--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Lan Bui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Whit is the true value of getting 100,000 views in a day? Is it so you can > get sponsors to > be interested in your show? > If you do what Rupert and Bill say about getting featured then sure you will > get those > views but what true value does it add to Mahalo Daily? > Was and is your goal just to make money with Mahalo Daily?
The goal of Mahalo Daily is to entertain, inform, and sometimes even help folks. We look at it as a stand-alone property that will also, on a secondary basis, sometimes inspire folks to use Mahalo for what it's good for (searching, research, how to articles, etc). So, at the bottom of each Mahalo Daily blog post we post a bunch of related links. Today we have a couple of articles including "How to use Dopplr" and "how to book a cheap flight" linked under the blog post. So, after watching today's show (which is very funny fyi... good job team!) a certain percentage (5-10%) of the audience might want to go deeper into the topic area.... a certain percentage of those might become regular Mahalo users (say 10% of 10%, or 1%). In terms of sponsorship we would consider a sponsor if they were in sync with the audience and Mahalo brand, but we don't need to have a sponsor because if we can get to 100k views a day the traffic from the searches would pay for the show (ahhhh... cue the sinister Calacanis/Darth Vader music). Yes, page views/search traffic at 50,000 a day range would pay for enough of the show to break even. > Beyond what Jan said, which also would get you viewers, I know that building > a community > of genuinely interested people would be the best way go get valuable viewers. > The better > the community, the more interactive, the more viewers you will see come. Sage advice... we've got the core audience already thanks to Veronica's past work and a core audience of 70-125k folks coming to Mahalo.com every day. So, I guess the advice of "slow growth" is the best we've seen here. best j
