If you're thinking about selling something online using VideoAdds, we're delighted! But it's important to understand, first, what online sales are all about, and how you can successfully make your first (and second, and third!) video sale.

It's not an exaggeration to say that when the Internet came, it changed everything.

It used to be that aggressive salespeople were the most successful salespeople: they went out there and convinced prospects to buy their product or service. They were sometimes overaggressive, in fact, and even less than honest--that's where we get the image of the used-car salesman. But in the old world, that worked.
It doesn't anymore.

Consumers are sophisticated. They compare prices and quality of items. They leave feedback and talk to each other on social media. Aggressively strong-arming them into a sale is never going to work.

What does work is what is known as "inbound marketing," which is just another way of saying that you have to entice the prospect to come to you, to want what you have to sell. Inbound marketing earns the attention of customers, makes your product or service easy to find, and draws customers with interesting content.

And that's where you come in. You've produced a great video, and you have it on VideoAdds.com. Now what? How do you make that sale?

So here's the thing: You have to be a marketer as well. Do you have a Facebook account, a Twitter handle? Tell people about your video and give them the link that takes them directly to it on VideoAdds.com. Join one of our forums and chat with other people about what sales techniques work for them. Start blogging: if you're not already doing a blog, then you're missing a great opportunity to spread the word--and your VideoAdds link! If you're putting videos online that promote something ongoing--if you have a whole product line, for example, rather than just one motorcycle to sell, or if you have a service and want to attract a clientele--then why not try publishing a press release?

There are a lot of ways to make that first sale. Why not try some of them today?