Taboo needs technical help/advice! Taboo Roller in House!

[tccigar]

CS,

Starting this Friday, we are bringing back one of my favorite rollers that just moved back here from Miami. He will be rolling special blends for Taboo every Friday. I would like to put him on a web cam but I have no idea of how or where on the internet that I can do this.

Does anyone here know of a website that I can broadcast our cigar roller?
And is this a waste of my time and money? Would anyone even be interested in such a thing? I'm not sure.

Anyway, he is a very good blender and a master roller from Cuba. We will be selling his cigars at a very good price to any existing customer that is interested. I'm just not sure about the web cam.

I know most of you are not interested in flavored cigars, but he also makes one heck of a vanilla. Better than any "name brand" out there that we have ever sold.

After we get totally set up, my thoughts are we will custom blend cigars for our customers. If we have the web cam, we could tell the customer what time/date Jose will be rolling your cigars and you could watch him as he is rolling your custom blend! I did this years ago with him with the locals and it was a success,then he moved to Miami. ha

I may have hit my head too hard on that golf cart with the web cam idea?

Thanks
Rob

[smokeyandthebandit05]

I think the web cam idea would be cool there are a few other sites that have their roller on cam and Im assuming it would be easy to set up. As for the vanilla flavored I would love to try a vanilla cigar once there available, Im sure even people who dont like flavored cigars would like to try them given they have the taboo name and we all know the quality and standards you guys all have in Tx. Web cams now a days are pretty cheap and Im sure there is a free site to host them on. I'll look around for some

http://www.staples.com/office/suppli...:CG43:CL140467

Found a site that has a roller on camera edit:http://livecigarrollers.com/rollercam.php

[sikk50]

Webcam would be awesome, sadly I don't know how to use mine, nor do I have any clue how to help you I do however know that I love myself a vanilla cigar

[weak_link]

Hey Rob,

Are you looking to embed it into your website or simply provide a link to where he can be viewed 'live'?

[jbudlives]

Webcams are everywhere and cheap as previously mentioned.
For streaming, i would reccomend Ustream.tv, its free and easy to use.
You could have a 24/7 taboo channel, just so we all can see whats always goin on in the store. But then we might catch your employees wasting time.

http://www.ustream.tv/

[troutbreath]

That would be pretty cool. Some people wonder when their order will ship. Here, one could just watch their order being made.

[tccigar]

Thanks!
I know nothing about web cams. I also thought we could use it when we have Taboo events.
I know there has to be a website out there that we could use to broadcast or cam.
We tested some of the blends today and I sent him away with some ideas of what I am looking for. It will be a few weeks before we have all the tobacco here to do any custom blending, but I know I have several locals that think they can blend! Jose will not let them do anything crazy.
I am definitely not a flavored smoker, but I did smoke his vanilla today and it was better than what I remembered. I know my locals have missed his vanilla.

[tccigar]

Originally Posted by weak_link

Hey Rob,

Are you looking to embed it into your website or simply provide a link to where he can be viewed 'live'?

I would not have a clue how to do that. I would probably like to keep it separate. I don't want to do anything to slow the loading of our site down.
I really don't have the knowledge I would like to have in this area.

[tccigar]

Originally Posted by jbudlives

Webcams are everywhere and cheap as previously mentioned.
For streaming, i would reccomend Ustream.tv, its free and easy to use.
You could have a 24/7 taboo channel, just so we all can see whats always goin on in the store. But then we might catch your employees wasting time.

http://www.ustream.tv/

This sounds great! So, I can keep an eye on my employees when I'm in the DR or Costa Rica?Thanks for the link.

[tccigar]

Originally Posted by jbudlives

Webcams are everywhere and cheap as previously mentioned.
For streaming, i would reccomend Ustream.tv, its free and easy to use.
You could have a 24/7 taboo channel, just so we all can see whats always goin on in the store. But then we might catch your employees wasting time.

http://www.ustream.tv/

Looks pretty simple. Thanks

[tccigar]

Thanks, CS. This should be enough info for me to proceed with the idea.
If anyone has any other suggestions, let me know.

We should have the vanilla soon. I asked Jose to make one minor change to the cigar.
CS will be the first to know when they are available.
Thanks
Rob

[smokeyandthebandit05]

lol CS helped make a potential business changing decision in only 40 min

[tccigar]

Originally Posted by smokeyandthebandit05

lol CS helped make a potential business changing decision in only 40 min

Yep. If you want to know anything about anything, you can just ask CS!

Thanks for the help.

[mikeyj23]

Originally Posted by tccigar

Yep. If you want to know anything about anything, you can just ask CS!

Should I be changing my underwear more than once a week?

[Darrell]

Jose huh?

Is his name Jose Rene?