P. Dilly’s

From the guys at Podcamp San Antonio, another day for the Pickle Man

Here is the second video in the series from Podcamp San Antonio

We bought the Pickleman Mascot for Podcast Pickle with the idea in mind of having him travel to events, without me having to be there. I am happy to say that the folks at Podcamp San Antonio have done just that.

They had us send them the Pickleman outfit, and have filmed a series of promos for Podcamp San Antionio using the Pickleman. I will post the videos as the are sent to me. Last year this was a great event, and I am sure it will be even better this year.

For more info on Podcamp San Antonio http://podcampsanantonio.org

Here is video number 1

I had some great news today. As you may, or may not know I run a sporting goods company. Most of my business is from a softball division called SoftballJunk.com. I talked in a previous post how I started a podcast, and how I was bringing in new business to the company with this podcast.

Now I am going to cover the Olympic Softball Team, when they play the National Pro Fastpitch Leagues All Star Team In Oklahoma City. You may not really care much about fastpitch softball, but I love it. For me this is really great. I am really excited to go see the game, much less get to cover it as a reporter for my podcast.

I sent off for my press passes for the Big 12 Championships today, and The College World Series. I will let you know what kind of results I have with those.

Oh, My Podcast Is The Fastpitch Softball Show

A few months ago I decided to start a video podcasts for one of my websites. The website was SoftballJunk.com, and the video podcast is Fastpitch TV. The idea behind Fastpitch TV is that I demonstrate different softball products, and training aids. Then I also help the viewer by telling them they can find the items at my websites.

To my surprise, after a few weeks I had a customer say, hey your the guy on the videos. Then in the next few weeks more people told me they saw the videos, and how much they enjoyed them. Then last week two guys approached me in the store. They told me they lived in California, and were on layover for a few hours at the airport. They enjoyed my videos so they decided to come to my store in Texas while they were on layover, and buy some softball equipment. Guess what they spent almost $400.00 between the two of them.

Hows that for making money from a video podcast. People from California come to my store in Texas and buy merchandise. All from a simple video I uploaded on the net. To me that is just way too cool. That is what I call monetizing my podcast.

My oldest daughter Lauren will graduate from college next month. She attends The University Of Oklahoma. I have told her how proud I am of her, but I am not sure she really understands what I mean.

About 20 years ago I did my family tree. I made it back as far as 1592 with the oldest of my kin arriving in America with the Puritans. The first record of a Leland coming to America that I found was in the mid 1700s.

In my personal lineage of Leland Ancestors from the 1700s until now daughter Lauren will be the first Leland to graduate from college. Sure I have had relatives that graduated from college, like grandmother. She graduated from college, but she was not a Leland. My wife has her masters, but she is only a Leland by marriage. Yes Lauren will be the first one in my dierect family line to graduate from college. Wow, that is really weird and hard to believe, But I am so proud of her.

Next year my younger daughter will be the second Leland to graduate from college. She will graduate from Texas A & M university. I have almost fulfilled one of my Life Goals, of having my kids graduate from college. I can tell you this, it is a great feeling, but anytime your children succeed at anything it make you feel great, doesn’t it?

I had a pleasant surprise last week. When I opened my email, I had a message saying PodcastIsland.com was available. I guess I had requested to be notified if it ever became available. I don’t remember setting up the notification, but I am glad I did.

I am normally pretty good at buying the domain names of projects I am working on using DillDomains.com. I guess I just did not think about buying PodcastIsland.com when I started messing around in the virtual world of Second Life.

For the longest time I kept waiting for someone to contact me, and tell me it was for sale. I figured they would ask me to buy it for a high price, but that never happened. Instead they just did not renew the domain.

As you have probably guessed,I bought the domain. I have set up a blog, that will be used by the community and crew of Podcast Island to let the world know what is happening on Podcast Island.

So check out PodcastIsland.com if you want to keep up with what we are doing in the virtual world of Second Life.

We have built another website for a baseball/softball training aid. The new website is for the Hit N Stick. The Hit n Stick is a training aid for baseball and softball players to practice hitting the ball. The beauty of the Hit N Stick is that no one has to chase the ball after it has been hit. It is basically a ball on a stick.

if you know any kids that play softball, or baseball, please tell their parents about HitnStick.com

I thought I would post an update for SXSW. My friend Mark Linder and I are moderating a panel on Second Life. Here is the link My SXSW Panel I hope to see you there