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The hard truth about YouTube revenue
Why viral views can kill your conversion rates
Quick story about a painful lesson in YouTube strategy...
We recently hit 1.5M views on three viral videos.
Exciting, right? Wrong.
Those viral hits drove exactly zero leads to our business…
Meanwhile, a "smaller" video with Seth Godin about marketing's future is driving actual customers our way – even with just a fraction of the views…
That’s why I just published a detailed breakdown revealing:
Why 99% of YouTube videos don't drive revenue
The exact shifts that turned views into leads
Our "package hacking" method for guaranteed engagement
The 80/20 content strategy I'm using in 2025
My real analytics showing what worked (and flopped)
This isn't theory…
I'm showing real numbers, real mistakes, and the actual strategy we're using right now.
-Eric