Can FreeIQ really be the next YouTube for Business Video?

Can FreeIQ really be the next YouTube?

Online video is all the rage - and every day it seems like there is something new to learn, some new site to upload to, or some new video to watch someone speed paint with fries and ketchup. I want to use the web for business. And try as I may, my business videos and commercials get lost in the clutter on the You Tube, MySpace and Google Video - not to mention the hundreds of other up and coming video websites.

FreeIQ puports to fill in that gap - to break through the nonsense crap that you find on all those other video sites - and give the business guys a slate to promote themselves and actually sell online.

The site is the brain child of Brad Fallon and Andy Jenkins of the StomperNet fame. And you can join FreeIQ for free. While the website is in Beta version right now - it has been opened to the public for testing. And the marketing model is a little different; it is designed to allow anyone with training materials for sale, to sell them right through the website. And if you don't have products to sell, you can sign up as an affiliate and make a commission of 25%-50% on products for sale on the site (for one full year -- I'm not so sure how they will persist a cookie for a year, though).

According to a presentation by Brad, there will actually be five different ways to use FreeIQ as a revenue stream:

1. Create info products with known experts (read partner with someone who already has something to sell.)

2. Refer experts with information products. (Content Providers)

3. Refer affiliates

4. Refer customers to Free Content (I guess if they stick around for free and eventually buy something you'll make commission in the first year).

5. Refer customers to Paid Content

So can it really beat out YouTube or Google Video? If FreeIQ can cut through the video crap that's online and deliver meaningful content, probably so. I can think of just a ton of industries that could use both sides of it. First and foremost any internet marketer that sells anything online. AND of course their affiliates could upload videos there promoting the products at hand. Coaches, Speakers, Trainers, and anyone who has an electronic item to promote could all get something out of it.

So where's the draw back? Getting in now is good, after all, I'm ranked right below Joel Comm a million dollar web adsense and information product producer, as well as a best selling author - so I feel pretty important. But where does that leave my stuff in a few months or years? Who knows - they do have a patent pending ranking system that is going to put the vote in the hands of the viewers - allowing products to be ranked and pushed higher up in the "serps" on FreeIQ.

Should you put your stuff on FreeIQ - I don't know - but it's free - so for the 10 minutes it takes to set up an account, type in some profile information and upload a photo - it may be well worth it. Do you have information products that are collecting dust that you could promote to a new audience? How about bonuses and give aways to build a list?

Is this Business Web 2.0 - without the clutter? Only time will really tell. After all, YouTube was at ZERO traffic at the end of 2005 and 18 months later is the #4 most visited site on the web. It really did revolutionize streaming video and home made videos. If Free IQ does it right, perhaps it will do the same thing on the "business" side.

About the Author

Michelle Chance, Founder and Lead Trainer of Web Strategies for Business, is a 10 year web veteran, Search Engine and Web Marketing Expert and had personally created $7 Million Dollars in generated leads and revenue for employers, clients and her own personal retail business (CS ideas).

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