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The World Is Our Living Room

Here is my friend Francisco delivering a Toastmasters’ speech to his local chapter, but also sharing it worldwide.

Why is this significant? Viewing this video will open the door to many possibilities. We can create and participate in virtual events without having to leave the confines of our homes.

Francisco and I only met in [...]

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March 28th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: book publishing tips, business marketing advice, Cynthia K. Seymour, Debbie Elicksen, Education, Francisco Jose Palacio, Internet, marketing strategy, marketing tips, marketing tools, media, online marketing tips, publishing, Publishing Media Creative Incorporated, publishing tips, social media marketing, social media strategy, social network marketing, SocialChat, Spreecast, Susy Rosado, Toastmasters, Tonya Scholz, viral marketing | Comments are closed

The Medium Is The Message

Somewhere along the way, this key point has been completely forgotten.

This doesn’t seem to be taught in schools anymore — journalism school, public relations classes, or marketing.

A friend of mine told me this recently:

It is unbelievable. at my school, they taught us that LinkedIn was the one and only way to [...]

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March 8th, 2012 | Category: book marketing, business marketing advice, change, citizen journalism, Debbie Elicksen, Education, Internet, journalism, marketing advice, Marshall McLuhan, media, Publishing Media Creative Incorporated, publishing tips, social media marketing, social media strategy, social network marketing, viral marketing, writing and publishing a book | Comments are closed

Street Art: The Quiet Revolution

A fascinating report on Al Jazeera’s Listening Post reported that street art is a clue to how a population is feeling.

Long before the Arab Spring erupted, before there were physical actions in Bahrain and Libya, graffiti waged its own quiet revolution to spread its media directly to the people on the street. When Internet [...]

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February 18th, 2012 | Category: Al Jazeera, book publishing tips, citizen journalism, Debbie Elicksen, graffiti, journalism, Listening Post, manuscript development, media, motivation, publishing, Publishing Media Creative Incorporated, publishing tips, self-publishing, social media consultant, social media marketing, social media marketing plan, social media marketing services, social media services, social media strategy, social network marketing, street art, viral marketing, writing | Comments are closed

Don’t Assume

I received an interesting email tonight from a passing acquaintance who wants me to like her Facebook page.

While Facebook allows you to send out requests to your followers to follow your page (or blog) — and I admit I have used that in the past — is it me or does it seem rather [...]

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February 17th, 2012 | Category: book marketing, book publishing, book publishing tips, bookpublishing process, bookpublishingmember.com, business marketing advice, Debbie Elicksen, digital books, e-reader, find a book publisher, getting a book published, how to publish a book, marketing advice, marketing plan, marketing strategy, marketing tips, marketing tools, media, online marketing tips, publish your book, publishing, Publishing Media Creative Incorporated, publishing tips, self-publishing, Seth Godin, social media consultant, social media marketing, social media marketing plan, social media marketing services, social media services, social media strategy, social network marketing, viral marketing, writing and publishing a book | Comments are closed

Perspective

What does success mean?

What is art?

What is good music?

What is entertainment?

What is a great car?

What is the best restaurant in the city?

What is the best TV show?

What is the most important issue?

What is perfection?

Ask these questions to 20 different people and you will get 20 different [...]

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January 4th, 2012 | Category: book marketing, book publishing, book publishing tips, bookpublishing process, business marketing advice, Canada's Publishing Expert, Debbie Elicksen, digital books, Freelance Communications, getting a book published, how to publish a book, manuscript development, marketing advice, marketing strategy, marketing tips, marketing tools, media, online marketing tips, publishing tips, self-publishing, social media marketing, social media strategy, viral marketing, writing, writing a book, writing and publishing a book | Comments are closed

You Don’t Have To Own Apple To Be Influenced By Steve Jobs

I was on my living room couch updating my Facebook from my Asus Eee Pad tablet when I saw a posting that Steve Jobs had died.

There are no Apple products in my possession, but Jobs was someone who interested me for his visionary leadership, how he trumped the conventional and made unconventional a household [...]

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October 6th, 2011 | Category: Apple, citizen journalism, Debbie Elicksen, digital books, e-reader, Freelance Communications, journalism, Kindle, Mac, marketing plan, marketing strategy, marketing tips, marketing tools, media, online marketing tips, publishing, self-publishing, social media marketing, social media marketing plan, social media marketing services, social media strategy, Steve Jobs, viral marketing, writing and publishing a book | Comments are closed

Seeing Is Relevance

“If your customers don’t see you, you are effectively no longer relevant.” Kris Kiler

If it looks like the economy is heading for the crapper, you’re right. If you think you can ride the storm by showing resilience, you’re right.

I can tell you first-hand that whatever you believe [...]

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August 8th, 2011 | Category: book marketing, book publishing, book publishing tips, business marketing advice, Debbie Elicksen, Freelance Communications, marketing advice, marketing plan, marketing strategy, marketing tips, marketing tools, motivation, social media consultant, social media marketing, social media marketing plan, social media marketing services, social media services, social media strategy, social network marketing, viral marketing, writing and publishing a book | Comments are closed

The Patience of a Gnat

Das Auto is a brilliant advertiser. Weeks before the Super Bowl and the “official” launch, this ad was pre-launched on YouTube and went viral overnight to the tune of about one million. The DAY after Super Bowl, the views more than doubled. Today the ad keeps growing in hits. Check out the numbers today.

Go [...]

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July 27th, 2011 | Category: book marketing, book publishing, bookpublishing process, bookpublishingmember.com, Debbie Elicksen, Freelance Communications, getting a book published, how to publish a book, manuscript development, marketing advice, marketing plan, marketing strategy, marketing tips, marketing tools, media, motivation, online marketing tips, publish your book, publishing, publishing tips, self-publishing, social media consultant, social media marketing, social media marketing plan, social media marketing services, social media services, social media strategy, social network marketing, Uncategorized, viral marketing, writing, writing a book, writing and publishing a book | Comments are closed

What You Need To Know About Creating Wikipedia Pages

This is from Rita Risser, who posted this in the July15, 2011 edition of SpeakerNet News.

Many of us would like to have our own Wikipedia page, but there are protocols for submitting. Here’s a warning from Rita, which was directed to professional speakers, but her message also applies to anyone:

“As [...]

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July 17th, 2011 | Category: business marketing advice, Debbie Elicksen, marketing advice, marketing tools, online marketing tips, social media marketing, social media strategy, Uncategorized, viral marketing | Comments are closed

The Downside of Viral

As a blog gets more popular, so do the spam attacks. It’s hard to tell which new members are spammers, but it is clear which comments on blog posts are spam.

I am cleaning off those “infected” posts as quickly as possible, but hopefully by now, most people surfing through the Internet can recognize [...]

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June 26th, 2011 | Category: marketing advice, marketing plan, marketing strategy, marketing tips, marketing tools, social media marketing, social media marketing services, social media services, social media strategy, social network marketing, viral marketing, writing and publishing a book | Comments are closed
 
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