Welcome to part II of my 4-part series, How to be an IT Consultant (part I here). Topics include the low down on managing client websites, setting up e-commerce sites, etc. Bonus content includes consulting ethics, attitude, & a few stories from my experience.
I realize some of the inside info revealed here may damage my reputation more than it helps, but I’m willing to take that hit in order to give this series the authentic value I hope to deliver. enjoy!
This is a followup podcast to my previous post, Marketing Advice for Content Producers. Topics include understanding the Long Tail business model and how virtually any individual can leverage it to automate a passive revenue stream on the side of their day job, college studies, etc.
Edit 3/11/2007: Took down the previous podcast as I plan to re-release a higher quality version soon. Thanks for bearing with me as I strive to improve the quality of my podcasts. Stay tuned!
A few people have e-mailed me asking for elaboration on the Greenolution idea. To save you the time, the pitch is pasted here:
The world should have a site like traineo.com – but rather than track calories burnt as a community, it tracks money saved and co2 emissions reduced through green-technology usage.
Traineo.com has a live readout of calories burnt by all their members – if we had a similar readout for $ saved and emissions reduced it’d be an exciting spectacle for individuals the world over.
With over $10 trillion currently invested in greentech R&D, more energy-efficient products will emerge in the thousands. Greenolution.com provides a quick-list of the most proven & effective products available at any given time, and gives users a simple interface to report their product adoption.
We’ll provide simple code for widgets to be embedded on private sites\social networking profiles that show our live results of $ saved and co2 emissions reduced alongside our global goal of 1B tons reduced & that’ll be an attention-grabber. People who click the link can see a quick flash demo on how the site works and how to get involved.
If such a site were in existence, it shouldn’t have any trouble getting picked up by NPR, The Economist, NY Times, etc. That’s the pitch. I don’t have the details worked out, but if we get enough intelligent people collaborating on it, success seems likely.
British billionaire entrepreneur, Richard Branson, put a $25 million reward on the table for a solution that will remove a billion tons of co2 per year from the Earth’s atmosphere.
Seems like a perfect opportunity to roll out my greenolution.com idea for tracking green-technology usage through a community-driven site with realtime tracking of money saved and co2 prevented alongside global goals for emissions reductions.
If only I had the web-programming knowledge necessary to design this database\user-interface for massive public adoption. Seems like such an connecting site would have the potential to drop 1B tons co2/yr easy.
update: if you’ve got the ability to roll this site out and are looking for a domain to do it on I’ll contribute greenolution.com – let’s just get this site rolled out. drop me a line if you want to collaborate.
Eight years ago I made a video called Godzilla Cat. Some people may consider it my crowning achievement of high school. The quality of the video is poor since I left it in my trunk through heat and snow for 3 years straight, but you can still make out what’s going on. I uploaded Godzilla Cat to Google Video about a year ago and forgot about it. As I randomly check on it today, I see it’s been viewed 4,405 times and downloaded 32 times. I didn’t promote it at all – so how did people end up finding it?
If you Google for “godzilla cat” it’s one of the top results, so maybe people are randomly typing that in and finding the video. The comments\feedback are great, and the video’s been rated with 4.5 of 5 stars by the random people who’ve come across it. In that spirit, I’m reposting the video here to give it a little spotlight. The story was never completed, so it’s best to pretend Godzilla Cat killed the last surviving camera man. I give you, Godzilla Cat.
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