Marketers on YouTube often wonder how to get their channel icons to display from videos that they upload.

YouTube uses the center of your video content and extracts an icon image from that point in your videos to use as a channel icon.  So when you select a video from your collection it will always use that center section to display your icon image for your entire channel.

The issue that arises is that if you don’t like the icon image that YouTube automatically selects for you, then your stuck with using the preselected icon.

Or are you?

Few people know how to get the exact icon they want for their YouTube channel everytime with no worries ever….

All you have to do is make a short 10-20 second video clip that has ONLY a single captured screenshot from any section in the video you want to use. Or you can use a screen shot from any other source. Then upload that still “video” to your YouTube account.

YouTube will always select from the center of your videos for a choice of a channel icon. So using this method your insured to have the perfect channel icon everytime because you have already pre-selected it for YouTube by making your own custom single screenshot version of the section you want to appear as your channel icon.

I made a video on exactly how to do this. You can find it over at:
 http://VideoMarketingTactics.com

Frank Bruno

I was writing another post earlier today when my mind was triggered by a thought I had pushed to the side a few weeks ago and so I felt now was the time to release the buried thought….

My thought was about information and how we all go about to consume it each and everyday to better ourselves or our businesses.

More specifically “The Secrets” of the “Gurus”

Where do we all get our information from? Better yet where do all the famous “Gurus” and experts such as Tony Robbins,Mike Filsaime, Russel Brunson get their information from? (and many more)

Where do they get their information for their e-books, DVD’s, CD’s, and coaching programs?

They consume information by reading books, magazines and watching and listening to others regardless if those others are experts, gurus, or just closet philosophers. Then they re-disseminate that information based on their own words, experiences into products of their own with a new label and twist.

They also go to other experts and gurus who have a “higher” status of education or experience levels in a specific subject area. They either pay for that information or get it free in one form or another (paid coaching,seminar, over dinner, phone call,etc)

What is every information product such as books,e-books, DVD’s,CD’s, magazines, etc. based on? If there were no books, magazines, newspapers there would be nothing to consume or to learn from. There would be nothing to re-disseminate. There would be no seminars, coaching, or e-books. 

 Every book, magazine, and information product was written or developed based on what somebody else has either seen, heard, or read somewhere else at least in part.

So is there really a “secret”?

The thing is many of the “gurus” want you to believe that there is a “secret” to success when in fact their “secrets” are relative terms to tactics that can be used that lead to success but “secret” is a relative word because what you don’t know, is already out there somewhere, and it is only a “secret” to you.

This is the death of the secret. The last real secret….

Frank Bruno
http://www.VideoMarketingTactics.com

I just released a few “underground videos”….

In these videos there’s a video marketing tactic I call the “3 step whammy” which will show you how to get 6x more traffic directly to your site without worrying about how many “Views” your videos are getting.

I was hesitant to release these videos to the public for 2 reasons…..

First, these are the exact same videos I used to train my outsourced workers so that they could apply these techniques to all my YouTube accounts for traffic and lead generation. Basically these videos will be exposing some intimate details of my business.

Second, the quality of these videos are totally “raw”. Meaning the videos were not produced with top quality in mind (since they were training videos) with poor audio quality and lots of “ums” to listen to. But if you want some killer “underground” content and don’t mind the quality level, then these videos are for you.

If your one of my recent members who already joined my “Video Marketing Tactics” DVD of the month club you will be receiving these videos straight to your front door very soon.

You can watch the case study video to see how my YouTube account went from 852 channel views to over 7,200 in a short period of time using these tactics. Keep in mind that these videos are based on a very tough niche that’s completely saturated with nobody on YouTube who even cares about this niche or who are even looking for videos in this niche to watch.

But, what I will tell you… is that I have been converting 40% of all optins into buyers once those visitors get to that niche site in the videos. (using another clever video tactic)

So if these methods can work this good in this specific niche then it will probably do wonders
in your niche.

Click here to Watch the Video of the YouTube Traffic Results Case Study

Frank Bruno