I think so…check out the video below and feel free to comment with thoughts.

Etsy…”Your place to buy and sell all things homemade.” It’s a site that showcases items that are handmade by anyone who wants to sell their products. Here are 3 reasons why it’s worth checking out.

1. Everything is homemade! It’s a perfect place for an artist to showcase their creations and a perfect place for art lovers to buy authentic products.

2. Variety. Anything you can possibly think of, someone is making and selling it on Etsy.

3. Jayna Grassel showcases her crochet line on Etsy!

Social media is the way to go these days if you want to reach a larger target market for less money, and who doesn’t want that?  Web features such as “Rate this product” and “Comment on this product” tell people a lot more about a product than a companies own biased ads, and people seem to like the honesty a lot.  This video explains it all. Enjoy!

Social media & Ice Cream

My last post was about the new service that YouTube has just added, VEVO, which fixes the various problems of music and video quality, and copyright infringement. Well, honestly, none of that stuff even matters due to the fact that there is a website that allows for much easier music listening than anything YouTube could do. This website is called GrooveShark.

GrooveShark combines the best elements of two different websites, Pandora and Playlist.com, with a very easy to use and attractive interface. You can search for songs by title, artist, or album, and then drag and drop the songs into a playlist. You can then move the songs around and delete or add new titles. In addition, almost every song streamed in very high quality, and there is also a feature called GrooveShark radio which recommends new songs based on your tastes, similar to Pandora.

I have almost stopped using YouTube entirely for listening to music in favor of this much better website. I would encourage everyone to give this website a try and you will probably find that it is much easier to use than any other site you have previously used to listen to music.

http://listen.grooveshark.com/

Just how popular is YouTube? The answer…more popular than our feeble minds can fathom.

The user base is broad in the age range of 18-55, evenly divided between males and females, and spanning all geographies. Fifty-one percent of our users go to YouTube weekly or more often.

YouTube offers something for everyone. People are watching hundreds of millions of videos a day on YouTube and uploading hundreds of thousands of videos daily. In fact, every minute, 20 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube. Wait let me repeat that… 20 hours of video is uploaded every minute!! Enough said.

So how popular are you? Because you, me, and the person next to you, we are the people who are featured in the 20 hours of video posted every minute.