Hi Jason, The show is looking great - congrats. You are doing everything right so far. A few tips:
1) Subscribe - make it more obvious on how to subscribe to your show. Right now, it is buried at the bottom of your vlog. Bring it up and put it right smack next to your video of the day. Views are cheap, subscribers are pure gold. 2) Be sure to promote your website URL on your videos. pre and post the video, of course. 3) YouTube - i assume this is u: http://www.youtube.com/user/mahalodotcom Thumbnails and titles are hugely important on YT. I think Jan and Tim already covered this area on the thumbs, if you choose to go there.... if you don't, Epic-Fu has a good example channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/jetsetshow 4) Metadata is very important for video. Title + thumbnail + tags - these are by far the most important. Use the same basic principles as websites - good keywords in your titles and tags. 5) RSS - in your feedburner rss: (a) be sure to have a media:thumbnail (b) turn off autoplay in the RSS! I went to the feed and 5 videos started trying to play. (c) can you use your Blip RSS and put it into FeedBurner? Blip has great RSS - they do the hard work so you don't have to. Hope that helps. BTW, your RSS is in Mefeedia - i subscribed. Looking forward to watching future episodes. http://www.mefeedia.com/feeds/26422/ Regards, -Frank Frank Sinton CEO, Mefeedia http://www.mefeedia.com/user/franks - What are you watching? --- In [email protected], "Bill Cammack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Jan McLaughlin" > <jannie.jan@> wrote: > > > > I don't know Veronica from sunshine, but I'm guessing she's got a > good rack. > > > > You don't need much more than that and some low-cut, tight blouses and a > > bevy of good writers and guests to make the numbers you describe. > > Yeah, ultimately, that's "the formula". Veronica *is* the show. You > have an already popular, attractive female as the front, you have > people ghost-write her material and you have other people research and > do graphics for the show, and it's a wrap. > > Also, like Rupert said, get featured everywhere you can, especially > YouTube, where they have infinite idiots that just so happen to watch > a lot of videos, especially the ones placed before their eyes on the > first page they land on. They're absolutely worthless, unless you're > in the partnership program, but the numbers look good when you're > ready to sell, get sponsors or investors. > > -- > Bill Cammack > http://CammackMediaGroup.com > > > > Lots of writers out of work this week. > > > > Jan > > [Who's kinda sorry for the flip if true response] > > > > On 11/11/07, Jason McCabe Calacanis <jason@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], Rupert <rupert@> wrote: > > > > This might not be the right place to ask those questions. Most (not > > > > all) of the producers here are working organically and personally > > > > with much smaller audiences and are creating uncommercial content. > > > > > > Got it. > > > > > > Thought that discussions about distribution channels might be in the > > > mandate since I've seen them here before, but if not please do delete! > > > > > > > But here's my two cents: You want regular six figure viewing > figures, > > > > I'd say the only guaranteed way to do it from a standing start is to > > > > get featured on Youtube every time. I would imagine, given your > > > > > > YouTube has come up a lot so I guess we should talk to them about > > > distribution. I agree about the value of those viewers and the > > > horrible behavior. In some ways I guess it's like getting on the front > > > page of digg: you get some traffic but you also get abusive comments > > > from the kiddie/anonymous coward contingent. > > > > > > > My feeling is that to get any value or meaningful response from your > > > > viewers, you need to build audience and loyalty organically. > All the > > > > social network/social media groups you've set up are a good start. > > > > > > Agreed. We're getting a great response from Ning > > > (http://mahalodaily.ning.com), Facebook (600 or so memebers), and > > > Twitter. > > > > > > > But they're not a quick fix. Or a road to instant viewer riches. > > > > > > Agreed again. I think they are good at creating a space for your > > > existing users to get together. > > > > > > > I advise you to look at EpicFu (formerly Jetset) - Zadi and Steve > > > > have done it about as right as possible, I think. They've been > > > > developing their show and their fans for a long time, and are now > > > > getting 1m views per week. They cover a lot of ground, screen on > > > > multiple networks as well as their own site and work very hard at > > > > it. They have their own social network, which is integral to their > > > > show. Seems to work well for them. > > > > > > Will do... those guys certainly know what they're doing and have been > > > at it for a long time. > > > > > > > I also advise you not pay any attention to my advice. I'm a > > > > videoblogger. I'm happy with a two or three figure audience, not > > > > six. I want to keep personal contact with my viewers. I have > > > > nothing to sell and no intention of making it my business. None of > > > > my opinions are based on any experience of building a promotional > > > > show with a big audience. Good luck with it. > > > > > > Actually, I think your advice is sage... focus on the organic and > > > stick to your knitting. The goals of our podcast and a personal podcat > > > are certainly different, but the passion is the same. > > > > > > LinkedIn has like a dozen answers including a VERY funny one from Leo > > > from TWiT. > > > > > > > http://www.linkedin.com/answers?viewQuestion=&questionID=128692&askerID=24171 > > > > > > best j > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > The Faux Press - better than real > > http://feeds.feedburner.com/diaryofafauxjournalist - RSS > > http://fauxpress.blogspot.com > > http://wburg.tv > > aim=janofsound > > air=862.571.5334 > > skype=janmclaughlin > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > >
