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Monday, December 29, 2008
Fw: 2nd Annual Black History Month Book Fair -January 25 - March 7, 2009
Monday, December 22, 2008
Tell ESSENCE: Know where to meet great Black men? Know a great working
Tell ESSENCE: Know where to meet great Black men? Know a great working mom? Where are the Black men? Are you always meeting great men at places and functions most sisters are unaware of or overlook? ESSENCE.com wants YOU to tell us where we can meet attractive, single men! We've already highlighted the following: Grocery store, Bookstore, Church, Train/Bus, Weddings, Concert, Airports and sports bars, Salsa clubs, Home Depot, Gyms, Gas stations, Alumni associations, Weekly social event, Barbershop, Ski Trips Tell us where else can we meet single men (and make sure you explain why you chose that particular place). Don't forget to include your name, age and city of residence in your e-mail. Please pass this along to your friends. Send all responses to Porsche at pslocum@essence.com ___________________________________________________________ Wanted: Phenomenal Working Moms ESSENCE is on the lookout for African-American working moms who manage to balance having a great career with taking wonderful care of their family and themselves! These super-moms need to be willing to share their secrets to success: Do they enlist her older kids to help younger siblings with homework? Do they trade off babysitting with other girlfriends who have kids? Did they start their own business so they could make their own hours at home? We're open to everyone, but would love to profile: • a single or divorced mom • a mom who stays at home, but runs her own business • a mom with a developmentally disabled child • a mom with a very large family (more than five kids) • a mom with multiples who are still young Moms, please email us at healthyliving@essence.com and tell us about your family, your career, and how you look out for yourself as well. Please include your name, age, geographic location and a photo of yourself. Thanks much! -------------------- To reply to this message, follow the link below: http://www.facebook.com/n.php/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5mYWNlYm9vay5jb20vbi8_1aW5ib3gvcmVhZG1lc3NhZ2UucGhwJnQ9MTA0MzY3MzMwMTg3Ng Sylvia Hubbard Author, Blogger and Founder of Motown Writers Network NOW AVAILABLE: Secrets, Lies and Family Ties |
Fw: Media Release: Fr*ugal Idea Hit in Economic Downturn
With the downturn in the economy I thought this might be of special interest to your readers. Feel free to make it work for your audience. I am always available to send you an article to for an interview if that fits your needs better. M E D I A R E L E A S E
Contact: Carolyn Howard-Johnson E-mail: HoJoNews@aol.com Phone: 818-790-0502
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sought-After Guest Soars on Authors Access Radio
Frugal Message Hits Top Spot for AuthorsAccess Listeners
Ann Arbor, MI--Cohosts of Authors Access radio, Victor R. Volkman and Irene Watson, announced multi award-winning author Carolyn Howard-Johnson was the #1 most popular guest on AuthorsAccess.com podcasts for the year 2008.
Volkman says, "With more than 1,000 listeners this year, Carolyn again proved the lasting power of her Frugal Book Promotion message. Not only is her message popular, but it's way out in front of all the other guests, the 2nd most popular podcast was 20% behind Carolyn's. We wish Carolyn continued success in 2009 and we are certain her message will become even more important as economic turmoil continues." That podcast may be found at http://authorsaccess.com/archives/90
Authors Access is a joint project of Loving Healing Press and ReaderViews. It features interviews from people around the world who can help authors better manage their writing careers. The show is recorded live each Thursday evening and posted immediately on www.AuthorsAccess.com. Since 2006, aspiring authors have browsed and downloaded more than 75 posted podcast shows for free. And they come back again and again: more than 50,000 podcast episode MP3s are downloaded per year.
Watson is the owner/manager of Reader Views, an Austin, Texas, based company that offers book reviews, publicity packages, editing services, as well as support to up and coming authors. The company provides quality service with professionalism, efficiency, and personal attention.
Victor R. Volkman is the publisher/owner of Loving Healing Press, an Ann Arbor, Michigan, based independent press that produces books in the Self-Help, Psychology, and New Age genres. It empowers authors to produce books which redefine what is possible for healing mind and spirit.
Howard-Johnson was selected as a guest for the pair's radio show because of her strong record helping authors. She edits an online newsletter for authors,"Sharing with Writers." She is also author of the HowToDoItFrugally.com series of books for writers that includes the Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't and The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success
Both books are winners of USA Book News' Best Book award and The Frugal Editor also won Reader Views Literary Award and the New Generation Award for Marketing. She sponsors the annual Noble (Not Nobel!) Prize for books (http://www.myshelf.com/backtoliterature/column.htm) and is also an instructor for UCLA Extension's renowned Writers' Program.
