Saturday, March 28, 2009

Are "Car for Sale" videos effective for local area car dealers?

From time to time, I check out local content being added to YouTube to gauge the quality of videos being produced, to see which businesses and organizations are jumping on the online video bandwagon, and to monitor what interests web visitors about our area.

After choosing a search for the local area, I sort results by "Date Added" to see the most recent additions and number of views the videos are receiving.

Today there are no less than 13 pages of results by local car dealers filled with videos of individual cars for sale. What's really crazy is that some of these videos go back several weeks and even months, yet most have 0 views.

In my opinion, local "car for sale" videos aren't working and are a major waste of time and money to produce and publish.

Web videos work for many things, and it's really easy to gauge what people are watching by seeing the number of views.

However, after a period of time, when there are 0 views, it should be a major hint that there's little to no interest in what's being published.

:) sunshine

Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Lame, Lame I am at Blogging

How are others able to blog so often?

Is it because they have a specific purpose, something they're trying to promote with their blog, or are they that dedicated to sharing a part of themselves with others?

I've tried, with no success, to write in my blogs on a regular basis.

But tons of websites to manage and update, there just hasn't been time or enough motivation to make the time for me to update blogs.

The first morning back home, as I went to turn off my alarm clock at my daily standard of 6:05 a.m., there was something different on the dresser by the clock...

Maybe I should make some sites blogs, because I do differentiate between the two. Now THAT does seem to work for some of my friends and colleagues.

:) sunshine

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Free coffee from a husband with a great sense of humor

I've been married for over five years now, and I have to admit, my husband doesn't usually surprise me like he did several years ago.

Not only that, I don't often catch myself laughing at his jokes like I did when we were dating.

That's really sad, I know! But recently he DID surprise me and DID make me laugh pretty hard, too!

Recently, my sister, niece and I visited the historic district of Charleston. In deciding which hotel to stay at, we were going over what amenities were included where, what was free where, etc., etc.

The first morning back home, as I went to turn off my alarm clock at my daily standard of 6:05 a.m., there was something different on the dresser by the clock...

My husband had put a sign by the clock, offering me "Free Coffee", and placed a hot, fresh brewed cup of coffee right there by the button I needed to push to turn the alarm off.

What a great way to wake up, and what a great way to make me laugh and put me in a great mood -- Thanks for surprising me, and for making me laugh, honey! I really needed that :)

:D sunshine

Sunday, September 7, 2008

A direct hit by Tropical Storm Hanna?

I don't know if being in the area at the center of circulation where a tropical storm makes landfall is called a direct hit, or if that terminology is used just for hurricanes.

Whatever the lingo, we live where Hanna's center made landfall, and it wasn't scary like a hurricane -- it was actually a little exciting.

Though the winds weren't hurricane strength, we still had the all-too-familiar "day after" the storm, just like a half dozen other times in the past few years when hurricanes have brushed our area, and we spend the following day cleaning up the yard, picking up fallen branches and raking up pine cones, twigs, and debris.

We had a downed tree, a tall (around 40-50 feet high) older birch, with this storm as well, which spit one of our pear trees top branches. This tree, whose trunk was on the land behind ours, fortunately had no structures near where it spit and fell.

:D sunshine

Friday, May 16, 2008

Working hard in a yard so I can relax in it later

Working in front of a computer and video editing system most waking hours most days of the week, every now and again I really enjoy taking time to get outside and do what I consider hard labor in my yard.

Today was one such day, and I started bright and early, before 7am this morning.

First task was to make a nice little landing at the bottom step off our back deck using the cement pavers I made from a mold the day before, mixed with some colored cobblestones.

Pleased with how that turned out, I moved on to the area beneath our back water spigot, and designed a little rock, cement paver, and cobblestone thingy there to minimize both mud and weed growth right by the hose.

Realizing I used just about all the new pavers I poured the day before, I then did the really hard (arm-muscle-wise) task of mixing up another batch of cement and dye. This time, thankfully, my husband helped a little bit. I then poured the mix in the mold, really liking this new way of making paths, keeping a check on muddy areas, and retarding spots of weed growth.

The point of all of this work, for me, besides the exercise, is to sit and relax in the yard and take pride in how nice it looks and functions.

Which I do, sipping on sweet tea, on one of the shaded benches under one of our fruit trees in the back yard.

:D sunshine

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Cutting a 2nd Trip Short

For only the second time in my life, I changed flights and flew home two days early. The first time was nearly 20 years earlier when my mother died.

This was also the first time since I married that I traveled without my husband.

This eight-day trip consisted of stays in Vegas, San Jose, and LA.

I was in LA (Hollywood, actually) on the fifth day of this eight-day trip, and was to spend another three days in LA at a business conference. Having been to two previous versions of the same conference, my main goal was seeing a couple of very close friends and doing some networking with colleagues.

While at the Renaissance, I spent some time with friends, ate two meals with colleagues, had a few close friends visit me in my suite, then abruptly decided to just pack it up and head home early.

Sometimes traveling isn't that fun, and I certainly didn't enjoy traveling as much without my husband by my side.

Next up: Another business trip to Vegas, then one to Atlantic City, followed by NAB in Vegas in April. That's all the farther in the future I want to think about travels right now.

Well, except for the cruise in December with family. THAT, I'm really looking forward to!

:D sunshine

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