[Hidden-tech] The Hidden Tech lifestyle on YouTube
Tish Grier
tishgrier at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 17 00:57:58 EDT 2008
First, congrats to Marcia on her first video! nicely done!
And I've seen Tom's stuff--which is lots of fun, and I really enjoyed it :-)
But I'd beware of anyone who promises something like Relativity Corp is promising--and for what seems to me to be a pretty steep price. I was curious about the testimonials, so I googled everyone listed. There are no listings for Time Creative group, nor Pacific Site Group, nor Lant Industries nor Golden Opportunity Resorts.
Maybe it's just me, but if I can't verify the folks giving testimonals, then what's the value of the testimonial? And what's the value of the business?
What David Skul sounds like he's doing is putting together a network where people only link to and follow one another, and is charging for it. Which seems kind of strange to me. As if he's saying "you're only good and credible if you're in my club." Huh??? But I can't even find any of the people who say he's done good stuff for them! yikes!
Now, video *can* work as a marketing tool--another friend Pinny Gwinnish of Ice.com has done great with his videos on YouTube. He's set up his own network on YouTube, so I think if you search for Pinny, you can find him (his videos are hysterical.) He's also done great with blogs as a word of mouth marketing tools for Ice.com, a popular jewelry site. Pinny spoke at the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) conference in Dec. 06. you can check out the WOMMA site here: http://womma.org
The Word of Mouth Marketing Assoc. was founded by Andy Sernovitz, and maintains a list of standards and ethics for word of mouth marketing. Andy's another friend and an all around great, ethical guy. His blog, which follows what's going on in the world of WOM is here: http://www.damniwish.com/
If you want to syndicate your content further than RSS, you can try NewsTex (http://newstex.com/). But depending on your content, and if people want it, the amount of money you make is relative. Also, Mochila (http://www.mochila.com/) does video syndication--but video search is still pretty difficult to search. You might want to check out Dabble (http://dabble.com) Mary Hodder, the founder, has been working on video search for a number of years now. She was featured in Newsweek about a year or two ago, along with the founders of Flickr and a couple of other businesses.
So, I always stick by the adage that if someone's promising you something really big, check out the testimonials. Email people if you can. Google the crap out of the person and anyone affiliated with him or her (other corporate officers, etc.) This info can tell you a lot
Best,
Tish
Julie Roads <julie at writingroads.com> wrote:
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Thanks, Tom!
Okay - So, I have a great way to avoid the teenagers, or any
unqualified traffic, just clicking through. Of course, nothing is
completely foolproof. That said - the goal is to align your efforts
with the wishes of the search engines - creating a lot of good content
- copy, audio, video - and then getting it to out to people actually
looking for your content - organically.
I'm part of a very cool co-op that syndicates content for each other.
What could be better than having other people talking about you and
telling the world 'hey look at this!' The members are researched,
approved and credible and the content is solid. There are very strict
regulations on content - 2 strikes and you're out - and the content is
filtered through a human team. (no junk, no spam, no sales - just
good, expert info and value)
I'm using it for some of my clients and about to use it for my own
business (I'm just too dang busy producing content for everyone
else!)...I've spoken to, er grilled, David Skul, CEO, at length and am
very impressed with the co-op. I've asked him for a benefit/stats
sheet and it is very impressive - I'm happy to share if you want to
see. It shows growth and traffic stats for the co-op as a whole over
the last 3 months.
The price is incredible - $1000/year...
Check it out:
www.relativitycorp.com
I LOVE the honesty and integrity of this group - so with no further
ado - yes, because this co-op is being built on quality referrals, I
will receive a referral fee if any of you sign-up. I found the co-op
through a very trusted colleague who has a huge online business and is
benefitting from the co-op in leaps and bounds.
Thanks,
Julie
Write where you want to go.
Julie Roads * Writing Roads
Copywriting for Web and Print
413-281-6013
www.writingroads.com
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On Apr 16, 2008, at 2:36 PM, Tom / Reelife Productions wrote:
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Marcia,
I just got to watch your video (i was behind a silly firewall that
blocks youtube before). Nice job indeed. also fyi: Julie Roads
shared some good info with me regarding a co-op style of syndication
that helps direct online videos to a specific audience ...Julie go for
it....forward your email to the rest of list...great idea.
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Marcia Yudkin
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Hi folks,
Please let me know what you think of my debut video on
YouTube depicting the Hidden Tech lifestyle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-HgjPdfGiE
My friend Anne Zononi in Chesterfield made it for me
(anniez at hughes.net). She is available to do a similar
video for others in the area, if you're interested.
The footage was shot about two weeks ago. We still have
considerable snow in the woods, and the lake depicted on
the video is still half-covered with ice. I did put away
my snowshoes, though.
Marcia Yudkin
Goshen
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