Chef Pete, or is that “video whore marketer Pete” checking in. It has now been about three weeks since I start to regularly upload cooking videos to various online video sharing sites like youtube.com, revver.com and blip.tv
These first few months will be devoted to developing a following on Youtube.com and building up a large library of cooking videos. Already I can see progress is being made, I have been contacted by two “newer” online video sites who would like me to join their programs.
However at this point I am focusing on YouTube.com (has the largest base of people) and other sites that are linked up with TubeMogul.com. Using Tube Mogul is very helpful, upload one video and it is syndicated to the top tier video sites online. I just don’t have enough time to spend uploading to any other sites.
I have also been featured about three times on Crackle. Never heard of crackle.com? Your not alone, even though my videos have been featured (added to top level cooking / food category) the videos are only getting about 200 views or so.
I Am Wearing A Lot Of Hats Right Now:
• Chef
• Film crew (with my wife helping now and then)
• Editing guy
• Webmaster
• Ect …
Most of my cooking videos are around 10 minutes (a no no according to many viral video experts) and are large coming in at about 99 megs. So spending time at another site is really not doable right now.
My focus right now I to understand YouTube.com, and to gain subscribers. Having subscribers who rate and comment on your videos can help those your videos do better on youtube.com searches.
I also am having a ton of fun, watching some very creative videos and chatting with many fun people. I am trying to learn the ropes, I have had plenty subscribe in a short time and several unsubscribe as well.
One of the things I am struggling with is my “youtube channel identity” seams some people think I should only be adding videos about cooking to the channel. Well the channel names is:
CookingRecipes @ YouTube.com/CookingRecipes
However I am a complex guy and I also enjoy the “community aspect of youtube.com”. I have sent some “video responses” made some silly videos I hope would make people laugh (some have told me they did) and have also probably made a fool out of myself.
Hey remember this is an experiment and I am trying to learn about this stuff and what works and what does not.
I had one woman send me nasty mail followed by nasty messages because she did not like my “subscribe” messages. It got to the point where as I had to blocker, shame but I don’t need any negativity …
I also set up “playlists” on my youtube.com channel. This way if people only want my cooking recipes they can simply subscribe to that playlist. However I am sure I will worried I will get additional comments down the road.
All in all however lots of people are really enjoying my videos are learning a lot (about cooking) and things are going well. Important to understand were talking about one person and 160 are subscribed.
So the community aspect of youtube.com is a blast and if you have time you might want to seek out other people who enjoy your hobbies or interests, send them a friend invite or subscribe to their channel if they have some videos up (I have subscribed to about 200 cooking channels on youtube.com). Then over time you can truly “participate” on youtube.com by uploading and watching.
To Your Success,
