Posts Tagged "YouTube"

I talk to a lot of people about social media. The biggest concerns I hear are about privacy and how to act online. Most people are not like me or the CEO of Zappos.com, Tony Hsieh, where we talk about whatever we are doing and don’t care who sees it.

Personally I have accounts on: Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and many others. All of my accounts are public so anyone in the world can see who I “really” am and even how to contact me.
But if you think that is too much I will disagree. Nowadays if you are in sales people will search for you on online to see if they can find who you are. This helps the customer to build trust if they know what your life is like and they may even find something in common and that can help close the sale.

Make sure when you are talking to customers and they mention golfing for example and you HATE golfing that you don’t tell your customer that you love golfing and you need to set up a tee time for next week then they go jump online to one of your social profiles and you are the founding member of the why I hate golf club.

One other thing is don’t alter your pictures to make you look different than you actually are. As soon as you meet the customer in person or they see your online profile and you look completely different you just lost their trust in you because you are misleading and deceiving.

Hopefully that gives you some insight on how to marry your real life with your online profiles.

UPDATE: Looks like they only aired like one or two of the one second commercials, they just make 30 seconds worth for viralness?

I was reading blogs today and ran across some rather funny viral marketing, I’ll call it that a least, for Miller High Life beer.

They are running Super Bowl spots, go figure, with the very funny Windell Middlebrooks. The catch is they are 1 second a piece! What’s the reason behind it? Look at the picture. The funny thing is they say they don’t need to spend 3 million ($3,000,000) but it looks like they have 24 spots running for a total of 30 seconds (a couple of them are longer than 1 second). So if I am doing my math correctly:

$3,000,000 / 30 * 30 * Number of Horns on a Unicorn + We Say It’s Cheaper = Everyone will believe us that we are just like them and don’t waste $3,000,000 for 30 seconds of air time just so people will buy our beer, or they will just be to damn wasted to notice.

It makes since to me, thats the only reason I goto Super Bowl parties is to get wasted. Funny though I ran across this old Miller High Life video that was aired somewhere after last years Super Bowl and they were talking about all the other commercials. Is it sad that I actually remember every single one they were talking about?

I am not talking about the KGB of Russia. I am talking about the Knowledge Generation Bureau. I have see their commercials on TV and was extremely curious. Well it looks like they are trying to build up a database of information from people to places. They claim they are not a search engine which to me it looks like more of a Wikipedia type site.

I was looking on their website and their is a graphic that says “what country owns the moon?” I was curious so I looked it up on the site. No answer. So I sent a text with that question and this is the response I got “To answer your questions, it will be $0.50 and std/othr charges may apply, please reply YES now. Text HELP for info, STOP to end.”

The answer to the question is no one really owns the moon according to Wikipedia.

If you are looking for answers via text and what not you can use ChaCha, its free. You will not get an answer right away since real people are looking up the answers for you.

Below are the commercials for KGB if you are interested.

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Here is a little gift guide I did to hopefully help some people out when they are looking for gifts for that special tech person in their life. You can also send me gifts…

I had just so happen to click a link to a YouTube channel and noticed a widescreen player. I was like “what is this?” Then I checked out videos that I knew were in widescreen and sure enough it was widescreen! I then tried to show someone that uses Firefox and it wasn’t widescreen. Then I tried every other browser and it looks like right now its just for Google Chrome. I couldn’t find any information on it searching Google but if I do I will keep everyone updated. Here is a screen shot, Google Chrome (left), Internet Explorer 7 (right). UPDATE: Last night I noticed it working on Firefox and I just saw a post on TechCrunch Talking about it and also there is an official post on YouTube’s Blog.