Instagram Tips From Top Beverage Brands
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. On the face of it, they don’t seem to have much in common: Instagram and the beverage industry. One is a hot social…
via Brian Solis
I’m often asked about YouTube stats and believe it or not, they’re sometimes difficult to validate. For example, many of you have heard that YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world. Many take the stat for face value. And, while it’s true, it’s always a challenge to validate it year after year.
On May 25th, YouTube celebrated its sixth birthday. Hard to imagine that something so young feels so old…meaning that it’s part of our digital lifestyle now. To commemorate the occassion, YouTube released a series of stats that are as impressive as they are useful.
Why am I sharing this now? So that every time I’m asked about YouTube stats, I can now share this link.
Other interesting stats include:
- 13 million: Number of hours of video that were uploaded in 2010
- 60 days > 60 years: More video is uploaded in two months than the three major U.S. networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) combined created in six decades
- 30 percent: Amount of overall traffic coming from the U.S. YouTube is localized in 25 countries and 43 languages
- 700 billion: Number of playbacks in 2010
- 10,000: Number of partners, hundreds of which make six figures a year
- 7,000+: Number of hours of full-length movies and shows
- 2 billion: Number of global video views per week being monetized
- 10%: Amount of videos available in HD
- 4 million: Number of people connected and auto-sharing to at least one social network
- 100 million: Number of daily mobile views
11/4/11 Every single badge I’ve ever created lives on this crazy 6mb illustrator file. It’s called badges-sketchpad.ai and I build upon it like a painter layers paint on their palette.
Resemblance to a map is a coincidence.
Apple Anyone?
BEST LINKS FOR OCTOBER 2010
http://tweetmeme.com/story/2520532065/rss-topic-explained, 22k rts
http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/06/facebook-now-allows-you-to-download-your-information/, 1280 rts
http://mashable.com/2010/10/06/logitech-revue/. 880 rts
http://tweetmeme.com/story/2617654147/groups-feature-is-the-new-facebook-op-ed, 1.2k rts
http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/blog/five-secrets-to-business-success, 1740 rts
http://www.copyblogger.com/creativity-killers/, 1570 rts
http://tweetmeme.com/story/2618324008/verizon-to-launch-4g-network-in-38-cities-by-years-end, 800 rts
http://mashable.com/2010/10/06/new-facebook-live/, 1780 rts
http://tweetmeme.com/story/2613849403/this-mornings-top-stories-in-tech-mobile-and-social-media, 960 rts
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TRULY SUCCESSFUL LEADERSHIP
Nick Vujicic
HOW LEADERS LEAD
Characteristics of the best leaders. Perhaps this is what success entails.
Michael Hilldale, CATEGORY PARTNER, PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
“…willing to push the bar in any contract negotiations for the best interest of the company.” - Carol Hague, Director, Global Marketing Campaigns, Symantec
“Refreshing in his “can do” attitude and highly responsive.” -
Jeremy Adamson, Sr. Director, Finance - Global Consumer Controller, Symantec, 2009
”..made the process efficient and was laser focused on what was best for the business…”
- Wendy Yale, Producer, Multimedia Marketing Communications, VERITAS, 2009
Brian O’Neil, President, SALES EMPOWERMENT GROUP, LLC
“…genuine, charismatic, and a giver.” -
Amir Syed, President, American Street Mortgage Company, 2009
“…has the right balance of persistence, tenacity and relationship development skills.” -
Gary Booth, Chief Operating Officer at Solomon Edwards, SolomonEdwardsGroup, 2009
“…a “Stand Up” individual who is honest, motivated, and full of knowledge” -
Nick Houghton, Owner, Your Custom Image, 2010
Brian Schulman, Senior Account Executive at Anametrix, Inc.
“…very impressed with his follow-through, responsiveness and attention to detail.”
Michelle Heffner, client, 2008
“…a strong positive attitude and a contagious enthusiasm” -
Bob G, Sr. Account Manager, Omniture (WebSideStory), 2009
“…appreciated his professionalism and thoroughness…..” -
David Kleinbart, Development Director, KCRW, 2009
Ben Taylor, Director / Partner at RedQuadrant
“…is articulate, persuasive and personable” -
Roger Wicks, Price Waterhouse Coopers, 2007
“…ensured that the project was credible, intelligent and well received” -
Yvonne Parish, client, 2008
“…worked well with a wide range of people to get the best ideas to inform the initiative” - Rob Froud, President, Society of Chief Librarians, 2009
Muhammad Siddique, B2B Linkedin Strategist at StomperNet
“…professional and intelligent in personal charactor and achievements. he can give his best helps to friends” -
Bruce Yang, consultant or contractor to Muhammad at TRCB.com, 2009
“He is a man of action. I am amazed by his business sense and negotiations skills” -
Santanu Poit, Sr. Technical Recruiter, Enclipse, 2009
“…considerablly outstanding personality to work with. His wits and convincing power is unbeaten.” -
Amardeep Raval Director, RaalMet Solutions, 2009
This will be followed by a study and article on Key Characteristics of Successful Leaders. Please let me know if you are interested in being a part of the study. Also, while not absolute, for now, participation will be limited to 25-50 people. This may become a series, depending how things go. Any suggestions or other characteristics you’d like to highlight?
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Here is a good slide deck from the webinar ““5 Steps To Creating A Lead Gen Machine & The Predictable Revenue That CEOs Love” - I like Brian Carroll and Aaron Ross and they both have lots of good ideas on Inside Sales and Lead Generation (low cost customer acquisition):
http://buildasalesmachine.com/2010/05/5-steps-lead-gen-machine-predictable-revenue-ceos-love/
Aaron Ross built a lead generation team at Salesforce.com that helped add $100 million in recurring revenues and he is now CEO of PebbleStorm and the author of “PREDICTABLE REVENUE: Lessons Learned From Growing Salesforce.com’s $1 Billion Sales Machine”.
Some of the useful items from this webinar:
- How to build a lead generation machine
- How to ensure sales follows up on every lead
- The two things CEOs care MOST about that you must understand
- A simple 6-step call agenda to help salespeople convert new leads into qualified opportunities
