YouTube has a deep linking feature—something they’ve offered for months now—but it’s a trick I see very few people taking advantage of. (Hey, maybe people don’t have a good reason to use it.) I encourage you to think about how it might be useful for your YouTube marketing efforts.
Meanwhile, here’s how it works:
You simply add on the end of your regular YT URL some code for the exact time point in the video where you want to send your viewers. This functions just like a bookmark on a web page which hops readers farther down the page to a specific point in the text. At the end of the video URL add this: #t=7m40s.
Like this: “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHR9wN0Q1is#t=7m40s”
In this example, the video would begin playing at 7 minutes and 40 seconds. Just play your video until you find the point you want to skip to, note the time and add the code to the URL.
Then test it by copying the new URL and pasting it in a browser. Cool huh?
See for yourself how it works here.
In the case above, I wanted you to check out Paul Colligan’s mention of our product, YouTube Secret Weapon.
Other great uses of this feature would be:
• Sending prospects to the best part of a testimonial video (especially if it’s on the long side and you just want to people to get right to the sizzle).
• Giving customers the option of jumping to a particular point in a sales video. You might say: For those of you who have watched this video before or are familiar with the product, here’s a link that goes right to the specs for the product.
• Highlighting the segment of someone else’s video that you want your audience to see.
• As a way to set chapter or section marks in a very long tutorial video; you might create several points and URLs and put them in a list as a sort of Table of Contents.
Can you think of other ways this might be useful for you, either for your own videos or ones you’ve sent your audience to watch?
By the way, the video I sent you to is a nice chunk of a seminar Paul Colligan gave, and in it he reveals how we originally recorded YouTube Secret Weapon, which is our 2-DVD, 3.5-hour tutorial on absolutely everything you need to know to effectively market products, services (and ever yourself!) on YouTube.
We first presented our YouTube marketing training as a live webinar!
That’s right. Granted the original training was about six (6) hours of live webinar recordings, but we’ve now edited that all into a perfectly polished 3.5-hour tutorial… AND we’ve since added five (5) bonus webinars for our current customers so they can stay on top of their YouTube games!
In fact, we’ve got a LIVE YouTube Update Webinar coming up on Thursday, April 16th for all YouTube Secret Weapon owners.
Join Our April 16th Live Webinar Training
Yes, there’s still time to be able to join us on our April 16th bonus webinar, but to receive a registration link, you must be a YouTube Secret Weapon customer.
OH, and bigger news: Don’t wait until April 15th to buy, because that’s the day the price goes up from $97 to $197!
You read it right: On April 15th, YouTube Secret Weapon is going up from $97 to $197.
Grab A Copy Of YouTube Secret Weapon Before April 15th: www.YouTubeSecretWeapon.com
And the current $97 price is going to INCLUDE our live update webinar on April 16th (with replay link)! This is definitely a deal you’ll want to take advantage of before the price doubles.
Check out Zeb Olsen’s testimonial here.
(And FYI - that link to Zeb testimonial was achieved by deep linking to 3 minutes and 29 seconds in.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK_bJtCPbYM#t=3m29s
I’m telling you, YouTube Deep Linking = “Priceless!” 
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