New Feature: YouTube Lets You Know Who’s Watching Your Videos
Now you can see who’s watching your videos at YouTube. Caught this from Mathew Ingram, who linked to Mashable. YouTube announced the addition of a few new features overnight. Here’s a summary: Most importantly, YouTube has added an Active Sharing feature, to let you see who’s watching your video, and videos that other users are watching. The last six videos you watched display on your Channel page, and when someone visits one of these videos they may see your name... Read More »
Build Your Customer Base First. Then Figure Out How To Sell To It?
Or at least that’s what they’re saying this guy did. He identifies a business niche or a hot growth area like commercial real estate. Then he buys domain names around the topic, saving money by shunning pricey domains for names with hyphens, such as http://www.commercial-property.co.uk/. He builds the sites, adds content, and waits for customers. Search the phrase “commercial property” in MSN, for instance, and Carter’s site pops up on the first... Read More »
How-To Videos Plus Online Subscriptions Make A Recipe For Success
CNNmoney.com writes a piece called ‘How to Score with How-to Video‘, Niche players are resuscitating the subscription model to make money off homemade instructional websites. (Business 2.0 Magazine) — When Evan Margolin launched SalsaBootCamp to sell instructional video clips online, everyone he knew told him it was a crazy idea. Why would people offer up their credit cards to him - a dance teacher known only to his students in San Francisco - when they... Read More »
onegoodthought.tv
Here’s a deal for you. You give me one good thought, and I’ll give you one back. onegoodthought.tv Read More →
Online Success Comes To Those That Take It, Not Wait For It
Normally you won’t hear me talking much about “guru” type programs. Why? Because I think that a lot of them are suspect. However, I do know that there are high-quality gurus and the like out there that actually do deliver on what they promise. Let’s throw that aside for a second and instead talk about why these gurus succeed. You know why? Because they’re creative, and they move fast… and most importantly, they take chances. Joel Comm has... Read More »
Follow The Leader To Online Success
Another reason why I love BUMPzee… A new blog that I like was submitted to my community today that I would not have otherwise known about. The blog is called Wagerank, and in particular, this post caught my eye. It talks about how it’s ok to follow the leader. There’s an old story about how McDonald’s spends millions of dollars every year on research to determine where they should build a new restaurant. Meanwhile, Burger King just builds restaurants down... Read More »
Guylights
It must be getting close to Summer. My yearly “guylights” appeared on my head this evening out of nowhere a month or so early. I hope they don’t wear off by my blog room hosting duties at the Affiliate Summit. By the way, the wife wanted me to point out that the fish nugget is a “homemade” Halibut fish nugget. She didn’t make the fish, just the nugget. (We tell the kids it’s chicken, shhh.) It’s ok, they can’t read yet. Read More →
Creativity Is The Most Important Key To Online Marketing Success
We’ve gotten to the point that most online videos (including mine) are sucking. Well, not sucking, but they’re boring. Let’s face it, this Internet video thing is growing up fast. It’s time for more creativity. The best part is, you can be creative without big bucks. Check out this cool video on RSS. Click To Play There are two types of Internet users, those that use RSS and those that don’t. This video is for the... Read More »
Sometimes Simply Taking Chances Is Your Best Marketing Effort
Case in point, look at how the media picks up on simple stories like this. SOUTHBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Ryan Fitzgerald is unemployed, lives with his father and has a little bit of time on his hands. So, he decided to offer his ear, to anyone who wants to call. After posting a video with his cell phone number on YouTube on Friday, the 20-year-old told The Boston Globe he has received more than 5,000 calls and text messages. Fitzgerald said he wanted to “be there,”... Read More »
Your Brand Is Defined By Your Audience Expectations
Is Mark Cuban right? Is a publisher’s decision to run a “low-quality” ad a brand killer? In other words, if you’re a TV station, and you run penis pill ads, are you killing your brand through this association? All for the quick buck? Very interesting questions, and can go on multiple levels of media publishing, not just television. I would argue that this is really about expectations. I believe that television viewers “expect” to see penis... Read More »
Don’t Let Your Domain Names Accidentally Expire, Someone Will Steal It
A while back I told you about how I accidentally let my fat blogging domain name expire. HelpJimGetSlim.com. Well, guess what? I didn’t get it back and it’s going to cost me $250 if I still want it. Turns out some evil domain snatching company called Credonic.com grabbed my domain about a day before I grabbed it and is now trying to resell it to me for $250! I emailed them nicely and asked for it back, even offering to pay them registrar fees. They said “no,... Read More »
Rackspace Hosting Costs A Lot, But It’s Worth It!
I pay too much for hosting. Why pay so much? Because if you’re a serious online business, it’s worth it to have a host that is simply the best. I’ve been hosting with a company called Rackspace for close to 4-years now, and I can tell you without a doubt that it has been an amazing experience. Recently Rackspace made me a preferred solution partner. What does that mean? It means that I can offer anyone who signs up with them some nice deals. All you have... Read More »
You Miss 100 Percent Of The Shots You Never Take
Thanks Wayne Gretzky. I don’t follow hockey, but it doesn’t matter. This quote will be going up on my wall so I am sure to read it every day. Same with my fortune cookie. Read More →
Your Blog Is Your Resume
These guys couldn’t be more correct. Your blog is your resume. Your blog says everything about you. Who you are, what you like, etc… Heck, even your design template that you’ve chosen can tell something about you. Your blog is you! And don’t even think about using your MySpace page as your resume. MySpace is too cluttered and spammy, because that’s how MySpace is. Your personal blog shouldn’t be like that. I haven’t built a real... Read More »
The Google Day Of Reckoning Is Coming For Black Hat Seo’rs
Get your ark ready black-hatters. The Google flood is almost here, and you’re about to get really wet. How do I know? It doesn’t take much to read between the lines and see what they are saying. Open your eyes and sock that money away you’ve been making and invest in that ark you’ve been eying. How much more does Google really have to spell it out for you? GOOGLE… IS… COMING… FOR… YOUR… BLACK-HAT… ARSE(S)! It’s... Read More »
New FreeIQ Marketing System A Marketing & Super Affiliate Dream
FreeIQ is smart, fresh and new. If you’re an affiliate, you should join for free. If you’re a marketer with an info product (ebook, videos, guides, etc…), you should join as well. The mission of Free IQ is to create an online community where people can share knowledge and expertise, using streaming video and other media. Ok, let me break this down for you. Basically, FreeIQ is a place for marketers to help promote and sell their products, and on the flip-side,... Read More »
Shooting At The Wrong Target Means Your Marketing Will Miss
Seth Godin introduces me to a story from the Washington Post that I had not yet heard. From Seth’s blog… [World-class violinist plays for hours in a subway station, almost no one stops to listen]. The experiment just proved what we already know about context, permission and worldview. If your worldview is that music in the subway isn’t worth your time, you’re not going to notice when the music is better than usual (or when a famous violinist is playing).... Read More »
The Internet Geek Show Is A Huge Hit! Now Showing Every Friday On Kukral TV
It’s official, Kukral TV and The Internet Geek Show is a huge webcam hit! Go figure. Because of that, I’m going to make every Friday, the whole day, a live webcam event. Want to particpate and get some free advertising at the same time? Send me a black tshirt with your company name, logo, or any saying you want on it and I’ll wear it on the show every Friday for the whole day. Make it 2XL please. Send to Jim Kukral 2220 Superior Viaduct, #3 Cleveland,... Read More »
Widgets, Webcams & Wizards (of OZ)
Don’t call it a comeback… it’s been here for years. I’m talking about webcams and live feeds of course. Hey, check me out LIVE on my webcam thingy on the right of this page. It’s interesting to me how this whole “cam” thing has come full-circle. I remember in 1999 how the “cool thing” was to have an office webcam on. If you did that, you were cutting edge. Then slowly, that type of thinking, and fun webcam use (not by... Read More »
My First Webby Award!
ReveNews.com picked up an honoree Webby Award, pretty darn cool. Although I’m not the publisher there anymore, this award means a lot to me, and should mean a lot to Wayne and all the other ReveNews bloggers who worked to make ReveNews what it is. Congrats to everyone. Sam (the new ReveNews steward) will most likely get an actual win by this time next year probably. Only a small percentage — less than 15% — of Webby entrants receive the acknowledgement of... Read More »
