April 2009
My father-in-law, Jerry Maslar, is working hard to promote traffic to his trout fishing site, www.troutu.com. As you can see from the chart above, he is doing quite a good job. In the last week or two, we started talking about "going viral", the idea that we produce something on the site that people want to forward to all their friends, which of course would drive tremendous traffic to our site.
"That's sounds great," he said, "how do we get started creating a viral video?" Well, I thought, one of you guys could do a belly flop off a water fall, or you could slice open the fish and eat it's guts out... generally something really stupid or really gross would have the best chance of spreading... Of course it doesn't have to be stupid or gross, it could be someone singing real well, like that Susan Boyle on Britain's Got Talent, which has had 50 million views in two weeks.
Read More...Busbee Truck Parts has been a customer of Broadstreet's for several years now. Doug Busbee had the insight to begin selling truck parts on eBay a few years back, and then realized he needed his own Web site. He called me and soon www.BusbeeTruckParts.com was born.
Read More...The January 14 episode (click to download) of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast had an excellent interview with Seth Godin, talking about the opportunities for small businesses and individuals in the current economic climate. As usual, Seth motivated me, and as a result, I am blogging again.
Read More...I've become more and more comfortable putting important personal and business information on Google Apps. It's very convenient to create a document and share it with my wife or other associates of Broadstreet Consulting. More and more, when I need to create a document that is to be shared, I will create it with Google Docs and then share it.
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