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Hey I’ve just started this new experiment with video online as away of building up traffic.

The video uses unrehearsed unedited footage. I just wanted to whip something up fast and get something up here So go easy on the critiques.

The video is a test to see how well video works for selling purposes. It uses http://www.vidilife.com which allows you to upload videos and display them for free. Its a video community. Check out my video and then read on about how some people are getting ramped up exposure fast using this method.

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How To Build Traffic Using Video Blogging

Ok so now that you’ve seen my video I want to talk about some people who have been able to drive tens of thousands of visitors to their sites in a short time using video blogging. There are five types of videos that get traffic:

1. Dancing girls
2. Extreme stunt videos
3. Funny videos like American Home Video where you laugh at someones humiliating experience
4. Funny quirky buzz marketing type videos with a story

Here’s the three reasons why these videos work:

1. People want to have a laugh
2. Anything to do with nakedness, sexy people dancing… or voyeursim will always gain an audience
3. The fad of online networking sites like myspace etc combined with the desire to connect with people more

On the third point I just made here is an interesting quote by Michel Fortin:

When the web first began, it was easy for an online business to achieve a certain market share. Early entrants fulfilled the needs of a relatively small group of people, with human interaction being the last thing on their minds. But as the masses take to the Internet, and like the bricks-and-mortar retail world, that need for humanness will become evident.

Consequently, it is my estimation that websites, which do not provide a level of human interaction, will likely suffer the same fate: Be destroyed by a lack of sales or by the crushing blow of larger competitors.

“All sorts of web concerns are finding that their good ideas and enticing offers are being cast in the shadow of much bigger competitors,” says Thomas Goetz in TheStandard.com. “Whether it’s eBay, Amazon.com or another category killer, the little guys are lost.”

Over 20 years ago, at a time when the web didn’t even exist, futurist John Naisbitt wrote a book called “Megatrends.” One particular trend, called “high-tech-high-touch,” is one in which Naisbitt predicted this increasing gravitation toward greater human interaction. Simply put, as society becomes more high-tech, it will become, correspondingly, more high-touch.

But another yet important interpretation is this: The more automated we become (or the more dehumanized we become in other words, which is certainly the case with the Internet), then the more we will seek out (or crave) social interaction. (In fact, the author found this megatrend to be so important that he recently wrote a follow-up book entirely devoted to it — it’s the “high-tech-high-touch” megatrend. For more information, visit John Naisbitt’s site.)

Therefore, as the Internet and ecommerce grow, so too will the need for incorporating interactivity and the human element on the web. We see this already with two significant trends: The growth in relationship marketing and of online communities.

Look at this video here… theres not much to it yet it has over 70,000 views since it was released a couple of months back.

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So if you want to check out somebody who is doing really well out of this concept check out Vidilife.com. This girl Ulyana from Russia is getting a crapload of hits. Shes building up her profile really well. http://russian_girlie.vidiLife.com

This is really early stages and its reaching a tipping point. There must be some way to harness this growing fad for marketing purposes.

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