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Social Media Profits for Small Business

2011-11-29T23:04:00.001-08:00

No matter what the economy, your business can prosper with Profitable Social Media as suggested in this article

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How Small Businesses Can Succeed in a Down Economy With Blogging and Social Media

In this tough economy, many small business owners struggle to cost-effectively attract new customers. Online marketing offers hope, but many don’t have the time to navigate the ins and outs of blogging, search engine optimization and social media. The Business Blogging Telesummit features stories, tips and “how-to’s” from nine successful small business owners who have succeeded through the use of online marketing.

The second half of the telesummit features nine top marketing experts including Chris Garrett, Pamela Slim, Denise Wakeman, Marcus Sheridan and Jack Humphrey. These experts go deep into specific topics such as content marketing, online visibility, business blogging, connecting with audiences via social media, content curation, information products and guest blogging. These experts go into detail about specific strategies to follow and mistakes to avoid while they share their most valuable techniques.
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Social Media Profits for Small Business

2011-11-29T22:59:00.001-08:00

No matter what the economy, your business can prosper with Profitable Social Media as suggested in this artcle

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How Small Businesses Can Succeed in a Down Economy With Blogging and Social Media
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The rise of the self-publishing superstar

2011-08-31T21:38:00.001-07:00

Publishers and the retail channel are hurting because they haven't been convinced that knowledge and information can't be locked into books.

But it's never been a better time for authors and thought leaders with ideas to share

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What if you could ask the author of a book a question while you were reading the book? That’s the kind of world Amazon wants to offer with its new @author feature, which the online bookstore launched on Wednesday with a group of writers including Susan Orlean and self-help guru Tim Ferriss. Readers can ask questions directly from their Kindles while they are reading a book, and the question gets sent to the author’s Twitter account as well as to their home page at Amazon. In addition to creating what the company hopes will be a kind of reader community around Kindle titles — something it has been pushing in other ways as well — this new feature looks like another step in Amazon’s quest to cut publishers out of the equation and build relationships directly with authors.

The rise of the self-publishing superstar

Among those who have taken advantage of this phenomenon are Amanda Hocking, who started writing Kindle books for young adults a little over a year ago and managed to bring in more than $2 million in revenue without the help of a traditional publisher or agent. That performance convinced the publishing world to take another look, and Hocking signed a $2-million multi-book deal with St, Martin’s Press earlier this year. Other self-publishers such as Konrath have continued to promote the benefits of self-publishing (my colleague Cyndy Aleo has a series of posts based on interviews with young adult authors about self-publishing).
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The rise of the self-publishing superstar

2011-08-31T21:37:00.001-07:00

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What if you could ask the author of a book a question while you were reading the book? That’s the kind of world Amazon wants to offer with its new @author feature, which the online bookstore launched on Wednesday with a group of writers including Susan Orlean and self-help guru Tim Ferriss. Readers can ask questions directly from their Kindles while they are reading a book, and the question gets sent to the author’s Twitter account as well as to their home page at Amazon. In addition to creating what the company hopes will be a kind of reader community around Kindle titles — something it has been pushing in other ways as well — this new feature looks like another step in Amazon’s quest to cut publishers out of the equation and build relationships directly with authors.

The rise of the self-publishing superstar

Among those who have taken advantage of this phenomenon are Amanda Hocking, who started writing Kindle books for young adults a little over a year ago and managed to bring in more than $2 million in revenue without the help of a traditional publisher or agent. That performance convinced the publishing world to take another look, and Hocking signed a $2-million multi-book deal with St, Martin’s Press earlier this year. Other self-publishers such as Konrath have continued to promote the benefits of self-publishing (my colleague Cyndy Aleo has a series of posts based on interviews with young adult authors about self-publishing).
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My Video Invitation to "Starting Social Media" Class

2011-08-19T17:05:00.001-07:00

I wanted to make it easy for people to see where my class was offered during the upcoming DIGITAL WORLD EXPO in Las Vegas

Does a video help?

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Starting Social Media Class in Las Vegas

2011-08-19T16:08:00.001-07:00

URL: http://bestsellerauthors.com/warren/get-started-in-soci...

Digital World Expo debuts an annual forum for professional education in all forms of interactive marketing, media, communications and advertising. Attendees will learn, train and build awareness of technology application in media and what’s to come. Four areas are presented to meet the needs of today’s media professionals in digital advertising, marketing, public relations, development and strategy:

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Guaranteed to Make You Smile (Validation Move)

2011-08-18T17:39:00.001-07:00

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Know any OLD Baby Boomers?

