When looking to spread the word about your charity fund raising vehicle raffle you need to take a step beyond a link on your website. With the rise of Youtube.com there is no reason not to have a video of your raffle prize online! You do not need a professional camera crew or even a high priced camera. This is a very simple process, it is totally free (free is good!) and can be shockingly effective. Over 100,000,000 (yes, that is one hundred million) people visit that website every month. It would be nice if you got just a fraction of a fraction of a percent of those people to look at your raffle video! I found that this person described this nicely on this Cecilia Gurganus web post.
Creating a simple video of your raffle car or motorcycle is pretty easy, even if you have never made one before. Most modern digital cameras have the ability to take movie clips that you can save to your home computer and then upload onto to the internet to sites like YouTube.com. Most digital cameras on the market today, and for the past several years, have the ability to record digital video. If you own a somewhat new digital camera chances are it has this ability. If not grab a friends camera. Not sure how to work it? Find a 14 year old. They seem to know everything about everything today.
Setting up a Youtube.com account to post your videos to is a simple and free process. During the set-up and upload phase be sure that the “Allow Embedding” option is active. This should be the default setting but just make sure. This will allow other webmasters to showcase your raffle video on their website. On top of that you, or the person who is in charge of your organizations website, can easily post your video to your organizations site. Pretty good stuff. If you can’t find a digital camera with video capability anywhere you can try these ideas on getting someone else to make you a video for free or check out Amazon.com. They have got tons of digital cameras for around a hundred dollars that you can take video with and they also have a Flip Video Ultra Series Camcorder which is pretty slick. This little wonder lets you take a video, use the built in USB drive to connect to your computer, edit it with the built in program and upload directly to YouTube.com. Pretty neat. I found that this weblog demonstrated this really well on this Darcy Stenslien page.
Using Youtube to Promote Your Charity Vehicle Raff 