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Re: Marketing Sucks

Daz Cox — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:50:36 -0000

how about putting your money where your mouth is and give us something more than your sales pitch for 'better marketing practices' here? I like the premise of the article and because of social networking I arrived here but it's still you trying to sell me on something without giving much for "free".

What will make me come back? after all it's the relationship that matters these days right?

Re: View random Flickr streams on Friendfeed. « My Thoughts On Social Media

Daz Cox — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:45:01 -0000

I hope artists aren't given the second class citizen treatment here too!

Re: Robert Scoble noise on Friendfeed - I embrace it. « My Thoughts On Social Media

Daz Cox — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:14:39 -0000

I think there's a third type of person, the creator of the content who would be a discoverer too I suppose. i like having my content in my feed mixed with my choices.

Re: Artists Express Concern Over PhotoBucket

Daz Cox — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:25:37 -0000

Art is only worth in a money way what someone pays for it, maybe the answer is to encourage people to collect one of a kind art, originals have more magic than copies. give the copies away for free. there, problem solved.

Re: Who is Secretly Pitching You

Daz Cox — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:22:18 -0000

have you noticed how many 'comments' are really just detours to someone else's work?

Imagine if Matt had taken a few hours to research and write a piece on 'alternatives to multi-national products', perhaps he could make the case that cloth diapers and the related industry could reduce pollution http://www.borntolove.com/toxictea.html
and create a "green" domestic job market.

Wouldn't it be great if we, the consumers, talked about how cool it is to buy local products and services rather than what the latest multi-national corp product is. Is being green as important as looking cool with the latest corporate product or you getting a few more dollars?

Re: Your Help Requested- Planning a Small Series

Daz Cox — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:00:53 -0000

This is probably a little off topic but an idea to contemplate nonetheless.

How important is immediacy of the material in a blog? Does a blogged idea have a certain shelf-life and then it's done for all time, perhaps to be re-written again and given another chance at getting an audience?

Does the amount of comments on a particular posts influence future posts?

Re: The Web Version of You

Daz Cox — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:35:12 -0000

I think there is an overkill point and a point where the quantity of information puts pressure on people to use a middleman program like this. Sometimes a blogpost is best read in situ, surrounded by the trappings of the author to put things in context!

Re: Social Media Starter Moves for Freelancers

Daz Cox — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:31:50 -0000

well said Chris, if your blog has a focus then it is silly to direct people away from it with random advertising.

I can't offer any social media success stories other than the satisfaction of being able to get my point across and allowing the world to see more if they choose, it's like buying a lottery ticket instead of just wanting to to be rich!

Re: Social Networking Features are Toilets

Daz Cox — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:57:19 -0000

haha! yup! It's kind of good if you extrapolate the most positive aspects of social networking in that if everyone had equal access to social media outlets, and can read and write, they could participate in democracy as never before.

Imagine each town having a free internet connection built around it's own hub with local polling and news etc.

Re: Social Media Starter Moves for Real Estate

Daz Cox — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:58:40 -0000

100% agree, people are far more comfortable with a virtual tour than a real one in the beginning stages of looking for a home...

Re: Advertiser Types- Any Info

Daz Cox — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:05:12 -0000

the viral/guerilla advertisers who use entertainment in place of traditional advertising to sell products.

Bloggers who will mention/name-drop people or products for profit.

Re: Using Social Networking and Media Offline

Daz Cox — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:08:20 -0000

nice post, it's always good to stretch your imagination and peek outside that box.

Re: Advertisers Take Heed

Daz Cox — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:14:45 -0000

clever but I know I'm not the only one who avoids advertising like the plague, I don't listen the radio anymore as I can't stand the commercials, luckily I have days worth of podcasts and music on my ipod and it plugs right into my car too!

I mute/surf/tivo tv so i avoid the commercials.

I avoid blogs encrusted with ads, sorry all you pro-bloggers!

in the words of Bill Hicks "By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself." kidding but too many commercials are total lies and lies suck.

Re: Pirillo Does it Best

Daz Cox — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:55:16 -0000

I don't know who that is.

Re: Who Am I Really

Daz Cox — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:23:14 -0000

happy b-day bro!

Re: Customer Service Needs New Channels- Or Does It

Daz Cox — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:50:56 -0000

I worked for one of the top Japanese home electronics companies as phone support. They have a nice call center in a small city in Illinois that services dozens of un-related companies.

The reason why it is in Illinois (they said) is that the local accents are somewhat 'neutral' and wages are lower than the bigger cities. The wages weren't great but it was steady work and a decent work environment and because of that we were in the right frame of mind to help people who were fustrated with either a defective product or the complicated features of the product.

What was essential, more than anything else, was to let the caller vent, once they had talked, the problem was often far less horrible to them than they had worked it up to be in their minds.

Having a way to vent, wether it be by phone or twitter seems to me to be a cost effective way of keeping customers coming back to the product.

Re: Conquering Fear of Blogging

Daz Cox — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 06:44:20 -0000

yup, if you want to be a blogger, write! Write about something you know and like. Just re-directing people to other blogs and their content is wishy washy.

