Comments on: The one I’ve been waiting for

By: Chui

Chui — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 00:03:07 +0000

Incidentally checkout http:/www.peeweebit.com which I found through an Australian marketeer’s website. It has a genuine feel to the video.

By: Ken McCarthy

Ken McCarthy — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:44:50 +0000

Answers…
- Chui: Thanks for a very good idea.
- Valerie: I don’t know the answer.
- Domain names with TV in them: My one word answer Yes!
And don’t neglect tv.com. As in SportsTV.com, BusinessTV.com etc.
You’ll find most of the very best ones are already gone – and that I some of them, though not as many as I would have liked
If you have an idea for a video web site and the TV.com name is available, I’d grab it and hold onto it. For $7-8 a year, you can afford to hold onto a good name for a long, long time, but if someone else gets it, you’ll be out of luck.
As for the .tv extension, I have not bought any of those.
Keep in mind, people have a strong habit of typing .com.
Also the .tv extensions are controlled by a little island country in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. And they can jack the annual fees up to whatever they want, whenever they want without limit as it appears they have already started doing by auctioning the generics.

By: J

Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:13:21 +0000

An article from 2000.
Does anyone else feel a strong pull to buy some .tv domains? hehe
” PASADENA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug. 21, 2000–dotTV (www.tv), the exclusive worldwide source for web addresses ending in .tv, today announced that free.tv, china.tv and net.tv have each sold for initial annual registration fees of $100,000.
With an estimated net present value of future registration fees of $2 million, the sales of free.tv, china.tv and net.tv represent 3 of the top 10 domain sales in domain history. dotTV has a hybrid pricing model where most .tv addresses are available on a first come first served basis for an initial annual registration fee of $50, while generic “dictionary” names, such as business.tv and news.tv, are available by auction.
As the Internet continues to evolve into a more visually engaging and dynamic medium, the .tv domain is rapidly emerging as the “must-have” web address. dotTV offers the only top-level domain that truly symbolizes convergence, rich media, streaming video and other broadband content. According to GreatDomains.com, the leading appraiser and marketplace for domain names, dotTV has already achieved an overall value rating second only to .com — a clear indicator of how rapidly the .tv domain is growing in demand and recognition.
“This was really a small sum of money to pay for a company name and address that will only become more valuable — it fit with our vision perfectly,” said Ric Johnson, President of Free.tv. “The technology to combine television viewing with the Internet is here today, and dotTV is the at the forefront of this convergence. The ability to find a short, meaningful .tv domain name means that companies have a brand that is instantly recognizable around the world.”
“dotTV’s addresses are rapidly being embraced by companies and individuals around the world,” said Lou Kerner, CEO of dotTV. “A .tv web address is the perfect online identity that symbolizes the movement towards rich media on the Internet.”
dotTV announced the availability of .tv Internet addresses earlier this year, uniting “TV,” the world’s most recognized two letter symbol, with the World Wide Web to empower companies, organizations and individuals to create the global Internet destinations and brands of tomorrow. Leading companies from around the globe that have adopted the .tv domain name include Sega of America, Columbia TriStar International Television, Billabong, Zee TV, TVB Online, Carsey-Werner Company and over 150 leading broadcasters from around the globe, including PAX TV, TV Norge, Granada Sky, British Telecom, Globo and affiliates of all of the major U.S. broadcasting networks. Inquiries can be made at the company’s web site, http://www.tv.”
System seminar is going to be awesome!

By: Valerie Riggs

Valerie Riggs — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:03:56 +0000

Ken,
I am a Smart Beginner who has just finished lesson 2 from your great home study program. I am learning so much, and having a lot of fun. This website on wedding favors is so eye-opening. Thank you so much for leading me in the right direction. One question: The sound from my computer doesn’t sync with the presenter’s lips exactly. Is this fixable?
Valerie Riggs
Del Mar, CA

By: Chui

Chui — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 06:56:02 +0000

Ken,
A template approach can reduce production to mere formula, so that professional results can be obtained if you don’t want to vary the offering. Brightcove just bought a company that’s been doing that for online news. Why not a similar one for online shopping?

By: Virginia Van Vynckt

Virginia Van Vynckt — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:13:27 +0000

Superb! And it’s cross-browser and cross-platform, unlike the Halloween costumes video. Not to mention much better done.
It’s true that the video won’t play well on everyone’s machine. (It’s almost unwatchable on my old Powerbook.) But it pays to be out front. I hang out a lot in forums with people who buy and sell domains, and not too long ago someone wanted to know what weddingdress.tv was worth. All the responders thought it was worthless because it had a .tv extension and the main part of the domain “didn’t relate” to the .tv extension. Talk about clueless…
The field is still wide open, but I bet it won’t be for long.

By: Gary Dumke

Gary Dumke — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 14:11:12 +0000

Hi Ken – WOW–you actually respond to posts! Man–I wish I had a nickel for eveytime I have posted a comment on peoples blog and NOT get a reply. But I should have known – you get it–always have – always will. Thats why I follow you. Thanks again for the info on video-and I hope you get your “stuff” on video done soon–but I also know you got your seminar coming up shortly – all I can say is that when its done – I’ll be standing in line–and I agree on another point–lots of p*ss poor advice out there for BIG bucks! Again–thanks for all the good stuff you share – (although Brads is very cool–I still cast my vote for French Maid TV!)
Thanks so much again from a fellow booneyite
Gary D
Sullivan Ohio

By: Ken McCarthy

Ken McCarthy — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 16:49:20 +0000

Hi all,
Some answers to questions…
1. Cost
Brad told me, but let me clear it with him first about publishing it here.
I can tell you this. The video production itself only cost only 5% of what it cost the company that did the Halloween costume production channel.
2. Bandwidth
Maybe there will be a major breakthrough in transmitting video through low bandwidth accounts. I hope so, but what we know for sure is that the number of consumers with high bandwidth continue to grow.
From a marketers point of view, the market of high bandwidth people is big enough to make it more than worthwhile to create content exclusively for people with big pipes.
3. Courses I recommend?
Nothing right now.
Everything I’ve seen so far charges a lot for a little. And there is a lot of p*ss poor advice being dispensed.
Internet video boils down to three things:
a. Strategy – which you can get by watching and thinking
b. Learning to produce video – which you can learn at a local community college (or hook up with someone who can)
c. Learning to compress and upload video – ditto
From a strategic point of view, you can learn more from looking at Brad’s site than you can from all the courses I’ve seen put together. None of them come close to what he’s done in terms of marketing smarts.
I live in the boonies myself (though we do get cable from Time-Warner). It was hard finding anyone local who is up on the Internet side of the technology, but I ran ads on Craigslist.org and found someone.
Your ideal advisor on the tech side is someone who lives and breaths the stuff and does it for fun.
But unless you look, you won’t find.
4. “How to” info from me
I’m working on it. It’s an epic task to put it all together in a form people can rapidly absorb.

By: Marlene Green

Marlene Green — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 14:54:21 +0000

Wow Ken!
Thanks for sharing this! It is brilliant! I actually sat here and watched the whole thing and went to the website to buy; even though I am not planning a wedding. I fell in love with the colors and the simple navigation. Absolutely brilliant!
Great application of web video. The possibilities are overwhelming!

By: David

David — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 14:53:00 +0000

This is awesome. I particularly like the way the product information pops up on the right as each item is being discussed… So let’s see… we’ve got scripting, we’ve got audio/visual production, we’ve got digitizing, we’ve got some fairly sophisticated flash programming… so roughly how much would it cost to get something like this off the ground?