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Betsy and her husband Kris Oct 08, 2007

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 08:10:38 -0500

Croncast - 2007-10-08.mp3
Show: #419
Length: 36:44
Size: 25.2mb
Format: mp3

Betsy and her husband Kris Oct 08, 2007

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Thanks to Dan for the generous support late last week . . .
This show is for you
I have found my next career
Home Bottling factory for breast milk
That is creepy
I should totally do this is
You can pump and dump
My house is near hear
Your 15 minute break is no problem
My sister won't stop calling
She called me in church today
They have a conversion van club
I don't have a conversion van anymore Vicky
Do you have a hand pump anymore?
You got 30 minutes at work you can do a double pump and dump
If you have to pump in a prison bathroom would you even touch the electrical outlet
Their mirrors aren't even made of glass
Shiny metal like a McMansion refrigerator
When I take out the pump is make this noise
And I start leaking right away
The reason for the pee pee
I got moobs I don't feel her pain
The noise queues her and immediate let down
Walk into a shopping mall with a boom box playing that sound
Watch the mommies
Helps me milk the goat
Flafoo now exists
Tell your story Mr. B
Flafoo.com
Say it three times fast
Flafoo flafoo flafoo
The whole idea is to make finding shit on eBay easy and quick
Making looking up stuff on eBay fun again
Kris's idea of funny with links
Following that path of keywords
I could say turkey fryer - http://flafoo.com/turkey fryer
And it works on your iPhone quickly
If you are buying anything from eBay start your shopping at flafoo.com
I need a job to support my garage saling habit
Goodwill is eBay 1942
Waiting for stuff to come through the doors
The Christians go buy pancakes and then come to Goodwill for skirts
I was about to pounce on a comforter set
I heard her reading the title letter for letter
I knew what she was doing
She was having someone look up her shit on eBay
So I start to chat it up with her
Screw the voice mails . . . send her a text
My Blackberry doesn't send text messages
Right
I didn't nerd out on her
She's the woman who got he Blackberry and said, "O it's for recipes"
Did you take her under your wing?
I tried Mr B
My niche is the toys . . . you can't take that part of Goodwill
The breast feeding plates
Have we ever talked about plates
Friendship was kind of born
Well, that is good
All the regulars are kind of gone
How is that creepy?
Have you noticed that they are not here?
Who?
I should have known then
Putting my car in the garage
Yes I had to move your junk
No more big stuff Mr. B I promise
Well, you threw a passive aggressive smack down
Garage is for cars, Betsy
It's for toys, rakes and storage
I think it is a puffy cuff thing
How is that a puffy cuff thing?
My car has 75 miles in the last three months
You drove them Betsy
Wheelchair stroller
My mom's prize Wheaties box with Michael Jordan on it
You got to keep this one straight baby
Getting stuff together for one of you mom's students
I feel like I been hit in the forehead with Night Train
Dewey, Wednesday's show is for you

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Tags: flafoo Wheaties box Blackberry Dan Goodwill

RSS consumption and metrics

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:02:57 -0600

I am a RSS stats junkie. From RSS stats you can demonstrate almost anything that you want to (like most any other statistics, but work with me people). You can highlight trends, show how another integrated marketing helped your feed at a specific time of day, try to gauge some ROI from your RSS feeds or tell what applications or bots hit your feed most often. And don't forget click-throughs. There's tons of information that can be pulled from feeds by tracking them. FYI, if you are not tracking your feeds you should be it will open your eyes to a new group of people standing right outside your door.

My buddy Rick Klau over at FeedBurner has released some great numbers and taken a conversation public, so to speak, that many podcasters and bloggers have had recently. The focus of that conversation has been just what are we measuring with these numbers? Which stems from a conversation that page views are dying as an accurate measure of success. Rick's take is that we are measuring engagement. I would agree.

"Your Content is Bigger Than Your Feed
Today's key takeaway is that feeds represent only one aspect of a publisher's overall content consumption. We're living in a world of distributed media after all: people might be reading your content directly on your site, within a widget, via resyndicated headlines on another site, or on a social networking site."

RSS has the ability to more adequately demonstrate engagement since a user actively decides to make your content part of their life. Think of it this way, what if you were able to get people to subscribe to banner ads? What would those statistics look like? You would measure click-throughs, time of day, conversion ratios, etc. Feeds are no different, though more benign. The ad just happens to be your content.

As we creep toward standardization or something closer to a norm for interpreting RSS statistics this post may kick the creep up notch to a walk.

Tags: RSS measurement FeedBurner enagagement Rick Klau FeedBurner's View of the Feed Market RSS consumption

Betsy and her husband Kris Aug 16, 2006

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 06:37:13 -0500

Croncast - 2006-08-16.mp3

Show: #263
Length: 33:33
Size: 23.0 mb
Format: mp3

Betsy and her husband Kris August 16, 2006

1) Fill out the appropriate form for you - *New* Listener or Get a Handle (current listener)
2) Verify your email address (Activates and qualifies those with a "Handle")
3) *New* listeners get activated and qualified by using their special RSS feed
4) 300th new listener and the person whose Handle they use win iPods AND
5) A drawing for 2 more iPods from everyone who entered!

