Posted on August 12, 2007

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CTC Podcast #17 - Jeremy Wright from b5media.com and ensight.com


BY JAMES CLARK
Size: 15.8 MB
Length: 22:50

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Show Notes:

People have viewed b5 as a second tier blog network
We're showing how we are unique
At Gnomedex we are sharing two secret projects
Project 1 - Licensing their platform
Project 2 - Ad deals
Flagship blogs programs
Access to the entire platform
They key is ad sales and analysis
Industry perspectiveBlogging cycles
This conversation has already happened, thanks for the rehash
We've all done some stupid shit
Did you build b5 with scaling in mind?
Choosing a platform
30 million to 75 million views a month on their network
Shooting for the stars with low numbers
Doing all the work in a LAMP environment
The goal was to launch with 5 blogs with 5000 page views
Then to have 25 blogs with 100,000 page views
Launched with 13 blogs and had 100,000
b5 media was never meant to be a company
Now here we are
WordPress is what we know and we were running it
The new concerns of scalability
How do I keep this running?
Kris makes up a word "smartly"
Deciding when you need money to stop skipping along and do it right
Jeremy buys his first tie thanks to b5 money raising efforts

Other Podcasts from Gnomedex 2007:

Adam Metz - LaunchSquad.com
Hans Chung - PostReach.com
Steve Fisher - StartupSpark.com pt. 1
Steve Fisher - StartupSpark.com pt. 2
Greg Cangialosi - BlueSkyFactory.com
Doug Kaye - Gigavox.com
Chris Brogan - ChrisBrogan.com
Mark Chernesky - CNN.com
Jeremy Wright - b5media.com
Aaron Brazell - b5media.com
Stan James - Lijit.com
Josh Hallett - hyku.com
Chris Heuer - ChrisHeuer.com

TAGS: JEREMY WRIGHTLOREN FELDMANB5MEDIABATCHCASTINGBLOG NETWORK

Posted at 10:57 pm | 4 Comments | Share this podcast

4 Comments

1
Jeremy Wright - August 14 2007 @ 3:41 pm

Wow, never heard my voice that deep before ;-)


2
Kris Smith - August 14 2007 @ 4:42 pm

Just wait until I add the Barry White effects on the next release.


3
Joel - July 23 2008 @ 7:15 pm

Just a heads up that you got Jeremy's blog url wrong in your heading. It should be www.ensight.org. Enjoyed the podcast. Cheers!


4
Handbags - January 24 2010 @ 8:05 am

Glad to see that this issue has been settled amicably before it escalated any further. Kudos for doing the right thing.Certainly there are things we can ALL learn from this issue.




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