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Last weekend I went to the first annual VloggerFair – a festival to celebrate everything to do with vlogging. If you’re not really sure what vlogging is, it’s basically the video version of writing a blog post. Typically vloggers are known as the people who go out and document their lives (often on a daily [...]

I love doing song parodies on my YouTube channel. My most viewed video is a song parody – Father Lover (NSFW) with over a million views, and ever since then they’ve been mainly what I’ve focused on for my channel. My latest one was Gay Man’s World, where I turned Cher’s song about powerful women [...]

Last year I was the closing keynote speaker at the TGC conference in Victoria, BC.  It’s an annual event put on by Canada’s LGBT Tourism Industry Association.  One of the people in attendance was the owner of FunMaps, a company that’s been creating paper maps of gay friendly travel destinations for many years.  They were [...]

2012 was a great year for me in a lot of ways, but especially with managing to achieve one of my goals of being a public speaker.  Who knew that this goofy comedian would actually be someone that people in the business community wanted to listen to?  I managed to book myself more than a [...]

Advertising a product through videos on YouTube is one of the most effective forms of marketing to reach potential customers, to share knowledge, and connect with users. Here are some ways to use YouTube as an effective marketing tool: 1. Create a YouTube channel. Having a YouTube channel exclusively dedicated to your videos can help [...]

The Music video has long been an art form that also serves as an effective marketing tool. Even today, music videos are still a dominant medium that musicians use to deliver their content to music fans throughout the world. But the vehicle for how the music video has typically been delivered has undergone a change. [...]

This Monday was Project for Awesome (or P4A for short), the time every year (since 2007) when YouTube content creators come together to promote a charity or cause and try to get the rest of the community on the website involved in raising money and making a difference. Last year I focused my video on [...]

This year I’ve had the opportunity to speak to a number of groups in Vancouver, BC about YouTube marketing. They’ve all been based around how entrepreneurs, small business owners & marketers can better use YouTube (the second largest search engine) to get their companies / brands / clients exposure and turn viewers into customers. This [...]

If you’re like me, you have an iPhone… and love it. You probably also watch YouTube videos on it.  Well, today Apple released their new operating system (update) iOS 6, and one of the changes that comes along with it is the removal of their native YouTube app.  The relationship between Google and Apple has [...]

This year I’ve been doing a lot of talks at different organizations in Vancouver, BC about using YouTube as a marketing tool.  It seems that the small business community here is really becoming aware of what an incredible resource YouTube can be for companies to get exposure online and turn that exposure into clients and [...]