Next Internet Millionaire reality show hopefuls Jason Henderson of Big Marketing and the hypnotist Matt Adams interview fellow hopeful Cliff Hammock on the second edition of the Next Internet Millionaire Big Action Podcast.

The interview will let their wide-ranging listenership learn more about me and hopefully support my cause to make it into the Next Internet Millionaire Finals.

You can visit their site and listen to the Next Internet Millionaire Big Action Podcast Interview with Cliff Hammock

Well, the last few days have seen some really big changes in the Top 50 standings at Next Internet Millionaire. On June 20th, Matt Adams made a run from 21st place all the way to 3rd in the voting. And he continued his run by replacing Charles Trippy as #2 in the Top 50 in voting average. All I can say is “Great job Matt!”. You can learn more on his Vote for Matt Adams as the Next Internet Millionaire website.

Another big mover over the last few days has been Jason Henderson … a.k.a. Big Jason. His impressive run took him from 39th place on Wednesday, June 20th to his current standing of 10th place. You can learn more about Jason’s approach by clicking this Next Internet Millionaire link or by visiting Vote for Jason as The Next Internet Millionaire and rate his audition video a 10.

Who can argue with the success these guys have achieved in the last few days? Not me!

So along the same lines I have setup a site to further promote my bid to be a Top 12 Finalist in the Next Internet Millionaire web reality show. You can check it out here and Vote for Cliff as The Next Internet Millionaire and rate my audition video a 10. Only time will tell if my approach yields similar results.

Let me know what you think about my new site.

The Next Internet Millionaire web reality show is heating up as the Top 50 Semi Finalists all seek to make it into the Final Top 12 Round. I am busy promoting the show and my bid to be a Finalist in every way possible. And now I am getting a little help along the way from a guy on the other side of my world who just a few days ago was a complete stranger…now that’s the power of the web.

Glen, a top Squidoo lensmater, has taken up my cause and created a Vote For Cliff lens on Squidoo, the popular Web 2.0 site designed to bring the power of recommendation to search.

Glen has also started a SquidU Forum Thread asking other Squidoo Lensmasters to help support me with their vote. I am currently in 15th place in the voting with 674 votes and an average of 4.0. That is more votes than I received in all of the previous round, and we still have over a week to go.

It will be interesting to see how the Squidoo Community gets behind me and pushes me up the ladder in the voting. I will keep you posted on the results.

Many of the Next Internet Millionaire Top 50 have submitted their semi final audition videos to YouTube to find that they are taking forever to process. YouTube has officially announced that they are experiencing high volume right now causing delays.

Eric Holmlund, the Next Internet Millionaire Producer is on top of it and working with contestants to get their videos uploaded through their corporate YouTube account.

I wanted to work on my video until the last minute making it the best possible. But I had heard about the delays and wanted to get mine submitted. I uploaded it shortly after midnight (about 12 hours ago) and it is still processing.

I hope this works out and we can start the voting on Wednesday.

I was notified last night that I made it into the semi final round of the Next Internet Millionaire web reality show, affectionately known as the Top 50. It was great to have the judges recognize my genuineness, skills and passion. I am totally excited about the semi final round.

I have made quite a few new friends during this journey thus far. Some made it in the Top 50 and some did not. For those who made it…well I am looking forward to a friendly competition over the next couple of weeks and I definitely expect to see some of you in Colorado in July. For my friends who were not selected…don’t give up. There is a place for eveyone in the Next Internet Millionaire value chain. So find your place and stay engaged. For some of the more creative minds out there, I am sure you will find a way to participate and capitalize on the buzz.

So what is next and how can you help?

I have to create a new video and get it uploaded by midnight on June 12th. The semi final round of voting starts on June 13th and that is where I need your help. I really need a strong showing in the voting on this round. Last round my voting was a little lackluster, but my creativity and passion must have pulled me through.

Please note that the semi final round is one vote per person. This is an excerpt from the notification email I received about being in the Top 50.

The second round will be from June 13th - June 27th. You may also wish to note that we are enacting a new rule that viewers may only vote for each contestant one time. We will prevent automated votes, and any votes we deem to be manipulated will not be counted.

So that should level the playing field a little and make the voting a more meaningful component of the overall score.

I will keep you posted along the way. Thanks for your support to date.

Well, Round 1 of the Next Internet Millionaire web reality show is …as they say… in the books. Although I see that you can still vote, my understanding is that the Voting is over as far as it will impact anyone’s Round 1 score. The show producers put out an email yesterday saying that they would announce the Top 50 who make it into Round 2 in a few days. I hit their help desk and asked for clarification, since the rules clearly state that they will announce the semi-finalists on June 7th. And the semi-finalists will need the full five days before Round 2 kicks off to do their updated video. They responded to let me know that the semi-finalists will be notified on June 7th but the list will not be made public for a couple of days. I guess that is a decent compromise.

I also asked the producers why they allowed several videos on the Featured Auditions list that were in direct violation of the rules. Some are way over 2 minutes, some have more than 1 person in the video and some were not really family friendly. They did not answer that question.

My Round 1 tally was at around 580 votes. I did not find out until the last day that it was OK for people to cast multiple votes…at a tune of 1 vote per hour. So that is why so many people had a few thousand votes. I wish I had known earlier. In one of my emails to the producers early into the contest I was alerted to the fact that some people appeared to be voting down certain contestants videos (like mine) and attempting to game the system. Well, my thinking was that multiple votes was a similar method of gaming the system. So I did not encourage that and it really cost me a lot of votes in comparison to the other videos. But I am hoping that my creativity and professionalism will put me into Round 2.

Only time will tell.

Best wishes to all involved in this history-making adventure.

By the way, you can still find my Next Internet Millionaire Round 1 audition video at …

http://www.nextinternetmillionaire.com/show.php?id=658

There are only a couple of days until Round One of the Next Internet Millionaire web reality show is in the books. There has been a pretty good surge of creative and competitive videos in the last week. So it is going to be tough to get into Round Two.

I am as confident as ever that I will get into Round Two, but would really like to drive some additional voting in these last days. So if you have not already voted, go do so now and a 10 would be great.

You can find my Next Internet Millionaire audition video at …

http://www.nextinternetmillionaire.com/show.php?id=658