2011-08-10T14:44:00.001-07:00

Despite what the media says, baby boomers aren’t old. Officially, baby boomers include folks born between 1946 and 1964. That means we range from 47 – 65 which means only a few of us are retirement age and most of us are still very young, vibrant folks (with huge disposable income as we’re at the top pay scales in our companies and most of us are empty nesters or close to it)

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World Peace Day.. Will it Make the Difference?

2011-08-10T11:03:00.001-07:00

Here's a crazy idea: Persuade the world to try living in peace for just one day, every September 21. In this energetic, honest talk, Jeremy Gilley tells the story of how this crazy idea became real -- real enough to help millions of kids in war-torn regions.

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Content Curation Ideas for Authors

2011-08-09T06:01:00.001-07:00

I teach authors to create content for their readers beyond their book. Most of us spend much more time online, watching video, or listening to audio than we ever spend with a book. ...

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Go where your audience lives

I almost always suggest an author have their own radio show. Easy to set up, and adaptable to talk about any subject with any guests. I also suggest every author of a blog and social media pages about their subject.
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Is a Best Seller Book a Matter of Luck?

2011-08-05T15:18:00.001-07:00

Do the math: 170,000 real books published a year, probably 50,000 of them are commercial, well constructed and seriously published. Of those 50,000, as many as 100 (that’s 2 a week) hit their potential. One out of five hundred. It’s got to be some book, but it doesn’t have to be yours.

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Are you feeling lucky?

One of the biggest distinctions between old publishing and new is the nature of luck.

The fact is, in the old model, something had to become a bestseller. What to Expect When You’re Expecting just hit its tenth year on the bestseller lists (520 weeks in a row, 17 million copies sold). It’s a great book from a great publisher, but a run like that is as much the work of good timing, good breaks and the fickle finger of fate. There’s a reason the expression, “surprise bestseller” is in the vernacular. Most bestsellers are in fact, surprises.
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Learn Social Media from Billy Preston

2011-08-05T13:57:00.001-07:00

URL: http://profitablesocialmedia.com/learn-social-media-fro...

I had a turning point that I can trace back to the moment of serendipity where I found this video.

I've long said that the properly motivate person can learn from anything.. did I go to far this time?

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What if we are wrong?

2011-08-03T18:07:00.001-07:00

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Facebook Has Not Quite Taken Over the World

2011-06-06T14:23:00.001-07:00

700 million is approaching fast, but still a small fraction of the world.

149 million in the US is still under 50%. How much more can they grow?

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Think Insights with Google Offer Free Video Training

2011-05-31T20:09:00.001-07:00

Google's vast resources and connections causes a lot of training videos to be created.

I'm just starting to explore. The front page gave me more good information than I can watch in a full day.

If you want to know about search, marketing, business or consumer trends.. check this out.

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Is My Amplify Blog a "real blog?"

2011-05-27T14:37:00.001-07:00

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Yes, it's really a post guys

I''ve been playing on the #EmpireAvenue site for a while now, and dutiful linked up several of my favorite blogging sites.

I agree that putting someone else feed, a comment feed, or a compilation is NOT a blog.. but what about Amplify (tumblr, posterous, et al)?

Since I share most on Amplify, I put in that feed.. then got reject by their automated process. Should we be penalized for using a more social way to blog?

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Being “Big” On Twitter and Facebook Is Important To Google

2011-05-27T13:40:00.001-07:00

The activity on my page shows any human that I spend time interacting with people. Makes sense that the search engines want to know that too.

While I'm there for the conversations.. cool to know I'm help you rank higher too

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Danny Sullivan from Search Engine Land recently asked Google and Bing some questions on how they use social data from Twitter and Facebook. In particular, he wanted to know how that data influenced regular web search results. As we all know being found on the first page of Google in search results can drive a lot of traffic to your blog and website and research shows that nearly 90% of all clicks on links on Google come from being on the first page of Google.
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9 Surprising New Facts About Social Media in America

2011-05-27T11:21:00.001-07:00

Social media is growing up fast. No longer a niche plaything of the digerati, social media is firmly entrenched as a societal game changer of historical importance. For many, social media and social networking are so ubiquitous and pervasive that we presume we have it figured out, that we have a finger firmly on the pulse. But we don’t. Data about how social media really works, who uses it and how, continues to surprise.

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5. Super Socials Love Twitter

Partially an explanation of Twitter’s popularity and role in the culture despite it’s relatively small user base, 23% of the “super socials” use Twitter, which is almost triple the rate of Americans overall. (98% of super socials use Facebook, and 45% use MySpace)
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Dogs Make Employees More Productive At Work

2011-05-25T10:55:00.001-07:00

Leib Lurie never intended for his company, message delivery service One Call Now, to be pet-friendly. But his dog, Ivy, had other ideas.

