Your Travel Buddy Network Adds Free Travel Video Marketing Website

Jan. 23, 2009 - PRLog -- Your Travel Buddy Network, a popular family of travel booking websites announces that it has added a free video marketing and sharing website, to help promote sales of it’s travel business, including it’s free vacation rental directory, Your Travel Buddy Vacation Rentals.

VacationCommercials.tv  was developed to help vacation rental owners find another creative way to market their vacation rentals at an affordable price, currently free.

VacationCommercials.tv (http://vacationcommercials.tv) is also available to travel and tour provider’s, hotel and destination provider’s, local travel and tourism boards, such as CVB’s and Chamber’s of Commerce and travel agents.

Video marketing is a new Internet marketing tool that is just on fire on among people that do business on the Web. Video marketing has launched the success of everything from movies to colognes. In the past video marketing wasn't really possible because of the slow speed of most Internet connections but these days most people that use the Internet have DSL or high speed cable Internet connections so that videos can be streamed from the Web with no problem Video marketing entails making small video clips that are funny, or informative, or have high tech graphics that get people's attention.

“Usually viral video clips are short, between 30 seconds and 2 minutes, and need to do more than just advertise a product or website. When advertising your vacation rental, a short clip is the best option to maintain the viewer attention. There are lots of resources on the Web that give detailed instructions on how to make a great viral video”, says Brent Vanderstelt, President of Your Travel Buddy LLC and offers these interesting facts about video marketing.

Interesting Facts About Online Video Marketing
·   52% of all Internet traffic is driven by online video.
·   More than 70% of all Internet users watch videos online.
·   In a single month, YouTube presented 9.5 billion videos to 138 million American consumers.
·   123 million Americans watched videos online during every single month of 2007.
·   Because online video is so popular, the Big 3 search engines - Google, Yahoo and MSN - crawl the video websites every few minutes looking for fresh content.
·   Video content can show up in the search results within just a few hours of an article being uploaded to any video website.
·   Video content frequently shows up in the search results ahead of other types of content.
When Cisco added streaming video to its website, the traffic to its website increased by 600%.

Your Travel Buddy has also partnered with an industry leader in video production to offer video production services for property owners, travel agents, destination and tour provider’s who have limited knowledge in video production and uploading the videos to various video marketing and sharing websites. Your Travel Buddy offers professional video production services from just $397.00 for a basic 1-2 minute video up to $497.00 for a premium video.


About Your Travel Buddy Network

The Your travel Buddy Network includes niche travel websites and blogs. In addition to the mentioned websites, the company runs several specialty travel blogs including a general travel article directory (myytbtravel.blogspot.com), an adventure travel blog (yourtravelbuddyadventuretravel.blogspot.com), a golf vacation blog (yourtravelbuddygolf.blogspot.com) and the Wine Country Traveler Blog (winecountrytraveler.blogspot.com).

The company plans to expand into regional vacation rental directories, additional niche travel markets, expand it blog presence and add a full service travel agency in the coming months.

With the addition of the full service travel agency, the company plans to expand into business and corporate travel.

Your Travel Buddy is a proud Michigan Business, located in Newaygo Michigan and is located on the banks of the beautiful Muskegon River.

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Your Travel Buddy is a network of travel booking websites and blogs, and is a leader in inter travel booking options.