Who Inspires You To Be Better At What You Do?
I’m driven by other marketers who inspire me to be more creative. These people push me to try harder, and in the end, I’m better for it. One of those people is Shawn Collins. Shawn inspires me daily with his videos and his marketing ideas and his general attitude of having fun as a marketer. I mean, the guy really knows how to connect with his audience. Check out this video he did with his kids. He made a post on his blog saying he was retiring from Affiliate... Read More »
Web Video Advertising - How Much Does It Cost?
Daisy Whitney wrote a very nice article at WebVideoReport.com about costs associated with running video ads, or ads on video on some big sites. Read More →
Google, & You, Need To Learn How To Make Things Easier
Google has decided that they’re going to allow you to create sitemaps for them for your video content. This is great news. I’m in. Let’s do it. So I head over to the page explaining how to make them, and I’m stopped dead in my tracks. Are you kidding me? It’s way too complicated. So this post really isn’t about Google’s new video sitemaps. It’s a post about why companies make things too hard to do unnecessarily, using Google... Read More »
TV Commercials Suck, Good Or Bad, They’re A Time Waster
Who are these people watching all of the commercials on recorded programs? Because I don’t, ever. I watch so little TV nowadays, that when I do, it’s because I know I can watch more because I don’t have to be a slave to their schedule, and I can just fast-forward through the commercials and get more watching done, faster. In fact, I’m thinking I need to invent a device that puts a counter on the screen that shows me how long until the commercials... Read More »
A Conversation With My Niece About Facebook
My 19-year-old niece babysat my children last Friday night. She’s a Kent State (that’s a college) student who lives in a sorority in a “quad” with 4 other girls in one room. Every time I see her, I take the opportunity to talk to her about social media, and all things “new and hip”, etc… Heck, I have to, I’m a 36-year-old Internet geek. I see a lot of new tech online, but it’s obvious I’m not the core target for... Read More »
Big Media Publishers Finally Getting In On The Conversation
Quietly, but surely, many online publications are beginning to enable conversations. By this I mean, sites like ESPN.com and online newspapers are enabling comments at the end of their digital content. How smart is this? VERY. Look at this story on ESPN about my beloved Browns. So far, this little story has generated over 100 comments. They call this “Espn conversations” and it’s in beta. A Real-Time view of Conversations on ESPN.com And it truly is a conversation.... Read More »
My Sunday Afternoon In The Snow In Cleveland
This is brand evangelism at its best. The worst possible conditions… yet we still show up, all of us, 70k+. Do your customers love your brand? Read More →
Google Adds Blogs To The Matrix - Blogs Finally Legit
The legitimizing moment for blogs has occurred. Google is adding blogs into their regular index as part of Google Universal Search (video link). Starting this week or next, queries on the leading search engine will return links to blogs alongside the images, news, books, local maps and video, Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience, told eWEEK in a briefing at the company’s headquarters here. I’ve posed this thought for years, and... Read More »
What’s Worse? Spam Or Telemarketers?
95% of ALL email sent in 2007 was spam, or so says the spam-experts. There was a time–2004 to be precise–when spam “only” consumed 70 percent of all e-mail. Those were the good old days. Today, as Barracuda Networks’ annual spam report shows, upwards of 95 percent of all e-mail is spam. In 2001, the number was 5 percent. Here’s the killer stat though. Bold is mine. It has come to the point that, as a separate Barracuda survey of 261 business... Read More »
“Funner” Should Have Won Merriam-Webster’s Word Of The Year
Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year for 2007 is… 1. w00t (interjection) expressing joy (it could be after a triumph, or for no reason at all); similar in use to the word “yay” w00t! I won the contest! Submitted by: Kat from Massachusetts on Nov. 30, 2005 23:18 We’ve been lobbying for “funner” to be a new word. So much so we made a website to help it along. Visit www.makefunneraword.com to cast your vote and support. Read/Write... Read More »
Five Reasons You Aren’t Watching Internet Video On Your TV… Yet
The Wall Street Journal came up with five reasons that nobody is watching internet video on their TV’s. Read More →
Twitter Should Be A Two-Way Conversation, Not One-Way Like Most Use It
A few weeks ago I quit Twitter because the information overload was too much for me. Now today I’m reading posts talking about how Twitter is referring tons of traffic to certain people’s blogs like Jeremiah. I completely agree. I LOVE Twitter. I quit it because I was unable to feel like I could keep up with the conversations. There was too much to take in. So should I go back to Twitter-land? Well, I’ve thought about it, but here’s what’s... Read More »
Innovation Happens When You Solve A Problem In A Unique Way
Jason from Successforyourblog is right. Blog ads, and ads in general these days, are boring. I find most blog are doing the exact same thing and its kinda boring if you ask me. The typical ad layout is a 468 x 60 banner up at the top of the page. Then the 125 x 125 button farm on the right hand side just above the fold. I find this topic intriguing because blog monetization is one of my specialties. He’s right. Something needs to change. The question is though…... Read More »
John Chow Gets A Free Pass On Agloco?
Agloco has bombed. Forget about my saying I told you so, because I already did earlier today. What I want to talk about right now is more about branding. One of the biggest proponents of Agloco when it first came out was John Chow. I mean, the guy blasted it to his followers over and over, and according to his stats, he generated a TON of “referrals/hours/whatever” for himself. But today, he declared it dead, with no apology to his followers who bought in to... Read More »
YouTube Partner Status Now An Application Away
Looks like you can apply to be a YouTube partner now. Previously, you had to just wait and hope you were invited. Read More →
Have You Made Your Millions From Agloco Yet?
Update: It appears me and Techcrunch are on the same page. They wrote this shortly after I wrote my post below. Well, have you? Did it bring you the dreamlife traffic and riches of your dreams just like BlogRush did? Just wondering. I remind you of this post I wrote back in April of 2007. Another piece at ReveNews about Agloco I wrote. I hate to say I told you so, but… I’m gonna. Quit chasing quick riches and traffic for doing nothing. You know better. You know... Read More »
Guide To Speaking At Industry Events
Want to be asked to speak at industry events? It’s pretty simple, you just have to first figure out how to get your chance to speak… then most importantly… You have to figure out how to not suck. I have spoken at many industry events over the past 5-years or so, and I can tell you that the MAIN reason I get asked back is because I… A. Don’t sales pitch B. Don’t read a PowerPoint C. Provide actionable, helpful tips and tricks and knowledge... Read More »
Win A Pure Digital Flip Ultra Video Camera On The Daily Flip Web Show
Just like the headline says, and the video repeats below. Watch my new Daily Flip show… and win a brand spanking new Flip Ultra video camera. The press team at Pure Digital loved the idea of my new show so much they sent me a Flip just to give away to a viewer. How can you win it? Grab my rss feed in your reader and stay tuned. Click To Play play_blip_movie_532931(); Read More →
Have Holidays!
Thanks to Sam for the link. Have Holidays! This is the follow up to this brilliant video. Read More →
What’s In A Name? Web 2.0 Domain Naming Disasters
The NYTimes nails it, talking about all these new made-up 2.0 names… These are all actual Web sites that have hit the Web in the last year or so: Doostang. Wufoo. Bliin. Thoof. Bebo. Meebo. Meemo. Kudit. Raketu. Etelos. Iyogi. Oyogi. Qoop. Fark. Kijiji. Zixxo. Zoogmo. These startups think that these names will stick in our minds because they’re so offbeat, but they’re wrong. Actually, all those twentysomething entrepreneurs are ensuring that we won’t... Read More »