Read more: http://www.inc.com/winning-workplaces/articles/201105/mans-best-co-worker.html#ixzz1NO715AiV

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“Today, my backlist has value to me”

2011-05-20T14:38:00.001-07:00

New books published have been on a steady growth curve over the last decade or so while traditional publishers and bookstores struggle to figure out what to do about it.

Smart authors have done just fine.

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If you’re an author of books that have gone out of print, you could be sitting on a goldmine.

Savvy writers – especially those with an online following — are reveling in unexpected profits by self-publishing their defunct backlist titles as new e-books.

“In six weeks, I’ve made three times the advance I was paid initially,” says Carolyn Jewel, an author of historical and paranormal romances who has reissued the first of her backlist titles originally published by Hachette and Penguin-Putnam. I spoke with Carolyn recently about her surprise bonanza.

“I’ve also made more than I did in royalties while the book was in print. My out-of-print titles weren’t earning anyone any money — except used books stores I suppose. Today, my backlist has value to me.”

Bestselling author reissuing archive of 40 books

“I’m more excited than I’ve ever been,” says New York Times bestselling author Bob Mayer, who wrote in a recent blog post about plunging into self-publishing and reissuing his defunct titles as e-books. The former Green Beret wrote the first of 40 military thrillers and historical novels in 1991, which he says have sold more than 4 million copies over the years. In addition to self-publishing his entire backlist, Mayer has opted to reject his longtime publisher St. Martin’s and their six-figure advances. Instead he’s publishing his new epic novel Duty, Honor, Country, a Novel of West Point and the Civil War, himself.
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Don't Listen To the Lemon

2011-05-20T13:04:00.001-07:00

This is one of those "I'll feel much better once I let off some steam"

Hulu has this in heavy rotation (my only connection to TV these days is becoming more and more like the TV I decided to stop watching years ago).

Personally, I'm a fan of lemons and lemonade. And strawberry is my favorite fruit.. so it's nice to find out that I can find it in 10 million more locations.

But what's this nonsense about lemons not getting respect?

Is it respectable that they have to put strawberries in it to sell lemonade at McDonald's

There. I feel much better. Time to go order my favorite beverage.. Water with Lemon

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DDB and digital sibling Tribal DDB take it upon themselves to vindicate the lemon in a new campaign for McDonald's McCafé Strawberry Lemonade slushie. To that end, the agencies enlisted Steve Schirripa, better known as Bobby Baccalieri of The Sopranos (who is spherical himself, not unlike a giant citrus, but a bit sweeter, as sociopathic mobster types go). While we're not immune to the charms of lemons, the lady in the commercial seems perhaps too at ease with the fact that a piece of yellow fruit is rolling around and barking at her about how delicious he tastes when pureed, frozen, and sucked out of a straw. Yes, it's cute, and makes me pause to reconsider the Wendy's Frosty I just guzzled. But it's also cutesy, and a self-congratulatory homage to DDB's famous "Lemon" ad for Volkswagen—which itself wasn't too complimentary toward lemons. Maybe a more generous reading is that the allusion is self-deprecating. Either way, the spot ends up stating the obvious: Lemons, as the idiom suggests, are better made into lemonade.
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Your Choice of Words Matter

2011-05-07T08:04:00.001-07:00

What can a few words do?

They might change everything.

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Plug-In Condo Complexes

2011-05-06T22:43:00.001-07:00

The world will continue to feel a whole lot smaller if the Mo. Ho. Mobile Housing project gets off the ground. Engineering students from Rome, Italy, including Andrea Bonamore, Lorenzo Carrino, Riccardo Franchellucci and Lorenzo Bramonti, have come together to propose an urban plan that incorporates a system of universal modular residences. The residences will be stackable, and able to form apartment buildings in major international metropolises.

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Russia funds search for cities smote by God

2011-05-04T23:17:00.001-07:00

Israeli media speculate that the move may be aimed at attracting tourists to Jordan. Israel claims to have the ruins of Sodom and Gomorrah on its own territory, on the south-eastern bank of the Dead Sea.

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Music Fans Inspire The Band (while they create)

2011-05-04T08:44:00.001-07:00

Maroon 5 and and Coke team up to let fans help create a song

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Can Coke Start A Trend To Make Inspiration A Form Of Co-Creation?

What if you could join your favourite band in studio to record their next single? For many, this is just a moment to dream of - but last month Coca-Cola partnered with the rock band Maroon 5 to do exactly that in a social experiment to create a new song in 24 hours. Fans could watch a live stream of the band working on a new song in the studio and contribute to the brainstorming process in real time via a Twitter screen that was broadcast live to the band. Check out the recap video below:
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