YouTube Going to the Dogs

Posted on June 17, 2007

Just received an email from online marketing trainer Ken Reno regarding his brand new software including master rights and sourcecode.

Software That Automates A Process

Now usually I’m keen to sell this stuff, promote this stuff, use this stuff and make a few bucks off this stuff….

But it just smacks of auto-spam, like MySpace automation add-a-friend, that has a shelf life of a few months and helps get your accounts suspended.

Apparently that’s just what it’s for - spamming.

Don’t believe me? Take a look at my inbox this morning. I’ve had a YouTube account for 6 months or so (didn’t use it much because I’ve been doing all my video marketing at Video.Google.com) so I’ve never ‘worked’ my YouTube account to make money or get video views. I just created it and ignored it.

Yet this morning I wake up to 15 ‘friend’ requests from strangers! “Let’s share videos,” or some other related garbage these ‘friends’ wrote…

If this is happening to you too, all of a sudden you can log into your YouTube account and turn off the email feature that allows ~~idiots~~ strangers to spam you.

A Marketer of Integrity, Too?

Past all the YouTube spam is a message from Ken McCarthy regarding YouTube. Ken is a marketing trainer that I’ve admired for years as being a man of integrity, a man who assists people to build real businesses online and not just spammy money making websites…

So when his email was lumped in there with all the YouTube crap of the day I was shocked!

Of course Ken was talking about a completely different aspect of YouTube and some damn fine reasons to stop marketing your videos and product showcase and/or having YouTube videos showing on your own site…

My biggest concern is his second point:

“Viewers can scroll through and view related videos right in the YouTube-provided player without leaving your web site.”

(explanation: “…allows YouTube to, in essence, highjack your web page and turn it into a YouTube platform.”)

If these two snippets don’t alert you to the trouble brewing click over to Ken’s entire post here. Ken explains video hosting away from YouTube quite eloquently.

When you get there and read the comments keep your glasses on - you enter the realm of competent marketers who will be sharing and promoting affiliate-driven alternatives.

The YouTube Lesson of the Day Here?

Watch your back, watch your sales process and protect your inbox from the new YouTube spam software.

Talk to you soon,

Laura Childs
www.smartzville.com

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