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Yes, we lost some recordings from the Webinars for digital access online. It’s been a series of unfortunate events but we’re near the other side.

Today we’re re-ripping all of the DVDs to replace the content back online. Once that’s done and put online, we’ll put the players around the files as well so you can either stream or direct download. It’s a slow process (processing for streaming, etc.) but we should be done by the end of the weekend.

We’ll also keep everyone updated with the process via the Twitter feed.

Now, yes, the online access has always been just a “bonus” but we still feed bad and want to make it up to you. On Thursday the 9th at 4p Pacific, Paul is going to host a very special edition of the YouTube Secret Weapon Insiders Webinar Series that will cover, in detail, the eMarketingVids Project and what you can learn from it. Although we promised we’d start charging for the Insider Webinar Series from this point on – there will be no cost to YouTube Secret Weapon 2.0 customers – it’s our way of saying thanks for understanding.

Thanks for understanding.

Paul and Julie.

YouTube Secret Weapon 2.0.

We’ve placed it all on the line and put YouTube Secret Weapon up at Bearhug for customer support, recommendations, reviews and more.

Got a question or something to say about YouTube Secret Weapon? Say it at Bearhug. Results should be fascinating.

YouTube Secret Weapon contains 2 full-length DVDs crammed with tips and insider tricks from two experienced new media pros, Julie Perry and Paul Colligan.

Here’s a peek at the table of contents for each DVD:

Disc 1
1. Latest updates to YouTube thru Jan 1, 2009
2. Understanding the Power of YouTube
3. Introduction: Maximizing Your Reach With Videos
4. YouTube Background
5. Your YouTube Channel – Raising Your Profile Authority
6. Adding Friends & Gaining Subscribers
7. Utilizing Emails & Activity Feeds (Formerly Bulletins)
8. Video Uploads

Disc 2
1. Titles, Tags, Video Descriptions, Categorization *(Stealth tip!)*
2. Power of Views, Ratings, and Being Favorited *(Super stealth tip!)*
3. The Comments Game
4. Ask and You Shall Receive
5. Posting Videos as Responses
6. Looking at the YouTube Algorithm *(Super-duper stealth tip!)*
7. YouTube Annotations
8. YouTube Insight
9. Applying to be a YouTube Partner

For the beginner thru  advanced YouTube users, the YouTube Secret Weapon DVDs feature 3 1/2 hours of content covering 17 chaptered topics on how to get more targeted views on YouTube .

(And we’re pretty sure you advanced users will be amazed at what all you DON’T know about video marketing on YouTube!)

From Julie: When Paul and I first got the idea to do this project, I searched around online to see what information was already available for how to get more views on YouTube. Most of what I found pertained to how to present your content: I found people outlining video styles and genres, giving advice for how to plan your video content, how to come up with the clever ideas, etc.

And I thought, “Yeah, well, that’s the obvious stuff. I mean, you can almost look around at what videos are popular on any given day and get it what you might want to do to attract attention.”

Let’s see, videos that tend to do well in terms of of views or going viral are:

• funny
• strange
• shocking
• inspirational
• fascinating or compelling
• instructional or demonstrative – basically “how to” videos always do well
• gross
• and, of course, sexy or risqué

Yet, here’s the thing: No matter how valuable your content might be, or how hilarious, shocking, inspirational, what-have-you, in order for that video to even have a CHANCE to go viral, people have to find your content in the first place!

You need to get your YouTube videos optimized and indexed FIRST so that you even stand a chance to grab your target audience’s attention and turn it your way.

So, how do you drive that traffic? What are some guerilla marketing techniques to get those initial views on your YouTube videos in the first place? Those are the strategies we cover in YouTube Secret Weapon.

I am trusting YOU to plan and produce the great content, and once you’ve done that, I am going to show you my  tips, tricks, and techniques for attracting more TARGETED viewers to your videos, so you can begin driving traffic over to your own website from YouTube.

And believe me, I have yet to find anyone online offering the type of insight into the YouTube algorithm as what we discuss in YouTube Secret Weapon.

You don’t want to miss this!

Be sure to sign up for our email updates so you won’t miss the launch of YouTube Secret Weapon in early January.

Julie Perry is the creator and former host of TheBoaters.TV— a video news series where, overall, her hosted episodes have received well over half a million views just on YouTube, with many of them reaching into the tens of thousands of views PER EPISODE.

Julie is also the person Internet marketing experts Brad Fallon and Paul Colligan refer to as their “YouTube Secret Weapon.”

You see, when she hosted episodes of TheBoaters.TV, Julie wasn’t just the on-camera personality, she was also the marketing force BEHIND the camera. As the VP of marketing for the show and its accompanying social network, TheBoaters.com, she was the one responsible for getting as many TARGETED viewers — in this case recreational boaters — not only to VIEW her video show three times a week, but also then to TAKE ACTION and head over to join their social community site (WHICH, as you can see below, with over 60,000 registered users on TheBoaters.com, was a strategy that WORKED!).

Because the objective of getting TheBoaters TV YouTube content indexed, optimized, and their video views MAXIMIZED was SO crucial to their monetization strategy, Julie spent many a late night developing and refining a slew of strategies for getting more targeted views on YouTube.

As a result, YouTube Secret Weapon now contains her vast array of tactics, techniques and tricks for making sure you never again waste your valuable time and money creating your video content, only to find that it lingers in the bottomless pit of YouTube duds.

And that is why you need Julie Perry helping YOU maximize traffic to your YouTube videos.

Julie has since gone on to coach a wide variety of clients on how to apply her techniques to attract more targeted traffic to their YouTube videos. And with the release of her YouTube Secret Weapon 2-part DVD tutorial with Paul Colligan, she’s ready to show you, too!

