TubeMogul – Your Personal Branding Video Ad Distribution Network!

This morning, TubeMogul.com launched their Video Distribution and Advertising Network.
They’ve been working on it for months. I can’t wait to see how it affects Personal Branding Videos.

From a personal branding point of view, this might be a major Tipping Point for targeting your niche audience. Personal Branding is all about Authority and Authenticity. It’s about being you, being good at what you do, and being willing to believe in yourself.

With those combination of attitudes and a clear message, it’s much easier to be considered an Authority and Subject Matter Expert.

I think the TubeMogul.com relaunch is going to be an excellent tool in one’s Personal Branding Toolbox. If the distribution network lives up to its targeting potential, it will give us the opportunity to target our video branding messages to larger audiences, at a fraction of the traditional video marketing and advertising mediums.

So, if you are marketing yourself through Personal Branding, in specific professional niches, it’s possible to penetrate deeper into those niches as well as spread you message to other niches with limited increased costs.

What are your thoughts?
Do you see personal branding moving to video and video distribution that is highly targeted?
Let me and your fellow readers know your thoughts.

30 special days with a special 5 year old…

I have to say, sometimes I’m just a really lucky guy.Ella

Imagine having the opportunity to spend 30 days, alone with your 5 year old daughter on a Tropical Island. We get to do what ever we want (as long as she gets to school… she gets fed, she behaves (or I do… I forget which), and are somewhat responsible.

I know it sounds a little strange, but that’s what I’m up to.

I’m on the island of Phuket, Thailand with Ella Delaney Duarte. I’m even learning to braid hair!

We’re both really lucky to have the opportunity to teach each other… and by the way, Thanks Jen!

This is what Jimmy Buffet had to say in his song “Delaney Talks to Statues”. We named Ella after this song, but you think she must have understood the words, as she started growing up like the song was really written about her.

Delaney talks to statues
As she dances ’round the pool
She chases cats through Roman ruins
And stomps on big toadstools
She speaks a language all her own
That I cannot discover
But she knows I love her so
When I tuck her ‘neath the covers

Chorus:
Father, daughter
Down by the water
Shells sink, dreams float
Life’s good on our boat

Delaney draws me pictures
She finger paints the sand
We chase the dogs and hop like frogs
Then I do my bad handstands
She’s growin’ up too fast for me
And askin’ lots of questions
Some I know the answers to
And some I’m lookin’ for suggestions

Chorus:
Father, daughter
Born by the water
Surf’s up, sun’s down
Life in a beach town

And some of the things I’ve seen
Maybe she won’t have to see
But there’s a lot I want to pass along
That was handed down to me

Delaney talks to statues
As she dances ’round the pool
She chases cats through Roman ruins
And stomps on big toadstools
She speaks a language all her own
Just a little like her mother
And she knows I love her so
When I tuck her ‘neath the covers

We’ll send more pictures and videos.