"I want to live the real life"... Video comes to Sowpub!

[Dien Rice]

Okay... I know it's taken a while...

Video links have now come to Sowpub!

The reason it's taken so long is that we don't use the "standard" vBulletin setup... We've customized various things. That means I can't just "update" to the latest version like everyone else, or we'll lose our customized stuff...

So I've had to put this in manually...

When you post something, you'll now see a new button in the editing box... It looks like this...



When you click on that button, it puts in this code...

{YOUTUBE}{/YOUTUBE}

(Except instead of curly brackets, they'll be square brackets.)

When you see a YouTube video, the URL (i.e. the web address) has a code something like this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_igpr-Cpnc4

Take the code after the "v=" and put it in the brackets...

So it looks like this...

{YOUTUBE}_igpr-Cpnc4{/YOUTUBE}

Then you get this result...



We all need to live the real life! (Thanks John Mellencamp!)

Best wishes,

Dien

Cool Dien.... it's about time!

Just created this promo video for my business and posted it in a Facebook ad... got plenty of views but no clicks to my website. So the video is a flop. But I also
tested a static image ad on Facebook a week ago and it has already gotten me 27 new clients in 7 days for only $68.12 in ad spend!

Cheers,

Steve

[Dien Rice]

Originally Posted by SteveSki

Cool Dien.... it's about time!

Just created this promo video for my business and posted it in a Facebook ad... got plenty of views but no clicks to my website. So the video is a flop. But I also
tested a static image ad on Facebook a week ago and it has already gotten me 27 new clients in 7 days for only $68.12 in ad spend!

Cheers,

Steve

Hi Steve,

I enjoyed your video!

Thanks for sharing your Facebook results too... Sounds like it's well worth it! I really must try advertising there...

Best wishes,

Dien

Thanks Dien.... The contest I'm running has 7 days to go but I just turned off the FB traffic because I have 40 sessions booked from it now and I can't take anymore clients on for that weekend. Here's a screenshot of my ad spend... http://screencast.com/t/q8mS0GEc5Nl Not one sign up from the 300 video views but 40 clients for under $100 on the picture only ad is very, very good!

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Cheers,
Steve

[unpinkpanther]

Originally Posted by SteveSki

Not one sign up from the 300 video views but 40 clients for under $100 on the picture only ad is very, very good!

Cheers,
Steve

Thank you for sharing your results.

Any tips on how to target your audience?

Did you focus on "Interests"?

Originally Posted by unpinkpanther

Thank you for sharing your results.

Any tips on how to target your audience?

Did you focus on "Interests"?

Did not target interests... demographics only... by post code, sex, age, and ny ads were only shown to parents with children up to age 12.