Everyday I visit a new blog or two, usually from comments on sites I go to regularly, and at least half the time those blogs are trying to be the 'little brother or sister' of some bigger and more famous blog.

Write your own content and they will come.

Re: Is Your Community For Sale

Daz Cox — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:42:12 -0000

I assume a business interest will buy the account and then you'll have clever advertising disguised as personal tweets?

Re: Global Languages and Social Media

Daz Cox — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:43:17 -0000

duh, have two blogs, one in Hebrew with concerns targeted to the Hebrew-readers and one with topics for the world at large.

I think what this is saying is "how does he (and us) please everyone and still get the maximum amount of hits', well you can't and blogging for statistics generally leads to disapointment, you can't be too rich, too thin or have enough readers to be truely happy if you are concerned with those things!

Re: What I Did This Morning Instead of Blog

Daz Cox — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:02:06 -0000

If you do the illustrations I'll buy the book!

Re: 10 Blogging Tips

Daz Cox — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:50:55 -0000

hey now, just because you have to read 9 million blogs a day doesn't mean the rest of us have to!!

Be brief? why? because YOU don't have time to read it? ha!

It has to be annoying to see 8 million of those bloggers writing about the same exact thing, I bet you cringe on 'Apple product rumor release day' as you know a hell of a lot of people are going to jump on the blogwagon and write a review so that they can get traffic, am I wrong?

helpful? why? why not blog to randomly inspire or to make one person feel special?

I think your post should read "what I, CB, look for in a blog" not general blogging tips.

Re: 10 Blogging Tips

Daz Cox — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:04:36 -0000

The key to blogging is to write something from YOUR perspective no matter how inexperienced or un-informed you might be, it's your blog which means your opinion.

If your blog post simply defers to someone else as having a 'better' opinion than you then you are missing the point in my opinion.

How many blog posts lead off with a link to someone else's blog or site? Yes, some people break a story and have important info, but when you, in your blog, are too afraid to write your opinion and just redirect people to the other site you are missing the point of blogging in my opinion.

Your blog is your place to say what you think, not to say that someone else is saying what you think.

You might get some google rank, maybe, by being a middleman or blog-caddy or brownnose-blogger but if you can't write your opinion, whether it be popular or not, then you are missing the point of having your own blog. You would be better suited to just commenting on existing blogs!

Re: Starting Points for Online Presence

Daz Cox — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:08:48 -0000

Flickr is also a good networking site for artists!

Re: What Tom Could Learn from Facebook

Daz Cox — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:25:33 -0000

Nice job Chris!

I love it when you can prove the power of social networking with examples from your own experience.

Re: The Pirates Dilemma

Daz Cox — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:12:17 -0000

What made the punk scene special, in addition to the DIY culture, was the fact that it wasn't made with tomorrow in mind, it was made for the present and that immediacy, like twittering/blogging tools today allows trends to evolve at their own pace (instead of being planned out in intervals as with disco - anyone remember Dance Fever? haha!).

Re: What Were Your First Steps

Daz Cox — Fri, 02 May 2008 09:26:34 -0000

I started with a livejournal about 6 years ago and art sites and took a stab at dozens of participatory sites that popped up and finally settled on a WP blog as the main hub of my personal 'empire' on the web!

I don't believe in the 'blog everyday' idea, I prefer the "blog when you are inspired and don't publish until it has a completed thought" style, but I don't blog about current events I only blog to inspire and motivate myself (and share those thoughts).

Here's an example of how blogging and social media can create more than the sum of the parts. I had a dream, a crazy sci-fi dream and figured I'd write about it, perhaps to decipher a meaning, something I do on spirituality sites.

The post turned into a tiny sci-fi story that ended up referencing a painting that I posted and linked to my Flickr account where the 'moral' of the story (perhaps) was already there, something I had written several years ago and suddenly realized was the point of the dream.

Linking thoughts up, thoughts that you have scattered across the web from different times in your life can be a fruitful exercise! try it!

Re: Social Networks- Time to Specialize

Daz Cox — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:23:11 -0000

I know exactly what you mean, the future of social networking is many, easy to use, specialized groups where (ultimately) each facet of our online selves can have real time and on demand social network perks.

Yesterday I made a Ning social network for my local arts scene, and surprised myself by even getting a Facebook application to work that shows the pictures uploaded to the Ning site.

I uploaded a dozen Mp3's a video, made a forum, events, etc all the things a social network needs, now it just needs people! The important thing is that it is specialized which works within the free parameters of a site like Ning. For example I am allowed 100 pictures (in the slide show) and 100 Mp3's, which would be fine for a site with (possibly) a few dozen or so people.

Anyone (who visits Chris's blog anyway) can have a Ning social network up and running in an hour or less, it's not MySpace easy but it's not coding either. (I'm just an artist btw not affiliated with any company or group).

Re: Best Social Media Advice From This Site

Daz Cox — Mon, 12 May 2008 07:26:37 -0000

nice list here, I'll bookmark for sure!

