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Lesson #2: Reflect Your Market
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| Before Johnson came up with the ideas for Ebony and Jet, America had already seen the likes of other black-oriented magazines, but all of them had gone out of business almost as quickly as they had got into it. None had been able to generate enough advertising to make them profitable ventures. Johnson’s ability to spot the demand in the market and accurately meet it was one of his most lucrative characteristics. |
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The Start of a Reading Revolution: Harry Potter Comes To Life
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| It was 1990. J.K. Rowling was working as a bilingual secretary for Amnesty International in London. She used her off time at work to write her own stories. Though she was not a published author as of yet, she longed to be. |
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Lesson #2: Put a Little Magic into Your Thinking
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| When Rowling first approached publishers with her manuscript about a boy wizard, she was welcomed with a barrage of criticism. Many of those criticisms she could do little about. For instance, how could she make her story less fantastical when the very concept behind it was all about magic and wizardry? But there were other criticisms that Rowling took to heart and tried to fix. After all, she knew success was often times much like a game; if you wanted to reach the end, you had to play by the rules. |
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J.K. Rowling Quotes
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| J.K. Rowling Quotes |
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Lesson #4: “Every market has unique characteristics”
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| Hawkins works in one of the most fiercely competitive global industries. But what he has learned over the years is that what works well in one country, could blow up in his face in another. Knowing the unique characteristics of his markets is thus one of his most important tasks as an executive. |
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Inventory and Risk
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| Google made some waves by expanding their PPA program. Here's the way I think about online ads: |
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Focusing on the Wrong Thing
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| I saw the post A Thousand Hall Monitors from Yahoo this morning and immediately thought "why is YPN focusing on the wrong thing?" |
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How far away is your emergency?
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| It's amazing that people have so much time to fret about today's emergency but almost no time at all to avoid tomorrow's. |
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Daily Data
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| I had a call this morning with a CEO of a young company I’m on the board of. They are well funded so they have plenty of urgency, but no panic, around what they are doing. During the conversation, he asked what he could do to increase the board member’s visibility of the progress they are making. |
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You don't have the power
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| A friend is building a skating rink. Unfortunately, he started with uneven ground and the water keeps ending up on one side of the rink. Water's like that, and you need a lot of time and power and money if you want to change it. One person, working as hard as he can, has little chance of persuading water to change. |
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Why Your Book Cover is Like a Highway Billboard
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| Your book cover is like a highway billboard. How’s that? It’s simple. Just as people are driving past a billboard at 70 MPH, shoppers in a book store are walking by your book sitting on a table at the same relevant speed. Like a billboard, if you first don’t catch their attention you’ll never deliver the message. Here's 15 tips for authors and publishers to consider when creating a book cover that sells! |
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Analyzing Website Traffic
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| Analyzing your web traffic statistics can be an invaluable tool for a number of different reasons. But before you can make full use of this tool, you need to understand how to interpret the data.
Most web hosting companies will provide you with basic web traffic information that you then have to interpret and make pertinent use of. However, the data you receive from your host company can be overwhelming if you don't understand how to apply it to your particular business and website. Let's start by examining the most basic data - the average visitors to your site on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.
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Four Secrets to Selling Books
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| What’s the secret to selling books? John Kremer knows more than 1001 tips which he has documented in his must-read book, “1001 Ways to market Your Books For Authors and Publishers.” Here are five tips he shared at the 21st Century Book Marketing Conference in San Diego recently. |
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Article Marketers - Stop Insulting Your Targeted Audience When You Write & Submit Articles Online
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| If you write articles or website content that's not geared for your targeted audience, people will leave... discover 3 Mistakes most Article Marketers make that insult their audience... |
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An Easy way of Link Building for your Web site's Link Reputation and Popularity.
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| Have you ever stressed over link building and
thought of it as a major chore? Lot's of people
think this way, but link building does not have
to be all that hard. |
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How to Write Short Articles Fast - The Right Way
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| Write short, yet powerful, high-value, informational articles that will entice readers to want more information from you... |
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Work At Home Online Business Idea - Publishing An Email Newsletter
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| If you are unsure of what work at home online business to start take a closer look at publishing your own newsletter. It can be very profitable and a lot of fun as well. |
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Warrior Mind
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If you’ve set your sights on massive success or have lofty goals, the path to victory will be strewn with setbacks. To make it in business today, you need a warrior mind and a warrior spirit. Only then will you achieve warrior results.
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Do-It-YourSelf SEO Part 2: Use Articles to Increase Your Web Traffic & Your Credibility
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| In an earlier article we talked a bit about very basic search engine optimization for your web site. Here's another tip that will not only drive traffic and increase your rankings in search engines, but will raise your credibility as well: Submit articles you've written to article banks. |
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Pitch the Story, Not Your Book
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| Pitch your book and you have a certain number of stories and media hooks. Pitch yourself, your life experiences, your anecdotal stories and your book and you’ve suddenly broadened the bulls eye… |
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Successful Article Swapping: 7 Steps to Make Money with Articles
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| Successful article swapping is similar to an ad swap in that two publishers exchange articles in each other's publications with one big difference, online, you can make money with articles by doing swaps.
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Pennies From Heaven
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| You never know who'll buy your first product. |
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SEO Copywriting and Article Writing Part 2
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| Whether you are writing for a weekly or daily Blog, or writing useful articles for editors or publishers or even if you are just creating very simple Web pages, there are more opportunities and more help required out there than any other previous year that I can recall. But let's back up just a little. This is Part 2 of a 2 part article with 5 more tips on article writing for the Web. |
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Katie Yeakle, Co-Founder of AWAI, Shares What It's Like to Start a Copywriting Company
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| Intriguing interview with the Co-Founder of American Writers & Artists Inc. (AWAI), Katie Yeakle, on her experience with starting her company. |
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What is Social Media Marketing?
