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In today’s business world, companies have to remain dramatically more competitive in a global market. As more and more companies and populations from the Pacific Rim do business with each other, companies struggle to find an edge, to separate themselves from the group. Organizations that recognize the multicultural nature of life will succeed, while others fail.

One way to ensure your company’s maximum chance of success is to use an ethnically sensitive image, like an Asian stock photo, to connect audiences to ideas, products, and other audiences. Words can be jumbled, translations might be twisted, but dynamic, enduring, familiar images always speak volumes. Customary faces, clothing, and situations all work together to put a client, consumer, or audience at ease.

To choose the best image, you want to be very careful to pick one that is relevant to the way people really live. Do not fall into the trap of cultural references and imagery originating from departed eras. Rather, find an image that is oriented to the future, one that identifies with your customers’ imagination of what they want to become. By finding the most apt image, your company is that much closer to capturing the heart of a lifestyle or ethnic group.

Perhaps the most practical value of using an Asian stock photo is that the work has already been done for you. You may know what variety of photo or image you need, but actually getting it can present many problems. If you use a stock photo, there is no need to locate a model and photographer, hire a lawyer to draft release forms, set up a photo shoot, process the photo, and then pore over hundreds of photos of the same model, all the while trying to decide which one is the absolute best. The selection process has been done for you, offering up only the prime images from which to choose.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the right picture can be priceless.

There are many promotion tactics for authors to sell more books. The old strategy of visiting book stores across the country for book signings can be revisited by harnessing the internet and your telephone to maximize results and minimize time and cost. The new process, called Virtual Book Tours allows an author to conduct a teleseminar from their home base. It allows more people and more buyers to be exposed to the author compared to a one on one book tour and signing.

The virtual book tours or teleseminars allow the story of the author and book to be told to many more people at the time of their choosing, regardless of where they are. It provides a rapid way for new authors to penetrate the niche that they are writing about with much less time and expense, as compared to old-style book signings.

The principle of the teleseminar allows the listener to hear the authors story, in the authors own words, when and where they can talk on the telephone with an interviewer. The call is recorded and can be played back on a wide variety of different media. The may include podcasts, cd or dvd recordings , or played again and again to different audiences via the teleseminar route.

Authors such as Donald Trump, Mark Victor Hansen and Jay Abraham have used Virtual Book Tours to generate massive exposure for their books which helped them vault to the top of the bestseller lists in a short period of time.

Alex Mandossian, an accomplished platform speaker and educator has been a pioneer in this area of distance learning and has taught thousands of people the marketing potential of Teleseminars. In his Virtual Book Tour he delivers the content that he promises without fail. He is a superior socratic educator.

A recent survey showed that more than eighty percent of Americans want to write a book. This extraordinary statistic is somewhat puzzling considering that the National Endowment for the Arts estimates that only fifty-seven percent of Americans have read even 1 book in the last twelve months!

What is it that makes people — even non-readers — want to put pen to paper?

Perhaps it’s the desire for fame and fortune, the need to earn the respect of others, or maybe it’s just the wish to leave some mark on the future, a permanent record of a life lived.

Whatever the reason, for those who actually complete a manuscript, the odds of seeing it published by a reputable firm are slim.

For the estimated 2 million manuscripts currently completed, there are only 64,000 publishers of record, and only a fraction of those are actively seeking new manuscripts.

So what are the millions of hopeful authors to do?

Well, the first step would be to ensure their manuscripts are the best they can be. This can be done by re-writing, editing, proofreading by an outside firm or even by a well-read and literate friend.

Even then, most of those two million books stand no chance of being accepted by a traditional publisher. Those authors that do make the cut are not necessarily the best writers, but rather are those who can sell themselves and their stories most convincingly.

Some authors, after rejections from the trade, will find themselves victims of vanity publishers, who take advantage of the hopes and aspirations of writers to extract an exorbitant fee to ‘publish’ their book.

Luckier will be the writers who publish through firms like iUniverse and Lulu, for although their books will likely never see wide distribution, at least their losses will be minimal.

And finally there are the select few who decide to become publishers themselves, even if it is only to self-publish their own book.

These publishers will find great obstacles, and a great deal of work in this route, but the challenge and reward of having one’s success or failure entirely in one’s own hands is a powerful feeling.

