Mahalo Daily distribution: 400k views in 15 shows
Wow… Mahalo Daily is off to an AMAZING start. We’ve done 15 shows and well over 400k views already (Blip.Tv stats below which don’t include syndication to Facebook and YouTube). The shows in the archive keep growing, and the new shows are getting better and better. We’re about to hit 1,000 members of the Facebook group as well! Not to shabby.
We set the goal of getting to 100k views per day and we’re 15-20% of the way there already. That’s amazing.
We’ve started talking to some partners who can help us with that goal.
Who do you think the top players are who could deliver 100k viewers a day instantly?
- YouTube/Google
- AOL
- Yahoo
- MSN
- MySpace
- CBS
- ABC
- NBC
Seems like the startups can help you grow, but can any of these deliver serious traffic (defined as over 10,000 views a day over a sustained period)?!?
- Rev3
- PodShow
- PodTech
- Blip.TV
- Vimeo
Interested in hearing who you think we left off this list.
3G iPhone… frack!
Do I get a $200-300 discount to upgrade my old iPhone when Apple releases the new 3G iPhone?!?!
Trying to make the best travel search results… feedback?
Travel is one of our strongest categories on Mahalo. We really crush machine search and portal approaches with our pages, and folks tell me all the time that they come to Mahalo when they are planning a trip.
Now that we’ve done:
CITYNAME Hotels
CITYNAME Tours
CITYNAME Vacation
For the major cities, we’re experimenting with two more types of pages:
CHEAP HOTELS CITYNAME
and
the actual names of major hotels with pricing details.
What do you guys think of these pages:
- Bellagio Hotel and Caesars Palace
- Las Vegas Hotels
- Cheap Hotels New York, Cheap Las Vegas Hotels and Cheap Flights New York
You might think it takes a long time to put something like the table below together, but it’s about an hour of work. If 10,000 folks a year do this research already putting a human on the task for one hour makes sense. It really demonstrates how to get the best price, and it’s a starting point for folks to share their travel tips with other folks (i.e. we figure out how who has the best price and what discounts work best and that inspires other folks to share their tips with us, and we can add those tips to the page).
- Thoughts?
- How would you make these pages better?
- Would you use a page like this?
- Would you send your mom, brother, kid, etc. (non-tech savvy person) to these pages?
- How do you find the best travel deals?
MahaloToDo tag
Remember, if we don’t have a tag you want please blog/twitter/delicious with @MahaloToDo in your
post/tweet and we will get on it for you. We’ve done a bunch of these for folks and it really is no big deal since we’re plowing through 1,000+ pages a week. Of course, don’t ask for something uber-obscure because that’s what machine search is best for (i.e. long tail results). Human powered search works best for one, two, and then three word searches (i.e. Paris, Paris Hotels, etc. are all something we will have or get to, but not “paris hotel deals in the 8th district that allow dogs”).
Oh yeah… follow the Twitter account we setup at http://www.twitter.com/mahalotodo/
YouTube Republican Debate tonight…
We’re covering the republican youtube debate at Mahalo tonight at 8PM EST/5pm PST… check this page often!
http://www.mahalo.com/Republican_YouTube_Debate_Live_Coverage
Los Angeles Dog Training
If you need a really great dog or puppy trainer in Los Angeles I highly recommend Caryl… she’s the best!
Fast facts..
I’m loving the “fast facts” that the Mahalo Daily team is putting at the bottom of our videos…. very cool.
Would make a nice ad unit as well. 
