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Creativity

You Don’t Have to Pay a PR Firm to Tell You…

March 12, 2010
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1. Journalists are curious and under very tight deadlines. You can write all the content you want on your blog, Twitter account, Facebook but if you don’t work at making it interesting, enticing and engaging they won’t source it.
2. Who the top reviewers  Amazon are for your genre. Get them yourself by doing a search on [...]

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Goddard College, Franny and Zoey and what an artist really is…

January 28, 2010
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I’m truly saddened about J.D. Salinger’s death today. His book, “Franny and Zoey” changed my life one wintery night during my first residency at Goddard College.
Goddard was where I finally arrived to finish my B.A. in my early 20s and one of the first things you do as part of the work is complete your semester [...]

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Six Ways To Connect with A Journalist

January 27, 2010
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1. Not only read their work, but print their last ten stories out and look for all the ways they tell a story. Good journalists are incredible storytellers and you can find out alot about how they write, what they look for in an expert source and what interests them by reading several stories all [...]

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Newton’s Law of Inertia and Web 2.0

January 4, 2010
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Newton’s Law of Inertia: Every object persists in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
Today is the 367th birthday of Sir Isaac Newton and let it be the first day you move out of inertia about [...]

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Synchronicity and Social Media

December 29, 2009

I’m a giant reader of Jung and one of the things I’ve been studying is his insight on synchronicity. I also had the opportunity to read “There Are No Accidents: Synchronicity and the Stories of Our Lives” by Robert Hopcke. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. (Not a client book!)
In his book, Hopcke (a [...]

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Create Your Own Mini Biopic on Animoto

December 3, 2009
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Because part of the focus of this blog is to always provide inexpensive or free ways for authors to do their own PR/marketing, I would be remiss if I did not encourage you to create your own Animoto.
I was up last night like a little Animoto elf creating some and I like this one best. [...]

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Erma, Erma, You’re the One – Don’t Miss Erma

December 1, 2009

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It’s literary suicide. (Erma Bombeck)
If you’re ready to be inspired to write and join a fantastic group of people who will encourage you along the way then I highly recommend you register NOW for the Erma Bombeck Writers’s Conference. The registration is ongoing and they sell out [...]

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Yakkity Yak Use A MindMap

October 22, 2009

One of the coolest ways to make sure you’re on target for the content focus you want to have on your blog is to use a mindmap program.
Not only will a mind map program help you improve your creativity, but it’s a fantastic blog brainstorming tool.
One of the best free tools out there to do [...]

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Building Your 2.0 Platform Does Not Require High Heels

October 21, 2009

“We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone … and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.” (Sandra Day O’Connor)
It’s really time to stop worrying about how you will “look” on the Web if it’s preventing [...]

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Defy Gravity with Web 2.0

September 20, 2009
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“It’s time to trust my instincts. Close my eyes and leap. It’s time to try defying gravity. I think I’ll try defying gravity, and you can’t pull me down.” (Defying Gravity – Wicked the Musical)
I’m writing my book fulltime on Sundays and I always try to listen to inspiring and uplifting music when I’m writing. Today my [...]

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10 Ways to Kiss the Social Media Facade Goodbye

September 17, 2009
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 “For just one night let’s not be co-workers. Let’s be Co-people.” (Ron Burgundy)
Ten Ways to Kiss the Social Media Facade Goodbye:
1. Stop trying to control your community – and start being a part of it.
2. Freely admit you do not have all the answers and be a perpetually free resource with the answers you do [...]

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How To Do An Uber Creative Book Trailer

September 14, 2009

.J. Jacobs has done a hilarious book trailer to announce his latest book. I encourage you to check it out and see how creativity and humor can be incorporated into book marketing!

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