Whether they choose to publish electronically, or use short run printing service like Lightning Print, or even to go full boar with a print run of 1,000 or more, their success depends on how well they sell themselves and their story to others.

And so, if you are about to embark on a new manuscript, educate yourself thoroughly about the industry, its scams, and potential pitfalls. And more importantly, learn to market yourself well, for this, more than any other skill, is the determining factor in your success or failure.

Around the world Steven E is known as a highly successful publisher, entrepreneur, speaker, coach, mentor, and best-selling author. The Team Publishers program, that he helped to develop, is the publisher of the Wake UpLive the Life You Love best-selling book series with over 12 million stories in print. Steven E is also featured in the movie Pass it On!

Steven E enables authors to gain instant credibility with his marketing appeal. Steven E gives authors the ability to market to an audience they may not be able to reach on their own. Steven E is looking for all different types of authors right now.

Becoming a best seller is now in reach with Steven E. Authors need not look any further than here to begin the process of becoming a best seller. Steven E wants to help propel your name as an author and to make your name known.

This article is based on the assumption that you are using a word processing program of some kind in a Windows environment. If you are not using a word processor, the principles will still apply, but they must be implemented manually.

Writing and editing are two totally different tasks. Writing is a creative process, whether the work is fiction or non-fiction. Editing is a critical process. If writers attempt to edit as they write, their creative ability is inhibited. Because each task demands a very specific focus each must be handled separately. Editing should not start until the writing task is completed.

When editing your own work, your eye and mind tend to either fill in, or correct, many errors and, as a result, they are left uncorrected in the manuscript. In order to avoid this, it helps to break any patterns used in creating the original work. If at all possible, the work to be edited should be allowed to “cool off” in a file or desk drawer for a while. The purpose of this is to break the connection between the work and the writers’ remembrance of the exact words and phrasing used. An additional technique used for breaking this connection is to reformat the work. This can be done by changing the margins, font face and font size, line spacing, etc. This should be an easy task for any word processor.

When saving your work as you edit, the product of each editing session should be saved with a different name. If your original work was called “manuscript.doc,” your first save should be called “manuscript1.doc.” This means you will always be able to go back and check your original page setup.

If the task of editing is broken down into four (4) steps it becomes less of an onerous task and the result is a much more thorough job.

Step 1:

Run your spell checker without the grammar checker. This seems like the most obvious step however the spell checker can only do part of the job. It will check every word against an internal dictionary and highlight or underline in red, those words that it doesn’t find in its dictionary. That means that if you spelled the word “too” and meant to use the world “to” your spell checker will accept either because they are both correct as far as it is concerned.

Spell checkers are normally set to NOT CHECK capitalized words or names, or words with numbers. Ignore these names on your first pass and just correct any misspelled words brought up by the spell checker.

On a second pass with the spell checker, not only verify the spelling of the proper nouns, but also make a note of the correct spelling on a separate piece of paper or in another program. The easiest way to do this is to boot up a text program and multi-task - switching between your manuscript and the text program. This will enable you to quickly verify the spelling of a proper noun throughout your work.

Step 2:

Run the grammar checker. Almost every word processing program has the ability to check grammar and will allow the user to establish both the type of work to be checked along with the specific grammar rules that are to be used during the check. You can set these parameters to fit your need, but remember that your writing style is most important. Don’t let the grammar-check program dictate what your style should be. As you go through your manuscript, make those changes, which are obvious problems, such as punctuation, run-on sentences, subject and verb agreement, etc. Don’t change your writing style to fit the grammar-checker.

Step 3:

If your manuscript includes dialog, it should be checked for problems with syntax and general usage. The best way to do this is to have someone else read the dialog, out loud, with no voice inflection. Your ear will uncover problems with dialog better than your eye. If you don’t have someone else to work with, you will do almost as well by reading the dialog out loud and recording it on some kind of recording device. When you play the dialog back, you will discover problems that your eyes overlooked.

In reviewing writing where there is no dialog, check each paragraph for focus. Is it lean and direct, or are there words that can be removed that will provide a clearer structure? Since this type of problem involves a broader discourse on writing techniques, we can only refer you to the vast number of books on writing that are available for almost every writing project.