As you can see by the graphic and the stuff on the site we are starting the 300 by 300th listener drive and contest today. I am in a huge hurry so I can't say more now.

Listen to that sweet new voice "Welcome to Palegroove Studios"
The long intro with email addresses in it
Kris welcomes the new people and talks more about the 300 by 300th
Betsy says that she wants "thesmithmall" as a Handle
Sometimes she goes to sites and it is taken
As of this morning 9 people
Betsy says that the Easter bunny gives out iPods
Betsy wants to change the dog's name to Mack
He needs propecia on his belly
They are confusing his gender by calling him "she"
He can't walk on stairs
Slowsky now has a mascot, Zeus
The seats are a Golden Retriever width apart
He touches the seats and it makes Betsy feel good
Betsy says the dog doesn't pee in the house . . . lie!
He pees on me
Not in fear pee but I am soooo happy pee
Let me pee on your shoes
Betsy gets attacked by Zeus
Chubby then thin chubby then thin pregnant and chubby chubby and thin
Betsy has a rip in her skin
Betsy took the dog to the vet today
My anniversary gift was a clean garage . . . all set on the side of the house and bee infested
Betsy sacrificed to the Gods for The Great American Garage Sale
It was time to clean the garage
Betsy was finally sick of it after 2 years
So Betsy says it is the hookup
Goodwill is getting picky about what it is taking
We're not gonna take that crap even if it was bought here
No hassles about the quality
Betsy charges the gate and then just drives in
"No Entrance" sign doesn't mean anything to Betsy
"Are you really gonna turn away more stuff"
This is going to be me in 40 years
These are Betsy's people
Betsy says they were like carnies and I reminded her that I told her that already
Over the big stuff on eBay and the great american garage sale messes that up
Betsy's mom told her that last year that "a pack of gypsies were working the purses last year"
Sleeping in the parking lot
Getting clocked with a Gucci by a gypsy
In their own gyspsy conversion van with Fendi's flying out the back
Kris has a revelation
Glistening from his rearview mirror
Kris realizes that he knows nothing, really
Who am I to kid?
Vets are not doctors
The best vet waiting room story ensues

Tags: The Great American Garage Sale Goodwill eBay thesmithmall gyspies

Betsy and her husband Kris Jul 03, 2006

Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:20:54 -0500

Croncast - 2006-07-03.mp3

Show: #244
Length: 44:36
Size: 30.6 mb
Format: mp3

Betsy and her husband Kris July 03, 2006

I blew it on this show . . . our guest Carla has super low volume. Why? Well, the head technician sort of didn't check her mic and it was turned around. You can still hear her but quietly.

Besty continues to mock me through the intro
Betsy intros her special friend Carla
The conversion van story to come
And the true story of the home made BMX trailer
The halloween that Betsy and Carla played cruise ship ladies
Talking the Uplander way
Bedazzled sweat suits
BCBG will be carrying them soon
Sunday night is HBO night
We break down the reason why we turned it down
Carla's just catching up
The Slowsky update
Carla can't believe that Betsy bought her
Betsy wants to wrap her arms around it's big grill
Then Kris makes a Nell Carter references
Broken piece of wood that Jared said would not need to be replaced . . . needs to replaced
Slowsky will look like roller rink inside
Betsy wants to tear out the carpet in the van and pergo it
Carla refuses to ride in Slowsky now
The conversion van story begins with BMX references
My brother raced his big wheel
Building the DIY trailer from shelving units and plywood
BMX boys stenciled on the side of it
It is now full of feral cats
Uber skanks of today bow down . . . Kris was there before you
Finding porn in the van at 12 and figuring that I couldn't get out of the van with it
Sears sold conversion van parts back in 1986
Purple plush valure seats with purple carpet
The sweet ass candy apple paint job with a tan racing stripe
Googling the BMX stats from the 1980's
Chop from King of Cars . . . Betsy thinks he's hot
Betsy really thinks he's hot. I got competition
She really doesn't want the moldy rose
Betsy makes a correction from a previous story at request of story subject
What not to wear couples
Betsy needs to be on the show
The amount of money that Betsy spends at Goodwill and stuff she could shop at Von Maur
Kris is a therapist

Tags: conversion van Carla BMX King of Cars feral cats

Betsy and her husband Kris Jun 30, 2006

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:59:21 -0500

Croncast - 2006-06-30.mp3

Show: #243
Length: 41:50
Size: 28.7 mb
Format: mp3

Betsy and her husband Kris June 30, 2006

Many of you are eagerly awaiting the announcement of the "My Vacation Sucked Too!" contest winner. You shall wait no longer! This has been a very hard decision to make!! The winner of the contest is Jeanette Holden.

