meettheboss.tv
Would love to get your feedback on a site I am working on at the moment. We just launched today so expect it to have a few bugs that need ironed out still.
Thoughts on branding/UI/Site content etc very much appreicated - either positive or negative. Will take them onboard/review and implement.
(Note: smart phone goodness a couple of weeks away)
As johnrob stated, the name might be an issue–you don't want your brand to pigeon-hole you or give people the wrong impression.
I have no idea what your monetization strategy is, but I would look into a paid section of the site. Offer the 2-10 min videos for free but have a "premium" area where you have collections of 20-60 min videos available for paid members.
You could also organize premium videos into groups and offer some sort of "program" to entire organizations. Business training programs are big business–especially in areas like management, customer service, conflict resolution, compliance, etc. You could use something like Moodle (http://moodle.org/) to offer videos, content, testing, and tracking.
Yes, I know it's expensive to create such content but if I were you, I'd go looking for a partner–someone who has created these programs in analog/DVD formats. Offer to repurpose their content for the web and share revenue.
Anyway, that's my $.02 ... might be beyond what you had in mind.
I think this is a bit ambiguous and sounds kind of marketingy. What does that it exactly? I think something along the lines of " learn how to be a better boss" or "how to climb the corporate ladder" or something along those lines would be better.
I like the design though. It seems very clean.
You should either make the product as simple as the name (i.e. simplify the site's navigation and content so that it only includes boss videos), or change the name/message to imply more than boss videos.
Would love to get your feedback on a site I am working on at the moment. We just launched today so expect it to have a few bugs that need ironed out still.
Thoughts on branding/UI/Site content etc very much appreicated - either positive or negative. Will take them onboard/review and implement.
(Note: smart phone goodness a couple of weeks away)
Well, that and the small size of the interviews. I would like to see the interviews be a little longer. Perhaps you're planning on splitting a longer interview into smaller chunks, in which case, it might be nice to let us know what is coming down the line. If there are longer videos available to registered users (which it looks like there might be), it wasn't very clear how much longer they were or what other topics they covered. Perhaps you could post two times. One for unregistered (2:30) and one for members (45:00). Then you could have a breakdown of the topics, and show which chunk the unregistered viewers get to see.
Also, while watching a video my scrolling position would frequently change. If I was scrolled all the way to the top, it would scroll down (presumably to make the ad visible?). This was distracting. If you need to have the ad visible, you might consider relocating it next to the main video player.
I'd like to see more though... good luck!
It seems we need more of a call to action at the end of the video to pre-empt registration to watch the whole video. The idea of showing the difference between unregistered/members video lenghth/breakdown of topics is great and one I would like to implement. Cheers