{"id":1888,"date":"2010-11-15T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2010-11-15T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T14:00:07","slug":"how-to-sell-on-youtube-without-creating-any-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/15\/how-to-sell-on-youtube-without-creating-any-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Sell On YouTube Without Creating Any Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shelley Davis runs a hair care company out of her apartment in Los Angeles. \u00a0Her company is profitable and her products are on the shelves of Target and Whole Foods Markets stores. \u00a0A couple years ago that wasn&#8217;t the case. \u00a0But everything turned around when she turned to YouTube. \u00a0Thing is, she never uploaded a single video.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, she focused on YouTube comments, where she would join discussions and give hair product advice. \u00a0The result was YouTube users taking her advice and then uploading videos of themselves trying out her hair care products. \u00a0It all kind of snowballed&#8230;and&#8230;it boosted her sales by 40%.<\/p>\n<p>And she&#8217;s not alone. \u00a0Many savvy companies are using YouTube&#8217;s comment section as marketing tools&#8230;and reaping the benefits. \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704654004575517673165122024.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Wall Street Journal has an excellent article about it&#8230;and&#8230;should be required reading for any legitimate Internet marketer<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shelley Davis runs a hair care company out of her apartment in Los Angeles. \u00a0Her company is profitable and her products are on the shelves of Target and Whole Foods Markets stores. \u00a0A couple years ago that wasn&#8217;t the case. \u00a0But everything turned around when she turned to YouTube. \u00a0Thing is, she never uploaded a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[728,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1897,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions\/1897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}