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My father-in-law, Jerry Maslar, is working hard to promote traffic to his trout fishing site, www.troutu.com. As you can see from the chart above, he is doing quite a good job. In the last week or two, we started talking about "going viral", the idea that we produce something on the site that people want to forward to all their friends, which of course would drive tremendous traffic to our site.
"That's sounds great," he said, "how do we get started creating a viral video?" Well, I thought, one of you guys could do a belly flop off a water fall, or you could slice open the fish and eat it's guts out... generally something really stupid or really gross would have the best chance of spreading... Of course it doesn't have to be stupid or gross, it could be someone singing real well, like that Susan Boyle on Britain's Got Talent, which has had 50 million views in two weeks.
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Busbee Truck Parts has been a customer of Broadstreet's for several years now. Doug Busbee had the insight to begin selling truck parts on eBay a few years back, and then realized he needed his own Web site. He called me and soon www.BusbeeTruckParts.com was born.
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The January 14 episode (click to download) of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast had an excellent interview with Seth Godin, talking about the opportunities for small businesses and individuals in the current economic climate. As usual, Seth motivated me, and as a result, I am blogging again.
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I've become more and more comfortable putting important personal and business information on Google Apps. It's very convenient to create a document and share it with my wife or other associates of Broadstreet Consulting. More and more, when I need to create a document that is to be shared, I will create it with Google Docs and then share it.
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I recently was informed of a site called Camospace.com, which is a social networking site for outdoorsmen. This is a protential place to advertise for TylerBrothers.net. In the p
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Ever wonder what is the most popular site on the Web? ComScore is a business that measures traffic on the Web and publishes it on a subscription basis. Below is Comscore's listing of the current Top 50 sites on the Web (for the U.S). You can find this yourself by going to http://www.comscore.com/press/data.asp and clicking on United States.
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As predicted, President-elect Obama will use YouTube in addition to radio to deliver his weekly address to the nation. This will be the first time that a President-elect will use online video to deliver his weekly message.
Read more here: https://wired.com/2008/11/obama-turns-to/
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President-elect Obama is looking to create a position for Chief Technology Officer. This is a good thing. Frank Greve at McClatchy reports that Obama will use new media in the form of YouTube in order to speak directly to the people, bypassing the various biased media. This is a great thing, and will improve our democracy.
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One of the challenges of building a large Web site is getting the technical people to work with the graphic design and marketing people. The city of Columbia, SC recently experienced this exact problem when the technical department unveiled their $107,000 web site just days before the marketing department was planning to launch their own $10,000 redesign of the site.
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Barack Obama has created change.gov as part of his transition to the Oval Office. In addition, he has said he will appoint a Chief Technology Officer and will push to get broadband access to all Americans. This is a good thing.
Additionally, he has said he will have a five-day online comment period prior to signing any non-emergency legislation. This is also a good thing.
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