What Problem Does Facebook Solve?
A few days ago I sorta quit Twittering, reading or writing. I’m still off the Twitter crack, for now, but now that I’m feeling refreshed like a summer’s breeze again, I am wondering if it’s time to just dump Facebook too. I’m like the Heat-Mizer of social tools! I swear this isn’t linkbait (Sam). You’ve heard me say this privately. I don’t “get” Facebook. At least Twitter was awesomely useful to me, despite being... Read More »
Marketing To The Long Tail IS Possible
Never try to tell a marketer there’s no way to sell someone. There is ALWAYS a way to sell someone anything, if you’re creative and good at it. Case in point, ReadWriteWeb put up a piece about how it’s impossible to make money in the long tail. Illustration by gapingvoid. I disagree. In fact, I think you can “make money” anywhere, if you market the right way. Particularly for this discussion, I believe that “fun” is the key to marketing... Read More »
I Love Twitter, But I Have To Quit It
As the headline says, I’m afraid I have to stop twittering, for a little while at least. I love Twitter. I enjoy getting updates from friends and colleagues, and frankly I find a LOT of good links and information from it daily. But sadly, I’m drowning in tweets and it’s becoming too much of an information overload to keep up with reading them all. I think the turning point was last week when I installed a neat little application called OutTwit, which delivers... Read More »
360 Video - How Cool Is This?
Thanks to Armano via Twitter for the link to this. This…is…Awesome! Watch a video, and scroll 360 around… LIVE! Amazing. Immersive Media presents Immersive videos. My favorites are the Notre Dame game day, and the coral reef dive. Wow, where are we going to be in 5-years from now. This video ride is going to be fun, are you on yet? Read More →
Go Ahead, Try & Contact Us?
Is there a reason that you, or your company, make it so difficult to be contacted? There is? Why? What, you don’t want my business? Assuming you’re selling something… there’s no conceivable reason to me that you would want to make it difficult for a customer to get in touch with you. Yesterday I had to do some online shopping for a company to host my video ads I’m going to run for a client in 6 online major newspaper markets. Here’s... Read More »
Online Video Ads Mean Big Bucks For You
As Beet.tv is reporting, YouTube overlay ads are beginning to appear all over the place. Want to see it in action? Try this video from Tim Carter. You’ll notice the little yellow bar in the player… that shows where the ad is going to play (if there is one, you may have to refresh as the ads don’t load every time). Here’s a screen grab of an ad on that video. Relevant ad for some kind of DIY network. So why is this important to you? If you’re... Read More »
Looking Back To 9/11 With Blog Archives
I started blogging in August 2001 (here’s my Web archive link), a month before 9/11. What a horrible day with mixed emotions for me. That was the day I saw my first child in a sonogram for the first time, then 10-minutes later I watched the WTC towers collapse in a doctor’s waiting room here in Cleveland. An emotional day for me for sure. A severe high, and a severe low. I was surfing around in my archives and I found my old 9/11 day after post. Here it is word... Read More »
Blog Bucks Testimonials
It’s only been a few days since BlogBucks launched, and already the testimonials are flying in. See one below. BlogRush’s days are numbered, we’re kicking their butt. I give us a month before every BlogRush user is switched to BlogBucks. Sorry John Reese, ours is better, easier and well, just more fun. Are you experiencing a massive flood of dream traffic of your dreams from BlogBucks like others? Then leave your testimonial here in the comments, or send... Read More »
BlogBucks Launch - Time To Take On BlogRush
The cat is out of the bag. I can keep it a secret no longer. Yes, BlogBucks is launched and it’s going to kick BlogRush’s you know what to the curb. It’s better, easier and more powerful. Get the free traffic of your dreams, without any work! Introducing… How I’ve been able to keep this system so secret for so long I have no idea. The thousands of beta testers who tested the system out had to sign non-disclosure agreements, and I can’t... Read More »
Chasing Viral Videos Is As Dumb As Chasing Web Traffic
If you read this “guide to viral video” at Techcrunch, there are actually some really good tips in there about tags, and other tips about how to create videos that people want to watch. But in the end, the article is crap for you and me… why? Because viral videos are a waste of your time, just like traffic. You tell me something. How do you monetized a viral video? Seriously, I want you to explain to me how to do it? That article didn’t explain... Read More »
I Want To Be Gary Vaynerchuk
Forget the wine. I know nothing about wine. I don’t drink wine. Don’t really even like it unless its got a screw cap and I can buy it at the grocery store every once in a while. So forget wine… I want to be Gary Vaynerchuk because… Well, I don’t really want to be him, but I want to be able to entertain like him. I want to be able to engage my readers and viewers like he does. I want to be able to get them to participate and crave my content... Read More »
There Absolutely Is A Secret Formula To Making Money Online
Met John Chow at Blogworld. Nice guy. He does his “making money online” thing very well. But he’s wrong. There absolutely is a secret formula to making money online. I don’t understand why he posted this. Every once in a while I’ll come across a comment or an email asking me to stop writing about my personal ramblings and stick to making money online posts because that’s what I’m good at and that is what the readers want to learn. They want me... Read More »
I’m Not Selling BlogBucks.com, So Stop Asking!
