When used correctly, online video marketing can be a powerful strategy to get long-term results for your MLM business (more traffic, more mlm leads & prospects) at minimal costs. 

This free MLM mind map outlines some of the best practices how to get continuous attention of your target market, expose yourself or your MLM business all over the web and get traffic to your site from popular video sharing sites like YouTube and others.

Keep on reading to view, explore and play with this mind map.

Text Outline of Mind map "Marketing Your MLM Business With Online Video  (Best Practices)"

1. Benefits of Online Video Marketing

1.1 Reach huge audience & drive lots of traffic to your site for a minimal investment

1.1.1 From video sites themselves

1.1.2 From Google's SERPS (Universal Search)

1.2 ROI (Return on Investment) of online video marketing can be astounding.

1.3 Long-term (Recurring) results: Upload/submit your video today, get views and traffic for months/years to come

2. TubeMogul.com

2.1 One of the first online video analytics and distribution companies

2.2 Gives you insider information about performance on your videos on the Internet

2.3 Uploads and submits your videos to the Web's top video sharing sites

2.4 Tracks videos across the major video-sharing and social networking sites

2.5 Knows a thing or two about what works and what doesn't with online video

2.6 TubeMogule's Formuka: 50%C + 15%M + 20%T + 15%P

2.6.1 C=Content & Production

2.6.2 M=Metadata

2.6.3 T=Thumbnail

2.6.4 P=Promotion

3. Video Success Formula

3.1 To get the greatest impact and exposure for your videos, Tubemogul suggests spending:

3.1.1 50% time on the actual video production and creation

3.1.2 15% of time on creating metadata

3.1.3 20% of time on choosing the correct thumbnail

3.1.4 15% of your efforts on promotion and marketing of the video once it is online.

3.2 Know your target market

3.2.1 Their problems, struggles, pain, dreams, needs, wants, etc

3.3 Create & submit short videos (1-3 minutes)

3.4 Get people OFF video sites to your site/blog

3.4.1 Use call-to-action

3.4.2 Use watermark

4. Meta Data (M)

4.1 Include keywords video Title

4.2 Include keywords + your site's URL into video Description

4.3 Include keywords into video Tags

5. Content & Production (P)

5.1 50% of creating a great viral video is about content & production

5.2 Your goal

5.2.1 Create remarkable & info-rich content that causes people to remark

5.2.2 Create viral video that will spread your message wide and far. You want as many people to:

Embed your video to their sites and blogs

Share your video with others

Rate your video

5.2.3 Get people OFF video sites to your site/blog

6. Thumbnail image (T)

6.1 Video thumbnail image is two of the most important elements that make people click and view your video

6.1.1 Google uses thumbnails in the universal search results (SERPS) pages

Google Universal Search: Google now includes listings from its news, video, images, local and book search engines into its main search results pages

6.1.2 Video thumbnails draw user’s eyes to the video rather than to the 1st organic result

6.2 Danger: Thumbs of girls in bikinis often get hundreds of thousands of impulsive views. However, you will get a high abandonment rate, negative ratings and comments if your video is not relevant to the thumb

6.3 Remember: Your primary goal should NOT be to get as many video views as possible, but rather to get as many people to click-through your site/blog

6.4 Thumbnail needs...

6.4.1 to be eye-catching and representative

6.4.2 to show the potential viewer what they can expect from your video

6.4.3 to be of interest, relevant, and high quality.

6.5 YouTube

6.5.1 YouTube auto-generates 3 thumbnails for your video

6.5.2 3 thumbs are (allegedly) taken from the 25%, 50% and 75% points in the video timeline.

7. Promotion (P)

7.1 Optimize Meta Data for your keywords

7.2 Submit your videos to YouTube and as many video sharing sites as possible.

7.3 Use automation tools and services to automate and speed-up the process

7.4 Use (embed) your YouTube videos on your own site/blog & anywhere else where you can embed HTML code

7.5 Share your videos with your:

7.5.1 E-mail List subscribers

7.5.2 YouTube friends

7.5.3 Friends on social sites (Facebook, MySapce, Twitter, etc)

8. Recommended resources to subscribe to

8.1  reelSEO.com: Excellent and up-to-date site with tips, trick, advice and experiments with Video SEO, Online Video Marketing, & Internet Video Trends