Step 4:

Check the overall appearance of your work for uniformity. Have you used the same font face and point size throughout? Is the first line of each paragraph indented the same number of spaces? Is your line spacing consistent? Are your margins consistent? On of the beauties of a good word processor is that once you establish the rules for “page setup” and a “normal” paragraph, and use them throughout your work, you can change the appearance of your entire manuscript by simply changing the settings of either or both rules. This can be extremely helpful if you are submitting the manuscript to several organizations, each of which has different formatting requirements.

Conclusion.

If you follow the 4 steps listed above, editing your own writing will be much less difficult and the result will be greatly improved.

Around the world Steven E is known as a highly successful publisher, entrepreneur, speaker, coach, mentor, and best-selling author. The Team Publishers program, that he helped to develop, is the publisher of the Wake UpLive the Life You Love best-selling book series with over 12 million stories in print. Steven E is also featured in the movie Pass it On!

Regardless of any topic you are publishing on, types of contents can be generally divided into four categories, namely factual content, short tips, mini stories and case studies.

One little known and underused method in getting your own content is via public domains. If you are not familiar with the term “public domain”, “public domain” simply means anything that is NOT protected under US copyright law.

If you fancy the idea of publishing content without any writing on your part, this method is for you.

The pros and cons of publishing

The most obvious reason publishing an eZine can be the most ideal business to you is that it is so easy to start that any individual can do. There is no need to invest in starting a brick and mortar business or even staff and heavy machines for that matter.

Given some of the best reasons in the world of Internet Marketing, publishing your own periodical eZine can one of the best money vehicles you will ever acquire or even build.

One obvious challenge most beginning eZine publishers face is the creation of eZine content. Creating your own content can be tiresome, especially if you are not a gifted writer and that you run out of ideas every so often that your publishing schedule is threatening you.

In conclusion, you can easily tackle the content creation challenge using the mentioned methods that do not require writing on your part, free or paid.

Steven E enables authors to gain instant credibility with his marketing appeal. Steven E gives authors the ability to market to an audience they may not be able to reach on their own. Steven E is looking for all different types of authors right now. Becoming a best seller is now in reach with Steven E. Authors need not look any further than here to begin the process of becoming a best seller. Steven E wants to help propel your name as an author and to make your name known.

“LIVING IN ABUNDANCE” FEATURED AS PART OF HIT SERIES

MARCH 1, 2008

(Little Rock, Ark.) Living in Abundance has recently been released as the 25th book in the best selling Wake U . . . Live the Life You Love series. Officials of Global Partnership, LLC, and Arkansas-based publishing group, announced the release of the book today.

The book contains a variety of stories with “lessons that readers can learn, and plans of action that may bring the understanding of abundance,” said a spokesman.

PBS star Dr. Wayne Dyer is joined by Bill Harris, Gregory Scott Reid and motivational speaker Steven E and more than 50 other co-authors. “Top professionals from all around the world have contributed stories of personal triumph over physical, emotional or spiritual adversity, said publisher Lee Beard.

According to Robert Valentine, publications director of the Wake Up Live series, “This book contains the words and the wishes of those who are out to change an imprisoning view of life.”

“Wake Up Live the Life You Love” is published by Little Seed Publishing. It is now available at Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble.com, and through the contributors. Other books in the series include Finding Life’s Passion, and A Search for Purpose.

Around the world Steven E is known as a highly successful publisher, entrepreneur, speaker, coach, mentor, and best-selling author. The Team Publishers program, that he helped to develop, is the publisher of the Wake UpLive the Life You Love best-selling book series with over 12 million stories in print. Steven E is also featured in the movie Pass it On!

Steven E wants to help you become known as an author. Steven E gives authors the chance to make receive an audience they could not find on their own. Steven is is looking for different kinds of authors from all walks of life right now so do not look any furthar than here.

Are you running short of ideas for your articles? Is generating fresh ideas for writing becoming difficult? By following the techniques discussed in this article, you will be an article generating power house.

1. Subscribe to a dozen RSS feeds on various subjects you are most interested in. Scan through the feeds every morning or at night and select a few articles for thorough reading. After reading the articles, tag them using your own classification system.

Classifying articles in different categories helps locate them quickly. Use Google’s RSS reader for reading and tagging the RSS feeds. You will have access to your categorized articles from any computers connected to the Internet.

2. Subscribe to a few print magazines and read them regularly. After you finish reading an article, record the main points of the article in a Google note. You will have access to these notes anywhere in the World.

3. Use a PDA and carry it with you wherever you go. Better yet, get a PDA with a camera and cell phone. You will only carry one gadget for all your communication, organization, and content generation needs.

Take pictures of interesting places, events, and moments you come across in your daily life. Use the voice recorder of the PDA to record whenever an idea hits you. Every night, transfer the ideas from your PDA to Google notes and upload your pictures to flickr.

4. Scan through the comments posted by others on the online articles you read regularly. Record interesting ideas, pros and cons of an issue, and strong opinions posted by others in your Google notes. Leverage the wisdom of the crowd.

5. Have lunch with friends at least once a week. Bounce ideas off them on any topic. Mix ideas from divergent topics to create new ideas in you own subjects.

6. Use the time like driving, watching TV while exercising in a treadmill, etc. to think about your favorite topics and try to relate to things you observe on the road and on the TV. When you get an idea, record it in your PDA.

7. Go through all the ideas and articles you have recorded in Google notes and your RSS reader to create new ideas by giving new twists to the old ideas. Combine two or more ideas and change or improve an existing idea to come up with your own idea.

8. Use a variety of online tools like Technorati, Digg, Delicious, etc. for writing inspiration. Every hour, hundreds of new articles and news stories are posted in these sites. Quickly scan them to hit a few gold nuggets that can serve as springboards for new ideas.

9. Using on-line tools discussed earlier, select an issue and jot down all the pros and cons. Search Google to enhance the idea by adding more pros and cons. Once you have collected a dozen diverse opinions, you will be able to write an article based on those facts in a pro-con format.

10. If you are good at using data for analysis and comfortable in the use of a spreadsheet, draw charts in the spreadsheet and look for patterns in the data. Provide you own interpretation to the data. Illustrate your articles with charts and graphs.

11. To generate topics for your article, use overture keyword selector. Select a single keyword and run it through the overture. You will see a dozen or more keywords based on the search popularity. Copy a few selected keywords to a notepad. Now, take each keyword and do a search in online sites like Digg, Technorati, etc. You will see a number of articles. Read them to generate ideas.

12. Ask yourself what if, what else, and why not questions on an issue and search the Internet to find answers from different sources. Create new ideas generated from existing materials, provide step-by-step guide for somebody to practice an obvious idea, or offer benefits of practicing an old idea.

Around the world Steven E is known as a highly successful publisher, entrepreneur, speaker, coach, mentor, and best-selling author. The Team Publishers program, that he helped to develop, is the publisher of the Wake UpLive the Life You Love best-selling book series with over 12 million stories in print. Steven E is also featured in the movie Pass it On!

Here at The University of Louisiana, an undergrad recently lamented to me about the passing of the student activism of the 60s & 70s. He noted that his generation feels as if those possibilities no longer exist.

That is ridiculous. Today’s young adults have much, much more powerful than any generation ever has.

Consider WikiPedia. Our organization, The American Public School Endowments, worked with them a few of years ago. At the time, they were the #19 website in the world.

The #19 website in the whole world– which includes massively funded corporate websites such as Amazon, CNN, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and AOL, to name a few.

Yet Wikipedia had only three people in the office, one of them half-time. And although the staff is grown, WikiPedia has had constant turnover in the office, even at CEO, it faces chronic funding challenges, works with employee shortages and other internal problems, all while managing a volunteer force measured in the millions. And the result of all those problems?

The Wikipedia has climbed even faster and higher, and now sits at #9. So what’s the explanation?

You can figure it out for yourself, because the same thing is happening all over the Internet. Just go anywhere on-line: eBay, Craig’s List, Geocities, Youtube, Blogger, del.icio.us, Flickr, Facebook, Napster, Linux, and on & on. The computer programs available free from the OpenSource community, and the new tools available- RSS, IM, blogs, message boards, ListServes, cell phones, podcasts, social networking, cell phone cameras, eMail, eZines, video streaming, social bookmarking, porable video recorders– have allowed people, primarily young people, to create value and wealth for companies around the globe, wealth exceeding the GNP of all but the very largest countries.

The Roman Dictators, The Kings of France, the Ottoman Sultans– their powers pale next to what a student can create with a wireless PDA in a few minutes. If, just in their leisure time, student-contributed content has built the preceding Internet empires, and if among their overlooked laptops and cell phones students carry this much potential power, what could they accomplish if they seriously thought about it? What could students do for the world, for economic reforms, for social justice, for educational movements?

Pundits often claim that City Hall can’t be beaten. They’re wrong. City Hall gets beaten by average citizens every day. What can’t be beaten is the news media. Since they tell everyone the story, they get to tell it their way, and so they can’t be beaten…

…except for other media. Other news outlets get to publish their story. So if you are also media, you can compete.

And in this new Internet age, “media” has taken on a whole new meaning. Before, media was a term used too loosely, as it referred to both the medium, and the message. But look above. In these fast-moving times, the most successful websites are those that are only the medium itself, leaving the message to be contributed by the people. Which means, overwhelmingly, young people.

And the advent of cheap and free software leaves us wondering why young people need the corporations any more. OpenSource software gives everyone access to free blogging software. If that’s too much trouble, there are many ’sites that will do the work and supply the platform for free. Then each of us is also media.

The same thing is true of just about all of the software out there. There is free, OpenSource software that will replace almost anything you would need, from small software programs to enhance your eMail program, right up to complete packages for eZines, databases, social networking, et al.

So obviously, the media is moving toward being only that: a medium. The most successful websites are the ones where the content comes from the people, primarily young people.

That’s how much power students have. The power to change the world.

And all the students of today need to do, is to begin deciding how best to use those tools, and begin making this little planet better.

Steven E is a book publisher with over 20 books in print. Fourteen of his books are bestsellers including “Wake Up…Live the Life You Love” As one of the leading experts in the movie “Pass It On”, Steven lives to help people. He wants everyone to live to their full potential on an emotional, physical, and spiritual level.

Finding your life’s purpose early is the best thing you can do for yourself. When Steven E was 21 years old, he heard an inner voice telling him to write a book. The voice was so strong, it awakened him from his sleep. He wrote a book, and he knew right from the start it would sell millions. Now he publishes books, has CDs and scheduled speaking engagements.

People will magically show up in your life when you need them most after you’ve found your true purpose, but by far the best way to help yourself is to help others first. Steven tried this by asking 55 people to co-write a book with him. Everyone did a little bit of the work, and in turn, everyone was published in a bigger book. Steven calls this “team publishing.”

Steven compares team publishing to opening a coffee shop with investors. If people invest in your coffee shop, they will invite all of their friends and family to the grand opening. If several people contribute to a book you’re publishing, they’ll buy copies for all of their friends and family. Word of mouth advertising and guaranteed sales are the best ways to boost a new product.

Steven E believes the key is to help others first. When he introduces himself, he says, “Hi. I’m Steven. How can I help you?” This introduction catches people off guard and breaks the ice. They’re free to find out who you are and how you can be of benefit to them. At the same time, you can devise a way to help yourself by helping them.

Finding out what others need helps you bond with them. Bonding means they’ll refer others to you, and getting more contacts means more opportunities for you to profit whether it be through book sales, speaking engagements, or whatever your field may offer. Book publishing isn’t the only type of business that can profit from helping others. Think about people who offer other types of products and services like massages, energy drinks, or pet care. Offer your product or service for free to people you know, and they’ll tell everyone they know about you.

If you plan to publish a book, be aware that major publishers only pick up major authors. It’s rare to see an unknown rise to the top of a major publishing company. Steven E says you’ll almost always have to self-publish. You’re going to need to figure out your own marketing strategy, and his advice is to start small with a business card approach. If you hand out a business card, you’re just another face in the crowd. If you hand out a book, you’re an “expert.”

When you hand out a book, you’re setting yourself up for residual incomes. People talk about books. They don’t talk about business cards. Getting your name out there will build your business. To make it even better, try getting a short story published in a book with a big author. You’ll have instant credibility, and you’ll be helping the big author sell more books as well.