http://www.bradfallon.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:33:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en According to a Pew Research Center survey on Mashable [1], 65% of Americans have already paid for digital content.  I think this bodes well for uQast [2], where our purpose is to the creators of valuable digital content with the people who want it. Have you seen uQast yet? See why people are calling it the Next Big Thing [3]. [1] http://mashable.com/2010/12/30/pew-study-65-percent-paid-digital-content/ [2] http://welcome.uqast.com [3] http://welcome.uQast.com http://www.bradfallon.com/2010/12/discuss-good-news-for-uqast-65-of-internet-users-have-already-paid-for-digital-content.html So last year, around the time I was starting the daily Free Line Report in Chinese [1], we made a country music video for my partner in SEO Research [2], Marty Falle. The video cost under $2k to make - it was $1,800 I think, all in. And I didn't think much about it at the time. But a year or so later, it's gotten 1.2 million views on YouTube - and granted, that's not Justin Bieberish yet (250 million views is hard to match), but it seems like a lot to me. And now, Marty's video was just featured on CMT's Your Chance to Dance [3]. Whether you like country music or not, that's cool. And The Hootchie Cootchie Gal from the Buckeye State [4] IS kinda catchy... By the way, you can watch it in HD - it was shot on the same Sony EX-1 that we used to film Kerberos [5]. And speaking of Kerberos, the comic book prequel is scheduled for release next month. That's cool, too. [1] http://www.freelinereport.com/082908/ [2] http://www.seoresearch.com [3] http://www.cmt.com/videos/your-chance-to-dance-109/1648500/full-episode.jhtml [4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWXhtDa94kQ [5] http://www.kerberosbites.com http://www.bradfallon.com/2010/09/discuss-the-justin-bieber-of-country-music-marty-falle.html Great example of data analysis from Gizmodo [1]. [1] http://gizmodo.com/5609444/iphones-users-have-twice-as-much-sex-as-android-users-plus-which-camera-makes-you-sexiest?utm_source=Gizmodo+Newsletter&utm_campaign=e531a61e1a-UA-142218-3&utm_medium=email http://www.bradfallon.com/2010/08/discuss-whoda-thunk-iphone-users-have-twice-as-much-sex-as-android-users.html [1] [1] http://www.bradfallon.com/img/uqast_csoon.jpg http://www.bradfallon.com/2010/06/discuss-uqast-you-heard-it-here-first.html Some people are still asking why Apple doesn't let Flash, e.g., Flash encoded videos, play on iPhones or even the new iPhone. Here's why [1]. (If you're a business owner, and there was an important issue related to your business, don't you wish you could just put out a letter, and have, like, a billion people just read it?) [1] http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ http://www.bradfallon.com/2010/05/discuss-flash-video-in-iphones-and-ipads.html Tomorrow, I'm speaking at Mike Citron's event in Tampa with Jay Conrad Levinson, should be fun! http://www.bradfallon.com/2010/04/discuss-coolest-credit-repair-service-in-tampa.html I've been hanging out in Manhattan Beach with Jordan Belfort, the guy whose life story was the basis of Boiler Room, starring Ben Affleck.  These days, Jordan speaks around the world, helping emerging entrepreneurs understand the mental game of building wealth without the drugs and chicanery that made his past life the subject of best sellers [1] and if all goes well, a 2011 movie starring Leoardo DiCaprio. Not surprisingly, it turns out you can learn a thing or two from a guy who made $50 million a year in his mid-twenties. Coming soon:  More from the man whose sales presentation formulas are still studied and used to this day. [1] http://www.amazon.com/Wolf-Wall-Street-Jordan-Belfort/dp/0553384775/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265331101&sr=8-3 http://www.bradfallon.com/2010/02/discuss-the-man-behind-boiler-room-jordan-belfort-is-the-wolf-of-wall-street.html 7th day at Joel Bauer's speaker seminar in L.A. There is a good chance that Joel Bauer is, in fact, the coolest speaker on the planet. At least the hardest working - 10 hours a day for 7 days . . . just Joel. Very cool. http://www.bradfallon.com/2010/01/discuss-coolest-speaker-on-the-planet.html Hi guys. We're on the eve of the Big 9/9/09 Launch and I've put my brain through the ringer this week. I have starved it of sleep and beaten it up with brainstorm after brainstorm. So forgive me if I'm in the mood to have some fun. But I wanted to let my loyal blog readers behind the scenes a little bit.  So tonight I'm going to get a little ...how to put this...revealing? I'm about to give you guys a sneak peek into what is going to happen tomorrow at 9/9/09. Everyone else in the world has to wait (exactly) 12 more hours but you guys are going to hear about it. Right now. Right here. So let's make this interesting.  Karl Klaus once said “A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.” I AM going to tell you the answer to the question - "What is going to happen on 9/9/09?" But I'm going to make a riddle out of the answer.  Here we go: Tomorrow StomperNet will offer something amazing... ...that you usually carry in a box. ...that has wheels. ...that you often bring to a rumble. ...that carries a suitcase. ...that makes a whistling sound. ...and that you never, ever, ever want to leave. So - what do YOU think it is? Tick tock, Brad http://www.bradfallon.com/2009/09/discuss-9909-wrapped-in-an-enigma.html What a summer!! Iceland, Australia, Live 8......and now StomperNet999.  Tomorrow, September 9th 2009 at precisely 9:09 am (EDT) it is no secret StomperNet will have something BIG to announce.  For the past 3 weeks my staff and I have been meeting every morning at 8:00am, preparing for what we believe is unlike ANYTHING the Internet Marketing Community has ever seen. Stay tuned to my blog:  The countdown begins at 9:09 pm (EDT) tonight!! StomperNet999.com [1] Talk Soon Brad [1] http://www.stompernet999.com http://www.bradfallon.com/2009/09/discuss-stompernet-prepares-for-090909-think-big-really-big.html