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YouTube

Crush It With Video

June 4, 2011

About 4 years ago, when I decided to sign-up my kids for piano lessons, of course the first thing I did was to start thinking about which keyboard to buy. I did extensive research online for keyboards: I did Google searches, visited an insane number of web sites, musician forums, read reviews on Amazon and [...]

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Burning Your Brand Into Their Eyes (literally!)

December 18, 2010

Awesome idea! Know that thing that happens after you stare into the sun and then close your eyes? Know how you see a bright ring that then gradually fades away? BMW came up with the same concept and created an ad that did that to viewers. Now the idea itself is nothing groundbreaking. But what’s [...]

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Presentation Matters

September 24, 2010

… and so does “music” – especially when it comes to just about any kind of video online. When your mother admonished you when you were young for dressing like a bum to your first job interview, you probably didn’t realize how important “presentation” is. But you’ll be even more surprised how much it matters, [...]

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We Write Ads Or People Die

September 6, 2010

What a remarkable way to market your services through a viral video like this. This is way too funny!

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Turning Lemons Into Lemonade

November 14, 2009

Do you sometimes bitch and complain and whine about your life? If only your parents had given you the right education… If only you were given your due recognition at work… If only your family loved you… If only you had more customers… If only you had more people promoting your product… If only you [...]

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Welcome to Techiiies.TV

April 19, 2009

I started Techiiies.tv as a fun project, and I’m pretty confident that YouTube would run out of storage space before I run out of ideas for creating techiiie videos. Oh, and by the way, if you’re wondering about the weird spelling of Techiiies, it was of course because the name “Techies” (with the single “i”) [...]

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Did You Know?

April 2, 2009

Incredibly exciting, inspiring, and motivational video. 50% of the credit goes to the music and the “style” of presentation.

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Seth Godin: Sliced bread and other marketing delights

March 11, 2009
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Marc Andreesen on Video, iPhone, FaceBook and Google

February 22, 2009

Excellent interview by Charlie Rose. And the discussion about monetizing FaceBook is very interesting. And a cool thing about Google Video (not to be confused with YouTube) is that you get a link right on the page, to download the video (iPod/iPhone friendly). So load up for offline viewing at the gym or on the [...]

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YouTube records more searches than Yahoo!

January 21, 2009

Last week, I searched YouTube (not Google) for how to “change wiper blades“, and watching a couple of the videos helped me change the wiper blades on my car in under 2 minutes (something I had been putting off for almost a year!) Here is an interesting article about the shift in the way people [...]

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YouTube Time Anchor Trick: Skip-Ahead Linking To Video

December 11, 2008

Let’s say you found this incredible video on YouTube that you wish to share with your subscribers/friends/family. But you watched it already and say, the first 3 minutes is all garbage (or just plain boring). So how do you link to the video such that your viewers skip the 3 minutes and go directly to [...]

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Garr Reynolds and Presentation Zen

September 28, 2008

Uncanny! I got “Presentation Zen” delivered in the mail last night from Amazon. And someone tweeted this Garr Reynolds video of “Authors at Google”…

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How To Sell A $3,200 Product Using Free YouTube Videos

December 3, 2007

If you’ve ever wondered about the power of influence that videos – even free ones – can have in selling commercial products, look no further. Recently, I was on the receiving end of this power, as I shelled out about $3,200 to buy a Yamaha Motif Keyboard – thanks(!) to two powerful videos on YouTube. [...]

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Adsense For Video (YouTube) Is Here

October 10, 2007

My “Video Unit” link wasn’t available yesterday when the announcement was first made. Was able to see it today. “Linked” my Adsense account with my YouTube account. Got the confirmation from Google in a few minutes (they do warn that it could take up to 12 hours). Created my “player”, got the code. The ads [...]

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Google Finally Starts Video Advertising on YouTube

August 23, 2007

We all knew this day would come, but I had been more curious about the type of video ads that would show up: would they be pre-roll (first show the ads, then the actual video)? Would they be post-roll (after the video) or some kind of pop-up (probably not, knowing their Adsense policy about pop-ups)? [...]

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Hair-raising Video Of A Fight For Survival

August 12, 2007

Watch this hair-raising video that shows a herd of buffaloes trying to fight a pride of lions, trying to snatch a baby calf away from the jaws of 5 lions and 2 crocodiles! Will the baby calf survive? Make sure you have nerves of steel before you watch it. I hope this fight inspires you [...]

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You, Me and Mona Lisa

August 7, 2007

Creating an e-business… Learning a new skill… Being the best at what you do… Building something worth building… Creating something worth creating… Saying something worth saying… Doing something worth doing… All of these take plenty of time – and effort. It is very easy to just look at the end-result of other people’s successes, ogle [...]

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How To Start Your Own Video Channel On YouTube

March 19, 2007

Backdrop and Shower curtain from Wal-Mart: $18 Tripod from Sears: $30 Expensive, Wireless Headphone (with “compander circuitry”) that sounds like crap: $100 Cheap-looking, Wired Headphone that just works: $20 Pink-shade Table Lamp: $10 100W bulb (that you need to keep switching off between takes because the lamp-shade says it can handle only 40W): $2 CyberLink [...]

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