If you’re using YouTube to market your website and your YouTube videos are going down the… Tube, maybe you’re trying too hard.  Maybe, just maybe, creating a viral video may not be as tough as you think it is.

Viral Marketing: In 5 Seconds Flat

Take a look at the video below.  It has over 9.4 million views.  And the most WhackedOut part?  It’s only 5 seconds long!  Now the person who uploaded the video really should have added their website at the bottom of the video to drive some traffic to their website.

The BIG “oops!” with this video?

They also should have added a link to their site next to the video in the area that YouTube provides to add some details about the video.  They missed out on some HUGE website traffic.  A viral video like this could have brought countless thousands, maybe tens of thousands of people to a site.

Just five seconds.  How many videos could you create in one day that are just 5 seconds long?  Get creative.  Think outside of the Tube.  Think about something that would make people laugh, say “wow!”, and something that they would share with each and every person they know.

Just five seconds…

Just when we get this blog all squared away and all of the WordPress plugins activated and tweaked, we find that Wordpress 2.6 has just been released.

Well, it’s safe to say that I will not be upgrading to WordPress 2.6 just yet.  I’m not 100% sure that all of the plugins we installed support 2.6.  Hopefully they will, but I’m not about to test it and make sure.

What’s more interesting is that WordPress 2.7 may launch in October.  These guys are going 1,000 miles an hour and hopefully we’ll all be able to keep up - more importantly the WordPress Theme and plugin designers that is.

If you are a blogger and use WordPress, below is a video that explains some of the changes and updates that WordPress 2.6 now offers:

Some of the new 2.6 features that I’m looking forward to seeing when I make the move to upgrade are:

1. Word Count Feature

This is a “nice to have”.  I’ve always wondered how many words some of my blog posts are.

2. Gallery update

I was just playing around with this today in WordPress 2.5.  It’ll be nice to easily move around images in a photo gallery.

3. Post Revisions

If you run a blog that has multiple authors, this is an excellent feature to keep tabs on what others are doing and the changes that have been made.  Also, from an Affiliate standpoint, I can see this being useful as well to see what offers you previously promoted on the same blog post over time.

4. WordPress Gears - Turbo Blog

I’m VERY excited about this one.  You’ll be able to upload you blog files to your computer so that the pages, files, and images can upload super fast when you’re working on your blog.  For me, I have a fiber internet connection that is VERY fast, but still, this will make everything run even faster.

All in all, I’m happy to see WordPress 2.6 released.  But I’m going to sit on the sidelines for a week or two to make sure that the plugins I have installed will all be compatible.  Then, in October when WordPress 2.7 is released, we can do it all over again.

It’s finally here.

The WhackedOut Marketing blog has officially opened its doors.  Although this is not really the first blog post in the world, it’s the first blog post on the WhackedOut Marketing Blog.

And caught on tape?  Well, it just sounded good.

Yes, there are still a few things to do here and there, such as finishing up a few pages, but overall it’s finally completed.

Now, being that this blog will cover a variety of topics including gardening, painting, surfing, and bananas, I need to figure out some ways to get some traffic over here.

I’ve got a few things planned.  Don’t you worry.

Things are about to get really crazy around here… I just have that funny feeling…

By the way, get a WhackedOut Marketing t-shirt and be one of the first, if not the first to have your photo and website seen by soon to be trillions of people.  I just ordered my shirt today - join the cool club with me.