(And no, you don’t have to be 23 and sexy to get a lot of views on YouTube.)

Learn about Julie Perry’s video marketing experience both on and off YouTube…

The core content of YouTube Secret Weapon was recorded from a live webinar event in October, 2008 for paid monthly subscribers to Paul Colligan’s New Media Inner Circle Group. Since that time, there have been a few minor changes on YouTube.

Such is the nature of the Web 2.0 beast, whereby sites like YouTube are constantly evolving. Not a problem, because Paul and I are on top of things — and as we’re 100% dedicated to making sure you have the absolute most up-to-date information available on what’s happening over at YouTube — we have gone ahead and delayed our product release so we can add a few addendums. The new sections we’re adding will point out a few things you’ll need to know as you consume the content of this DVD.

So what changed, you ask? Several things, but two of the most exciting ones have just been announced in the past few days, and these have to do with the SIZE and QUALITY of your videos.

Note: These changes are NOT going to affect your video optimization. Rather, the reason this is great is because, before this change, the only negative thing I could find about distributing your videos on YouTube was that out of all the video content sharing sites available, YouTube’s video quality was among the poorest (Revver and Blip.TV were kickin’ their hiney). Well, NOT ANYMORE.

Size Does Matter – Hello Widescreen!
All videos on YouTube are now displayed in new widescreen players with an aspect ratio of 16:9 rather than 4:3.

As YouTube notes on its blog though, they expanded the page to 960 pixels and your old videos will still display just fine. Any videos uploaded at the 4:3 ratio (which is the vast majority) are now displayed with black bars on the sides (that’s the empty space not used by 4:3 videos, as illustrated here below).

Next Up, For Your High-Quality YouTube Viewing Pleasure

They’ve been experimenting with high quality videos over on YouTube for awhile. And now, with the new widescreen format, this means HD-quality videos will be able to be viewed at a much higher resolution than previously possible.

No more grainy, ugly videos!

You will, of course, have to upload HD-quality video to make this happen. Once that’s done, you will see an option to watch your videos in HD. (And by purchasing YouTube Secret Weapon, we’ll tell you what you need to know to get great results with HD videos if you choose to upload them).

These are just two of the recent changes over at YouTube, but again, they are merely aesthetic and have little affect on the strategies contained within YouTube Secret Weapon.

You can be assured that Paul and I will be keeping you up-to-date on all of this, as well as future changes to the site, via this blog and email alerts. In fact, rumor has it that a few additional changes are coming in terms of the features available on your YouTube Channel and how to customize those. We’re on it!

And by purchasing YouTube Secret Weapon upon its release, we promise to keep you updated on all the changes to come beyond that…

Whenever I mention to people that I’m an expert on how to optimize YouTube videos for maximum traffic, I often get a story about “this person” they know who received 100,000+ or even a million views on a video.

Yoo-hoo! That’s not the point.

Note that it’s not always about getting 100,000 to a million or several million views on YouTube, it’s just making sure that those views you are GETTING are from people who have an interest in your target niche topic and what you have to say!

For most people selling products and services online, that means you want viewers who may eventually BUY something from you.

Well, that is, unless you’re Chris Crocker (the “leave Britney alone” dude) or someone who is just trying to become famous for “famous’s sake” … In that case, you’ll appeal to any type of general audience.

And hey, perhaps that is the type of content you’re making. If so, my YouTube Secret Weapon traffic tips will certainly be able to assist your in getting more views…Just understand though that my strategies are aimed more at people interested in the quality of their online video views more so than the quantity.

The Beauty of Targeted YouTube Views

Getting more TARGETED audience views will drive your positioning and results for your keywords and keyword phrases in the YouTube search index.

This will give you more of a chance to have your video(s) to be discovered, and perhaps then embedded on remote sites, such as someone else’s blog…

The YouTube search indexing system may then begin recommending you next to related content (that’s one of the big things I’ll show you how to play with in YouTube Secret Weapon)…

…The end result will be that more people will actually SEE your video.

And here’s a bonus: Because these audience views are more targeted, your viewers will be more likely to TAKE ACTION upon viewing your content.

Sure YouTube Secret Weapon is about getting a higher quantity of views to your YouTube videos…but more than anything else, it’s about making sure they are QUALITY views. Remember: Our aim is targeted traffic that will allow you to grow your business.

(Notice I haven’t even begun to talk about increasingly the likelihood that you’ll appear in the Google universal search engine results!) More to come on that….

There’s a trick to it…

And we’ve got product! Er…uh…rather, the start of a product.

Paul Colligan and I (Julie Perry) held our Leveraging YouTube webinar last week — October 7th & 8th — for his New Media Inner Circle subscribers. We are THRILLED with the amount of information we were able to cover: Four hours of mad content! Yep, I spilled it ALL.

I think Paul’s NMIC members were pretty thrilled, too, based on some of the feedback via Twitter:

So, as I move along to get my video editing in order, the biggest question we face is what to call this puppy when we release it in product form — as a two-part DVD set.

I’ve considered “Leveraging YouTube,” “YouTube Alchemy,” “Creating a YouTube YouTopia” (okay, kinda cheesy that one), and of course there is always just plain ol’ simple and self-explanatory “YouTube Traffic Strategies.”

…And then I just noticed a trend of what people with experience applying my YouTube marketing advice for the last few months are saying:

Compare that with Paul’s opening annoucement to his New Media Inner Circle about this exclusive webinar event, and I think we’ve got ourselves a product name!

“YouTube Secret Weapon” it is then!!!

That was easy.

Now let’s go optimize some YouTube videos.

Wait, does that make me the “weapon”? …Guess it does.

(Bang, bang. )