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Re: My Thoughts On Bedy Ferry Service And Intra-Regional Travel

Corey Graham 2.0 — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 20:29:39 -0000

Actually not sure, haven't heard anything in some time!
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Re: My Thoughts On Bedy Ferry Service And Intra-Regional Travel

Chris — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 16:58:50 -0000

He Corey, what is the latest news on BEDY?? Thanks in advance! Cheers Chris

Re: Podcast : Digicel Blackberry Doctors – Corey Wood & Michael Rock Serve Up Some Medicine For Your Blackberry

Rommell Weekes — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:09:41 -0000

Hey sir! I want to know if you can help me track my blackberry that I lost in st Vincent last week! Police is taking too long and I need it back because it is my main source of business contact

Re: Why It is Critical To Manage Your Mental Bandwidth

Corey Graham 2.0 — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 07:35:34 -0000

Glad it was able to help. I really appreciate the comment as my aim is to ensure that my blog provides real value to it's subscribers.

Re: Why It is Critical To Manage Your Mental Bandwidth

Chris Hillier — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 23:51:03 -0000

Explains why I'm crawling at a snails pace. I need a reboot! And to get rid of all those project fillng up my desktop. Great analogy. Thanks, Corey.

Re: Why It is Critical To Manage Your Mental Bandwidth

Corey Graham 2.0 — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:21:00 -0000

Thanks man appreciated been thinking about it for a while, and putting it into practice. Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Digicel

Re: Why It is Critical To Manage Your Mental Bandwidth

Kyle Skeete — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:56:35 -0000

Great post! Love the point about waiting to see if people are serious and committed

Re: Sharing My Lessons On Entrepreneurship On My Birthday

Cyndy — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:32:14 -0000

Great post!

Re: Sharing My Lessons On Entrepreneurship On My Birthday

Corey Graham 2.0 — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:50:39 -0000

Thanks Peter, it is going to be a long journey to get there lots of new challenges to overcome.

I plan to stick with it.

Re: Sharing My Lessons On Entrepreneurship On My Birthday

Peter Boos — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:38:25 -0000

Happy birthday Corey and thanks for your help for the Barbados Entrepreneurship Foundation and its 2020 Vision.It is you and others like you who can shape the 2020 hub idea.This is the way to real wealth creation and a sustainable Country.

Peter Boos

Re: My First Featured Speech – Taking Hold Of Your Future With An Entrepreneur’s Mindset

sungoddess — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:23:24 -0000

Awesome!!

Re: LIAT As A Catalyst To Build A Caribbean Community

Mary Bean — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 02:53:03 -0000

I am looking forward for your next update here. They sure were very well-thought of.
Business Catalyst

Re: Podcast : Interview With Lorette Lyttle At Caribbean Internet Marketing Summit

Preztige11 — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:55:53 -0000

Hi, the podcast doesn't play. Are you able to reload ? Thanks

Re: Podcast : Interview With Lorette Lyttle At Caribbean Internet Marketing Summit

NABH — Mon, 23 May 2011 01:25:01 -0000

I really appreciate your post and you explain each and every point very well.Thanks for sharing this information.And I’ll love to read your next post too.
Regards:
NABH

Re: Barbados To Become The #1 Entrepreneurial Hub In The World By 2020

NABH — Fri, 20 May 2011 01:07:44 -0000

I really appreciate your post and you explain each and every point very well.Thanks for sharing this information.And I’ll love to read your next post too.
Regards:
NABH

Re: Bedy Oceanline Ferry – A Brand New Option To Travel The Caribbean

Kyddgaston — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:11:41 -0000

where is the connection from st.Lucia to t&t

Re: Is This The Deal To Kill The TV Industry As We Know It?

David Mullings — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:47:01 -0000

You make some interesting statements and ask some great questions. Here are my thoughts:

(1) "YouTube/Google has been able to create that model which allows them to easily monetise content all over the world. All the other players haven't done so."

Yes BUT content outside of the major markets is BARELY making any money via the YouTube/Google monetization options due to lack of uptake by local advertisers in those geographic areas. I make this statement based on my experience as a YouTube partner with a number of channels under our control.

(2) As for "extending the league's audience into new markets around the world?"

That is not true at all. The EPL, NBA and most professional sports leagues can be seen in almost every country in the world thanks to the popularity of the sports.

Cable companies all over the world carry ESPN, Sky Sports or Fox Soccer Channel in some shape or form so the audience is already quite massive for these leagues.

Yes, there are people currently not watching who would watch if the games moved online. However, there are others who would NOT watch online if it was no longer available on TV and more importantly, the online audience most likely would pay less or expect it for free.

An audience is only as valuable as the money they generate and cable subscribers are more valuable than ad-supported subscribers (otherwise EPL games would be carried by free-to-air channels, not cable channels).

(3) Can Youtube/Google tell content producers like espn3.com. We can make this marginal content more successful for you?

I would say no. A YouTube/ESPN3 partnership is highly unlikely since they compete but Google certainly could try to make the case that outside of the US Google can help make some money for ESPN online.

