I am a YouTube marketing consultant. At VidAction, we help you grow your business on YouTube and convert your viewers into loyal customers. We do this by helping your business get more targeted views on YouTube using a tutorial video strategy with YouTube channel management and YouTube ads. Other brands under this umbrella include VidiUp.

On The Video Marketing Podcast, video marketing experts Dane Golden, Gwen Miller, and Shelly Saves The Day give you the best strategy and tips to get the greatest value out of your video marketing budget, and use video to give the greatest value to your potential customers. Focused on helping marketers, businesses, and brands, we talk about both YouTube organic and YouTube paid media, with an eye on strategy, content programming, and optimization.

WE SOLD HEY.COM IN 2019 TO BASECAMP.At HEY.com we focus on helping clients grow their long-tail marketing and support platforms via YouTube through channel management, video promotion, content marketing and inbound marketing programs. This means working with your team to amplify your efforts across the social media and social video ecosystems, whether it be with earned, paid, or owned media.Some of the work we do is also known as "Audience Development" or "Video SEO".We particularly enjoy working with large tech companies that are already producing a lot of good videos, but can use help with discoverability, amplification, distribution and integration of those assets across their marketing platforms. We use a heavily data-driven approach to help you find out what's working and why, so that you can iterate the video production, distribution, and promotion strategy built around your KPIs and integrated into your marketing automation platform.More than any platform other than blogs and websites, YouTube's long-tail resiliency helps companies with top-of-funnel demand generation at a low price, but in a way that can also drive upgrades and information-based sales. Many companies are putting thousands of dollars into producing videos each month, yet don't yet have to know-how to get sufficient ROI from these efforts.We'll help you solve this problem. Please contact me personally at danegoldenbiz[at]gmail.com for more information.

I help Tim Schmoyer's Video Creators Action Plan participants by reviewing their channels and making recommendations on how they can better spread their messages and grow their viewerships. Additionally, I've trained attendees at the Video Labs conference in Cincinnati. This requires a deep understanding and experience with YouTube Analytics and YouTube features, as well as a mastery of Tim Schmoyer's own techniques for building channels.

Created industry-leading thought leadership voice for Octoly, a 10-person international startup SaaS platform that connects brands with YouTube influencers.► Drove 384 highly-targeted leads by building and refining custom inbound marketing funnel.► Wrote 73 blog posts via industry strategy blog to evangelize company success stories.► Managed 47 paid campaigns using bespoke social and remarketing methodology. ► Uncovered industry secrets in writing 3 industry-defining research reports/ ebooks on how to do YouTube marketing in the automotive, video game, and beauty verticals, totaling 171 pages.► Delivered 217 news mentions using PR/content marketing best practices.► Produced and moderated 43 podcasts about YouTube marketing and channel optimization, distributed via ReelSEO.► Spoke at 4 industry conferences about YouTube marketing.

Each week I co-hosted the top YouTube marketing tips podcast "ReelSEO Tube Talk" with Tim Schmoyer of VideoCreators and ReelSEO, and Matt Ballek of VidiSEO and MagnetMediaFilms. We created this 15-minute show for busy digital marketing strategists and C-level executives to listen to while on-the-go. Each episode we give you three quick tips for marketing your brand's YouTube channel. Visit http://www.reelseo.com/show/tube-talk/ or look for us on iTunes or Stitcher.

As president and first employee, directed operations, production, distribution, business development and advertising contract fulfillment for several of the most popular Web shows focused on technology. Managed evolution from top podcast network to 24/7 live-streaming network. Produced shows hosted by Leo Laporte, an Emmy award-winning tech journalist and one of the world's foremost new media and social media pioneers. Managed four direct reports and relationships with seven partners distributing shows to web, mobile, and set-top boxes.► Built and managed business development relationships and contracts with distribution and/or business partners including iTunes, YouTube, Ustream, Justin.tv, BitGravity, Stickam, AOL, Roku, CacheFly, MediaFly, Podtrac and others.► Managed on-air advertiser contract fulfillment for advertisers such as Ford, GoToMeeting/Citrix, Audible.com, ScottEvest, Drobo, Gazelle, Squarespace, Carbonite, and more.► Built, refined and managed a customized database system to track viewership, ad scheduling, revenue, costs, billing, CPM and profit on a per ad, per host, per episode and per show basis, uncovering and solidifying the TWiT core business model.► Supervised production of 20 weekly shows and 500+ annual episodes across multiple distribution channels in fluid environment of live-to-tape, always-on cameras for an audience of millions.• Superior quality of TWiT shows warranted a cross-network CPM of $70, one of the most expensive in any media.• Managed relationships, appearances and payment structures for 22 regular weekly freelance hosts.• Facilitated company's growth to seven staff members (plus dozens of hosts and freelancers) and several-fold revenue increase to $1.5 million yearly in advertising.• Produced live streaming web shows from remote locations in Honolulu, Austin, San Jose, San Francisco, and Las Vegas.• Website Editor-in-Chief

Awarded Press Democrat's employee of the month for launching first site in nationwide company effort aimed at creating regional blogging communities.

Implemented media and public outreach in high-crisis natural disaster situations where speed and clarity of message were crucial (including fires, floods, earthquakes and hurricanes).