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You may perhaps already know how crucial distributing your businesses online video is. For a businesses marketing manager, Internet video clips are a commendable device that can help to capture your potential clients’ attention & drastically enhance the number of visits to your site. Internet videos are exceedingly effective in attaining the target customers’ reasonably short attention. What’s more, if codes are included and video sharing is endorsed, short format promotional videos can be an amazing way to get one-way inbound links & thereby positively affect your organisations rankings on Google.

In fact, short format promotional videos have become a valuable medium for business or self endorsement. The following are a few tips to distributing your own online videos.

Firstly, you can post your short format video commercials on your own company site; although this would require you to find your own video hosting arrangements. Ask your web hosting solutions business if video downloading or video streaming services are supported. Vidify is a video production company that specialise in creating short format online video commercials for local independent neighbourhood businesses.

Video downloading is where your viewers have to download your promotional video to their laptops hard disk. They need to download the Web video to their own personal computer before they can play it using their PC’s video player or a downloadable video player software. There are lots of video downloading service contractors that cost nothing. There is also a progressive downloading mechanism where your Internet viewers can play the professional videos whilst downloading them.

Whereas video streaming on the other hand entirely does away with the demand to download the short format professional videos and allows immediate playback so it offers the most convenience to your visitors. Obviously, getting a video hosting supplier that supports video streaming can cost you a pretty penny.

Finally, the more trendy way to distribute Internet video clips is by posting your sites to video distribution websites that possess their very own video hosting infrastructure. These web sites cost you nothing at all to become a member & will sometimes give you money post video clips. What’s more, also have a huge audience base and reach; for example, YouTube receives around 18 million Internet users every month.

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Online videos are an outstanding tool to expose your businesses products & services. Naturally there are many other sorts of marketing techniques around which include editorial writing to blogging, from PR to e-mail. But nothing says “cool, connection, and creative” like a web video.

Each week more and more businesses of different sizes are making videos about their services. They’re not only adding them on their company websites, but They’re putting them to their official blogs. To gain universal twenty-four-seven exposure, promotional videos are being added to various video-sharing sites like that of You Tube and Google Video. And why not ? it is economical, easy-to-do, & can have an important impact, in many cases, on the traffic it generates to your organisations website.

There are a lot of other reasons why short format videos are a tremendous way to promote your company.

Videos enjoy a large distribution: Videos by their own nature are easy to “package” which makes them appropriate to be added to an assortment of different distribution circulations. You can post them on your companies website or blog, otherwise you can load them onto your netbook & run them in a loop at a tradeshow. You can upload them to many online video-sharing social sites. You can burn them onto DVDs & give them away or sell them. You can even send them by email. Vidify are market leaders in short format corporate video production for small businesses.

Commercial videos are a terrific way to advertise. As our knowledge of technology changes, so do the techniques in which firms like to interact with others. Most individuals are visually oriented meaning that is how they best understand and interact with their world. This makes short format videos the supreme company strategy to communicate to today’s clients.

These are just a couple of the countless reasons why commercial videos might be a terrific way to market your businesses products and services. Learn more about this topic to see how you may well utilise your precious time, capital, and energy to communicate with your target audience in a original & fascinating way.

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Has your literary work ever been publicly shredded? I’m not referring to valid criticism, of course. I’m talking about verbal disemboweling, about those vicious, nasty, condescending slams that make your soul curl up in disgust.

I’ve been trying to analyze why I’m fuming after reading comments about the upcoming new suspense novel by SW Vaughn, entitled Devil’s Honor. The author submitted a chapter and synopsis for an “honest” review by a self-proclaimed paragon of publishing expertise. I know this book well and was enraged when I read the comments. Not just miffed. Not just ticked off. Truly and properly livid. I’ve had to wait a few days to write about it, because I was afraid I’d lash out in an unprofessional way if I let the emotions curdle on the page.

I’m not going to detail all of the completely unfounded criticisms this “expert” had to offer. Suffice it to say that the comments were facetious in the worst sense of the word. They fell into the realm of the “I’m better than all of you schmucks and I’ll prove it at anyone’s expense” kind of comments. I’m sure you’ve read or heard critics like this. It’s as if they live to put down another’s work to shore up their flagging egos, or whatever else might be flagging in their lives.

