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How Todd Garland Bootstrapped an Advertising Empire While Working a 9-5 Job

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I wish when sites throw up a video interview, they would provide a transcript of the conversation. Particularly with interviews, I find video to be particularly inefficient - I can't quickly scan through to find out if there is anything of value to me, I can read through a transcript much faster than watching a video, I can't search, it's particularly annoying at work where they throttle the connection and often I'm in an environment where I don't have headphones nor is it appropriate to have the speakers on. And if I do have audio on, then in conflicts with whatever music I have playing.

Whilst I'll bookmark this video and hopefully get to watch it tonight when I get home, I can't imagine I'm on the only one who feels this way about video interviews and I wonder how many visitors disengage with content when videos are used.

This is a good point. Once I have a little more ad revenue coming in, I've considered hiring someone to do transcripts. Thanks for your feedback.

check out http://www.speechpad.com/

Even a partial transcript would be better to elucidate folks with the video content/tone. I am in the same boat as tobtoh. I usually never watch videos but will read (or reject) a 15 page article quickly.

I'll send a 15 page article to the Kindle and read it on the train, there is no similar feature and even if there was I'm not sure I'd take advantage of it. I'm not a huge video fan to be truthful. I'm too ADD for it I think, I can listen to music and read at the same time, with video I find myself listening to the video and reading something else at the same time. Doesn't work so well when it's an interview though. Apparently I learn better via reading rather than listening.

You are not the only one, I actually clicked through to the comments to make this same rant. So upvote for you for saving me some typing and expressing my opinion exactly.

I wish he'd spoken a little more about the bootstrapping process other than that he's glad his wife's a deep sleeper.

How he says he did it:

* "Get your shit together" * Work hard * Keep moving forward

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