DISQUS

I usually just rent a priest costume and head to a confessional. This could save me some time and money.

Do I get anything out of being on this VIP list?

Free drinks with Alex Albrecht? A private table at the next Mashable Event with Jackie Peters and Nicole Jordan? A Scottish Fishing Trip or Pub Crawl with Pete Cashmore? A gift bag from Felicia Day ? A toaster from Sean Percival? A Mahalo mention from Jason Calacanis? Or a Foot Massage from Shira Lazar?

Thanks for sharing these. I would have never found them.

I can't keep up with all the new stuff going on with Facebook and the iPhone. Who knows how bad it's going to get when we are able to cut and paste.

I really think this is how the Genie is going back in the bottle when it comes to paying for content.

Looks like this will be a fun time for all!

I think relevant is the word you are looking for. Not rude. Not clever.

No the big question is, what if Kat bought you a digital download as a joke? Say, a digital version of "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert ?" Would you be getting some rude offers now?

On another note, has anyone found your footer that says, "This site runs on WordPress with a Thesis theme framework pimped out by Chris Pearson." to be rude? "Pimped" may be used on MTV and in certain social circles but it is not a professional word to be use in business settings.

It's always fun to be able to have a conversation with a real person at a company and hear and see what they are doing. I think that's what made Robert @scobleizer Scoble so popular when he was at MicroSoft.

It's always fun to be able to have a conversation with a real person at a company and hear and see what they are doing. I think that's what made Robert @scobleizer Scoble so popular when he was at MicroSoft.

Do you ever get tired of having great posts?

I'm always amazed how you live online. I'll be up late on the West Coast and you are still conversing away.

You are a Social Media Maven, Connector and Salesman. You sir are the tipping point. ;)

Ah, which came first? The chicken or the egg?

I've been contacted by several of these types of agencies for French Maid TV but I have yet to see one of them with enough brands to make it work.

This could be like opening up my fridge to see if there's anything I want to eat.

I really like the idea that everyone is going HD but I that means that we now have a longer workflow.

More time for transfers. More time for encodes. More time for uploads. More time for downloads.

I look forward to when we can get HD processing times lower that what SD is at now.

Hey Rufus,

I still think social media is valuable. I make money from doing it but I'm not yet making a really good living or making millions.

I started a blog last year about the monetization of online video. I didn't make any money at it at first but now a year later I get paid to speak, I get paid to consult and there are video projects that come my way because I blog about viral videos. I also happen to produce a video series that gets millions of views so that doesn't hurt either.

I'm not saying social media is bad, I'm just saying I'd like to see some research and see where people are making real money using social media.

NBC Chief Executive Jeff Zucker's commented sticks in my head: "Our challenge with all these [new-media] ventures is to effectively monetize them so that we do not end up trading analog dollars for digital pennies." (New York Times, March 10, 2008)

Hey Chris,

Interesting points but I'm wondering do you have any research to back this up or is this just your point of view from inside the bubble?

I go to social media events all the time and we all drink the Kool-aid and love what we all do but outside of our group there are people who make money and have been making money for years selling products that have labels that don't appeal to the social media crowd. These are labels that have been tested and sell to the masses making millions and millions of dollars a year.

We all live two to ten years in to the future. When is someone from social media going to make millions and millions per year?

There are doctors and lawyers at parties I go to that don't read blogs, don't watch online videos and have never heard of social media or Twitter. I'm not saying they are right or they are wrong or that we are right or that we are wrong. (I love Twitter but I can't get into Pownce. I want to get into Friendfeed but just haven't made the time.)

I'm just saying that there is a lot of preaching to the choir inside our bubble and there are people inside our bubble who have drank the kool-aid and believe the gospel of social media but they have yet to make any money from living in the future.

I see that we social-medians often look down on companies that "just don't get it" but those companies are making and continue to make hundreds of millions of dollars. We all preach that those companies are doomed or dead but yet they continue to function they continue to employ they continue to manufacture products that sell and they don't have blogs or even have twitter accounts and they certainly don't have a comment section on their printed marketing materials.

Has anyone in social media made over 100 million dollars in one year?

Has anyone in social media made over 1 million dollars profit, not gross but profit in one year?

Do we in social media really get it? Or are we just happy with ourselves, our new found popularity and are we just proud of our self proclaimed untested, un-monetized labels?

If we have a product with a label that bloggers think is crappy but that people still want and that people still buy do we really need to touch any conversation in social media?

Are we, the ones in social media, the ones who really "just don't get it?"

It's hard to sell advertising to companies that are cutting back on their advertising and companies like Rev3 and 60 Frames can't rely on that next round of funding to come through right now so you better cut back if you want to survive.

I do think we are going to see more web video advertising but it may not be the traditional advertising that you are use to seeing.

Advertisers are going to take TV advertising dollars and experiment with creating their own online videos that won't cost them big TV money to distribute but if you do have a moving train with millions of views you do have value.

Think about how you can provide real value to an advertiser or sponsor and don't be afraid to try back end deals where you get paid for performance.

Keep in mind though that it's the Wild West. Be smart. Don't get cheated and don't get scalped.

You forgot the one that if they write an article or post about "How to Know if You Should Fire Your Social Media Consultant." ;)

Like it or not companies are eventually going to have to take that bet and we are going to have better products and better service because of it.

It's already happened. We don't have to buy Music Albums of crappy songs we don't want just in order to get the one great song we want and have to have.

Back in the old days in any small town if the butcher cheated someone everyone in town knew about it.

Now because of social media we all just moved to small towns and the butchers better look out because if they do us wrong everyone in our social media groups will know about it.

Thanks for the Toilet Video. I'll be using it.

Felicia,

Could you contact me directly? I'd like to chat more about what happened with the preroll and blog about it if possible.

Thanks

Hey @feliciaday, How did you score the sponsor?

Did you blog about that and I just didn't look deep enough in your blog?

I want to know so I can blog about it.

This is also true in the online video space. If you want to have your video featured on the front page of MySpace you are going to need to pony up some E&O.

I hope they put the Fab Four on the floor together and then maybe give away a few songs.

I guess they won't be sponsoring a French Maid TV episode anytime soon.

Why would I want to join another one?

I'm burned out on these things.

You are on to something there but also think about the flip side of it. Imagine if you were one of the featured videos and you had a viral campaign planned for today? Ouch!