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Here is a quick post because my readers demand it ;) But seriously, thanks for the “push” – always nice to know that people want more :)
Well… related to my previous post How To Create A Viral Video – I ran into this series called Viral Video Film School. It’s a bit silly and sarcastic [...]

Wondering how you can make the Top 10 Most Viral Videos list? Check out this video I found about how to create a popular viral video:

Mine’s doing great, got over a million hits and it just landed me a job at a hot new media firm.
Specific areas include:

Filming yourself sitting at your desk
Hurting yourself
Hurting others
Using [...]

I saw this video the other day called Design Coding by The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper) – pretty cool, it’s educational and fun :)

(via iJustine)
This is an excellent example of how to create a viral video. It was posted March 20, 2008 and it already has 84,071 views. He also has some more [...]

Happy holidays and a happy new year. At the end of the year people often look back over what happened that year. I think viral videos are fascinating – how a video travels around the world through word-of-mouth or click-of-link from person to person until millions of people have seen it. Sometimes this is just [...]

I like it when people comment on my blog. When people leave comments on blog posts I’m much more motivated to write more posts. It’s also great to get feedback from readers so you know if you’re doing something right. That’s why I think it’s important to give something back to those that keep this [...]

Seth Godin is a pretty well known marketer and he’s got a great blog. There he regularly posts insightful tips/articles/news regarding marketing or just business in general. Recently I’ve noticed that he’s been hinting at some business opportunities that could be profitable:

Create a niche “interesting videos” site – Sort of a TV Guide for YouTube. [...]

As a blog owner one of your biggest assets is your readers – if you don’t have any readers there isn’t much point in blogging (unless you just got started). Having a lot of readers is great but what really adds life to a blog are comments – and you definitely want to encourage comments. [...]

I have an article directory that is doing alright – right now there are almost 500 registered authors. But the problem is that I don’t have time to moderate all the new articles that are coming in.
So I’ve decided to hire a moderator. At first I was going to check out some of the freelance [...]

Last week I decided to join MyBlogLog. I’ve seen more and more people using MyBlogLog over the last few months and wanted to see what all the fuss was about. Also, since Yahoo was willing to pay $10 million for MyBlogLog it might be useful.
The most recognizable feature of MyBlogLog is the “recent readers” widget [...]