Sure, everyone has a right to his or her opinion. This is America. We encourage freedom of speech, yadda, yadda, yadda. But, there’s a right way to deliver criticism. And this wasn’t it.

Let’s take a look at a fictitious example.

You’ve just read a fellow author’s book and want to provide advice. The novel was filled with highly descriptive scene painting, but the characters were flat. Do you say, “The characters in this book were so two dimensional that I lost interest immediately. Joe seemed to be made from cardboard and couldn’t be more boring, with a capital ‘B’.” Or, do you offer an alternative: “I enjoyed the vivid imagery. However, I wanted to know more about Joe. What was he feeling when he found his daughter? Relief? Anxiety? Sorrow? Tell me more about everything he sees, hears, tastes, and feels. This will bring more immediacy to your work.”

The comments made by the editor about Devil’s Honor were closer to the first example, but tinged with spite.

I took them personally, because I’m actually smitten with Vaughn’s work. Much to my surprise, I fell in love with it as soon as I’d read one chapter in Fallen Angel, the first book in the series. I was all set to be shaken and possibly even revolted. SW warned me. “It’s really violent. Be prepared.” I was prepared, but not for what happened. Vaughn’s books crept up on me in such a way that I found myself craving more. I was besotted with the tight prose, the superb characterization, and the devilishly twisted plot.

And then there’s Vaughn’s evil character, Jenner: one of the most vile and complex literary figures ever imagined. The Indian psychiatrist-cum-sadist is a frightening individual. He scared the hell out of me, then compelled me to read on. It was a peculiar paradox that set the hook even deeper.

Though my genre tends to mystery/suspense, ala John D. MacDonald, Dean Koontz, or Clive Cussler, I quickly found myself embroiled in a world of illegal fight clubs beneath the streets of Manhattan. Much to my surprise, I liked it! Vaughn has a hell of a way with words. The characters and dialogue are enticing. I began to crave more of Vaughn’s world every day. And when I finished one book, I sought out the next, and the next. Yeah, I’m hooked, big time.

There’s a lot of “bad” in these books. Yet within the evil, one sometimes glimpses good. It’s strange, and it’s alluring.

The publishing “expert” predicted that Vaughn’s book wouldn’t sell because it would be impossible to write fight scenes effectively. I beg to differ. The fight scenes are flawlessly executed. I felt the jabs, tasted the blood, and brushed away the sweat. I sensed the impact of flesh on flesh, reeled from the kicks to my ribs, and saw my opponent in double vision as perspiration rolled down my brow. I would say, unequivocally, that Vaughn has actually set the standard for writing fight scenes.

On top of that, Vaughn has already proven him wrong. The first two books in the series were sold to a big publisher. Much to my delight, Fallen Angel and Devil’s Honor are being released in tandem in December of 2005. Check them out at: www.swvaughn.com.

Aaron Paul Lazar lives in Upstate New York with his wife, three daughters, two grandsons, mother-in- law, dog, and four cats. After writing in the early morning hours, he works as an electrophotographic engineer at NexPress Solutions in Rochester, New York. Additional passions include gardening, preparing large family feasts, photography, cross-country skiing, playing a distinctly amateur level of piano, and spending “time” with the French Impressionists whenever possible.

Although he adored raising his three delightful daughters, Mr. Lazar finds grandfathering his “two little buddies” to be one of the finest experiences of his life.

Double Forte’, the first in the LeGarde series, was published in January 2005. Upstaged, number two, is now available for purchase. Mazurka, number three, is ready to go to press. With eight books under his belt, Mr. Lazar is currently working on the ninth book in the series.

More info can be found at: http://www.legardemysteries.com or contact the author at: gusandcamille@yahoo.com

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Most writing “experts” favor a particular way of looking at plot, and will adhere to it for years or an entire career. That’s all well and good, but its important to realize that any way of modeling story is just thata model, not the depths and living essence of story itself.

Problems arise when young (or experienced!) writers mistake a simplified structure for some deep and eternal truth. It’s much better to examine several structures, see what their strengths and weaknesses are, and try to glimpse the truth they are trying to convey.

