Stalking Chris Pirillo – Using Empire Avenue to Learn What Other Web Publishers are Doing Right
Creating a web publishing business seems like it should be a pretty simple affair. You create content, publish it to some platform, wait for some mystical “viralality” to happen, and then you make money. So you create your content, you create your advertising accounts, you follow all the instructions, and then… and then… well then you wait…
Beware of Sharks–Is the Baltimore Tech Scene About to Die..?
Do you know the feeling you have when you go to a party that you have been anxiously waiting to attend and then you get there and all you really want to do is go home? I’m starting to have that feeling towards the Baltimore Tech scene…
The Baltimore Funding Model
Funding Start Up Companies in their initial stages in the Baltimore area can be a frustrating, and disappointing experience. Highly excited, energized and impressive individuals try to launch their ideas only to find that the community is not willing to gamble on their success. I believe this is not due to a lack of interest in investing, but rather that the sales pitch is wrong. Currently start up companies try to use the same methods to gain funding here in Baltimore as they do in New York City, or out in Silicon Valley. We have a much different culture here with different morays and fears.
Hooopla Pitch
Hooopla (Right Click and Select “Save Link As..”)
Thoughts on Creating Volunteer Positions in the Baltimore Tech Community
Currently the Baltimore Tech community is a vibrant place with lots of people doing lots of great things. Not only do we have the mass of startup companies with their entourage, but we also have numerous people giving their time, space, and some money to foster Meetups and other events to showcase the current state of progress in Baltimore and foster a new generation of tech entrepreneurs.
Thank God the Holidays are Finally Over!
Apparently I now have more to fear from the Holiday season then a stale fruit cake. Total Daily Views on the “Eli the Computer Guy” YouTube Channel were steadily doubling every one and a half months last year until the week of Thanksgiving. From Thanksgiving till New Years our stats plummeted from averaging around 4500 views per day to a low of 2554 on Christmas day. The stats got better after Christmas, but it has been a surprisingly slow recovery.
Yesterday was our first day of overall higher views since November 3rd! At 5208 Views in a Day this is our first “record breaking” day in almost 2 months…
This is just one of those “quirks” in business that you should expect to encounter even if you can’t fully anticipate it.
Faith in the “Internet Generation” May Be A little Overblown…
Sent to my YouTube Channel:
Hey, I really lvoed your vids and subbed. im 14 and I know alot about computers regarding my age. So I want to get someones facebook login details. She goes to teh same school as me and I talk to her alot.
So i need to know what is the best way to get the login information. The purpose for this is to just spy and not destroy or get hold of her account.
PLEASE ANSWER.
If I received one message like this I would shrug it off. If I had received a few messages like this I would shake my head and lament the stupidity of too many people. The fact that I get numerous requests like this a week tells me that there is something going on in society far deeper then mear idiocy of the populace…
Not only does the upcoming generation not feel required to pay for content, but they also seem to feel as if they have the right to violate people’s online world with little ethical consideration. Additionally they are willing to reach out to complete strangers to ask for help in committing felonies with barely a second thought.
I have a feeling a major change in our society is coming. I just don’t know if it will be a more open transparent society, or one full of more prisons and dumbfounded delinquents.
My YouTube Hero…
I ran across the YouTube Channel for LockerGnome today, and I think I have found my new hero. He has 4235 uploaded VIDEOS, and has 128,734,945 views. Doing a back of a napkin calculation that means he’s probably made around $700,000+ off of his YouTube Channel!
You can check the channel out here: https://www.youtube.com/user/lockergnome
How Do You Hang Christmas Lights on a Cow? Thoughts About the How National Holidays Effect Web Based Businesses.
The holiday season here in the good ole’ US of A is finally behind us. The holidays are a time when retail businesses do their best, but many other businesses grind to a halt. When I had the computer service business I expected from Thanksgiving to the middle of January to be very slow, and now having a web based video content business I see that the same will hold through. Until Thanksgiving my Stats on YouTube and my web page were continuously going up, and I was expecting a steady rise in the revenue I received from advertisers. In December everything sank for the first time.
