A Few months back I posted some thoughts about Adam Steen’s post on encouraging business owners to get working on an elevator pitch. (Also check out his main blog site if you’re not a regular reader.)
My suggestion was to record yourself pitching your idea on video. A virtual elevator pitch.
Apparently I wasn’t the only one thinking along these lines. It seems a new video sharing community has popped up in the last month funded by Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel, and former Chairman of MySpace, Richard Rosenblat, among others.
The new video community, Vator.tv, (as in elevator pitch) is designed to give business owners, entrepreneurs, investors, and others a place to pitch ideas using video, and to learn about other businesses, pitches and ideas… all the while networking with other like-minded, forward-thinking people.
Sounds to me like a great idea!! The business community has been waiting for a “YouTube for business” and I feel like this idea has incredible potential!! If nothing else, this new community gives business owners another tool to reach a more business-specific audience than some of the other well-known video communities.
Again, that’s Vator.tv. Check it out!
[If anyone doesn’t know, we’re working on putting together several packages to help entrepreneurs use video to promote their businesses. We’ll be offering consulting, video production, editing, hosting, and assistance with posting to various video communities. Stay tuned or give us a shout for more details!]
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Coming up on Monday, July 16, Google is launching a promo for the upcoming third Bourne movie, Bourne Ultimatum. Dubbed The Ultimate Search for Bourne with Google, this new promo idea from Universal Pictures and Google will simultaneously help raise awareness of the movie as well as drive viewers to Google’s products: search, maps, images, translation, gadgets, and YouTube.
What a creative way to jointly promote the products of two very different companies!!
What ways could your business partner with another to creatively promote both your businesses?
Technorati Tags: google, bourne, jason bourne, bourne ultimatum, universal pictures, google search, google maps, google images, google translation, google gadgets, youtube
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In the not-to-distant future, our main storage devices on our computers will be solid-state (a.k.a. memory chips). You’re probably already familiar with the technology… it’s already used in those little doohickeys often referred to as “flash drives” or “jump drives.”
Soon you’re going to start seeing high-capacity solid-state “drives” showing up in laptops. Unlike standard magnetic-platter-based drives that must spin at thousands of revolutions per minute, they are just silicon chips. Less prone to failure. They are able to survive accidental dropping. They make no noise whatsoever (which is good because it can be annoying in some machines where the drives are starting to get very noisy) and the BIG BONUS: they use far less energy than current hard drives, which will greatly extend your laptop’s precious battery life, and keep you on the go longer before having to ‘refuel.’
Keep an eye out! This is pretty cool stuff!!
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Looks like Bill Gates has one last trick up his sleeve before taking his final leave from Microsoft some time in the next year. The new computing device, dubbed “Surface” attempts to use touch and gesture to enable people to interact with the computer much like people interact with regular objects.
This looks very interesting, and we will definitely be seeing more of this in the near future. Apple’s forthcoming iPhone also uses gestures and touch to facilitate interaction. I, for one, would love to throw the mouse in the trash and interact with computers in a more “real” way.
Stay tuned!!
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