Voice-over artists call. Work for yourself marketing CPD affiliate campaigns on Youtube. Alternative ways to monetize your talent without relying on voice agents and inconsistent work flow. Free yourself from a need to search for voice over jobs ever again
9Jul 2009
So, you are a voice over artists or just an ordinary extraordinary dude with a sexy voice? Voice over agents have not being returning your calls, you are out of work, and job market sucks, right? Ok, now what?
While you are dealing with the denial convincing yourself that it will take just a few more calls to production directors and the golden key will be in your pocket, I want to show you an alternative way to feed your family and have quite a bit of fun while doing so. And no, you don’t need to change your career for that; you just need to master few more skills that will become handy for you now an din the future.
Here is your step by step How-to guide on putting your voice-talent charm to use:
Sign up as a partner with an affiliate network that offers high ticket campaigns and pays high commissions to its partners. (You might want to learn about affiliate marketing if you have not been exposed to the industry. But this guide might be sufficient). Don’t choose Pay Per Sale campaigns that offer less than $1,000 per single sale, otherwise you will need to spend years to drive traffic that would be sufficient for a decent earnings. Go for Pay Per Deal campaigns.
Pick up few PPD campaigns provided to you by IdeaMama Ad Network (as we are the sole providers of such campaigns). If you find any other alternative that looks attractive, go for it; just make sure you do your math before any commitment. Our diverse clients’ portfolio allows you to select advertisers’ products accordingly to your area of interests. Alternatively you can choose those campaigns that have the highest payout. See few examples in the section Use Cases.
Get a list of your affiliate links from us for each of your affiliate campaigns.
Create your voice over talent YouTube account.
Create a channel where you will be placing various audio files – produced by you and converted to YouTube videos. They will become your revenue generating assets.
Take white papers, case studies, press releases, or articles provided to you along with the campaigns details; convert them to audio files. Free software that allows you to record your voice and create digital files can be easily found on the net. Simply read the text using all your charm.
Attach a graphic file (.jpg) as a cover page to your audio file. Now it has a visual and can be used as a video file. You might do a Google search to learn how to make this happen quickly and hassle free; or contact us for help as we widely use this approach with our corporate clients as a free B2B lead generation opportunity.
Embed your affiliate link in the description of each file as it is shown on the demo link. Affiliate links help our software to recognize the referrer and associate your videos with generated by them sales leads. Leads will be converted by advertisers to sales, which will be converted to your affiliate sales commission.
Add as many relevant to your video content keywords as you can. You might consider Googling some tips on how to select winning keywords that will drive traffic to your YouTube videos.
Socialize with other Youtube community members to accelerate views of your video. Spread the word about your channel. Make sure your communication efforts are targeted and align with targeted audience for the campaign.
Even without promotion campaign for your videos, by simply using well selected keywords you can generate thousands views per year. Well promoted videos can generate thousands a month.
Video sample:
Now let’s do some math using one of the campaigns examples. Let’s look at this Use Case.
Your affiliate commission per deal: $10,000 per sale
Target audience:
CEOs, marketing and business development executives in
- Corporations
- Professional organizations
- Educational institutions
- Large B2B publications
Business opportunity: How you can earn your first $250,000 per year with this affiliate campaign…
… by promoting the campaign on Youtube with your voice-over creation
Assumptions:
1) You create 100 short informative and educational audio-files for the campaign (5 mins each) spending 3 weeks on production and then 1 hour a day on promotion of your channel with all videos to Youtube community.
2) Each video generates 500 views a month. In total your channel generates 50,000 views a month.
It will result in:
2,500 clicks/month (conversion rate of view-to click: 5%) that will convert to
10 leads/month (conversion rate 0.4% since many of YouTube viewers are just lookers and won’t be qualified buyers) that will convert to
25 sales/year (conversion rate 14%)
Three weeks of full day work and an hour per day afterwords. Does it sound like a worthwhile investment in a $250K earning opportunity? You bet!
How to promote your YouTube channel?
I will leave it out for now and will dedicate a separate blog post to it shortly. Meanwhile you can find plenty of easy tips on Google.