Thanks to everyone who entered and sent in their vacation stories that made us laugh, cringe and generally empathize with you. These are great stories that we have been recording all week. We will release a special podcast that is nothing but these stories this weekend for your pure traveling enjoyment.

Betsy reminds us that today is the last day to apply for student loan consolidation
Stop calling me, I've taken care of it already
The hot phone call attendant
The phone lines are packed
You need to make you intent known
Credit card payments have gone through the roof
The fun about living in the states
"Dont' steal. The government hates competition."
Betsy says my political views are changing
My eyes crossed all on their own
We have spent the last 4 hours reading the entries . . . again
What Betsy was looking for in a story - Story Telling
What Kris was looking for in a story - Reality of situation
The death and maming of Slowsky
The winner is . . .

Jeanette Holden

Great story with swearing and funny jokes at just the right time
My mom is like brown brussel sprouts
Binky the pig
The low down on the rest of the stories and the podcast to ensue
The stories have been amazing
Staying at your parents house when you're 69 with your spouse
Still finding time to kick it in their breezway and breaking your hip
It's our 10 anniversary in like 1 month
Thanks for those peeps who sent emails to John Elway Dodge
We address the comment left by Philip and the email that he received from John Elway
Dodge (we assume it is real)
Jeff's response - malarkey
I bet you expalined this to Jared about a podcast
Betsy reads it and Kris gives the charged commentary
We've never spoken to Jeff . . . he is not Jared
I have talked to them, TWICE, ask Jared
They are not getting the right 411 from their own people
I'm not concerned witht he ruined vacation
They respond to our listeners with a lie and can't send us that email?
No way at this point
Slowsky update and Betsy's call for input from you
Monday, Kris will talk about the custom conversion van his dad made when

Tags: contest Jeannette Holden winner John Elway Dodge Slowsky

Betsy and her husband Kris May 29, 2006

Mon, 29 May 2006 09:53:47 -0500

Croncast - 2006-05-29.mp3

Show: #232
Length: 17:33
Size: 12mb
Format: mp3

Betsy and her husband Kris May 29, 2006

Super short show and no show notes today the show is all about Slowsky.

Also we forgot to mention during the show, but had a note to thank all of the people who have fought for this country and currently are. Thank you!

Now where's a veteran that I can hug?

The procurement of Slowsky in pictures from driveway to driveway by Kristopher Smith, novice.

This one deserves a caption. I got lost and Betsy wasn't happy about the delay in picking up Slowsky.

Tags: slowsky conversion van Comet Cafe Memorial Day Milwaukee

Betsy and her husband Kris May 24, 2006

Wed, 24 May 2006 06:40:47 -0500

Croncast - 2006-05-24.mp3

Show: #230
Length: 36:30
Size: 25.0mb
Format: mp3

Betsy and her husband Kris May 24, 2006

Short notes today.

Betsy's intro throws of passion
I was a happy camper
Is that a vintage hippie flap
Elliot finds Goodwill to be just like home
Developing relationships
Kris should quit whining about vasectomy
Why don't I just buy a car? Why don't you?
How about this one (see the eBay auction)
Betsy shall call it Slowsky . . . yes, like the commercial

Kris's smelly car
Betsy reads Bill Leffler's smelly car story, not much can top it

Kris will be speaking at the Portable Media Expo in September!
My session is: Leveraging Your Knowledge as a Successful Podcasting Consultant If you want to a meet and greet there let us know - it's in Ontario, CA east of LA

Tags: slowsky conversion van podcast production throw's of passion goodwill

Betsy and her husband Kris May 19, 2006

Fri, 19 May 2006 07:54:02 -0500

Croncast - 2006-05-19.mp3

Show: #229
Length: 33:16
Size: 22.8 mb
Format: mp3

Betsy and her husband Kris May 19, 2006

So iambic pentametered you could set your watch to it?
Betsy laughs and bops head at the intro
Throwing kiddy treats that look like dog treats
Betsy has had it with everbody "we can kiss her ass"
She is going to buy a van with curtains
Momma will get a new air freshener tomorrow
In four months I'll just buy a new $3000 van
Feeding you kid salteens in the car
Ruining our autos one garage sale at a time
"I don't care"
I do it all for you but youi won't let me throw hamburger?
My Scion xB smells like a dead dog
Betsy is going to fill it a bottle of Charlie to kill smell
Still fixed
"When you are getting tested, nobody wants what you got"
Betsy worked it today
People can't hang with Betsy, not children, husband nor friends
Betsy's got that garage sale tacet knowledge
The stuffed spooky snow man that is worth loot

Crazy plate collecting ladies love them
The "I don't speak english" garage sale tactic
Betsy doesn't need her sister kicking it with her while she pregnant, can't hang
She wants to hang with me she needs a scooter
Much more conversion van speak
Kris will be speaking at the Portable Media Expo in September!
My session is: Leveraging Your Knowledge as a Successful Podcasting Consultant If you want to a meet and greet there let us know - it's in Ontario, CA east of LA

Tags: conversion van garage sale Scion xB tacet knowledge vasectomy