Every day I get a bunch of emails with very low $$$ offers to buy BlogBucks.com. Just for the record… I’m not selling it! Why would I sell it? It’s the number one blogging money maker and “flood of traffic” generator on the Internet today. Ok, maybe I would sell it… For a million bucks! So stop trying to convince me to sell BlogBucks.com because it’s not going to happen. I’ve put blood, sweat and tears into this product and... Read More »
Google Universal Search Ramping Up To Go Mainstream?
I’m a big believer in Google Universal Search, the video piece of it at least. Heck, I directed and wrote a video commercial for it. That’s me “the boss” in the beginning. I’ve even helped build an entire business model around it. So I’m constantly monitoring the Google looking for indications that it’s finally going to roll out on a full-scale. Why it’s taking so long, I’m not sure. I guess more testing. But when it... Read More »
Fun Is The Key To Marketing To The Long-Tail
Shoemoney wrote up a short review of my system ScratchBack.com where he said… I think its a good looking widget that has a lot of potential. While its low risk to make something that is “fun” not many people are going to take it seriously. I will fully admit that I built ScratchBack as a “fun” tool, with benefits. I’m being totally honest, it was NOT built as a “making money online” tool. Let me tell you why. I’ve said this a... Read More »
Your Personal Brand Is The Experience People Have With You Face-To-Face
I must have written about 30 blog entries about personal branding over the past 5-years or so. Pretty much every single one said the same thing… Your brand is the experience your customers/reader/viewers (whatever) have with your (product/service/whatever). I believe this to my core. You get the idea, right? It’s logical. Brand=experience. You cannot have a brand until the experience happens. In this case (story below), we’re talking face-to-face. Here’s... Read More »
New Blog Design
I’m shaking things up here at JimKukral.com. Since 2001, this blog on this domain has changed designs probably 50 times. Each design to match my mood or goals of the moment. Today, I’m going all legit, putting up a professional design that I really like, for the moment. That’s the problem with being a former designer… This design you’re seeing now (Nov 2007), is also perfect to launch my new daily web show that is coming next week. More details... Read More »
Just Kill The PayPerPost Brand & Focus On SocialSpark
Ted, what’s the story? PPP is dead. Google killed it. The way I see it, you have two choices. 1. Kill the brand and focus on your new SocialSpark product that enforces disclosure and nofollow. This to me is a winning idea with no flaws. or 2. Fight Google. Which one sounds easier? You may say to yourself, “Well, #2 sounds like it would bring my company lots of free publicity, plus it’s the right thing to do.” But I’m here to tell you that I don’t... Read More »
Note To Hollywood Writers - You Want Money? Make Online Videos
Mashable writes a great piece musing about the growth potential of online video in the middle, or during, this strike by the Hollywood writers. It’s a long piece, worth reading if you have time, however, just take a look at this paragraph I’ve plucked out below. Bold emphasis is mine, for a reason. So again, I reiterate: if you have plans to do anything at all with online video, right now is the time to crank your efforts into high gear. It won’t be long before... Read More »
SomethingStore.com - A Creative Idea I Wish I Thought Of!
You know me. I’m always up to some kind of wacky, fun, creative idea. That’s why I’m impressed with a new site/product I found today called SomethingStore.com. SomethingStore is a fun new website that operates quite simply: We will send you something, selected randomly among many things from our inventory for $10 (free shipping) and you will find out what your something is when you receive it. So, what will yours be? This is awesome. I ordered “something”... Read More »
