I found an awesome cowboy hat recently. I decided that it would be my official YouTube Hat….at least for this video. In this video I sum up some of the last 3 months goals, and gives the readers some helpful tips. I also picked up a signed copy of “The Leap: How 3 simple changes can propel your career from good to great”. At the end of the video I talk about a new project I’m going to be working on in the meantime.

P.S. I really need to find a way to make a better looking thumbnail. It seems to always catch me looking really weird…..

We know YouTube is launching a revenue sharing program, we should take a look at some effective strategies to get viral.

“Not all viral videos are what they seem. There are tens of thousands of videos uploaded to YouTube each day. No matter how “viral” you think your video is; no one is going to find it and probably no one is going to watch it.” -Dan Ackerman, co-founder of viral video marketing company

One man by the name of Dan Ackerman has created a marketing company named The Comotion Group. They specialize in making sure videos “go viral”. In a way what they can be thought of as gaming the system and could even be considered cheating, but the internet has and always been the wild wild west. Mob rule is the rule of law and if you have a group of dedicated, motivated individuals you can make sure your blog/video/product gets in front of millions of people.

The truth is the majority of people upload their videos and wait too see what happens. Dan has come up with 9 strategies for giving your videos the extra boost to stardom.

Click here to see the 9 Secrets

Now more than ever there is incentive to create videos for the online video sharing site, YouTube. Aside from being able to connect with a large number of people and create traffic for your websites, you can now potentially earn big money from popular videos. Mashable the social media guide announced today that Google and YouTube will be rolling out the YouTube Patnership Program that will allow any video account that becomes widely popular will be able to opt-in for revenue sharing.
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Click here to check out the results from August

Today at Zero 2 Hero we celebrate the 15 day anniversary, since this blog is fairly new I have the advantage of testing many different methods of traffic generation and reporting how well each one works.

So today I wanted to share with you my progress and what has worked best after 15 days since my beginning. Lets take a look at 2 ways that I was able to get more traffic and improve my page rank, and 1 way that has not worked well so far.

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