The actual “truth” of story is beyond any structure, but they all point in the same direction, toward that misty, hidden metaphorical mountain all storytellers have been climbing since the beginning of time. As long as we don’t mistake the finger for the mountain, the structures can be quite useful indeed.

The worst story model that is at all useful might be” “It has a beginning, middle, and an end.” Well, yes, but so does a piece of string.

More helpfully, try: Objective, Obstacle, Outcome. In other words, a character wants something, and something stands in her way. She tries various things to resolve the difficulty, leading to an eventual climax.

This one is even more useful:

Situation, Character, Objective, Opponent, Disaster. Using the classic James Bond film “Goldfinger” as an model (action films are good for this, because their structure is usually crystal clear):

Situation: When gold is being smuggled from England in large quantities,
Character: Secret Agent 007 James Bond
Objective: Is assigned to find out how it is being done. But little does he know that
Opponent: Industrialist billionaire Auric Goldfinger
Disaster: Is smuggling gold to finance his real operation, the destruction of Fort Knox with an atom bomb!

Can you see how this model helps to clarify the different basic aspects of your story? The hero must have a goal, and there must be forces in opposition. Moreover, the hero’s initial goal and his ultimate goal may well change over the course of the story, as they grow to understand the situation more fully. A story structure like this one implies both internal and external motivations, and sets up a dynamic structure that almost writes itself!

The very best writing structure would be what is known as the “Hero’s Journey” created by Joseph Campbell, and explored by anthropologists and writing mavens around the world. There are numerous interpretations of it, but in essence, it can be represented as:

1)Hero Confronted With A Challenge.
2)The Hero rejects the challenge
3)The Hero accepts the challenge
4)Road of Trials
5)Meeting allies and gaining powers
6) Confront evil and defeat.
7) Dark Night of the Soul
Leap of Faith
9) Confront Evil and victory
10) Student Becomes The Teacher

This pattern automatically implies the yearnings, fears, obstacles, efforts, deep depression and exultation of actual human lives. This is the reason that this pattern, more than any other, is useful to writers both new and experienced. Because it mirrors our lives, a writer can most easily adapt her own understandings of life and the universe into her work. If you organize your work into this pattern, readers or viewers all over the world will instantly recognize your efforts as “story.” Whether it is a “good” story will depend entirely on the skill and creativity that you bring to the taskthe unquantifiable quality of “art” that is beyond direct description.

There are, of course, many other patterns, and an ambitious writer or student would do well to list several of them side by side, and analyze what they are saying. None of them are “truth,” but all are useful fingers pointing toward that mountain.

NY Times bestselling novelist Steven Barnes has lectured on story and creativity from UCLA to the Smithsonian. He created the Lifewriting high-performance system for writers. Get a FREE daily writing tip at: www.lifewriting.biz and www.lifewrite.com

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Is more meaning also better? Yes. And sometimes it is not. And those times count.

If you are on the wrong side of the market and you have a significant size of stock to sell you will not dump them to the first broker you meet. You will instead sell bit and pieces to different brokers.

Words are very powerful, but they are subject to inflation as are any other economic goods, although on internet there appears to be another law. The law that made faxes so powerful: the more people used them, to more value they got.

Of course there is a value in writing and publishing articles. Yet think how a search-engine will follow your production.

They will track this writing and will calculate a trend. So as any company the rule of thumb is that only growth counts. Growth and expectations of future growth. That is a rule that count in many areas, not only in the stock market (Why would GOOG stock price at around 413 with a net profit of only 5$?).

If you dump one week twenty articles and the next week 4, the search engine will see that as a fall in production. You cannot meet the expectations you have set. Your share will decline.

So what should you do? Write as you have ever done. But do not think that with dumping them on the market you will do yourself a favour. Write as ever and sell them one at a time.

© 2005 Hans Bool / Astor White

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Food is funny. I heard a comic many years ago say ‘Life is a Twinkie.’ When there is no other way to explain some office calamity I say, ‘I guess life is just a Twinkie.’ I laugh off the tension, then I seriously take care of the problem.

There are lots of other funny foods like chicken soup, meatballs and Bill Cosby’s favorite, Jello. If you majored in philosophy, you might find deep meaning in the Twinkie line. However, most of the rest of us would agree that the line was pure nonsense.

This kind of wordplay can do wonders to jazz up a public speaking engagement, and that ain’t chopped liver.

