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What’s the single most important asset in your online business?

Your list.

You probably know that already. Your email list or subscriber list or customer list – your means of staying in contact with your prospects and customers – is the most important asset to your business.

The problem you face is how to rapidly build your email list.

I’ve talked plenty about list building on this blog and in courses and free reports I’ve published, however there is one area I failed to cover extensively because it’s not something I’ve experimented with.

What am I talking about?

Building your list using YouTube video marketing.

Luckily for me a very close friend Gideon Shalwick, who is my partner in the Become A Blogger project, spent the last seven months building a completely new online business using just YouTube to build his list.

His new business has nothing to do with Internet marketing – it’s about street magic.

I get the benefit of Gideon’s knowledge and experience all the time, so I know how good he is at YouTube marketing.

Next week you have a chance to learn what Gideon knows. He is going to help a select group of people and share his tactics in a very special webinar, which you can join here -

This is a special link only for my readers and subscribers. Gideon is not promoting this webinar outside our subscribers, so you will only have the option to join the webinar live for the next few days.

How Good Is YouTube For List Building?

When I started my blog it took me a year to build up to 1,000 RSS subscribers. At the start of the second year I started an email list. At the end of two years I had 3,000 email subscribers and 3,000 RSS subscribers.

Gideon started a new business in April 2009 and began marketing with YouTube videos only. He had a blog, but all the traffic that went to the blog came after watching the videos on YouTube.

After only seven months of using YouTube, Gideon had grown his list to 13,000 subscribers – an incredibly rapid growth rate.

It took me almost three years to match that and he did it in just over half a year.

And remember, this is not in the “make money” niche like me, this is in teaching people how to perform magic tricks.

I’m very impressed by the potential YouTube presents as a list building tool, and let’s face it – we need as many marketing techniques as we can get when it comes to building your lists.

It’s tough to generate a quality email database, especially when you start from scratch with no existing contacts. You need something extra today, you need to know what is current and powerful, and that is what YouTube marketing is all about.

Gideon started this new business from absolutely nothing. There was no profile, no online contacts, just him, his business partner Jay Jay, a blog and a YouTube account.

Gideon is going to explain the exact steps he went through to build his list using YouTube, so if you want in on all his best tactics and strategies, make sure you sign up here –

If you can’t make the live call, Gideon will provide a recording and transcript you can listen to or read after.

Gideon is also including five special bonuses, if you join him before the live call takes place on December 8th at 8PM EST US Time. You have to watch the video on the sign-up page to see what the bonuses are.

Don’t Like Writing? Need New Marketing Ideas?

This is a great opportunity for you if you don’t like writing, and like the idea of using video content to grow your list. Or you might be looking for another marketing channel to expand your business and generate new leads.

Your next step is to go and watch the short video on this page from Gideon, and then join him on his very special training webinar next week –

www.killeryoutubestrategies.com

You have until Tuesday to qualify for the bonuses and make the live call.

I’ll be on the call too, so I look forward to seeing you there.

Yaro Starak

Gideon Shalwick has released another powerful X-Factor video from Become A Blogger Premium 2.0. This video is a special preview of the caliber of videos that members receive, this time focusing on the more practical training style from Gideon.

If you’ve ever wondered how people get traffic back to their blog using YouTube videos, this presentation will be pretty eye-opening for you.

I won’t say more, go watch it here –

X-Factor Video: 7 Killer Tips For Optimizing Your YouTube Videos

While you are there don’t forget to pick up your copy of Roadmap Report and prepare for Monday when we open the program for five days only.

Enjoy your weekend and look for more from Gideon and me starting Monday!

Big thanks to Gideon from Get Your Video Online for letting me know about these two handy websites.

We all know how good video is for online marketing, in particular YouTube, but something that’s lacking is a way to spread video that is actually clickable. When I say clickable – I mean viewers can click the video and be taken to a page you designate, rather than the YouTube page or similar video sharing site. A simple text prompt to help stimulate the click would also be nice.

Well thanks to LinkedTube.com you can do this. What’s really great about the service is how easy it is to use. Just fill out a few variables, click “Get Code” and stick the video anywhere you like. There’s also some simple but helpful customization options.

If you want something a little more feature rich, try Overlay.tv, which lets you overlay more content over your videos, including product placement, text bubbles and clickable links, and it works on other sharing sites beyond YouTube too.

The only problem with both these services is you can’t impact the place where your videos usually get the most attention – at YouTube itself. However if your video marketing includes embedding videos all over the Internet, like in your social networking profile, on your blog or let’s say you use video as an affiliate marketing tool, these sites provide a handy service.

How about this for a good idea?

Find a great product you love and then find a great review of it in YouTube then use the LinkedTube.com tool to embed your affiliate link code as a clickable video post to your blog. That’s a nice way to make use of video content from YouTube for affiliate promotions. Just be sure to check you are not violating any YouTube or affiliate network’s terms of service.

Here’s an example I just did with one of my affiliate promotion videos –