Learn more about Howard-Johnson at http://www.howtodoitfrugally.com .
Learn more about AuthorsAccess at www.AuthorsAccess.com ###
Support materials are available on request. Contact Volkman at sysop@HAL9K.com or Howard-Johnson at HoJoNews@aol.com. Sylvia Hubbard Author, Blogger and Founder of Motown Writers Network NOW AVAILABLE: Secrets, Lies and Family Ties |
Fw: Seth's Blog : What is viral marketing?
[You're getting this note because you subscribed to Seth Godin's blog.] What is viral marketing?Viral marketing is an idea that spreads--and an idea that while it is spreading actually helps market your business or cause. Two kinds of viral marketing: The original classic sort in which the marketing is the product and which a self-amplifying cycle occurs. Hotmail, for example, or YouTube. The more people use them, the more people see them. The more people see them, the more people use them. The product or service must be something that improves once more people use it. A second kind has evolved over the last few years, and that's a marketing campaign that spreads but isn't the product itself. Shepard Fairey's poster of Barack Obama was everywhere, because people chose to spread it. It was viral (it spread) and it was marketing (because it made an argument--a visual one--for a candidate.) Something being viral is not, in an of itself, viral marketing. Who cares that 32,000,000 people saw your stupid video? It didn't market you or your business in a tangible, useful way. Marketers are obsessed with free media, and, as is often the case, we blow it in our rush to get our share. We create content that is hampered or selfish or boring. Or we create something completely viral that doesn't do any marketing at all. I wrote the first mainstream book about viral marketing. It's free (still) eight years (and millions of downloads) later. I haven't updated it or made it pretty, but I think the core ideas stand up pretty well. (I even talk about the Zipf's Law and the long tail, but didn't realize it at the time). Here's how the book itself is an example of viral marketing: 1. I posted the PDF for free. Three thousand people downloaded it on day one. 2. The file is small enough to email to your friends. I encouraged people to do just that. 3. Some people mailed it to fifty or a hundred people. It spread. 4. That's just viral. The marketing part? I released a $40 souvenir hardcover edition. People knew the idea but didn't like the format or my design skills. So they paid a lot for a book they had already read. It went to #5 on Amazon (#4 in Japan). We sold the rights in dozens of languages. And the paperback rights. And it helped me get speaking gigs. BUT! 5. That's not why I did it. If I had done it as a clever way to sell books, it would have failed. It would have failed because I would have somehow tried to track it, or added friction, or tried to profit in some way from the idea. I was way too dumb at the time to have done it right if my goal was to do it 'right'. The critical element of viral marketing is this: it's built in. It was built into Hotmail and built into YouTube. The more people used the camera on their cell phones, the more the idea spread, the more people wanted a camera. If you want to do viral marketing, you can try to come up with a viral ad, but you'll probably fail. You're better off building the viral right into the product, creating a product that spreads because you designed it that way. Viral marketing only works well when you plan for it, when you build it in, when you organize your offering to be spreadable, interesting and to work better for everyone involved when it spreads. If I don't benefit from spreading it, why should I spread it? I won't. If you don't benefit from your users spreading the idea, it might spread, but it won't help you much. So both elements have to be present. The reason for this post is that viral marketing is getting a bad name, largely from clueless marketing agencies and clueless marketers. Here's what they do: they get a lame product, or a semi-lame product, and they don't have enough time or money to run a nationwide ad campaign. So, instead, they slap some goofy viral thing on top of it and wait for it to spread. And if it doesn't spread, they create a faux controversy or engage a PR firm or some bloggers and then it still doesn't work. Being viral isn't the hard part. The hard part is making that viral element actually produce something of value, not just entertainment for the client or your boss. More Recent Articles
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
New Lit on the Block :: experiment-o
New Lit on the Block :: experiment-oexperiment-o is published annually as a PDF magazine "with the aim of bringing attention to works that do what art is supposed to do and that is to risk." Amanda Earl of AngelHousePress is behind this new project, and the first issue contains what appear to be several AHP regulars, though the publication is open for submissions. experiment-o will consider interviews, reviews, visual art, visual poetry, concrete poetry, poetry, prose, manifestos, maps, rants, blog entries, translations and other digital miscellany. Only contributions that are possible in PDF form will be considered. Issue 1 features: Gary Barwin, Camille Martin, rob mclennan, Pearl Pirie, Roland Prevost, Jenny Sampirisi, Emily A. Falvey, Steve Venright, and Spencer Gordon. Sylvia Hubbard Author, Blogger and Founder of Motown Writers Network NOW AVAILABLE: Secrets, Lies and Family Ties |