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In our modern world, we frequently compare and contrast several things, facts, theories, events or personalities. We have been comparing different economical, social and political systems for ages. How we develop this process? How this technique is achieved and perfected?

It can be achieved by comparison/contrast technique. One should show similarities in comparing several things, and one should point out the differences when contrasting.

First step in the writing of comparison/contrast essay is the choosing of particular topic. However, do not try to choose incomparable things- the taste of lemon and the color of the wall, or the toughness of the ball. One should choose some events, figures and things that have many similarities. Once, you have chosen the subject of comparison you can start working on your compare/contrast essay.

Second, you should enlist all things that you know about these subjects. After, you have completed this process try to identify differences and similarities.

Third try to develop the main point of your argument. For example, if you compare the cat with the dog, you should indicate differences and similarities, by answering the following questions:

What I have learned about these animals?
How does the cat differ from the dog?

Once you have answered these questions, you may develop your argument. It may look like the following: Despite the fact that the cat and the dog are husbandry animals, nevertheless they have some similarities and some distinctions as well. Many students do not understand why this type of an essay is so frequently assigned to them. The answer lies in the fact that your tutor would like to teach you to develop your analytical and argumentative skills. That is why the compare/contrast essay is one of the most popular essays assigned at the colleges and universities.

Compare and contrast essay is widely used in many other types of writing assignments. For example, one can use it in designing of the English essay.

This type of an essay is assigned to test your abilities to express yourself in clear, lucid and coherent language. Regardless of the topic of your essay, you should demonstrate your reader your ability to write on familiar and unfamiliar topics alike.

Apart from this, you should clearly and unequivocally express your point of view on the subject you research as well as provide some proposals on the possibilities to resolve some controversial issues of the subject. You might also, answer such questions as advantages and disadvantages of the situation you research as well as describe the problem you research, why it is important to resolve it, and what effective steps should be taken to eliminate it.

You certainly, may use some compare/contrast techniques in order to show differences and similarities between some points of the events, things and personalities you research. Remember, however, that it is vital almost indispensable for this type of assignment to connect your paragraphs with logical and convincing sentences; also do not provide any facts unless they are backed up by some evidence.

And whatever topic you are assigned with, whatever subject should be written do not forget to check out your essay on grammar and spelling mistakes.

Elisabeth Grainstone is a senior writer at RushEssay.com. RushEssay.com is a reputable leader in providing custom essay writing services for college and University students in many countries of the world.

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There are lots of tricks to get you started in writing. Sometimes a visual image will help. I painted a picture for my grandchildren. I wrote the poem that follows from this painting. Why not look at a picture or painting and then write an article or poem about it. It’s good practice!

Stagecoach Hit

by

Taylor Jones

(Monday, March 15, 1999)

The stage rolled down

The desert trail,

Bouncing, swaying, stirring up

The red dust–going pell-mell.

The driver was “Big-handed” Mike,

A bull of a man

Who folks didn’t like.

The man riding shotgun,

Was “Quick” Willy Fife

Who preferred his Winchester

Or his old Bowie knife.

And inside the carriage

Was “Fast-Fingers” Harry,

A gambler of note,

A cheater. Be wary!

And he sat across from

Madame Jan Hurst,

Her back to the horses,

A Derringer in her purse.

And next to her,

Sat teenage Fanny Holden,

Twas her first trip west,

Where she thought all was golden.

Yes, there was one more guy,

Who sat in the back,

Been shooting at rabbits,

That fled from the track.

The horses were tired,

Fifty miles to go,

The wheel brake had broken,

They had to go slow.

And Hell’s Canyon was scary,

With the Injuns and all,

And that’s where big Mike

Took his big fall.

A Navajo arrow

Pierced his chest.

He fell from the stage

Away from the rest.

Fanny looked out the window,

Let out a big scream,

And that’s when Willy fired,

Again and again.

And gambler Harry

Got an arrow in the neck,

And the rabbit-shootin’ man,

Began to attack.

He fired from one side

And then from the other,

And the Injuns were falling

On top of each other.

Madame Hurst took her pea-shooter

And fired it too.

But an Injun laughed

At her little do.

Fanny said, “Give me that thing,”

And she fired a round

As the carriage did swing,

And an Injun fell to the ground.

And the Injun’s did parish,

But the ones that did run,

And Willy reined up,

Reloaded his gun.

But the Injuns were gone,

He said, “That’s some shootin’.”

And the rabbit man said,

“You bet your tootin’”

But Willy looked at him and said,

“You don’t know who.

Fanny shot the chief,

That wasn’t you.”

And Rabbit Man said,

“I should get some credit,”

But Madame Hurst said,

“You’re not goin’ to get it.”

And Fanny blew

The smoke from the barrel,

And said, “Thank you Wild Bill,

I know you’re the real hero.”

So the stage rolled on

Into the night,

And Fanny hugged Wild Bill

As if it were right.

And the last I heard,

One way or the other,

Fanny and Wild Bill

Are still ridin’ together.

If you want to learn more,

Then look at my oil

Of that fast-movin’ stage

Goin’ pell-mell.

Okay, now you write something while looking at a picture or just out your window!

Copyright©John T. Jones, Ph.D. 1999-2005

John T. Jones, Ph.D. (tjbooks@hotmail.com)is a retired R&D engineer and VP of a Fortune 500 company. He is author of detective & western novels, nonfiction (business, scientific, engineering), poetry, etc. Former editor of international trade magazine. Jones is Executive Representative of International Wealth Success.

More info: http://www.tjbooks.com

Business web site: http://www.bookfindhelp.com (IWS wealth-success materials / TopFlight flagpoles)

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The Hero’s Journey is the template upon which the cast majority of successful screenplays are built upon.

One quite significant benefit of the Hero’s Journey is that it provides the screenwriter with a formidable structure.

Structure is critical to creative output.

Whilst many argue that structure is inhibitive, in fact the reverse is true (unless it is used to the point where it induces conformity).

There are various forms of structure:

Short term goals (incremental productivity) produce more output than a “do your best” approach. With specific regard to creative writing, writing four pages a day completes a words-on-paper first draft screenplay in one month. A “do your best” or “waiting for inspiration” approach can take months or years. Witness the untold number of people with unfinished manuscripts under their beds.

Simply being prolific improves performance and quality. The single best creative product tends to appear at that point in the career when the creator is being most prolific.

Frameworks such as the Hero’s Journey reduce complex problems into their component intellectual parts. Frameworks increase output by reducing complex problems into smaller, more manageable problem solving exercises. A similar idea is that problems, no matter how daunting, can be solved by breaking them into their constituent parts.

Learn more…

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Kal Bishop is a management consultant based in London, UK. His specialities include Knowledge Management and Creativity and Innovation Management. He has consulted in the visual media and software industries and for clients such as Toshiba and Transport for London. He has led Improv, creativity and innovation workshops, exhibited artwork in San Francisco, Los Angeles and London and written a number of screenplays. He is a passionate traveller. He can be reached at http://managing-creativity.com/

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The greatest fear among most people is the fear of public speaking. Even Cicero, a Roman considered the best public speaker of all time, use to cite it as the thing he was most afraid of. So how do you go about becoming a good speaker if you’ve never done it before?

First, you’re going to have to practice. You need to find a venue where you’re comfortable giving speeches. Start out by speaking in front of a mirror – pretend you’re giving a speech. You can watch yourself talk, and even experienced speakers use this as a technique to understand their facial expressions and how to change them. This will give you the comfort level you need to start giving speeches or presentations in front of people. After you feel like you could do this in front of a person, join a local speaking group. The Toastmasters are a good one – it’s a club for people who want to improve their speaking skills, and they have people of all experience levels. You can get started with them, in staged events with small audiences.

It’s much easier to speak in front of a small group of people for a beginner than a crowd – you just pretend you’re talking with friends, and gradually the pressure and nervousness will go away. If you don’t have one in your area, you could try looking around for contests sponsored by the local Rotary club or other organizations. There often aren’t any people really entering these, and they don’t have much of an audience, so it’s not that hard to go do them. Alternatively, you could just try getting friends or family to listen to you. If you’ve got a big presentation at work that you’re worried about, do it several times in front of people that you know and are comfortable with. You’ll have practice for the real thing, and you’re less likely to get flustered when you’re actually doing it.

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