About Social Media Today
In 2005 I began blogging about my experiences producing a reality television show called MotorSport Ranch. The title of the blog was ‘How to create, produce and air your reality television idea‘ where I decided to ‘open source’ the making of the show. I revealed all of our mistakes, failures, screw-up and even provided detailed buget numbers (fyi - this got me in a little trouble with some of our vendors). Eventually we finished the pilot episode and sold it to INHD (an HD only cable network now called MOJO). I learned quite a bit about television production as well as blogging. Ultimately I decided that I was much more excited about the opportunities that the new ‘wave’ of social media would bring. Ironically (ironic because I had lost interest in television production), because of the blog, we found a buyer for the first full season of MotorSport Ranch. This summer the 13 episode series aired on Dish Network’s RushHD channel.
Due to the blog, hundreds of people around the world emailed and called me about the show. I made a few friends and found a few investment opportunities that I would have never uncovered on my own. Based on this experience I decided to stop blogging about the show and focus my efforts on entrepreneurship starting this blog (The Texas Startup Blog). Since I began blogging about startups more than 500,000 people around the world have read one or more of my 1,300+ posts. Each month more than 25,000 people visit one or more of my posts about startups, entrepreneurship and our companies.
Through my blog I have met hundreds of people around the global. Whether I am attending a conference in San Francisco or Banglore, India I meet people who ‘know’ me through my blog. I have been able to time-shift my life (i.e. tell stories, explain ideas and make suggestions) to thousands of people at the same time. I couldn’t possibily reach the number of people I have through the blog via traditional means (conferences, email, phone, fax). Presidential candidates (or their staff members) have contacted me about my ideas about immigration after reading about them on my blog. It has been an amazing experience. Over the next few weeks I am going to be working with a few ‘experts’ to help me refocus my efforts on the blogging front. If you haven’t explored blogging I highly recommend giving it a try…
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