Another wonderful web startup suggestion for aspiring webpreneurs...
What better way to start a business on the Internet in your humble beginnings without investing in a domain name and web hosting package other than creating a YouTube channel for free? YouTube.com is the world's number one video social sharing platform. Almost every billion dollar business in United States of America has a YouTube channel ranging from Reuters.com, Forbes.com, Bloomberg.com, CBS New York, WPIX channel 11, NBC 4, TechCrunch.com, UniversalPictures.com, Marvel Comics, MarthaStewart.com, Oprah.com, and so on. You don't necessarily have to be a big name in order to have a successful YouTube channel with streaming traffic and thousands of YouTube subscribers.
Everybody knows food bloggers make good money from advertisements on their blog. What if you don't have a food blog? You could create a free food blog using blogger.com and partner up with a few good affiliate marketing companies to insert ads inside blog posts to earn affiliate commissions. You might not want to be a food blogger yet. And that's okay. If you love cooking or eating at restaurants and want to share your food content with you web audience, there's a unique way to do so. It's called "food vlogging." Vlogging is another word for "food video blogger."
These guys started a YouTube food channel and became a smash hit!
The first thing you need to do is create a free YouTube channel with a Gmail.com account. Once you verify you G-mail account and create new YouTube channel around the niche topic of "food," be sure to write a description about your food vide o channel in your "about" section of your YouTube account.
Here's a classic example of how and what to write in the about section of your YouTube channel:
[Hello and welcome to my entertaining food channel. I hope to inspire you with mouth-watering and inspiring food videos that'll keep you coming back for more. I'll be sharing how-to recipes, food reviews from restaurants, and other how to food videos on putting together healthy lunches and dinners. Be sure to subscribe and share my videos with your friends and family on Facebook and Twitter.]
That's a simple, sweet, and straight to the point description about your YouTube food channel. As you can see in the description, there are food related keywords and phrases which will be indexed by search engines once you save and publish the about description to YouTube channel. Additionally, if you do have a blog or website and link it to your YouTube channel, it will help drive referral traffic from there to your site which can possibly result in increased blog or website traffic, potentially resulting in more readers to your blog posts or website content, and a slight increase in online advertising revenue.
Upload Entertaining Food Videos
Have you ever thought of taking a digital camera along with you before going to a restaurant? It's very easy to do. All you have to do is put your digital camera inside of the camera case. If the camera case has a loop on the back of it that you can attach to your belt, be sure to slip your belt around the loop so you have your camera on your hip and easy to access before indulging in your entrée. Before the waiter or waitress comes to the table to serve your food, you could make a teaser video filming yourself or someone you're with, while patiently waiting for your food to come to the table. You can do a follow-up after the first video by taking a 30 second to 1 min. video of your entrée before you sink your fork in and take the first bite. Be sure to give a short voice narration of the video while filming and tell your YouTube audience how you are about to enjoy your meal.
After filming the second video, film a third video. Once your halfway into your meal, record a 1 min. video and tell your YouTube audience how delicious you food is. Also, have someone hold the video camera and let your viewers see you sinking your fork into your food and putting it in your mouth. This will create feelings resulting in more shares of your video, discussion on social networks with a link to your video, and more YouTube comments. To spice things up in making your third video a little entertaining, tell your video viewers something to the effect of "this food is thing you're licking good and I'm pushing food on the fork,too!" They are most likely to share your video on Pinterest, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook without you asking them. If you're YouTube partner and have advertisements showing up from Google AdSense and every new YouTube food video you published your channel, this can help you make more money from the Google-YouTube partner program. You'll simultaneously build your food video viewership while making money from advertisements alongside your YouTube videos. Ironically, you can do this from home or your laptop with a Wifi connection.
Linking to Pages in Blogs or Websites
Owning a blog or website is the most wonderful thing even if you're not a food blogger. The reason why owning a blog or website is good because you're able to personally brand yourself on the Internet. A great way to drive traffic from your food videos on YouTube to specific blog posts or web-pages is to insert a link in the very beginning of every new YouTube video description. For example, if you wrote a new blog post sharing a recipe you created about a dish you looked in your apartment or house and followed up on that dish with a 1 min. video, you would grab the link to that specific blog post you wrote the recipe in. Then, upload the video relevant to the blog post about the recipe to YouTube channel.
In the video description you would paste the URL from that particular blog post. Afterwards, hit the "enter" button on your computer keyboard two times and start writing a unique video description about your recipe. At the footer of the video description, you can enter the direct URL of your blog such as myblog. dot com. After you have created and published the video along with the description to you YouTube channel, search engine crawlers from Bing, Google, and YaHoO! will notice the video and spider the description you just wrote, before indexing the video into their search engine results pages, also known as "SERPs." Including a link to a specific blog post or web page in every new YouTube video description will potentially help benefit your SEO, also known as "search engine optimization," resulting in a potential increase in traffic from YouTube.
Upload Daily
A persistent food video "vlogger," also known as "video blogger," uploads 1 to 3 videos a day to YouTube. They write unique descriptions for their YouTube videos to help get more traffic from search engines and better positions in YouTube search results. Uploading videos daily to your YouTube channel is a lot of work. The positive side to this is getting increased viewership and subscribers faster than your food video competition. If you can upload videos daily to YouTube channel for six days a week for two years, this increases your probability of getting hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
If you own a blog or website and upload videos daily to your YouTube channel, great! Here's what you can do to increase the probability of getting more subscribers to YouTube channel:
1. Blog your new videos and use a third-party auto content sharing programs such as dlvr.it to deliver your content to Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
2. Take time to manually write a description and include relevant hash tags before pinning your new blog post with your YouTube food video in it to Pinterest.com. People are most likely to repin your pin quickly because it's centered around the topic of food. Food videos drive gangs of traffic from search engines and social networks.
3. Write a hub on HubPages.com and include the direct link to the YouTube food video, a 2nd link to the blog post with your food video in it, and a 3rd link to your YouTube channel where people can easily subscribe. An example of a direct link to your YouTube channel would be:
YouTube. com / mychannel
All your creative marketing juices flowing right now? They should be. The Internet is a great place to start a business with no money or very little money. It's possible for anybody to make money online. You can succeed if you have faith, patience, and a long-term vision for your business.
As with any business you can make more or less depending on your determination, humility, and relationships with others. Now that your mind is stirred up and your ambition is probably fueled, go for the gusto and create that YouTube food channel so you can start making money online and get some subscribers. You never know how far you may go with it two or three years from now. Be inspired.