Niche Marketing On YouTube

There is one resource that a lot of people in niche marketing overlook, and that is YouTube. Though entertainment reigns, there are tons of marketing-related videos available. You can also use it to discover new niches. After all, if someone is willing to produce and upload a video, it means they care about the topic.

You can gauge the popularity of any video by the number of views, it’s overall rating, and the comments it gets. The first two are helpful, but the comments are where the real niche gold is. Granted, you may have to wade through a bunch of frivolous comments, but there are sure to be a few that you can use. Any questions for clarification of what is presented, show a need for more information in the niche. Information you can provide.

Here’s a sneaky tip, for the most popular videos in your targeted niche, try to create a an ‘answer’ video related to them. Or, a similar video that uses the same keywords. The idea is to be displayed alongside these popular videos.

Another resource you can use in conjunction with YouTube is ProHotList. Here you will find tons of the hottest and most popular niches. Grabbing just one or two of these could pay off in a big way. It saves you the time of ding the niche research, and gives you more time to have fun making videos.

Once you are ready to upload the video you need to do two basic things. 1) Give it a compelling title. Your video’s title is the equivalent of a sales letter’s headline – make it count. 2) Get as many people to view it as soon as possible. If you have an email list, encourage them to view and comment on the video. In general, you have a 24 hour window in which the video will go viral or plod along. Do your best to avoid the latter.

Using YouTube in niche marketing can help in discovering new markets, as well as reaching current ones. And I would say that is very useful indeed.