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Integrating Streaming Media into Marketing Programs. An Interview with Ronni Rhodes.
Streaming Media - audio, video, and multimedia clips played over the Internet - seems to be everywhere lately. Few of us, however, know how to effectively use it on our small business sites. I recently spoke with Ronni Rhodes of WBC Imaging,...
Real Audio and Real Video, streaming media for your web site
Anybody interested in creating RealAudio and RealVideo content on their sites will find it's a great deal easier than they might have initially imagined. The instructions given below are for RealAudio on a Windows 95/98 computer, but the process...
How to Capture Streaming Audio
Streaming audio is all over the web these days. There are live radio broadcasts, video and audio streams, and many music vendors use streaming audio as samples of their products. You can listen to the song, but unless you buy it, it can’t be stored...
STELLAR STREAMING VIDEO CAN DRIVE SALES
Al Galbraith and Associates, a real estate marketer who turns dying industry towns into thriving recreational and retirement communities, commissioned a promotional video as an added feature for his company's website. The video has been down...
Who Else Wants To Explode Their Sales With Streaming Audio?
Audio is not new to the Internet. Several marketers have been using it for years and have successfully proven that audio does increase sales. I have read that audio can increase your sales by as much as 300% and some report up to 426% increase in...
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StreamItLive.com Finds Streaming Solution in LiveCamNetwork 1.9
(INDIANA) May 16, 2004 -- Live adult video chat site www.Streamitlive.com has ended a period of significant instability by signing with LiveCamNetwork 1.9 software creator 2Much Internet Services Inc.
Founded in 2002 by web veteran Brent Daugherty, Streamitlive has had its endless run of problems. “We went through so many solutions that we lost hundreds of performers and studios over time.”
A large part of the problem was the inflexibility of software available on the market. “A lot of software out there has some good things and some bad things. I don’t want to bash on anyone else’s software so I will leave it at that.” Daugherty, 36 and an experienced net entrepreneur, said.
“A lot of live webcam software on the market these days started out for the site that now sells it and is tailored to what the site owner wanted and doesn’t take recommendations from users. We’ve had over 400 performers in the last year and half and a lot have come and gone due to software issues. We have changed software now at least 5 times.”
Daugherty points out that the problems weren’t entirely due to the software. Like any human-resources dependent industry, live video chat sites need reliable chat hostesses.
“They sign up and never work. This is the problem I had the past seven months. I hired a lot of girls I found 99% to be pretty lazy. Work fifteen minutes a week, then whining that they can’t make money.”
Daugherty was able to weather Streamitlive’s stormy course thanks to the companies he’s established over the years. “I started out in 1997 as an adult webmaster tired of buying content, so I decided to launch my own content site.”
Daugherty felt the need to expand when “more and more content creators started popping up out of nowhere. We
launched adult hosting, design, and video production companies.” Daugherty’s company created and hosted websites as well as providing pre-made webscripts. “One day,” Daugherty said, “back in 2000 we created an adult content brokerage system, instead of listing all content by hand. This really took off. It is now used by top producers such as David Lace, Tom Mayes, CertifiedContent, ContentJunky, YoungFreshContent, as well as others.”
Mark Prince, founder and CEO of 2Much.net, said, “I kept my eye on Brent and Streamitlive partly because he was part of the competition, but also because he’s good. His additions and format approaches on Streamitlive were very inventive. I’m glad he turned to us. He’ll be able to let his creative side loose, since our system takes care of most of the details. I can’t wait to see what he’s going to do with LiveCamNetwork 1.9.”
Streamitlive.com already plans to combine LiveCamNetwork’s system with video content produced in their studios with their performers. Daugherty, who runs the business with wife Tara, said, “We’ll stream non-nude video through the free chat channel, and nude and hardcore video through pay chat.” He’s also planning to offer live pay-per-view shows with top adult models for a set price, “but this will be in the future sometime.”
Presently, the Daughertys are recruiting performers to chat from Streamitlive’s studios and look forward to starting over from a stable platform. “Now things will settle down, we will rebuild our performer base and studio base and start looking towards tons of traffic and marketing.”
About the Author
Greg Jones writes press releases and creates video content for the LiveCamNetwork by day. By night will write screenplays and play harmonica in local blues bands.
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