Jim Louderback, CEO of Revision3 has launched his blog, louderback.com. Jim is an old-school internet dude, if Jim started this blog only halfway through his internet career he could have registered jim.com.
Seriously though, Jim is great to Viddler and community. If you haven’t done so already make sure and checkout Revision3Beta. If you are looking for another Gary-Vaynerchuk-like “personality” in the video space, make sure to subscribe to his feed!
Now all I gotta do is convince him to get a Viddler.com account and branded player
If you have noticed my videos, I have taken out the Viddler brand and customized the player to really emphasize our positioning on Viddler. If you haven’t seen branding, check out this page with a few of the branded players.
With our “Brand Yourself” launch we have been switching the way we have been messaging ourselves to be a “Powered By Service” rather then a “Brand Claiming Service”. This is certainly a decentralizing our strategy but we really believe that supporting video podcasters is about taking away friction in this video space.
To point this out, Gary gave us mad props on this at his keynote (video still pending upload) but as Donna Papacosta points out, he was pretty adamant about it:
Our marketing on T-Shirt Distribution has the exact same messaging, check out some nice photo’s I found on Flickr of the shirts we printed out:
I love people using Viddler and cannot wait for all the rollouts we are going to push over the next month that are solving problems in this marketplace.
First of all, if you were even thinking about New Media Expo, you should be going.
If you haven’t introduced yourself yet and are going to New Media Expo, do it via Video. All you have to do is tag your video “newmediaexpo” or “newmediaexpo2008″ and it will go in general category of NewMediaExpo Videos. If you want to do an introduction, tag it as “newmediaexpointroduction” for it to go in introduction section.
This morning, this magazine arrived, and was happy to find an interview with Gary Vaynerchuk. Gary makes an excellent point in Affiliate Summit Magazine, Feed Front. It’s about being Genuine. He calls it being a RAT (real, authentic, and transparent). Now, I wouldn’t be big on this if I wasn’t caught up with all the spamming/real internet marketing occuring on Viddler. Check out Viddler Tag: Marketing, to see how big this has become on Viddler. It’s ugly. Cash gifting, lead generation, real estate marketing all seem to fit into this. Some of this has been brought on from TubeMogul, an amazing tool for podcasters to distribute high quality shows everywhere, but also a lead generators tricks of the trade.
At Viddler, we are a little conflicted with exactly what rules to put in place to prevent this and keep Viddler itself a “RAT”. Real Authentic Transparent.
The second post of this blog defines a new boom of entrepreneurs what I called “Digital Entrepreneur”. Still being in college at the time it’s funny how I have followed that path.
Creating a new mission for this blog I will be blogging about myself with this topic in mind. I don’t want to lose the personal flavor. Part of this has to do with a new initiative I have put on myself around personal branding (made redonculously famous by Gary Vaynerchuk). What does that mean in terms of technology? A good blog post on that shall come soon.
Also, I will be changing my bio on right to refer back to that original blog post.
This blog is going to start picking back up. With that my first goal is to get everyone of you that follows me on Twitter to listen up when I got something “worthwhile” to say.
<robertsandie> is a prefix I have been thinking about and is my #1 pick
#robertsandie was another one I thought about but am not really sure that’s the right solution for this (let me know thoughts).
Hello and welcome to my personal blog. My name is Robert Sandie, a digital entrepreneur, co-founder and President of Viddler. Join me as I update this blog on the daily challenges of startup.