Monday, December 15, 2008
Book Trade News Kindle Vs The Rest
Kindle Vs The Rest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kindle Vs Sony Reader, PlasticLogic, Hanlin, iRex, Cybook http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/18880 Sylvia Hubbard Author, Blogger and Founder of Motown Writers Network NOW AVAILABLE: Secrets, Lies and Family Ties |
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Christmas Special, New E-Book, Get Yo' Dance On! from Author, Kim Brooks
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Fw: What You Should Know About Promoting Your Books on Google
Sylvia Hubbard Author, Blogger and Founder of Motown Writers Network NOW AVAILABLE: Secrets, Lies and Family Ties |
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Nintendo Makes Way For Shakespeare | Penguin Launches 2.0
Mario Makes Way For Shakespeare On Nintendo DS In Harpercollins Deal ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nintendo is to announce a deal with HarperCollins to make literary classics available to read on its DS portable games consoles http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/18801 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Penguin Launches Penguin 2.0, iPhone App; Stanza Deal With Random House ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A hint of optimism follows one of publishing's bleakest weeks in the form of digital announcements from two of the big trade houses: Penguin Books and Random House http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/18794 Sylvia Hubbard Author, Blogger and Founder of Motown Writers Network NOW AVAILABLE: Secrets, Lies and Family Ties |
Monday, December 8, 2008
Free CD of John Kremer's Ten Million Eyeballs Teleseminar
Free CD of John Kremer's Ten Million Eyeballs Teleseminar ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To get a free copy of John Kremer's blockbuster CD, Attract 10 Million Eyeballs to Your Website, plus five other great audios, check out http://www.anniejenningspr.com/johnkremer.htm. Fill out the form there and you'll get your free audio CDs plus immediate access to four mp3s. 1. Attract 10 Million Eyeballs to Your Website cd by John Kremer 2. The Making of a Million Dollar Expert cd by Annie Jennings PR 3. How to Mega Launch Your New Book mp3 4. Share Your Message with Millions and Be a National Sensation mp3 5. How to Be a Socially Relevant Book Author or Expert mp3 6. How to Get Discovered by the Media mp3 Sylvia Hubbard Author, Blogger and Founder of Motown Writers Network NOW AVAILABLE: Secrets, Lies and Family Ties |
Kindle Version of Give God the Glory! Available
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Reminder - RawSistaz Online Readers & Writers Conference
Hey hey everyone! Don't forget our readers & writers conference going on this week ONLINE. We have a well-rounded group of participants, great panels & workshops, as well as book discussions, spotlights and more. This is our first event being held online, but hopefully it'll be just as much fun as our other six offline events have been. Hope you can join us! RAWSISTAZ Literary Group presentstheir 7th Annual Readers & Writers ConferenceThe RAW Affair 2008 ONLINEDecember 8-13, 2008http://www.rawsistaz-affair.com
Until next time, keep on reading and writing...
-Tee C. Royal http://www.blackbookreviews.net http://www.myspace.com/rawsistaz
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Thursday, December 4, 2008
Free MP3 "What Every Christian Author Should Know" to first 100 downloads
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Young Writers & Authors: Kids' Letters to President Obama
Dear Motown Writers Network Moderator,
I am working on a book called Kids' Letters to President Obama.
We are looking for letters from children ages 5 - 15, and I thought that this might be a fun activity for children. We're very excited about Kids' Letters to President Obama, which will be published by Random House in 2009.
Could you post a query about Kids' Letters to President Obama on Motown Writers Network? We think that parents on your group might like to have their child's letter in the book. This might help inspire children to become writers, too.
Children can write a letter to Barack Obama that is up to a page long. The letter can be about anything he or she would like to say to the new President. Letters could give the President advice, or talk about problems that the President should address, or ask Obama questions about his childhood or why he wanted to be president. Or the letter could be about your own child life and feelings about the future. In short, whatever kids are interested in is fine for a letter.
The letter should begin with "Dear President Obama" and should be emailed to obamakidsletters@gmail.com (obamakidsletters @ gmail.com) or sent by regular mail or fax to:
Bill Adler Adler & Robin Books, Inc. 3000 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20008 Fax: 202-478-5211
You can find out more information on our website: http://sites.google.com/site/kidsletterstopresidentobama/letters or
If you have any questions about the book, please let me know. The deadline for letters is December 31, 2008. If your letter is published, you will receive a free copy of Kids' Letters to President Obama.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Bill Adler |
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