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| As a marketer, I find this topic overwhelms and confuses many business owners. Quite frankly, even in the marketing world - the jury is still out on the trends. But rest assured - social media is not going away. As our children grow up and take over corporate North America, the names of the tools may change, but the overall usage will only become more and more in use. |
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Article Marketing – Submission To Article Directories
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| You’ve understood how important article writing is, got a few articles ready, now you want to start submitting them to article directories. So what’s the best way to do this? |
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Social Bookmarking Sites: Why Using Them to Build Backlinks
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| If you haven't been using social bookmarking sites to generate traffic you are missing out on a large consumer potential. As the net becomes more interactive and users gain more decisiveness on what is and isn't "quality content," building links using social bookmarking sites continue to pop up to serve virtually every known online niche.
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Why doesn't every bookstore carry my books?
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| Many new authors will be so excited about their debut book that they don't ask their publisher the right questions about distribution. Many assume that their books will get automatic placement in every bookstore across the country. Then the sad reality hits them. |
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Do you think you have the next New York Times bestseller or Oprah Book Club pick, but don’t know how to write it?
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| Is there a story you've always wanted to write that you think is the next bestseller? But there's a problem--you aren't sure you have the skill to write it? If you think your story might be Oprah's next book club pick, but you aren't sure how to go about it, here are some things to consider... |
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Earn Money with Ezines: Are Ezines Still Worth My Time
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| With video, audio and blog marketing becoming so popular some net marketers are beginning to question if ezines are still worth their time and can you earn money with ezines. |
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Increase Your Income By Leveraging Your Value
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| How can you easily increase your income and make more money, by applying leverage? |
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How To Copy Other People's Stuff And Stay on the Right Side of the Law
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| The Internet landscape has changed when it comes to copyright. Previously, publishers would jealously guard their material, and could even send lawyers after you if you copied it without permission. But now Web 2.0 sites like YouTube encourage users to copy their material, so they get more exposure and more traffic. |
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How To Write Better AdCopy
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| Right now, you’re probably thinking, “Now he’s gonna tell us to read all the books we can find on
copywriting.”
Wrong, paperback-breathe! -- The first thing I’m gonna tell you is -- after you’ve read all those
copywriting books for general knowledge; like learning english composition, grammar and syntax -- throw away those books and ...
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Empathy Means Not Going It Alone
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| When I feel overwhelmed, it's often because I forget that I'm not in competition with the rest of the world, but I always have the option to join in cooperation. That requires that I adjust my attitude toward the rest of the population of the world and see them as other 'selves' rather than threats. This awareness, this attitude, I call 'empathy'. |
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What's YOUR Bottom Line?
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| "It is not how much you do, but how much love you put in the doing." Mother Teresa
Business owners are trained to gauge the success of their business according to the health of their "bottom line" - that is - the last line on a profit and loss statement that tells you what remains (if anything) after all your costs of doing business. This makes perfect sense - if you don't show a profit, you don't stay in business.
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Book Review
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| Integrity: The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality; By Dr. Henry Cloud, HarperCollins Publishers, 10 East 53rd Street, NY, ISBN 0060849681, 304 pages, list - $24.95; February 2006.
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Integrity The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality
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| Book Review -- Integrity: The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality; By Dr. Henry Cloud, HarperCollins Publishers, 10 East 53rd Street, NY, ISBN 0060849681, 304 pages, list - $24.95; February 2006.
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Throwing the Elephant
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| Book review -- Zen and the Art of Managing Up -- By Stanley Bing; HarperCollins Publishers, 1350 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10019; February 2002, 160 pp |
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Successful Article Swapping: 7 Steps to Make Money with Articles
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| Successful article swapping is similar to an ad swap in that two publishers exchange articles in each other's publications with one big difference, online, you can make money with articles by doing swaps.
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How To Write Articles - Decide On The Format
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| This sounds like a particular uninspiring topic. What does the format have to do with how to write articles? It actually does have some relevance. In fact the newspaper and magazine publishers have made format into an art. |
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Forget Last Rites: The New Opportunity for Publishers in Online Advertising
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| Don’t call in the pallbearers yet. In a year characterized by the death of publications and publishers struggling to monetize assets, it’s not all death and gloom. |
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The Perpetual Perks of Self-publishing
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| The edge of self-publishing over traditional publishers. |
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Five Ways to Boost Your Marketing Power
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| Building an online business is not easy, especially when you are on a very limited budget. As I come in contact with more people, I realize that numerous publishers and entrepreneurs are overlooking some very effective free advertising opportunities. |
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Enchantment hits the bestsellers lists
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| After one week of availability, Enchantment has hit three bestseller lists: New York Times (Advice, How-to, and Miscellaneous), Wall Street Journal (Hardcover Business), and Publishers Weekly (Hardcover Nonfiction). |
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What Happens When a Publisher Gives Up On You
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| There is a new breed of publisher, favored by many non-fiction writers who want more control over their books and production of them, but also want the benefits of high quality publishing, good marketing and distribution and to work with someone who knows how to take a book through the process of publishing properly. They are called Co-operative publishers, and are highly professional, knowledgeable industry experts.
However - many authors are still not understanding the roles of co-operative publishers and in some cases burning their chances of a successful outcome for their books by treating the CoP publisher as little more than a printer or graphic designer working on a brochure. There's a lot more to it than that, and the outcomes for authors is that publishers eventually enable them to just 'self publish' their books. |
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