“I AM A STRONG, HEALTHY, HAPPY, VIBRANT, AND CREATIVE WOMAN!”
What? You don’t say that to yourself daily? Then you need a better psychiatrist.
I think I’d better do a video of me reaffirming that in a public place.
YouTube is ending 2006 with dozens of technical support problems, and customer service that is reminiscent of AOL when it had a virtual monopoly. In fact, YouTubers have organized a “Bed In” to bring the company’s attention to problems. Ironically many can’t participate because the site, for days, hasn’t accepting videos in a timely manner….
I’ve been finding a few of my videos getting great spikes on Yahoo Video and I have three theories: It’s the #2 online video site There isn’t as much competition for videos (Yahoo indexes a lot of videos, but hosts fewer consumer-generated videos than YouTube for instance) The editors are being kind occasionally It’s interesting but not…
You’ve no doubt seen this already, but I feel the need to harass BP this afternoon… if only to ensure that BestBuy and GeekSquad isn’t singled out. I give you the BP coffee spill parody, one of the most viral videos of the week. It’s by the funny folks from UCB comedy… that improv theater…
Good Morning Starshine. Here’s Bob singing on the first season of Sesame Street with a bunch of hippie muppets. Wait- not Hippies. Deadheads. Power of positive names.
Amazon loves me. I’ll tell you how I know, and even show you the proof. You see Amazon recently differentiated itself with the Kindle “mayday” button that allows it direct contact. This is a sharp contrast from Google, where getting a human is like requesting the algorithm behind organic search rankings. Today I had my…
Oh dear. Did I sleep through a Google Video death? It seems these video sites barely have the courtesy to send a “goodbye” card when they die. It took a while for me to realize TheDailyReel was RIP, and I just discovered this morning that Flix55 (the video-sharing site by a NYC television station) had vanished. Now…
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Despite the Palin parody, I thought you were a man.
You should do a collab with inappropriate reaffirmations.
“I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.”
I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggoneit, people, they…..doggoneit….
Ah, who am I kidding. I’m a total and complete failure. A waste of human tissue. A disgrace to our species! Someone vote me off the island right now!
@4: No you are not!!! You must think positively about yourself! At least until sukatra gets here and rips you a new one.
I am a damn good mother, and my children are proof.
@5
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@6
But all your children are dead.
I’d say that makes me a good mother on account they were all terrible people.
What a load of crap.
As a matter of fact, I told myself that statement seconds before coming here.
I love strong, healthy, vibrant and creative women… Like Louise Hay for example.
Everything is working out for the best… maybe.
Huh?
This post is a marketing, keyword, search engine thing, isn’t it!?
I was feeling comfortable and now I’m not so sure…
I believe you are involved in a sexist plot to make me sit.
I said that to myself this morning. 🙂
I just saw Bill O’Reilly call anyone who watches the “Charlie Bit My Finger” video a pinhead. He played the video full screen for 30 seconds. Geez. Wish he’d call one of MY video stoopid and run it on national TV full screen!
I had to read the article to get the joke.
I actually have the answer Kevin, I’ll e-mail it to you 😉
@15
Bill O’Reilly thinks everyone’s a pinhead. One day your day in the light will come…
Personally, I think your stuff would mesh with the Colbert Report a little better though 😉
@17
Actually, the segment is entitled “Pinheads and Patriots.”
So you think Colbert would be interested in my poetry series, eh? No wait, the train series. Couldn’t be the homeless attorney stuff or the veterans shelter series. Or the cute grandbaby stuff. Must be the swamp series. No, the crack motel stuff. Crack motels are always funny.
I AM A STRONG, HEALTHY, HAPPY, VIBRANT, AND CREATIVE RUSSIAN!
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@17 I think Colbert would be most interested in your half-naked drunk mother. Email their staff post haste!
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See- it’s all about Loise Hayes. Although I like her voice better when I imagined her as an African American.
^So what is she, a skinhead?
Hey Nalts, Peter, & Other partners: did you see that YouTube is letting us upload custom thumbnails now?!?
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I did! It’s great. I can have widescreen video and thumbnails that don’t look like I’m bootlegging movies.
It must be GREEEEAAAATTTT to be a partner, huh?? It must be f***in’ fantastic, huh? HUH? WELL, SOME OF US CAN’T GET IN THE PARTNERS PROGRAM!!! IT DOESN’T FEEL THAT GREAT!
It is kind of funny that they’ve rejected me 9 times, though, isn’t it?
You gots to get more creative wit’ yo promotion, Reubs! Get stuff out there on forums, fark, ebaums, digg, etc.
You can’t be a partner when you average a couple hundred views per video… I’d say people don’t want to buy ads on that. Not that you aren’t good (and not that it even matters!), just put yourself out there more.
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I actually did try to create myself a wikipedia page 2 days ago. Those nerdy moderators took it down in less than 3 minutes. Haha! Is that a good start?
Reub,
Forget about Wikipedia. The editors there will never let you in. Heck, an argument over whether Nalts is cool enough breaks out every three days.
After I upload a video to YouTube, the first thing I do after that is tag it on Digg, Fark, StumbleUpon, Delicious, and a few of the other sites that people frequent looking for new inspiration.
After that, if the video isn’t a YouTube specific video, I’ll head over to TubeMogul and deploy it to all the related video sharing sites that I can. Usually in the description I throw in a comment that I don’t check this site very often, so please visit my YouTube channel.
Finally, if I can promote the video through the blogs I visit or twitter, I drop a line there. Sometimes those are better than the StumbleUpons and Diggs out there, because those people actually know me.
Release one video every day for the next two weeks. For every video, follow these steps. I can guarantee your subscription base will grow.
Great info Jim. I have always cringed a little when I think about trying the shameless self promotion avenue. Funny thinking that way and then putting myself on public display like I do. But a camera and the internets seem a lot different than standing on a street corner screaming for attention, but as it turns out it is quite the same thing.
Short of setting up something like a lisabot I can’t think of a better approach than what you have outlined.
Robnickel –
don’t feel bad. i can’t get into the partners program either.
For the record, Reub and sukatra,
You both aught to be partners. Lately my videos are barely averaging any views, but YouTube let me have the status.
If it makes you feel any better, I’ve been a partner three months now and I’m still not quite to receiving my first adsense check. You’ll never get rich off it.
@Jimmer
You know, I used to feel like I should just sit back and let my video quality speak for itself.
The I realized if I did that, I’d have no views, and 2 subscribers: both of which being my own sock accounts.
So I scream from the mountaintops: “Come one, come all! Come and see my mediocre content!”
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