Bill and I like to get out and visit Bud Guess as often as we can.
It all started long ago……Once upon a time Bill lived in the apartment complex that Bud managed. One day Bud offered to cook dinner and Bill being a guy who never turns down free food took him up on that offer. Well, as time went on, the free dinners kept rolling in, so naturally Bill and Bud got to know one another and became great friends. Then, in comes Misty, at the time from Arkansas. Misty was dating Bill, and on the first visit met Bud and thought he seemed like a pretty nice guy. Bill and Misty marry and she convinces Bill to move to Arkansas. Bud and Bill remain friends that talk on the phone and communicate by email, but it’s just not the same. Finally, Bill and Misty move back out to California, and once again Bill and Bud join forces to fly with the Eagles.
The key is you’re living in a world where people’s expectations have been set by YouTube, so you want to think, what can I put together that somebody, might, in my customer base might actually find fun, interesting, entertaining to look at.
In October of 2007 I created a video about a Logo Design Process Bill and I went through for Auburn Computer Magic. Auburn Computer Magic is owned by Bill and myself. We got a lot of responses on the first video and most of the responses were negative. I think I did a good job at offending a lot of graphic design professionals. The cool thing that came out of this video was that a guy named Daniel Sharp got in touch with us and designed his own version of the Auburn Computer Magic logo and told us we could use it if we wanted to. Obviously he wasn’t crazy about our logo, but instead of adding one more negative comment he made a positive contribution, and we thought this was great. If you are looking for a professional graphic designer then go check out Daniel Sharp’s website: http://www.daniel-sharp.co.uk/
Matt Waddell, a product manager for Google Mobile, in a Reuters Interview says, “We have very much hit a watershed moment in terms of mobile Internet usage. We are seeing that mobile Internet use is in fact accelerating.”
He also says iPhone users perform as many as 50 times more Web searches on these computer-phone devices as users of standard mobile feature phones typically do.
On April 12th, 2007 we Predicted that, “Google will extend video embeds to Local Business Center as in My Maps, and will continue to make deals with phone makers and carriers to include Google Maps and YouTube videos, as they have with Apple.” Today we noticed in one of our Google local listings a Tab For Photos And Videos. We couldn’t find a way to upload videos, but it looks like it’s coming soon.
UPDATE: Yesterday we uploaded videos to our Google Local Business Listing and today they’re live –
In the past two years, we’ve posted 321 videos online and gotten 163,558 views — about 510 views per video on average. Our top twelve videos in this video wall have gotten 51,185 views.
