Hi Folks, I'm new on the group but having read the posts for the last few days the community here seems very active.
I read the PDF -- it's very good, lots of great resources crammed into a short document. I have some thoughts on promotion that comes from days as head of technology for the old MP3.com. Before we were acquired by Vivendi-Universal, we had approximately 300,000 artists and over 2,000,000 songs from mostly unsigned artists around the world. The question I received time and time again was "how do I get people to come to my pages and listen to my music?". I think the lessons learned from MP3.com are directly applicable to vlogging. Here were/are my suggestions: 1) You content must be interesting to somebody. The larger the group that the content appeals to the greater the potential audience. So, make sure that you spend some time polishing the content. Then ask your friends to review it. The honest friends will tell you what they like and don't like -- you must decide if you want to revise it or let it be but you can usually learn something from their feedback. 2) You must promote. That means telling people about what you are doing. The web is too damn big for someone to discover you there. At MP3.com artists would actually put their MP3.com address on their business cards like this www.mp3.com/deathcabforcutie. They would put their address on their home spun CDs. You can do the same. Put it in your signature like Taylor Barcroft.;) 3) You must promote yourself continuously. When you post something new, tell your friends to forward on your URL to anyone they think might be interested. I can definitely tell on our site who is promoting and who is waiting to be seen and heard. You could tell by traffic which musicians would mention their URL at every gig. It was a great way to drive traffic. 4) Promote in target rich environments. If your vlog is about bird watching promote yourself on bird watching lists not just vlogging lists. WARNING: don't be obnoxious. There's a line between self promotion where you are obvious about your tactics and spam. Cross promotion can get you banned. 5) Promote yourself offline. I do camera shoots at all kinds of places. It's a great opportunity to talk with people about what you are doing. Give them your URL (printed). Greg Kostello CEO, vMix Media Inc. www.vmix.com w: 858-342-2298 --- In [email protected], Kunga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know what you mean "promote yourself". Ryanne placed her name > and url at the bottom of her work and I did the same after adding a > significant number of changes. I didn't add any hype about any > services that I am aware of. And I posted the source word document so > anyone may edit what we have done and then print from there and/or > create their own new PDF. I would encourage anyone who does so to > post both the evolved word file as well as the new PDF to the group > handout section. Without the word or creation file, none of us can > help evolve and customize these handouts for different presentation > situations. > > Also while we're on the subject of handouts, would the creators of > the posted PDFs please post the original creation files so anyone may > edit them for printing and creating newer PDFs of the work as it > stands now. This way we may all evolve and customize each work > according to our needs. This will make evolving the development of > all handouts much easier for all of us. Thanks. > -- > Taylor Barcroft http://www.blogger.com/profile/11159903 > New Media Publisher, Editor, Video Journalist, Podcaster, Futurecaster > Santa Cruz CA, Beach of the Silicon Valley > URL http://FutureMedia.org > RSS http://feeds.feedburner.com/FutureMedia > iTunes http://tinyurl.com/8ql87 > > On Oct 17, 2005, at 6:20 AM, Markus Sandy wrote: > > > Thanks for doing this, but I do not think it is appropriate to use > > these handouts to promote yourself. > > > > Please look at Jan's press release documents as good examples. > > > > Also, note how Ryanne had originally had the credits on a non- > > printing page. > > > > Also, I think too much hype has been added about the services. > > > > I don't think we should just be repeating vendor claims. > > > > Markus > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
