Steps to Create Your Own YouTube Account

YouTube is one the most popular places to showcase your videos. It has grown in leaps and bounds and an account can enhance any business site. It’s a simple process that takes only a few steps. Once you have created an account the sky is the limit.

Step 1: Create your account. You will need to link your account with an email address. There are a few basics steps such as a username, zip code and birthdate that need to be entered. Once this is complete the account will be created. Remember to fill in your profile information so that people can find you easily.

Step 2: Once your account has been created you will find a tab at the top called “My Channel.” Click this tab to set up your YouTube channel.

Step 3: Inside the “My Channel” tab you will find various options. Begin with the post bulletin tab. This allows you to write a bulletin that helps you to communicate with your subscribers. This a great place to introduce yourself and your business.

Step 4: Next is the settings tab. This allows you to add tags or keywords to your channel. Use keywords that will lead people to your channel and that will enhance your business prospective.

Step 5: The themes and colors tab is the next step in creating your channel. It allows you to choose a predetermined color for the background. These are for the most part normal colors such as blue, red, yellow and green. Pink, black and gray are also available.

There is a more advanced setting that allows a seasoned user more options. You can upload a custom background and there are other color options available. You can change the font styles and sizes as well.

Step 6: Modules is the next tab. There are number of options you can choose but the top 5 that really need to be included are:

A.    Comments
B.    Subscribers
C.    Subscriptions
D.    Friends
E.    Recent Activity

These will help navigate others to your channel. It allows comments on your videos, people to subscribe to your channel, shows what videos have been recently added as well as other options.

Step 7: There is also a videos and playlist tab. Here you can pick which video to display on your channel. This can be any of your own videos or a video from someone else that you have selected. If you are promoting a particular site or attempting to brand yourself then you may wish to select a video that emphasis this.

Always remember to click on Save before continuing on to the next tab. Once this is complete you can upload your first video.

When your account is ready then click the upload button to add the first video.  When you upload you will see there are various places that need information. Be sure to put your URL in the description field first. YouTube only displays a certain number of characters and you want people to find your website. Don’t forget to add tabs or keywords so that people can find your video easily.

You can connect a number of accounts to your YouTube account. Facebook, Twitter and MySpace are just the tip of the iceberg. This allows you to publish the video link to these sites immediately. This is a great way to start marketing your new video.

Don’t forget that once the video is live you need to get the embed code and put a copy of it on your blog or website. As you can see it is not that hard to set up an account and get that first video live. It’s not only easy but a great way to market your business and product to the world.

LeaAnn

LeaAnn is a virtual assistant who has been in the business since 2006. PLR rewrites top the list of the jobs she loves to do. Her talents also include content management, article marketing and many other avenues of online business. On the personal side she loves to cook, read and enjoys spending time with her husband, children and 8 grandchildren. To learn more about LeaAnn visit http://www.behindthescreenva.com

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