When people want to learn something new or when they are looking for a solution to a problem, they usually watch a video on it. Why?

Because it is one of the easiest and best ways to learn something new and due to the interactive nature of the video, finding solutions to a problem becomes easier.

It goes without saying that people watch videos every day for various different purposes. Plus businesses also have started using videos to market their products and services. Video selling is becoming a widely used concept, this is where individuals use videos to make money.

Video can help people cover a huge range of topics. You can make videos on almost anything and people will enjoy it and benefit from it.

There are several kinds of videos that you can make as well, mentioned below are some examples.

• Online courses
• Tutorials
• Videos on various types of workouts
• Unboxing videos
• Demos for different types of products
• Case study videos
• Product reveal videos
• News
• Entertaining videos

These are just some of the many examples, so you can imagine, there are a wide variety of topics that can be covered.

One of the most interesting things about video selling is that you can pair it with various types of other products.

For example, fitness instructors can make videos on different kinds of workout regimes, show a preview it for free, and then charge people if they want the full video. You can a lot of athletes using this concept to make money and gain more popularity.

How To Sell Videos

There are several ways through which can monetize your videos. Advertising is one of the most popular and common ways through which you can monetize your video content.

Videos Ads are also a great way to monetize your video content and video ads are extremely common on YouTube. They are basically small video breaks between the main video content that people view.

So you can advertise video ads of other brands who want to market their products and themselves, for this you have to have an Adsense account and also should have a good number of views coming your way. You get paid quite less for every single view and Google ends up taking a 32% cut from that.

So the problem here is pretty clear if you want to make money through this method you need to have a lot of views coming your way as it takes a lot of views to make a decent amount of money.

Paid Sponsorship is another way through which you can monetize your videos. Typically YouTube ads pause your video content to play the video ads by other brands and businesses, in paid sponsorship ads you market the brand or the product within your own video content.

This is a great way of making money especially for YouTubers, but with that being said it can also be quite distracting for your viewers to watch and it may take their focus away from the actual video content you put out.

If you want to paid sponsorships ads you need to have a dedicated audience and a lot of them, without which you will not be able to do it.

If you’re a professional videographer or if you have experience in the field of animation, then you can sell your videos to other brands, quite literally. Video for sales is a great concept if you’re involved in making videos because a lot of brands require professionals to make videos for them to market their products and brand.

As mentioned before, if you’re a professional in any field you can make video tutorials and show previews of it to your followers and charge them for the entire video course.

But why would people pay for your video course when they can find several other videos online?

To answer this question, you need to understand that different people give different things to offer, no one video is the same. In order to succeed through this method and before creating paid video content, you need to make free video content that people can find and watch, this will help you build more credibility.

You should use YouTube for the very same purpose, it is the most popular video streaming platform in the world, and the second most used search engine after Google.

You ought to make good use of this platform to gain more audience attention and build credibility.

There are several ways through which you can promote your videos to gain more audience on YouTube.

Promote Your YouTube Channel

There is more than one way through which you can market and promote your YouTube channel. For starters, you should optimize your video titles, before you do so make sure you do proper research on the keywords that you can use to optimize your videos. When you do so, more people will be able to find your videos, thus increasing the number of views. Also, make sure the title grabs the attention of the viewers, your title needs to catch their eye.

Make use of branded hashtags to make your video stand out from the rest, branded hashtags are hashtags that are only relevant to the person or brand using it. This helps people find your videos more easily.

Listed below are some other methods through which you can gain more followers on your YouTube channel and gain more views on your videos.

• Using attention-grabbing thumbnails
• Using Call To Action buttons
• Promoting your videos on your other social media channels.
• Collaborate with other YouTubers

These are some of the ways through which you can market your videos on YouTube and eventually monetize your video content.