marketing
November 19, 2009
- Happy Toilet Day! When I saw an ad this morning by one of those toilet cleaning companies, I thought it was a joke. One of those happy bogs thing to market the product. Turns out there is, indeed, more to defecation than a super bowel event. Now don’t go screwing up your noses. It’s got big sponsors and volunteers. Quite happening. This event has a history going back to eight years. In 2001, ...
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November 13, 2009
- Since we are on the topic of editing (see yesterday’s post), I thought we should follow that line of thinking into another area: marketing. This gives us another way to look at what we do when we edit our work or have professional editors help us polish our writing.To do this, I’ve asked Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of the multi award-winningHowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers, ...
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November 13, 2009
- My blog lists book related websites, social networking websites, and other sites where you can spread the word about your books without spending a dime! http://onlinebookpromotion.blogspot.com/ You can also find more information in my eHow article about free online book promotion. http://www.ehow.com/how_5550113_promote-book-online.html
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November 11, 2009
- Hi! This is a great day, having discovered Red Room! For an added perspective, I invite you to visit my other new blog at http://www.cherilaser.wordpress.com. Your input and comments would be welcome and appreciated.
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November 8, 2009
- Good Afternoon to Everyone: I wish to share with you my first exciting marketing campaign, non-celebrity endorsement of John HodgMan's exciting new bottled drinking product: John HodgMan's Malort Liqeuer. Go here for my exciting ad copy. then rush right out, buy yourself a bottle and . . . "Enjoy Publicly!" Thank you for your help.
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November 7, 2009
- Michael threw down the gauntlet and it landed on my feet. After a toe-throbbing hop about, I think I’ve cracked the new publishing code. Keeping this flash of insight locked in my typing fingers is harder than losing this last 10 pounds! When I awoke this morning, the answer was in my head, fully fleshed out and in living color. Thanks Michael, for implanting the seed in my brain before bed! ...
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November 5, 2009
- Dear Reader,These days, I find juggling is a useful skill for furthering my career. Filling the blanks left by my publisher's decision to focus on national publicity for "The Sword of Medina" and let me handle the rest could fill all my time. I'm setting up readings and booksignings, blogging, making videos, searching the Web daily for new articles, reviews, and blogs to post on my ...
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November 4, 2009
- In my last blog, I discuss my formula for writing High Concept. If you missed it, you will find it at: http://www.redroom.com/blog/lslbradford/1-part-fascination-1-part-excavation-1-sentence-high-concept What about when words just spill onto a page? Should we worry about formula? That depends on what motivates you to write in the first place. I wrote The Garden That Grew Her quite by ...
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November 1, 2009
- Are your hands posed over the keyboard ready to begin? Are you waiting, as if for the gun to go off so you can start writing your book, e-book, article, essay, query letter, proposal, or whatever work of nonfiction you’ve chosen to create during the Write Nonfiction in November (WNFiN) 2009 challenge? No need to wait. There’s no starter's gun or whistle for this challenge. It’s well past ...
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October 31, 2009
- I said 'homolateral' not 'homosexual' silly. Begin a homolateral thinker means to rely primarily on your dominant brain; left or right, instead of being an integrated thinker. Optimal communication in the brain occurs when we think cross-laterally. Strongly developed neural pathways send signals on a traffic-free super highway between both hemispheres. In this ideal brain state, the neurons are ...
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