Monday, December 29, 2014



Unboxing videos are one of the more lucrative video projects that you can produce.  A good time to produce them is for Christmas and other national holidays as well as important events that the month of June is famous for--weddings, graduation, Father's Day, Mother's Day (in May), Easter, and St. Patrick's Day.  First week of school calendar is also important, for it's when kids get new tools and gadgets for school.  Birthdays are harder to predict, since they are all year round, which bodes well for your video.  

There is a strategy to selecting what items or products to shoot unboxing videos.  But how do you know which product to choose?  Begin with hot-selling items.  Go to Amazon's "Movers & Shakers" and see which products are the hottest this week.  Produce 1 to 5 videos a week for each of the hottest selling items.  The hottest selling item as of January 7, 2015 was the Nerf N-Strike Elite Rough Cut 2x4 Blaster, selling for $12.50.  Then check out the number of YouTube videos there are on the product as well as see the number of views that each one gets. 



Of all the videos at YouTube on this product, this one has the most views. Check out why that is so. 

Before you invest the time to shoot videos on "Hot" Amazon products, check how many views that item is receiving at YouTube.  I say this because I found one of Amazon's top sellers with only a few views at YouTube.  So if your goal is to get views, acquire subscribers, and make money via YouTube, then you need to select a product that already has a number of views since that number tells you that lots of other people are watching it.  Here's an example of what I mean.   It sells for $350.00.  That's a nice price tag. 

There is a home security camera system that is selling well at Amazon, called Arlo SmartHome Security Camera System - 2 HD, 100% Wire-Free, Indoor/Outdoor Cameras withNight Vision (VMS3230) by NETGEARIt sells for $350.00.  That's a nice price tag. But it's not always the case that expensive products have lots of views at YouTube.  This product has only a handful of views by comparison to the Nerf-N Strike Blaster.  The key is to find products that review well at YouTube.

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