Bill Cammack

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I think I’m starting to see why people think it’s important to gain Twitter followers. They think you can use Twitter in ways that you actually can’t. I touched on this in “Shilling Away Your Social Capital”, but I think we need to think about this a little more deeply.

Stop Begging

Begging on Twitter will net you diminished returns, and quickly. First of all, if you’re begging people to come to your site, event or live stream, that means NOBODY’S THERE to begin with. That’s YOUR fault. You didn’t pub it correctly. You didn’t let people know what was happening. You didn’t inform them WHY they should show up, which is the most important thing.

If nobody showed up to your live stream, take that as a hint that nobody cares. Instead of making yourself look even worse by begging and then STILL nobody shows up, accept the situation and roll with it. Also.. Do not alienate the few people that decided to check out your show by acting like they don’t matter. If you wanted more people than you got?… Keep. It. To. YourSELF and keep broadcasting. If there are more people in the room than on your live stream, that’s the way the cookie crumbled. The show must go on. Live with it.

If you insist on begging, understand that nobody’s going to click ANYWHERE just because you asked them to. Your task is to provide them INCENTIVE in the format of text which explains what they’re going to see, hear or receive if they show up. If you can’t do that, don’t expect any viewers, AND retain whatever integrity you have left by not begging at all. Inform people about what’s happening, and if they show up, they show up. Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s a tip for the married guys and guys with relationships, girlfriends, what have you…
You really should have a pretty regular Date Night scheduled with your woman.

Bill Cammack – “Date Night”

Available Formats: Audio (.mp3)

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So I find this relatively funny.

The same site that conspired to steal ALL of our material, what? TWO months ago? by changing their ToS out from under our noses and saying “All Y’all’s Content Are Belong To Us” decided to remove a video of mine from Facebook.

This is what my Facebook home page currently looks like:

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This morning (April 28, 2009), I received this email: Read the rest of this entry »

Bill Cammack vs Brett Petersel – Tech Beef: Round 01

Available Formats: Audio (.mp3)

Track: “Recognize” (Instrumental) by DJ Premier

Lyrics (Requested by Adria) Read the rest of this entry »

Coaching

I want to talk about coaching. I’ve been watching “Made” for the last couple of weeks, my friend Hitha Prabhakar‘s been on “Made”. She was the first Indian-American ‘Made Coach’ in history… Anyway… Read the rest of this entry »

This post is a response to reader “fishingrod”‘s recent comments:

fishingrod: Hi Bill,

I guess it is easier to keep in mind why guys do what they do when this whole “wanting to get laid” thing is part of your own agenda.

Hey Fishingrod. :D

“Wanting to get laid” isn’t part of the agenda. Wanting to get laid is *THE* agenda.

Of course this isn’t true for all guys, and it’s not why ALL guys get into relationships.

My point in bringing this up over and over is that exactly what you’re saying is what keeps women from understanding what happened to them in a lot of situations. I don’t know *ANYBODY* that has ANY choice in the matter whatsoever who’s dating a chick that he doesn’t find physically attractive.

I don’t know ANYBODY that has deliberately kicked it to (introduced themselves to with the intent of beginning dating) a chick where he said “Damn… That chick is REALLY UNATTRACTIVE… I’ve GOT to meet her!”.

Granted, you have guys that don’t have any visual taste in women, so they end up dating chicks that *YOU* think are ugly, haha but that doesn’t mean that THEY aren’t attracted to her. Also, they might be attracted to her body and are letting her grill slide, because they like having sex with her. In that case, while they themselves would call their girlfriend “ugly”, they’re cool with that. Then you have the guys that got into a relationship and then their chick sat around with the remote control and the bon bons until she no longer looked the way she did when he was initially attracted to her. Now, these guys are looking for ways to avoid having sex with their ‘busted’ girlfriends.

Obviously, there are myriad permutations, however, it’s a high-percentage chance in the currently-active dating game that the basic, underlying reason that a guy is talking to a gal is because he’s physically attracted to her and wants to have some format of sex with her…. Actually, let me roll that back and just say generally that he finds something STIMULATING or AROUSING about her, which is his impetus for meeting her in the first place. Read the rest of this entry »

Speakers: Howard Greenstein (howardgreenstein.com / @howardgr)
                  & Dean Landsman (land-com.net / @DeanLand)
Title: “New Media Strategy in Challenging Times: Conquering the 3 Screen World”
Date: March 19, 2009
Conference: “Social Media Jungle: New York City” #smjnyc
Recorded By: Bill Cammack

Formats Available: iPod/g1 Video (.mp4)