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 Stephen R. Covey |
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During this 1-hour Virtual Book Tour, Stephen reveals the story behind his latest book, The 8th Habit. The book’s promise is: “From Effectiveness to Greatness”.
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 Jack Canfield & Gay Hendricks |
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Jack Canfield is the co-creator of the Chicken Soup For The Soul series, including 11 that went to #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. He is a popular radio and TV talk-show guest having appeared on Oprah, Fox & Friends, CNN, and others. He is a syndicated columnist through King Features and has a nationally syndicated radio show.
During this 1-hour Virtual Book Tour, Jack and Gay reveal the story behind their book, You’ve Gotta Read this Book. The book’s promise is: “55 people tell the story of the book that changed their life.”
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 Michael Masterson |
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During this Virtual Book Tour, Michael reveals the story behind his book, Automatic Wealth. The book’s promise is: “The 6 Steps to Financial Independence”.
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All Good Wishes,
Alex
 Marc Allen |
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During this Virtual Book Tour, Marc reveals the story behind his latest book, The Type Z Guide to Success With Ease. The book’s promise is: “The Lazy Person’s Manifesto for Wealth and Fulfillment”.
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 Bobbi DePorter |
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During this 1-hour Virtual Book Tour, Bobbi reveals the story behind her book, Quantum Success. The book’s promise is: “8 Key Catalysts to Shift Your Energy into Dynamic Focus”.
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By Alex Mandossian
Because of technology, the world is at a turning point in the way people communicate and in the way people monetize their content. With the advent of podcasting and small, affordable media players, communicating content to other people has never been easier, faster, or more convenient.
A song can be downloaded almost instantly over the internet to go with you wherever you go. Instead of carrying a CD player that holds one CD with about a dozen songs, we can carry one small media player in a shirt pocket that holds hundreds of songs or hours of instructional audio.
We don′t have to drive to the store to buy the music or wait for it to arrive at our house in the mail. It doesn′t get any more convenient than that.
The huge interest in the subject of profiting from podcasting that was demonstrated at the Portable Media Expo 2005 is an indication of where the industry is heading. I believe the next expo will be even bigger and better than this one was. And the third will be even better still.
I can see Portable Media Expo growing as fast as Comdex has. Comdex is an expo known for their expertise on the topics of electronics and new technology.
And with this new technology comes the question, “Can I make money with podcasting?”
People want to know if it can be done.
Well, I′m doing it with Marketing Online Live, the official podcast of www.MarketingOnlineLive.com and with our new premium podcasts services.
By Alex Mandossian
Portable Media Expo 2005 was an incredible event! I recommend that anyone interested in podcasting plan to attend the next one on September 29-30, 2006.
Tim Borkwin produced a class act. I have never seen such an awesome first time expo and I can′t wait to see what he has planned for the second one.
One question that was obviously on every attendee′s mind was, “Can I monetize a podcast? Can I see a revenue stream from it?”
Although there were many big name keynote speakers at the expo discussing the topic of portable media, when my good friend, Tom Jeffries from Industrial Audio Software held a breakout session titled Podcasting to Your Bottom Line, the room was totally packed. It was standing room only and a fire marshal guarded the door to prevent more people from entering.
The other breakout sessions had no shortage of seats to hear the keynote speakers, but on the topic of how to monetize a podcast, the response was overwhelming.
Contributed by Paul ColliganJune 8 – Los Angeles LAX Marriot
June 15 – Orlando (SeaWorld) Renaissance
4 Hour Seminar – Podcast Secrets
Case studies (including how we’re bringing Stephen to #1), expert speakers, interactive Podcast design, experiential learning and more.
Oh yes, there is another option 
The event (both locations) is (surprise!) the day before the AM2Online.com Customer Appreciation Seminar compliments of my business partner, fellow Podcaster, co-author and friend, Alex Mandossian.
The Customer Appreciation Seminar is, get this, just a buck!
Grab a reservation to the Customer Appreciation Seminar and show me you’re serious about attending with a hotel reservation (their event has discount rooms – don’t worry), and you get to attend my event for free.
Really?
Yes, really.
I hope to see you there. –Paul Colligan
By Alex Mandossian
When it comes to web search, Goggle is the engine of choice for most people. But for the computer desktop search, I use Windows desktop search because it′s integrated into my operating system.
I can ask Windows search to find everything related to “Big Seminar 6,” and it will find PowerPoint slides, e-mails, and documents and group it in one area. Search is integrated entirely in the desktop.
Right now, there is no way to search for voice recognition. Yet podcasts are tagged with meta tags.
What if Microsoft integrated meta tag searches into the Windows desktop search? I could use my Windows search to search for “all the podcasts that Alex Mandossian spoke in,” and it would search through all the podcasts archived on my computer with that meta tag.
Even more powerful would be integrating MSN search to search through podcasts′ meta tags online and find all the podcasts across the web that contain the keywords you are searching for.
Three Options
I see these three areas where Microsoft could meet a need in the podcasting market and really establish itself as a dominant force.
All these options require someone who has servers, major web destinations, and access to the desktop. These are the types of things that only somebody like Microsoft could do.
We have no idea what direction Microsoft is going to go in, but these are certainly some very viable ideas that I would love to see them pursue.
