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“Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.” ― Seth Godin, Poke the Box

This is Marketing

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Pretend this is me.

A brief series of marketing and publishing lessons.

There will be a quiz at the end. (Spoiler alert Hint: There are no wrong answers.)

This is marketing

APRIL STORY: There Be Dragons by Jane Burfield

SHORT STORY: Double Trouble by M.E. Proctor

Sardines — a great story starting and ending w/ the same sentence

Interview with Author Albert Waitt

And this is publishing.

Yellow Mama Webzine

Bristol Noir – Curiously Dark Fiction

And this is blogging.

Mesdames of Mayhem – A meeting place for deadly minds

Jacqueline Seewald – award winning author

And this crowdsourcing.

HitRecord

And here’s something all writers will need to know.

Copyright Registration Guidance: Works Containing Material Generated by Artificial Intelligence

It’s what you might call a “long read.” They’re supposed to be popular, right? Or was that last week?

PLUS, the 12 best ways to promote affiliate links. Not that there are any in this particular post.

Quiz:

  1. What’s the difference between publishing and blogging?
  2. What’s the difference between publishing and crowdsourcing?
  3. What’s the difference between marketing and blogging?
  4. What’s the difference between crowdsourcing and marketing?
  5. Which one of the websites linked above could I reprint entirely without violating copyright law?

PS: I lied. There is only one correct answer to #5.

Also, if you answer #5, can you tell me why you reached the conclusion you did?

PPS: And is this blogging, publishing, marketing or what? But, clearly this is publishing, right? 🙂

PPPS: I wrote this in the hope of winning an award for most sarcastic Socratic blogger ever! 🙂

PPPPS: And you are Number Six! 🙂 And what exception to copyright infringement does this video fall under?

 

FINAL THOUGHT

Luck in Literature

My Book Review of ‘Crowdsourcing for Filmmakers’

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Hi I’m going to review this book Crowdfunding, no Crowdsourcing. Sorry, I always, yeah, Crowdsourcing for Filmmakers by Richard Botto. RB. Yeah, this is a really, I would show you the cover, but it doesn’t … it’s nice, you can see the hands. That’s nice. Right?


Anyway, be that as it may, this is a great book. This is a really great book. Everybody who does business on the internet should read it. <laugh> Period, The end. That’s my review. I mean, seriously, five stars and well done.

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My Own Self-Publishing Journey — Part Three

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Photo by LOGAN WEAVER | @LGNWVR on Unsplash

This is actually the closest thing I have to a holiday/end-of-the-year message for you all.

I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions, unless you happen to want to change when a new year comes. So change, already. Right? 🙂

Hi. Well, I was going to read you more out of my journals, but I seem to have misplaced them in the mess in my office. So I’m just going to tell you what happened in 2011, I think it was end of 2011.

I started to notice things that Amazon was doing that really disturbed me in the sense that Bezos was buying up all these companies.

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Lessons Learned from Seth Godin: Part Eight

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Photo by Rebe Pascual on Unsplash

These are just thoughts inspired by various posts from Seth Godin’s blog. He’s something of a marketing expert, certainly much more of one than myself. That’s become painfully clear.

About “The programmatic ask”

Don’t market on autopilot. Put yourself into it and be honest. Form relationships.

Fast, geeky, and slick is being innovative in the wrong way.

Here’s a link to the source.

PS: Oh, yeah. Seth totally hates Amazon! 🙂

About “Raining on your picnic (on your birthday)”

Quit taking others’ opinions so damn personally.

Grow the fuck up. And do the work.

Here’s a link to the source.

About “Gift cards, serial numbers and hard technology”

The Internet needs to be fixed. And let’s not forget how to be human.

And you got to read the whole thing, because Seth is a great storyteller, when he wants to be. And what he wrote made me laugh.

Here’s a link to the source.

About “Labor and value”

Let me put this in “writer” terms.

Amateur writers do it for themselves. Professional writers do it for others.

One is navel-gazing. The other is communication.

Here’s a link to the source.

About “Messing with Strathern’s Law”

It doesn’t matter how many people like you on Facebook or anywhere else on social media, if your only goal is to curry favor.

Ask yourself, “What are you really accomplishing?”

Here’s a link to the source.

About “Defending change (or the status quo)”

When deciding whether change is good, be rational and unaffected by emotional connections to the past.

And good luck with that, because Seth is as confused as anyone about how to do this.

Here’s a link to the source.

Any thoughts? Opinions? Anyone reading this? 🙂