YouTube and your Yahoo! Store.

I don’t know about you, but YouTube is on my list of top spots to check out whenever I am browsing the web. This thing that started out as a tiny online community of video posters, has now become part of our culture and daily lives. Need some instruction on how to do a little something? Get it on YouTube. You want to have a video blog? Do it on YouTube. Want to laugh hysterically until you rupture a blood vessel while watching someone do something insanely ridiculous, go to YouTube! You name it, its there. But what does this mean for you, your business and your yahoo store? Well just like you have heard from us before about how online networking sites like FaceBook.com and Twitter.com can be used as business tools for marketing and letting your customers know what’s new, YouTube can present a way for you to provide videos on your website about your products, news and events, or even demonstrations of what you have to offer. You can create an account right at YouTube.com and create your own videos, or you can use videos that others have posted. They provide all of the HTML that you can copy right from the site to post the video on your website. But once you have got the HTML, what do you do with it? Follow these easy steps, and watch the YouTube craze start making you money.

Step 1: Obtain the HTML code of the video you want to link on your site from the Video Page (Copy and pasting is the easiest method).
Step 2: Navigate to the page you would like to post it on in your store editor and click edit.
Step 3: Paste the code into the “Caption” field and click the Update button.

Once you begin doing this you will begin to realize that the videos often post on your page as a larger size than you would prefer. No problem! In the HTML that you have pasted in you will see a line that looks like this <object width=”480″ height=”295″> . The width and height are your video sizes. you can adjust the numbers between the quotes to be higher or lower until you have found the size that you like. Keep in mind that there are two spots in your HTML code with the width and height options, one in the beginning of the HTML and one near the end. Make sure you change them both, otherwise the size won’t change.

Thats all there is to it! Now you have everything you need to hop in the back of the YouTube station wagon and go for a spin. If you have ever been shopping online and thought “I wish I could see how it worked before I bought it” then you can now realize that posting applicable video content for your customers and services will just give your customers one more reason to shop with you, and buy with you. It could be the difference between closing that sale, and never knowing that your missing it. Happy YouTubing!