Re: Could Someone Explain Technorati

Daz Cox — Tue, 27 May 2008 08:43:09 -0000

I'm sure you can buy or trade favors for a higher ranking, there's no law against 'cheating' on an arbitrary scale is there?

Re: The Salad Bar Business

Daz Cox — Fri, 30 May 2008 07:25:20 -0000

I think convenience is the key in the grocery store salad bars. As long as the items, food and containers to put them in are easily accessible people will fill up there. having more exotic items isn't necessary in my opinion as long as what is there covers the basic salad-groups and the whole set up is clean!

Re: Jon Udell Explains FeedSync and How It Might Benefit You

Daz Cox — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:18:46 -0000

hmmmm but it's Microsoft, i'll have to wait until braver souls can check it for bugs that might infect/destroy my PC. remember Vista? is that fixed yet? The idea of allowing MS more access to my stuff than they already do just makes me warey.

5 gigs of free space for your files sounds good, BUT it just seems like a 'trap' hehe!

Re: Develop a Strong Personal Brand Online - Part 2

Daz Cox — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:49:17 -0000

one thing that I don't quite understand is why google only indexes a certain amount of images from my blog and not others. Most of the traffic to my blog comes from people searching for things that my images contain (fine art), happening upon my images in their search and ending up at my site but it's the same four pages every time, pages from last year!

Every single word in my blog links to those same images, even if I have images that are closer to the search term. it appears that google has branded me with the images it chose to index (and the 90% it didn't!).

Does anyone know why Google chooses certain images on your blog/website to include in it's image search and not others?
All of my pages index just about immediately but I can't get a new image to index no matter what I do. help Chris!

Re: Are You Living Consciously Online

Daz Cox — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:57:52 -0000

yes, I am definitely making a difference. Giving encouragement to artists, many of which have very little blog traffic or Flickr comments etc makes a difference.

I spend a lot of time online because I can right now but when things change and I have a whole lot less free time I won't stop being me, in fact civilization can collapse and I'll still be able to draw and paint and grow in what is really the core of Me!

Re: 100 Personal Branding Tactics Using Social Media

Daz Cox — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:48:06 -0000

this post is probably the most useful tool I've seen yet for a person beginning to understand how social networking is such an effective tool to promote a brand.

Re: Three Photo Editing Tools to Check Out

Daz Cox — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:49:57 -0000

yeah, A.viary looks great.

Re: YahooGroups vs Google Groups

Daz Cox — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:40:33 -0000

yeah, in some ways Yahoo is like the old decaying city center, not quite the ancient "walled city" of AOL, but low rent for sure.

Re: American Express is OPEN

Daz Cox — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:10:49 -0000

I noticed that there was no link back to your own site option in the comments, so I guess they don't really get it yet!

Re: Making Money Isnt Evil

Daz Cox — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:47:15 -0000

:) nice talk! I think adult language is helpful in this context, as we generally use that language when around friends, and friends generally hear more of what is said.

Re: Podcasting for Business-Are Your Customers Worth It

Daz Cox — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:53:24 -0000

I hope he appreciates you hehe! yeah, without your explanation I'd never listen to Christopher's podcast in a million years, I've paid all my loans off! Cool, I'll check it out.

Re: YouTube is Losing Hundreds of Millions a Month

Daz Cox — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:54:10 -0000

that sounds logical to me....

Re: What Do YOU Think People Want From Your Site

Daz Cox — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:28:26 -0000

My blog is a showcase for my artwork and graphic design so most people pop in for a quick peek at something visually tasty, sometimes they end up being friends on Flickr etc.

I have also used my blog as an experiment in social networking especially with my local artists who may not know me yet, and it works, people now find my blog because they search for their name (and the images that google has indexed with their name) and my art and url also show up (because I have added their blog to my site or simply added their name to a list of my local artists.)

People want to increase their visibility and when you have a 'what's in it for me' factor (such as piggybacking your graphics with other people of a similar ilk) it's a win/win thing!

Re: Strip Malls for Personal Brands

Daz Cox — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:16:02 -0000

Yeah, there are tiers of quality in your personal brand when it comes to web presence. The key is to keep the little 'strip malls' (and 'billboards') as updated and current as the showcase site so that they redirect traffic, to where the brand is represented best.

Blogger may be old and less functional than a modern Wordpress site, for example, but it sure indexes the information fast on Google!

Re: My Web 2.0 Expo Keynote: until Best Buy adds people to its website our jobs are not done

Daz Cox — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:48:26 -0000

I think the deal is that the majority of the public have access to a physical store and browsing is more fun in real life than with little gifs that may or may not show the actual product.

I go into Best Buy when I either need something specific or if I have extra cash and want to browse but if I want something that my local store doesn't have I'd search Ebay first before even thinking about Bestbuy.com, why pay retail and then have to wait for it to ship?

In some ways, a slow site is a sign that the real world shopping is meeting the needs, not everything needs to be web based!!

Re: The Alternative Productivity Manifesto

Daz Cox — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:24:38 -0000

I think we'd be happier with more free time and less possessions personally...

Re: The Alternative Productivity Manifesto

Daz Cox — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:24:38 -0000

I think we'd be happier with more free time and less possessions personally...