Charley Langer said:

I'm probably overwhelming people with TMI! LOL! However, I just thought I'd add another subtlety.

As far as I'm concerned there is no such thing as TMI when it comes to this stuff! LOL! Makes me wish I was a bit more of a nerd  myself

I have not been generating a lot of traffic. Your YT strategy is really my first all out campaign so I don't have much to compare to. I did send a broadcast email using FanReach letting my subscribers there know that I was changing my email service provider and that they should sign up by using the link to my new page (squeeze page) I had a 32.1% conversion from that pre existing traffic source. Just my opinion but I believe ReverbNation has become more of an "Artists fanning Artists" site anyway. I had a lot of Artists signed up to my email who, of course never opened a single email. Through that process I found out who my "True Fans" were, that was a good thing but also kind of a dissappointment beings that 32% of 108 is about 35 people

2 days ago after studying your In Detail post (very good by the way) I gathered 2,000 users and I am almost finished sending friend request, should be done tomorrow. I started sending messages after about 250 requests, only using my one YT account "silasdogan" our band account titled The Silas Dogan Band. At 63 messages sent I seem to have hit a snag, one recipient had me blocked and the program seemed to be stuck there saying the limit had been reached but after timming out it began timimg out again...hope I didn't screw things up. I know that you suggest using 5 different "annymous" accounts and posing as "a friend" of the Artist, but I find myself uncomfortable with that, though that may work for you and maybe that is what I should be trying. I guess I have a fear of being "found out" if that makes sense. My messages do follow along the same lines as yours such as "Thanks for the frienship........here's the link....Enjoy" I only have 15 of these and should probably work on another 5 or so, though it is a lot of work trying to think up how to say the same thing differently so many times  and that may be the problem I'm having with being in eternal time out. I have closed that part of Tube Tool Box and will restart it tomorrow...fingers crossed.. But I am also concerned that I am sending a "Thanks for the frienship" message ahead of the actual friend request?? After sending 1,530 I only have 316 friends. Unless I have done something wrong I am sending 2,000 mesaages to all the folks I have sent friend requests to...( people could be getting a thank you message before they respond to a friend request and what if they have turned down the friend request and are now recieving a thank you?) I'm just wondering if I'm doing this right? is there a logic I'm missing here?

I appreciate all of your hard work, time and sharing here Charley. You are obviously a very intelligent person and I thank you for your expertise and patience!!

Added note: I see where you say you sample a smaller group to send messages to but when I synchronize frinds and subscibers I got the same number as the gathered....thanks

Those were messages that I wrote for folks I was hiring to run my channels. I didn't want them posing as me!!   Obviously, I don't want them to say, "Charley hired me to send you messages." The word "associate" sounds weird. I figured "friend" was close enough. Besides, the word "friend" has been kind of bastardized since the advent of social media. You can get a friend these days with a click of a button!! And I'm giving them money...hey, we must practically be married! LOL!

Oh! I see... I guess I missed that or something, I definitely did not mean to offend, but yes that makes perfect sense now

yes the meaning of the word "friend" has changed. At this point I am not in a position to hire outside people, but if I were this would make total sense of course. Tubetoolbox had a pop up message saying that it may be on their end.

I have had 2 subscribers in the past 2 days... 42 Displays 6 Submissions and 14.3% S/D 24 Unique 25% S/UD

Which are the important stats or the ones that should mean the most to me?

Thanks again Charley, you might see if John can pay you for putting up with me LOL  

 But I am also concerned that I am sending a "Thanks for the frienship" message ahead of the actual friend request?? After sending 1,530 I only have 316 friends. Unless I have done something wrong I am sending 2,000 mesaages to all the folks I have sent friend requests to…( people could be getting a thank you message before they respond to a friend request and what if they have turned down the friend request and are now recieving a thank you?) I'm just wondering if I'm doing this right? is there a logic I'm missing here?

Thanks Steve..thanks John

Those were exactly my thoughts after completing the "monetization" process.
I don't want to giving people a reason to click away from my page once I've
gone to all the trouble to get them there.  The link I want them to click on is
in the description of my video to go to my squeeze page. 

YouTube is changing. Any thoughts about how these changes will affect this strategy?

Cool, thats the way it is when you're on somebody elses domain for sure but I recently heard they are going to make everyone go to the new page layout which does not show friends, subscribers, comments or just about anything except your videos. I know tubetoolbox is aware of this and they say they trying to keep up with it make their changes accordingly.

Since you are the YouTube guru I thought I'd check in and see if you had any info / advice  Thanks Charley