Wow!

Hey Don- thanks for clarifying all that. I did the Callfire route as well and nobody's phone rang any more than usual. I tracked them for months.

Maybe I was targeting the wrong type of businesses but I did several of them for 'free' just to see if there was any noticeable increase in calls by having a thumbnail on the 1st page.

I did an interior design business, a towing company, a parking lot re-striping company, a window covering business, a shooting range that also gave classes on carrying a concealed weapon, and a local auto repair garage.

I didn't tell any of them except the interior design business. I wanted to be comfortable beforehand knowing I could get them on the first page using long-tail keyword searches for their business and if I noticed a increase in calls to those various businesses via CallFire I would then approach them.

I got them all on the 1st page with a 45-90 sec video thumbnail except for the towing company. The calls didn't stampede in by any stretch, not enough for me to approach them anyways. Nothing significant really. If I noticed 20-25 calls a month coming in I'd done the hula-hoop in a speedo at high noon in the town square.

Unfortunately for me it didn't happen and fortunately for everyone else within eyesight of the town square it didn't happen either.

So I just kinda cut my losses and quit spending as much time on the video stuff as I was before my 60 day test trial.

I personally need to see a quicker return from my efforts or I lose interest. It's an A.D.D. thing I guess good or bad. I'll give 100% for a couple months towards something and if it doesn't show me some promise by then, I fold up my table and go to another 'location' so-to-speak and try something else.

Using baseball analogy, sometimes I get some singles here and there to keep me interested. A double is even better and anything better than that is a bonus. If I hit a home run - woohoo - I can see the promised land so it motivates me even more to keep on trucking.

This video thing, for me anyways, just didn't pay off for me like I had hoped for the time I put into it because I really like messing with video but I really like getting paid even better.

Keep on keepin' on Don

Regards,
Glenn

Glenn......you said you got the videos ranked for "Long Tail" Keywords!

If you use KeyWords like "best emergency auto repair in Toledo"....you'd probably get that video ranked within a few minutes BUT chances are very few, if any, people will be entering that KeyWord.

Using a KeyWord like; "auto repair toledo" would probably take longer to get on page 1 BUT.....that is a POPULAR KeyWord and would DRAW calls like flies!

Ryan McKinney has a WSO called "Offline Legion" where he provides a very good instruction on how to get Videos Ranked for GOOD, POPULAR KeyWords.

He also says to Pick a biz at random (preferably one that has a website and does some advertising around town).....upload and optimize the Video (preferably using a YouTube Channel with the name of the KeyWord (Auto Repair Toledo) ......then aim the CallFire number to that biz.

I've found that when I check CallFire there ARE Calls a few days after I ranked the "Popular" keyword.

Las Vegas is a big town.....Mark Helton (one of my Video Marketing consultants) ranked a Video for the keywords LAS VEGAS ROOFER in Jan of 2011 and.....the video is STILL THERE at the Top.

The biz also has a website AND, according to Mark, has been paying Mark $700 a month for over 4 years!

So.....there are ways to Rank Popular Keyword videos. You will probably need to do some Back linking and other techniques However.....once you get the "knack".....it sure is nice to get Monthly Payments without having to do much "work"!

Also.....here's a Video Review of probably the best program I've used to sell individual videos. It's called "Video Cash Volcano" and Lee Cole is reviewing it;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajd1o5G8AUI

Don Alm