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onauc
14-12-2004, 20:29/08:29PM
One of the best ways to attract on-going traffic is to run a “product review” website.
Now, I know that there exist tonnes of these kinds of websites out there already but how many of them provide reviews via streaming video or even video clips ready for download ?
So far, I have come across none.
If you think a “product review” website generates regular and continuous new traffic day in and day out just simply displaying “text-articles” product reviews on their website written by experts who have experience in providing product reviews then just wait till you launch a product review website yourself where the reviews will not be only in “text-articles” but also in streaming video or video clips available for download.
Now, it won’t be very hard to find experts on product reviews.
Just check a few popular old-fashioned “text-article product review” websites and check each of the authors’ resource boxes for their website addresses and then visit their websites to contact them.
Drop them a line to compliment their “text-article” and don’t forget to ask how many people they know that have bought their “reviewed product” after reading their “article”. I won’t be surprised if they reply hundreds or thousands or even millions. Finally, ask them how many people they think will buy their “reviewed product” if they had done the review as a video-clip instead of a text-article.
If the reply is that, the “video-clip review” would have made more sales than what their “text-review” has made then ask them if they can provide the same review, which they provided in their text-article, to you but this time doing the review in front of their web-cam or digital camera to make a video clip. It won’t be hard to persuade them to do a video-clip review if you mention that they can mention their website address and their business or brand name at the end of the review which will be viewed and heard by all your website visitors.
Nice way for them to promote their brand to your website visitors.
Also, a nice way for you to attract new curious visitors, to your “video-clip review website” , who are likely to turn into potential buyers.
And, don’t forget to provide a link to your order forms for your website visitors to purchase the “video reviewed products”. It is no good you promoting a product with your video reviews just to influence them to make the purchases to other websites.
Right now, have you got your website buried with affiliate links and product images but no-one drops by to your website or bothers to buys anything from your sponsors via your referral links ? Been waiting years after years for a commission cheque from your sponsors but no luck ?
No problem. Include video reviews besides each of these referral links and just watch how click-throughs to your sponsor links grow and how fast your commission cheques in great sums start to flood through your post.
I can’t think of a better way to generate continuous new traffic as-well as keep them glued to your website day in day out and make some heavy money from sales.

Florence
15-12-2004, 04:18/04:18AM
Originally posted by onauc
[Right now, have you got your website buried with affiliate links and product images but no-one drops by to your website or bothers to buys anything from your sponsors via your referral links ? Been waiting years after years for a commission cheque from your sponsors but no luck ?

You do know that if you can't successfully run a standard affiliate site then having video clips won't make any difference right? And you have thought about the costs involved and done some research on how much sales actually increase for different types of product?

Because streaming video is easily available but surprisingly few websites use it now... even QVC doesn't use it on most of their site - and that tells me something

But when you have the site available and you have the details (who provides the videos, who's server they stream from, what the commission rate is, what format feed you want, where you're advertising the site etc etc) do let me know - I'm interested to see how it works:)

onauc
15-12-2004, 15:42/03:42PM
I am seriously now thinking about bandwidth. Imagine that I list 100 products and each of them has a video review clip and the size is 5MB each.
That's a total of 0.5gigs.
Now, if 1 person downloads all the clips then that 0.5 gigs of bandwidth is spent.
Assuming 1000 new visitors download all the clips every month then that is 500 gigs of bandwidth per month.
No host is willing to give that much. The highest I came across was 300/400 gigs per month. Go over that and I have to but blocks and each block of bandwidth is not cheap.
So, I am now seriously re-thinking the idea to stream or even list video clips for downloading.
I think the best solution would be to put the clips on my free webmail account's autoresponder so people can email my autoresponder to email them the clips in zip folders.
This way, my website does not spend any bandwidth on the video clips because the autoresponder is not on my website but on the free webmail's servers.
I will now just have to find a free webmail that will allow me to attach zipped video files.
I recently received a video clip like that.

Does anyone have a better suggestion ?
I just want to save money as I can't afford to pay for gis after gigs of bandwidth but I have no intentions of giving up the idea of listing video reviews of products because nowadays everything is going "digital video" and sooner or later nearly every website will have one or two video clips to offer.
Might aswell get my website to be one of the first ones that distributes video reviews. :cheers: