Don’t Sell Your Back Cover Short!
The number of self-published books has exploded, growing 287 percent since 2006, according to research by Bowker, the official ISBN agency for the United States. “In 2012, more than 235,000 print and e-books were self-published in the United States, up from 148,424 in 2011,” says award-winning marketing strategist Catherine Foster, executive publisher/CEO of BlueSky Publish
The Neon Museum
Before Twitter and Facebook and the whole word of mouth substitute known as social media hit the landscape, Las Vegas owned the blog-o-sphere when it was still called the “newspaper industry.” The primary reason was the glitter of their neon signs and endless string of lights that danced in front of us promising fortune to […]
Need a break? Here are some wild news stories…
Ok. Ok. I know. Fox Entertainment was supposed to run the full story. Perhaps I was a bit too full of myself. Regardless, here is the unabashed, unabridged version of wild news stories. First up, gorgeous Amanda Seyfried is letting the world know she was much hotter during her younger years. The actress told Ellen […]
5 Mistakes that Quash Corporate Innovation
We’ll get to the story as soon as I get outside my office and act like an anthropologist… I bet you already know that the biggest breakthroughs in the history of business – and the history of the world – are never the result of conventional thinking. The Media Guy ran into Maria Ferrante-Schepis, a […]
Taking Credit Where Credit is (Maybe) Not Deserved…
Is it any wonder that Christina Aguilera’s Twitter followers went up 100k since the #jeffyandlola column hit two weeks ago? Photo by: Michael Lloyd
TURKISH DELIGHTS
I just cracked a Skyfall DVD and seeing Daniel Craig cycling across Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar conjured up memories of a top secret mission press trip The Media Guy recently took to Turkey. I needed to get it all down in writing so you can take a similar trip if you so choose. Only 13 hours […]