2 problems immediately come to mind though:
- Espn3 is free and primarily serves as an extra reason for cable customers to make sure they have Espn in their subscription plan. It was never created to make money from advertising, that is bonus, it is supposed to drive uptake of ESPN in homes. Google cannot help with that revenue model.

- Espn does not have worldwide rights to much of the content it shows. For ESPN to purchase the global rights, they would have to be quite confident that the returns from Google's advertising would be more than enough to reap a profit. I don't think Google can guarantee that level of profits to get global rights to any major sporting event.

(4) The deals that will be most practical for YouTube/Google will be ones that generate profits for content owners whose content is being shown in less developed markets.

If I can't make enough money from making my videos available in certain markets online to make a profit then I won't bother. I will seek out other distribution options.

At the end of the day I believe that regular tv will be alive and well in the developing world (most of the countries in the world) for a long time due to the monetization issue.

It will also be the norm in the USA as long as people require another device in the living room and the profits are too meagre.

There is a reason why in order to watch ESPN on my Xbox I have to have ESPN with my cable company and can't simply stream it for free. Will they introduce a paid subscription option on Xbox? I hope so but the cable companies would be VERY angry and that is who ESPN makes their money from.

It only gets worse now that Comcast owns NBC who happens to have the rights to certain sports content.

Re: Is This The Deal To Kill The TV Industry As We Know It?

David Mullings — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:42:36 -0000

Yes...and many content providers in the US don't consider our markets large enough when they look at population and per capita income too.

That is why we get lumped into Latin America.

Re: Is This The Deal To Kill The TV Industry As We Know It?

Andrew Jemmott — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 21:36:39 -0000

Needed? They have all the encouragement they need "Survival" look at the past year dear say the last few month most of the big monopoly companies BL&P, Cable & Wireless (LIME), Warrens Motors. They have come to reap the benefits of what they sowed and ultimate demise because there was no competition they did't think it relavant/profitable to increase efficiency and progress or upgrade their business assets and because of globalisation they could not sustain business and were bought out.

If we do not invest in robotics, computerized automation and energy efficient energy systems it will be more of the same companies will demise based on global competition (with the advent of internet and mobile techs).

When you say A you must say B look at the companies that are staying relavant Williams Group, Digicel or even the Simpson Group. They expanded first laterally (businesses with similarities) and not look at their vertical investments; robotics, oil, energy efficiency and cheap air travel (RED JET). One does not have to wonder why they are surviving, They have built a strong base, they are not complacent and they are strategic and invest/upgrade in the right things at the right time and not always looking for short term profits but sacrificing a little so you can survive to fight another day

Re: Is This The Deal To Kill The TV Industry As We Know It?

Corey Graham 2.0 — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:39:57 -0000

Andrew what do you think is needed to encourage the caribbean to move into the new world faster, and embrace the technologies.

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Re: Is This The Deal To Kill The TV Industry As We Know It?

Andrew Jemmott — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 16:03:45 -0000

I will say one thing we have to remember TV is TV and in is current form not interactive. Internet Media is interactive and that is where the technology is headed, viewers have controls and manipulate the content to produce their own creative versions, "TV" can not do that at present.

Therefore an "episode" can be a mash up of chat logs, documents, files, add-ons, photographs; a mash-up of different media to giving a very dynamic combination of indeterminate length and methods of expression. The way we use this in R & D units, monetised systems and dissemination is still a pioneering process so "TV" still has a little time.

We must however, learn and understand the principles of the past to make progress in our futures and the caribbean is still not up to scratch yet on the "Broadcast Model" but I think we are getting there.

I close by saying, we had better get up to scratch soon though because with the advent of mobile technology and faster and faster data networks a mobile device is no longer that, it is a "PERSON" and the same way we ignored globalisation if we choose to ignore this fact and not put our headed together and start producing for such platforms we will be a like the tree in the forrest that falls with no one around!

Re: Is This The Deal To Kill The TV Industry As We Know It?

Corey Graham 2.0 — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 15:57:38 -0000

Yeah the reason for the restrictions is because there is no way for the content providers to make money from their content. If they could make $ from the caribbean they would show it. Caribbean Advertisers are slow to move online with pay per click tools like google adwords etc.

Re: Is This The Deal To Kill The TV Industry As We Know It?

Kyle — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 15:48:35 -0000

Those geographical restrictions are easily the most frustrating thing about watching content online.

Re: Is This The Deal To Kill The TV Industry As We Know It?

Corey Graham 2.0 — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 15:13:21 -0000

David, I am appreciating the time you are taking to update me and the readers about the TV industry in general.

I am actually going to try to send this out to my TV / audio visual contacts so they can benefit from the discussion.

As we are discussing the future of TV, something to introduce into the discussion would be the changing technology in the living room.
There is a product invented by a Bajan which allows you to interact with internet video in almost the same way you would a regular TV broadcast. http://www.net2vu.com

The question is, with an evolving tv experience, and the easy to create new channels by streaming them via the internet. Will the local advertisers outside of the US be more willing to explore google's advertising solutions?

Re: Is This The Deal To Kill The TV Industry As We Know It?

David Mullings — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:54:45 -0000