invited him on Mixergy to talk about some of the game-changing ideas Oodle took on, like giving users analytics, partnering up with companies like Facebook and making classifieds social. This is the latest post from Mixergy Craig: So we’re really tipping and starting to achieve critical mass. Early in his career, Craig Donato worked for Excite, a pioneering search engine. When I asked him, "Why do you think Excite didn’t beat Yahoo?"

We've heard past Mixergy entrepreneurs mention that they actively cultivate their niches' celebrities to grow their reputations and their sites' memberships. few tips from this program By the way, I get a lot of my Mixergy interviews that way. Every niche has its celebrities, people who aren't well-known to the rest of the world but are heros to a passionate few. We've Wil told us how he got top investors to be members of goBIGnetwork . 

What I want to know is, what about the audience that you have, the fan base that’s now retwitting out that you're here on Mixergy, the fan base that watches you when you use Quick or some new technology to do video online. You said earlier that what you do is, you'd say, “Andrew, what's the deal with Mixergy?” don’t look at myself as like the expert of it What I admire about Shira Lazar is that she's too much of a go-getter to wait for the perfect TV gig to come to her. I've watched her build her reputation and fan-base using new media tools like Qik, Wordpress and Twitter.