You could use YouTube itself to make an income (without sending your traffic anywhere outside of youtube) but I don't have any experience with that.
However, I do have an information product that I sell and the vast majority of my traffic is from youtube. I used to be an opera singer and I created a product about how to sing opera (http://www.singoperanow.com) and I posted some free vids on my youtube channel (http://www.youtube.com/singoperanow) and now I have a bunch of subscribers and passive income stream from people bouncing to my site and entering my sales funnel.
The thing to remember is that youtube is the 2nd largest search engine after google. So the traffic you can generate from it is MASSIVE if you approach it with a plan and with some love.